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- (from the article "land crab") ...crabs that only occasionally, as adults, return to the sea. They occur in tropical America, West Africa, and the Indo-Pacific region. All species feed on both animal and plant tissue. Cardisoma guanhumi, a land crab of Bermuda, the West Indies, ...
- cardoon
- (Cynara cardunculus), thistlelike perennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to southern Europe and North Africa, where it is used as a vegetable. Its blanched inner leaves and stalk (called the chard, though not to be confused with Swiss chard, ...
- Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
- Brazilian sociologist, teacher, and politician who was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2003. [4 Related Articles]
- Cardoso, Lucio
- (from the article "Brazilian literature") The Brazilian novel continued to thrive with mid-20th-century novelists such as Lucio Cardoso, whose Cronica da casa assassinada (1959; "Chronicle of the Assassinated House") offered new introspective and psychological insights into the many dimensions of reality. Osman Lins, who began ...
- Cardoso, Ruth
- Brazilian anthropologist, educator, and public figure as the prominent wife of Brazilian Pres. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and thus Brazil's first lady from 1995 to 2003, advocated and initiated important social-reform programs. Perhaps Cardoso's greatest achievement was establishing (1995) Community Solidarity ...
- Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan
- American jurist, a creative common-law judge and legal essayist who influenced a trend in American appellate judging toward greater involvement with public policy and a consequent modernization of legal principles. Generally a liberal, he was less concerned with ideology than ...
- Carducci, Bartolommeo
- Italian-born painter, architect, and sculptor who was active in Spain. [1 Related Articles]
- Carducci, Giosue
- Italian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, and one of the most influential literary figures of his age. [1 Related Articles]
- Carducci, Vincenzo
- Italian-born painter.
- Carduelidae
- formerly accepted name of a family of songbirds, order Passeriformes, consisting of about 112 species of gregarious, active little songbirds found in woodlands and brushlands worldwide, except in the Pacific islands. Notable members counted among this family were goldfinches and ...
- Cardwell, Edward Cardwell, Viscount
- British statesman who, as secretary of state for war (1868-74), was considered to be the greatest British military reformer of the 19th century, modernizing the organization and equipment of the British army in the face of strenuous opposition at home. [1 Related Articles]
- CARE
- international aid and development organization that operates in some 35 countries worldwide. [1 Related Articles]
- care proceeding
- (from the article "juvenile justice") Youth courts also deal with children of any age up to 17 in what is called a care proceeding, which is based on the idea that the child is in need of court-ordered care, protection, or control because one of ...
- careen
- (from the article "harbours and sea works") ...no particular problem and can generally be given maintenance care without putting the dock out of use. The most vulnerable areas, those immediately adjacent to the waterline, can be reached by careening, a process that involves filling the water ballast ...
- Careme, Marie-Antoine
- chef who served the royalty of Europe and wrote several classics of cuisine. [1 Related Articles]
- Careproctus
- (from the article "snailfish") ...Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic seas. Some, such as the sea snail (Liparis liparis) of the North Atlantic, live in shore waters; others, such as the pink-coloured species of the genus Careproctus, inhabit the deep sea.
- Carew, Richard
- English scholar and antiquary known especially for a history of Cornwall that gives an interesting picture of a country gentleman's life about 1600. [1 Related Articles]
- Carew, Rod
- professional American League (AL) baseball player who was one of the great hitters of his generation. He retired following the 1985 season after 19 years in the major leagues with a .328 career batting average and 3,053 hits. [2 Related Articles]
- Carew, Thomas
- English poet and first of the Cavalier song writers.
- Carex
- (from the article "Cyperaceae") The six largest genera within the Cyperaceae account for about 3,500 species, nearly three-quarters of the total species: Carex (sedges; see photograph), with about 2,000 species; Cyperus, with nearly 650 species; Rhynchospora (beak rushes), with roughly 250 species; and Fimbristylis, ...
- Carey, George
- archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, theologian noted for his evangelical beliefs.
- Carey, Henry
- English poet, playwright, and musician chiefly remembered for his ballads, especially "Sally in Our Alley," which appeared in a collection of his best poems set to music, called The Musical Century (1737). Despite the popularity of his work, Carey suffered ...
- Carey, Henry C.
- American economist and sociologist, often called the founder of the American school of economics, widely known in his day as an advocate of trade barriers.
- Carey, John
- (from the article "Literature") Lest anyone doubt the value of culture in the modern world, popular intellectual John Carey produced What Good Are the Arts? The second half of the book puts "The Case for Literature" as an art form superior to any other ...
- Carey, Mariah
- American pop singer, noted for her remarkable vocal range. She was one of the most successful female performers of the 1990s. [3 Related Articles]
- Carey, Peter
- Australian writer known for use of the surreal in his short stories and novels. [2 Related Articles]
- Carey, Ron
- American labour leader and general president, from 1991 to 1997, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the first Teamsters president elected by direct vote of rank-and-file members. [1 Related Articles]
- Carey, S. Warren
- (from the article "plate tectonics") In 1958, the Australian geologist S. Warren Carey proposed a rival model, known as the expanding Earth model. Carey accepted the existence and early Mesozoic breakup of Pangea and the subsequent dispersal of its fragments and formation of new ocean ...
- Carey, William
- founder of the English Baptist Missionary Society (1792), lifelong missionary to India, and educator whose mission at Serampur set the pattern for modern missionary work. He has been called the "father of Bengali prose" for his grammars, dictionaries, and translations. [3 Related Articles]
- Careysburg
- city, western Liberia, western Africa. It was first settled in 1859 by freed North American slaves (mainly from Barbados and the United States); the town, named for the Reverend Lott Carey (an American black who settled in Monrovia), is inhabited ...
- Carfagno, Edward
- (from the article "1952: Other Winners") ...Black-and-White: Robert Surtees for The Bad and the BeautifulCinematography, Color: Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout for The Quiet ManArt Direction, Black-and-White: Edward Carfagno and Cedric Gibbons for The Bad and the BeautifulArt Direction, Color: Paul Sheriff for Moulin RougeMusic ...
- cargo
- (from the article "northern Mexican Indian") ...community is built around a political and religious structure having its origin in the village organization set up by early missionaries to carry out church fiestas. It consists of a series of cargos, or civil and religious offices, in which ...
- cargo cult
- any of the religious movements chiefly, but not solely, in Melanesia that exhibit belief in the imminence of a new age of blessing, to be initiated by the arrival of a special "cargo" of goods from supernatural sources-based on the ... [5 Related Articles]
- cargo insurance
- (from the article "insurance") ...or the carrier. Hull insurance covers losses to the vessel itself from specified perils. Usually there is a provision that the marine hull should be covered only within specified geographic limits. Cargo insurance is usually written on an open contract ...
- cargo ship
- (from the article "ship") The basic functions of the warship and cargo ship determined their design. Because fighting ships required speed, adequate space for substantial numbers of fighting men, and the ability to maneuver at any time in any direction, long, narrow rowed ships ...
- cargolada
- (from the article "Roussillon") ...Catalan is widely spoken, and French is spoken with a heavy Catalan accent. The regional cuisine relies on olive oil. Ollada, or ouillade, is a beef stew cooked in a heavy pot. Cargolada is a dish of escargots. Notable wines ...
- Carham, Battle of
- (from the article "Alba") ...Norsemen and Danes, Alba was left isolated. With the withdrawal of the Norsemen, England, under the English, then launched invasions against Alba but were ultimately repelled by Malcolm II at the Battle of Carham (1016/18). When Malcolm's grandson and successor ...
- Caria
- ancient district of southwestern Anatolia. One of the most thoroughly Hellenized districts, its territory included Greek cities along its Aegean shore and a mountainous interior bounded by Lydia in the north and by Phrygia and Lycia in the east. The ... [6 Related Articles]
- Cariamae
- (from the article "gruiform") ...and bustards-the first representatives of the modern families-appeared. In the Oligocene Epoch (about 34-23 million years ago) the limpkins and the suborder Cariamae had their beginnings. The Cariamae are represented today by only two living species, Cariama cristata and Chunga ...
- Carian
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...of the interior. The Mysians, an aboriginal people of the valley of the Bakir (Caicus) River and the mountains to the north, are mentioned in an 8th-century Carchemish inscription. The Carians, from the hinterland of Miletus and Halicarnassus, enter history ...
- Carian language
- an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in Caria, an ancient district of southwest Anatolia. Most evidence for the language comes from Egypt, where Carian mercenaries in the service of the pharaohs from the 7th to 5th centuries BCE left behind ... [1 Related Articles]
- Carias Andino, Tiburcio
- (from the article "Honduras") ...Conservatives formed the National Party to challenge continued Liberal rule. In 1932, following political unrest and economic decline caused by the Great Depression, National Party leader General Tiburcio Carias Andino was elected president and remained in office until 1949. Carias's ...
- Carib
- American Indian people who inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the neighbouring South American coast at the time of the Spanish conquest. Their name was given to the Caribbean Sea, and its Arawakan equivalent is the origin of the ... [12 Related Articles]
- Carib language
- (from the article "South American Indian languages") ...to determine. Many Indian languages in the Andes and the eastern foothills have borrowed from Quechua either directly or through Spanish. In Island Carib (an Arawakan language), borrowings from Carib (a Cariban language) have formed a special part of the ...
- Cariban languages
- a group of South American Indian languages that were spoken before the Spanish conquest from what is now the Greater Antilles to the central Mato Grosso in Brazil; most of the languages, however, were spoken north of the Amazon River ... [3 Related Articles]
- Caribbean Basin Initiative
- (from the article "international relations") ...with leftist governments on the Caribbean islands of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Grenada also appeared to be on the increase, a trend that the Reagan administration tried to counter with its 1982 Caribbean Basin Initiative, an Alliance for Progress confined to ...
- Caribbean Community and Common Market
- organization of Caribbean nations and dependencies that was established in 1973 by the Treaty of Chaguaramas. It replaced the former Caribbean Free Trade Association (Carifta), which had become effective in 1968. The treaty spurred the development of associate institutions, including ... [9 Related Articles]
- Caribbean Court of Justice
- (from the article "Belize") ...justice heads the Supreme Court, but the Court of Appeal is the country's highest court; both are independent of the national government. In 2001 Belize joined most members of Caricom to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice, which was inaugurated ...
- Caribbean culture
- (from the article "Native American dance") Colombia has fewer religious celebrations and a greater profusion of courtship dances. The joropo extends into eastern Colombia. On the Caribbean coast the bullerengue, lumbalu, and the circular cumbia mingle indigenous ...
- Caribbean Current
- powerful surface oceanic current passing west through the Caribbean Sea, then north through the Yucatan Channel, and finally east out the Straits of Florida to form the Florida Current. The warm Caribbean Current, derived from the junction of the North ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caribbean Free Trade Association
- (from the article "Guyana") Guyana's major trading partners are the United States, the United Kingdom, and Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana joined the Caribbean Free Trade Association (Carifta) in 1965 and then became a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom), which replaced ...
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