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...

Considering the fact that in the late 1990s many experts view existing television cables as the technological groundwork for what may be the most important and far reaching media innovations since the printing press, the origins of cable 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 ...

Cache memory refers to a fast storage buffer in the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer, allowing the computer to store data temporarily, making information retrieval faster and more efficient. By storing often-used data in a speci...

Caddie Woodlawn is a popular children's novel by Carol Ryrie Brink, and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman which won the Newbery Medal in 1936. It is about a girl named Caroline, nicknamed "Caddie", living in the area of Downsville, Wisconsi...

Caddyshack is a 1980 comedy film about an exclusive golf course that has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher. Directed by Harold Ramis . Written by Brian Doyle-Murray , Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney . At last...

Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner is a 1986 book (ISBN 0-14-017824-4) about land development and water policy in the western United States. Subtitled The American West and its Disappearing Water, it gives the history of the Bureau of Reclamat...

Cadmium is a transition metal, one of the elements found in Rows 4 through 7 between Groups 2 and 13 in the periodic table. Cadmium has an atomic number of 48, an atomic mass of 112.41, and a chemical symbol of Cd. Cadmium is a shiny meta...

In China, the term "cadre" refers both to all party functionaries and civil servants in administrative institutions, public organizations, and armed forces and to persons in leading positions. It is important to differentiate...

Edwin H. Cady has for more than forty years been a distinguished and quietly influential presence in the field of American literature as well as within the profession of higher education. Never a critical enfant terrible in the manner, say...

Caenorhabditis elegans is a nonparasitic nematode that normally lives in the soil. Although studied since the 1800s, the modern use of C. elegans as a model system dates to the mid-1960s. By the start of that decade, scientists thought tha...

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