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Cartwright, Sir Richard John
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.
Cartwright, William
British writer greatly admired in his day as a poet, scholar, wit, and author of plays in the comic tradition of Ben Jonson.
Caruaru
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 ...
Carupano
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. ...
Carus
Roman emperor 282-283.
Caruso, Enrico
the most admired Italian operatic tenor of the early 20th century and one of the first musicians to document his voice on gramophone recordings.
Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de
missionary who, moved by the execution of the Jesuit Henry Walpole in 1595, decided to devote herself to the cause of the faith in England.
Carvaka
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 ...
carvel construction
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 ...
Carver chair
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 ...
Carver, George Washington
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 ...
Carver, John
first governor of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth in New England.
Carver, Jonathan
early explorer of North America and author of one of the most widely read travel and adventure books in that period.
Carver, Raymond
American short-story writer and poet whose realistic writings about the working poor mirrored his own life.
Carver, Robert
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 ...
Cary, Alice; and Cary, Phoebe
American poets whose work was both moralistic and idealistic.
Cary, Annie Louise
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.
Cary, Elisabeth Luther
American art and literary critic, best remembered as art critic of The New York Times during the first quarter of the 20th century.
Cary, Henry Francis
English biographer and translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante.
Cary, Joyce
English novelist who developed a trilogy form in which each volume is narrated by one of three protagonists.
caryatid
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 ...
Caryophyllaceae
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.
Caryophyllales
pink order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Caryophyllidae.
Caryophyllidae
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.
Caryophyllidae
subclass of dicotyledonous flowering plants, the vast majority of whose members are in the family Caryophyllales (q.v.).
caryopsis
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 ...
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
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 ...
Casa, Giovanni Della
Italian bishop, poet, and translator who is remembered chiefly for his popular and widely translated treatise on manners, Galateo.
Casablanca
principal port of Morocco, on the North African Atlantic seaboard.
Casablanca Conference
(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. ...
Casadesus, Robert
French pianist and composer best known for his playing of the French repertoire.
Casal, Julian del
poet who was one of the most important forerunners of the Modernist movement in Latin America.
Casale Monferrato
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 ...
Casals, Pablo
Spanish-born cellist and conductor, known for his virtuosic technique, skilled interpretation, and consummate musicianship.
Casamance
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 ...
Casamance River
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 ...
Casanare
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 ...
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo
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 ...
Casas Grandes
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, ...
Casaubon, Isaac
French classical scholar and theologian who was one of the leading scholars of the era.
cascade
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.
Cascade Range
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, ...
Cascade Tunnel
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 ...
Cascais
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 ...
cascara sagrada
(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 ...
Cascina
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 ...
Case Western Reserve University
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 ...
Case, Steve
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.
casebearer
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 ...
casebearing beetle
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 ...
casein painting
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 ...
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