Collier Bay, inlet of the Indian Ocean, indenting the northern coast of Western Australia. The bay stretches approximately 60 miles (100 km) east-west and about 40 miles (65 km) north-south. Montgomery and Koolan islands are at its

William Faulkner: The major novels: …in such popular—and well-paying—magazines as Collier’s and Saturday Evening Post. Greater, if more equivocal, prominence came with the financially successful publication of Sanctuary, a novel about the brutal rape of a Southern college student and its generally violent, sometimes comic, consequences. A serious work, despite Faulkner’s unfortunate declaration that it…

Collier’s Encyclopedia, general encyclopaedia first published in 1950–51 in the United States. Originally in 20 volumes, Collier’s was expanded to 24 volumes for a major revision in 1962. It remained at that length until 1997, when it was printed for the last time. Microsoft Corporation acquired

William Faulkner: The major novels: …in such popular—and well-paying—magazines as Collier’s and Saturday Evening Post. Greater, if more equivocal, prominence came with the financially successful publication of Sanctuary, a novel about the brutal rape of a Southern college student and its generally violent, sometimes comic, consequences. A serious work, despite Faulkner’s unfortunate declaration that it…

Arthur Collier was an idealist philosopher and theologian remembered for his concept of human knowledge. Collier was born at the rectory of Langford Magna. Educated at Pembroke and Balliol colleges, Oxford, he became rector at Langford Magna in 1704. Like the idealist thinker George Berkeley,

Bryan Collier is an American author and illustrator who created children’s books about African Americans and their experiences. Collier was recognized with many honors for his work, including several Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awards. Some of his books were distinguished as Caldecott Honor

Josephine Bell was an English physician and novelist best known for her numerous detective novels, in which poison and unusual methods of murder are prominent. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge (1916–19), and University College Hospital, London, and was a practicing physician from 1922

Jeremy Collier was an English bishop and leader of the Nonjurors (clergy who refused to take the oaths of allegiance to William III and Mary II in 1689 and who set up a schismatic episcopalian church) and the author of a celebrated attack on the immorality of the stage. Collier attended Caius

William Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s sources: …appeared later, notably those of John Payne Collier (Shakespeare’s Library, 1843; revised by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1875). These earlier collections have been superseded by a seven-volume version edited by Geoffrey Bullough as Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957–72).

civil war: Economic causes of civil war: Thus the British economists Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler argued that low overall income makes it easier to mobilize insurgencies, since potential recruits have less to lose in foregone income from normal economic activities. The American political scientists James Fearon and David Laitin claimed that civil war is primarily…

Western Australia: Western Australia until the mid-20th century: …after Mitchell was replaced by Phillip Collier, the first of a series of moderate Labor premiers (1924–30; 1933–47).

colligative property, in chemistry, any property of a substance that depends on, or varies according to, the number of particles (molecules or atoms) present but does not depend on the nature of the particles. Examples include the pressure of an ideal gas and the depression of the freezing point of

collimator, device for changing the diverging light or other radiation from a point source into a parallel beam. This collimation of the light is required to make specialized measurements in spectroscopy and in geometric and physical optics. An optical collimator consists of a tube containing a

Hans Christian Andersen: …first significant help came from Jonas Collin, one of the directors of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to which Andersen had gone as a youth in the vain hope of winning fame as an actor. Collin raised money to send him to school. Although school was an unhappy experience for…

Japanese art: Western-style painting: …Seiki studied in France under Raphael Collin and was among the most prominent exponents of a style that was strongly influenced by Impressionism in its informality and its use of lighter, brighter colours.

Samnite: …who defeated them at the Battle of the Colline Gate (82 bc).

Maurice Barrès: La Colline inspirée (1913; The Sacred Hill) is a mystical novel that urges a return to Christianity for social and political reasons.

Mouloud Mammeri: In his first novel, La Colline oubliée (1952; “The Forgotten Hill”), Mammeri recorded the experiences of his Kabylian compatriots in a story of village youths who are stifled under the burden of traditional native customs. With Le Sommeil du Juste (1955; “The Sleep of the Just”), the scene shifts…

ferrite: In collinear ferrimagnetism the fields are aligned in opposite directions; in triangular ferrimagnetism the field orientations may be at various angles to each other. Ferrites can have several different types of crystalline structures, including spinel, garnet, perovskite, and hexagonal.

projective geometry: Projective invariants: Thus, collinearity is another invariant property. Similarly, if three lines meet in a common point, so will their projections.

collinearity, in statistics, correlation between predictor variables (or independent variables), such that they express a linear relationship in a regression model. When predictor variables in the same regression model are correlated, they cannot independently predict the value of the dependent

Robert Colling and Charles Colling: …livestock breeder, at Dishley, Leicestershire, Charles began in 1782 a program of improving the quality of cattle in the Tees River valley. His brother, who occupied another farm in the district, later turned to cattle breeding. Charles’s wife, the former Mary Colpitts (1763–1850), also is credited with valuable work in…

Robert Colling and Charles Colling: His brother, who occupied another farm in the district, later turned to cattle breeding. Charles’s wife, the former Mary Colpitts (1763–1850), also is credited with valuable work in cattle breeding.

Robert Colling and Charles Colling were stock raisers, the first scientific breeders of Shorthorn, or Durham, beef cattle. After visiting Robert Bakewell, the outstanding livestock breeder, at Dishley, Leicestershire, Charles began in 1782 a program of improving the quality of cattle in the Tees

Jesse Collings was a British politician, educational and agrarian reformer whose land policy was summarized in the slogan “three acres and a cow.” A partner in a Birmingham mercantile firm (1864–79), Collings served as mayor of the city (1878–80), succeeding Joseph Chamberlain, with whose municipal

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was a British naval commander who was Horatio Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar and held the Mediterranean command thereafter. Collingwood was sent to sea at the age of 12 and served for several years on the home station. In 1774 he

R.G. Collingwood was an English historian and philosopher whose work provided a major 20th-century attempt to reconcile philosophy and history. Deeply influenced by his father, a painter and archaeologist who was a friend and biographer of John Ruskin, Collingwood was educated at home until he was

R.G. Collingwood was an English historian and philosopher whose work provided a major 20th-century attempt to reconcile philosophy and history. Deeply influenced by his father, a painter and archaeologist who was a friend and biographer of John Ruskin, Collingwood was educated at home until he was

coal: Macerals: …make up cell walls) and collinite (clear vitrinite that occupies the spaces between cell walls).

ship: The Atlantic Ferry: One exception was the Collins Line, which in 1847 owned the four finest ships then afloat—the Arctic, Atlantic, Baltic, and Pacific—and in 1851 the Blue Riband (always a metaphorical rank rather than an actual trophy) given for the speediest crossing of the New York–Liverpool route passed from Cunard’s Acadia…

Lynyrd Skynyrd: March 5, 2023), Allen Collins (b. July 19, 1952, Jacksonville—d. January 23, 1990, Jacksonville), Ed King (b. September 14, 1949, Glendale, California—d. August 22, 2018, Nashville, Tennessee), Steve Gaines (b. September 14, 1949, Miami, Oklahoma—d. October 20, 1977, Gillsburg), Billy Powell (b. June 3, 1952, Jacksonville—d. January 28,…

Anthony Collins was a prolific and provocative English Deist and freethinker and friend of the philosopher John Locke. In Collins’ first noteworthy work, Essay concerning the use of Reason in propositions the evidence whereof depends on Human Testimony (1707), he demanded that revelation should

Billy Collins is an American poet whose uncommonly accessible verse—characterized by plain language, gentle humour, and an alert appreciation for the mundane—made him one of the most popular poets in the United States. Collins grew up mainly in Queens, New York. He wrote his first poem at age 12

James Brown: …associated with him (Jimmy Nolan, Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, and Maceo Parker) have played an important role in creating the core vocabulary and grammar of funk music.

Little Anthony and the Imperials: ), Clarence Collins (b. March 17, 1941, Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ernest Wright, Jr. (b. Aug. 24, 1941, Brooklyn), Tracy Lord, and Nat Rogers (byname of Glouster Rogers).

Joan Collins is an English actress known for her portrayals of bombshells and sexpots, notably the scheming seductress Alexis Carrington on the soap opera Dynasty (1981–89). Collins was raised in London, the oldest of three children of a theatrical agent and a former dancer. Owing to their father’s

Australia: An authoritarian society: From Britain, David Collins sailed in 1803 to settle Port Phillip. His sojourn there was unhappy, and in mid-1804 he moved to the River Derwent in southern Tasmania, already settled (September 1803) by a group from Sydney under John Bowen. Collins resettled the amalgamated parties at Hobart.…

Eddie Collins was an American professional baseball player who was one of the most proficient hitters and base stealers in the sport’s history. Collins was raised in affluent circumstances in the suburbs outside New York City. He attended Columbia University, where he was the quarterback of the

Eddie Collins was an American professional baseball player who was one of the most proficient hitters and base stealers in the sport’s history. Collins was raised in affluent circumstances in the suburbs outside New York City. He attended Columbia University, where he was the quarterback of the

Edward Knight Collins was a shipowner who in 1847 founded the government-subsidized United States Mail Steamship Company (Collins Line), which for a time gave serious competition to the British Cunard Line. From 1850 to 1854 Collins’s paddle-wheel steamers, the “Atlantic,” “Pacific,” “Arctic,” and

Eddie Collins was an American professional baseball player who was one of the most proficient hitters and base stealers in the sport’s history. Collins was raised in affluent circumstances in the suburbs outside New York City. He attended Columbia University, where he was the quarterback of the

Eileen Collins is an American astronaut, the first woman to pilot and, later, to command a U.S. space shuttle. Collins’s love of airplanes and flying began as a child. At age 19 she saved money earned from part-time jobs and began taking flying lessons. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in

Eileen Collins is an American astronaut, the first woman to pilot and, later, to command a U.S. space shuttle. Collins’s love of airplanes and flying began as a child. At age 19 she saved money earned from part-time jobs and began taking flying lessons. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in

Francis Collins is an American geneticist who discovered genes causing genetic diseases and who was director (2009–21) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He had previously served as head (1993–2008) of the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, a public research consortium in

Francis Collins is an American geneticist who discovered genes causing genetic diseases and who was director (2009–21) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He had previously served as head (1993–2008) of the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, a public research consortium in

Evan Hunter was a prolific American writer of best-selling fiction, of which more than 50 books are crime stories published under the pseudonym Ed McBain. Hunter graduated from Hunter College (1950) and held various short-term jobs, including playing piano in a jazz band and teaching in vocational

Jackie Collins was an English author known for her provocative romantic thrillers, which were liberally salted with sex, crime, and entertainment-industry gossip. Collins’s glamorous public persona—she frequently appeared in leopard-print clothing and was adorned with expensive jewelry—echoed the

Jackie Collins was an English author known for her provocative romantic thrillers, which were liberally salted with sex, crime, and entertainment-industry gossip. Collins’s glamorous public persona—she frequently appeared in leopard-print clothing and was adorned with expensive jewelry—echoed the

Janet Collins was an American ballet dancer and choreographer, acclaimed for the beauty of her dancing on the Broadway stage. Collins was raised in Los Angeles, where she attended Los Angeles City College and the Los Angeles Art Center School (now the Art Center College of Design [Pasadena]). She

Brooklyn Nets: …the team signed free agent Jason Collins, who, by playing in Brooklyn’s game that night, became the first openly gay athlete to participate in any of the four major North American team sports. Collins was part of a reinvigorated Nets squad that was among the league’s best in the second…

Joan Collins is an English actress known for her portrayals of bombshells and sexpots, notably the scheming seductress Alexis Carrington on the soap opera Dynasty (1981–89). Collins was raised in London, the oldest of three children of a theatrical agent and a former dancer. Owing to their father’s

Sam Bass: …where in 1874 he befriended Joel Collins. In 1876 Bass and Collins went north on a cattle drive but turned to robbing stagecoaches; in September 1877 in Big Springs, Neb., they and four others robbed a Union Pacific train of $65,000 in gold coin and other valuables. Returning to Texas,…

mathematics: Institutional background: Later in the century John Collins, librarian of London’s Royal Society, performed a similar function among British mathematicians.

Judy Collins is an American folk and pop singer-songwriter known for her soaring soprano, eclectic repertoire, and political activism. A classically trained pianist and self-taught guitarist, Collins performed in folk clubs and coffeehouses from 1959, popularizing works by such songwriters as Bob

Judy Collins is an American folk and pop singer-songwriter known for her soaring soprano, eclectic repertoire, and political activism. A classically trained pianist and self-taught guitarist, Collins performed in folk clubs and coffeehouses from 1959, popularizing works by such songwriters as Bob

Lily Collins is a British-American actress and model known for her performance as the lead in Netflix’s popular romantic-comedy series Emily in Paris (2020– ). She also starred in movies such as The Blind Side (2009) and Love, Rosie (2014). Collins was born to American Jill Tavelman and English

Lily Collins is a British-American actress and model known for her performance as the lead in Netflix’s popular romantic-comedy series Emily in Paris (2020– ). She also starred in movies such as The Blind Side (2009) and Love, Rosie (2014). Collins was born to American Jill Tavelman and English

Kentucky: From World War II into the 21st century: …the state’s first woman governor, Martha Layne Collins, elected in 1984. Since the late 20th century many manufacturing firms have left the state for areas where labour is less expensive, particularly Mexico. However, the state simultaneously has seen an influx of Japanese manufacturers, primarily in the automobile industry.

Marva Collins was an American educator who broke with a public school system she found to be failing inner-city children and established her own rigorous system and practice to cultivate her students’ independence and accomplishment. Marva Knight attended the Bethlehem Academy, a strict school that

Michael Collins was a U.S. astronaut who was the command module pilot of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, Collins transferred to the air force, becoming a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He joined

Michael Collins was a hero of the Irish struggle for independence, best remembered for his daring strategy in directing the campaign of guerrilla warfare during the intensification of the Irish War of Independence (Anglo-Irish War, 1919–21). Collins worked as a clerk in London from 1906 until he

standpoint theory: The American sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, in her book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990), proposed a form of standpoint theory that emphasized the perspective of African American women. Collins argued that the matrix of oppression—an interlocking system of race, gender, and class…

Phil Collins is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame in the music world in the 1970s and ’80s both for his work with the rock band Genesis and for his pop solo career. He was the winner of multiple Grammy Awards in the 1980s and ’90s. Collins was gifted a

Phil Collins is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame in the music world in the 1970s and ’80s both for his work with the rock band Genesis and for his pop solo career. He was the winner of multiple Grammy Awards in the 1980s and ’90s. Collins was gifted a

Citizen Kane: Cast:

Susan Collins is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and began representing Maine in that body the following year. Collins was born in Caribou, Maine, to a family involved in both the lumber industry and state politics. She was president of her

Susan Collins is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and began representing Maine in that body the following year. Collins was born in Caribou, Maine, to a family involved in both the lumber industry and state politics. She was president of her

Suzanne Collins is an American author and screenwriter, best known for the immensely popular Hunger Games series of young adult novels. Collins was the youngest of four children. Because her father was a career officer in the U.S. Air Force, the family moved frequently, and she spent time in

Kate Smith: …in 1930 when she met Ted Collins, an executive with Columbia Records. He became her manager and guided her career until his death in 1964.

Joseph Furphy was an Australian author whose novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. The son of Irish immigrants, Furphy worked as a thresher, teamster, and gold miner before settling down in 1884

Wilkie Collins was an English sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fiction. The son of William Collins (1788–1847), the landscape painter, he developed a gift for inventing tales while still a schoolboy at a private boarding school. His first published

William Collins was a pre-Romantic English poet whose lyrical odes adhered to Neoclassical forms but were Romantic in theme and feeling. Though his literary career was brief and his output slender, he is considered one of the finest English lyric poets of the 18th century. He was educated at

James Brown: …associated with him (Jimmy Nolan, Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, and Maceo Parker) have played an important role in creating the core vocabulary and grammar of funk music.

Billy Collins is an American poet whose uncommonly accessible verse—characterized by plain language, gentle humour, and an alert appreciation for the mundane—made him one of the most popular poets in the United States. Collins grew up mainly in Queens, New York. He wrote his first poem at age 12

Wilkie Collins was an English sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story, and pioneer of detective fiction. The son of William Collins (1788–1847), the landscape painter, he developed a gift for inventing tales while still a schoolboy at a private boarding school. His first published

The Italian Job: Production notes and credits:

Arctic: 19th-century attempts at the passage: Richard Collinson was to enter from the west and meet Austin in a pincer movement. His two ships became separated in the Pacific, however, and operated independently. Comdr. Robert (later Sir Robert) McClure in the Investigator discovered Prince of Wales Strait, rounded Banks Island by…

Collinsville, city, Madison and St. Clair counties, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies a few miles east of the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri. First settled in 1810 by John Cook of Virginia, the community was laid out in 1837 on bluffs above the river’s floodplain. The village was

collision, in physics, the sudden, forceful coming together in direct contact of two bodies, such as, for example, two billiard balls, a golf club and a ball, a hammer and a nail head, two railroad cars when being coupled together, or a falling object and a floor. Apart from the properties of the

navigation: …traffic expanded along established routes, collision avoidance became a concern. Emphasis shifted from finding the way to maintaining safe distances between craft moving in various directions at different speeds. Larger ships are easier to see but require more time to change speed or direction. When many ships are in a…

Jay Leno: …included American Hot Wax (1978), Collision Course (1989), and The Flintstones (1994). Leno also provided the voice for characters based on himself in animated TV shows, such as The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy, and movies, notably Cars (2006). In addition, he played a car mechanic as a cast…

gas: Mean-free path and collision rate: …to estimate the number of collisions such a typical diffusing molecule experienced (N) and the average distance traveled between collisions (l), called the mean free path. The product of N and l must equal the total distance traveled—i.e., Nl = 5 × 108 cm. This distance can be thought of…

motor vehicle insurance: …insured is judged legally liable; collision insurance pays for damage to the insured car if it collides with another vehicle or object; comprehensive insurance pays for damage to the insured car resulting from fire or theft or many other causes; medical-payment insurance covers medical treatment for the policyholder and his…

maritime law: Collision liability: Under maritime law responsibility for collision damage is based upon the fault principle: a colliding vessel will not be held responsible for damage to another ship or to a fixed object such as a bridge, wharf, or jetty unless the collision is caused…

solar nebula: …most astronomers preferred the so-called collision theory, in which the planets were considered to have been formed as a result of a close approach to the Sun by some other star. Objections to the collision theory more convincing than those against the nebular hypothesis were raised, however, especially as the…

collision theory, theory used to predict the rates of chemical reactions, particularly for gases. The collision theory is based on the assumption that for a reaction to occur it is necessary for the reacting species (atoms or molecules) to come together or collide with one another. Not all

gas: Molecular sizes: …molecules present in this so-called collision volume. If molecules are located by their centres and each molecule has a diameter d, then the collision volume will be a long cylinder of cross-sectional area πd2. The cylinder must be sufficiently long to include enough molecules so that good statistics on the…

atmosphere: Liquid droplets: …growth is referred to as collision-coalescence. Warm-cloud rain results when the droplets attain a sufficient size to fall to the ground. Such a raindrop (perhaps about 1 mm [0.04 inch] in radius) contains perhaps one million 10-micrometre cloud droplets. The typical radii of raindrops resulting from this type of precipitation…

forbidden lines, in astronomical spectroscopy, bright emission lines in the spectra of certain nebulae (H II regions), not observed in the laboratory spectra of the same gases, because on Earth the gases cannot be rarefied sufficiently. The term forbidden is misleading; a more accurate description

Hermann Collitz was a German-born U.S. linguist noted for his work on the Indo-European languages. He contributed to the study of Sanskrit consonants, sound changes in the Germanic languages, and Greek dialectology. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen (1878) dealt with the

Kabylie: …Bejaïa (Bougie); and (3) the Collo Kabylie (Kabylie de Collo) forming the hinterland of Cape Bougarʿoun. The Kabylie is joined to the Tell Atlas on the west by the Bou Zegza Mountains.

Atlas Mountains: Resources: …of Algeria, notably on the Collo Massif.

ctenophore: Form and function.: …supplied with adhesive cells called colloblasts, which are found only among ctenophores. These cells produce a sticky secretion, to which prey organisms adhere on contact.

swiftlet, (genus Collocalia), any of numerous species of cave-dwelling birds belonging to the swift family, Apodidae, found from southeastern Asia (India and Sri Lanka) and the Malay Peninsula through the Philippines, and eastward to the islands of the South Pacific. The taxonomy of the 15 to 20

apodiform: Importance to humans: …nest of one species, the edible-nest swiftlet (C. fuciphaga), is composed almost entirely of concentric layers of this salivary cement. These nests and, to a lesser extent, those of some other swiftlets are gathered commercially in the East Indies and form the base for the famous bird’s-nest soup of the…

apodiform: Size range and diversity of structure: …such tiny species as the pigmy swiftlet (Collocalia troglodytes) of the Philippines weighs only 5 grams (0.2 ounce), whereas some of the large and powerful members of the Old World genus Apus are 30 times heavier. Beyond the size differences, the most obvious morphological variation among swifts is in the…

C. Collodi was an Italian author and journalist, best known as the creator of Pinocchio, the childlike puppet whose adventures delight children around the world. As a young man Collodi joined the seminary. The cause of Italian national unification usurped his calling, however, as he took to

nitrocellulose: Chronology of development and use: …composition eventually found use as collodion, employed through the 19th century as a photographic carrier and antiseptic wound sealant.

wet-collodion process, early photographic technique invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. The process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of collodion (cellulose nitrate) and coating a glass plate with the mixture. In the darkroom the plate was immersed in a solution of

wet-collodion process, early photographic technique invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. The process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of collodion (cellulose nitrate) and coating a glass plate with the mixture. In the darkroom the plate was immersed in a solution of