(Spanish: Royal Road), highway that in the 16th century connected the cities of Gijon, Leon, and Madrid, Spain; in Spain it has come to mean any important highway. In California a coastal highway called El Camino Real was built during ...
any of the Protestant militants of the Bas-Languedoc and Cevennes regions of southern France who, in the early 18th century, organized an armed insurrection in opposition to Louis XIV's persecution of Protestantism. Camisards were so called probably because of the ...
Portugal's great national poet, author of the epic poem Os Lusiadas (1572; The Lusiads), which describes Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India. Camoes had a permanent and unparalleled impact on Portuguese and Brazilian literature alike, due ...
Italian secret society of criminals that grew to power in Naples during the 19th century. Its origins are uncertain, but it may have existed in Spain as early as the 15th century and been transported thence to Italy. As the ...
in military science, the art and practice of concealment and visual deception in war. It is the means of defeating enemy observation by concealing or disguising installations, personnel, equipment, and activities. Conventional camouflage is restricted to passive defensive measures. The ...
in military service, an area for temporary or semipermanent sheltering of troops. In most usage the word camp signifies an installation more elaborate and durable than a bivouac but less so than a fort or billet.
rural retreat of U.S. presidents in Catoctin Mountain Park, a unit of the National Park Service on a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Frederick county, northern Maryland, U.S. Camp David lies just west of Thurmont and 64 miles ...
agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours. Brokered by U.S. President ...
type of outdoor revival meeting that was held on the American frontier during the 19th century by various Protestant denominations. Camp meetings filled an ecclesiastical and spiritual need in the unchurched settlements as the population moved west. Their origin is ...
sports authority best known for having selected the earliest All-America teams in American college gridiron football. More important, Camp played a leading role in developing the American game as distinct from rugby football.
city of ancient India, the capital of the kingdom of Anga (a region corresponding with the eastern part of modern Bihar state), identified with two villages of that name on the south bank of the Ganges River, east of Monghyr. ...
lowland plain surrounding the city of Rome in Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. Occupying an area of about 800 square miles (2,100 square km), it is bounded on the northwest by the Tolfa and Sabatini mountains, on the northeast by ...
Italian painter and engraver who anticipated by over two centuries the development of stipple engraving. Much of his significance derives from this technique: a system of delicate flicks and dots with the engraving tool, by which he achieved subtle nuances ...
in Europe, variety of portable furniture made for travel. Most of the surviving examples date from the 19th century and were made for Napoleon's campaigns; they include such items as small chests, folding seats, and washstands in three tiers resting ...
(June 11, 1289), in Italian history, a battle between Florence and Arezzo, an episode in the struggles among rival Tuscan towns and in the contest between the Guelfs and Ghibellines (pro-papal and pro-imperial parties in Italy). The battle marked the ...
American baseball player, a professional National League catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose career was cut short as a result of an automobile accident.
Italian philosopher and writer who sought to reconcile Renaissance humanism with Roman Catholic theology. He is best remembered for his socialistic work La citta del sole (1602; "The City of the Sun"), written while he was a prisoner of the ...
regione, southern Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea between the Garigliano (Lower Liri) River (north) and the Gulf of Policastro (south). The region comprises the provinces of Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Napoli, and Salerno. Campania is mountainous and hilly, the Neapolitan Apennines ...
bell tower, usually built beside or attached to a church; the word is most often used in connection with Italian architecture. The earliest campaniles, variously dated from the 6th to the 10th century, were plain round towers with a few ...
the bellflower order of flowering plants, belonging to the class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons; characterized by two seed leaves). Its members are mostly herbaceous and perennial and are of chiefly ornamental value. Seven families, 105 genera, and about 2,500 species are placed ...
river in central Victoria, Australia. It rises in the Eastern Highlands 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Melbourne and flows northward past Kyneton, beyond which it is dammed to form the Eppalock Reservoir. It continues past Elmore to enter the ...
highest point (1,549 feet [472 m]) in Ohio, U.S. It lies in Logan county, just east of Bellefontaine, in the west-central part of the state. Located in a scenic recreational area of springs and smoke-blue morainal hills rich in Indian ...
outlying volcanic island of New Zealand, in the South Pacific Ocean, 400 miles (644 km) south of South Island. It has an area of 41 square miles (106 square km) and is high and rugged, rising to 1,867 feet (569 ...
district municipality, at the mouth of the Campbell River on the east coast of Vancouver Island, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is a centre for lumbering and paper mills and a popular vacation centre renowned for salmon fishing (based on ...
American manufacturer incorporated in 1922, but dating to a canning firm first established in 1869. It is one of the largest manufacturers of prepared foods, especially canned soups, canned spaghetti, and blended vegetable juice. It is also a major producer ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Buies Creek, North Carolina, U.S., affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. The university comprises the College of Arts and Sciences, the Lundy Fetterman School of Business, the School of Education, ...
American botanist known for his research concerning modes of sexual reproduction in mosses and ferns. His work intensified a controversy surrounding the evolutionary origin of the Tracheophyta (vascular plants).
prolific American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of mythology in various human cultures and examined the mythic figure in a wide range of literatures.
Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London.
astronomer known particularly for his spectrographic determinations of the radial velocities of stars-i.e., their motions toward the Earth or away from it. In addition, he discovered many spectroscopic binary stars, and in 1924 he published a catalog listing more than ...
British prime minister from December 5, 1905, to April 5, 1908. His popularity unified his own Liberal Party and the unusually strong cabinet that he headed. He took the lead in granting self-government to the Transvaal (1906) and the Orange ...
city, seat of Taylor county, central Kentucky, U.S. It lies near the juncture of the Bluegrass, Pennyroyal, and Knobs regions, 85 miles (137 km) south-southeast of Louisville. Founded in 1817 and named for Adam and Andrew Campbell, early settlers, it ...
city, Restigouche county, northern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Restigouche Estuary (there bridged to Pointe-a-la-Croix, Quebec). It is overlooked by the Sugarloaf Mountain, the focus of a provincial park. Founded about 1793 as Martin's Point by Scottish fishermen, it was ...
