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- Italian cardinal, humanist, and lawyer who, upon entering the service of the church in 1510, became one of the most valued representatives of the papacy. [1 Related Articles]
- Campen, Jacob van
- Dutch architect, one of the leaders of a group of architects who created a restrained architectural style that was suited to the social and political climate of the Netherlands. [3 Related Articles]
- Campephaga
- (from the article "cuckoo-shrike") ...of the 41 species are known as graybirds. An example is the large, or black-faced, cuckoo-shrike (C. novaehollandiae), about 30 cm (12 inches) long, of India and China to Australasia. In Campephaga, mainly an African genus, males are glossy black, ...
- Campephagidae
- songbird family, order Passeriformes, including cuckoo-shrikes and minivets. The 70 species, found from Africa to the Pacific Islands, are 13 to 35 cm (5 to 14 inches) in length and have slightly hooked bills, rather long tails, and fluffy plumage ... [1 Related Articles]
- Campero, Narciso
- (from the article "Bolivia") Starting with the presidency (1880-84) of Narciso Campero, Bolivia moved into an era of civilian government. The country's upper classes divided their support between two parties-Liberal and Conservative- and then proceeded to share power through them. This intraclass political party ...
- camphene
- (from the article "isoprenoid") ...conditions leads to a host of products, among which are terpinolene, the terpinenes, alpha-terpineol, and terpin, previously mentioned, as well as borneol, fenchyl alcohol, and the hydrocarbon camphene.
- camphor
- an organic compound of penetrating, somewhat musty aroma, used for many centuries as a component of incense and as a medicinal. Modern uses of camphor have been as a plasticizer for cellulose nitrate and as an insect repellent, particularly for ... [3 Related Articles]
- camphor glass
- (from the article "pattern glass") ...Pattern sets sometimes included a staggering number of pieces, ranging from sugar bowls to celery vases. More than 250 major patterns are known to have been made. Some popular patterns, known as camphor glass, combined the use of clear glass ...
- camphor laurel
- (from the article "camphor") Camphor occurs in the camphor laurel, Cinnamomum camphora, common in China, Taiwan, and Japan. It is isolated by passing steam through the pulverized wood and condensing the vapours; camphor crystallizes from the oily portion of the distillate and is purified ...
- camphorwood chest
- (from the article "furniture") ...expanses of reddish-brown wood, with their elaborate openwork brass mounts and big, chased bolt heads to take the brunt of rough handling, have a kind of sophisticated crudeness about them. On later camphorwood chests the brass mounts are sunk flush ...
- Camphuysen, Dirk Rafaelszoon
- (from the article "Dutch literature") ...Treasury of Devotional Praise"), containing songs of medieval simplicity and devotion. Jacobus Revius, an orthodox Calvinist, was a master of the Renaissance forms and the sonnet. Ironically, Dirk Rafaelszoon Camphuysen, removed from his parish because of his unorthodoxy, satisfied a ...
- Campi, Antonio
- (from the article "Campi, Giulio") He first studied under his father, Galeazzo (1477-1563). Among the earliest of his school were his brothers, Vincenzo (1536-91) and Antonio (1536-c. 1591); the latter was also a sculptor and historian of Cremona. Bernardino Campi (1522-c. 1592), unrelated to the ...
- Campi, Bernardino
- (from the article "Campi, Giulio") ...(1477-1563). Among the earliest of his school were his brothers, Vincenzo (1536-91) and Antonio (1536-c. 1591); the latter was also a sculptor and historian of Cremona. Bernardino Campi (1522-c. 1592), unrelated to the family, was a pupil of Giulio and ...
- Campi, Giulio
- Italian painter and architect who led the formation of the Cremonese school. His work, and that of his followers, was elegant and eclectic. Campi was a prolific painter, working in both oil and fresco; at its best his work was ...
- Campidanian
- (from the article "Romance languages") ...of Logudorian provides the basis for a sardo illustre (a conventionalized literary language that has been used mainly for folk-based verse). Other dialects of Sardinian include Campidanese (Campidanian), centred around Cagliari in the south, heavily influenced by Catalan and Italian; ...
- Campidano
- narrow, low-lying plain, about 20 mi (32 km) wide, in southwestern Sardinia, Italy, extending inland about 70 mi (110 km) from the Golfo di (Gulf of) Oristano. It separates Sardinia's small southwestern highland, Iglesiente, from the greater Eastern Highlands, which ... [1 Related Articles]
- Campiello Prize
- (from the article "Literature") ...Salvatore Niffoi obtained original results by combining standard Italian with Sardinian in La vedova scalza, a tale of fierce passion, sensuality, and revenge that earned its author the Campiello Prize.
- Campin, Robert
- one of the earliest and greatest masters of Flemish painting. He has been identified with the Master of Flemalle on stylistic and other grounds. Characterized by a naturalistic conception of form and a poetic representation of the objects of daily ... [5 Related Articles]
- Campina
- (from the article "Prahova") ...materials, and folk art (embroidery and wood carvings) are produced in Sinaia. The Sinaia Monastery and Peles Castle (19th century) are historic features of the town. The 19th-century Campina town is known for Hasdeu Castle, built in the shape of ...
- Campina Grande
- city, eastern Paraiba estado (state), northeastern Brazil, in the Bacamarte Mountains, at 1,804 feet (550 metres) above sea level. Located on the site of an Ariu Indian village, it was originally called Porta do Sertao (Gateway to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Campinas
- city, eastern Sao Paulo estado (state), southeastern Brazil, in the highlands near the Atibaia River at 2,274 feet (693 metres) above sea level. Formerly known as Nossa Senhora da Conceicao de Campinas de Mato Grosso and as ...
- camping
- recreational activity in which participants take up temporary residence in the outdoors, usually using tents or specially designed or adapted vehicles for shelter. Camping was at one time only a rough, back-to-nature pastime for hardy open-air lovers, but it later ...
- Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland
- (from the article "camping") Holding founded the first camping club in the world, the Association of Cycle Campers, in 1901. By 1907 it had merged with a number of other clubs to form the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Falcon Scott, ...
- campion
- common name for ornamental rock-garden or border plants constituting the genus Silene, of the pink, or carnation, family (Caryophyllaceae), consisting of about 720 species of herbaceous plants distributed throughout the world. Members of the genus Lychnis are included in Silene.
- Campion, Albert
- (from the article "Allingham, Margery") British detective-story writer of unusual subtlety, wit, and imaginative power, who created the bland, bespectacled, keen-witted Albert Campion, one of the most interesting of fictional detectives.
- Campion, Jane
- (from the article "1993: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Jane Campion for The PianoAdapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian for Schindler's ListCinematography: Janusz Kaminski for Schindler's ListArt Direction: Allan Starski for Schindler's ListOriginal Score:...
- Campion, Saint Edmund
- English Jesuit martyred by the government of Queen Elizabeth I. [2 Related Articles]
- Campion, Thomas
- English poet, composer, musical and literary theorist, physician, and one of the outstanding songwriters of the brilliant English lutenist school of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His lyric poetry reflects his musical abilities in its subtle mastery of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Camplin, Alisa
- (from the article "Skiing") Since the 2002 Olympics, freestyle skiing had added halfpipe and ski cross (SX) to the standard aerials and moguls (including dual moguls) lineup. Olympic aerials champion Alisa Camplin of Australia, who also took the 2003 world championship, won seven times ...
- Campo Formio, Treaty of
- (Oct. 17, 1797), a peace settlement between France and Austria, signed at Campo Formio (now Campoformido, Italy), a village in Venezia Giulia southwest of Udine, following the defeat of Austria in Napoleon Bonaparte's first Italian campaign. [13 Related Articles]
- Campo Grande
- city, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul estado (state), southwestern Brazil, lying near the headwaters of the Anhandui River, in the Maracaju Mountains, at 1,770 feet (540 metres) above sea level. Campo Grande is the largest city ...
- Campo, Estanislao del
- Argentine poet and journalist whose Fausto is one of the major works of gaucho poetry. [1 Related Articles]
- Campo, Piazza del
- (from the article "Siena") ...The walls and gates enclose a city centre that is composed of narrow, winding streets and old buildings and palaces. The centre of the city is dominated by a large, shell-shaped square called the Piazza del Campo, which is the ...
- Campoamor y Campoosorio, Ramon de
- Spanish poet whose value lies in his expression of contemporary social attitudes. [1 Related Articles]
- Campobasso
- city, capital of Molise regione (region), south-central Italy, northeast of Naples. The old town on a hill was abandoned in 1732 by its inhabitants, who built a new town on a lower fertile plain. The Castello Monforte ...
- Campobello Island
- second largest island (9 miles [14 km] long by 3 miles [5 km] wide), after Grand Manan, of a small island group at the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay (an inlet of the Bay of Fundy), southwestern New Brunswick, southeastern Canada. ... [1 Related Articles]
- campodeiform larva
- (from the article "insect") Larvae, which vary considerably in shape, are classified in five forms: eruciform (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grublike), campodeiform (elongated, flattened, and active), elateriform (wireworm-like), and vermiform (maggot-like). The three types of pupae are: obtect, with appendages more or less glued to the ...
- Campora, Hector J.
- (from the article "Argentina") The newly elected president, Hector J. Campora, took office in May 1973. It was immediately clear that he was merely preparing the way for the return of Peron from exile. Tensions rose sharply among Peronists as the organization's left wing ...
- campos
- (from the article "Amazon River") ...Branco watershed, approximately coincident with the state of Roraima, includes extensive tracts of sandy, leached soils that support a grassy and stunted arboreal cover (campos). Other tributaries of the Negro, such as the Vaupes and Guainia, drain ...
- Campos dos Goytacazes
- city, northeastern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It is located 35 miles (56 km) up the Paraiba do Sul River from its mouth on the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil, at 43 feet (13 metres) ...
- campos flicker
- (from the article "flicker") ...the West (to Alaska) by the red-shafted flicker (C. cafer), considered by many authorities to represent the same species as the yellow-shafted because the two forms hybridize frequently. The campos, or pampas, flicker (C. campestris) and the field flicker (C. ...
- Campos, Augusto de
- (from the article "Campos, Haroldo de; and Campos, Augusto de") The Campos brothers and Pignatari published Teoria da poesia concreta in 1965. Haroldo and Augusto were also both known as translators; between them they translated into Portuguese works of Ezra Pound (1960), E.E. Cummings (1960), James Joyce (1962), Stephane Mallarme ...
- Campos, Haroldo de; and Campos, Augusto de
- poets and literary critics, best known as the prime movers in the creation of Brazilian concrete poetry in the 1950s.
- Campos, Haroldo Eurico Browne de
- Brazilian poet (b. Aug. 19, 1929, Sao Paulo, Braz.-d. Aug. 16, 2003, Sao Paulo), founded a modernist literary movement known for its concrete poetry. He and his compatriots called themselves Noigandres, a word he borrowed from an Ezra Pound canto. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Campos, Roberto de Oliveira
- Brazilian politician and diplomat (b. April 17, 1917, Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state, Braz.-d. Oct. 9, 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), served in a number of capacities during his career, including ambassador to the U.S. and to the U.K., cabinet minister, ...
- Campra, Andre
- one of the most important French composers of operas and sacred music of the early 18th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Camptosaurus
- large herbivorous dinosaurs found as fossils in western Europe and western North America that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous Period.
- Camptostoma imberbe
- (from the article "tyrannulet") ...is given to members of about 20 genera within the family. Fairly typical of the group and among the most widely distributed are the 9-centimetre (3.5-inch) beardless tyrannulets of the genus Camptostoma. The northern form, C. imberbe, occurs north to ...
- Camptostoma obsoletum
- (from the article "tyrannulet") ...beardless tyrannulets of the genus Camptostoma. The northern form, C. imberbe, occurs north to Texas and Arizona (where it is called the beardless flycatcher), and the southern form, C. obsoletum, is found as far south as Argentina; their ranges meet ...
- campu
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...of rhetoric rather indebted to Sanskrit rhetoricians, containing the first descriptions of the Kannada country, people, and dialects, with references to earlier works. From the 10th century on, campu narratives (part prose, part verse) became popular both in Kannada and ...
- Campulung
- town, Arges judet (county), south-central Romania. It lies along the Targului River at the foot of the Iezer and Papusa mountains of the Transylvanian Alps. Originally it was a frontier post on a strategic road (now a highway) that crossed ... [1 Related Articles]
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