A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Crompton, Samuel ... crossline halftone Crompton, Samuel British inventor of the spinning mule, which permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread and yarn. [4 Related Articles] Crompton, William (from the article "textile") These developments were primarily concerned with the power loom used for weaving plain goods. William ... Cromwell tank British medium tank that was used in the later stages of World War II. The ... [1 Related Articles] Cromwell, Henry fourth son of Oliver Cromwell and British ruler of Ireland from 1657 to 1659. Cromwell, Oliver English soldier and statesman who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars; he was ... [42 Related Articles] Cromwell, Richard lord protector of England from September 1658 to May 1659. The eldest surviving son of ... [1 Related Articles] Cromwell, Thomas (from the article "Henry VIII") ...power over the king by preventing this marriage, but the lord chancellor's machinations and long-time ... Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, Baron Cromwell of Okeham principal adviser (1532-40) to England's Henry VIII, chiefly responsible for establishing the Reformation in England, ... [9 Related Articles] Cromwellian chair sturdy, squarish chair with a leather back and seat, studded with brass-headed nails, made in ... [1 Related Articles] Cronaca, Il Italian Renaissance architect whose sober style emphasizes planes and linear design. Cronbach, Lee (from the article "intelligence, human") ...of intelligence was influenced most by those investigating individual differences in people's test scores. In ... Cronenberg, David (from the article "Performing Arts") Canadian David Cronenberg made the most gripping film shot in Britain: Eastern Promises, a brilliantly ... cronicas (from the article "Andrade, Carlos Drummond de") poet, journalist, author of cronicas (a short fiction-essay genre widely cultivated in Brazil), and literary ... Cronin, A.J. Scottish novelist and physician whose works combining realism with social criticism won a large Anglo-American ... [1 Related Articles] Cronin, James Watson American particle physicist, corecipient with Val Logsdon Fitch (q.v.) of the 1980 Nobel Prize for ... [1 Related Articles] Cronin, Jim American animal activist founded (1987) the 26-ha (65-ac) wildlife park Monkey World and its ... Cronje, Pieter Arnoldus Boer general who played a prominent part in the early stages of the South African ... Cronje, Wessel Johannes South African cricketer (b. Sept. 25, 1969, Bloemfontein, S.Af.-d. June 1, 2002, Outeniqua Mountains, near ... Cronkite, Walter American journalist and pioneer of television news programming who was known as "the most trusted ... Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik Swedish mineralogist and chemist noted for his work on the chemistry of metallic elements and ... [2 Related Articles] Cronus in ancient Greek religion, male deity who was worshipped by the pre-Hellenic population of Greece ... [6 Related Articles] Cronyn, Hume Canadian-born actor who earned acclaim for his convincing portrayals of diverse characters and was especially ... [2 Related Articles] crook in brass musical instruments, detachable piece of metal tubing inserted between the mouthpiece and the ... [2 Related Articles] Crook, George American army officer in the American Civil War and in the Indian conflicts of the ... [2 Related Articles] Crookes dark space (from the article "Crookes, Sir William") ...work of various kinds at his private laboratory in London. His researches on electrical discharges ... Crookes radiometer (from the article "gas") ...gases, after the Danish physicist Martin Knudsen, who studied them experimentally. Many of their properties ... Crookes, Sir William British chemist and physicist noted for his discovery of the element thallium and for his ... [4 Related Articles] Crookston city, seat (1873) of Polk county, northwestern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on Red Lake River, ... Croome, A. C. M. (from the article "hurdling") ...led to a conventional step pattern for hurdlers-3 steps between each high hurdle, 7 between ... crop (from the article "work, history of the organization of") Ancient agricultural work was also characterized by specialization in crops: vineyards and olive groves were ... crop (from the article "esophagus") ...the stomach but rather may serve as a storage reservoir or an ancillary digestive organ. ... crop drying (from the article "agricultural technology") In the most common method of crop drying, the crop, usually grain, is spread on ... crop duster usually, an aircraft used for dusting or spraying large acreages with pesticides, though other types ... [1 Related Articles] Crop Over (from the article "Barbados") One of the country's cultural traditions is Crop Over, an annual multi-week summer festival that ... crop production (from the article "Africa") The persistence of relatively low-productivity agricultural systems over large parts of the continent also stems ... crop rotation the successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same fields, in ... [6 Related Articles] cropland (from the article "grassland") Grasslands frequently have been converted to cropland on which edible grains are grown; this allows ... Cropper, Steve (from the article "Pickett, Wilson") ...artist. "Pickett was a pistol," said Wexler, who nicknamed him "the Wicked Pickett" and sent ... cropping system (from the article "agriculture, origins of") Olive groves and vineyards were permanent; grain and pulses were annuals. Although it was realized ... croquet popular outdoor game, played on a lawn or court, with long-handled mallets with which the ... Croquet Association (from the article "association croquet") In the United Kingdom, croquet tournaments are governed by the Croquet Association, founded in 1896, ... croquis (from the article "sketch") ...an artist would employ many assistants, sketches were made by the master for works to ... Cros, Charles French inventor and poet whose work in several fields foreshadowed or paralleled important developments. [1 Related Articles] crosanacht (from the article "Celtic literature") ...Norman invaders, were used with native bardic wit and felicitous style to produce the enchanting ... Crosby, Bing American singer, actor, and songwriter who achieved great popularity in radio, recordings, and motion pictures. ... [4 Related Articles] Crosby, Caresse (from the article "Crosby, Harry") In 1927 he and his wife, Caresse Crosby, nee Jacob (1892-1970), began to publish their ... Crosby, David (from the article "Byrds, the") ...Nov. 17, 1941Tipton, Mo.-d. May 24, 1991, Sherman Oaks, Calif.), David Crosby (original name David ... Crosby, Fanny American writer of hymns, the best known of which was "Safe in the Arms of ... Crosby, Floyd (from the article "1930/31: Other Winners") Original Story: John Monk Saunders for The Dawn PatrolAdaptation: Howard Estabrook for CimarronCinematography: Floyd Crosby ... Crosby, George Robert ("BOB"), U.S. bandleader (b. Aug. 25, 1913, Spokane, Wash.--d. March 9, 1993, La Jolla, Calif.), ... Crosby, Harry American poet who, as an expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, established the Black Sun ... Crosby, John O'Hea American impresario (b. July 12, 1926, New York, N.Y.-d. Dec. 15, 2002, Rancho Mirage, Calif.), ... Crosby, Lynton (from the article "The British Election of 2005") ...More fundamentally, the Conservatives suffered from long-standing problems with a "brand" image, which could not ... Crosby, Sidney Canadian ice hockey player who became the youngest captain of a National Hockey League (NHL) ... [1 Related Articles] Crosby, Stills and Nash British-American trio-and, with Neil Young, quartet, as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young-whose acoustic and electric ... [1 Related Articles] crosier (from the article "plant") ...possess a rhizome (horizontal stem) that grows partially underground; the deeply divided fronds (leaves) and ... crosier staff with a curved top that is a symbol of the Good Shepherd and is ... Crosier War (from the article "Sverrir Sigurdsson") In 1196 the dissident bishop of Oslo, Nicholas Arnesson, joined forces with the exiled archbishop ... cross the principal symbol of the Christian religion, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the ... [4 Related Articles] cross bridge (from the article "muscle") ...troponin-tropomyosin system (associated with the thin actin filaments), producing a conformational change that allows actin ... cross dating (from the article "archaeology") ...Conversely, an object from an undated culture may be found at a site whose date ... cross flute (from the article "flute") ...South America, Africa, and elsewhere, a notch may be cut in the edge to facilitate ... cross fox (from the article "fox") ...ears and legs. Colour, however, is variable; in North America black and silver coats are ... Cross of Gold speech (See William Jennings Bryan, .)(July 8, 1896), classic of American political oratory delivered by William ... [2 Related Articles] Cross of St. Andrew (from the article "Alabama, flag of") ...the Civil War, many wished to assert the identity of the state through a distinctive ... Cross of St. George (from the article "Bahamas, flag of The") Several other flags also exist for The Bahamas. Most important are its civil ensign (flown ... Cross of St. Patrick (from the article "United Kingdom, flag of the") ..."Union Flag," or "Great Union," continue in use until January 1, 1801, the effective date ... cross ratio in projective geometry, ratio that is of fundamental importance in characterizing projections. In a projection ... [1 Related Articles] Cross River river in western Africa (mostly in southeastern Nigeria) that rises in several branches in the ... [2 Related Articles] Cross River state, southeastern Nigeria. What is now Cross River state was part of the former Eastern ... Cross River languages (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The 60 Cross River languages are situated around the Cross River in southeastern Nigeria and ... cross section in nuclear or subatomic particle physics, probability that a given atomic nucleus or subatomic particle ... [2 Related Articles] cross slide (from the article "machine tool") ...mounted on the cross slide. This turret also can be rotated about its vertical axis ... cross tabulation (from the article "statistics") ...Another tabular summary, called a relative frequency distribution, shows the fraction, or percentage, of data ... cross talk (from the article "telecommunications media") ...fluctuations in earth ground potentials or by external interference. One common cause of external interference ... Cross Timbers (from the article "Texas") The Cross Timbers, a forest region with light-coloured, slightly acid sandy loam soil, stretches across ... cross validation (from the article "personality assessment") ...to or predictive of any aspect of behaviour observed independently of that measure contributes to ... cross vault (from the article "building construction") Two large fragments of great concrete cross-vault buildings still survive from the late empire. The ... Cross, Christopher (from the article "1981: Other Winners") ...ArkOriginal Score: Vangelis for Chariots of FireOriginal Song: "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" ... Cross, Hardy U.S. professor of civil and structural engineering whose outstanding contribution was a method of calculating ... [1 Related Articles] Cross, James (from the article "Canada") ...intellectuals with the world outside Canada. In October 1970 a terrorist group, the Front de ... Cross, Monastery of the (from the article "Jerusalem") ...architecture of the first half of the 1st millennium BCE (Tomb of Pharaoh's Daughter) and ... Cross, Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount British statesman responsible for the first urban renewal authorization in Great Britain, the Artizans' and ... cross, sign of the a gesture of ancient Christian origin by which a person blesses himself, others, or objects. ... [1 Related Articles] Cross, Stations of the a series of 14 pictures or carvings portraying events in the Passion of Christ, from ... cross-axial drainage (from the article "valley") One of the most interesting anomalies that occurs in drainage evolution is the development of ... cross-compound turbine (from the article "turbine") ...classification that differentiates between having the whole machine assembled along a single shaft with one ... cross-country long-distance running over open country; unlike the longer marathon race, cross-country races usually are not ... [17 Related Articles] cross-country skiing skiing in open country over rolling, hilly terrain as found in Scandinavian countries, where the ... [5 Related Articles] cross-cousin the child of one's mother's brother or father's sister. Scholars of kinship distinguish the different ... [6 Related Articles] cross-cultural research (from the article "criminology") In the late 20th century, criminology increasingly focused on cross-cultural approaches. Some cross-cultural studies have ... Cross-Cultural Survey (from the article "Murdock, George P.") American anthropologist who specialized in comparative ethnology, the ethnography of African and Oceanic peoples, and ... cross-examination (from the article "evidence") Judges and attorneys in common-law courts regard the opportunity to cross-examine as a guarantee of ... cross-fertilization the fusion of male and female gametes (sex cells) from different individuals of the same ... [6 Related Articles] cross-fingering (from the article "wind instrument") On six-hole transverse flutes and oboes, chromatic pitches were obtained by closing one or more ... cross-flow exchange (from the article "heat exchanger") ...the other fluid to flow through the spaces between the tubes. In most designs of ... cross-in-square plan (from the article "Western architecture") ...from written descriptions; it would seem that both were typical of what was to be ... cross-linkage (from the article "aging") With increasing age, tendons, skin, and even blood vessels lose elasticity. This is due to ... cross-modal perception (from the article "human behaviour") ...appearance of a person walking. By one year of age, infants apparently possess categories for ... cross-modal reassignment (from the article "neuroplasticity") The third form of neuroplasticity, cross-modal reassignment, entails the introduction of new inputs into a ... cross-pollination (from the article "pollination") An egg cell in an ovule of a flower may be fertilized by a sperm ... cross-reacting antigen (from the article "immune system disorder") ...so similar to those on normal tissue cells that the antibodies stimulated to react against ... cross-sectional design (from the article "human development") ...two sorts of investigation is important. When the same child at each age is used, ... cross-staff (from the article "navigation") ...the vertical, rather than the horizontal, but conversion of the readings was an elementary matter. ... cross-stitch embroidery type of embroidery carried out on canvas or an evenly woven fabric in which the ... [1 Related Articles] cross-stratification (from the article "sedimentary rock") Within the major beds, cross-bedding is common. This structure is developed by the migration of ... Crossan, John Dominic "Jesus was not born of a virgin, not born of David's lineage, not born in ... Crossaster (from the article "sea star") ...European waters is the gibbous starlet (Asterina gibbosa). The sea bat (Patiria miniata) usually has ... crossbanding (from the article "veneer") ...that in which a single sheet, chosen for its interesting grain (yew or purple wood, ... crossbar switch (from the article "telephone and telephone system") In 1913 J.N. Reynolds, an engineer with Western Electric (at that time the manufacturing division ... crossbar switching system (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...rows. With the appropriate movement of the hold and selecting bars, any column could be ... crossbill any of several species of birds of the finch family, Fringillidae (order Passeriformes), known for ... [1 Related Articles] crossbow leading missile weapon of the Middle Ages, consisting of a short bow fixed transversely on ... [5 Related Articles] crossbreeding (from the article "animal breeding") Crossbreeding involves the mating of animals from two breeds. Normally, breeds are chosen that have ... crosscut (from the article "mining") ...haulage, ventilation, or exploration. A drift running parallel to the ore body and lying in ... crosscut saw (from the article "saw") Among the saws that are neither loops nor disks are three of the most common ... crosscutting (from the article "dating") ...to deduce that certain units have been offset by movement along fractures or faults while ... crosse (from the article "lacrosse") The distinctive feature of the game is the crosse, the implement used by the players ... crossed molecular beam technique (from the article "Lee, Yuan T.") As a postdoctoral researcher, Lee experimented with and further developed Herschbach's invention of the "crossed ... crossed-field amplifier (from the article "electron tube") Crossed-field amplifiers (CFA) share several characteristics with magnetrons. Both contain a cylindrical cathode coaxial with ... crossed-sword dance (from the article "sword dance") ...of that of the dancer behind him, the group forming intricate, usually circular, patterns. Combat ... Crossett city, Ashley county, southeastern Arkansas, U.S. It lies on pine-forested uplands near the Ouachita River, ... Crossfield, Scott American test pilot (b. Oct. 2, 1921, Berkeley, Calif.-d. April 19, 2006, Gordon county, Ga.), ... crossing over (from the article "genetics") ...on the same chromosome could be calculated by measuring the frequency at which new chromosomal ... crossing the T (from the article "naval warfare") A positional advantage could be added to this firepower advantage if the fleet "crossed the ... crossline halftone (from the article "photoengraving") A French patent of 1857 described a screen with parallel lines scratched in a single ...

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