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- (from the article "retaining wall") ...the lateral force against such a wall. The most basic type of reinforced retaining wall is the gravity wall, which is of massive concrete that is prevented from falling over by simple gravity. The cantilever retaining wall has cantilever footings, ...
- cantillation
- in music, intoned liturgical recitation of scriptural texts, guided by signs originally devised as textual accents, punctuations, and indications of emphasis. Such signs, termed ecphonetic signs, appear in manuscripts of the 7th-9th century, both Jewish and Christian (Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Cantillon, Richard
- Irish economist and financier who wrote one of the earliest treatises on modern economics.
- Cantimpre, Thomas de
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") Of the Western medieval encyclopaedias, the most interesting in this respect is the De naturis rerum (c. 1228-44) of the Dominican friar Thomas de Cantimpre. His aim was that of St. Augustine: to unite in a single volume the whole ...
- Cantinflas
- one of the most popular entertainers in the history of Latin-American cinema. An internationally known clown, acrobat, musician, bullfighter, and satirist, he was identified with the comic figure of a poor Mexican slum dweller, a pelado, who wears trousers held ... [1 Related Articles]
- canting arms
- (from the article "heraldry") ...was not required. As time brought many more coats of arms into being, simple coats became more rare, and the passing of warlike usage allowed arms to become much more complex. Second, punning, or canting, arms are very common as, ...
- Canting Ballast Twin Foil
- (from the article "Sailing") The Volvo around-the-world race featured purpose-built Canting Ballast Twin Foil (CBTF) 21-m (70-ft) boats, which were described by their crews as "brutal" and sometimes terrifying, particularly in the early going. One competitor reported that the boats "are a violent boat ...
- canto
- major division of an epic or other long narrative poem. An Italian term, derived from the Latin cantus ("song"), it probably originally indicated a portion of a poem that could be sung or chanted by a minstrel at one sitting. ...
- cantometrics
- (from the article "Lomax, Alan") ...biography of Jelly Roll Morton, Mr. Jelly Roll (1950). The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language was published in 1960. His work in cantometrics (the statistical analysis of singing styles correlated ...
- Canton
- city, capital of Kwangtung sheng (province), southeastern China. It lies near the head of the Pearl River Estuary (Chu Chiang K'ou), more than 90 miles (145 kilometres) inland from the South China Sea. Because of its position ... [8 Related Articles]
- Canton
- city, seat (1808) of Stark county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. The city lies approximately 60 miles (100 km) south-southeast of Cleveland. It is the focus of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of North Canton and Massillon and the village ... [1 Related Articles]
- Canton
- city, seat (1867) of Lincoln county, southeastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies along the Big Sioux River at the Iowa border, about 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Sioux Falls. It was founded in 1866 and was first called Commerce ...
- canton
- (from the article "heraldry") ...is an inescutcheon and often is used to bear the arms of an heraldic heiress (a daughter of a family of no sons). The quarter occupies one-fourth of the shield; the canton, smaller than the quarter, is one-third of the ...
- canton
- political subdivision in France, Switzerland, and other European countries. [3 Related Articles]
- Canton
- city, Fulton county, west-central Illinois, U.S. It lies in the Illinois River valley between the Illinois and Spoon rivers, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Peoria. Founded in 1825 by Isaac Swan, a native of New York, it was ...
- Canton
- city, seat (1834) of Madison county, central Mississippi, U.S. The city lies on a low divide between the Pearl and Big Black rivers 20 miles (32 km) north of Jackson. Poultry processing and the manufacture of office furniture are the ...
- Canton
- town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., lying just south of Boston along the Neponset River. Settled in 1650, it was known by its Algonquian name, Punkapoag, and was part of Stoughton. Separately incorporated in 1797, it was renamed because ...
- Canton enamel
- Chinese painted enamel, so named for the principal place of its manufacture, Canton. Painted-enamel techniques were originally developed in Limoges, Fr., from about 1470. These techniques were introduced into China in the 18th century, probably by French missionaries. This is ... [2 Related Articles]
- Canton Municipal People's Council
- (from the article "Canton") ...Communist Party-that extends from the national organization, through the provincial apparatus, to the municipal and, ultimately, neighbourhood levels. The principal responsibilities of the Canton Municipal People's Congress, the major decision-making body, include issuing administrative orders, collecting taxes, determining the budget, ...
- Canton system
- trading pattern that developed between Chinese and foreign merchants, especially British, in the South China trading city of Guangzhou (Canton) from the 17th to the 19th century. The major characteristics of the system developed between 1760 and 1842, when all ... [1 Related Articles]
- Canton Uprising
- (from the article "Huang Xing") ...among the imperial troops, attempted a military attack on the South China city of Guangzhou (Canton). Because of a lack of coordination among the various units participating in the action, the Guangzhou Uprising, one of the most celebrated events in ...
- Canton ware
- (from the article "Nanking porcelain") ...were mostly from Chinese traditions. The porcelain varied in quality; the glaze could become very gray and the decoration was often rudimentary. Much of the polychrome porcelain known as "Canton ware" was actually produced in white at Nanking and sent ...
- Canton, John
- British physicist and teacher.
- Cantona, Eric
- Eric Cantona was sometimes described as the most talented and controversial footballer of his generation. Yet the onetime enfant terrible of France became the Gallic golden boy of English soccer, first with Leeds United in 1992 and a few months ...
- Cantonese
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...found on more than 20 sites are evidence of settlements in Neolithic times. The earliest modern peoples in Hong Kong are thought to have come from North China in the 2nd millennium BCE. The Cantonese began to settle in the ...
- Cantonese language
- variety of Chinese spoken by more than 55 million people in Guangdong and southern Guangxi provinces of China, including the important cities of Canton, Hong Kong, and Macau. Throughout the world it is spoken by some 20 million more. In ... [6 Related Articles]
- Cantonese regional style
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...in 1912 of a republic. Inspired by the "New Japanese Style," the Kao brothers and Ch'en inaugurated a "New National Painting" movement, which in turn gave rise to a Cantonese (or "Ling-nan") regional style that incorporated Euro-Japanese characteristics. Although the ...
- Cantonment
- (from the article "Yangon") The centre of the city, called the Cantonment, was planned by the British in 1852 and is laid out on a system of blocks, each 800 by 860 feet (245 by 262 metres), intersected regularly by streets running north-south and ...
- cantor
- in Judaism and Christianity, an ecclesiastical official in charge of music or chants. [1 Related Articles]
- Cantor's diagonal theorem
- (from the article "infinity") ...are equal. Using a so-called "diagonal argument," Cantor showed that the size of the counting numbers is strictly less than the size of the real numbers. This result is known as Cantor's theorem.set theory
- Cantor's paradox
- (from the article "set theory") The so-called Cantor paradox, discovered by Cantor himself in 1899, is the following. By the unrestricted principle of abstraction, the formula "x is a set" defines a set U; i.e., it is the set of all sets. Now P(U) is ...
- Cantor, Eddie
- American comedian and star of vaudeville, burlesque, the legitimate stage, radio, and television.
- Cantor, Georg
- German mathematician who founded set theory and introduced the mathematically meaningful concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely large but distinct from one another. [10 Related Articles]
- Cantor, Moritz Benedikt
- German historian of mathematics, one of the greatest of the 19th century.
- cantoria
- (from the article "Della Robbia, Luca") Before developing the process with which his family name came to be associated, Luca apparently practiced his art solely in marble. In 1431 he began what is probably his most important work, the cantoria, or "singing gallery," that was originally ...
- Cantorian set theory
- (from the article "set theory") At best, the foregoing description presents only an intuitive concept of a set. Essential features of the concept as Cantor understood it include: (1) that a set is a grouping into a single entity of objects of any kind, and ...
- cantref
- (from the article "Caernarvonshire") In the early Middle Ages the region was divided into three cantreds, or districts (Arllechwedd, Arfon, and Llyn). The cantreds eventually became part of the principality of Gwynedd, ruled by the prince of Aberffraw and lord of Snowdon, whose domain ...
- Cantril, Hadley
- (from the article "collective behaviour") According to the approach suggested by the U.S. political scientist Hadley Cantril, participation in vital collectivities supplies a sense of meaning through group affirmation and action and raises the member's estimate of his social status, both of which are important ...
- Cantu
- town, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy, southeast of Como city. The town has miscellaneous industries, principally the manufacture of furniture, lace, and hardware. There is a school of carpentry. Among its several medieval churches San Teodoro has a 13th-century apse, ...
- cantus firmus
- preexistent melody, such as a plainchant excerpt, underlying a polyphonic musical composition (one consisting of several independent voices or parts). The 11th- and 12th-century organum added a simple second melody (duplum) to an existing plainchant melody (the vox principalis, or ... [11 Related Articles]
- Cantwell, Christian
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") Shot put competition was fierce. Hoffa was undefeated indoors and took the World Athletics Final, the year's premier IAAF outdoor event, but fellow American Christian Cantwell had the longest throw of the year (22.45 m [73 ft 8 in]) and ...
- Canute (I)
- Danish king of England (1016-35), of Denmark (as Canute II; 1019-35), and of Norway (1028-35), who was a power in the politics of Europe in the 11th century, respected by both emperor and pope. Neither the place nor the date ... [13 Related Articles]
- Canute IV
- martyr, patron saint, and king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086. [2 Related Articles]
- Canute VI
- king of Denmark (coregent, 1170-82; king, 1182-1202), during whose reign Denmark withdrew from the Holy Roman Empire and extended its dominion along the southern Baltic coast to Pomerania, Mecklenburg, and Holstein. Canute's role in the Danish expansion was overshadowed by ... [2 Related Articles]
- canvas
- stout cloth probably named after cannabis (Latin: "hemp"). Hemp and flax fibre have been used for ages to produce cloth for sails. Certain classes are termed sailcloth or canvas synonymously. After the introduction of the power loom, canvas was made ... [5 Related Articles]
- canvasback
- (species Aythya valisineria), bay duck, or pochard (q.v.), of the family Anatidae, one of the most popular of game birds. The male canvasback is a relatively large duck, weighing about 1.4 kg (3 pounds). During the breeding season he has ... [1 Related Articles]
- Canvey Island
- low-lying island on the north shore of the Thames estuary, Castle Point borough, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It is connected to the mainland by a bridge at South Benfleet. The island's marine defenses were first constructed by ... [1 Related Articles]
- canyon
- (from the article "alluvial fan") Alluvial fans border the mountain fronts with the apex of each fan just within a canyon mouth that serves as the outlet for a mountain drainage system. Sediment from erosion within the mountains is moved by these drainage systems to ...
- Canyon
- city, seat (1889) of Randall county, northern Texas, U.S., in the Texas Panhandle, 16 miles (26 km) south of Amarillo, at a point where the Palo Duro and Tierra Blanca creeks meet to form the Prairie Dog Town Fork of ...
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- area of rock formations and archaeological sites in northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the Navajo Indian reservation immediately east of Chinle. The name is a Spanish corruption of tsegi, a Navajo word meaning "rock canyons." The monument, which was established in ...
- Canyon Lands
- (from the article "Colorado Plateau") ...feet (3,353 m) in central Utah. The northernmost section is the Uinta Basin, a dissected plateau abutting the Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. South of it is the Canyon Lands, so named because it is a plateau ...
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