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- French philosopher and physiologist noted for Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme (1802; "Relations of the Physical and the Moral in Man"), which explained all of reality, including the psychic, mental, and moral aspects of man, in terms ... [1 Related Articles]
- cabaret
- restaurant that serves liquor and offers a variety of musical entertainment. [1 Related Articles]
- Cabarrus, Francois, conde de
- financier and economist, adviser to the government of King Charles III of Spain.
- Cabasilas, Nicholas
- Greek Orthodox lay theologian and liturgist who eminently represents the tradition of Byzantine theology. He wrote extensively on Hesychast mysticism (a traditional method of Byzantine Christian contemplative prayer that integrates vocal and bodily exercises) and on the theology of Christian ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabasilas, Nilus
- Greek Orthodox metropolitan, theologian, and scholar, whose treatises critical of medieval Latin theology became classical apologies for the Orthodox tradition of the Byzantine church. His support of Greek monastic spirituality furthered the ascetic tradition in the Eastern church. [1 Related Articles]
- cabbage
- vegetable and fodder plant the various forms of which are said to have been developed by long cultivation from the wild, or sea, cabbage (Brassica oleracea) found near the seacoast in various parts of England and continental Europe. The common ... [5 Related Articles]
- cabbage aphid
- (from the article "aphid") The cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae) is small and gray-green with a powdery, waxy covering. It is found in clusters on the underside of leaves of cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and radishes. It overwinters as black eggs in northern regions but ...
- cabbage looper
- distinctive green, white-lined larva, or caterpillar, in the owlet moth family Noctuidae (order Lepidoptera). Like other larvae in the subfamily Plusiinae, the cabbage looper has only three pairs of prolegs rather than four, causing it to crawl in a looper ...
- cabbage maggot
- (from the article "anthomyiid fly") ...are often found in the home. In most species the larvae feed on plants and can be serious pests. However, some are scavengers and live in excrement and decaying material, and others are aquatic. The cabbage maggot (Hylemya brassicae) is ...
- cabbage palmetto
- (from the article "palm") ...Syrphus flies apparently pollinate Asterogyne martiana in Costa Rica, and drosophila flies are thought to pollinate the nipa palm in New Guinea. Bees pollinate several species (Sabal palmetto and Iriartea deltoidea). Studies of pollination are difficult because of the large ...
- Cabdulqaadir Xirsi "Yamyam"
- (from the article "African literature") ...established by the military in 1969. Poems may now be written down, but they are subsequently recited on the radio or at public or private recitals, or they are circulated on audiocassettes. Cabdulqaadir Xirsi "Yamyam" became one of the leading ...
- cabecera
- (from the article "municipio") ...village or community, as is usual in Guatemala, or it may comprise a number of separate communities, as is usual in Mexico. A municipio of several villages always has a head village, or cabecera, in which is centred the national ...
- Cabeiri
- important group of deities, probably of Phrygian origin, worshiped over much of Asia Minor, on the islands nearby, and in Macedonia and northern and central Greece. They were promoters of fertility and protectors of seafarers. Perhaps originally indefinite in number, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cabell, James Branch
- American writer known chiefly for his novel Jurgen (1919). [1 Related Articles]
- Cabell, Joseph C.
- (from the article "Virginia, University of") ...Virginia, U.S., on a campus of 1,000 acres (405 hectares) near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Founded by Thomas Jefferson, it was chartered in 1819. Jefferson was aided by Joseph C. Cabell (1778-1856), a member of the Virginia ...
- caber, tossing the
- a Scottish athletic event consisting in throwing a "caber," a straight, approximately 17-foot- (5-metre-) long log (from which the bark has been removed) so that it turns over in the air and falls on the ground with its small end ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabet, Etienne
- French socialist and founder of a communal settlement at Nauvoo, Ill. [1 Related Articles]
- Cabezon, Antonio de
- earliest important Spanish composer for the keyboard, admired for his austere, lofty polyphonic music, which links the keyboard style of the early 1500s with the international style that emerged in the mid-16th century.
- cabezone
- (from the article "sculpin") In the Pacific Ocean, there are such species as the cabezone (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus), a large, eastern Pacific fish, edible but often having blue- or green-tinted flesh; the staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus), a common North American species; and Vellitor centropomus, a ...
- cabildo
- (Spanish: "municipal council"), the fundamental unit of local government in colonial Spanish America. Conforming to a tradition going back to the Romans, the Spaniards considered the city to be of paramount importance, with the surrounding countryside directly subordinate to it. ... [2 Related Articles]
- cabildo abierto
- (from the article "cabildo") ...city chose some of the councillors. Creoles (American-born people of Spanish descent), barred from most high offices, were allowed to be council members. Sometimes citizens were asked to attend a cabildo abierto (open town meeting) on important matters. Such meetings ...
- Cabimas
- city, northeastern Zulia estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. It lies on the northeastern shore of Lake Maracaibo and is an important centre for the Ambrosio oil fields. Just to the south of the city is La Salina refinery. Cabimas is linked ...
- cabin
- (from the article "airplane") ...the thrust necessary to push the vehicle through the air. Provision must be made to support the plane when it is at rest on the ground and during takeoff and landing. Most planes feature an enclosed body (fuselage) to house ...
- cabin cruiser
- (from the article "motorboat") ...laterally across the width of the craft and occasionally with decking over the bow area. Inboard runabouts are usually a bit larger and are either open or have a removable shelter top. Cruisers, or cabin cruisers, are equipped with sleeping ...
- Cabin John Bridge
- (from the article "Meigs, Montgomery C") ...most substantial contribution, however, was the Washington Aqueduct, which extended 12 miles (19 kilometres) from the Great Falls on the Potomac to a distribution reservoir west of Georgetown. His Cabin John Bridge (1852-60), designed to carry Washington's main water supply ...
- cabin tent
- (from the article "tent") ...horizontal flap; the umbrella tent, which was originally made with internal supporting arms like an umbrella but which later became widely popular with external framing of hollow aluminum; and the cabin tent, resembling a wall tent with walls four to ...
- Cabinda
- northern exclave of Angola, on the west (Atlantic) coast of Africa north of the Congo River estuary. It is bordered by the Republic of the Congo to the north and northeast and is separated from Angola by part of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Cabinda
- (from the article "Angola") There were problems of a different character in the Cabinda enclave. In February a spokesman for the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (FDC), the umbrella organization of groups seeking independence for Cabinda, said that he had received a document from the ...
- Cabinda Forum for Dialogue
- (from the article "Angola") There were problems of a different character in the Cabinda enclave. In February a spokesman for the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (FDC), the umbrella organization of groups seeking independence for Cabinda, said that he had received a document from the ...
- cabinet
- in furniture design, originally a small room for displaying precious objects and later a piece of furniture composed of a network of small drawers commonly enclosed by a pair of doors. Cabinets were first used in Italy during the late ... [4 Related Articles]
- cabinet
- in political systems, a body of advisers to a chief of state who also serve as the heads of government departments. The cabinet has become an important element of government wherever legislative powers have been vested in a parliament, but ... [11 Related Articles]
- cabinet
- (from the article "book collecting") There are at least as many types of book collectors as there are kinds of books. Traditional approaches tended to fall within three genres: the author collection, the subject collection, and the cabinet collection.specialized museums
- Cabinet Mission Plan
- (from the article "India") ...hope of resolving the Congress-Muslim League deadlock and, thus, of transferring British power to a single Indian administration. Cripps was responsible primarily for drafting the ingenious Cabinet Mission Plan, which proposed a three-tier federation for India, integrated by a minimal ...
- cabinet piano
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...its pointed tail in the air, producing the asymmetrical "giraffe piano." Placing shelves in the upper part of the case to the right of the strings yielded the tall rectangular "cabinet piano." Because the lower end of the strings, which ...
- cabinetmaking
- (from the article "furniture industry") ...made furniture. Where previously carpenters and joiners had made furniture along with every kind of building construction in wood, several circumstances combined to create a new profession: that of cabinetmaker. The most important technical factor was the introduction, or reintroduction, ...
- cable
- in electrical and electronic systems, a conductor or group of conductors for transmitting electric power or telecommunication signals from one place to another. Electric communication cables transmit voice messages, computer data, and visual images via electrical signals to telephones, wired ... [4 Related Articles]
- cable
- in engineering, either an assemblage of three or more ropes twisted together for extra strength or a rope made by twisting together several strands of metal wire. This article deals with wire rope. For rope made from synthetic or natural ... [5 Related Articles]
- Cable Act
- (from the article "Mussey, Ellen Spencer") ...activity and in 1917 became chairman of the committee on the legal status of women of the National Council of Women. She drafted and, with Maud Wood Park, she helped secure passage in 1922 of the Cable Act, which ended ...
- cable car
- (from the article "streetcar") The cable car, the invention of Andrew Hallidie, was introduced in San Francisco on Sacramento and Clay streets in 1873. The cars were drawn by an endless cable running in a slot between the rails and passing over a steam-driven ...
- cable modem
- (from the article "computer") ...and they demodulate the analog signal back into a digital message on reception. In practice, telephone network components limit analog data transmission to about 48 kilobits per second. Standard cable modems operate in a similar manner over cable television networks, ...
- Cable News Network
- subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., engaged in 24-hour live news broadcasts. Headquarters are in Atlanta. [8 Related Articles]
- cable television
- generally, any system that distributes television signals by means of coaxial or fibre-optic cables. The term also includes systems that distribute signals solely via satellite. Cable-television systems originated in the United States in the late 1940s and were designed to ... [13 Related Articles]
- Cable, George W.
- American author and reformer, noted for fiction dealing with life in New Orleans. [3 Related Articles]
- cable-stayed bridge
- (from the article "bridge") Cable-stayed bridges carry the vertical main-span loads by nearly straight diagonal cables in tension. The towers transfer the cable forces to the foundations through vertical compression. The tensile forces in the cables also put the deck into horizontal compression.
- cable-stayed roof
- (from the article "building construction") Another system derived from bridge construction is the cable-stayed roof. An early example is the TWA Hangar (1956) at Kansas City, Mo., which shelters large aircraft under a double cantilever roof made of semicylindrical shells that reach out 48 meters ...
- cable-tool drilling
- (from the article "petroleum production") Early oil wells were drilled with impact-type tools in a method called cable-tool drilling. A weighted, chisel-shaped bit was suspended from a cable to a lever at the surface, where an up-and-down motion of the lever caused the bit to ...
- cabled fluting
- (from the article "fluting and reeding") Sometimes, although not in the Doric, the flutes are partly filled by a small, round, convex molding, or bead, and are then known as cabled; this decoration does not usually extend higher than one-third of the shaft. Sometimes channeling, slightly ...
- Caboche, Simon
- French demagogic agitator whose raising of riots promoted an abortive reform of the royal administration.
- cabochon cut
- method of cutting gemstones with a convex, rounded surface that is polished but unfaceted. Opaque, asteriated, iridescent, opalescent, or chatoyant stones are usually cut en cabochon. The back of a normal cabochon-cut stone is flat, but it may be hollowed ... [7 Related Articles]
- caboclo
- (from the article "Brazil") ...mulatos; people of mixed African and European ancestry) and mestizos (mesticos, or caboclos; people of mixed European and Indian ancestry). A small proportion are of entirely African or Afro-Indian ancestry, and peoples of Asian ...
- Cabombaceae
- (from the article "Nymphaeales") Nymphaeaceae (including the former family Barclayaceae), or the water-lily family, has 6 genera and 58 species. Cabombaceae, or the water shields and fanworts, is a closely related family with 2 genera, Cabomba and Brasenia, that is sometimes included in Nymphaeaceae. ...
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