• carte-de-visite (photography)

    carte-de-visite, 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

  • Cartegena Convention (international agreement)

    Caribbean Sea: Resources: …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 Cartegena Convention calls for its signatories to provide—individually and jointly—protection, development, and management of the…

  • Carteggio di Pietro e Alessandro Verri (work by Verri)

    Pietro Verri: 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)

    cartel, 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

  • Carter Center (American organization)

    Atlanta: The contemporary city: …Carter’s presidency, and the adjoining Carter Center, founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, is a human rights organization. The house where novelist Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind is preserved.

  • Carter Doctrine (United States foreign policy initiative)

    Carter Doctrine, foreign policy initiative of the United States, introduced by U.S. President Jimmy Carter in his 1980 State of the Union address, that returned the country to its traditional strategy of containment of the Soviet Union. (Read Britannica’s interview with Jimmy Carter.) In his

  • Carter Family (American singers)

    Carter Family, singing group that was a leading force in the spread and popularization of the songs of the Appalachian Mountain region of the eastern United States. The group consisted of Alvin Pleasant Carter, known as A.P. Carter (b. April 15, 1891, Maces Spring, Virginia, U.S.—d. November 7,

  • Carter Presidential Center (institution, Atlanta, Georgia, United States)

    Jimmy Carter: Life after the presidency of Jimmy Carter: …her husband in establishing the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, which included a presidential library and museum.

  • Carter Seminary (school, Oklahoma, United States)

    Ardmore: 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 Arbuckle Mountains), and the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum are…

  • Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle (American singing group)

    June Carter Cash: …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 skills and her talents with various musical instruments, especially the autoharp, June began a…

  • Carter, Alvin Pleasant (American singer)

    Carter Family: The group consisted of Alvin Pleasant Carter, known as A.P. Carter (b. April 15, 1891, Maces Spring, Virginia, U.S.—d. November 7, 1960, Kingsport, Tennessee), his wife, Sara, née Sara Dougherty (b. July 21, 1898, Flatwoods, Virginia—d. January 8, 1979, Lodi, California), and his sister-in-law Maybelle Carter, née Maybelle Addington…

  • Carter, Angela (British author)

    Angela Carter was a British author who reshaped motifs from mythology, legends, and fairy tales in her books, lending them a ghastly humour and eroticism. Carter rejected an Oxford education to work as a journalist with the Croydon Advertiser, but she later studied medieval literature at the

  • Carter, Bennett Lester (American musician)

    Benny Carter was an 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 grew up in New York City and attended Wilberforce College briefly before joining, as alto

  • Carter, Benny (American musician)

    Benny Carter was an 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 grew up in New York City and attended Wilberforce College briefly before joining, as alto

  • Carter, Betty (American singer)

    Betty Carter was an 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 studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music in her native Michigan. At age 16 she began

  • Carter, Billy (American farmer and businessman)

    Billy Carter was a farmer and businessman who rose to national prominence when his older brother, Jimmy, was elected president of the United States in 1976. (Read Britannica’s interview with Jimmy Carter.) A peanut farmer and proprietor( of “Billy Carter’s filling station” in Plains, Georgia,

  • Carter, Brandon (Australian-born English physicist)

    anthropic principle: Forms of the anthropic principle: In 1973 Australian-born English physicist Brandon Carter proposed that the WAP be distinguished from a strong anthropic principle (SAP), which posits that life must exist in the universe. This has been cast as a teleological statement: the universe has been fine-tuned in order to ensure that life arises. Analysis of…

  • Carter, Carlene (American musician)

    John Mellencamp: … (2017), which was recorded with Carlene Carter. Other People’s Stuff (2018) was another collection of covers. In 2022 Mellencamp released the self-produced Strictly a One-Eyed Jack; Bruce Springsteen contributed to several of the album’s songs.

  • Carter, Chris (American writer and producer)

    Chris Carter is an American writer and producer who was best known for the television series The X-Files (1993–2002, 2016, and 2018) and its related films. Carter graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 1979 with a degree in journalism and took a job as associate editor for

  • Carter, Cris (American football player)

    Minnesota Vikings: …Robert Smith and wide receivers Cris Carter and Randy Moss. The 1998 Vikings squad scored a then-NFL-record 556 points during the regular season on its way to a 15–1 record but was upset by the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC championship game.

  • Carter, Don (American bowler)

    Don Carter was an American professional tenpin bowler who perfected an inimitable unorthodox right-handed backswing (he bent his elbow) that helped him dominate the game from 1951 through 1964. Carter was a charter member and first president of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA; founded in

  • Carter, Dwayne Michael, Jr. (American rapper)

    Lil Wayne is an American rapper who became one of the top-selling artists in hip-hop in the early 21st century. Lil Wayne grew up in New Orleans’s impoverished 17th Ward. There he came to the attention of Cash Money Records head Bryan Williams, and he soon became a member—with Juvenile, B.G., and

  • Carter, Elizabeth (British author)

    Elizabeth Carter was an English poet, translator, and member of a famous group of literary “bluestockings” who gathered around Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu. Carter was the daughter of a learned cleric who taught her Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. She was not a precocious child, but she persevered with an

  • Carter, Elliott (American composer)

    Elliott Carter was an 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, who was born of a wealthy family, was educated at

  • Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr. (American composer)

    Elliott Carter was an 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, who was born of a wealthy family, was educated at

  • Carter, Gary (American baseball player)

    Washington Nationals: …star players such as catcher Gary Carter and outfielders Andre Dawson and Tim Raines, the Expos advanced to their first postseason appearance two years later during the strike-shortened 1981 season. That year they won their first-round series against the Philadelphia Phillies before losing to the eventual world champion Los Angeles…

  • Carter, Gary Edmund (American baseball player)

    Washington Nationals: …star players such as catcher Gary Carter and outfielders Andre Dawson and Tim Raines, the Expos advanced to their first postseason appearance two years later during the strike-shortened 1981 season. That year they won their first-round series against the Philadelphia Phillies before losing to the eventual world champion Los Angeles…

  • Carter, Graydon (Canadian journalist and editor)

    Vanity Fair: …returns under a new editor, Graydon Carter. Carter introduced articles on national and world affairs and created special issues (including the Hollywood Issue) and the International Best-Dressed List. Carter retired in 2017 and was succeeded by Radhika Jones.

  • Carter, Henry (British-American illustrator and journalist)

    Frank Leslie was a British-U.S. illustrator and journalist. The Illustrated London News published his early sketches. He moved to the U.S. in 1848. There he founded numerous newspapers and journals, including the New York Journal (1854), Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (1855)—having changed

  • Carter, Howard (British archaeologist)

    Howard Carter was a 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. At age 17 Carter joined the British-sponsored archaeological survey of Egypt. He made drawings (1893–99) of

  • Carter, James Earl, Jr. (president of United States)

    Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served as the country’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. However,

  • Carter, Jimmy (president of United States)

    Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served as the country’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. However,

  • Carter, Joe (American baseball player)

    Philadelphia Phillies: …the Toronto Blue Jays on Joe Carter’s dramatic series-winning home run in game six.

  • Carter, John Charles (American actor)

    Charlton Heston was an American actor who was known for his chiseled features and compelling speaking voice and for his numerous roles as historical figures and famous literary characters. Heston decided to become an actor after impulsively auditioning for a high-school play. His stage experience

  • Carter, John W. (British author)

    forgery: Instances of literary forgery: …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 forgeries, and that all could be traced to Wise. Subsequent research confirmed the finding of…

  • Carter, June (American singer and actress)

    June Carter Cash was an 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 was introduced to country music, specifically Appalachian folk songs, at a very young age. Her mother, Maybelle

  • Carter, Lorene (American singer)

    Betty Carter was an 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 studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music in her native Michigan. At age 16 she began

  • Carter, Lorraine (American singer)

    Betty Carter was an 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 studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music in her native Michigan. At age 16 she began

  • Carter, Lynda (American actress)

    Wonder Woman: The Silver Age and television success: In 1975 Lynda Carter debuted as the title character in the live action Wonder Woman. The statuesque former beauty queen so perfectly embodied the Amazon princess that, although the show ran for just three seasons, Carter would become the face of the character for a generation. Early…

  • Carter, Maybelle (American musician)

    Maybelle Carter was an American guitarist whose distinctive playing style and long influential career mark her as a classic figure in country music. By the time she was 12 years old, Maybelle Addington was well versed in the traditional hill-country songs of the region and had become a skilled and

  • Carter, Mrs. Leslie (American actress)

    Mrs. Leslie Carter was an American actress with a sweeping, highly dramatic style, often called “the American Sarah Bernhardt.” Carter grew up in Dayton, Ohio (from 1870, after her father’s death), and was educated at Cooper Seminary. In 1880, at age 17, she married Leslie Carter, a Chicago

  • Carter, Nick (fictional character)

    Nick Carter, fictional character, a detective who was created by John Russell Coryell in the story “The Old Detective’s Pupil,” published in 1886 in the New York Weekly. The character was further developed by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, who from 1892 (The Piano Box Mystery) to 1913 (The Spider’s

  • Carter, Ron (American musician)

    Roberta Flack: Career: …top-tier jazz musicians, including bassist Ron Carter, guitarist John (“Bucky”) Pizzarelli, and drummer Ray Lucas. The album weaves textures of soul and folk music, and Flack’s well-selected track list includes a slower take on the traditional gospel song “I Told Jesus,” singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen’s poetic ballad “Hey, That’s No Way…

  • Carter, Rosalynn (American first lady)

    Rosalynn Carter was an 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. (Read Britannica’s interview with Jimmy Carter.) Rosalynn was the eldest

  • Carter, Sara (American singer)

    Carter Family: …1960, Kingsport, Tennessee), his wife, Sara, née Sara Dougherty (b. July 21, 1898, Flatwoods, Virginia—d. January 8, 1979, Lodi, California), and his sister-in-law Maybelle Carter, née Maybelle Addington (b. May 10, 1909, Nickelsville, Virginia—d. October 23, 1978, Nashville, Tennessee).

  • Carter, Shawn Corey (American rapper and entrepreneur)

    JAY-Z is an American rapper and entrepreneur, one of the most influential figures in hip-hop in the 1990s and early 21st century. Shawn Carter grew up in Brooklyn’s often dangerous Marcy Projects, where he was raised mainly by his mother. His firsthand experience with illicit drug dealing would

  • Carter, Vince (American basketball player)

    Toronto Raptors: …acquired its first superstar, guard-forward Vince Carter, in a 1998 draft-day trade. A five-time All-Star for Toronto, Carter helped the franchise reach its first playoff berth, during the 1999–2000 season. In 2000–01 the Raptors again qualified for the postseason and advanced to the conference semifinals, a dramatic seven-game loss to…

  • Carter, William Alton, III (American farmer and businessman)

    Billy Carter was a farmer and businessman who rose to national prominence when his older brother, Jimmy, was elected president of the United States in 1976. (Read Britannica’s interview with Jimmy Carter.) A peanut farmer and proprietor( of “Billy Carter’s filling station” in Plains, Georgia,

  • Carter, William Morris (British colonial administrator)

    Uganda: Growth of a peasant economy: …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, but their efforts were unsuccessful. Bell himself had laid the foundations for a peasant…

  • Carteret, Philip (British navigator)

    New Britain: …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 World War I, taken by the Japanese in 1942, and reoccupied in 1945. It subsequently…

  • Carteret, Sir George, Baronet (British politician)

    Sir George Carteret, Baronet was a British Royalist politician and colonial proprietor of New Jersey. A British naval officer and lieutenant governor of Jersey, Carteret made the island a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil Wars and privateered in the Stuart cause, thereby winning a

  • Cartes de la France à l’heure de la mondialisation, Les (work by Vedrine)

    cultural globalization: Challenges to national sovereignty and identity: 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 the United States as a “hyperpower” that promotes “uniformity” and “unilateralism.” Speaking for the French intelligentsia, he argued that France should…

  • Cartes Jara, Horacio Manuel (president of Paraguay)

    Horacio Cartes is a Paraguayan businessman and politician who was elected president of Paraguay in 2013, thereby restoring executive power to the centre-right Colorado Party, which had lost the presidency in 2008 after ruling the country since 1947. Constitutionally barred from running for

  • Cartes, Horacio (president of Paraguay)

    Horacio Cartes is a Paraguayan businessman and politician who was elected president of Paraguay in 2013, thereby restoring executive power to the centre-right Colorado Party, which had lost the presidency in 2008 after ruling the country since 1947. Constitutionally barred from running for

  • Cartesian circle (philosophy)

    Cartesian circle, Allegedly circular reasoning used by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) to show that whatever he perceives “clearly and distinctly” is true. Descartes argues that clear and distinct perception is a guarantor of truth because God, who is not a deceiver,

  • Cartesian coordinates (geometry)

    Cartesian coordinates, system of describing the position of points in space using perpendicular axis lines that meet at a point called the origin. Any given point’s position can be described based on its distance from the origin along each axis. Named after French philosopher and mathematician René

  • Cartesian product (mathematics)

    set theory: Operations on sets: The Cartesian product of two sets A and B, denoted by A × B, is defined as the set consisting of all ordered pairs (a, b) for which a ∊ A and b ∊ B. For example, if A = {x, y} and B = {3,…

  • Cartesianism (philosophy)

    Cartesianism, the philosophical and scientific traditions derived from the writings of the French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650). Metaphysically and epistemologically, Cartesianism is a species of rationalism, because Cartesians hold that knowledge—indeed, certain knowledge—can be derived

  • Carthage (novel by Oates)

    Joyce Carol Oates: (2012), Daddy Love (2013), Carthage (2014), Jack of Spades (2015), The Man Without a Shadow (2016), and Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020). Her forays into young adult fiction included Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) and Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You (2012).

  • Carthage (Missouri, United States)

    Carthage, city, seat of Jasper county, southwestern Missouri, U.S. It lies along Spring River, just east of Joplin. Established in 1842, it was named for ancient Carthage. During the American Civil War, it was a centre of border warfare and was destroyed by Confederate guerrillas in 1861; it was

  • Carthage (Illinois, United States)

    Carthage, city, seat (1833) of Hancock county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies near the Mississippi River, about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of Davenport, Iowa. Laid out in 1833 and named for the ancient North African city (see Carthage), the community was hostile to the Mormons who settled at

  • Carthage (ancient city, Tunisia)

    Carthage, great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa, now a residential suburb of the city of Tunis, Tunisia. Built on a promontory on the Tunisian coast, it was placed to influence and control ships passing between Sicily and the North African coast as they traversed the Mediterranean

  • Carthage, Battle of (Punic Wars)

    The Battle of Carthage in 146 bce ended generations of war between the Phoenician-founded city and Rome, both vying for control of the Mediterranean Sea. It ended with the destruction of the city and can be viewed an act of Roman aggression prompted as much by motives of revenge for earlier wars as

  • Carthage, councils of (religious history)

    canon law: Development of canon law in the West: …were read out at the councils of Carthage and, if confirmed, included in the Acts, which contained the newly enacted canons. Thus, at the third Council of Carthage (397), the Compendium of the Council of Hippo (393) was included. The collection of the 17th Council of Carthage (419) was soon…

  • Carthage, Exarchate of (historical province, Africa)

    Exarchate of Carthage, semiautonomous African province of the Byzantine Empire, centred in the city of Carthage, in North Africa. It was established in the late 6th century by the Byzantine emperor Maurice (reigned 582–602) as a military enclave in Byzantine territory occupied largely by African

  • Carthaginian (people)

    Leptis Magna: …it was later settled by Carthaginians, probably at the end of the 6th century bce. Its natural harbour at the mouth of the Wadi Labdah facilitated the city’s growth as a major Mediterranean and trans-Saharan trade centre, and it also became a market for agricultural production in the fertile coastland…

  • Carthaginian War, First (Carthage and Rome [264 bce–241 bce])

    First Punic War, (264–241 bce) first of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire that resulted in the destruction of Carthage. The First Punic War was fought to establish control over the strategic islands of Corsica and Sicily. In 264 the Carthaginians intervened

  • Carthaginian War, Second (Carthage and Rome [218 bce–201 bce])

    Second Punic War, second (218–201 bce) in a series of wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire that resulted in Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean. In the years after the First Punic War, Rome wrested Corsica and Sardinia from Carthage and forced Carthaginians

  • Carthaginian War, Third (Carthage and Rome [149 bce– 146 bce])

    Third Punic War, (149–146 bce), third of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) Empire that resulted in the final destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its population, and Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean. The first and second Punic wars (264–241 bce

  • Carthaginian Wars (Carthage and Rome [264 bce–146 bce])

    Punic Wars, (264–146 bce), a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire, resulting in the destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its population, and Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean. The origin of these conflicts is to be found in the

  • Carthago (ancient city, Tunisia)

    Carthage, great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa, now a residential suburb of the city of Tunis, Tunisia. Built on a promontory on the Tunisian coast, it was placed to influence and control ships passing between Sicily and the North African coast as they traversed the Mediterranean

  • Carthago Nova (Spain)

    Cartagena, 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 four hills crowned with

  • carthamin (dye)

    safflower: …may be used to obtain carthamin, a red textile dye that was commercially important at one time but has since been replaced by synthetic aniline dyes, except in local areas of southwestern Asia. Safflower has been used as an adulterant of the condiment saffron.

  • Carthamus tinctoris (plant)

    safflower, flowering annual plant, Carthamus tinctoris, of the Asteraceae family; native to parts of Asia and Africa, from central India through the Middle East to the upper reaches of the Nile River and into Ethiopia. The safflower plant grows from 0.3 to 1.2 metres (1 to 4 feet) high and has

  • Carthamus tinctorius (plant)

    safflower, flowering annual plant, Carthamus tinctoris, of the Asteraceae family; native to parts of Asia and Africa, from central India through the Middle East to the upper reaches of the Nile River and into Ethiopia. The safflower plant grows from 0.3 to 1.2 metres (1 to 4 feet) high and has

  • Carthan, Mamie Elizabeth (American educator and activist)

    Mamie Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist who helped galvanize the emerging civil rights movement after her son, Emmett Till, was murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white grocery store clerk in Mississippi. Mamie Carthan was born in rural Mississippi, the only child of

  • Carthusian (religious order)

    Carthusian, an order of monks founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084 in the valley of Chartreuse, north of Grenoble, Fr. The Carthusians, who played an important role in the monastic-reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries, combine the solitary life of hermits with a common life within the

  • Carthusians, Order of (religious order)

    Carthusian, an order of monks founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084 in the valley of Chartreuse, north of Grenoble, Fr. The Carthusians, who played an important role in the monastic-reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries, combine the solitary life of hermits with a common life within the

  • Cartier Foundation (museum, Paris, France)

    Cartier Foundation, contemporary art museum in Paris, France, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and completed in 1994. In addition to housing a permanent collection, the museum exhibits the work of a variety of international contemporary artists. It has featured painting, drawing, video,

  • Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (museum, Paris, France)

    Cartier Foundation, contemporary art museum in Paris, France, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and completed in 1994. In addition to housing a permanent collection, the museum exhibits the work of a variety of international contemporary artists. It has featured painting, drawing, video,

  • Cartier, Alfred (French jeweler)

    jewelry: 19th century: In Paris in 1898 Alfred Cartier and his son Louis founded a jewelry firm of great refinement. The firm was distinguished for a production characterized by very fine settings, largely of platinum, which were designed so that only the precious stones, always selected from the very purest, were visible.…

  • Cartier, Jacques (French explorer)

    Jacques Cartier was a French mariner whose explorations of the Canadian coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541–42) laid the basis for later French claims to North America (see New France). Cartier also is credited with naming Canada, though he used the name—derived from the

  • Cartier, Sir George-Étienne, Baronet (prime minister of Canada)

    Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Baronet was a statesman, Canadian prime minister jointly with John A. Macdonald (1857–58; 1858–62), and promoter of confederation and the improvement of Anglo-French relations in Canada. Cartier practiced as a lawyer until 1837, when he took part in the rebellion that

  • Cartier-Bresson, Henri (French photographer)

    Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer whose humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form. His theory that photography can capture the meaning beneath outward appearance in instants of extraordinary clarity is perhaps best expressed in his book Images à

  • cartilage (anatomy)

    cartilage, connective tissue forming the skeleton of mammalian embryos before bone formation begins and persisting in parts of the human skeleton into adulthood. Cartilage is the only component of the skeletons of certain primitive vertebrates, including lampreys and sharks. It is composed of a

  • cartilaginous bone

    human skeleton: Development of cranial bones: …different types of developmental origin—the cartilaginous, or substitution, bones, which replace cartilages preformed in the general shape of the bone; and membrane bones, which are laid down within layers of connective tissue. For the most part, the substitution bones form the floor of the cranium, while membrane bones form the…

  • cartilaginous fish (fish class)

    chondrichthyan, (class Chondrichthyes), any member of the diverse group of cartilaginous fishes that includes the sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras. The class is one of the two great groups of living fishes, the other being the osteichthians, or bony fishes. The name Selachii is also sometimes

  • cartilaginous joint (anatomy)

    joint: Cartilaginous joints: These joints, also called synchondroses, are the unossified masses between bones or parts of bones that pass through a cartilaginous stage before ossification. Examples are the synchondroses between the occipital and sphenoid bones and between the sphenoid and ethmoid bones of the floor…

  • Cartimandua (queen of Brigantes)

    Cartimandua was the queen of the Brigantes, a large tribe in northern Britain, whose rule depended upon support from the invading Roman armies. After concluding a treaty with the emperor Claudius early in his conquest of Britain, which began in ad 43, Cartimandua was faced with a series of revolts

  • carting (dog sport)

    dog sports: Carting, weight pulling, and dogsled racing: Carting and weight-pulling events are strength-measuring competitions that require a dog to pull a cart or sled, often loaded with weights, across a short course of gravel, grass, carpet, or snow. Some animal rights organizations have condemned the contests. Timed dogsled races—in which a team…

  • Cartland, Dame Barbara (British author)

    Dame Barbara Cartland was an English author of more than 700 books, mostly formulaic novels of romantic love set in the 19th century. Following the death of her father in World War I, Cartland moved with her family to London. There she began contributing to the Daily Express newspaper, receiving

  • Cartland, Mary Barbara Hamilton (British author)

    Dame Barbara Cartland was an English author of more than 700 books, mostly formulaic novels of romantic love set in the 19th century. Following the death of her father in World War I, Cartland moved with her family to London. There she began contributing to the Daily Express newspaper, receiving

  • cartographic intelligence

    military intelligence: Cartographic: Derived from maps and charts, cartographic intelligence is crucial for all military operations. During the Falkland Islands War, for example, British forces depended heavily on cartography. They also interviewed schoolteachers and scientists who had recently left the islands so that they had the most accurate information possible on road conditions,…

  • cartographic projection (cartography)

    projection, in cartography, systematic representation on a flat surface of features of a curved surface, as that of the Earth. Such a representation presents an obvious problem but one that did not disturb ancient or medieval cartographers. Only when the voyages of exploration stimulated production

  • Cartographic Services (American company)

    MapQuest, American Web-based, wireless mapping service owned by AOL (formerly known as America Online). MapQuest is headquartered in Lancaster, Pa., and Denver, Colo. In 1967 R.R. Donnelley and Sons created a new division, Cartographic Services, to produce printed road maps and distribute them for

  • cartography (geography)

    cartography, the art and science of graphically representing a geographical area, usually on a flat surface such as a map or chart. It may involve the superimposition of political, cultural, or other nongeographical divisions onto the representation of a geographical area. A brief treatment of

  • cartomancy (occult practice)

    augury: …atmospheric phenomena (aeromancy), cards (cartomancy), dice or lots (cleromancy), dots and other marks on paper (geomancy), fire and smoke (pyromancy), the shoulder blades of animals (scapulimancy), entrails of sacrificed animals (haruspicy), or their livers, which were considered to be the seat of life (hepatoscopy).

  • carton (termite nesting material)

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