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  • Carrousel, Arc de Triomphe du (arch, Paris, France)
    Northwest from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (Carrousel Triumphal Arch), located in the courtyard between the open arms of the Louvre, extends one of the most remarkable perspectives to be seen in any modern city. It is sometimes called la Voie Triomphale (“the Triumphal Way”). From the middle of the Carrousel arch, the line of sight runs the length of the Tuileries Gardens,......
  • Carrpos (plant genus)
    ...and Schistostega), leaf surfaces (the moss Ephemeropsis and the liverwort genus Metzgeria and many species of the liverwort family Lejeuneaceae), salt pans (the liverwort Carrpos), bases of quartz pebbles (the moss Aschisma), and copper-rich substrata (the moss Scopelophila)....
  • Carrucci, Jacopo (Florentine artist)
    Florentine painter who broke away from High Renaissance classicism to create a more personal, expressive style that is sometimes classified as early Mannerism....
  • carrulim (beverage)
    ...walking on hot coals. The country’s Afro-Paraguayan community at Kamba Kua celebrates an annual music and dance festival. Throughout the country, on August 1 it is a tradition to imbibe carrulim, a Guaraní drink made of caña, ruda (a root plant that produces yellow flowers and is used mostly as a medicine), and lemon. T...
  • Carruth, Hayden (American poet and literary critic)
    American poet and literary critic best known for his jazz-influenced style and for works that explore mental illness....
  • carrying capacity (biology)
    the average population density or population size of a species below which its numbers tend to increase and above which its numbers tend to decrease because of shortages of resources. The carrying capacity is different for each species in a habitat because of that species’ particular food, shelter, and social requirements....
  • CARS (physics)
    This technique involves the phenomenon of wave mixing, takes advantage of the high intensity of stimulated Raman scattering, and has the applicability of conventional Raman spectroscopy. In the CARS method two strong collinear laser beams at frequencies νにゅー1 and νにゅー2 (νにゅー1 > νにゅー2) irradiate a sample. If the frequency difference...
  • ƈarşaf (garment)
    ...Though facilities are minimal, schools have been reopened—including those for girls—and women are once again entering the workforce. However, urban women have continued to wear the chador (or chadri, in Afghanistan), the full body covering mandated by the Taliban. This has been true even of those women of the middle class (most in Kabul)......
  • Carson, Anne (Canadian author)
    ...Di Brandt (Questions I Asked My Mother, 1987; Jerusalem, Beloved, 1995) reenvision language, sexuality, and subjectivity through a feminist, lesbian, and theoretical lens. Anne Carson writes playful poems that interweave contemporary and past voices. In Autobiography of Red (1998)—the story of the winged red monster Geryon and his doomed love for......
  • Carson, Christopher Houston (American frontiersman)
    American frontiersman, trapper, soldier, and Indian agent who made an important contribution to the westward expansion of the United States. His career as an Indian fighter earned him both folk hero status through its aggrandizement in the dime novels of his day and condemnation from some later revisionist historians as an agent of the displacement and decimation of the native peoples of the West....
  • Carson City (Nevada, United States)
    capital of Nevada, U.S., in Eagle Valley near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, 30 miles (48 km) south of Reno and 14 miles (23 km) east of Lake Tahoe. Founded in 1858 on the site of Eagle Station (later Eagle Ranch), it took its name from the nearby Carson River, which the explorer John C. Frémont, ...
  • Carson, David (American graphic designer)
    American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s....
  • Carson, Edward Henry Carson, Baron (Anglo-Irish politician)
    lawyer and politician known as the “uncrowned king of Ulster,” who successfully led northern Irish resistance to the British government’s attempts to introduce Home Rule for the whole of Ireland....
  • Carson, Fort (fort, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States)
    ...Cheyenne Mountain houses the command and control facilities of NORAD and of other agencies; since 1966 it has been a primary base for aerospace defense and for the tracking of orbiting objects. Fort Carson (1942) is on the city’s southern edge, while the U.S. Air Force Academy (1958) is set against a backdrop of the Rampart Range....
  • Carson, John William (American entertainer)
    American comedian who, as host of The Tonight Show (1962–92), established the standard format for television chat shows—including the guest couch and the studio band—and came to be considered the king of late-night television....
  • Carson, Johnny (American entertainer)
    American comedian who, as host of The Tonight Show (1962–92), established the standard format for television chat shows—including the guest couch and the studio band—and came to be considered the king of late-night television....
  • Carson, Kit (American frontiersman)
    American frontiersman, trapper, soldier, and Indian agent who made an important contribution to the westward expansion of the United States. His career as an Indian fighter earned him both folk hero status through its aggrandizement in the dime novels of his day and condemnation from some later revisionist historians as an agent of the displacement and decimation of the native peoples of the West....
  • Carson of Duncairn, Edward Henry Carson, Baron (Anglo-Irish politician)
    lawyer and politician known as the “uncrowned king of Ulster,” who successfully led northern Irish resistance to the British government’s attempts to introduce Home Rule for the whole of Ireland....
  • Carson Pirie Scott & Co. store (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
    ...for it in an essay published in Lippincott’s Magazine (1896). That theory received even more dramatic expression in the Schlesinger-Mayer Department Store (later Carson Pirie Scott) in Chicago (1898–1904), in which the towered corner marked the climax of the logic of the steel frame and the entrance was made inviting with rich, naturalistic ornament....
  • Carson, Rachel (American biologist)
    American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea....
  • Carson, Rachel Louise (American biologist)
    American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea....
  • Carson River (river, United States)
    river formed by headstreams in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S. The Carson flows 125 miles (200 km) northeast into western Nevada, where it disappears into the Carson Sink. Together with the Truckee and Walker rivers, the Carson serves extensive irrigation and reclamation projects; its lower course is dammed for power and irrigation....
  • Carson, Robert (American screenwriter)
    Screenplay: Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine for The Life of Emile ZolaOriginal Story: William A. Wellman and Robert Carson for A Star Is BornCinematography: Karl Freund for The Good EarthArt Direction: Stephen Goosson for Lost HorizonScoring: Universal Studio Music......
  • Carstairs, William (Scottish minister)
    Presbyterian minister and leader of the Scottish church at the time of the Revolution Settlement....
  • Carstares, William (Scottish minister)
    Presbyterian minister and leader of the Scottish church at the time of the Revolution Settlement....
  • Carstens, Asmus Jacob (German painter)
    portrait and historical painter of the German Neoclassical school who did much to infuse a classical spirit into the arts of the late 18th century....
  • Carstens, Erasmus Jakob (German painter)
    portrait and historical painter of the German Neoclassical school who did much to infuse a classical spirit into the arts of the late 18th century....
  • Carstens, Karl (president of West Germany)
    German politician who helped shape West Germany’s place in postwar Europe, serving as the republic’s president from 1979 to 1984....
  • Carstensz, Gunung (mountain peak, Indonesia)
    highest peak on the island of New Guinea, in the Sudirman Range, western central highlands. Located in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, known as Irian Jaya, the 16,500-ft (5,030-m) Ngga Palu summit is the highest in the southwestern Pacific and the highest island peak in the world. It marks the terminus of a glacier-capped ridge 8 mi (13 km) long that extends eastward from Ngga Pilimsit (formerl...
  • Carswell, John (Scottish bishop)
    In 1567 appeared the first book printed in Gaelic in Scotland: Bishop John Carswell’s Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh a translation of John Knox’s liturgy, in Classical Common Gaelic....
  • cart (vehicle)
    two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a draft animal, used throughout recorded history by numerous societies for the transportation of freight, agricultural produce, refuse, and people. The cart, usually drawn by a single animal, is known to have been in use by the Greeks and the Assyrians by 1800 bc (although it is generally assumed that such vehicles could have been used as early as 3500 ...
  • CART (American racing organization)
    ...the race was sanctioned by the American Automobile Association (AAA). From 1956 to 1997 the race was under the aegis of the United States Auto Club (USAC). A rival open-wheel racing series known as Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was formed in 1979. By the mid-1990s CART had successfully replaced USAC as the leading power in IndyCar racing. In 1996 speedway owner Tony George formed the......
  • Carta a los españoles americanos (work by Viscardo y Guzmán)
    ...(1813; “History of the Revolution in New Spain”), he revealed the political and religious justifications for Mexican independence. No less significant is the brief Carta a los españoles americanos (“Letter to American Spaniards”), written in 1791 by the Peruvian Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán. It was published first in French......
  • “Carta de Jamaica, La” (work by Bolívar)
    In exile, Bolívar wrote the greatest document of his career: La Carta de Jamaica (“The Letter from Jamaica”), in which he outlined a grandiose panorama from Chile and Argentina to Mexico. “The bonds,” wrote Bolívar, “that united us to Spain have been severed.” He proposed constitutional republics throughout Hispanic America, and...
  • Carta marina (map by Magnus)
    Olaus Magnus’ Carta marina (1539) was the first detailed map of Scandinavia with any pretensions to accuracy. His foremost work, however, is the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555), a history of the northern peoples inspired by humanist historiography and imbued with patriotic warmth, which gives a picture of the countryside and people of Sweden on the threshold of a...
  • Carta Pisana (ancient sea chart)
    ...Louis IX, king of France, on the occasion of his participation in the Eighth Crusade in 1270. The earliest surviving chart dates from within a few years of this event. Found in Pisa and known as the Carta Pisana, it is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Thought to have been made about 1275, it is hand drawn on a sheepskin and depicts the entire Mediterranean Sea. Such charts, ofte...
  • Cartagena (Colombia)
    capital of Bolívar departamento, northern Colombia, at the northern end of Cartagena Bay. The old walled sections, including the 17th-century fortress of San Felipe de Barajas, lie on a peninsula and the island of Getsemaní, but the city now spreads over the islands of Manga and Manzanillo (site of the airport) and the mainland below La Popa Hill. In the old section are the o...
  • Cartagena (plain, Murcia, Spain)
    The Baetic Cordillera in the southern portion of Murcia borders the Mediterranean and declines eastward into the plain of Cartagena. The tableland of Jumilla and Yecla rises in the northern portion of Murcia. To the west of Murcia is the pre-Baetic cordillera. The Segura River runs northwest to southeast through the centre of Murcia, irrigating the rich ......
  • Cartagena (Spain)
    port city, in the provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Murcia, southeastern Spain. It is the site of Spain’s chief Mediterranean naval base. Its harbour, the finest on the east coast, is a deep, spacious bay dominated to seaward by fou...
  • Cartago (Costa Rica)
    city, east-central Costa Rica. Lying at 4,720 feet (1,439 metres) above sea level, the city is located on the fertile Central Plateau, at the foot of Irazú Volcano. Cartago was founded in 1563 and was the capital of Costa Rica until 1823. No colonial buildings have survived, as the city has been damaged frequently by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions....
  • Cartan, Élie-Joseph (French mathematician)
    French mathematician who greatly developed the theory of Lie groups and contributed to the theory of subalgebras....
  • Cartan, Henri (French mathematician)
    French mathematician who made fundamental advances in the theory of analytic functions....
  • Cartan, Henri-Paul (French mathematician)
    French mathematician who made fundamental advances in the theory of analytic functions....
  • Cartaphilus (legendary figure)
    ...chronicler Roger of Wendover describes in his Flores historiarum how an archbishop from Greater Armenia, visiting England in 1228, reported that there was in Armenia a man formerly called Cartaphilus who claimed he had been Pontius Pilate’s doorkeeper and had struck Jesus on his way to Calvary, urging him to go faster. Jesus replied, “I go, and you will wait till I......
  • “Cartas de relación” (letters by Cortés)
    ...Knowledge of the conquest of Mexico was provided by its Spanish protagonist Hernán Cortés, whose Cartas de relación (1519–26; Letters from Mexico) told of the tortuous campaign by which a few hundred Spaniards took over the powerful Aztec empire, aided by gunpowder, horses, cunning, and the resentful peoples who were....
  • Cartas eruditas y curiosas (work by Feijóo y Montenegro)
    ...of Oviedo. His essays publicized and encouraged the spread of the new scientific knowledge and exalted reason. His two principal works, Teatro crítico universal (1726–39) and Cartas eruditas y curiosas (1742–60), deal with an encyclopaedic variety of subjects: natural science, education, law, medicine, philology, and popular beliefs or superstitions....
  • Cartas marruecas (work by Cadalso y Vázquez)
    Spanish writer famous for his Cartas marruecas (1793; “Moroccan Letters”), in which a Moorish traveler in Spain makes penetrating criticisms of Spanish life. Educated in Madrid, Cadalso traveled widely and, although he hated war, enlisted in the army against the Portuguese during the Seven Years’ War. His prose satire Los eruditos a la violeta (1772; “Wise...
  • “Carte de Cassini” (work by Cassini)
    ...were less distinguished then those as a geodesist and cartographer. From the 1740s until his death, Cassini de Thury directed work on a general topographic map of France. Published in 1789, this Carte géométrique de la France (“Geometric Map of France”), or Carte de Cassini, was the first map of an entire country drawn up on the basis of extensive......
  • Carte du ciel (star catalogue)
    projected photographic mapping of some 10 million stars in all parts of the sky that was planned to include all stars of the 14th magnitude or brighter and to list in an associated catalog all of the 12th magnitude or brighter. The plan, devised about 1887 by Amédée Mouchez, director of the Paris Observatory, involved the cooperation of 18 observatories located around the world in an...
  • Carte géométrique de la France (work by Cassini)
    ...were less distinguished then those as a geodesist and cartographer. From the 1740s until his death, Cassini de Thury directed work on a general topographic map of France. Published in 1789, this Carte géométrique de la France (“Geometric Map of France”), or Carte de Cassini, was the first map of an entire country drawn up on the basis of extensive......
  • Carte, Richard D’Oyly (English impresario)
    English impresario remembered for having managed the first productions of operas by Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, for elevating his era’s musical taste, and for contributing to the development of theatre technology....
  • carte-de-visite (photography)
    originally, a calling card, especially one with a photographic portrait mounted on it. Immensely popular in the mid-19th century, the carte-de-visite was touted by the Parisian portrait photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, who patented the method in 1854. Disdéri used a four-lensed camera, which made eight ...
  • Cartegena Convention (international agreement)
    ...have stimulated international initiatives toward managing and preserving the environment. The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartegena Convention) was adopted officially by about half of the countries of the Caribbean in 1983, but its measures have since been implemented more broadly across the Caribbean community. The......
  • Carteggio di Pietro e Alessandro Verri (work by Verri)
    ...sulle leggi vincolanti (1769; “Reflections on the Banking Laws”) and Meditazioni sull’ economia politica (1771). His correspondence with Alessandro, Carteggio di Pietro e Alessandro Verri, 12 volumes (1910–42), provides a vibrant picture of Milanese life in their time....
  • cartel (economics)
    association of independent firms or individuals for the purpose of exerting some form of restrictive or monopolistic influence on the production or sale of a commodity. The most common arrangements are aimed at regulating prices or output or dividing up markets. Members of a cartel maintain their separate identities and financial independence while engaging in common policies. T...
  • Carter, Alvin Pleasant (American singer)
    singing group consisting of Alvin Pleasant Carter, known as A.P. Carter (b. April 15, 1891Maces Spring, Virginia, U.S.—d. November 7, 1960Kentucky), his wife, Sara, née Sara......
  • Carter, Angela (British author)
    British author who reshaped motifs from mythology, legends, and fairy tales in her books, lending them a ghastly humour and eroticism....
  • Carter, Barry Eugene (American singer)
    American rhythm-and-blues singer (b. Sept. 12, 1944, Galveston, Texas—d. July 4, 2003, Los Angeles, Calif.), possessed one of the most recognizable bass-baritone voices in the musical world. Especially popular during the disco-era 1970s—an era he helped set in motion with his Love Unlimited Orchestra’s “Love’s Theme” instrumental (1973)—he half sang...
  • Carter, Bennett Lester (American musician)
    American jazz musician, an original and influential alto saxophonist, who was also a masterly composer and arranger and an important bandleader, trumpeter, and clarinetist....
  • Carter, Benny (American musician)
    American jazz musician, an original and influential alto saxophonist, who was also a masterly composer and arranger and an important bandleader, trumpeter, and clarinetist....
  • Carter, Betty (American singer)
    American jazz singer who is best remembered for the scat and other complex musical interpretations that showcased her remarkable vocal flexibility and musical imagination....
  • Carter Center (human rights organization in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
    American jazz singer who is best remembered for the scat and other complex musical interpretations that showcased her remarkable vocal flexibility and musical imagination.......
  • Carter, Chris (American writer and producer)
    "The truth is out there." This enigmatic mantra appeared in the opening credits and was silently implied throughout each episode of Chris Carter’s Emmy award-winning science-fiction television series "The X-Files." The series, which was filmed in Vancouver, B.C., debuted in 1993, and by 1997 it had become an international sensation. The story line followed two FBI agents who investigated pa...
  • Carter Doctrine (United States history)
    ...adopting Brzezinski’s formula that the Middle East and South Asia constituted an arc of crisis susceptible to Soviet adventurism. In his State of the Union address of January 1980 he enunciated the Carter Doctrine, declaring that any attempt by an outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf would be viewed as an attack on the vital interests of the United States, and he pledged to ...
  • Carter, Don (American bowler)
    American professional bowler who dominated the game from 1951 through 1964....
  • Carter, Donald James (American bowler)
    American professional bowler who dominated the game from 1951 through 1964....
  • Carter, Elizabeth (British author)
    English poet, translator, and member of a famous group of literary “bluestockings” who gathered around Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu....
  • Carter, Elliott (American composer)
    American composer, a musical innovator whose erudite style and novel principles of polyrhythm, called metric modulation, won worldwide attention. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, in 1960 and 1973....
  • Carter family (American singers)
    singing group consisting of Alvin Pleasant Carter, known as A.P. Carter (b. April 15, 1891Maces Spring, Virginia, U.S.—d. November 7, 1960Kentucky), his wife, Sara, née Sara Dougher...
  • Carter, Helen (American musician)
    American singer and musician who was a member of the Carter Family band--considered the "first family" of country music--and, after it disbanded, of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, who toured, recorded, performed on radio and television, and were members of the Grand Ole Opry (b. Sept. 12, 1927, Maces Springs, Va.--d. June 2, 1998, Nashville, Tenn.)....
  • Carter, Howard (British archaeologist)
    British archaeologist, who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen....
  • Carter, James Earl, Jr. (president of United States)
    39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served as the nation’s chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad. His perceived inability to deal successfully with those problems led to an overwhelming defeat in his bid for reelection. After leaving office he embarked on a career of diplomacy and advocacy, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Pea...
  • Carter, Janette (American musician)
    American musician (b. July 2, 1923, Maces Spring, Va.—d. Jan. 22, 2006, Kingsport, Tenn.), the last second-generation member of the Carter Family—known as the “first family” of country music—was instrumental in preserving Appalachian musical traditions. Carter’s first public appearance with the Carter Family was in Del Rio, Texas, for the radio station XER...
  • Carter, Jimmy (president of United States)
    39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served as the nation’s chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad. His perceived inability to deal successfully with those problems led to an overwhelming defeat in his bid for reelection. After leaving office he embarked on a career of diplomacy and advocacy, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Pea...
  • Carter, John Charlton (American actor)
    American actor, known for his chiseled features and compelling speaking voice and for his numerous roles as historical figures and famous literary characters....
  • Carter, John W. (British author)
    ...of pilgrimage for scholars from Europe and the United States. He constantly exposed piracies and forgeries and always denied that he was a dealer. The shock was accordingly the greater in 1934 when John W. Carter and Henry Graham Pollard published An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, proving that about 40 or 50 of these, commanding high prices, were......
  • Carter, June (American singer and actress)
    American singer, songwriter, and actress, who was a leading figure in country music, especially noted for her work with the Carter Family and Johnny Cash....
  • Carter, Kevin (South African photojournalist)
    South African photojournalist (b. Sept. 13, 1960, Johannesburg, South Africa--d. July 27, 1994, Johannesburg), recorded on film the racial strife and political chaos of his native South Africa, but he captured international attention and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for a haunting photograph of a vulture patiently watching a starving Sudanese child. Despite his own comfortable suburban childhood, Cart...
  • Carter, Lorene (American singer)
    American jazz singer who is best remembered for the scat and other complex musical interpretations that showcased her remarkable vocal flexibility and musical imagination....
  • Carter, Lorraine (American singer)
    American jazz singer who is best remembered for the scat and other complex musical interpretations that showcased her remarkable vocal flexibility and musical imagination....
  • Carter, Maybelle (American musician)
    American guitarist whose distinctive playing style and long, influential career mark her as a classic figure in country music....
  • Carter, Montana Slim (Canadian singer)
    ("WIF"; "MONTANA SLIM"), Canadian country music singer whose down-home, simple songs about fur trappers, cowboy life, and other homegrown subjects made him one of the country’s most popular attractions during a more than 60-year career (b. Dec. 18, 1904--d. Dec. 5, 1996)....
  • Carter, Mrs. Leslie (American actress)
    American actress with a sweeping, highly dramatic style, often called “the American Sarah Bernhardt.”...
  • Carter, Nell (American singer and actress)
    American singer and actress (b. Sept. 13, 1948, Birmingham, Ala.—d. Jan. 23, 2003, Beverly Hills, Calif.), won a Tony Award in 1978 for her exuberant performance in the Broadway musical revue Ain’t Misbehavin’ and in 1982 won an Emmy Award for a TV presentation of that show. She later achieved acclaim for her role as a sassy housekeeper in the 1980s TV sitcom Gimme a...
  • Carter Presidential Center (institution, Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
    ...only acting as an adviser to the president but also attending cabinet meetings when the subjects under consideration were of interest to her—joined her husband in establishing the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, which included a presidential library and museum. Carter served as a sort of diplomat without portfolio in various conflicts in a number of......
  • Carter, Ron (American musician)
    ...1960s were transitional, less-innovative years for Davis, although his music and his playing remained top-calibre. He began forming another soon-to-be-classic small group in late 1962 with bassist Ron Carter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and teenage drummer Tony Williams; tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined the lineup in 1964. Davis’s new quintet was characterized by a light, free sound an...
  • Carter, Rosalynn (American first lady)
    American first lady (1977–81), the wife of Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, and mental health advocate. She was one of the most politically astute and active of all American first ladies....
  • Carter, Rubin (American boxer)
    ...activist Malcolm X, Washington gave a complex and powerful performance and earned an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He received a second best-actor nomination for his portrayal of boxer Rubin Carter in the film The Hurricane (1999)....
  • Carter, Sara (American singer)
    ...Spring, Virginia, U.S.—d. November 7, 1960Kentucky), his wife, Sara, née Sara Dougherty (b. July 21, 1898, Flatwoods, Virginia—d. January 8, 1...
  • Carter Seminary (school, Oklahoma, United States)
    Oil refining, manufacturing, ranching, tourism, and wholesaling are the major economic activities of the city. Ardmore is the site of Carter Seminary (formerly Bloomfield Academy, founded 1848), a boarding school for Indian children now operated by the Chickasaw Nation, and of the Greater Southwest Historical Museum. Lake Murray State Park, the Chickasaw National Recreation Area (embracing......
  • Carter, Shawn Corey (American rapper and entrepreneur)
    American rapper and entrepreneur, one of the most influential figures in hip-hop in the 1990s and 2000s....
  • Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle (American singing group)
    ...Maybelle Carter, was part of the Carter Family, a popular trio that grew to include June and her sisters. After the group disbanded in 1943, June began touring with her mother and sisters as the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle. The act was featured on several radio and television programs, eventually becoming a regular at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Noted for her comedic......
  • Carter, Wif (Canadian singer)
    ("WIF"; "MONTANA SLIM"), Canadian country music singer whose down-home, simple songs about fur trappers, cowboy life, and other homegrown subjects made him one of the country’s most popular attractions during a more than 60-year career (b. Dec. 18, 1904--d. Dec. 5, 1996)....
  • Carter, Wilfred Arthur Charles (Canadian singer)
    ("WIF"; "MONTANA SLIM"), Canadian country music singer whose down-home, simple songs about fur trappers, cowboy life, and other homegrown subjects made him one of the country’s most popular attractions during a more than 60-year career (b. Dec. 18, 1904--d. Dec. 5, 1996)....
  • Carter, William Morris (British colonial administrator)
    ...successor, Sir Hesketh Bell, announced that he wished to develop Uganda as an African state. In this he was opposed by a number of his more senior officials and in particular by the chief justice, William Morris Carter. Carter was chairman of a land commission whose activities continued until after World War I. Again and again the commission urged that provision be made for European planters,.....
  • Carteret, John, 1st Earl of Granville (British statesman)
    English statesman, a vigorous opponent of Robert Walpole (who was chief minister from 1721 to 1742). A leading minister from 1742 to 1744, Carteret directed England’s involvement against France in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48)....
  • Carteret, Philip (British navigator)
    ...Jakob Le Maire, who believed it was part of a landmass including New Guinea and New Ireland. His theory was disproved (1699–1700) by the Englishman William Dampier, who named the island, and Philip Carteret, who found St. George’s Channel (east) in 1767. As Neu-Pommern (New Pomerania), the island became part of a German protectorate in 1884. It was mandated to Australia following ...
  • Carteret, Sir George, Baronet (British politician)
    British Royalist politician and colonial proprietor of New Jersey....
  • Cartes de la France à l’heure de la mondialisation, Les (work by Vedrine)
    ...uncertain futures in the emerging global system. French intellectuals and politicians have seized upon anti-globalism as an organizing ideology in the absence of other unifying themes. In Les cartes de la France à l’heure de la mondialisation (2000; “France’s Assets in the Era of Globalization”), French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine denounced th...
  • Cartesian Circle (philosophy)
    The inherent circularity of Descartes’s reasoning was exposed by Arnauld, whose objection has come to be known as the Cartesian Circle. According to Descartes, God’s existence is established by the fact that Descartes has a clear and distinct idea of God; but the truth of Descartes’s clear and distinct ideas are guaranteed by the fact that God exists and is not a deceiver. Thu...
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