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- city, capital of West Bengal state, and former capital (1772-1912) of British India. It is India's largest city and one of its major ports. The city is located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, once the main channel ... [11 Related Articles]
- Calcutta Congress
- (from the article "Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand") ...Sir John Simon, a prominent English lawyer and politician, that did not contain a single Indian. When the Congress and other parties boycotted the commission, the political tempo rose. After the Calcutta Congress in December 1928, where Gandhi moved the ...
- Calcutta High Court
- (from the article "Calcutta") ...Raj Bhavan. The state Legislative Assembly is located in the city, as is the Secretariat, housed in the Writers' Building, with the state ministries in charge of various departments. The Calcutta High Court, exercising original jurisdiction over the city and ...
- Calcutta Metropolitan District
- (from the article "Calcutta") ...a number of committees to conduct the activities of the corporation. A commissioner, the executive head of the corporation, is responsible to its elected membership. The city is also a part of the Calcutta Metropolitan District, an entity created to ...
- Calcutta Municipal Corporation
- (from the article "Calcutta") Government in the city proper is the responsibility of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation; the corporation's council is composed of one elected representative from each of the city's 100 wards. The council members annually elect a mayor, a deputy mayor, and ...
- Calcutta, University of
- state-controlled institution of higher learning founded by the British in India in 1857. Modeled on the University of London, Calcutta was originally a purely affiliating university that offered no actual instruction but was the examining and degree-granting authority for colleges ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caldas
- departamento, west-central Colombia. It is situated in the Cordillera Central of the Andes Mountains and is bounded by the Magdalena River on the east and the Cauca River on the west. Penetrated by Spaniards early in the ...
- Caldecott Medal
- annual prize awarded "to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children." It was established in 1938 by Frederic G. Melcher, chairman of the board of the R.R. Bowker Publishing Company, and named for the 19th-century English ...
- Caldecott, Randolph
- English artist chiefly known for the gently satirical drawings and coloured book illustrations that won him great popularity.
- Calder Hall reactor
- (from the article "Notable early nuclear reactors") ...silk weaving. Tourism has grown in importance. Whitehaven, the administrative centre, is also a fishing (cod and pilchard) and pleasure-craft port. The United Kingdom's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall (opened 1956; decommissioned 2003), was 10 miles (16 km) south ...
- Calder Memorial Trophy
- (from the article "ice hockey") ...awards are the Vezina Trophy, for the goalie voted best at his position by NHL managers; the William M. Jennings Trophy, for the goalie or goalies with the team permitting the fewest goals; the Calder Memorial Trophy, for the rookie ...
- Calder v. Bull
- (from the article "Iredell, James") Iredell's opinion in Calder v. Bull (1798) helped establish the principle of judicial review five years before it was actually tested in Marbury v. Madison. He is, however, remembered primarily for his dissents, most notably that in Chisholm v. Georgia ...
- Calder, Alexander
- American sculptor best known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture the delicately balanced or suspended components of which move in response to motor power or air currents; by contrast, Calder's stationary sculptures are called stabiles. ... [6 Related Articles]
- Calder, Angus Lindsay
- Scottish critic, poet, and historian published numerous literary criticisms, collections of poetry, and historical analyses, but he was especially admired for his critical work T.S. Eliot (1987). Calder's impact as a historian was mainly based on his doctoral thesis, The ...
- caldera
- large bowl-shaped volcanic depression more than one kilometre in diameter and rimmed by infacing scarps. Calderas usually, if not always, form by the collapse of the top of a volcanic cone or group of cones because of removal of the ... [7 Related Articles]
- Caldera, Rafael
- (from the article "Venezuela") ...more, and a new petrochemical industry was launched. Although prosperity had returned, growing popular dissatisfaction strengthened the opposition Christian Democrats, whose presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera Rodriguez, won the 1968 elections.
- Calderdale
- westernmost metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough is part of the historic county of Yorkshire, except for a small area west of Todmorden that belongs to the historic county of Lancashire. The bleak gritstone Pennine ...
- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro
- dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age. Among his best-known secular dramas are El medico de su honra (1635; The Surgeon of His Honour), La vida es sueno (1635; Life ... [5 Related Articles]
- Calderon Fournier, Rafael Angel
- (from the article "Costa Rica") ...trade agreements, and preelection fever dominated the attention of Costa Ricans in 2005. In late 2004 Costa Rica's immediate past three presidents were accused of accepting bribes. Former president Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier, Jr. (1990-94), was accused of having negotiated ...
- Calderon Guardia, Rafael Angel
- (from the article "Figueres Ferrer, Jose") ...agriculture, engaging in coffee planting and the production of cabuya (an agave plant from which rope and bags are made). His criticism of the government of Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia in July 1942 forced him into exile ...
- Calderon Sol, Armando
- (from the article "El Salvador") Armando Calderon Sol of Arena triumphed in the presidential election of 1994, and his party also won control of the National Assembly. Under Calderon's leadership the government reduced the number of its troops and turned over public security to the ...
- Calderon, Felipe
- politician who became president of Mexico in 2006. [7 Related Articles]
- Calderon, Rodrigo, conde de Oliva, marques de Siete Iglesias
- Spanish royal favourite who enjoyed considerable authority during the ascendancy of Francisco Gomez, duque de Lerma in the reign of Philip III.
- Calderon, Sila Maria
- Puerto Rican politician and governor of Puerto Rico (2001-05), the first woman to hold the post. [1 Related Articles]
- Calderone
- (from the article "Gran Sasso d'Italia") ...Corno Grande, or Monte (mount) Corno, the highest point (9,554 feet [2,912 m]) of the Apennines. The summit is snow-covered most of the year, and on the north slope of Corno Grande is the small Calderone glacier, the southernmost in ...
- Calderone, Mary Steichen
- American physician and writer who, as cofounder and head of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), crusaded for the inclusion of responsible sex education in the public-school curriculum. [1 Related Articles]
- Calderwood, David
- Scottish Presbyterian minister and historian of the Church of Scotland.
- Caldey Island
- island in Carmarthen Bay of the Bristol Channel, Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro) county, Wales. It lies 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south of the port of Tenby. The island is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) across at ...
- Caldicott, Helen Broinowski
- Australian-born American physician and activist whose advocacy focused on the medical and environmental hazards of nuclear weapons.
- caldoche
- (from the article "New Caledonia") ...population and Europeans about one-third. Their differing cultures have given rise to two distinct ways of life, known as kanak and caldoche; people of mixed descent tend to adhere to one or the other. ...
- Caldwell
- city, seat (1892) of Canyon county, southwestern Idaho, U.S., on the Boise River. It originated (1883) as a construction camp for the Oregon Short Line Railroad and was named for Alexander Caldwell, the railroad president. Lake Lowell (formerly Deer Flat ...
- Caldwell
- borough (township), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Newark. Settled in the 1780s and incorporated in 1892, it is known as the birthplace of Grover Cleveland, the only American president born (1837) ...
- Caldwell, Erskine
- American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the American South mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy. His works achieved a worldwide readership and were particularly esteemed in France and the Soviet Union. [3 Related Articles]
- Caldwell, James
- (from the article "Wood Family") ...for a time and later with Humphrey Palmer. By 1783 Enoch was established in Burslem as an independent potter in partnership with his cousin Ralph Wood, and in 1790 he entered a partnership with James Caldwell, when the style of ...
- Caldwell, Sarah
- American opera conductor, producer, and impresario, noted for her innovative productions of challenging and difficult works. [1 Related Articles]
- Caldwell, Taylor
- highly popular American novelist, known for her family sagas and historical fiction.
- Cale, Guillaume
- (from the article "Jacquerie") ...1358, an uprising began near Compiegne and spread quickly throughout the countryside. The peasants destroyed numerous castles and slaughtered their inhabitants. Under their captain general, Guillaume Cale, or Carle, they joined forces with Parisian rebels under Etienne Marcel. The Parisians ...
- Cale, John
- (from the article "Smith, Patti") Signed to a contract with Arista Records, she released her first album, Horses, in 1975; it was produced by John Cale, the Welsh avant-gardist and cofounder (with Lou Reed) of the Velvet Underground. Her purest, truest album, ...
- Caleb
- in the Old Testament, one of the spies sent by Moses from Kadesh in southern Palestine to spy out the land of Canaan. Only Caleb and Joshua advised the Hebrews to proceed immediately to take the land; for his faith ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caledon River
- tributary of the Orange River in southeastern Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg, on the Lesotho-South Africa border, and flows generally southwest, forming most of the boundary between Lesotho and Free State province, South Africa. Maseru, capital of Lesotho, lies ... [3 Related Articles]
- Caledonia
- historical area of north Britain beyond Roman control, roughly corresponding to modern Scotland. It was inhabited by the tribe of Caledones (Calidones). The Romans first invaded the district under Agricola about AD 80 and later won a decisive battle at ...
- Caledonia
- county, northeastern Vermont, U.S., bounded on the southeast by New Hampshire, the Connecticut River constituting the border. Piedmont terrain occupies most of the county except the northeastern corner, which lies in a highland region. The principal waterways are the Passumpsic, ...
- Caledonia
- (from the article "typography") ...using designs made up of repeated decorative units like early printers' fleurons, were extremely successful. Dwiggins designed a number of typefaces for the Linotype, two of which, Electra and Caledonia, have had wide use in American bookmaking. In the U.S., ...
- Caledonia Bay
- (from the article "Darien, Gulf of") ...mangrove-lined arm lying between Caribana Point and Cape Tiburon, Colombia. The delta of the Atrato River protrudes into the gulf. Farther northwest along the Panama coast of the gulf, Caledonia Bay is the site of remains of a 17th-century Scottish ...
- Caledonian Canal
- waterway running southwest to northeast across the Glen Mor fault of northern Scotland and connecting the North Sea with the North Atlantic. In 1773 James Watt was employed by the British government to make a survey for such a canal, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Caledonian orogenic belt
- range of mountains situated in northwestern Europe, developed as a result of the opening, closure, and destruction of the Iapetus Ocean in the period from the start of the Cambrian (542 million years ago) to the end of the Silurian ... [7 Related Articles]
- Caledonian orogeny
- (from the article "Devonian Period") ...Silurian Period, resulted from the closing of the Iapetus Ocean (which was the precursor of the Atlantic Ocean) and is known as the Iapetus suture. It was marked by a mountain-building event, the Caledonian orogeny, that established a mountain chain ...
- Caledonian Union
- (from the article "New Caledonia") ...and voted a local budget. By 1953 French citizenship had been granted to all New Caledonians, regardless of ethnic origin. Melanesians then formed a coalition with Europeans to bring to power the Caledonian Union (Union Caledonienne) party on a ticket ...
- calendar
- any system for dividing time over extended periods, such as days, months, or years, and arranging such divisions in a definite order. A calendar is convenient for regulating civil life and religious observances and for historical and scientific purposes. The ... [18 Related Articles]
- Calendar Round
- (from the article "Mayan calendar") ...civilizations. The calendar was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days and a year of 365 days. Taken together, they form a longer cycle of 18,980 days, or 52 years of 365 days, called a "Calendar Round."
- calendar stone
- (from the article "Aztec calendar") A circular calendar stone measuring about 12 feet (3.7 metres) in diameter and weighing some 25 tons was uncovered in Mexico City in 1790 and is currently on display in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The face ...
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