Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Volume 5, Slice 3

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When the practice of planting was introduced, the restoration of this fine bird to both countries was attempted. In Ireland the trial, of which some particulars are given by J....

_Defence._--Cape Town, being in the event of the closing of the Suez Canal on the main route of ships from Europe to the East, is of considerable strategic importance. It is def...

Capgrave was an indefatigable student, and was reputed one of the most learned men of his age. The bulk of his works are theological: sermons, commentaries and lives of saints....

F.H.R. Ludtge (_Pogg. Ann._ cxxxix. p. 620) experimented on liquid films, and showed how a film of a liquid of high surface-tension is replaced by a film of lower surface-tensio...

When c is greater than [epsilon] this is equivalent to 2H in the equation of Laplace. Hence the tension is the same for all films thicker than [epsilon], the range of the molecu...

The experimenters who have dealt with this question, C.G.M. Marangoni, van der Mensbrugghe, Quincke, have all arrived at results inconsistent with the reality of Neumann's trian...

If Tate's law be true, that _ceteris paribus_ M varies as a, it follows from (1) that F is constant. For all fluids and for all similar tubes similarly wetted, the weight of a d...

_Stability of the Cylinder._--The cylinder is the limiting form of the unduloid when the rolling ellipse becomes a circle. When the ellipse differs infinitely little from a circ...

The normal scattering of a nearly vertical jet is due to the _rebound_ of the drops when they come into collision with one another. Such collisions are inevitable in consequence...

Vibrations of this kind are observed whenever liquid issues from an elliptical or other non-circular hole, or even when it is poured from the lip of an ordinary jug; and they ar...

To any advance in the arts of industry or the comforts of life, a rate of production exceeding the rate of consumption, with consequent accumulation of resources, or in other wo...

_Belgium_.--Under the Belgian Penal Code of 1867 the death penalty is retained for certain forms of high treason, and for assassination and parricide by poisoning. It may not be...

The merit of clearly establishing these distinctions belongs to Boretius. He has doubtless exaggerated the difference between the _Capitula missorum_ and the _Capitula per se sc...

Capo d'Istria's rule in Greece had to contend against immense difficulties--the utter poverty of the treasury, the barbarism of the people but recently emancipated, the continue...

CAPPELLO, BIANCA (1548-1587), grand duchess of Tuscany, was the daughter of Bartolommeo Cappello, a member of one of the richest and noblest Venetian families, and was famed for...

CAPRIVI DE CAPRERA DE MONTECUCCOLI, GEORG LEO VON, COUNT (1831-1899), German soldier and statesman, was born on the 24th of February 1831 at Charlottenburg. The family springs f...

Capua changed hands frequently during the middle ages. One of the most memorable facts in its history is the terrible attack made on it in 1501 by Caesar Borgia, who had entered...

CAPYBARA, or CARPINCHO (_Hydrochaerus capybara_), the largest living rodent mammal, characterized by its moderately long limbs, partially-webbed toes, of which there are four in...

CARACCIOLO, FRANCESCO, PRINCE (1732-1799), Neapolitan admiral and revolutionist, was born on the 18th of January 1732, of a noble Neapolitan family. He entered the navy and lear...

CARAVAN (more correctly _Karwan_), a Persian word, adopted into the later Arabic vocabulary, and denoting, throughout Asiatic Turkey and Persia,[1] a body of traders travelling...

It crystallizes in rhombic needles, which melt at 42.5-43 deg. C., and boil at 182-183 deg. C.; its specific gravity is 1.0906 (0 deg. C.). It has a characteristic smell, and a...

It is a colourless gas, possessing a faint pungent smell and a slightly acid taste. It does not burn, and does not support ordinary combustion, but the alkali metals and magnesi...

Carbon bisulphide slowly oxidizes on exposure to air, but by the action of potassium permanganate or chromic acid it is readily oxidized to carbon dioxide and sulphuric acid. By...

In the Lower Carboniferous the flora was composed of six great groups of plants, viz. the Equisetales (Horse-tails), the Lycopodiales (Club mosses), the Filicales (Ferns) and Cy...

CARCAGENTE, or CARCAJENTE, a town of eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia; near the right bank of the river Jucar, at the junction between the Valencia-Murcia and Carcagen...

Probably no town in the kingdom has a nobler group of public buildings than those in Cathays Park, which also commands a view of the castle ramparts and the old keep. On opposit...

CARDIGAN (_Aberteifi_), a seaport, market-town and municipal borough, and the county town of Cardiganshire, Wales, picturesquely situated on the right bank of the Teifi about 3...

The second order of cardinals is that of the cardinal priests. It represents and is a continuation of the ancient _presbyterium_; but in Rome the process of evolution was differ...

CARDING, the process of using the "card" (Lat. _carduus_, a thistle or teasel) for combing textile fibrous materials. The practice of carding is of such great antiquity that its...

Carducci had been brought into more fraternal contact with the aims of the younger generation by the efforts of Angelo Sommaruga who became, about 1880, the publisher of a group...

His fundamental theoretic position relates to the antithesis of wealth and value. Carey held that land, as we are concerned with it in industrial life, is really an instrument o...

In England one of the earliest caricatures extant is that in the margin of the Forest Roll of Essex, 5, ed. 1, now at the Record Office; it is a grotesque portrait of "Aaron fil...

_France_.--In that peculiar branch of art which is based on irony, fun, oddity and wit, and in which Honore Daumier (1808-1879), next to "Gavarni" (1804-1866), remains the undis...

_Scandinavia._--Caricature flourishes also in the Scandinavian countries, but few names are known beyond their borders. Professor Hans Tegner of Denmark is an exception; his ill...

The education received by Carleton was of a very humble description. As his father removed from one small farm to another, he attended at various places the hedge-schools, which...

GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK HOWARD, 7th earl (1802-1864), was born in London on the 18th of April 1802. He was the eldest son of the 6th earl by his wife Lady Georgiana Cavendish,...

CARLOS, DON (1545-1568), prince of Asturias, was the son of Philip II. king of Spain, by his first wife Maria, daughter of John III., king of Portugal, and was born at Valladoli...

CARLOW, the county town of Co. Carlow, Ireland, on the navigable river Barrow. Pop. of urban district (1901) 6513. It is 56 m. S.W. of Dublin by the Great Southern & Western rai...

All this brought him into violent conflict with the elector, the university and Luther himself. His professorship and living were confiscated and, in September 1524, he went int...

In the beginning of 1833 the Carlyles made another trial of Edinburgh. There Carlyle found materials in the Advocates' Library for the article on the _Diamond Necklace_, one of...

The harsh judgments of individuals in the _Reminiscences_ had no parallel in his own writings. He scarcely ever mentions a contemporary, and was never involved in a personal con...

_History._--Carmarthenshire originally formed part of the lands of the Dimetae conquered by the Romans, who constructed military roads and built on the Via Julia the important s...

Of all movements in the Carmelite order by far the most important and far-reaching in its results has been the reform initiated by St Teresa. After nearly thirty years passed in...

CARNATIC, or KARNATAK (Kannada, Karnata, Karnatakadesa), a name given by Europeans to a region of southern India, between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel coast, in the pres...

Carneades, practically a 5th-century sophist, is the most important of the ancient sceptics. Negatively, his philosophy is a polemic against the Stoic theory of knowledge in all...