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- shire, southeastern Queensland, Australia, on the Caboolture River. Originally a livestock station, its name was derived from cabul-tur, the Aboriginal word for the carpet snake. To relieve shortages brought about by the American Civil War in the 1860s, Caboolture became ...
- caboose
- (from the article "railroad") One type of vehicle that is fast disappearing in North America and virtually extinct in Europe is the caboose, or brake-van. With modern air-braking systems, the security of a very long train can be assured by fixing to its end ...
- Cabot Family
- prominent American family since the arrival of John Cabot at Salem, Mass., in 1700. The Cabot family has enjoyed a long tradition of wealth, philanthropy, and talent.
- Cabot Strait
- channel (60 miles [97 km] wide) between southwestern Newfoundland and northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. An important international shipping lane, it connects the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. The strait was named for John ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabot, George
- powerful Federalist Party leader, especially in New England. [1 Related Articles]
- Cabot, John
- navigator and explorer who by his voyages in 1497 and 1498 helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada. The exact details of his life and of his voyages are still subjects of controversy among historians and ... [7 Related Articles]
- Cabot, Sebastian
- navigator, explorer, and cartographer who at various times served the English and Spanish crowns. He may have accompanied his father, John Cabot, on the first English voyage to North America (1497), which resulted in the discovery of the Labrador coast ... [4 Related Articles]
- cabotage
- (from the article "airplane") Today the main restriction on flying appears under two headings: exception of the fifth freedom from certain specific bilateral agreements and general enforcement of the law of cabotage. This law has operated since the Middle Ages, reserving the trade within ...
- Cabra
- city, Cordoba provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is picturesquely situated between the Sierras de las Carbas and de Montilla, southeast of Cordoba city.
- Cabral, Amilcar
- agronomist, nationalist leader, and founder and secretary-general of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde; PAIGC), who helped lead Guinea-Bissau to independence. [1 Related Articles]
- Cabral, Luis de Almeida
- (from the article "Guinea-Bissau") ...de Spinola, to govern Portugal and negotiate independence for the African colonies. Guinea-Bissau was granted independence on September 10, 1974, and Cabral's Cape Verdean half-brother, Luis de Almeida Cabral, became president of the country. However, relations between the creolized middle ...
- Cabral, Pedro Alvares
- Portuguese navigator who is generally credited as the discoverer of Brazil (April 22, 1500). [7 Related Articles]
- Cabrera
- (from the article "Balearic Islands") ...There are two groups of islands. The eastern and larger group forms the Balearics proper and includes the principal islands of Majorca (Mallorca) and Minorca (Menorca) and the small island of Cabrera. The western group is known as the Pitiusas ...
- Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
- novelist, short-story writer, film critic, and essayist who was the most prominent Cuban writer living in exile and the best-known spokesman against Fidel Castro's regime. In 1998 he was awarded Spain's Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious and remunerative award for ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabrera, Angel
- (from the article "Golf") More high scoring came as no surprise at the U.S. Open, held in June at the famously difficult Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club. The winning aggregate was 285, five over par, and victory went to Cabrera, the only player able to ...
- Cabrera, Lydia
- Cuban ethnologist and short-story writer noted for both her collections of Afro-Cuban folklore and her works of fiction. She is considered a major figure in Cuban letters.
- Cabrera, Ramon
- influential Spanish Carlist general and later one of the party's most controversial figures.
- Cabrillo National Monument
- (from the article "San Diego") ...Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, on the 19th-century settlement site, displays artifacts and restored buildings, and the nearby Serra Museum stands on the location of the original presidio. Cabrillo National Monument, established in 1913, preserves Old Point Loma ...
- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez
- soldier and explorer in the service of Spain, chiefly known as the discoverer of California. [5 Related Articles]
- Cabrini, Saint Frances Xavier
- Italian-born founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and first United States citizen to be canonized.
- cabriole
- ballet jump, formerly performed only by men, in which the dancer beats the calves of the legs together in the air, with a scissors-like movement. When the beat occurs, the legs are extended at either a 45° or 90° angle ... [1 Related Articles]
- cabriole leg
- leg of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves-the upper one convex, the lower one concave. Its shape was based on the legs of certain four-footed animals. Known by the ancient Chinese and by the Greeks, it returned to ... [3 Related Articles]
- cabriolet
- originally a two-wheeled, doorless, hooded, one-horse carriage, first used in 18th-century France and often let out for hire. The name is thought to derive from cabriole (French: "caper") because of the vehicle's light, bounding motion. Later cabriolets were built with ...
- Cabrol, Fernand
- Benedictine monk and noted writer on the history of Christian worship.
- cacao
- tropical tree, whose scientific name means "food of the gods" in Latin. Originating in the lowland rainforests of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, cacao is grown commercially in the New World tropics as well as western Africa and tropical ... [7 Related Articles]
- caccia
- (Italian: "hunt," or "chase"), one of the principal Italian musical forms of the 14th century. It consisted of two voices in strict canon at the unison (i.e., in strict melodic imitation at the same pitch), and often of a non-canonic ... [2 Related Articles]
- Caccialanza, Gisella
- American ballet dancer who was a charter member of George Balanchine's first company in the U.S., danced in musical films Balanchine choreographed, and was a member of the New York City Ballet's forerunner, Ballet Society, before joining the San Francisco ...
- Cacciatori delle Alpi
- (from the article "Garibaldi, Giuseppe") ...Austria. His task was to lead an army of volunteers from other Italian provinces, and he was given the rank of major general in the Piedmontese army. When war broke out in April 1859, he led his Cacciatori delle Alpi ...
- Caccini, Giulio
- singer and composer whose songs greatly helped to establish and disseminate the new monodic music introduced in Italy about 1600. This is music in which an expressive melody is accompanied by evocative chords, as opposed to the traditional polyphonic style ... [6 Related Articles]
- Caceres
- provincia (province) of the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), western Spain, bordering Portugal to the west. The Tagus River runs through the province. Conquered by Alfonso IX from the Moors in 1229, it became ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caceres
- city, capital of Caceres provincia (province), in Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), western Spain. It is built on a low east-west ridge south of the Tagus River and about 50 miles (80 km) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caceres de Arismendi, Luisa
- (from the article "bolivar fuerte") ...banknotes feature images of leading figures in Venezuelan history, including individuals of indigenous and African descent and, for the first time in the history of Venezuelan currency, a woman: Luisa Caceres de Arismendi, who appears on the 20-bolivar fuerte note. ...
- Cachaca, Carlos
- Brazilian songwriter who helped make samba Brazil's most popular form of music, earning the title "King of Samba" for his numerous songs about life in the Brazilian favelas, or shantytowns; in 1928 he helped found the influential Mangueira Samba School ...
- Cachao
- Cuban-born bassist, composer, and bandleader was credited, along with his brother, Orestes, with the creation of the mambo. Cachao studied music as a child, and by age 13 he was playing double bass with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra. In the ...
- cache memory
- a supplementary memory system that temporarily stores frequently used instructions and data for quicker processing by the central processor of a computer. The cache augments, and is an extension of, a computer's main memory. Both main memory and cache are ... [3 Related Articles]
- cachet, lettre de
- (French: "letter of the sign [or signet]"), a letter signed by the king and countersigned by a secretary of state and used primarily to authorize someone's imprisonment. It was an important instrument of administration under the ancien regime in France. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Cacheu
- region located in northwestern Guinea-Bissau. The Cacheu River flows east-west through the region, and the Mansoa River, which also flows east-west, forms Cacheu's border with the neighbouring region of Biombo; both rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. The area around ...
- Cacheu
- town located in northwestern Guinea-Bissau. It lies along the south bank of the Cacheu River, near its mouth. Cacheu was made an official Portuguese captaincy in 1588, and it gained economic importance as a centre for the slave trade in ... [1 Related Articles]
- cachexia
- (from the article "cancer") A common systemic effect of malignant tumours, particularly at advanced stages of growth, is body wasting (cachexia), which may appear with loss of appetite (anorexia) and weight loss. It is likely that a chemical mediator called tumour necrosis factor-alpha is ...
- Cachoeiro de Itapemirim
- city, southern Espirito Santo estado (state), eastern Brazil. It lies along the Itapemirim River, at 95 feet (29 m) above sea level and about 30 miles (48 km) inland from the Atlantic coast. It was given city ...
- Cacioppo, John
- (from the article "persuasion") An extension of the conflict-resolution model is the elaboration-likelihood model (ELM) of persuasion, put forth in 1980 by American psychologists John Cacioppo and Richard Petty. The ELM emphasizes the cognitive processing with which people react to persuasive communications. According to ...
- cacique
- any of a dozen tropical American birds belonging to the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes) and resembling the related oropendolas. Caciques are smaller than oropendolas and have a less-powerful bill, which lacks a frontal shield. These striking black-and-yellow or black-and-red birds ... [1 Related Articles]
- cacique
- (from the article "Latin America, history of") ...before him. The larger islands were inhabited by the Arawak, a sedentary if modestly developed people with kingdoms, rulers, nobles, and obligatory labour mechanisms. Their ruler was called a cacique, and the Spaniards adopted the word and carried it with ...
- caciquism
- in Latin-American and Spanish politics, the rule of local chiefs or bosses (caciques). As a class, these leaders have often played a key role in their countries' political structure. [1 Related Articles]
- cackling goose
- (from the article "Canada goose") ...light-breasted goose with a black head and neck. It has white cheeks that flash when the bird shakes its head before taking flight. The various subspecies range in size from 2 kg (4.4 pounds) in the cackling goose (
- cacodyl
- (from the article "arsenic") Arsenic also forms numerous organic compounds, as for example tetramethyl diarsine, (CH3)2As&singlehorzbond;As(CH3)2, used in preparing the common desiccant cacodylic acid. Several complex organic compounds of arsenic have been employed in the treatment of certain diseases, such as amebic dysentery, caused ...
- cacomistle
- (Bassariscus), either of two species of large-eyed, long-tailed carnivores related to the raccoon (family Procyonidae). Cacomistles are grayish brown with lighter underparts and white patches over their eyes. The total length is about 60-100 cm (24-40 inches), about half of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caconda
- town, west-central Angola. It is located 140 miles (225 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Huila Plateau (a high tableland sloping westward to the Atlantic coast in a series of descending escarpments), at an elevation of about 5,400 ...
- cacophony
- (from the article "euphony and cacophony") sound patterns used in verse to achieve opposite effects: euphony is pleasing and harmonious; cacophony is harsh and discordant. Euphony is achieved through the use of vowel sounds in words of generally serene imagery. Vowel sounds, which are more easily ...
- Cacops
- extinct amphibian genus found as fossils in Early Permian, or Cisuralian, rocks in North America (the Early Permian Period, or Cisuralian Epoch, lasted from 299 million to 271 million years ago). Cacops reached a length of about 40 cm (16 ...
- cacos
- the name given to Haitian rebels and to an early political group in Central America.
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