• cerebroside sulfatase (enzyme)

    metachromatic leukodystrophy: …called arylsulfatase A (ASA), or cerebroside sulfatase. Arylsulfatase A deficiency allows certain harmful sulfur-containing lipids, known as sulfosphingolipids (also called sulfatides), to accumulate in nerve tissues of the central nervous system instead of being broken down. Sulfatides can also accumulate in nerve tissue in organs, such as the kidneys and…

  • cerebrospinal fever (pathology)

    meningococcus: …bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningococcal meningitis in humans, who are the only natural hosts in which it causes disease. The bacteria are spherical, ranging in diameter from 0.6 to 1.0 μm (micrometre; 1 μm = 10−6 metre); they frequently occur in pairs, with adjacent sides flattened. They are strongly…

  • cerebrospinal fluid (anatomy)

    cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), clear, colourless liquid that fills and surrounds the brain and the spinal cord and provides a mechanical barrier against shock. Formed primarily in the ventricles of the brain, the cerebrospinal fluid supports the brain and provides lubrication between surrounding bones

  • cerebrospinal meningitis (pathology)

    meningococcus: …bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which causes meningococcal meningitis in humans, who are the only natural hosts in which it causes disease. The bacteria are spherical, ranging in diameter from 0.6 to 1.0 μm (micrometre; 1 μm = 10−6 metre); they frequently occur in pairs, with adjacent sides flattened. They are strongly…

  • cerebrospinal syphilis (pathology)

    paresis, psychosis caused by widespread destruction of brain tissue occurring in some cases of late syphilis. Mental changes include gradual deterioration of personality, impaired concentration and judgment, delusions, loss of memory, disorientation, and apathy or violent rages. Convulsions are n

  • cerebrovascular accident (medical condition)

    stroke, sudden impairment of brain function resulting either from a substantial reduction in blood flow to some part of the brain or from intracranial bleeding. The consequences of stroke may include transient or lasting paralysis on one or both sides of the body, difficulties in speaking or

  • cerebrovascular system (anatomy)

    nervous system disease: Anatomy and collateral supply: …mediate the different rates of cerebral blood flow caused by variations in heartbeat, respiration, blood pressure, and posture, a system of autoregulation exists whereby the cerebral blood vessels vary their size in response to such changes. Yet, in diseased states, blood supply to parts of the brain still often fails.…

  • cerebrum (anatomy)

    cerebrum, the largest and uppermost portion of the brain. The cerebrum consists of the cerebral hemispheres and accounts for two-thirds of the total weight of the brain. One hemisphere, usually the left, is functionally dominant, controlling language and speech. The other hemisphere interprets

  • cerecloth (wrapping)

    embalming: History: Instead, cerecloths, strips of fabric impregnated with wax and wrapped snugly around the body to exclude air, were used. This method of preservation was so prevalent that cerement became a synonym for grave clothes. The great interest in anatomy and surgery during the Renaissance stimulated experiments…

  • Ceredigion (county, Wales, United Kingdom)

    Ceredigion, county in Wales, extending from the western coast on Cardigan Bay to inland hills and valleys and the upland of Plynlimon, with an elevation of 2,468 feet (752 metres). Ceredigion is coterminous with the historic county of Cardiganshire. Aberaeron is the county’s administrative centre.

  • Čeremchovo (Russia)

    Cheremkhovo, city, southwestern Irkutsk oblast (region), southern Siberia, Russia. It is situated on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of the city of Irkutsk. Cheremkhovo was founded in 1772 as a station on the Great Siberian Post Road, and the town developed as a chief

  • Cereme, Mount (mountain, Indonesia)

    West Java: Pangrango, Kendang, and Cereme. The highest of these peaks rise to elevations of about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). A series of these volcanoes cluster to form a great tangle of upland that includes the Priangan plateau, which has an elevation of about 1,000 feet (300 metres) and consists…

  • cerement (garment)

    embalming: History: …preservation was so prevalent that cerement became a synonym for grave clothes. The great interest in anatomy and surgery during the Renaissance stimulated experiments with other embalming methods. Leonardo da Vinci, who dissected at least 50 cadavers for study, developed a method of venous injection for preserving them that anticipated…

  • ceremonial

    ritual, the performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by tradition or by sacerdotal decree. Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behavior exhibited by all known societies. It is thus possible to view ritual as a way of defining or describing humans. Human beings are sometimes described or

  • ceremonial county (area, United Kingdom)

    United Kingdom: Local government: …unit known variously as a ceremonial county or a geographic county. These counties also form geographic and statistical units. In most cases they comprise an administrative county and one or more unitary authorities. In other cases they comprise one or more unitary authorities without an administrative county. Greater London and…

  • ceremonial exchange (social custom)

    gift exchange, the transfer of goods or services that, although regarded as voluntary by the people involved, is part of the expected social behaviour. Gift exchange may be distinguished from other types of exchange in several respects: the first offering is made in a generous manner and there is

  • ceremonial house (building)

    Oceanic art and architecture: Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani: …and in general the Sentani ceremonial houses were less elaborate, but the houses of chiefs were equipped with figures standing on short posts protruding up through the floor. The central posts supporting the ridgepole were also carved in human form.

  • ceremonial object (religion)

    ceremonial object, any object used in a ritual or a religious ceremony. Throughout the history of religions and cultures, objects used in cults, rituals, and sacred ceremonies have almost always been of both utilitarian and symbolic natures. Ceremonial and ritualistic objects have been utilized as

  • ceremonial oratory (rhetoric)

    epideictic oratory, according to Aristotle, a type of suasive speech designed primarily for rhetorical effect. Epideictic oratory was panegyrical, declamatory, and demonstrative. Its aim was to condemn or to eulogize an individual, cause, occasion, movement, city, or state. An outstanding example

  • ceremonialism (sociology)

    animism: Ceremonialism: Ceremonialism, when its emphasis is upon feasting, exchange, and display, may be secular, as is the case in much of Melanesia and New Guinea; or, if religious, it may be associated with totemic or ancestral cults, as in Australia or Africa, the expressive emphasis…

  • Ceremonials (album by Florence + the Machine)

    Florence Welch: …+ the Machine’s second album, Ceremonials (2011), was released to high expectations and debuted at number one in the U.K. Powered by the anthemic single “Shake It Out,” Ceremonials reached number six on the Billboard 200 chart. Welch’s fashion credentials were cemented when she was featured on the cover of…

  • Cérémonie des adieux, La (work by Beauvoir)

    Simone de Beauvoir: …La Cérémonie des adieux (Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre), a painful account of Sartre’s last years.

  • Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (play by Elder)

    Lonne Elder III: …playwright whose critically acclaimed masterwork, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1965, revised 1969), depicted the dreams, frustrations, and ultimate endurance of a black family living in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York City in the 1950s.

  • Ceremony (novel by Silko)

    Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony: Silko published the novel Ceremony to great critical acclaim. It tells the story of the relationship between a returning World War II veteran of mixed Laguna and Anglo heritage and a tribal wise man who teaches him Laguna folklore and ceremonies that help him heal the psychic wounds caused…

  • Ceremony and Other Poems (work by Wilbur)

    Richard Wilbur: …and Other Poems (1947) and Ceremony, and Other Poems (1950), he established himself as an important young writer. These early poems are technically exquisite and formal in their adherence to the convention of rhyme and other devices.

  • Čerenkov detector (device)

    Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov: …of the Cherenkov counter, or Cherenkov detector, that later was used extensively in experimental nuclear and particle physics. Cherenkov continued to do research in nuclear and cosmic-ray physics at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute. Cherenkov was elected to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences as a corresponding (1964) and subsequently full…

  • Čerenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich (Soviet physicist)

    Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow Soviet scientists Igor Y. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank for the discovery and theoretical interpretation of the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. A peasant’s son, Cherenkov graduated from Voronezh

  • Cereopsis novaehollandiae (bird)

    Ceduna: …of fauna, including the rare Cape Barren goose. Pop. (2006) 3,572; (2011) 3,480.

  • Čerepovec (Russia)

    Cherepovets, city, southwestern Vologda oblast (region), northwest-central European Russia. Cherepovets lies on the right bank of the Sheksna River where it flows into the Rybinsk Reservoir of the Volga River. The city’s iron and steel plant, established in 1955 and enlarged several times since, is

  • CERES (American nonprofit organization)

    Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), U.S. nonprofit organization founded in 1989 to advocate for ethical and environmentally sustainable business practices. CERES was founded with the belief that businesses should take a proactive stance on environmental issues, because

  • Ceres (dwarf planet)

    Ceres, dwarf planet, the largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt, and the first asteroid to be discovered. Ceres was found, serendipitously, by the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi of the Palermo Observatory on January 1, 1801. Additional observations of the object by Piazzi were cut short by

  • Ceres (Roman goddess)

    Ceres, in Roman religion, goddess of the growth of food plants, worshiped either alone or in association with the earth goddess Tellus. At an early date her cult was overlaid by that of Demeter (q.v.), who was widely worshiped in Sicily and Magna Graecia. On the advice of the Sibylline Books, a

  • Ceres, Temple of (ancient site, Paestum, Italy)

    Paestum: Of the three temples, the Temple of Athena (the so-called Temple of Ceres) and the Temple of Hera I (the so-called Basilica) date from the 6th century bce, while the Temple of Hera II (the so-called Temple of Neptune) was probably built about 460 bce and is the best preserved…

  • Ceresa bubalus (insect)

    treehopper: The buffalo treehopper, Stictocephala (or Ceresa) bubalus, 6 to 8 mm (0.2 to 0.3 inch) long, is harmful to young orchard trees, especially apple trees. The oak treehoppers, Platycotis vittata and P. quadrivittata, feed on deciduous and evergreen oaks. Treehoppers can be controlled by applying insecticides…

  • Ceresco (settlement, Ripon, Wisconsin, United States)

    Ripon: …communal settlement there known as Ceresco (for Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture). It was disbanded in 1851 and absorbed in 1853 by the adjacent settlement of Ripon (founded 1849). The latter, named for Ripon in North Yorkshire, England, was incorporated in 1858 and became a stronghold of the abolition movement.…

  • ceresine (mineral wax)

    ozokerite, (from Greek ozokēros, “odoriferous wax”), naturally occurring, light yellow to dark brown mineral wax composed principally of solid paraffinic hydrocarbons (compounds chiefly of hydrogen and carbon atoms linked in chains). Ozokerite usually occurs as thin stringers and veins filling rock

  • Ceresio, Lago (lake, Europe)

    Lake Lugano, lake between Lakes Maggiore and Como with an area of 19 square miles (49 square km), of which the middle 12 square miles (31 square km) are in Ticino canton (Switzerland) and the northeastern and southwestern ends in the Lombardy regione (Italy). It lies 889 feet (271 meters) above sea

  • Cereta, Laura (Austrian author)

    feminism: The ancient world: …later in the century by Laura Cereta, a 15th-century Venetian woman who published Epistolae familiares (1488; “Personal Letters”; Eng. trans. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist), a volume of letters dealing with a panoply of women’s complaints, from denial of education and marital oppression to the frivolity of women’s attire.

  • cereus (cactus genus)

    cereus, (genus Cereus), genus of about 30 species of large columnar cacti (family Cactaceae) native to South America. The common name cereus is also broadly applied to any number of “ceroid cacti,” which have elongated bodies; many such cacti are designated with scientific epithets that include the

  • Cereus (cactus genus)

    cereus, (genus Cereus), genus of about 30 species of large columnar cacti (family Cactaceae) native to South America. The common name cereus is also broadly applied to any number of “ceroid cacti,” which have elongated bodies; many such cacti are designated with scientific epithets that include the

  • cereus (plant grouping)

    cereus: The common name cereus is also broadly applied to any number of “ceroid cacti,” which have elongated bodies; many such cacti are designated with scientific epithets that include the suffix “-cereus” (e.g., Hylocereus, Pachycereus, Selenicereus, and Stenocereus).

  • Cereus giganteus (plant)

    saguaro, (Carnegiea gigantea), large cactus species (family Cactaceae), native to Mexico and to Arizona and California in the United States. The fruits are an important food of American Indians, who also use the woody saguaro skeletons. Ecologically, the plants provide protective nesting sites for

  • Cereus jamacaru (plant)

    mandacaru, (Cereus jamacaru), species of treelike cactus (family Cactaceae) native to arid and semiarid regions of northeastern Brazil. Mandacaru is of local importance in traditional medicine and as livestock fodder and is cultivated in some places. With a height of up to 9 metres (nearly 30

  • Cerezo Arévalo, Marco Vinicio (president of Guatemala)

    Guatemala: Civil war years: …Guatemalan Christian Democratic Party leader, Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, who received some 68 percent of the vote. It was the first election of a civilian president in Guatemala in 15 years.

  • Cerf, Bennett (American publisher and editor)

    Bennett Cerf was an American publisher and editor. With Donald S. Klopfer, in 1925 Cerf acquired the Modern Library imprint, which subsequently became a highly profitable series of reprints of classic books. In 1927 they began publishing books other than Modern Library titles as Random House, of

  • Cerf, Bennett Alfred (American publisher and editor)

    Bennett Cerf was an American publisher and editor. With Donald S. Klopfer, in 1925 Cerf acquired the Modern Library imprint, which subsequently became a highly profitable series of reprints of classic books. In 1927 they began publishing books other than Modern Library titles as Random House, of

  • Cerf, Vinton (American computer scientist)

    Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist who is considered one of the founders, along with Robert Kahn, of the Internet. In 2004 both Cerf and Kahn won the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and

  • Cerf, Vinton Gray (American computer scientist)

    Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist who is considered one of the founders, along with Robert Kahn, of the Internet. In 2004 both Cerf and Kahn won the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and

  • Cergy-Pontoise (France)

    Île-de-France: Geography: Marne-la-Vallée, Sénart, Cergy-Pontoise, and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

  • ceriale (Roman official)

    aedile: …added two plebeian aediles called ceriales; third, organization of certain public games, the Megalesian and the Roman games being under the curule aediles and the Plebeian games as well as those of Ceres and Flora being under the plebeian. They had judicial powers and could impose fines.

  • Ceriantharia (invertebrate order)

    cnidarian: Annotated classification: Order Ceriantharia Tube anemones. Solitary polyps with 2 sets of tentacles (oral and marginal) that form feltlike tubes of specialized cnidae (ptychocysts) and burrow in soft sediments. Shallow waters worldwide. Subclass Zoantharia Sea anemones and corals. Six (or multiples of 6) tentacles (rarely branched). Mesenteries commonly…

  • Cerianthus (invertebrate)

    tube anemone, (genus Cerianthus), any of a group of invertebrate marine animals of the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria) characterized by an elongated polyp (i.e., a hollow stalklike structure with a mouth and tentacles at the upper end); the polyp lives in a tube of slime on the ocean bottom. The

  • Cerianthus americanus (invertebrate species)

    tube anemone: One species, Cerianthus americanus, found in shallow waters from New England to Florida, grows to about 60 cm (24 inches) in length.

  • Ceriantipatharia (invertebrate subclass)

    cnidarian: Annotated classification: Subclass Ceriantipatharia Black corals and tube anemones. Order Antipatharia Black coral. Large bushy colonies with thorny, hornlike axial skeleton formed by small polyps with 6 simple tentacles and 1 siphonoglyph. Mostly tropical and subtropical. Order Ceriantharia Tube

  • Cerignola (Italy)

    Cerignola, town, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southeastern Italy. It lies on high ground marking the southern limit of the Puglia Tableland, southeast of Foggia. On April 28, 1503, the Spaniards defeated the French below Cerignola and made the Kingdom of Naples a Spanish province. The town later passed

  • Cerigo (island, Greece)

    Cythera, island, southernmost and easternmost of the Ionian Islands, off the southern Peloponnesus (Pelopónnisos). It is an eparkhía (eparchy) of Attiki nomós (department), Greece. A continuation of the Taiyetos Range, the island has a mountainous interior, rising to 1,663 feet (507 metres). The

  • Cerinthus (Egyptian theologian)

    Cerinthus was a Christian heretic whose errors, according to the theologian Irenaeus, led the apostle John to write his New Testament Gospel. Cerinthus was probably born a Jew in Egypt. Little is known of his life save that he was a teacher and founded a short-lived sect of Jewish Christians with

  • Cerionidae (gastropod family)

    gastropod: Classification: …Indian shore salt-spray zone (Cerionidae) or Andean mountains of South America and Eurasia (Clausiliidae). Superfamily Strophocheilacea Large helicoidal to elongated shells of South America (Strophocheilidae) or southwestern Africa (Dorcasiidae). Order

  • Cerise (French microsatellite)

    space debris: …European Ariane rocket collided with Cerise, a French microsatellite. Cerise was damaged but continued to function. The first collision that destroyed an operational satellite happened on February 10, 2009, when Iridium 33, a communications satellite owned by the American company Motorola, collided with Cosmos 2251, an inactive Russian military communications…

  • Cerithiacea (gastropod superfamily)

    gastropod: Classification: Superfamily Cerithiacea Minute to large, generally elaborately sculptured shells, common in mud flats and mangroves, many species sand dwellers, with 1 group of families (Thiaridae, Pleuroceridae, Melanopsidae) especially abundant and varied in the Tennessee and Alabama river systems; 13 marine families, including worm shells

  • cerium (chemical element)

    cerium (Ce), chemical element, the most abundant of the rare-earth metals. Commercial-grade cerium is iron-gray in colour, silvery when in a pure form, and about as soft and ductile as tin. It oxidizes in air at room temperature to form CeO2. The metal slowly reacts with water, and it quickly

  • cerium-144 (radioisotope)

    poison: Local toxicities of common beta-particle emitters: …the isotopes strontium-90, iodine-131, and cerium-144 emit beta particles that are not distributed evenly in the body. Strontium-90 releases only beta particles, while iodine-131 and cerium-144 release both beta particles and gamma rays, but their toxicities are primarily caused by the beta particles. These radioisotopes produce toxicities in the tissues…

  • Cerletti, Ugo (Italian psychiatrist)

    mental disorder: Development of physical and pharmacological treatments: …technique introduced by Italian psychiatrists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini in 1938. Electroconvulsive treatment was more successful in alleviating states of severe depression than in treating symptoms of schizophrenia. Psychosurgery, or surgery performed to treat mental illness, was introduced by Portuguese neurologist António

  • Cermak, Anton J. (American politician)

    Anton J. Cermak was an American politician and mayor of Chicago. He was killed by an assassin’s bullet that was intended for U.S. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cermak was born about 50 miles (80 km) from Prague but celebrated his first birthday in New York City, possibly at Castle

  • Cermak, Anton Joseph (American politician)

    Anton J. Cermak was an American politician and mayor of Chicago. He was killed by an assassin’s bullet that was intended for U.S. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cermak was born about 50 miles (80 km) from Prague but celebrated his first birthday in New York City, possibly at Castle

  • CERN (European research laboratory)

    CERN, international scientific organization established for the purpose of collaborative research into high-energy particle physics. Founded in 1954, the organization maintains its headquarters near Geneva and operates expressly for research of a “pure scientific and fundamental character.” Article

  • Cernan, Eugene (American astronaut)

    Eugene Cernan was an American astronaut who, as commander of Apollo 17 (December 7–17, 1972), was the last person to walk on the Moon. Cernan graduated from Purdue University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1956 and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy that same year. He made some 200

  • Cernan, Eugene Andrew (American astronaut)

    Eugene Cernan was an American astronaut who, as commander of Apollo 17 (December 7–17, 1972), was the last person to walk on the Moon. Cernan graduated from Purdue University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1956 and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy that same year. He made some 200

  • Cernan, Gene (American astronaut)

    Eugene Cernan was an American astronaut who, as commander of Apollo 17 (December 7–17, 1972), was the last person to walk on the Moon. Cernan graduated from Purdue University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1956 and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy that same year. He made some 200

  • Cernăuƫi (Ukraine)

    Chernivtsi, city, southwestern Ukraine, situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408, when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief centre of the area known as Bukovina. Chernivtsi later passed to the Turks and then

  • Černogorsk (Russia)

    Chernogorsk, city, Khakassia republic, south-central Russia, situated just west of the port of Podkunino on the Yenisey River. The city is the centre of mining in the Minusinsk coal basin, which has been in operation since before 1917. Consumer-goods industries are also important. Chernogorsk

  • Cernuda y Bidón, Luis (Spanish poet and critic)

    Luis Cernuda was a Spanish poet and critic, a member of the Generation of 1927, whose work expresses the gulf between what is wished and what can be attained. In 1925 Cernuda received a law degree from the University of Sevilla (Seville) and published several poems. In 1927 some of his poems were

  • Cernuda, Luis (Spanish poet and critic)

    Luis Cernuda was a Spanish poet and critic, a member of the Generation of 1927, whose work expresses the gulf between what is wished and what can be attained. In 1925 Cernuda received a law degree from the University of Sevilla (Seville) and published several poems. In 1927 some of his poems were

  • Cernunnos (Celtic deity)

    Cernunnos, in Celtic religion, an archaic and powerful deity, widely worshipped as the “lord of wild things.” Cernunnos may have had a variety of names in different parts of the Celtic world, but his attributes were generally consistent. He wore stag antlers and was sometimes accompanied by a stag

  • cero (fish)

    mackerel: …kg or more; and the cero, or painted mackerel (S. regalis), an abundant, spotted Atlantic fish reportedly about 120 cm long. Scomberomorus species are a favourite game fish, and their flesh is of excellent quality. They are taken in considerable numbers in the South Atlantic and in the Gulf of…

  • ceroid cactus (plant grouping)

    cereus: The common name cereus is also broadly applied to any number of “ceroid cacti,” which have elongated bodies; many such cacti are designated with scientific epithets that include the suffix “-cereus” (e.g., Hylocereus, Pachycereus, Selenicereus, and Stenocereus).

  • Ceromasia sphenophori (insect)

    tachinid fly: …been reduced by the tachinid Ceromasia sphenophori from New Guinea; the coconut moth in Fiji has been controlled by the Malayan tachinid Ptychomyia remota; and Centeter cinerea was transplanted to the United States to check the destructive Japanese beetle. The caterpillars of the armyworm may be up to 90 percent…

  • Cerón, Dionicio (Mexican athlete)

    London Marathon: Mexico’s Dionicio Cerón, Portugal’s Antonio Pinto, and Kenya’s Martin Lel share the record for most men’s victories, three, and Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway holds the women’s record with four marathon wins.

  • Cerophytidae (insect family)

    coleopteran: Annotated classification: Family Cerophytidae About 12 species in Europe and America; in hollow trees. Family Drilidae About 80 species, mainly in Europe; larvae prey on snails. Family Elateridae (click beetles) About 7,000 species; widely distributed; can leap

  • Ceroxylon (tree genus)

    palm: Economic importance: …of wax (the wax palm, Ceroxylon; the carnauba wax palm). Leaves of the gebang palm are made into umbrellas and books; others provide material for rain capes, baskets, raffia (Raphia farinifera), hats, hammocks, and the fibre known as piassava.

  • Cerrado (region, Brazil)

    Amazon basin: Amazon basin ecosystems: …in the basin is the Cerrado on Brazil’s central plateau. This vast grassland region encompasses some 2,000,000 square km (770,000 square miles) and covers one-fourth of the country’s land area. The savannas, palm swamps, grasslands, and forests of the Cerrado are home to 5 percent of the world’s species of…

  • Cërrik (Albania)

    Elbasan: Cërrik, a few miles to the southwest, has a petroleum refinery. Pop. (2001) 87,797; (2011) 78,703.

  • Cerrito, Fanny (Italian dancer)

    Fanny Cerrito was a ballerina noted for the brilliance, strength, and vivacity of her dancing, and one of the few women in the 19th century to achieve distinction as a choreographer. The daughter of an officer in the Neapolitan army, Cerrito was trained in the ballet school of the San Carlo opera

  • Cerrito, Francesca Teresa Giuseppa Raffaela (Italian dancer)

    Fanny Cerrito was a ballerina noted for the brilliance, strength, and vivacity of her dancing, and one of the few women in the 19th century to achieve distinction as a choreographer. The daughter of an officer in the Neapolitan army, Cerrito was trained in the ballet school of the San Carlo opera

  • Cerro Blanco (temple, Peru)

    pre-Columbian civilizations: Chavín monuments and temples: Cerro Blanco is a massive platform of conical adobes and stones, supporting rooms with walls bearing Chavín decoration, including eyes and feline fangs, modeled in mud plaster in low relief and painted red and greenish yellow. Punkurí has a low, terraced platform with a wide…

  • Cerro Castillo (palace, Viña del Mar, Chile)

    Viña del Mar: The Cerro Castillo, summer palace of Chilean presidents, was erected on a coastal bluff. The city is linked by bus and rail with Santiago, the national capital, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast. In the mid-20th century Viña del Mar grew rapidly as a residential suburb…

  • Cerro de las Mesas (archaeological site, Mexico)

    pre-Columbian civilizations: Southern Veracruz: Cerro de las Mesas, lying in the plains of the Papaloápan River not far from the coast, is one of these hybrid sites. Dozens of earthen mounds are scattered over the surface in a seemingly haphazard manner, and the archaeological sequence is long and complex.…

  • Cerro de Pasco (Peru)

    Cerro de Pasco, mining city, located in the highlands of central Peru, northeast of Lima, to which it is connected by rail and highway. One of the world’s highest cities, it lies at an elevation of 14,232 feet (4,338 m). Rich silver ores were discovered nearby in 1630, and for about two centuries

  • Cerro del Aripo, El (mountain, Trinidad and Tobago)

    Trinidad and Tobago: Relief and drainage: …3,084 feet (940 metres) at Mount Aripo (El Cerro del Aripo), the country’s highest peak. The Northern Range is the site of a large number of waterfalls, the most spectacular of which are the Blue Basin Falls and the Maracas Falls, both 298 feet (91 metres) high. On the southern…

  • Cerro Gordo, Battle of (United States-Mexican history)

    Battle of Cerro Gordo, (April 1847), confrontation at a mountain pass about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Veracruz, Mex., where the U.S. Army under General Winfield Scott first met serious resistance in the Mexican War. Advancing to the interior, Scott’s 8,500 men reached Plan del Río, a few miles

  • Cerro Rico (mountain, Bolivia)

    Potosí: …in the shadow of fabled Potosí Mountain (also called Cerro Rico [“Rich Mountain”]), which is honeycombed with thousands of mines. Legend attributes its name to potojchi or potocsi, a Quechua word meaning “deafening noise,” or “crash.”

  • Cerro Roraima (mountain, South America)

    Mount Roraima, giant flat-topped mountain, or mesa, in the Pakaraima Mountains of the Guiana Highlands, at the point where the boundaries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana meet. About 9 miles (14 km) long and 9,094 feet (2,772 meters) high, it is the source of many rivers of Guyana, and of the

  • Cerro Sechín (archaeological site, Peru)

    Cerro Sechín, pre-Columbian temple site in the present-day Casma Valley, of the north central coast of Peru, known for its unusual large stone sculptures. These carvings are in a style unlike anything else reported in Peru. The Cerro Sechín temple and sculptures presumably are quite early, although

  • Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (observatory, Chile)

    Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), astronomical observatory founded in 1965 in Chile as the southern branch of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. It is located on top of two mountains, Cerro Tololo, which is 7,200 feet (2,200 metres) high, and Cerro Pachon, which is 8,900 feet (2,700

  • Cerro, Luis M. Sánchez (president of Peru)

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