Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1879-1972) was a prominent Indian nationalist leader, first Indian governor general of his country, and founder of the Swatantra party. He also wrote a popular version of the "Mahabharata." Chakravarti Rajagopa...

C. S. Forester is best known for his series of eleven historical novels about the early-nineteenth-century British naval officer Horatio Hornblower. A prolific writer, Forester had produced twenty-four books before he conceived the nautica...

A pioneer in the manufacture and mass marketing of breakfast cereals and other consumer products, Charles William Post (1854-1914) attempted to use his wealth to affect various aspects of early 20th-century American life. Charles William P...

1698-1739 French Physicist Charles-François de Cisternay Du Fay is best known for his discovery of positive and negative electrical charges and some of their properties. He was one of the first to use an electroscope in his research, ...

An Indian professor of chemistry, C. N. R. Rao has been instrumental in the worldwide research into superconductivity. Superconductivity occurs when certain metals experience a total loss of electrical resistance, turning them into superco...

Cab Calloway (1907-1994), blues and scat legend, entertained generations of people with his jazzy big band sounds. Even in his golden years, Calloway still traveled on the road and performed for his fans. Cab Calloway was a famous singer a...

Eladio Cabañero is a prominent member of the "Generation of the 1950s," which created a turning point in the poetry written in post-civil-war Spain. Although his personal experience and background greatly differ from those of the ot...

When something is created it is a given that it will be picked apart, dismantled, will evolve into something even greater. It has become the norm in film-making to play by these rules of deformation. Movie makers have stretched the defini...

Cabin Boy is a 1994 fantasy film about a foul-mouthed finishing school graduate who mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.. Directed by Adam Resnick . Written by Chris E...

Cable & Deadpool is a superhero comic published by Marvel Comics . Contents 1 If Looks Could Kill 1.1 Issue 1 1.2 Issue 2 1.3 Issue 3 1.4 Issue 4 1.5 Issue 5 1.6 Issue 6 2 The Burnt Offering 2.1 Issue 7 2.2 Issue 8 2.3 Issue 9 2.4 Issu...

System that distributes television signals by means of coaxial or fibre-optic cables. Cable television systems originated in the U.S. in the late 1940s to improve reception in remote and hilly areas, where broadcast signals were weak. In t...

Manuel del Cabral is known not only in Latin America but also throughout the world as a poet of exceptional quality who addresses the concerns of his compatriots and the social inequities of the world. As Cabral states at the beginning of ...

By turns lurid and lyrical, "Going After Cacciato" combines a surface of realistic war reportage … with a deeper level—perhaps possible only in fiction—of the surrealistic effect war has on the daydreams and nightmares of the combatan...

Any of the flowering plants that make up the family Cactaceae, containing about 1,650 species, native through most of North and South America, with the greatest number and variety in Mexico. Cacti are succulent perennials. Most live in and...

Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. CAD systems use a computer with terminals featuring video monitors and interactive graphics-input devices to design such things as machine par...

The quote "I have committed incest I said Father it was I it was not Dalton Ames" brings attention to Quentin's relationship with Caddy. It's a bit confusing but after reading it over a couple of times it seems like he didn't really have...

For several decades of the twentieth century, the Cadillac, a car made by General Motors' luxury automobile division, was the most enduring symbol of middle-class achievement for status-conscious Americans. Nowhere is the past and s...

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory....

During the 1980s Michael Cadnum was a nationally recognized poet, publishing his work in prestigious literary journals. By 1990 he was also gaining wide acclaim for his suspense novels. On first consideration, Cadnum's transition from seri...

The American botanist and politician Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), a diverse thinker whose scholarship encompassed natural history, the nature of the universe, and medicine, was also lieutenant governor of New York. Cadwallader Colden wa...

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out....

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. (Jesus)...

Caesar Augustus Rodney served as U.S. attorney general from 1807 to 1811 under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Rodney, a staunch Republican Party member, served in a variety of state and federal government offices. As a memb...