(from the article "Diocletian") ...the legacy of an unstable financial situation. Diocletian's fiscal solutions are still debated; they constitute a very difficult problem. Two new taxes were instituted, the jugum and the capitatio, the former being the tax on a unit of cultivable land, ...
major direct tax in France before the Revolution of 1789, first established in 1695 as a wartime measure. Originally, the capitation was to be paid by every subject, the amount varying according to class. For the purpose of the tax, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "annelid") No prostomial appendages; 1 or 2 anterior segments without setae; parapodia biramous; setae all simple; size, 1 to 20 or more cm; examples of genera: Capitella, Notomastus, Arenicola,
(from the article "annelid") ...of segments; setae all simple; size, 1 to 10 cm; examples of genera: Ophelia, Polyophthalmus, Scalibregma.No prostomial appendages; 1 or 2 anterior segments without setae; parapodia biramous; setae all simple; ...
(from the article "Riddle, Nelson") ...and Too Young, recorded in 1950 by Nat King Cole, with whom Riddle would work frequently during the next 15 years. During the 1950s Riddle was a staff arranger for Capitol Records and arranged songs for several ...
long, narrow area of imposing sandstone formations in south-central Utah, U.S., just east of Torrey. Established as a national monument in 1937, it became a national park in 1971. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area are ...
the meeting place of the United States Congress and one of the most familiar landmarks in Washington, D.C. It is situated on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial lie to ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Rome") The seat of Roman government, the Capitoline is little changed from Michelangelo's design and represents one of the earliest examples of modern town planning. The centrepiece of this piazza of three palaces is a bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, ...
complex of art galleries on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. The collection was initially founded in 1471 by Pope Sixtus IV, who donated statuary recovered from ancient ruins. It was augmented by gifts from later popes and, after 1870, by ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Michelangelo") ...labour. He was sought after to design imposing monuments for the new and modern Rome that were to enunciate architecturally the city's position as a world centre. Two of these monuments, the Capitoline Square (see Capitoline Museums) and the dome ...
(from the article "Roman religion") ...Tullius reigned between two Etruscan kings, Tarquinius Priscus and Tarquinius Superbus. The Etruscan kings began and perhaps finished the most important Roman temple, devoted to the cult of the Capitoline Triad, Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva (the dedication was believed to ...
(from the article "Rome") ...(1873) and Floyd College (1970) are in Rome, and Berry College (1902) is at nearby Mount Berry. The 104-foot (32-metre) clock tower, built atop one of Rome's hills, is a notable landmark. The Capitoline Wolf, a bronze replica of the ...
(from the article "Rome") The palace of the municipal councillors, the conservatori, is on the south side of the square opposite the Palazzo del Museo Capitolino (Capitoline Palace), which, as a papal collection of Classical works offered back to the citizens of Rome by ...
ordinance, usually divided into articles (Latin: capitula), promulgated by the Carolingian sovereigns (Charlemagne and his heirs) in western Europe (8th to late 9th century). These ordinances dealt with various issues of administration, the royal domains, and public order and justice, ... [4 Related Articles]
in the history of international law, any treaty whereby one state permitted another to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction over its own nationals within the former state's boundaries. The term is to be distinguished from the military term "capitulation," an agreement for ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "humerus") ...from the scapula, muscles that rotate the arm. The shaft is triangular in cross section and roughened where muscles attach. The lower end of the humerus includes two smooth articular surfaces (capitulum and trochlea), two depressions (fossae) that form part ...
(from the article "Dominic, Saint") ...tradition in both the Franciscan and the Dominican orders. In the summer of 1216 Dominic was back at Toulouse conferring with his companions, now 16 in number. This meeting has been called the capitulum fundationis ("chapter, or meeting, of foundation"). ...
(from the article "fungus") ...lichens; spores undergo ascolocular development (in special hyphae pockets); includes subclasses Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae; contains eight orders.Grows on honeydew excreted by insects or on exudates on the leaves of plants; melanoid pigments in cell walls of hyphae;...
soft-paste porcelain produced by a factory established in 1743 at the Palazzo of Capodimonte by Charles III of Naples. Ware was produced there in large quantity and wide variety until 1759, when the concern was dismantled and removed to Buen ... [1 Related Articles]
folk dance popular in the Brazilian northeast. It was brought to Brazil by slaves from Angola. Capoeira was originally a deadly sport in which the participants, often with blades strapped to their ankles, swung their legs high in attack, somersaulted, ...
(from the article "poultry") ...in many jurisdictions), but most immature males (cockerels) are castrated (in modern times usually chemically, with hormones that cause atrophying of the testicles) to become meat birds, called capons. Originally, meat production was a by-product of egg production. Only hens ...
(from the article "theatre") In the early 19th century an important designer was William Capon, who utilized pieces set at various raked angles and elaborate back cloths as an alternative to flats and wings. His sets were also large enough not to be overpowered ...
(from the article "Mafia") ...Each don had an underboss, who functioned as a vice president or deputy director, and a consigliere, or counselor, who had considerable power and influence. Below the underboss were the caporegime, or lieutenants, who, acting as buffers between the lower ...
(Oct. 24, 1917), Italian military disaster during World War I in which Italian troops retreated before an Austro-German offensive on the Isonzo front, northwest of Trieste, where the Italian and Austrian forces had been stalemated for two and a half ... [5 Related Articles]
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. His early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, but he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel In Cold Blood (1965), which remains his best-known work. [4 Related Articles]
ancient district in east-central Anatolia in the rugged plateau north of the Taurus Mountains, in present-day Turkey. The area was important as a Roman ally, client, and, later, province. The earliest records of Cappadocia date from the 6th century BC, ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "patristic literature") Although Athanasius prepared the ground, constructive agreement on the central doctrine of the Trinity was not reached in his lifetime, either between the divided parties in the East or between East and West with their divergent traditions. The decisive contribution ...
(from the article "Alisar Huyuk") ...an intrusion of foreign invaders, possibly Indo-European Hittites or related tribes, who were rapidly assimilated. Among the remains of the native Anatolian culture were a number of 19th-century "Cappadocian tablets," the records of Assyrian merchant colonists who lived at Alisar ...
(from the article "Brassicales") Members of Capparaceae, the caper family, are trees, shrubs, or lianas, sometimes herbs, that are usually found in the tropics. The family may contain up to 16 genera and 480 species, although some genera currently included may not belong there. ...
(from the article "climate") ...with hexagonally symmetrical structure. According to a recent internationally accepted classification, there are seven types of snow crystals: plates, stellars, columns, needles, spatial dendrites, capped columns, and irregular crystals. The size and shape of the snow crystals depend mainly on ...
(from the article "Bergamo") ...upper (alta) and lower (bassa, or piana) towns, linked by a cable railway. Notable landmarks of the older upper town include the Romanesque cathedral, rebuilt 1483 and 1639; the Cappella (chapel) Colleoni (1470-76), by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, with ceiling frescoes ...
(from the article "Cassino") ...in 1066, were found and restored. The archives, library, and some paintings were saved. Of ancient Casinum the only monuments of note are the amphitheatre, the theatre, and the ruins of the Cappella del Crocifisso, a Roman mausoleum converted into ...
(from the article "mosaic") ...church (Martorana) embellished according to the classical system has already been noted. In other 12th-century churches in Sicily, the Byzantine element is blended with western Mediterranean traits. Cappella Palatina, the palace chapel of the royal residence at Palermo (c. 1143 ...
(from the article "paleography") ...as university textbooks, are heavily loaded with abbreviations. The number of signs and devices in use by the end of the Middle Ages was enormous. More than 13,000 are listed in the standard work, Adriano Cappelli's Lexicon Abbreviaturarum (1912).
historian, statesman, and leader of liberalism in Tuscany who played an extremely influential role in the rise of the Risorgimento. His salon in Florence was long a centre for the leading liberal thinkers of Europe.
Italian operatic baritone (b. Nov. 9, 1926, Trieste, Italy-d. July 12, 2005, Trieste), enjoyed a 35-year career during which he was widely regarded as the leading Italian baritone of his generation; he was particularly known for his tendency to insert ...
American motion-picture director best known for a series of gently satiric and sentimental situation comedies during the 1930s and '40s. [13 Related Articles]
(from capra, "wild goat"), island of the Arcipelago Toscano, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, between the Italian mainland and the north point of Corsica. Capraia, mountainous and volcanic, rising to 1,467 feet (447 metres), produces wine and is a centre of ...
Dominican scholar whose Four Books of Defenses of the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (written 1409-33), generally known as the Defensiones, contributed to a revival of Thomistic theology and won for the author the sobriquet Prince of the Thomists. He ...
island in the Tyrrhenian Sea (of the Mediterranean) off northeastern Sardinia, Italy. Administratively part of La Maddalena comune (commune), it has an area of 6 square miles (16 square km) and is connected by causeway with the ...
(from the article "ancient Rome") ...the Great, whom he admired greatly, and embarked on an active external policy. He fought successfully against the Teutonic tribes of the upper Danube, among whom the Alamanni, as well as the Capri of the middle Danube, appeared for the ...
island near the southern entrance to the Bay of Naples, Campania regione (region), southern Italy; it lies opposite the Sorrento peninsula, to which it was joined in prehistoric times. The island is a single block of limestone ... [2 Related Articles]
In 2001 American tennis player Jennifer Capriati served up one of the greatest comeback stories in sports as she won her first Grand Slam singles titles, the Australian Open and the French Open. Though such success had once been predicted ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Common fatty acids in foods") ...is an important component of cow's milk. Goat's milk is rich in fats containing the 6-, 8-, and 10-carbon acids: hexanoic (caproic), octanoic (caprylic), and decanoic (capric) acids, respectively. Common names for these three acids are derived from the Latin ...
(from the article "veduta") ...prison interiors, however, are examples of vedute ideate, which are realistically drawn though completely imaginary scenes. Guardi and Canaletto produced another form of veduta, the capriccio, in which architectural elements, though correct, are combined in a rather strange fashion-e.g., Canaletto's ...
