chapeau (from the article "heraldry") ...coronet, a coronet that supports the crest either instead of the wreath or in addition ...
chapel small, intimate place of worship. The name was originally applied to the shrine in which ... [2 Related Articles]
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Chapel Royal (from the article "Cooke, Henry") As a child Cooke was a chorister in the Chapel Royal. During the English Civil ...
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Chapin, Harry American singer-guitarist who became as well known for his humanitarian efforts-particularly his antihunger crusade-as for ...
chaplain originally a priest or minister who had charge of a chapel, now an ordained member ...
Chaplain, Jules-Clement (from the article "medal") ...a sculptor's large-scale relief model into a working die (see below Techniques of production). This ...
Chapleau, Serge (from the article "Literature") ...would disappear within the century, weighed in with La Concierge du Pantheon, a story about ...
chaplet (from the article "military technology") ...the bore was cast around a core suspended in the mold. Ensuring that the bore ...
chaplet (from the article "floral decoration") ...bands of plant materials that have been woven or in some other way attached together; ...
Chaplin, Charlie British comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic ... [12 Related Articles]
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Chapman's Pool (from the article "Purbeck") ...Beauty, has excellent examples of differential marine erosion because of its diverse geologic strata. The ...
Chapman, Douglas George Canadian-born U.S. mathematical statistician who during the 1960s proposed to the International Whaling Commission annual ...
Chapman, Frank M American ornithologist famous for his extensive and detailed studies of the life histories, geographic distribution, ...
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Chapman, Georgina (from the article "Fashions") ...dresses. While French Vogue championed Ungaro's new designer, Peter Dundas, who worked behind the scenes ...
Chapman, Graham British comedian and writer, founding member of the Monty Python Flying Circus troupe, which set ...
Chapman, Herbert (from the article "football (soccer)") Between the wars, Herbert Chapman, the astute manager of London's Arsenal club, created the WM ...
Chapman, John missionary nurseryman of the North American frontier who helped prepare the way for 19th-century pioneers ... [2 Related Articles]
Chapman, John Jay American poet, dramatist, and critic who attacked the get-rich-quick morality of the post-Civil War "Gilded ...
Chapman, Maria Weston American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison.
Chapman, Robert Lundquist American editor (b. Dec. 28, 1920, Huntington, W.Va.-d. Feb. 2, 2002, Morristown, N.J.), was responsible ...
Chapman, Sydney English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics. [2 Related Articles]
Chapman, William (from the article "showboat") The British-born actor William Chapman built the first showboat, the "Floating Theatre" (14 by 100 ...
Chapman-Ferraro current system (from the article "geomagnetic field") Farther still from the Earth, at about 10 Re along the Earth-Sun line, is yet ...
chapon (from the article "salad") ...and fresh herbs. Other vegetables, raw or cooked-tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, peppers, beets, and so on-may ...
chapopote (from the article "Native American art") Unique to this region is the use of chapopote , a native asphalt ...
Chappaquiddick Island (from the article "Edgartown") town (township), seat of Dukes county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. The town comprises Chappaquiddick Island and ...
Chappe, Claude French engineer and cleric who converted an old idea into a reality by inventing the ... [2 Related Articles]
Chappe, Ignace (from the article "Chappe, Claude") ...built a series of towers on heights between the two cities. Each tower was equipped ...
Chapple, Eliot Dismore (from the article "rite of passage") ...incorporating the added or lost personnel and the added, lost, or changed social statuses. The ...
Chapra town, administrative headquarters of Saran district, Bihar state, northeastern India, near the junction of the ...
chapter (from the article "Europe, history of") ...court under the direction of the official or the archdeacon, financial officers, and archpriests (priests ...
Chapter Eleven (from the article "circus") ...American circus proprietors. The courts subsequently decided that the only way for the circus to ...
chapter house chamber or building, often reached through the cloister, in which the chapter, or heads of ... [1 Related Articles]
Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (from the article "painting, Western") ...of the royal Chapel of St. Stephen's (c. 1360) was apparently, for the period, outstandingly ...
Chapu, Henri-Michel-Antoine French sculptor and portrait medallist whose works were softened expressions of the Neoclassical tradition.
Chapultepec rocky hill about 200 feet (60 metres) high on the western edge of Mexico City ... [1 Related Articles]
Chapultepec Zoological Park zoo located in Mexico City on the original site of Montezuma's game reserve. Opened in ...
chaquitaclla (from the article "South America") In the highlands, fertile soils of volcanic ash were cultivated with the digging stick and ...
char (from the article "coal utilization") ...occurs primarily in two stages: (1) evolution of volatile matter during the initial stages of ...
char (Salvelinus ), any of several freshwater food and game fishes distinguished from the similar trout by ... [1 Related Articles]
Char B (from the article "tank") ...armed with 57-millimetre guns. After the war the French built 10 68-ton 2C tanks with ...
Char, Rene French poet who began as a Surrealist but who, after his experiences as a Resistance ... [2 Related Articles]
Chara (from the article "algae") ...and Oedogonium . Class Charophyceae Includes the macroscopic pondweed Chara , filamentous
charabanc (from French char a bancs: "wagon with benches"), long, four-wheeled carriage with several rows of ...
characin any of the numerous freshwater fishes of the family Characidae. Hundreds of species of characins ... [3 Related Articles]
character in biology, any observable feature, or trait, of an organism, whether acquired or inherited. An ... [2 Related Articles]
character (from the article "dramatic literature") ...in life. Some argue that action is the primary factor in drama, and that character ...
character dance (from the article "Elssler, Fanny") Austrian ballerina who introduced theatricalized folk dance (character dance) into ballet. She was celebrated for ...
character displacement (from the article "community ecology") ...different niches within the community. The great differences in bill size and shape that some ...
character piece relatively brief musical composition, usually for piano, expressive of a specific mood or nonmusical idea. ...
character sketch (from the article "literary sketch") One common variation of the sketch is the character sketch, a form of casual biography ...
character writer any writer who produced a type of character sketch that was popular in 17th-century England ... [1 Related Articles]
character writing (from the article "writing") A writing system, technically referred to as a script or an orthography, consists of a ...
characteristic X ray (from the article "X-ray") ...to the continuous spectrum of radiation emitted by the decelerating electrons, there is also a ...
characterization (from the article "coal mining") ...of several characteristics (e.g., ash content, heating value, and sulfur content) in the respective product ...
charactonym a name of a fictional character that suggests a distinctive trait of that character. Examples ...
charade originally a kind of riddle, probably invented in France during the 18th century, in which ...
Charadriidae (from the article "charadriiform") ...3 genera, approximately 11 species worldwide in temperate and tropical regions, 1 species in the ...
charadriiform any member of the large group of birds that includes the sandpipers, plovers, gulls, auks, ... [1 Related Articles]
Charadrius (from the article "Charadrius") bird genus of the family Charadriidae, including certain species known as killdeer and plover (qq.v. ).for ...
charango (from the article "Latin American music") ...rapidly through all of Latin America. Yet in practice these instruments respond to different aesthetic ...
Charax (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...an autonomous city ruled by an elected senate, and it replaced Babylon as the administrative ...
Charbonnages de France state-owned French coal-mining and processing company. Headquarters are in Paris.
Charbonneau, Jean French-Canadian poet who was the primary force behind the founding of the Montreal Literary School ... [1 Related Articles]
Charbonneau, Jean-Baptiste (from the article "Sacagawea") ...to communicate with the Shoshones to acquire horses to cross the mountains, the explorers agreed ...
Charbonneau, Robert French Canadian novelist and literary critic, well known for promoting the autonomy of Quebec literature.
Charbonneau, Toussaint (from the article "Lewis and Clark Expedition") ...proceeded up the Missouri in six canoes and two pirogues. It now consisted of 33 ...
Charbonnerie (from the article "Carbonaro") Outside Italy a similar movement called the Charbonnerie had taken root in France. It participated ...
Charbray (from the article "Charolais") ...into the United States from a herd in Mexico in 1936, but few were later ...
Charcas (from the article "Bolivia") ...with food and other basic necessities by such towns as Chuquisaca (1538; now Sucre), La ...
charcoal impure form of graphitic carbon (q.v. ), obtained as a residue when carbonaceous material is partially ... [7 Related Articles]
charcoal drawing use of charred sticks of wood to make finished drawings and preliminary studies. The main ... [1 Related Articles]
Charcot, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste French explorer and oceanographer who carried out extensive charting in the region of the Antarctic ...
Charcot, Jean-Martin founder (with Guillaume Duchenne) of modern neurology and one of France's greatest medical teachers and ... [3 Related Articles]
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chardonnay (from the article "Chablis") classic white wine of France, made from chardonnay grapes grown in strictly delimited areas surrounding ...
Chardonnet rayon (from the article "Chardonnet, Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de") ...de la Soie de Chardonnet ("Society of the Silk of Chardonnet") in Besancon, which in ...
Chardonnet, Hilaire Bernigaud, comte de French chemist and industrialist who first developed and manufactured rayon. [1 Related Articles]
Chardzhou oblast (province), southeastern Turkmenistan, with an area of 36,200 square miles (93,800 square km). It ... Chardzhou city and administrative centre, Chardzhou oblast (province), Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya (river). The second ... [1 Related Articles]
Charencey, Hyacinthe de (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") In 1859, Johann Karl Buschmann, a German philologist, correctly identified all the then-known Uto-Aztecan languages ...
Charente (from the article "Poitou-Charentes") region of France encompassing the western departements of Vienne, ...
Charente River river in western France, about 225 miles (360 km) long, rising near Rochechouart in the ...
Charente-Maritime (from the article "Poitou-Charentes") region of France encompassing the western departements of Vienne, ...
Charenton-le-Pont town, a southeastern suburb of Paris, in Val-de-Marne departement, Ile-de-France region , north-central ...
Chares Athenian general and mercenary commander. [1 Related Articles]
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Chargaff, Erwin (from the article "heredity") ...and plants have different proportions of the four nucleotides. Some are relatively richer in adenine ...
charge (from the article "crime") ...in U.S. states has followed a pattern derived from English traditions and principles with many ...
charge (from the article "heraldry") The field is said to be "charged" with an object. Heraldic objects are of a ...
charge carrier (from the article "electricity") ...show an extremely large variation in the capability of different materials to conduct electricity. The ...
charge conjugation in particle physics, an operation that replaces particles with antiparticles (and vice versa) in equations ... [2 Related Articles]
charge conservation in physics, constancy of the total electric charge in the universe or in any specific ... [7 Related Articles]
charge d'affaires the lowest rank of diplomatic representative recognized under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961). ... [1 Related Articles]
charge d'affaires ad interim (from the article "diplomacy") ...and other heads of missions of equivalent rank, (2) envoys, ministers, and internuncios accredited to ...
charge exchange (from the article "geomagnetic field") The particles of the ring current have a finite lifetime before being lost to the ...
charge exchange cycle (from the article "radiation") ...it captures an electron, which it quickly loses. As it slows down, however, the cross ...
charge injection (from the article "electroluminescence") There are two distinct mechanisms that can produce electroluminescence in crystals: pure or intrinsic and ...
charge injection device (from the article "telescope") Today, most large observatories use CCDs to record data electronically. Another similar device, the charge ...
charge storage (from the article "television") ...the layer allow positive charge from the signal plate (which is maintained at a positive ...
charge transfer (from the article "mass spectrometry") ...electron bombardment. The ionized methane (CH4 + 5 +
charge-coupled device (from the article "astronomy") ...intervals can be followed and their pulse shapes monitored. The arrival of individual photons can ...
charge-transfer complex (from the article "halogen element") ...that it combines with various Lewis bases. The interaction is weak, however, and few solid ...
charge-transfer state (from the article "radiation") The charge-transfer state is an excited state. In a certain sense, electronic excitation involves motion ...
charged particle (from the article "radiation measurement") The term heavy charged particle refers to those energetic particles whose mass is one atomic ...
charged particle beam (from the article "fusion reactor") ...to tremendous density and temperature so that fusion power is produced in the few nanoseconds ...
charger (from the article "small arm") ...five cartridges and fed them up into the chamber through the action of a spring ...
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Lake (from the article "Massachusetts") ...of the hills; there is a body of water in almost every one of the ...
Chari River principal tributary feeding Lake Chad in north-central Africa. It flows through Chad and the Central ... [2 Related Articles]
Chari-Nile languages (from the article "Designations and classification of the Nilo-Saharan languages") ...Because many of the languages included in this family were located in the watersheds of ...
Charibert I Merovingian king of the Franks, the eldest son of Chlotar I and Ingund. He shared ... [2 Related Articles]
Charibert II king of Aquitaine from 630. On the death of his father, Chlotar II, in 629, ...
Charidemus Greek mercenary leader from Euboea who fought sometimes on the side of the Athenians, at ...
Charikar city, east-central Afghanistan, at an altitude of 5,250 ft (1,600 m). The city lies on ...
Charing Cross locality in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated at the busy intersection of ...
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