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Carver chair American spool chair with a rush seat and turned (shaped on a lathe) legs that rise above the seat level to frame the back and to support the armrests. The back normally contained three vertical spindles and was topped with decorative finials. Carver, George Washington American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. For most of his career he taught and conducted research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Ala. Carver, John first governor of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth in New England. Carver, Jonathan early explorer of North America and author of one of the most widely read travel and adventure books in that period. Carver, Raymond American short-story writer and poet whose realistic writings about the working poor mirrored his own life. Carver, Robert outstanding Scottish composer whose extant works include five masses and two motets. One of the motets, for 19 voices, was found in a large choir book compiled in the first half of the 16th century at Scone Abbey, Perthshire, and now preserved in the National Library of Scotland. References in ... Cary sisters American poets whose work was both moralistic and idealistic. Alice Cary (b. April 26, 1820, Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., -d. February 12, 1871, New York, New York, ) and Phoebe Cary (b. September 4, 1824, Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., -d. July 31, 1871, Newport, Rhode ... Cary, Annie Louise opera singer whose rich dramatic voice, three-octave range, and command of the grand style made her the foremost American contralto for a decade in the late 19th century. Cary, Elisabeth Luther American art and literary critic, best remembered as art critic of The New York Times during the first quarter of the 20th century. Cary, Henry Francis English biographer and translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante. Cary, Joyce English novelist who developed a trilogy form in which each volume is narrated by one of three protagonists. caryatid in classical architecture, draped female figure used instead of a column as a support. In marble architecture they first appeared in pairs in three small buildings (treasuries) at Delphi (550-530 BC), and their origin can be traced back to mirror handles of nude figures carved from ivory in Phoenicia and ... Caryophyllaceae the pink, or carnation, family of flowering plants (order Caryophyllales), comprising some 86 genera and 2,200 species of herbaceous annuals and perennials, mainly of north temperate distribution. The members are diverse in appearance and habitat; most of them have swollen leaf and stem joints. They have five sepals and five ... Caryophyllales pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 33 families, which contain more than 11,000 species in 692 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen species each. caryopsis specialized type of dry, one-seeded fruit (achene) characteristic of grasses, in which the ovary wall is united with the seed coat, making it difficult to separate the two except by special milling processes. All the cereal grains except buckwheat have caryopses. Casa Grande city, Pinal county, south-central Arizona, U.S. It lies near the Santa Cruz River, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The city is a health resort in an irrigated agricultural area where cotton, fruit, and alfalfa are raised. Casa Grande Ruins National Monument pre-Columbian ruins in south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Gila River valley immediately north of Coolidge. Authorized as Casa Grande Ruins Reservation in 1889 and proclaimed as such in 1892, the site was designated a national monument in 1918. It has an area of 0.7 square mile (1.8 square km). Casa, Giovanni Della Italian bishop, poet, and translator who is remembered chiefly for his popular and widely translated treatise on manners, Galateo. Casablanca principal port of Morocco, on the North African Atlantic seaboard. Casablanca American film drama, released in 1942, that was loosely based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's. A fast-paced, emotionally charged romance set against the tumultuous backdrop of World War II, the film is one of the most celebrated and iconic motion pictures in history. Casablanca Conference (January 12-23, 1943), meeting during World War II in Casablanca, Morocco, between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their respective military chiefs and aides, who planned future global military strategy for the western Allies. Though invited, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin declined to attend. Casablanca Records Even in the bacchanal of 1970s Los Angeles, the drug and promotional excesses of Casablanca Records stood out. In a period when cocaine use was probably at its peak in the music business, Casablanca set the pace. Its offices on Sunset Boulevard were decorated like Rick's Cafe in the motion ... Casadesus, Robert French pianist and composer best known for his playing of the French repertoire. Casal, Julian del poet who was one of the most important forerunners of the Modernist movement in Latin America. Casale Monferrato town, Piemonte (Piedmont) region, northwestern Italy, on the Po River in the Monferrato Hills east of Turin. It was founded in the 8th century on the site of ancient Bodincomagus. In the 10th century the town belonged to the marquessate of Monferrato, becoming its capital in 1435. It passed to ... Casals, Pablo Spanish-born cellist and conductor, known for his virtuosic technique, skilled interpretation, and consummate musicianship. Casamance region of Senegal that lies south of The Gambia along the Casamance River. The region has ample rainfall, abundant in the south, and the lower course of the Casamance River is covered by dense vegetation; mangroves, oil palms, and raffia palms predominate. Rice, cotton, and corn (maize) are cultivated. Casamance River river in western Africa, rising in southern Senegal and flowing west through the Casamance region, which lies between The Gambia (north) and Guinea-Bissau (south). The river receives various small tributaries and empties into the Atlantic Ocean after a course of 190 miles (300 km). Except for the tidal, salty 75-mile ... Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist, chiefly remembered as the prince of Italian adventurers and as the man who made the name Casanova synonymous with "libertine." His autobiography, which perhaps exaggerates some of his escapades, is a splendid description of 18th-century society in the capitals of Europe. Casas Grandes town on the Casas Grandes River, in the northwestern corner of Chihuahua estado (state), northern Mexico. When it was settled by the Spaniards in 1661 or 1662, the area belonged to the Suma Indians. The town's name, Spanish for "great houses," refers to the extensive multistoried ruins of a pre-Columbian ... Casaubon, Edward fictional character, one of the main figures in George Eliot's masterpiece Middlemarch (1871-72). Casaubon is a pompous and ineffectual middle-aged scholar who marries the heroine, Dorothea Brooke, because he needs an assistant for his work. His "masterwork," Key to All Mythologies, is stalled and remains unfinished at his death. Eliot ... Casaubon, Isaac French classical scholar and theologian who was one of the leading scholars of the era. cascade waterfall, especially a series of small falls, consisting of water descending over rocks or boulders. It may be natural or it may be artificial. The cascade has often been used as a feature of formal gardens. Cascade Range segment of the Pacific mountain system of western North America. The Cascades extend northward for more than 700 miles (1,100 km) from Lassen Peak, in northern California, U.S., through Oregon and Washington to the Fraser River in southern British Columbia, Can. Many peaks exceed 10,000 feet (3,000 m), including Mount ... Cascade Tunnel one of the longest railroad tunnels in the United States, located in central Washington about 60 miles (100 km) east of Seattle. It carries a line of the Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroad through the Cascade Range between Berne (on the east) and Scenic. It is 41,078 feet (7.8 miles ... Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument biologically diverse forest region located southeast of Ashland, southwestern Oregon, U.S., on the California border. The monument, established in 2000, encompasses nearly 83 square miles (215 square km). Within its boundaries is a checkerboard of interspersed land parcels; about one-third of the parcels are privately owned and not considered part ... cascara sagrada (Spanish: "sacred bark"), the dried bark of the buckthorn Rhamnus purshiana (order Rosales) used in medicine as a laxative. The tree is cultivated in North America and Kenya. Cascara sagrada is prepared in both liquid and solid forms. The activity apparently results from the combined action of several substances, a ... Cascina town, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, central Italy. Local mineral springs are used to treat rheumatism. The town's Church of Santa Maria, built in Pisan style, dates from the 12th century. Cascina was a historic battleground in the Pisans' resistance against the Florentines, who sacked the town in 1364; remnants of its ... CASE Use of computers in designing sophisticated tools to aid the software engineer and to automate the software development process as much as possible. It is particularly useful where major software products are designed by teams of engineers who may not share the same physical space. CASE tools can be used ... Case Western Reserve University independent, coeducational research university in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. The university operates professional schools of law, medicine, and dentistry, as well as Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case School of Engineering, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the college of arts and sciences, Weatherhead School of Management, and the school ... Case, Steve American entrepreneur who cofounded America Online, Inc. (AOL), the world's foremost Internet service provider (ISP), and negotiated the merger in 2001 of AOL and Time Warner Inc. to create a global media and entertainment conglomerate. casebearer any larva of a group of moths (order Lepidoptera) that are characteristically light brown with dark heads and feed on apple, birch, cherry, and willow trees. After hatching from the egg, larvae first feed as leaf miners. As they grow they change lifestyles and become casebearers. Their cases, which serve ... casebearing leaf beetle any member of two groups within the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae (insect order Coleoptera). As she lays her eggs, the female covers each one with a layer of excrement. After the larvae hatch, they retain this covering (case) as camouflage and add to it throughout their larval life. When disturbed, ... casein painting painting executed with colours ground in a solution of casein, a phosphoprotein of milk precipitated by heating with an acid or by lactic acid in souring. In the form of homemade curd made from soured skim milk, it has been a traditional adhesive and binder for more than eight centuries. ... Casella, Alfredo composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher whose cosmopolitan outlook permeated 20th-century Italian music. casement window earliest form of movable window, wood or metal framed, with hinges or pivots at the upright side of the vertically hung sash, so that it opens outward or inward along its entire length in the manner of a door. One frame, separately movable, of such a window is called a ... Casement, Sir Roger distinguished British public servant who was executed for treason and became one of the principal Irish martyrs in the revolt against British rule in Ireland. Caseros cabecera (county seat) of Tres de Febrero partido (county), in Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina, immediately west of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). The present-day city is the site of the Battle of Caseros (Feb. 3, 1852), in which the Argentine military ruler Juan ... Caserta city, Campania regione, southern Italy, north of Naples. The old town (Caserta Vecchia), founded by the Lombards in the 8th century, lies on hills 3 miles (5 km) north-northeast of the modern city, which was a village known as Torre belonging to the Caetani family of Sermoneta until the construction ... Casey, William J. powerful and controversial director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1981 to 1987 during the Ronald Reagan administration. cash flow Financial and accounting concept. Cash flow results from three major groups of activities: operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities. A cash-flow statement differs from an income statement in reflecting actual cash on hand rather than money owed (accounts receivable). Its purpose is to throw light on management's use of ...