| | - Cahn-Ingold-Prelog
- (from the article "Prelog, Vladimir") ...configurations (like a person's right and left hands). With Robert Cahn and Sir Christopher Ingold, he developed a nomenclature for describing complex organic compounds. This system, known as CIP, provided a standard and international language for precisely specifying a compound's ...
- Cahokia
- village, St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1699 by Quebec missionaries and named for a tribe of Illinois Indians (Cahokia, meaning "Wild Geese"), it was the first permanent ...
- Cahokia Mounds
- archaeological site occupying some 5 square miles (13 square km) on the Mississippi River floodplain opposite St. Louis, Missouri, near Cahokia and Collinsville, southwestern Illinois, U.S. The site originally consisted of about 120 mounds spread over 6 square miles (16 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
- (from the article "Cahokia Mounds") ...The site originally consisted of about 120 mounds spread over 6 square miles (16 square km), but some of the mounds and other ancient features have been destroyed. Some 70 mounds are preserved in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Established ...
- Cahora Bassa
- arch dam and hydroelectric facility on the Zambezi River in western Mozambique. The dam, located about 80 miles (125 km) northwest of Tete, is 560 feet (171 m) high and 994 feet (303 m) wide at the crest. It has ... [3 Related Articles]
- Cahora Bassa
- (from the article "Africa") ...movements, that caused ridges to be formed across the courses of the major rivers. Waterfalls are often found where the rivers are still engaged in cutting downward as they flow across these ridges; Cahora Bassa (falls) on the Zambezi and ...
- Cahora Bassa, Lake
- (from the article "Cahora Bassa") The dam impounds Lake Cahora Bassa, which is 150 miles (240 km) long and 19 miles (31 km) wide at its widest point. The lake has a capacity of 51,075,000 acre-feet (63,000,000,000 cubic m) and extends to the Zambia-Mozambique border. ...
- Cahors
- town, capital of Lot departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, formerly capital of Quercy province, southern France. It is situated on a rocky peninsula surrounded by the Lot River and overlooked (southeast) by Mont Saint-Cyr, northeast of ...
- cahow
- (from the article "petrel") Some of the better known gadfly petrels are the endangered Bermuda petrel, or cahow (Pterodroma cahow, sometimes considered a race of P. hasitata); the dark-rumped petrel, also called the Hawaiian petrel (P. phaeopygia), another endangered species, now concentrated almost entirely ...
- Cahuachi
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") In the time of the Nazca style what has been described as a small city was located in each of the south-coast valleys of Pisco, Ica, Nazca, and Acari. At Cahuachi, in Nazca, this included a ceremonial centre consisting of ...
- Cahuilla
- North American Indian tribe that spoke a Uto-Aztecan language. They originally lived in what is now southern California, in an inland basin of desert plains and rugged canyons south of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. [1 Related Articles]
- Cai Lun
- Chinese court official who is traditionally credited with the invention of paper. [1 Related Articles]
- cai luong
- Vietnamese theatre style, the term meaning reformed or renewed theatre. It evolved during the French colonial period of Vietnam's history (1862-1954) and clearly showed the influence of European drama. It transformed (though it did not supplant) the old established classical ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cai Yuanpei
- educator and revolutionary who served as head of Peking University in Beijing from 1916 to 1926 during the critical period when that institution played a major role in the development of a new spirit of nationalism and social reform in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caiaphas
- (from the article "Jesus Christ") ...prefect and the local populace, which was hostile toward pagans and wanted to be free of foreign interference. His political responsibility was to maintain order and to see that tribute was paid. Caiaphas, the high priest during Jesus' adulthood, held ...
- Caibarien
- port city, central Cuba. Caibarien is a major centre for the collection and distribution of goods from the agricultural hinterland, which produces mainly sugarcane, tobacco, and fruit. Sponge fishing is carried on offshore, and the city has sawmills, sugar refineries, ...
- Caillaux, Joseph
- French statesman who was an early supporter of a national income tax and whose opposition to World War I led to his imprisonment for treason in 1920. [1 Related Articles]
- cailleac
- (from the article "Harvest Home") ...antiquity and surviving to modern times in isolated regions. Participants celebrate the last day of harvest in late September by singing, shouting, and decorating the village with boughs. The cailleac, or last sheaf of corn (grain), which represents the spirit ...
- Caillebotte, Gustave
- French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.
- Cailletet, Louis-Paul
- French physicist and ironmaster, noted for his work on the liquefaction of gases.
- Caillie, Rene-Auguste
- the first European to survive a journey to the West African city of Tombouctou (Timbuktu). [3 Related Articles]
- Caillois, Roger
- (from the article "sacred") Not only is there an ambivalence in the individual's reaction to the numinous quality of the sacred but the restrictions, the tabus, can be expressive of the creative power of the sacred. Caillois has described at length the social mechanism ...
- Cailloux, Bernd
- (from the article "Literature") Bernd Cailloux's novel Das Geschaftsjahr 1968/69, like Missfeldt's Steilkuste, was an attempt to come to terms with German history-but in this case with the history of Cailloux's so-called 1968 generation, not with the legacy of World War II. This was ...
- Caiman
- (from the article "caiman") Caimans are placed in three genera: Caiman includes the broad-snouted (C. latirostris) and spectacled (C. crocodilus) caimans; Melanosuchus, the black caiman (M. niger); and Paleosuchus, two species (P. trigonatus and P. palpebrosus) known...
- caiman
- any of several species of Central and South American reptiles that are related to alligators and are usually placed with them in the family Alligatoridae. Caimans, like all other members of order Crocodilia, are amphibious carnivores. They live along the ...
- caiman lizard
- any member of a genus (Dracaena) of lizards in the family Teiidae. These lizards (D. guianensis and D. paraguayensis) are found streamside in forested areas of South America. D. guianensis reaches a maximum length of 122 cm (48 inches).
- Cain
- in the Old Testament, first-born son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1-16). Cain, a farmer, became enraged when the Lord accepted the offering of his brother Abel, a shepherd, in preference to his own. He ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cain, James M.
- novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the "hard-boiled" school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and '40s. Three classics of the American screen were made from his novels: Double Indemnity (1936, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cain, John, Jr.
- (from the article "Victoria") Bolte was succeeded as premier by two other Liberals, Sir Rupert Hamer (1972-81) and Lindsay Thompson, who was defeated by Labor's John Cain, Jr. Cain's administration (1982-90) was marked by vigorous intervention in education, social welfare, health, transportation, public utilities, ...
- Caine Prize for African Writing
- (from the article "World Literary Prizes 2007") ...to his highly acclaimed childhood memoir Ake (1981). Compatriot Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Segun Afolabi garnered the 2005 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story "Monday Morning." Elsewhere, Ghana's ...
- Caine, Sir Hall
- British writer known for his popular novels combining sentiment, moral fervour, skillfully suggested local atmosphere, and strong characterization.
- Caine, Sir Michael
- internationally successful British motion-picture actor renowned for his versatility in numerous leading and character roles. [1 Related Articles]
- Caingang
- (from the article "group marriage") ...extremely rare; nowhere does it appear to have existed as the prevailing form of marital arrangement. Of the 250 societies reported by the American anthropologist George P. Murdock (1949), only the Caingang of Brazil had chosen group marriage as an ...
- Cainite
- member of a Gnostic sect mentioned by Irenaeus and other early Christian writers as flourishing in the 2nd century AD, probably in the eastern area of the Roman Empire. The Christian theologian Origen declared that the Cainites had "entirely abandoned ...
- Cains, Thomas
- (from the article "glassware") Fine lead glass in the New England area was first successfully made in the South Boston works of the Boston Crown Glass Company. Thomas Cains was making flint glass there in 1813. He left the firm in 1824 to found ...
- Caiophora
- (from the article "Loasaceae") ...hairs that can result in discomfort for days; its oddly formed flowers have five pouchlike yellow petals covering united stamens and distinctive large coloured nectaries. The closely related Caiophora (or Cajophora), with about 65 tropical American species, as withLoasa, mostly ...
- Caird, Edward
- philosopher and leader in Britain of the Neo-Hegelian school. [2 Related Articles]
- Caird, John
- British theologian and preacher, and an exponent of theism in Hegelian terms.
- Cairene rug
- Egyptian floor covering believed to have been made in or near Cairo from at least as early as the 15th century to the 18th. The early production, under the Mamluk dynasty, is characterized by geometric, centralized schemes featuring large and ...
- cairn
- a pile of stones that is used as a boundary marker, a memorial, or a burial site. Cairns are usually conical in shape and were often erected on high ground. Burial cairns date primarily from the Neolithic Period and the ...
- Cairn Gorm
- (from the article "Glenmore") ...north-central Scotland. Established in 1948 and comprising 12,000 acres (5,000 hectares), the park extends upward from 1,000 feet (300 metres) near the town of Aviemore to include the summit of Cairn Gorm at an elevation of 4,084 feet (1,245 metres). ...
- cairn terrier
- working terrier breed developed in Scotland to rout vermin from cairns (rock piles). The modern breed's characteristics are carefully patterned on those of the dog's ancestor, a 17th-century terrier of the Isle of Skye. The cairn terrier is a short-legged ...
- Cairncross, John
- British government official who was identified in 1991 as the long-sought "fifth man" in the notorious Soviet spy ring that included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald MacLean, and Anthony Blunt (b. July 27, 1913--d. Oct. 8, 1995).
- Cairnes, John Elliott
- Irish economist who restated the key doctrines of the English classical school in his last and largest work, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded (1874).
- Cairngorm Mountains
- highest mountain massif in the British Isles, named after one of its peaks-Cairn Gorm, with an elevation of 4,084 feet (1,245 metres)-part of the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands of Scotland between the Spey and Dee river valleys. The mountains ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cairngorms National Nature Reserve
- (from the article "Cairngorm Mountains") ...Mountains, centred on the town of Aviemore, has developed and expanded rapidly since World War II. Recreational activities include skiing, ice and rock climbing, and pony trekking. The associated Cairngorms National Nature Reserve, with an area of 100 square miles ...
- Cairns
- city and port, northeastern Queensland, Australia, on Trinity Inlet of Trinity Bay. Founded in the 1870s as a government customs collection point, it grew in the late 19th century as the result of gold discoveries along the Hodgkinson and Palmer ...
- Cairns, James Ford
- Australian left-wing politician (b. Oct. 4, 1914, Melbourne, Australia-d. Oct. 12, 2003, Melbourne), was best known for his passionate antiwar activism. Cairns was first elected to Parliament in 1955 and soon became a leading light in the Labor Party. In ...
- Cairo
- city, capital of Egypt, and one of the largest cities in Africa. Cairo has stood for more than 1,000 years on the same site on the banks of the Nile, primarily on the eastern shore, some 500 miles (800 km) ... [17 Related Articles]
- Cairo
- city, seat (1860) of Alexander county, extreme southern Illinois, U.S. The city stands on a low-lying delta at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Bridges over both rivers connect the city with Kentucky (east) and Missouri (west). Cairo ...
- Cairo Conference
- (November-December 1943), either of two meetings of Allied leaders held in Cairo during World War II. At the first Cairo Conference (November 22-26), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussed plans for the prosecution of ... [4 Related Articles]
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