statesman and finance minister of Canada's Liberal Party; he supported free trade between the United States and Canada, in opposition to the trade protectionism of the Conservatives.
city, eastern Pernambuco estado (state), northeastern Brazil, on the Ipojuca River at 1,804 feet (550 metres) above sea level. Caruaru originated as a weekly market centre; it was elevated to city status in 1857. Agriculture, livestock, and ...
city, northern Sucre estado ("state"), northeastern Venezuela. On the Caribbean Sea, near the centre of the twin peninsulas Araya and Paria, Carupano is the commercial nucleus and principal port of an agricultural area, the principal export of which is cacao. ...
a quasi-philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self. Of the recognized means of knowledge (pramana), the Carvaka recognized only direct perception ...
type of ship construction characteristic in Mediterranean waters during the Middle Ages, as contrasted with clinker construction in northern waters. In carvel construction the planks were fitted edge to edge against a previously built framework; hulls so constructed were smooth ...
American spool chair with a rush seat and turned (shaped on a lathe) legs that rise above the seat level to frame the back and to support the armrests. The back normally contained three vertical spindles and was topped with ...
American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. For most of his career he taught and conducted research at the Tuskegee ...
outstanding Scottish composer whose extant works include five masses and two motets. One of the motets, for 19 voices, was found in a large choir book compiled in the first half of the 16th century at Scone Abbey, Perthshire, and ...
opera singer whose rich dramatic voice, three-octave range, and command of the grand style made her the foremost American contralto for a decade in the late 19th century.
in classical architecture, draped female figure used instead of a column as a support. In marble architecture they first appeared in pairs in three small buildings (treasuries) at Delphi (550-530 BC), and their origin can be traced back to mirror ...
the pink family of flowering plants (order Caryophyllales), comprising some 89 genera and 2,070 species of herbaceous plants, mainly of north temperate distribution. The members are diverse in appearance and habitat; most of them have swollen leaf and stem joints.
subclass of flowering plants belonging to the class Magnoliopsida. The subclass consists of three orders, Caryophyllales, Polygonales, and Plumbaginales, although the vast majority of its members are found in the order Caryophyllales.
specialized type of dry, one-seeded fruit (achene) characteristic of grasses, in which the ovary wall is united with the seed coat, making it difficult to separate the two except by special milling processes. All the cereal grains except buckwheat have ...
pre-Columbian ruins in south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Gila River valley immediately north of Coolidge. Authorized as Casa Grande Ruins Reservation in 1889 and proclaimed as such in 1892, the site was designated a national monument in 1918. It has ...
(January 12-23, 1943), meeting during World War II in Casablanca, Morocco, between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their respective military chiefs and aides, who planned future global military strategy for the western Allies. ...
town, Alessandria province, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, on the Po River in the Monferrato Hills east of Turin. It was founded in the 8th century on the site of ancient Bodincomagus. In the 10th century the town belonged to ...
region of Senegal that lies south of The Gambia along the Casamance River. The region has ample rainfall, abundant in the south, and the lower course of the Casamance River is covered by dense vegetation; mangroves, oil palms, and raffia ...
river in western Africa, rising in southern Senegal and flowing west through the Casamance region, which lies between The Gambia (north) and Guinea-Bissau (south). The river receives various small tributaries and empties into the Atlantic Ocean after a course of ...
departamento, north-central Colombia. It is located in the eastern Llanos (Plains) and is bounded on the west by the Cordillera Oriental, on the north by the Casanare River, and on the south and east by the Meta River. Casanare was ...
ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made the name Casanova synonymous with "libertine." His autobiography, which perhaps exaggerates some of his escapades, is a splendid description of ...
town on the Casas Grandes River, in the northwestern corner of Chihuahua estado ("state"), northern Mexico. When it was settled by the Spaniards in 1661 or 1662, the area belonged to the Suma Indians. The town's name, ...
waterfall, especially a series of small falls, consisting of water descending over rocks or boulders. It may be natural or it may be artificial. The cascade has often been used as a feature of formal gardens.
segment of the Pacific mountain system of western North America. The Cascades extend northward for more than 700 miles (1,100 km) from Lassen Peak, in northern California, U.S., through Oregon and Washington to the Fraser River in southern British Columbia, ...
one of the longest railroad tunnels in the United States, located in central Washington about 60 miles (100 km) east of Seattle. It carries a line of the Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroad through the Cascade Range between Berne (on ...
town, Lisboa distrito ("district"), western Portugal. It lies on Cascais Bay, 17 miles (28 km) west of central Lisbon. The town, created (1364) by Pedro I, is now a fishing port and resort on the Portuguese Riviera. Its Chapel of ...
(Spanish: "sacred bark"), the dried bark of the buckthorn Rhamnus purshiana (order Rhamnales) used in medicine as a laxative. The tree is cultivated in North America and Kenya. Cascara sagrada is prepared in both liquid and solid forms. The activity ...
town, Pisa provincia, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, central Italy. Local mineral springs are used to treat rheumatism. The town's Church of Santa Maria, built in Pisan style, dates from the 12th century. Cascina was a historic battleground in the Pisans' resistance ...
independent, coeducational research university in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. The university operates professional schools of law, medicine, dentistry, and nursing, as well as Case School of Engineering, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, Weatherhead School ...
American entrepreneur who cofounded America Online, Inc. (AOL), the world's foremost Internet service provider (ISP), and negotiated the merger in 2001 of AOL and Time Warner Inc. to create a global media and entertainment conglomerate.
any larva of the cosmopolitan moth family Coleophoridae (order Lepidoptera) of insects. The larvae are light brown with dark heads; they attack apple, birch, cherry, and willow trees, feeding first as leaf miners and then as casebearers. Their cases, which ...
any small, robust, cylindrical insect belonging to one of several subfamilies in the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae-e.g., Clytrinae, Cryptocephalinae, Chalamisinae, and Lamprosomatinae. The female covers each egg with a layer of excrement; after the larvae hatch, they retain this covering ...
painting executed with colours ground in a solution of casein, a phosphoprotein of milk precipitated by heating with an acid or by lactic acid in souring. In the form of homemade curd made from soured skim milk, it has been ...
