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- in Arthurian legend, the seat of King Arthur's court. It is variously identified with Caerleon, Monmouthshire, in Wales, and, in England, with the following: Queen Camel, Somerset; the little town of Camelford, Cornwall; Winchester, Hampshire; and Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury, ...
- Camelots du Roi
- (from the article "France") ...Maurras appealed to many traditionalists, professional men, churchmen, and army officers. Action Francaise readily resorted to both verbal and physical violence, and its organized bands, the Camelots du Roi, anticipated the tactics of later fascist movements. By 1914 Maurras's movement, ...
- Camembert cheese
- classic cow's-milk cheese of Normandy, named for a village in that region; its characteristic creamy, ivory-coloured interior and downy white surface, resembling that of Brie, result from the Penicillium camemberti mold with which the curd is treated. Camembert curd is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Camenae
- in Roman religion, goddesses who were perhaps originally water deities, having a sacred grove and spring located outside the Porta Capena at Rome. Believed able to cure diseases and prophesy the future, the Camenae were offered libations of water and ...
- Camenes
- (from the article "logic, history of") Fourth figure:Bramantip, Camenes, Dimaris, Fesapo,
- Camenop
- (from the article "logic, history of") Fresison, *Camenop.
- cameo
- hard or precious stone carved in relief, or imitations of such stones in glass (called pastes) and mollusk shell. The cameo is usually a gem (commonly agate, onyx, or sardonyx) having two different coloured layers, with the figures carved in ... [5 Related Articles]
- cameo glass
- glassware decorated with figures and forms of coloured glass carved in relief against a glass background of a contrasting colour. Such ware is produced by blowing two layers of glass together. When the glass has cooled, a rough outline of ... [7 Related Articles]
- camera
- in photography, device for recording an image of an object on a light-sensitive surface; it is essentially a light-tight box with an aperture to admit light focused onto a sensitized film or plate. [10 Related Articles]
- Camera degli Sposi
- (from the article "Mantegna, Andrea") The Gonzaga patronage provided Mantegna a fixed income (which did not always materialize) and the opportunity to create what became his best-known surviving work, the so-called Camera degli Sposi in the Palazzo Ducale at Mantua. Earlier practitioners of 15th-century perspective ...
- camera lucida
- (Latin: "light chamber"), optical instrument invented in 1807 by William Hyde Wollaston to facilitate accurate sketching of objects. It consists of a four-sided prism mounted on a small stand above a sheet of paper. By placing the eye close to ... [1 Related Articles]
- camera movement
- (from the article "motion picture") Framing, scale, and shooting angle are all greatly modified by the use of camera movement. Filmmakers began experimenting with camera movement almost immediately after the motion-picture camera was developed. In 1897 photographers employed by Auguste and Louis Lumiere floated a ...
- camera obscura
- ancestor of the photographic camera. The Latin name means "dark chamber," and the earliest versions, dating to antiquity, consisted of small darkened rooms with light admitted through a single tiny hole. The result was that an inverted image of the ... [5 Related Articles]
- camera ottica
- (from the article "Canaletto") ...Such was the pressure upon him that he ultimately was forced to work largely from drawings and even from other artists' engravings, rather than from nature. He also developed the use of the camera ottica, a device by which a ...
- camera-stylo
- (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...and, more prominently, of Andre Bazin, whose thought molded an entire generation of filmmakers, critics, and scholars. In 1948 Astruc formulated the concept of the camera-stylo ("camera-pen"), in which film was regarded as a form of audiovisual ...
- cameralism
- (from the article "Germany") For the state to continue to draw high taxes without ruining land and people, the country's level of wealth had to be raised. Frederick William therefore pursued an aggressive policy (known as cameralism) of stimulating agriculture and manufacturing while reducing ...
- Camerarius, Joachim
- German classical scholar and Lutheran theologian who mediated between Protestants and Catholics at the Reformation.
- Camerarius, Rudolph Jacob
- botanist who demonstrated the existence of sexes in plants. [1 Related Articles]
- Camerata
- Florentine society of intellectuals, poets, and musicians, the first of several such groups that formed in the decades preceding 1600. The Camerata met about 1573-87 under the patronage of Count Giovanni Bardi. The group's efforts to revive ancient Greek music- ... [4 Related Articles]
- Cameria
- (from the article "Albania") ...pressure from Albania's neighbours, the great powers largely ignored demographic realities and ceded the vast region of Kosovo to Serbia, while in the south Greece was given the greater part of Cameria, a part of the old region of Epirus ...
- Cameron
- county, north-central Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau. The principal stream is Sinnemahoning Creek, which divides itself into the Bennett and Driftwood branches. Parklands include Elk State Forest and Sinnemahoning, Bucktail, and Sizerville state parks.
- Cameron Highlands
- resort area of west-central West Malaysia (Malaya), in the Main Range, about 80 miles (130 km) south of southernmost Thailand. It comprises a cool highland plateau (elevation 4,750 feet [1,448 metres]), developed by the British in the 1940s as a ...
- Cameron, Alistair G. W.
- (from the article "comet") Later in the 1970s the American astronomer A.G.W. Cameron developed a much more massive model of the protostar nebula, in which the comets accreted in a circular ring at some 1,000 AU from the Sun, which is far beyond the ...
- Cameron, Charles
- (from the article "Western architecture") Two foreign architects played important roles: a Scotsman, Charles Cameron, whose most extensive work was at Tsarskoye Selo in the style invented by Robert Adam and who was responsible for introducing the first correct Greek Doric column and entablature in ...
- Cameron, David
- British politician, who became head of Britain's Conservative Party in 2005. [5 Related Articles]
- Cameron, Duncan
- fur trader who became involved in a rivalry with the Hudson's Bay Company over the settlement of the Red River region of western Canada.
- Cameron, James
- It was full speed ahead for James Cameron in 1998 as the Canadian filmmaker defied critics and logistics by building a Titanic that refused to sink. His screen adaptation of the doomed ocean liner's 1912 maiden voyage sailed into the ...
- Cameron, Julia Margaret
- British photographer who is considered one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 19th century. [3 Related Articles]
- Cameron, Richard
- Scottish Covenanter, founder of a religious sect called Cameronians. [1 Related Articles]
- Cameron, Simon
- U.S. senator, secretary of war during the American Civil War, and a political boss of Pennsylvania. His son James Donald Cameron (1833-1918) succeeded him in the Senate and as a political power in his state. [1 Related Articles]
- Cameron, Sir Donald
- (from the article "Tanzania") ...Tanganyika Territory (as it was then renamed), enforced a period of recuperation before new development plans were set on foot. A Land Ordinance (1923) ensured that African land rights were secure. Sir Donald Cameron, governor from 1925 to 1931, infused ...
- Cameron, Sir Ewen
- Scottish Highland chieftain, a strong supporter of the Stuart monarchs Charles II and James II of England. A man of enormous bulk, Lochiel became renowned for his feats of strength and ferocity in combat.
- Cameron, Verney Lovett
- British explorer, the first to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. [1 Related Articles]
- Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy
- (from the article "heraldry") Even without very large numbers of arms to place, the marshaling of quarterings may still be complicated. An interesting example is the marshaling of several coats of arms for the Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy family of baronets. The arms are said to be ...
- Cameronian
- any of the Scottish Covenanters who followed Richard Cameron in adhering to the perpetual obligation of the two Scottish covenants of 1638 and 1643 as set out in the Queensferry Paper (1680), pledging maintenance of the chosen form of church ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cameroon
- country lying at the junction of western and central Africa. Triangular in shape, it is bordered by Nigeria to the northwest, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, Congo (Brazzaville) to the southeast, Gabon and Equatorial ... [25 Related Articles]
- Cameroon Democratic Union
- (from the article "Cameroon") ...clashes, a constitutional amendment in 1990 established a multiparty system; main opposition groups included the Social Democratic Front, the National Union for Democracy and Progress, and the Cameroon Democratic Union.
- Cameroon Highlands
- (from the article "Africa") ...plateau in Guinea, in the Guinea Highlands, which also extend over the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia, in the Jos Plateau in Nigeria, in the Adamawa region of Nigeria and Cameroon, and in the Cameroon Highlands. There are extensive ...
- Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
- (from the article "Cameroon") Cameroon was a de facto one-party state from 1966 and was dominated by the Cameroon National Union, a merger of six political parties; it was renamed the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement in 1985. After much political unrest and many violent ...
- Cameroon, flag of
- vertically striped green-red-yellow national flag with a central yellow star. It has a width-to-length ratio of approximately 2 to 3.
- Cameroon, history of
- history of the area from prehistoric and ancient times to the present. [7 Related Articles]
- Cameroon, Mount
- volcanic massif of southwestern Cameroon, rising to a height of 13,435 feet (4,095 m) and extending 14 miles (23 km) inland from the Gulf of Guinea. It is the highest peak in sub-Saharan western and central Africa and the westernmost ... [4 Related Articles]
- Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission
- (from the article "Cameroon") In 2005, three years after the International Court of Justice had delineated the 1,600-km (1,000-mi) border between Cameroon and Nigeria, the implementation of the ruling remained stalled. The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission met on July 28 for its first session of ...
- Cameroonian Union
- (from the article "Ahidjo, Ahmadou") ...the Assembly of the French Union. In the first Cameroon government (1957), he was vice premier and minister of the interior; when the first premier fell in early 1958, he formed his own party, the Cameroonian Union, and became the ...
- Camestres
- (from the article "logic, history of") Second figure:Cesare, Camestres, Festino, Baroco,
- Camestrop
- (from the article "logic, history of") *Cesaro, *Camestrop.
- Camiguin
- mountainous island in the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, 6 miles (10 km) off the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines. Located near Macajalar and Gingoog bays, the island is often considered the most beautiful of the Philippine archipelago. Since 1948, eruptions of ...
- Camilar, Eusebiu
- (from the article "Romanian literature") Zaharia Stancu composed novels that evoked Romanian village life in a vanished age. Eusebiu Camilar, in his novel Mist, bitterly indicted fascism. Essays and criticism were written by Mihai Ralea, who also published travel books and philosophical and psychological works, ...
- Camilla
- in Roman mythology, legendary Volscian maiden who became a warrior and was a favourite of the goddess Diana. According to the Roman poet Virgil (Aeneid, Books VII and XI), her father, Metabus, was fleeing from his enemies ...
- Camilla, duchess of Cornwall
- consort (2005- ) of Charles, prince of Wales. [3 Related Articles]
- Camille, Hurricane
- hurricane (tropical cyclone), one of the strongest of the 20th century, that hit the United States in August 1969. After entering the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane struck the Mississippi River basin. As the storm moved inland across much of ... [2 Related Articles]
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