(from the article "pump") ...of operation, can be divided into two main classes, reciprocating and rotary. Reciprocating pumps include piston, plunger, and diaphragm types; rotary pumps include gear, lobe, screw, vane, and cam pumps.
city, south-central Vietnam. It is situated on a peninsula enclosing Cam Ranh Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea. Cam Lam (Ba Ngoi), on the western shore of the bay, was the area's major port and naval base during ...
a two-part deepwater inlet on the South China Sea, south-central Vietnam. It is approximately 20 miles (32 km) long from north to south and up to 10 miles (16 km) wide. It has been called the finest deepwater shelter in ...
(from the article "Cambridge") Cambridge has good rail and road access to London, about 60 miles (95 km) south. During the medieval period the River Cam was extensively used for water transport, the local wharfing facilities (which have gradually disappeared) being in heavy demand ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...(Oleaciniidae) and herbivorous (Sagdidae) snails of the Neotropical region.Land snails without (Oreohelicidae and Camaenidae) or with (Bradybaenidae, Helminthoglyptidae, and Helicidae) accessory glands on the genitalia; dominant land snails in most regions, including the edible snails of Europe...Amphidromus
city, east-central Cuba. Founded in 1514 as Santa Maria de Puerto Principe, at the site of present-day Nuevitas, the city was moved inland in 1528 to the Indian village of Camaguey. The prosperity of the colonial city led to a ... [1 Related Articles]
painting technique by which an image is executed either entirely in shades or tints of a single colour or in several hues unnatural to the object, figure, or scene represented. When a picture is monochromatically rendered in gray, it is ...
an independent offshoot of the Benedictine order, founded about 1012 at Camaldoli near Arezzo, Italy, by St. Romuald as part of the monastic-reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries. The order combined the solitary life of the hermit with ... [2 Related Articles]
widespread caste in northern India whose hereditary occupation is tanning leather; the name is derived from the Sanskrit word carmakara ("skin worker"). The Camars are divided into more than 150 subcastes, all of which are characterized by ...
(from the article "Guinea") Area: 245,836 sq km (94,918 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 9,370,000 | Capital: Conakry | Head of state and government: President Gen. Lansana Conte, assisted by Prime Ministers Eugene Camara from February 9 and, from March 1, Lansana ...
Roman Catholic prelate whose progressive views on social questions brought him into frequent conflict with Brazil's military rulers after 1964. Camara was an early and important figure in the movement that came to be known as liberation theology in the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Portuguese literature") ...of Santarem"), and especially Frei Luis de Sousa (1843; Brother Luiz de Sousa), he produced a national theatre on historical themes. Joao da Camara inherited the theatre that Garrett created and became Portugal's outstanding dramatist at the ...
(from the article "Pocomam") ...Pocomam practice ritual kinship involving the choosing of godparents for children at baptism, marriage, or other major occasions. Young unmarried men also enter into ritual friendships called camaraderia. There is a rigid class system, status being based on age and ...
(from the article "sauropod") Sauropods and theropods were saurischian dinosaurs. The sauropods evolved into several major subgroups: Cetiosauridae, Brachiosauridae (including Brachiosaurus), Camarasauridae (including Camarasaurus), Diplodocidae (including Diplodocus and Apatosaurus), and Titanosauridae. The smaller sauropods reached a length of up to 15 metres (50 feet), ...
a group of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (161 million to 146 million years ago), fossils of which are found in western North America; they are among the most commonly found of all sauropod remains.
group credited with keeping ballet alive in England during the early 1930s. Named after Marie Camargo, the noted 18th-century ballerina, the society was formed in 1930 by Philip J.S. Richardson, the editor of Dancing Times, the critic Arnold Haskell, and ... [2 Related Articles]
Brazilian artist (b. Nov. 18, 1914, Restinga Seca, Brazil--d. Aug. 9, 1994, Porto Alegre, Brazil), was a leading Abstract Expressionist painter who experimented with colour and form, using bold gestures and heavy paint encrusted on huge canvases. Camargo, who confessed ...
delta region in Bouches-du-Rhone departement, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, southern France. The region lies between the Grand and Petit channels of the Rhone River and has an area of 300 square miles (780 square km). ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "coin") Among other cities of Sicily there was a notable series from Acragas in the 5th century, with its beautiful double-eagle type, seen most magnificently on the rare and famous decadrachms. Camarina showed fine types of the river god Hipparis and ...
(from the article "Guinea") Guinea's main urban centre is Conakry. The old city, located on Tumbo Island, retains the segregated aspect of a colonial town, while the Camayenne (Kaloum) Peninsula community, which has grown up since the 1950s, has a few buildings of the ...
French statesman and legal expert who was second consul with Napoleon Bonaparte and then archchancellor of the empire. As Napoleon's principal adviser on all juridical matters from 1800 to 1814, he was instrumental in formulating the Napoleonic Code, or Civil ...
(from the article "Cuanza River") ...of the river's basin is served by the Luanda-Malanje railway. A right-bank tributary of the Cuanza, the Lucala, is also navigable and is noted for a 330-foot (100-metre) waterfall along its course. Cambambe Dam (1963) supplies electricity to the Angolan ...
city, east-central Gujarat state, west-central India. It lies at the head of the Gulf of Cambay and the mouth of the Mahi River. The city was mentioned in 1293 by Marco Polo, who referred to it as a busy port. ...
trumpet-shaped gulf of the Arabian Sea, indenting northward the coast of Gujarat state, western India, between Bombay and the Kathiawar Peninsula. It is 120 miles (190 km) wide at its mouth between Diu and Daman, but it rapidly narrows to ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Karatepe") ...fortress city, located in the piedmont country of the Taurus Mountains in south-central Turkey. The city, dating from the 8th century BC, was discovered in 1945 by Helmuth T. Bossert and Halet Cambel. It was built with a polygonal fortress ...
one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Cambisols are characterized by the absence of a layer of accumulated clay, humus, soluble salts, or iron and aluminum oxides. They differ from ...
in plants, layer of actively dividing cells between xylem (wood) and phloem (bast) tissues that is responsible for the secondary growth of stems and roots (secondary growth occurs after the first season and results in increase in thickness). Theoretically, the ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Spain") ...against "Castilian" free trade to a demand for political autonomy. The Regionalist League (Catalan: Lliga Regionalista), founded in 1901 and dominated by the Catalan industrialist Francesc Cambo i Batlle and the theoretician of Catalan nationalism Enric Prat de la Riba, ...
country on the Indochinese mainland of Southeast Asia. Largely a land of plains and great rivers, Cambodia lies amid important overland and river trade routes linking China to India and Southeast Asia. The influences of many Asian cultures, alongside those ... [38 Related Articles]
horizontally striped blue-red-blue national flag featuring, in white, the main building of Angkor Wat, an ancient temple complex. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
(from the article "Cambodia") The historical importance of Cambodia in mainland Southeast Asia is out of proportion to its present reduced territory and limited political power. Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Khmer (Cambodian) state included much of the Indochinese mainland, incorporating large ...
(from the article "Cambodia") Cambodia has a long literary tradition, based largely on Indian and Thai literary forms. Few people could read the indigenous literature, however, because historically only a small portion of the population was literate. Even so, most Khmer are familiar with ...
(from the article "Cambodia") The dominant Cambodian People's Party (CPP) overwhelmingly won commune council elections in April, further consolidating its position. The CPP won 61% of the popular vote and was in a position to dominate 98.2% of the commune councils (all but 28 ...
(from the article "tea production") The Cambodia variety, a single-stem tree growing to about 16 feet (five metres) in height, is not cultivated but has been naturally crossed with other varieties.
financial administrator who attempted, with considerable success, to stabilize the finances of the French Revolutionary government from 1791 to 1795. [1 Related Articles]
French diplomat who played an important role in the peace negotiations between the United States and Spain (1898) and was influential in the formation of French policy toward Germany in the decade before World War I.
French diplomat who as ambassador to Great Britain (1898-1920) was instrumental in the formation of the Anglo-French alliance, the Entente Cordiale. [1 Related Articles]
town, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France. It lies along the Escaut River, south of Roubaix. The town was called Camaracum under the Romans, and its bishops were made counts by the German king ... [1 Related Articles]
British offensive (November-December 1917) on the Western Front during World War I that marked the first large-scale, effective use of tanks in warfare. [4 Related Articles]
formed Dec. 10, 1508, an alliance of Pope Julius II, the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I, Louis XII of France, and Ferdinand II of Aragon, ostensibly against the Turks but actually to attack the Republic of Venice and divide its ... [6 Related Articles]
(French: "Peace of the Ladies"; Aug. 3, 1529), agreement ending one phase of the wars between Francis I of France and the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Charles V; it temporarily confirmed Spanish (Habsburg) hegemony in Italy. After a series of ... [8 Related Articles]
county, central Pennsylvania, U.S. It consists of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau, with the Allegheny Mountains along the eastern edge. The principal waterways are the Conemaugh and Little Conemaugh rivers, Glendale Lake, and Beaverdam Run, in addition to ...
(from the article "Latin Americans in Major League Baseball") The next Latin group of note comprised Cubans signed by Joe Cambria, who became a special Latin American scout for the American League Washington Senators in the early 1930s. These included catcher Fermin ("Mike") Guerra, Roberto Estalella, who played both ...
(from the article "community ecology") The beginning of the Cambrian Period, now thought to date from 542 rather than 570 million years ago, witnessed an unparalleled explosion of life (see Paleozoic Era: Cambrian Period: Cambrian life). Many of the major phyla that characterize modern animal ...
(from the article "United Kingdom") The Cambrian Mountains, which form the core of Wales, are clearly defined by the sea except on the eastern side, where a sharp break of slope often marks the transition to the English lowlands. Cycles of erosion have repeatedly worn ...
earliest time division of the Paleozoic Era, extending from about 542 to 488.3 million years ago. The Cambrian Period is divided into four stratigraphic series: Series 1 (542 to 521 million years ago), Series 2 (521 to 510 million years ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cambrian Period") earliest time division of the Paleozoic Era, extending from about 542 to 488.3 million years ago. The Cambrian Period is divided into four stratigraphic series: Series 1 (542 to 521 million years ago), Series 2 (521 to 510 million years ...
(from the article "Cambrian Period") ...Era, extending from about 542 to 488.3 million years ago. The Cambrian Period is divided into four stratigraphic series: Series 1 (542 to 521 million years ago), Series 2 (521 to 510 million years ago), Series 3 (510 to 501 ...
(from the article "Cambrian Period") ...ago. The Cambrian Period is divided into four stratigraphic series: Series 1 (542 to 521 million years ago), Series 2 (521 to 510 million years ago), Series 3 (510 to 501 million years ago), and the Furongian Series (501 to ...
