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campanilismo: (from the article "Italy") There is much in such contentions. It would be unwise to play down the overwhelming spirit of campanilismo (local patriotism; the spirit of "our campanile is taller than yours") during the 14th and 15th centuries. Only a ...
Campanini, Barberina: (from the article "dance, Western") ...festive scenes, and both were praised by the writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778), who carefully compared their respective virtues. Both, however, were surpassed by the Italian dancer Barberina Campanini (1721-99), whose fame is less adequately recorded in dance history. By ...
Campanis, Alexander Sebastian: Greek-born American baseball executive whose 44-year career with the Dodgers (in both Brooklyn, N.Y., and Los Angeles), which included the 1981 World Series championship, was ended in 1987 by televised comments in which he opined that blacks did not have ...
Campanulaceae: (from the article "Asterales") Campanulaceae, or the bellflower family, is worldwide in distribution and includes 84 genera and about 2,400 species. It also includes species that were formerly placed in Lobeliaceae. Campanulaceae are recognized by their white latex, often rather soft leaves and by ...
Campanus: (from the article "mathematics") ...importance in these universities were the Arabic-based versions of Euclid, of which there were at least four by the 12th century. Of the numerous redactions and compendia which were made, that of Johannes Campanus (c. 1250; first printed in 1482) ...
Campaspe River: 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 ...
Campau, Louis: (from the article "Grand Rapids") ...Kent county, western Michigan, U.S. It is situated along the Grand River, 25 miles (40 km) east of Lake Michigan and about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Muskegon. It was founded in 1826 by Frenchman Louis Campau as a ...
Campbell Hill: highest point (1,549 feet [472 metres]) 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 ...
Campbell Island: 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 ...
Campbell River: 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 ...
Campbell Soup Company: American manufacturer incorporated in 1922 but dating to a canning firm first established in 1869. It is the world's largest manufacturer of soup. It is also a major producer of canned pasta products, snack foods such as cookies and crackers, ... [1 Related Articles]
Campbell University: 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, ...
Campbell, Alexander: American clergyman, writer, and founder of the Disciples of Christ and Bethany College. [4 Related Articles]
Campbell, Andrew: (from the article "Nautilus") In 1886 Andrew Campbell and James Ash of England built a Nautilus submarine driven by electric motors powered by a storage battery; it augured the development of the submarine powered by internal-combustion engines on the surface and by electric-battery power ...
Campbell, Bebe Moore: American novelist (b. Feb. 18, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa.-d. Nov. 27, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif.), examined race relations in the U.S. in a series of fact-based novels. Her debut novel, Your Blues Ain't like Mine (1992), followed the killing of a ...
Campbell, Bill: (from the article "baseball") Twenty-four players took immediate advantage of this new opportunity and went on the open market. Frantic bidding by the clubs followed. Bill Campbell, a relief pitcher with the Minnesota Twins, was the first free agent to make a new connection. ...
Campbell, David: Australian lyrical poet whose work displays his wartime experiences and sensitivity to nature while conveying a sense of angst and alienation. [1 Related Articles]
Campbell, Donald Malcolm: British motorboat and automobile driver who emulated his father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in setting world's speed records on land and on water. [2 Related Articles]
Campbell, Dorothy: (from the article "golf") ...Golf Union in Britain was formed in 1893. The first Ladies' British Amateur Championship was held that year on the old St. Anne's course in England. One of the first outstanding woman golfers was Dorothy Campbell, who won the Ladies' ...
Campbell, Douglas Houghton: 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).
Campbell, E. Simms: first black American cartoonist to publish his work in general-circulation magazines on a regular basis.
Campbell, George: (from the article "rhetoric") ...as in Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783), something like the sixth office of rhetoric. Besides Blair's, the most important rhetorical treatises of the period were George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776) and Richard Whately's Elements of ...
Campbell, George A.: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...Heaviside, an English physicist, developed the theory behind the transmission of signals over two-wire circuits. In the United States, Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University in New York City and George A. Campbell of AT&T both read Heaviside's papers and ...
Campbell, Glen: (from the article "Beach Boys, the") After the first of a series of stress- and drug-related breakdowns in 1964, Brian withdrew from touring and was replaced first by singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, then by veteran surf singer-musician Johnston. Brian focused thereafter on the Beach Boys' studio output, ...
Campbell, John Archibald: American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853-61). He also was assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy.
Campbell, John D.: On Feb. 25, 2007, the U.S. Harness Writers Association awarded Canadian Hall of Famer John D. Campbell the title of 2006 Driver of the Year. For Campbell, North American history's leading money-winning harness driver and winner of a record six ... [1 Related Articles]
Campbell, John McLeod: Scots theologian, intellectual leader, and author.
Campbell, John W.: American science-fiction writer, considered the father of modern science fiction. [1 Related Articles]
Campbell, Joseph: prolific American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of myth in various human cultures and mythic figures in a wide range of literatures.
Campbell, Joseph: (from the article "Campbell Soup Company") In 1869 Joseph Campbell (d. 1900), a fruit merchant, and Abram Anderson, an icebox manufacturer, formed a partnership in Camden to can tomatoes, vegetables, preserves, and other products. In 1876 Anderson left the partnership, and Campbell joined with Arthur Dorrance ...
Campbell, Kim: Canadian politician, who in June 1993 became the first woman to serve as prime minister of Canada. Her tenure was brief, however, lasting only until November. [3 Related Articles]
Campbell, Maria: (from the article "Canadian literature") ...River, 1990; Green Grass, Running Water, 1993), and Eden Robinson (Monkey Beach, 1999; Blood Sports, 2006). Autobiography and memoir-Maria Campbell's Half-Breed (1973) and Lee Maracle's Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel (1975, rev. ed. 1990), for example-are key genres in First Nations ...
Campbell, Michael: (from the article "Golf") Woods also figured prominently in the other two major championships of the season, finishing second to New Zealander Michael Campbell in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst, N.C., and fourth behind American Phil Mickelson in the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) championship ...
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick: English actress known for her portrayals of passionate and intelligent characters. [1 Related Articles]
Campbell, Robert: (from the article "Yukon River") ...explored the river as far inland as Nulato (Alaska), where they established a post near the junction of Koyukuk River. By 1846 the Russians had mapped almost 600 miles of the lower river. The trader Robert Campbell, of the Hudson's ...
Campbell, Roy: poet whose vigorous extrovert verse contrasted with the uneasy self-searching of the more prominent socially conscious English poets of the 1930s. [2 Related Articles]
Campbell, Sir Colin: (from the article "Palladianism") ...wish coincided with the publication of an English translation of Palladio's treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (1570; Four Books on Architecture) and the first volume of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715), a folio of 100 engravings of contemporary "classical" buildings ...
Campbell, Sir Malcolm: British automobile-racing driver who set world speed records on land and on water. [2 Related Articles]
Campbell, Sir Menzies: Sir Menzies Campbell became leader of the United Kingdom's Liberal Democratic Party on March 2, 2006. He took the helm of the smallest of the U.K.'s three main nationwide parties at an awkward time, succeeding Charles Kennedy, a much younger ... [2 Related Articles]
Campbell, Thomas: (from the article "Disciples of Christ") ..."go free" simply as Christians. Their leader, Barton W. Stone, championed revivalism, a simple biblical and non-creedal faith, and Christian union. In the upper Ohio Valley Presbyterian Thomas Campbell organized the Christian Association of Washington (Pennsylvania) in 1809 to plead ...
Campbell, Thomas: 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. [1 Related Articles]
Campbell, Wilfred: (from the article "Lampman, Archibald") ...University of Toronto, he lived in Ottawa, employed in the post office department of the Canadian civil service, from 1883 until his death. He collaborated with the poets Duncan Campbell Scott and Wilfred Campbell in the writing of a weekly ...
Campbell, William Wallace: 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 ...
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry: 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
Campbellsville: 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 ...
Campbelltown: city within the Sydney metropolitan area, eastern New South Wales, southeastern Australia. In 1810 it was proclaimed the town of Airds by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, who renamed it in 1820 after his wife, Elizabeth Campbell. In 1882 it became a ...
Campbeltown: small royal burgh (town) and seaport, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, western Scotland. Campbeltown is the main centre of the Peninsula of Kintyre, which is 40 miles (65 km) long and protrudes into the Atlantic. By ...
Campe, Joachim Heinrich: (from the article "children's literature") ...associated the educational theories of J.B. Basedow, J.F. Herbart, and Friedrich Froebel. One fruit of the movement was Robinson der Jungere (1779; "The Young Robinson"), by Joachim Heinrich Campe, who adapted Defoe along Rousseauist lines, his eye sharply fixed on ...
Campeche: estado (state), southeastern Mexico, on the western part of the Yucatan Peninsula. It is bounded to the north and east by the state of Yucatan, to the east by the state of Quintana Roo, to the south ... [1 Related Articles]
Campeche: city, port on the Gulf of Mexico, and capital of Campeche estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It lies on the Yucatan Peninsula at the western end of a fertile plain in a natural amphitheatre formed by hills overlooking ...
Campeche, Bay of: bay of the Gulf of Mexico, southern Mexico. It is bounded by the Yucatan Peninsula to the east, by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the south, and by southern Veracruz to the west. The bay covers an area of about ...