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- (from the article "Outsourcing War-The Surge in Private Military Firms") ...responsibility for the safety of PMF employees working in war zones is undefined. The families of four employees who were killed in Colombia in 2003 when two surveillance aircraft crashed are suing California Microwave Systems, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, ...
- California Missions
- (from the article "Serra, Junipero, Blessed") ...of Alta California (present-day California), Serra joined the expedition's commander, Gaspar de Portola. On July 16, 1769, he founded Mission San Diego, the first within the present state of California. From 1770 to 1782 he founded eight more Californian missions: ...
- California mussel
- (from the article "Representative animals poisonous when eaten") The starfish Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone species in the rocky marine intertidal communities off the northwest coast of North America. This predatory starfish feeds on the mussel Mytilus californianus and is responsible for maintaining much of the local diversity ...
- California nutmeg
- (Torreya californica), an ornamental evergreen tree of the yew family (Taxaceae), found naturally only in California. Growing to a height of 24 m (about 79 feet) or more, the tree bears spreading, slightly drooping branches. Although pyramidal in shape when ...
- California Packing Corporation
- (from the article "Del Monte Foods") ...and, in 1899, 11 of the state's biggest canners merged under the name California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916 CFCA drew in two more canners and a food brokerage house, incorporated itself as California Packing Corporation, or Calpak, and began ...
- California poppy
- (Eschscholzia californica), annual garden plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has become naturalized in parts of southern Europe, Asia, and Australia. The flowers, borne on stems 20 to 30 centimetres ... [2 Related Articles]
- California privet
- (from the article "privet") ...It has 25-centimetre (10-inch) flower clusters in summer. Japanese privet (L. japonicum), about 4.7 m tall, has very glossy leaves. It also requires mild winters, as does the smaller leaved California privet (L. ovalifolium) from Japan, commonly grown as a ...
- California Psychological Inventory
- (from the article "personality assessment") ...a number of important problems confronting those who attempt to assess personality characteristics. Many other omnibus personality inventories are also used in applied settings and in research. The California Psychological Inventory (CPI), for example, is keyed for several personality variables ...
- California quail
- (from the article "quail") ...to Guatemala. Its name is suggestive of its call. Other than the bobwhite, North American quail include two important game birds introduced widely elsewhere: the California, or valley, quail (Callipepla californica; see photograph) and Gambel's, or desert, quail (Lophortyx gambelii). ...
- California School of Fine Arts
- (from the article "Adams, Ansel") ...photography as a fine art. In 1940 he helped found the first curatorial department devoted to photography as an art form at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1946 he established at the California School of ...
- California scrub oak
- (from the article "scrub oak") ...as bear oak, native to the eastern United States. It is an intricately branched ornamental shrub, about 6 m (20 feet) tall, with hollylike leaves and many small, striped acorns. In the west are the California scrub oak (Q. dumosa), ...
- California sea lion
- (from the article "sea lion") The California sea lion, found along the coasts of California (including Baja California, Mexico), the Galapagos Islands, and Japan, is the trained seal commonly seen in animal acts and zoos. Large-eyed and playful, it is pale to dark brown but ...
- California State University
- extensive system of public institutions of higher education in California, U.S., one of the largest such systems in the country. It has campuses at Bakersfield, Channel Islands (at Camarillo), Chico, Dominguez Hills (at Carson), East Bay, Fresno, Fullerton, Long Beach, ...
- California State Water Project
- (from the article "California") ...balance. The Colorado River Aqueduct at the Arizona border carries water from that river across the southern California desert and mountains to serve the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The California State Water Project, launched in 1960, is the largest water-transfer ...
- California sycamore
- (from the article "plane tree") ...characteristics of both in varying degrees. It is a little shorter and more squat than the American tree and usually has bristly, paired seedballs. There are variegated forms of London plane. The California sycamore (P. racemosa), about 25 m (80 ...
- California University of Pennsylvania
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in California, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is one of 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The university is composed of colleges of liberal arts, science and technology, and education and human ...
- California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
- (from the article "Native American") ...legal challenges over the next decade, principally suits in which plaintiffs argued that state regulations regarding gaming should obtain on tribal land. The issue was decided in CaliforniaCabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987), in which the U.S. Supreme Court found ...
- California white oak
- (from the article "white oak") The shrubby Gambel oak (Q. gambelii) may reach 4.5 m (15 feet) tall. The California white oak (Q. lobata), also called valley oak, is an ornamental and shade tree, often 30 m (100 feet) tall. It has graceful, drooping branches, ...
- California, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a white field (background) with a grizzly bear above the words "California Republic" and a red stripe; in the upper hoist corner is a single red star.
- California, Gulf of
- large inlet of the eastern Pacific Ocean along the northwestern coast of Mexico. It is enclosed by the Mexican mainland to the east and by the mountainous peninsula of Baja California to the west. There are two schools of thought ... [4 Related Articles]
- California, University of
- system of public universities in California, U.S., with campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. The university traces its origins to the private College of California, founded in 1855 ... [13 Related Articles]
- californite
- (from the article "californite") jadelike variety of the mineral vesuvianite (q.v.).descriptionvesuvianite...cut as gemstones. Cut stones resemble diopsi
- californium
- synthetic chemical element of the actinoid series of the periodic table, atomic number 98. Not occurring in nature, californium (as the isotope californium-245) was discovered (1950) by Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T. Seaborg at ... [1 Related Articles]
- californium-252
- (from the article "transuranium element") ...isotopes that are useful for chemical studies. Only the principal mode of decay is given, though in many cases other modes of decay also are exhibited by the isotope. In particular, with the isotope californium-252, alpha-particle decay is important because ...
- Caligula
- Roman emperor from 37 to 41, in succession to Tiberius, who effected the transfer of the last legion that had been under a senatorial proconsul (in Africa) to an imperial legate, thus completing the emperor's monopoly of army command. Accounts ... [11 Related Articles]
- Caliman
- (from the article "Carpathian Mountains") ...attain their highest altitude in the Rodna (Rodnei) Massif in Romania; they are built of crystalline rocks and reach a peak in Pietrosu (7,556 feet). To the south, extinct volcanoes in the Calimani and Harghita ranges have, to some extent, ...
- Calinescu, Armand
- statesman who, as prime minister of Romania (March-September 1939), provided the major administrative inspiration and support for King Carol II's royal dictatorship.
- Calinescu, George
- (from the article "Romanian literature") The critic and prose writer George Calinescu wrote an important history of Romanian literature (1944), as well as valuable studies of Eminescu and other writers. Calinescu also wrote novels describing the social life of Bucharest after World War I, its ...
- Calipari, Nicola
- (from the article "Italy") ...of the release of Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian woman journalist who had been kidnapped a month earlier in Iraq and taken hostage. Their relief vanished, however, when a news flash revealed that Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent who had ...
- caliper
- measuring instrument that consists of two adjustable legs or jaws for measuring the dimensions of material parts. The calipers on the right side of the have an adjusting screw and nut and are known as spring calipers; those on ... [1 Related Articles]
- caliper
- (from the article "papermaking") The caliper (thickness) of paper or paperboard in fractions of a millimetre or inch is measured by placing a single sheet under a steady pressure of 0.49 to 0.63 kilogram per square centimetre (seven to nine pounds per square inch) ...
- caliper brake
- (from the article "bicycle") ...levers to stirrups that pull pads of friction material against the inside of the rim. Front and rear brakes on other bikes are actuated by cables connected to a brake lever on each handlebar. Caliper brakes squeeze two pads against ...
- caliph
- ("successor"), ruler of the Muslim community. When Muhammad died (June 8, 632), Abu Bakr succeeded to his political and administrative functions as khalifah rasul Allah, or "successor of the Messenger of God," but it was probably under 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, ... [12 Related Articles]
- Caliphate
- the political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the death (AD 632) of the Prophet Muhammad. Ruled by a caliph (Arabic khalifah, "successor"), who held temporal and sometimes a ... [11 Related Articles]
- Calipso
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") Two environmental satellites, CloudSat and Calipso (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation), were launched together from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, into polar orbit on April 28. CloudSat carried U.S.-Canadian radar equipment to map cloud tops. Calipso, developed by ...
- Calisher, Hortense
- American writer of novels, novellas, and short stories, known for the elegant style and insightful rendering of characters in her often semiautobiographical short fiction, much of which was published originally in The New Yorker.
- calisthenics
- free body exercises performed with varying degrees of intensity and rhythm, which may or may not be done with light handheld apparatuses such as rings and wands. The exercises employ such motions as bending, stretching, twisting, swinging, kicking, and jumping, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Calistoga
- city, Napa county, western California, U.S. Located just northeast of Santa Rosa, Calistoga lies near the head of Napa Valley, 80 miles (130 km) north of San Francisco. Located in an area of natural hot-water geysers and mineral and mud ...
- calit bhasa
- (from the article "Bengali language") ...West Bengal. Two Bengali dialects are significant: Sadhu-Bhasa, the literary language, which has a vocabulary with many Sanskrit words and is unintelligible to the uneducated; and Calit-Bhasa, the colloquial speech, which has many contracted forms. Calit-Bhasa is spoken by the ...
- Calixtus (III)
- antipope from 1168 to 1178, who reigned with the support of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.
- Calixtus I, Saint
- pope from 217? to 222, during the schism of St. Hippolytus, the church's first antipope. Little was known about Calixtus before the discovery of Philosophumena by Hippolytus, a work that is, in part, a pamphlet directed against him. [4 Related Articles]
- Calixtus II
- pope from 1119 to 1124. [8 Related Articles]
- Calixtus III
- pope from 1455 to 1458. [4 Related Articles]
- Calixtus, George
- (from the article "Christianity") Efforts were undertaken in Germany and Central Europe as well. The German Lutheran George Calixtus called for a united church between Lutherans and Reformed based on the "simplified dogmas," such as the Apostles' Creed and the agreements of the church ...
- Calkins, Mary Whiton
- philosopher, psychologist, and educator, the first American woman to attain distinction in these fields of study.
- call and response
- (from the article "Native American music") The most distinctive style element of Eastern Woodlands music is the use of call and response in many dance songs; the leader sings a short melody as a solo and is answered by the dancers in unison. The alternation between ...
- call money
- (from the article "money market") Important changes were introduced into the British monetary system in 1971, but money at call with the discount houses retained its role as a reserve asset. Such is the safety and liquidity of call money that, despite the fractionally lower ...
- call number
- (from the article "library classification") ...enable patrons to find its materials quickly and easily. While cataloging provides information on the physical and topical nature of the book (or other item), classification, through assignment of a call number (consisting of class designation and author representation), locates ...
- Call of Duty
- video game that brought new advances to first-person shooter play, winning numerous game of the year awards in 2003 and 2004 following its 2003 debut. Designed by the American company Infinity Ward and produced by Activision, Call of Duty used ...
- call option
- (from the article "stock option") contractual agreement enabling the holder to buy or sell a security at a designated price for a specified period of time, unaffected by movements in its market price during the period. Put and call options, purchased both for speculative and ...
- Call to Australia Christian Party
- (from the article "New South Wales") ...The much smaller Australian Democrats sit in the upper house and with some Independents are able to reject government bills by joining with the main party in opposition. There is also a small Call to Australia Christian Party in the ...
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