Italian painter and printmaker noted for his religious compositions and for the art academy he helped found in Bologna about 1585, which helped renew Italian art in the wake of Mannerism.
a leader in the Mexican civil war following the overthrow of the dictator Porfirio Diaz. He became the first president of the new Mexican Republic. A moderate who was tainted by his association with Diaz and his alliance with newer ...
city, Massa-Carrara provincia, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, in north-central Italy. It lies along the Carrione River in the foothills of the Apuan Alps, just northwest of Massa and east of La Spezia. Acquired by the Malaspina family in 1428, it constituted, ...
a medieval Italian family who ruled first as feudal lords about the village of Carrara in the countryside of Padua and then as despots in the city of Padua.
Colombian novelist and short-story writer who is best remembered for his realistic depiction of the people of his native Antioquia. His portrayal of the daily life and customs of the Antioquenos, in a simple and direct style, reflects his love ...
cubicle or study for reading and literary work; the word is derived from the Middle English carole, "round dance," or "carol." The term originally referred to carrels in the north cloister walk of a Benedictine monastery and today designates study ...
painter, considered the most important Spanish court painter of the Baroque period after Velazquez. Influenced and overshadowed both by Velazquez and Van Dyck, he was nonetheless a highly original and sensitive artist in his own right.
(53 BC), battle that stopped the Roman invasion of Parthian Mesopotamia by the triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. War was precipitated by Crassus, who wanted a military reputation to balance that of his partners, Pompey and Julius Caesar. With seven legions ...
four-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle, the final refinement of the horse-drawn passenger conveyance. Wagons were also used for this purpose, as were chariots. By the 13th century the chariot had evolved into a four-wheeled form, unlike the earlier two-wheeled version most often ...
in law, the transportation of goods by land, sea, or air. The relevant law governs the rights, responsibilities, liabilities, and immunities of the carrier and of the persons employing the services of the carrier.
district, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England, encompassing a band 15 miles (24-km) wide, from the north to the south coast, across the centre of the Cornish peninsula. Dominated by flat plateau surfaces, reaching 500 feet (150 metres) in ...
town, County Tipperary, Ireland, on the River Suir. Located beside the foothills of the Comeraghs and having steep, narrow streets, it is connected with its southern suburb Carrickbeg, in County Waterford, by two bridges across the Suir. Ormonde Castle, begun ...
town and district (established 1973), formerly in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on the northern shore of Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea). The name, meaning "rock of Fergus," commemorates King Fergus, who was shipwrecked off the coast about AD 320. ...
lace produced at Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, Ire., from 1820, with interruptions, to the end of the century. There are two varieties, applique and guipure. The former is made by drawing the design, which usually has a continuous outline, on a ...
Athabascan-speaking Indian tribe centred in the upper branches of the Fraser River between the Coast and Rocky mountains in what is now central British Columbia. Their name derives from the custom whereby widows carried the ashes of their deceased husbands ...
in electronics, the unmodulated single-frequency electromagnetic wave that carries the desired information-i.e., is modulated by the information. See modulation (electronics).
American inventor and industrialist who formulated the basic theories of air conditioning. In 1902, while an engineer with the Buffalo Forge Company, Carrier designed the first system to control temperature and humidity. His "Rational Psychrometric Formulae," introduced in a 1911 ...
notable French sculptor who in his time was Auguste Rodin's greatest rival. He produced works noted for their grace and form rather than their inventiveness, including "L'Amour et l'Amitie" (1857), "Jupiter et Phebe" (1860), and "Bacchante" (1863). His celebrated pupil, ...
French painter, lithographer, and sculptor known for his scenes of domestic intimacy and for his portraits of distinguished literary and artistic personalities, including his friends Alphonse Daudet, Anatole France, and Paul Verlaine.
Spanish poet known as the chief exponent of culteranismo, which developed from the highly ornate and rhetorical style gongorismo, originated by the poet Luis de Gongora. In Carrillo's treatise on poetry, Libro de la erudicion poetica (mod. ed., 1946), he ...
secretary-general of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982. He received wide publicity from his book Eurocommunismo y Estado (1977; Eurocommunism and the State), which espoused the freedom and independence of national communist parties.
English astronomer who, by observing the motions of sunspots, discovered the equatorial acceleration of the Sun; i.e., that it rotates faster at the equator than near the poles. He also discovered the movement of sunspot zones toward the Sun's equator ...
any of the approximately 175 species of the insect family Silphidae (order Coleoptera). The majority of these beetles feed on the bodies of dead and decaying animals, transforming them into a state more readily available to the environment. A few ...
any of about 75 species of succulent plants of the genus Stapelia of the milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae), native to tropical areas of southern Africa. They are named for the unpleasant odour of their large flowers. The carrion odour attracts flies, ...
segment of the Colorado Plateau, in extreme northeastern Arizona, U.S. The highest point of this extinct volcanic range is Pastora Peak (9,412 ft [2,869 m]). The arid mountains are within the Navajo Indian Reservation.
county, eastern New Hampshire, U.S., bordered by Lake Winnipesaukee to the southwest, the White Mountains to the northwest, and Maine to the east. Mountain ranges include the Squam and Ossipee mountains and Robbins Ridge. The principal streams are the Saco, ...
county, northern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a piedmont region bounded by Pennsylvania to the north, the Patapsco River (north branch) and Liberty Reservoir to the southeast, the Patapsco River (south branch) to the south, and the Monocacy River to ...
political pamphleteer and constitutional theorist who claimed to have played a role in determining Union strategy during the American Civil War (1861-65).
American showman, theatrical producer, and director, best known for his Earl Carroll's Vanities (1922-48), which were popular revues of songs, dances, and flamboyantly costumed ladies. Over the doors of his Earl Carroll Theatre in New York City and his Earl ...
first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States and the first archbishop of Baltimore. Under his leadership the Roman Catholic church became firmly established in the United States.
English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is nonsense literature of the highest order.
city, seat (1829) of Carroll county, western Georgia, U.S. It is situated near the Little Tallapoosa River, about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Atlanta. Formerly called Troupsville, it was renamed (1829) for the Maryland plantation of patriot Charles Carroll. ...
(Daucus carota), herbaceous, generally biennial plant of the Apiaceae family that produces an edible taproot. Among common varieties root shapes range from globular to long, with lower ends blunt to long-pointed. Besides the orange-coloured roots, white-, yellow-, and purple-fleshed varieties ...
the maximum number of animals of one or more species that can be supported by a particular habitat or area through the most unfavourable period of the year. The carrying capacity is different for each species in a habitat because ...
capital of Nevada, U.S., in Eagle Valley near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, 30 miles (48 km) south of Reno and 14 miles (23 km) east of Lake Tahoe. Founded in 1858 on the site of Eagle ...
river formed by headstreams in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S. The Carson flows 125 miles (200 km) northeast into western Nevada, where it disappears into the Carson Sink. Together with the Truckee and Walker rivers, the Carson serves extensive irrigation ...
