Benicio Del Toro: …Guevara in Soderbergh’s two-part biopic Che (2008), for which he won the best actor award at the Cannes film festival.

complex humanitarian emergency (CHE), type of disaster event that is caused by and results in a complicated set of social, medical, and often political circumstances, usually leading to great human suffering and death and requiring external assistance and aid. Complex humanitarian emergencies

Zhe school, group of conservative, academic Chinese painters who worked primarily in the 15th century, during the Ming dynasty. These painters specialized in large and decorative paintings that perpetuated the styles and interests of the Southern Song (1127–1279) academy of painting and represent a

Richard Fleischer: Middle years: Che! (1969), however, was a failure; the heavily romanticized account of the revolutionary leader’s life featured Omar Sharif as Che Guevara and Jack Palance as Fidel Castro.

Saturday Night Live: …Seth Meyers, Colin Jost, and Michael Che, among others.

Zhejiang, sheng (province) of southeastern China. It is one of the smallest province-level political units of China, but it is also one of the most densely populated and affluent. A coastal province, it is bounded by the East China Sea to the east, by the provinces of Fujian to the south, Jiangxi

Don Cheadle is an American film and television actor who is known for the scene-stealing yet understated intensity of his performances. Cheadle grew up in a middle-class family that often moved. He spent some of his elementary-school years in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from high school in

Don Cheadle is an American film and television actor who is known for the scene-stealing yet understated intensity of his performances. Cheadle grew up in a middle-class family that often moved. He spent some of his elementary-school years in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from high school in

Hannah More: …production of a series of “Cheap Repository Tracts.” Produced at the rate of three a month for three years with the help of her sisters and friends, the tracts sold for a penny each, 2,000,000 being circulated in a single year. They advised the poor in ingeniously homely language to…

R. Crumb: …was tapped to draw the Cheap Thrills album cover for a band named Big Brother & the Holding Company, which featured the up-and-coming blues vocalist Janis Joplin.

Heavy Metal: Music: …songs from Journey (“Open Arms”), Cheap Trick (“Reach Out” and “I Must Be Dreamin’ ”), Black Sabbath (“The Mob Rules”), Devo (“Working in the Coal Mine”), Blue Öyster Cult (“Veteran of the Psychic Wars”), Donald Fagen (“True Companion”), Stevie Nicks (“Blue Lamp”), Sammy Hagar (“Heavy Metal”), and the

Steve Martin: …Down the House (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and its sequel (2005). He later portrayed Inspector Jacques Clouseau, a character made famous by Peter Sellers, in The Pink Panther (2006) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009). Martin’s other films included It’s Complicated (2009),

Walter Lang: Films of the 1950s and ’60s: …Lang joined forces again for Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), a well-mounted adaptation of the popular memoir by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, with Webb as the stern paterfamilias of a brood of 12 children and Myrna Loy as his patient wife. The Jackpot (1950) was a…

Steve Martin: …the Dozen (2003) and its sequel (2005). He later portrayed Inspector Jacques Clouseau, a character made famous by Peter Sellers, in The Pink Panther (2006) and The Pink Panther 2 (2009). Martin’s other films included It’s Complicated (2009), The Big Year (2011), Home (2015), and

bromegrass: The common weed chess (B. secalinus), sometimes known as cheat, is found along roadsides and in grain fields. Cheatgrass, ripgut grass (B. diandrus), and foxtail brome (B. rubens) are dangerous to grazing animals; spines on their spikelets or bracts can puncture the animals’ eyes, mouths, and intestines, leading…

community ecology: Mutualism and cheaters: Because mutualisms develop through the manipulation of other species, they are always susceptible to invasion by “cheaters,” those organisms that can exploit an existing relationship without reciprocating an advantage. Theft of a resource is one type of crime a cheater engages in. Some plants,…

bromegrass: Several species, including cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), are invasive species in areas outside their native range.

bromegrass, (genus Bromus), genus of approximately 160 annual and perennial grasses in the family Poaceae, found in temperate and cool climates. More than 40 species are found in the United States, a number of which are imporant forage grasses. Several species, including cheatgrass (Bromus

Sammy Price: …clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow, and trumpeter Doc Cheatham. Price toured in Europe, operated nightclubs in Dallas, Texas, organized jazz festivals in Philadelphia, was involved in politics in New York City, and was an artist in residence at Harvard University (1985). His autobiography is entitled What Do They Want? (1989).

Sammy Price: …clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow, and trumpeter Doc Cheatham. Price toured in Europe, operated nightclubs in Dallas, Texas, organized jazz festivals in Philadelphia, was involved in politics in New York City, and was an artist in residence at Harvard University (1985). His autobiography is entitled What Do They Want? (1989).

dice: Cheating with dice: Perfect dice are also known as fair dice, levels, or squares, whereas dice that have been tampered with, or expressly made for cheating, are known as crooked or gaffed dice. Such dice have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt and…

Cheb, city, extreme western Czech Republic. Cheb lies along the Ohře River, near the German border. Its history has been full of violence, for it guards the easiest approach to Bohemia from the northwest. The city passed in the 13th century from Swabian rulers to Otakar I, king of Bohemia, and it

Shebaa Farms, area of land along the border of Lebanon and the Golan Heights (a territory recognized by most of the international community as part of Syria but occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War [1967]) that is claimed by Lebanon, internationally recognized as part of Syria, and occupied by

Earth impact hazard: …than 1,500 people in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia were injured, mostly by flying glass which had been shattered by the shock wave of a meteorite 17 metres (56 feet) wide breaking up in the atmosphere. (The only verified case of a meteorite hitting and injuring a human being occurred…

South American Indian languages: Grammatical characteristics: Other languages like Jebero express fundamentally modal categories. Very common are affixes indicating movement, chiefly toward and away from the speaker, and location (e.g., in Quechumaran, Záparo, Itonama), and in some stocks like Arawakan and Panoan there are many suffixes in the verb with very concrete adverbial meaning,…

Cheboksary, city and capital, Chuvashia republic, Russia. It lies on the right bank of the middle Volga River, between Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. Although Cheboksary is known to have existed since the mid-15th century, and a fortress was built there in 1555, the town remained unimportant until the

Cheboygan, city, seat (1853) of Cheboygan county, northern Michigan, U.S. The city lies along the Cheboygan River as it enters Lake Huron near the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac. According to some reports, the site was a Native American camping ground until it was settled by Jacob Sammons

Pafnuty Chebyshev: The Chebyshev parallel motion is a three-bar linkage that gives a very close approximation to exact rectilinear motion. His mathematical writings covered a wide range of subjects, including the theory of probabilities, quadratic forms, orthogonal functions, the theory of integrals, gearings, the construction of geographic maps,…

Chebyshev’s inequality, in probability theory, a theorem that characterizes the dispersion of data away from its mean (average). The general theorem is attributed to the 19th-century Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev, though credit for it should be shared with the French mathematician

Pafnuty Chebyshev was the founder of the St. Petersburg mathematical school (sometimes called the Chebyshev school), who is remembered primarily for his work on the theory of prime numbers and on the approximation of functions. Chebyshev became assistant professor of mathematics at the University

Pafnuty Chebyshev was the founder of the St. Petersburg mathematical school (sometimes called the Chebyshev school), who is remembered primarily for his work on the theory of prime numbers and on the approximation of functions. Chebyshev became assistant professor of mathematics at the University

Erg Chech, sandy region of the Sahara in western Algeria and northern Mali. It consists largely of shifting

Chefchaouene, town, northern Morocco, situated in the Rif mountain range. Founded as a holy city in 1471 by the warrior Abū Youma and later moved by Sīdī ʿAlī ibn Rashīd to its present site at the base of Mount El-Chaouene, it became a refuge for Moors expelled from Spain. A site long closed to

Chefchaouene, town, northern Morocco, situated in the Rif mountain range. Founded as a holy city in 1471 by the warrior Abū Youma and later moved by Sīdī ʿAlī ibn Rashīd to its present site at the base of Mount El-Chaouene, it became a refuge for Moors expelled from Spain. A site long closed to

Chechnya: People: …main ethnic group is the Chechens, with minorities of Russians and Ingush. The Chechens and the Ingush are both Muslim and are two of the many Caucasian mountain peoples whose language belongs to the Nakh group. Fiercely independent, the Chechens and other Caucasian tribes mounted a prolonged resistance to Russian…

Caspian Sea: Physical features: The largest are Chechen, Tyuleny, Morskoy, Kulaly, Zhiloy, and Ogurchin.

Caucasian languages: Nakho-Dagestanian languages: The Nakh languages consist of Chechen (890,000 speakers), Ingush (210,000), and Bats (or Tsova-Tushian, about 3,000 speakers). The Chechens and Ingush live in Chechnya and Ingushetiya; the Bats dwell in the village Zemo-Alvani in the Akhmeta district of northeastern Georgia. Both Chechen and Ingush, which are fairly similar to one…

Chechnya, republic in southwestern Russia, situated on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. Chechnya is bordered by Russia proper on the north, Dagestan republic on the east and southeast, the country of Georgia on the southwest, and Ingushetiya republic on the west. In the early 21st

Chechnya, republic in southwestern Russia, situated on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. Chechnya is bordered by Russia proper on the north, Dagestan republic on the east and southeast, the country of Georgia on the southwest, and Ingushetiya republic on the west. In the early 21st

Chechnya, republic in southwestern Russia, situated on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. Chechnya is bordered by Russia proper on the north, Dagestan republic on the east and southeast, the country of Georgia on the southwest, and Ingushetiya republic on the west. In the early 21st

Chechnya, republic in southwestern Russia, situated on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. Chechnya is bordered by Russia proper on the north, Dagestan republic on the east and southeast, the country of Georgia on the southwest, and Ingushetiya republic on the west. In the early 21st

Chechnya, republic in southwestern Russia, situated on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. Chechnya is bordered by Russia proper on the north, Dagestan republic on the east and southeast, the country of Georgia on the southwest, and Ingushetiya republic on the west. In the early 21st

Chechnya, republic in southwestern Russia, situated on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. Chechnya is bordered by Russia proper on the north, Dagestan republic on the east and southeast, the country of Georgia on the southwest, and Ingushetiya republic on the west. In the early 21st

check, bill of exchange drawn on a bank and payable on demand; it has become the chief form of money in the domestic commerce of developed countries. As a written order to pay money, it may be transferred from one person to another by endorsement and delivery or, in certain cases, by delivery

chess: Object of the game: …is said to be in check. The game is won when one king is in check and cannot avoid capture on the next move; this is called checkmate. A game also can end when a player, believing the situation to be hopeless, acknowledges defeat by resigning.

keyboard instrument: Invention: Cristofori provided a check (a pad rising from the back of the key) to catch and hold the falling hammer. At the end of the key he included a separate slip of wood, resembling a harpsichord jack, to carry the dampers that silence the string when the key…

information theory: Error-correcting and error-detecting codes: …of error-detecting code is the parity code, which adds one bit to a block of bits so that the ones in the block always add up to either an odd or even number. For example, an odd parity code might replace the two-bit code words 00, 01, 10, and 11…

check kiting, fraud committed against a banking institution in which access is gained to deposited funds in one account before they can be collected from another account upon which they are drawn. The scheme usually involves several checking accounts at several different banks. In effect, a bank

Beastie Boys: Check Your Head (1992), the Beastie Boys’ first release on Grand Royal, featured a collection of radio-friendly rhymes that layered pop culture references over distorted funk instrumentation. The group’s next album, Ill Communication (1994), had a similar sound, and the music video for the hit…

Hank Ballard: …covered by American Bandstand stalwart Chubby Checker, Ballard’s popularity was confined primarily to a wildly appreciative Black audience that made the Midnighters a hit on the Chitlin Circuit (music venues that attracted African American audiences). “Work with Me Annie”—which prompted a raft of answer songs, most notably “Roll with Me…

Gaultheria: Major species: Wintergreen (G. procumbens), also called checkerberry or teaberry, is a creeping shrub with white bell-shaped flowers, spicy red fruits, and aromatic shiny leaves.

partridgeberry, (Mitchella repens), North American plant of the madder family (Rubiaceae), growing in dry woods from southwestern Newfoundland westward to Minnesota and southward to Florida and Texas. Partridgeberry is a good wild-garden plant for shady places and is popular in winter terrariums

Buddy Guy: …renowned blues clubs in Chicago—the Checkerboard Lounge (1972–85) and (since 1989) Buddy Guy’s Legends. In 2012 he published the autobiography When I Left Home: My Story (written with David Ritz).

checkered beetle, any of the approximately 3,000 species of the insect family Cleridae (order Coleoptera). Checkered beetles occur throughout the world, mainly in the tropics; the common name derives from their markings and coloration (orange, red, yellow, green, and blue). They range between 3 and

elephant shrew: Checkered elephant shrews (Rhynchocyon cirnei) weigh about half a kilogram (1.1 pounds), with a body 23 to 31 cm (9 to 12 inches) long and a slightly shorter tail (18 to 25 cm). The fur is short, stiff, and glossy. Upperparts may be patterned with…

checkers, board game, one of the world’s oldest games. Checkers is played by two persons who oppose each other across a board of 64 light and dark squares, the same as a chessboard. The 24 playing pieces are disk-shaped and of contrasting colours (whatever their colours, they are identified as

artificial intelligence: The first AI programs: Strachey’s checkers (draughts) program ran on the Ferranti Mark I computer at the University of Manchester, England. By the summer of 1952 this program could play a complete game of checkers at a reasonable speed.

Richard Nixon: Vice presidency: …televised address, the so-called “Checkers” speech, in which he acknowledged the existence of the fund but denied that any of it had been used improperly. To demonstrate that he had not enriched himself in office, he listed his family’s financial assets and liabilities in embarrassing detail, noting that his…

conservation: Surviving but threatened small populations: …long-term study of the Bay checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha bayensis) in the grasslands above Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In 1960 scientists began following the fate of several local populations of the butterfly at a time when grasslands around San Francisco Bay were being lost to housing developments. The…

checkerwork, in architecture, masonry built of two materials, usually stone and flint or stone and brick, so arranged as to make a checkerboard pattern and to give variety in texture and colour. Stone and flint checkerwork is common in the parish churches and smaller houses of East Anglia, England;

ice hockey: Rules and principles of play: Checking—body contact to take an opponent out of play—is permitted anywhere on the ice. In most leagues, including the NHL, players may not make or take a pass that has traveled across the two blue lines; if this occurs, the play is ruled offside. A…

Tools to power your budgeting, saving, and goal planning.Whether you’ve started your first job or your first well-paying one, now that you’ve begun making money, you need someplace to keep it. A reputable bank backed by the federal government is a solid choice. Next, you’ll have to decide what type

chess: Object of the game: …next move; this is called checkmate. A game also can end when a player, believing the situation to be hopeless, acknowledges defeat by resigning.

Juan Manuel Santos: Four months later Santos supervised Operation Checkmate, an intelligence operation that led to the dramatic rescue of 15 hostages held by the FARC, including Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt. Those two events, along with the death by heart attack of FARC founder Manuel Marulanda Vélez in March 2008, dealt a devastating…

Checkpoint Charlie, the best known official crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. It is located on the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Zimmerstrasse and was the designated crossing point for foreign tourists and dignitaries and for members of the Allied armed

checks and balances, principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power. Checks and balances are applied primarily in constitutional governments. They are of fundamental importance in tripartite governments, such

heraldry: Ordinaries: Checky, or chequy, describes the field or charge divided into squares of two tinctures, like a checkerboard. Billets are oblong figures. If their number exceeds 10 and they are irregularly placed, the field is described as billetté. The pall, or shakefork, is the upper half…

checkers, board game, one of the world’s oldest games. Checkers is played by two persons who oppose each other across a board of 64 light and dark squares, the same as a chessboard. The 24 playing pieces are disk-shaped and of contrasting colours (whatever their colours, they are identified as

cheddar, hard cow’s-milk cheese named for the district of its origin in the southwestern county of Somerset, England. Cheddar is one of England’s oldest cheeses. The original so-called farmhouse variety remains in limited production in modern times. In the traditional method of cheddar manufacture,

Cheddar, village (parish), Sedgemoor district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It is situated at the mouth of a spectacular limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills. The gorge (now owned by the National Trust) and caverns, in which human remains and artifacts dating

Ayutthaya: The Chedi Si Suriyothai (Queen Suriyothai Memorial) is a monument to a famous queen who died in battle saving her husband, and Phra Mongkhon Bophit sanctuary contains one of the world’s largest seated images of the Buddha. Ayutthaya also has a massive elephant kraal (walled enclosure),…

Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, a rare inherited childhood disease characterized by the inability of white blood cells called phagocytes to destroy invading microorganisms. Persons with Chédiak-Higashi syndrome experience persistent or recurrent infections. Other symptoms associated with the disease

kabaddi, game played between two teams on opposite halves of a field or court. Individual players take turns crossing onto the other team’s side, repeating “kabaddi, kabaddi” (or an alternate chant); points are scored by tagging as many opponents as possible without being caught or taking a breath

Cheduba Island, island in the Bay of Bengal, southwestern Myanmar (Burma). It lies about 30 miles (50 km) west of Taungup on the Arakan Coast and is separated from Ramree Island to the north by the Cheduba Strait. It is 20 miles (32 km) long and 17 miles (27 km) wide and has an area of 202 square

Kenny Rogers: …actor Jason Robards; and comedians Cheech and Chong.

human digestive system: The lips and cheeks: The lips, two fleshy folds that surround the mouth, are composed externally of skin and internally of mucous membrane, or mucosa. The mucosa is rich in mucus-secreting glands, which together with saliva ensure adequate lubrication for the purposes of speech and mastication.

orangutan: Reproduction: …particularly the flat and prominent cheek pads that develop along the sides of the face. The pads enhance the size of the head and are linked with increased levels of testosterone. Adult males also have a throat pouch that serves as a resonating chamber for the “long call,” a sequence…

golden hamster: …furry ears and huge internal cheek pouches that open inside the lips and extend to behind the shoulders. The tail is stubby and can be either white or pink.

Tony Bennett: Cross-generational collaborations: His next significant release was Cheek to Cheek (2014), an album of jazz standards from the Great American Songbook recorded with pop artist Lady Gaga, who had previously appeared on Duets II. That record also won a Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album as did The Silver Lining: The…

Sir John Cheke was an English humanist and supporter of the Protestant Reformation who, as the poet John Milton said, “taught Cambridge and King Edward Greek” and who, with his friend Sir Thomas Smith, discovered the proper pronunciation of ancient Greek. Through his teaching he made the University

zygomatic bone, diamond-shaped bone below and lateral to the orbit, or eye socket, at the widest part of the cheek. It adjoins the frontal bone at the outer edge of the orbit and the sphenoid and maxilla within the orbit. It forms the central part of the zygomatic arch by its attachments to the

Cheektowaga, town (township), Erie county, western New York, U.S. It lies immediately east of Buffalo, on Ellicott, Scajaquada, and Cayuga creeks, near Lake Erie. Originally part of the Holland Land Purchase and the town of Amherst, the site was first settled in 1808 by Appollos Hitchcock, who was

one-horse shay, open two-wheeled vehicle that was the American adaptation of the French chaise. Its chairlike body, seating the passengers on one seat above the axle, was hung by leather braces from a pair of square wooden springs attached to the shafts. Early one-horse shays had fixed standing

Otto Ludwig: …Heiteretei und ihr Widerspiel (1851; The Cheerful Ones and Their Opposites) and Zwischen Himmel und Erde (1855; Between Heaven and Earth). His Shakespeare-Studien (1891) showed him to be a discriminating critic, but his preoccupation with literary theory proved something of a hindrance to his success as a creative writer.

General Mills, Inc.: Familiar products include Wheaties and Cheerios (originally introduced as Cheerioats in 1941; renamed Cheerios four years later) breakfast cereals, Gold Medal flour, Yoplait yogurt, and Bisquick baking mix. During those early years, the company also created the personage of Betty Crocker, who became of one of the most widely known…

General Mills, Inc.: Familiar products include Wheaties and Cheerios (originally introduced as Cheerioats in 1941; renamed Cheerios four years later) breakfast cereals, Gold Medal flour, Yoplait yogurt, and Bisquick baking mix. During those early years, the company also created the personage of Betty Crocker, who became of one of the most widely known…

cheerleading, team activity in which elements of dance and acrobatics are combined with shouted slogans in order to entertain spectators at sporting events and to encourage louder and more enthusiastic cheering. Once exclusively a sideline activity geared toward supporting school sports,

Cheers, popular American television comedy series that appeared on NBC for 11 seasons (1982–93), ranking in the top 10 of the year-end Nielsen ratings seven times. A mixture of comedy and soap-opera romance, it followed the lives of the staff and patrons of Cheers, a fictional bar in Boston.

Tay Garnett: Films of the 1940s: Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) was a departure for Garnett; the sentimental piece centres on a schoolteacher (Martha Scott) who devotes herself to her students to make up for the emptiness of her personal life. He turned to World War II for Bataan (1943), a…

cheese, nutritious food consisting primarily of the curd, the semisolid substance formed when milk curdles, or coagulates. Curdling occurs naturally if milk is not used promptly: it sours, forming an acid curd, which releases whey, a watery fluid containing the soluble constituents; and it leaves

historiography: Social and cultural history: …famous examples are Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms (1980), about the unorthodox cosmological and theological beliefs of a 16th-century Italian miller, and Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre (1983), a scholarly treatment of a famous true story about an imposter who took over the farm (and…

cheese making, process by which milk is transformed into cheese. With the variety of milks, bacterial cultures, enzymes, molds, environmental conditions, and technical processes, literally hundreds of varieties of cheese are made throughout the world. See also list of cheeses. Primitive forms of

casein painting, painting executed with colours ground in a solution of casein, a phosphoprotein of milk precipitated by heating with an acid or by lactic acid in souring. In the form of homemade curd made from soured skim milk, it has been a traditional adhesive and binder for more than eight

skipper, (family Piophilidae), any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, in which the larvae are known for jumping or skipping when alarmed. The family name means “fat-loving,” and many species breed in fatty materials such as cheese and meat, where they can become serious pests.

casu marzu: …a cheese fly known as Piophila casei are introduced to the cheese. The grubs are allowed to grow inside the cheese paste to encourage an advanced level of fermentation, one that most people would describe as decomposition. The developing grubs produce a spicy cream inside the cheese with a very…

hamburger: …the variation known as the cheeseburger, a slice of cheese is melted over the patty; bacon burgers are laden with strips of bacon. The patty itself is often seasoned or augmented with chopped onions, spices, or bread crumbs before cooking.

cheesecake, a dessert consisting of a thick, creamy filling of cheese, eggs, and sugar over a thinner crust and topped with sweet or sometimes salty items. North American variations of cheesecake, including the type known as New York style, use cream cheese in the filling and a crispy crust made

gauze: Similar fabrics include cheesecloth, made of cotton, originally used as a wrapping for pressed cheese and now used in bookbinding, as reinforcing in paper where high strength is desired, and for dustcloths and the like; bunting, made of cotton or wool, dyed and used for flags and decorations;…

cheese making, process by which milk is transformed into cheese. With the variety of milks, bacterial cultures, enzymes, molds, environmental conditions, and technical processes, literally hundreds of varieties of cheese are made throughout the world. See also list of cheeses. Primitive forms of

cheesesteak, a sandwich made with sliced or chopped steak and melted cheese on a long sandwich roll. While its origins are subject to debate, brothers Pat and Harry Olivieri are often credited with coming up with the idea in South Philadelphia in the 1930s. The sandwich soon gained popularity, and