- Colbert, Claudette (American actress)
Claudette Colbert was an American stage and motion-picture actress known for her trademark bangs, her velvety purring voice, her confident intelligent style, and her subtle graceful acting. Colbert moved with her family to New York City about 1910. While studying fashion design, she landed a small
- Colbert, Edwin H. (American professor, curator, and paleontologist)
Scutellosaurus: …the remains to American paleontologist E.H. Colbert at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. In 1981 Colbert described the remains (collected by a Harvard University field party in 1977), along with a second specimen, as Scutellosaurus lawleri. The remains of six additional specimens were recovered from other Kayenta localities…
- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste (French statesman)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French statesman who served as comptroller general of finance (1665–83) and secretary of state for the navy (1668–83) under King Louis XIV of France. He carried out the program of economic reconstruction that helped make France the dominant power in Europe. Colbert was
- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, Marquis De Seignelay (French diplomat)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay was the French secretary of state under Louis XIV. As the eldest son of the famous secretary of state of that name, Colbert was given the best possible tutors, who found him bright but lazy. In 1683 Colbert became head of the navy and performed
- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, marquis de Torcy (French diplomat)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy was a French diplomat and foreign minister who negotiated some of the most important treaties of Louis XIV’s reign. The son of Charles Colbert, minister of foreign affairs, Torcy was a brilliant student, earning a law degree (1683) at so young an age that he
- Colbert, Stephen (American comedian)
Stephen Colbert is an American actor and comedian who was best known as the host of The Colbert Report (2005–14), an ironic send-up of television news programs, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015– ). After graduating with a theatre degree (1986) from Northwestern University in Evanston,
- Colbert, Stephen Tyrone (American comedian)
Stephen Colbert is an American actor and comedian who was best known as the host of The Colbert Report (2005–14), an ironic send-up of television news programs, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015– ). After graduating with a theatre degree (1986) from Northwestern University in Evanston,
- Colbran, Isabella (Italian opera singer)
Gioachino Rossini: Italian period: …other than the imposing diva Isabella Colbran?
- Colburn, Irving Wightman (American inventor and manufacturer)
Irving Wightman Colburn was an American inventor and manufacturer whose process for fabricating continuous sheets of flat glass formed the basis of the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company. After an unsuccessful manufacturing venture, Colburn sold his patents to financial interests in Toledo, Ohio, in
- Colby College (college, Waterville, Maine, United States)
Colby College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Waterville, Maine, U.S. Colby is an undergraduate college with a curriculum based in the liberal arts and sciences. It offers study-abroad programs in France, Spain, Ireland, Mexico, England, and Russia. Campus facilities
- Colby Site (archaeological site, Wyoming, United States)
Worland: The Colby Site, 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Worland, marks a large mammoth kill site from which prehistoric Clovis culture projectile points have been recovered. Inc. town, 1906; city, 1956. Pop. (2000) 5,250; (2010) 5,487.
- Colby, Frank Moore (American writer and editor)
Frank Moore Colby was an American encyclopaedia editor and essayist. Early in his career Colby taught history and economics at Columbia University, Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.), and New York University (New York City). To supplement his income, he began writing for encyclopaedias, and so began
- Colby, Myra Colby (American lawyer and editor)
Myra Bradwell was an American lawyer and editor who was involved in several landmark cases concerning the legal rights of women. Myra Colby grew up in Portage, New York, and from 1843 in Schaumburg township, near Elgin, Illinois. She was educated in schools in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Elgin. After a
- Colby, William (United States government official)
William Colby was a U.S. government official who pursued a policy of openness during his turbulent tenure (1973–76) as director of the CIA. He showed unusual candour while testifying before Congress in 1975 in the wake of various leaks about CIA covert operations, such as spying on American
- Colby, William Egan (United States government official)
William Colby was a U.S. government official who pursued a policy of openness during his turbulent tenure (1973–76) as director of the CIA. He showed unusual candour while testifying before Congress in 1975 in the wake of various leaks about CIA covert operations, such as spying on American
- Colcestra (England, United Kingdom)
Colchester, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the northeastern part of the county on the River Colne. As Camulodunum, the town of Colchester was the capital of the pre-Roman Belgic ruler Cunobelinus and is so named on his coins. Although
- Colchester (district, England, United Kingdom)
Colchester: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the northeastern part of the county on the River Colne.
- colchester (oyster)
oyster: …regions); as well as the colchester of Britain and the marennes of France. The colchester and marennes are forms of O. edulis.
- Colchester (England, United Kingdom)
Colchester, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the northeastern part of the county on the River Colne. As Camulodunum, the town of Colchester was the capital of the pre-Roman Belgic ruler Cunobelinus and is so named on his coins. Although
- Colchester Castle (castle, Colchester, Englan, United Kingdom)
Colchester: Colchester’s castle keep (built about 1080) is the largest of its kind in England and now houses a museum of Romano-British antiquities. Holy Trinity Church (1050) has a late Saxon tower, and the Augustinian St. Botolph’s Priory retains part of the Norman west front, nave,…
- Colchian (ancient people)
Caucasus: …diversity since early times: the Colchians, for example, as described in the 5th century bce by the Greek historian Herodotus, were black-skinned Egyptians, though their true origin remains unclear. In subsequent centuries, successive waves of peoples migrating across Eurasia added to and were molded by the more established groups in…
- Colchicaceae (plant family)
Liliales: Major families: …are members of the family Colchicaceae, which is now circumscribed to include the temperate woodland herb genus Uvularia. Colchicaceae, which is distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical regions, is characterized by the presence of alkaloids.
- colchicine (chemical compound)
colchicine, drug used in the treatment of gout, a disease that is characterized by severe inflammation in one or more of the joints of the extremities. Colchicine is obtained from the autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale). The mechanism by which colchicine relieves the pain of gout, which is caused
- Colchicum (plant genus)
Colchicum, genus of flowering plants in the family Colchicaceae, consisting of about 30 species of herbs native to Eurasia. The stemless, crocuslike flowers bloom in autumn, and some are variously called autumn crocus and meadow saffron. The fruit is a three-valved capsule that ripens in the spring
- Colchis (ancient region, Transcaucasia)
Colchis, ancient region at the eastern end of the Black Sea south of the Caucasus, in the western part of modern Georgia. It consisted of the valley of the Phasis (modern Rioni) River. In Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Medea and the destination of the Argonauts, a land of fabulous wealth
- Colchis Lowland (coastal plain, Georgia)
Kolkhida, coastal lowland plain of the eastern Black Sea, in Georgia. Named for the ancient kingdom of Colchis, it comprises the combined alluvial plains of the Rioni, Inguri, and other rivers rising in the Greater Caucasus range, which encloses the plain on the north, and the Lesser Caucasus, to
- cold (temperature)
Antarctica: Climate of Antarctica: By far the coldest continent, Antarctica has winter temperatures that range from −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C), the world’s lowest recorded temperature, measured at Vostok Station (Russia) on July 21, 1983, on the high inland ice sheet to −76 °F (−60 °C) near sea level. Temperatures vary greatly from…
- cold adaptation (physiology)
climatic adaptation: Cold adaptation is of three types: adaptation to extreme cold, moderate cold, and night cold. Extreme cold favours short, round persons with short arms and legs, flat faces with fat pads over the sinuses, narrow noses, and a heavier-than-average layer of body fat. These adaptations…
- cold anticyclone (meteorology)
climate: Anticyclones: …anticyclone is known as a cold anticyclone. A result of the downward air motion in an anticyclone, however, is compression of the descending air. As a consequence of this compression, the air is warmed. Thus, after a few days, the air composing the anticyclone at levels 2 to 5 km…
- cold cloud (meteorology)
atmosphere: Precipitation of ice: …is referred to as a cold cloud, and the resulting precipitation is said to be the product of cold-cloud processes. Traditionally, this process has also been referred to as the Bergeron-Findeisen mechanism, for Swedish meteorologists Tor Bergeron and Walter Findeisen, who introduced it in the 1930s. In this type of…
- Cold Comfort Farm (novel by Gibbons)
Cold Comfort Farm, comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932, a successful parody of regional and rural fiction by such early 20th-century English writers as Mary Webb and D.H. Lawrence. A popular and clever work, Cold Comfort Farm was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933. When
- Cold Comfort Farm (British television film by Schlesinger [1995])
John Schlesinger: Films of the 1990s and final work: Considerably lighter in tone was Cold Comfort Farm (1995). Made for British television, it brought to the screen the 1932 novel by Stella Gibbons about a group of eccentrics on a foreboding farm whose lives are dramatically reordered when a young recently orphaned relative (Kate Beckinsale) comes to visit. Schlesinger’s…
- cold cream (cosmetic)
cosmetic: Skin-care preparations: Cold cream, one of the oldest beauty aids, originally consisted of water beaten into mixtures of such natural fats as lard or almond oil, but modern preparations use mineral oil combined with an emulsifier that helps disperse the oil in water. Emollients (softening creams) and…
- cold curing (industrial process)
Alexander Parkes: …was the discovery of the cold vulcanization process (1841), a method of waterproofing fabrics by means of a solution of rubber and carbon disulfide. Parkes also produced a flexible material called Parkesine (1856) from various mixtures of nitrocellulose, alcohols, camphor, and oils that predated the
- cold desert
cold desert, any large arid area of land that typically receives scant amounts of annual precipitation, which occurs mainly in the form of snow or fog. (The upper limit of mean annual precipitation is often considered to be fewer than 25 cm [9.8 inches]; however, sources vary.) Cold deserts are
- Cold Dog Soup (novel by Dobyns)
Stephen Dobyns: …Dancer with One Leg (1983); Cold Dog Soup (1985), in which a man undertakes a nighttime tour of New York City as he attempts to bury a date’s dead dog; The Two Deaths of Señora Puccini (1988), about sexual obsession during an uprising in an unnamed Latin American city; The…
- cold drawing (fibre manufacturing)
man-made fibre: Drawing techniques: …°F])—a process referred to as cold drawing. Other fibres, such as polyester, that are spun at extremely high rates yield what is known as partially oriented yarns (POY)—i.e., filaments that are partially drawn and partially crystallized and that can be drawn at a later time during textile operations. Many fibres,…
- cold emission (physics)
field emission, discharge of electrons from the surface of a material subjected to a strong electric field. In the absence of a strong electric field, an electron must acquire a certain minimum energy, called the work function, to escape through the surface of a given material, which acts as a
- Cold Food Festival (Chinese festival)
Qingming Festival, bittersweet Chinese festival for honoring ancestors that is celebrated on the 15th day after the spring equinox, generally falling in early April. In the Chinese calendar, the year is divided into 24 solar terms of 15 days each; Qingming (Chinese: “Clear and Bright,” also often
- cold frame (horticulture)
horticulture: Structures: Cold frames, used to start plants before the normal growing season, are low enclosed beds covered with a removable sash of glass or plastic. Radiant energy passes through the transparent top and warms the soil directly. Heat, however, as long-wave radiation, is prevented from leaving…
- Cold Friday (work by Chambers)
Whittaker Chambers: …editor Duncan Norton-Taylor, appeared as Cold Friday (1964). Pres. Ronald Reagan awarded Chambers the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984. In 1988 the Whittaker Chambers Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- cold front (meteorology)
cold front, leading edge of an advancing mass of relatively cold air. In middle and higher latitudes of both hemispheres cold fronts tend to move toward the Equator and eastward, with the most advanced position right at the ground. At a height of about 1.5 km (1 mile), the front usually lies 80 to
- cold fusion (physics)
nuclear fusion: Cold fusion and bubble fusion: Two disputed fusion experiments merit mention. In 1989 two chemists, Martin Fleischmann of the University of Utah and Stanley Pons of the University of Southampton in England, announced that they had produced fusion reactions at essentially room temperature. Their system…
- cold glacier
glacier: Mass balance: A polar glacier is defined as one that is below the freezing temperature throughout its mass for the entire year; a subpolar (or polythermal) glacier contains ice below the freezing temperature, except for surface melting in the summer and a basal layer of temperate ice; and…
- Cold Harbor, Battle of (American Civil War [1864])
Battle of Cold Harbor, (May 31–June 12, 1864), disastrous defeat for the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65) that caused some 18,000 casualties. Continuing his relentless drive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, called the “Grand Campaign,” General Ulysses S. Grant
- cold house (horticulture)
gardening: Protecting plants: …four rough categories: (1) The cold house, in which there is no supplementary heating and which is suitable only for plants that will not be killed by a few degrees of frost (such as alpines or potted bulbous plants). The combination of heat from the sun and protection from wind…
- cold launch (military technology)
rocket and missile system: Design principles: The Soviets pioneered the “cold-launch” method, in which the missile is expelled by gas and the rocket engine ignited after the missile clears the silo. This method, essentially the same system used with SLBMs, allows silos to be reused after minor repair.
- cold light (physics)
luminescence, emission of light by certain materials when they are relatively cool. It is in contrast to light emitted from incandescent bodies, such as burning wood or coal, molten iron, and wire heated by an electric current. Luminescence may be seen in neon and fluorescent lamps; television,
- cold matter (physics and astronomy)
dark matter: …dark matter is relatively “cold,” or “nonrelativisitic,” meaning that the backbones of galaxies and clusters of galaxies are made of heavy, slow-moving particles. The absence of light from these particles also indicates that they are electromagnetically neutral. These properties give rise to the particles’ common name, weakly interacting massive…
- cold method (soapmaking)
soap and detergent: Cold and semiboiled methods: In the cold method, a fat and oil mixture, often containing a high percentage of coconut or palm-kernel oil, is mixed with the alkali solution. Slightly less alkali is used than theoretically required in order to leave a small amount of unsaponified fat or oil as a…
- cold molding (materials technology)
plastic: Thermoforming and cold molding: When a sheet of thermoplastic is heated above its Tg or Tm, it may be capable of forming a free, flexible membrane as long as the molecular weight is high enough to support the stretching. In this heated state, the sheet can be…
- Cold Mountain (film by Minghella [2003])
Elvis Costello: Later albums: …Tide” for the 2003 film Cold Mountain. Costello released the album The Boy Named If in 2022. It was followed two years later by The Coward Brothers, a 20-track collaboration with Burnett that accompanied The True Story of the Coward Brothers, a scripted musical-comedy audio series released on Audible that…
- Cold Mountain (art series by Marden)
Brice Marden: …can be found in his Cold Mountain series, including Cold Mountain 6 (Bridge) (1989–91).
- cold pack cheese (food)
cheese making: Making pasteurized process cheese: In a slight variation, cold pack or club cheese is made by grinding and mixing one or more varieties of cheese without heat. This cheese food may contain added flavourings or other ingredients.
- cold painting
glassware: Venice and the façon de Venise: …diamond point, often supplemented by cold painting (i.e., unfired oil—or other paint applied to a finished object), was favoured in alternating broad and narrow upright panels containing symmetrical scrollwork or coats of arms and other devices. Almost equally stiff and formal diamond-point work is to be seen on glasses probably…
- cold pole
Asia: Continental climate: …zone of lowest temperature—a so-called cold pole—is found in the northeast, near Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, where temperatures as low as −90 °F (−68 °C) and −96 °F (−71 °C), respectively, have been recorded.
- Cold Pursuit (film by Moland [2019])
Liam Neeson: …murder in the dark comedy Cold Pursuit and as a top agent in Men in Black: International. That year he also starred in the drama Ordinary Love and lent his voice to Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker. Neeson’s films from 2020 included the action thriller Honest Thief, about…
- cold reaction (chemistry)
transuranium element: Synthesis of transuranium elements: …discovered) by the use of “cold,” or “soft,” fusion reactions. In this type of reaction, medium-weight projectiles are fused to target nuclei with protons numbering close to 82 and neutrons numbering about 126—i.e., near the doubly “magic” lead-208—resulting in a relatively “cold” compound system. The elements from 113 to 118…
- cold rubber (synthetic)
Carl Shipp Marvel: …research, he developed the “cold rubber” process for American industry. During the late 1950s, in his syntheses of high-temperature-resistant synthetic materials for the U.S. space program, he developed the technique of cyclopolymerization. In one of the most important advances in the chemistry of high-temperature polymers during the 1960s, Marvel…
- cold sawing machine (cutting tool)
sawing machine: Cold-sawing machines with toothed disk cutters are used extensively in steel-rolling mills and in places where large quantities of bars are cut. A V-shaped clamping vise enables bundles of bars to be clamped and cut at one time.
- cold shortening (food processing)
meat processing: Cold shortening: Cold shortening is the result of the rapid chilling of carcasses immediately after slaughter, before the glycogen in the muscle has been converted to lactic acid. With glycogen still present as an energy source, the cold temperature induces an irreversible contraction of the…
- Cold Six Thousand, The (novel by Ellroy)
James Ellroy: Its sequel, The Cold Six Thousand (2001), covers the turbulent years between the president’s assassination and that of his brother Robert in 1968. The final volume of the trilogy, Blood’s a Rover (2009), examines the years 1968–72. The trilogy represents the author’s expressed ambition to “re-create 20th-century…
- Cold Souls (film by Barthes [2009])
Paul Giamatti: …himself in the surreal comedy Cold Souls, a scheming CEO in the thriller Duplicity, and Vladimir Chertkov, a disciple of Leo Tolstoy, in The Last Station. He then won a Golden Globe Award for his performance as the cantankerous title character in the dark comedy Barney’s Version (2010), based on…
- cold spot (canning)
food preservation: Quality of canned foods: …inside the can, called the cold spot. The areas of food farthest from the cold spot get a more severe heat treatment that may result in overprocessing and impairment of the overall quality of the product. Flat, laminated pouches can reduce the heat damage caused by overprocessing.
- cold spot (physiology)
thermoreception: Properties of thermoreceptors: …distinction between warm spots and cold spots—that is, specific places in the human skin that are selectively sensitive to warm or cool stimuli. In general, the specificity of thermoreceptors is quite narrow, in that their nerve endings are excited only, or primarily, by thermal stimuli. However, some thermoreceptors are polymodal,…
- Cold Spring Ranch (ranch, Central City, Colorado, United States)
George M. Pullman: Early life and career: …group of partners soon opened Cold Spring Ranch in Central City, which became popular with miners needing a meal, a bed, and supplies. Miners also stopped there to switch out their tired teams of animals for fresh ones before ascending the mountain passes, earning the ranch the name Pullman’s Switch.
- cold storage (refrigeration)
fish processing: Cold storage: Once fish is frozen, it must be stored at a constant temperature of −23 °C (−10 °F) or below in order to maintain a long shelf life and ensure quality. A large portion of fresh fish is water (e.g., oysters are more than…
- cold top enamel (chemistry)
photoengraving: Plate coating and printing: “Cold top” enamels are used on zinc and magnesium, which cannot be heated; these are usually slightly alkaline solutions of shellac or polyvinyl alcohol to which a dichromate is added. “Hot top” enamels nearly always contain fish glue as well as some egg albumin, to…
- Cold Turkey (film by Lear [1971])
Norman Lear: …Award nomination for best screenplay; Cold Turkey (1971), which he also directed; and the television film The Little Rascals (1977).
- cold type (printing)
printing: Cold type: Cold type is the expression used, particularly in the United States, to describe a simple and economic method of preparing text by machines resembling ordinary typewriters but capable of producing justified lines in type that varies in width according to the letter involved.…
- Cold War (film by Pawlikowski [2018])
Pawel Pawlikowski: …and cowrote Zimna wojna (2018; Cold War), which was inspired by his parents’ relationship. The drama was well received, and Pawlikowski was named best director at the Cannes film festival.
- Cold War (international politics)
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the
- cold welding (metallurgy)
welding: Cold welding: Cold welding, the joining of materials without the use of heat, can be accomplished simply by pressing them together. Surfaces have to be well prepared, and pressure sufficient to produce 35 to 90 percent deformation at the joint is necessary, depending on the…
- Cold, Cold Heart (song by Williams)
Hank Williams: …reaching number one, including “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Hey, Good Lookin’,” “Jambalaya (On the Bayou),” and “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive.” His extraordinary “Lost Highway” peaked at number 12.
- cold-based glacier
glacier: Mass balance: A polar glacier is defined as one that is below the freezing temperature throughout its mass for the entire year; a subpolar (or polythermal) glacier contains ice below the freezing temperature, except for surface melting in the summer and a basal layer of temperate ice; and…
- cold-bloodedness (zoology)
cold-bloodedness, the state of having a variable body temperature that is usually only slightly higher than the environmental temperature. This state distinguishes fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrate animals from warm-blooded, or homoiothermic, animals (birds and mammals). Because of
- cold-brew coffee (beverage)
coffee: Brewing and drinking: …12 hours, the resulting “cold brew” has a robust but smooth taste without the bitter acids and oils that traditionally accompany hot-water extraction methods. The cold concentrate keeps well for up to two weeks when refrigerated, and it is ideal as a cooking ingredient, as when making coffee ice…
- cold-brewed coffee (beverage)
coffee: Brewing and drinking: …12 hours, the resulting “cold brew” has a robust but smooth taste without the bitter acids and oils that traditionally accompany hot-water extraction methods. The cold concentrate keeps well for up to two weeks when refrigerated, and it is ideal as a cooking ingredient, as when making coffee ice…
- cold-chamber die-casting (metallurgy)
die-casting: …metal is introduced: in the cold-chamber process, the metal is ladled into a chamber; a plunger impels the metal into the cold die cavity, in which it quickly hardens.
- cold-core low (meteorology)
climate: Characteristics: …with height and are called cold-core and warm-core systems, respectively. Tropical cyclones, on the other hand, are warm-core systems that are most intense at the surface and that decrease in intensity with height.
- cold-deciduous forest
forestry: Occurrence and distribution: …are made up of the summer-green trees of North America, northern Europe, and the temperate regions of Asia and South America. Characteristic trees are oaks (Quercus species), beeches (Fagus and Nothofagus), ash trees (Fraxinus), birches
- cold-drawn oil (food processing)
oil extraction: Cold-pressed oil, also called cold-drawn, or virgin, oil, is purer and has a better flavour than oil expressed with the aid of heat. After pressing the meals made from oily seeds or nuts, the remaining cake contains about 5 to 15 percent oil. Most of…
- cold-pressed oil (food processing)
oil extraction: Cold-pressed oil, also called cold-drawn, or virgin, oil, is purer and has a better flavour than oil expressed with the aid of heat. After pressing the meals made from oily seeds or nuts, the remaining cake contains about 5 to 15 percent oil. Most of…
- cold-rolling (industrial process)
rolling: …hot (hot-rolling) or cold (cold-rolling). The process consists of passing the metal between pairs of rollers revolving at the same speed but in opposite directions and spaced so that the distance between them is slightly less than the thickness of the metal. The degree of change that can be…
- cold-smoking
fish processing: Smoking: In cold-smoking the temperature does not exceed 29 °C (85 °F), and the fish is not cooked during the process. Hot-smoking is more common and is designed to cook the fish as well as to smoke it.
- cold-top furnace (technology)
industrial glass: The melting chamber: …furnaces incorporating electric melting are “cold-top” furnaces, into which the batch is poured or sprinkled from the top. In these furnaces the melt zone is vertically organized; that is, the batch at the top is solid, while molten glass flows out the bottom. The cold-batch method ensures a very low…
- cold-working (metalcraft)
hand tool: Metalworking: …certain amount of hammering (cold-working), copper becomes brittle, a condition that can be removed as often as necessary by heating the material and plunging it into cold water (quenching). The softening operation is known as annealing, and repeated annealings are necessary if much hammering is required for shaping.
- Colden, Cadwallader (American politician and scientist)
United States: Colonial culture: …the first planetarium in America; Cadwallader Colden, the lieutenant governor of New York, whose accomplishments as a botanist and as an anthropologist probably outmatched his achievements as a politician; and Benjamin Rush, a pioneer in numerous areas of social reform as well as one of colonial America’s foremost physicians, were…
- Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe, The (memoir by Fox)
Paula Fox: Writing career: Both Borrowed Finery (2001) and The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe (2005) are memoirs.
- Colditz Castle (prisoner-of-war camp, Germany)
Colditz Castle, German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, the site of many daring escape attempts by Allied officers. The castle sits on a steep hill overlooking the Mulde River as it flows through the small Saxon town of Colditz, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Leipzig. A former residence
- Coldplay (British rock group)
Coldplay, British rock group whose melodic piano-driven anthems lifted the band to the top of the pop music world in the early 21st century. Coldplay was formed in 1998 at University College, London, with the pairing of pianist-vocalist Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland. The band was later
- Coldstream (Scotland, United Kingdom)
Coldstream, small burgh (town) in the Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Berwickshire, Scotland. It is situated at a fording place on the River Tweed on the border with England. Flodden, a battlefield (1513) where the Scots were badly defeated by the English, lies 6 miles (10 km)
- Coldstream Guards (British military unit)
Coldstream: …associated with the famous British Coldstream Guards regiment; first raised there about 1650, the Coldstream Guards marched to London in 1660 and played a significant part in the restoration of Charles II. The Coldstream Museum, which showcases the regiment’s historical role, is one of the town’s main attractions, along with…
- Coldwater River (river, Mississippi, United States)
Coldwater River, river that rises in northwest Mississippi, U.S., and flows generally south for 220 miles (350 km), paralleling the Mississippi River before joining the Tallahatchie River. On the Coldwater about 30 miles (50 km) south of Memphis, Tenn., the Arkabutla Dam impounds Lake
- Cole (United States naval destroyer)
USS Cole attack: naval destroyer, the USS Cole, on October 12, 2000. Suicide bombers in a small boat steered their craft into the side of the USS Cole, which was preparing to refuel in the harbour in the Yemeni port of Aden; the blast ripped a 1,600-square-foot (150-square-metre) hole in its hull…
- Cole attack ([2000])
USS Cole attack, attack by Muslim militants associated with the organization al-Qaeda against a U.S. naval destroyer, the USS Cole, on October 12, 2000. Suicide bombers in a small boat steered their craft into the side of the USS Cole, which was preparing to refuel in the harbour in the Yemeni port
- Cole Brothers Circus (American circus)
Clyde Beatty: He also performed with the Cole Bros. circus from 1935 through 1938. From 1936 to 1945 Beatty operated the Clyde Beatty Jungle Zoo near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Beatty purchased a circus in 1945 that in 1958 bought the Cole Bros. name and formed the Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros. Circus, which was…
- Cole Porter Mix, The (album by Barber)
Patricia Barber: Her next release, The Cole Porter Mix (2008), a collection of Cole Porter standards, reached the top five on the Billboard jazz charts. Later albums included Smash (2013), which features original material, and Higher (2019), a work of classically inspired original jazz.
- cole slaw (dish)
coleslaw, side dish primarily consisting of shredded or diced cabbage combined with a vinegar- or mayonnaise-based dressing. Coleslaw recipes vary widely, are often regional, and can include a number of additional ingredients, such as carrots, celery, apples, cheese, onion, raisins, mustard, or
- Cole, Cozy (American musician)
Cozy Cole was an American jazz musician who was a versatile percussionist. A highlight of Cole’s drumming career was the 1958 hit “Topsy,” the only recording featuring a drum solo to sell more than one million copies. After making his recording debut (1930) with Jelly Roll Morton, Cole performed