- Chester (district, England, United Kingdom)
Chester: …area) and former city (district), Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority, northwestern England. It is situated on a small sandstone ridge at the head of the estuary of the River Dee.
- Chester (England, United Kingdom)
Chester, urban area (from 2011 built-up area) and former city (district), Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority, northwestern England. It is situated on a small sandstone ridge at the head of the estuary of the River Dee. The town’s location was chosen by the Romans as headquarters of Legion
- Chester (county, Pennsylvania, United States)
Chester, county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a hilly piedmont region bounded to the southwest by Octoraro Creek, to the south by Maryland and Delaware, and to the northeast by the Schuylkill River. Some other waterways are French, Brandywine, Ridley, and Big Elk creeks and
- Chester (county, South Carolina, United States)
Chester, county, northern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated between the Broad and Catawba rivers in a hilly piedmont region of pine and hardwood forests. Chester and Landsford Canal state parks lie within its borders, as does part of Sumter National Forest. In the colonial era the region was part
- Chester (Pennsylvania, United States)
Chester, city, Delaware county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Delaware River (across from Bridgeport, New Jersey), within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. One of the oldest communities in the state, the Chester area was granted by the Swedish crown to a bodyguard of Johan Printz, the
- Chester Beatty Papyrus (Egyptian document)
dream: Dreams as a source of divination: …dreams predict the future; the Chester Beatty Papyrus is a record of Egyptian dream interpretations dating from the 12th dynasty (1991–1786 bce). In Homer’s Iliad, Agamemnon is visited in a dream by a messenger of the god Zeus to prescribe his future actions. From India, a document called the Atharvaveda,…
- Chester County Military Academy (university, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States)
Widener University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. It comprises schools of arts and sciences; law; education, innovation, and continuing studies; hospitality management; human service professions; engineering; nursing; and business
- Chester plays (English theater)
Chester plays, 14th-century cycle of 25 scriptural plays, or mystery plays, performed at the prosperous city of Chester, in northern England, during the Middle Ages. They are traditionally dated about 1325, but a date of about 1375 has also been suggested. They were presented on three successive
- Chester White (pig)
livestock farming: Breeds: The Chester White, which originated in Chester county, Pa., after 1818, is restricted to the United States and Canada.
- Chester, Hugh of Avranches, 1st Earl of, Vicomte d’Avranches (Norman noble)
Hugh of Avranches, 1st earl of Chester , 1st earl of Chester, was the son of Richard, Viscount d’Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father’s viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had special privileges in his earldom,
- Chester, Hugh of Avranches, 1st Earl of, Vicomte D’avranches (Norman noble)
Hugh of Avranches, 1st earl of Chester , 1st earl of Chester, was the son of Richard, Viscount d’Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father’s viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had special privileges in his earldom,
- Chester, Ranulf de Blundeville, 6th Earl of, Earl Of Richmond, Earl Of Lincoln, Vicomte De Bayeux, Vicomte D’avranches (English noble)
Ranulf de Blundeville, 6th earl of Chester was the most celebrated of the early earls of Chester, with whom the family fortunes reached their peak. Ranulf succeeded his father Hugh de Kevelioc (1147–81), son of Ranulf, the 4th earl, in 1181 and was created Earl of Lincoln in 1217. He married
- Chester, Ranulf de Blundeville, 6th Earl of, Earl of Richmond, Earl of Lincoln, Vicomte de Bayeux, Vicomte d’Avranches (English noble)
Ranulf de Blundeville, 6th earl of Chester was the most celebrated of the early earls of Chester, with whom the family fortunes reached their peak. Ranulf succeeded his father Hugh de Kevelioc (1147–81), son of Ranulf, the 4th earl, in 1181 and was created Earl of Lincoln in 1217. He married
- Chester, Ranulf de Gernons, 4th Earl of, Vicomte de Bayeux, Vicomte d’Avranches (English noble)
Ranulf de Gernons, 4th earl of Chester was the 4th earl of Chester and a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Initially taking Matilda’s part, he fought for her in the Battle of
- Chester, Ranulf de Gernons, 4th Earl of, Vicomte De Bayeux, Vicomte D’avranches (English noble)
Ranulf de Gernons, 4th earl of Chester was the 4th earl of Chester and a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Initially taking Matilda’s part, he fought for her in the Battle of
- Chester-le-Street (England, United Kingdom)
Chester-le-Street, town and former district, unitary authority and historic county of Durham, northern England. It is situated at the southern edge of the Tyne and Wear metropolitan county near the River Wear. It was the site of a Roman station behind the frontier of Hadrian’s Wall, a defensive
- Chesterfield (England, United Kingdom)
Chesterfield, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England, at the junction of the Rivers Rother and Hipper. The borough comprises the town of Chesterfield and surrounding areas, including the town of Staveley. Archaeological excavations have confirmed the
- Chesterfield (district, England, United Kingdom)
Chesterfield: (district), administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England, at the junction of the Rivers Rother and Hipper. The borough comprises the town of Chesterfield and surrounding areas, including the town of Staveley.
- chesterfield (furniture)
settee: …with an inclined back; the chesterfield, a large, very heavily stuffed and buttoned variety; the hall settee, largely an 18th-century form, usually having an upholstered seat and elaborately carved back, designed to be used with matching chairs in a hall or gallery; and the daybed, a carved or upholstered piece…
- Chesterfield (county, South Carolina, United States)
Chesterfield, northeastern South Carolina, U.S. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the east by the Great Pee Dee River, and to the west by the Lynches River; it is also drained by Black Creek. It lies for the most part in the Fall Line sandhills and is heavily forested in pines,
- Chesterfield Islands (islands, New Caledonia)
Chesterfield Islands, group of coral islands in the French overseas country of New Caledonia, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The group comprises 11 well-wooded islets, none of which exceeds 1.5 miles (2.5 km) in length. The main islands are Long, Bampton, Reynard, Loop, and Avon islands, and the Three
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (English writer)
Philip Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield was a British statesman, diplomat, and wit, chiefly remembered as the author of Letters to His Son and Letters to His Godson—guides to manners, the art of pleasing, and the art of worldly success. After a short period of study at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he
- Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, 4th earl of (English writer)
Philip Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield was a British statesman, diplomat, and wit, chiefly remembered as the author of Letters to His Son and Letters to His Godson—guides to manners, the art of pleasing, and the art of worldly success. After a short period of study at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he
- Chesterian Series (rock unit, North America)
Chesterian Series, uppermost major stratigraphic division of North American rocks of the Mississippian Period (the Mississippian began about 345,000,000 years ago and lasted about 20,000,000 years). Excellent exposures of Chesterian rocks occur in the Mississippi Valley region, where they consist
- Chesterton, G.K. (British author)
G.K. Chesterton was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure. (Read Chesterton’s 1929 Britannica essay on Dickens.) Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s School and later studied art at the Slade School and
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (British author)
G.K. Chesterton was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure. (Read Chesterton’s 1929 Britannica essay on Dickens.) Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s School and later studied art at the Slade School and
- chestnut (plant)
chestnut, (genus Castanea), genus of seven species of deciduous treesin the beech family (Fagaceae), native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The burlike fruits contain edible nuts and several species are cultivated as ornamental and timber trees. Some members of the genus are known
- chestnut bamboo rat (rodent)
bamboo rat: The lesser bamboo rat (genus Cannomys) is smaller—15 to 27 cm long, excluding the 6- to 8-cm tail. Its long, dense fur ranges from chestnut brown to a bright pale gray.
- chestnut blight (plant disease)
chestnut blight, plant disease caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly known as Endothia parasitica). Accidentally imported from Asia, the disease was first observed in 1904 in the New York Zoological Gardens. By 1925 it had decimated the American chestnut (Castanea dentata)
- chestnut blight fungus (fungus species)
Ascomycota: chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica), and apple scab (Venturia inequalis).
- chestnut mannikin (bird)
munia: The black-headed munia, or chestnut mannikin (Lonchura malacca, including atricapilla and ferruginosa), is a pest in rice fields from India to Java and the Philippines; as a cage bird it is often called tricolour nun. Others kept as pets include the white-headed munia (L. maja) of…
- chestnut oak (plant)
chestnut oak, any of several species of North American timber trees, with chestnutlike leaves, belonging to the white oak group of the genus Quercus in the beech family (Fagaceae). Specifically, chestnut oak refers to Q. prinus (or Q. montana), also called rock chestnut oak, a tree found on rocky
- chestnut soil
Africa: Chestnut-brown soils: In the semiarid areas bordering the desert, increased rainfall makes grass vegetation more plentiful, results in rocks becoming more weathered than in the desert, and produces better developed soils with a higher humus content. It is the humus content that, according to the…
- Chestnut Street (short stories by Binchy)
Maeve Binchy: The collections Chestnut Street (2014) and A Few of the Girls (2016) were published posthumously. She authored several plays for the stage and for television.
- Chestnut Street Opera House (theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
stagecraft: Early history: The Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia installed a gas lighting system in 1816 and supplied its own gas by installing a gas generator on the premises. (Gas stations and city mains did not come into use before 1850.) The advantages of gas lighting were immediately…
- chestnut-brown soil
Africa: Chestnut-brown soils: In the semiarid areas bordering the desert, increased rainfall makes grass vegetation more plentiful, results in rocks becoming more weathered than in the desert, and produces better developed soils with a higher humus content. It is the humus content that, according to the…
- chestnut-leaved oak (tree)
oak: Major species and uses: pontica), chestnut-leaved oak (Q. castaneaefolia), golden oak (Q. alnifolia), Holm, or holly, oak (Q. ilex), Italian oak (Q. frainetto), Lebanon oak (Q. libani), Macedonian oak (Q. trojana), and Portuguese oak
- chestnut-mandibled toucan (bird)
toucan: …several species, such as the chestnut-mandibled toucan, the fiery-billed aracari, and the yellow-ridged toucan, describe their beaks, which are often brightly coloured in pastel shades of green, red, white, and yellow. This coloration is probably used by the birds for species recognition, as many toucans have similar body patterns and…
- Chétardie, Jacques-Joachim Trotti, Marquis de La (French diplomat)
Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie was a French officer and diplomat who helped raise the princess Elizabeth to the throne of Russia. La Chétardie entered French military service at an early age and rose through the ranks, becoming lieutenant (1721), major (1730), and colonel (1734).
- Chetham, Humphrey (English philanthropist)
library: 17th and 18th centuries and the great national libraries: …lay donation: a Manchester merchant, Humphrey Chetham, left money in 1653 for the foundation of parish libraries in Bolton and Manchester and also for the establishment of a town library in Manchester (which still exists, housed in its original bookcases, in its original building). Later, in the 18th century, especially…
- Chetnik (Serbian military organization)
Chetnik, member of a Serbian nationalist guerrilla force that formed during World War II to resist the Axis invaders and Croatian collaborators but that primarily fought a civil war against the Yugoslav communist guerrillas, the Partisans. After the surrender of the Yugoslav royal army in April
- Chetrī (people)
Pahāṛī, people who constitute about three-fifths the population of Nepal and a majority of the population of neighbouring Himalayan India (in Himachal Pradesh and northern Uttar Pradesh). They speak languages belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family. The people are
- Chettle, Henry (English dramatist)
Henry Chettle was an English dramatist, one among many of the versatile, popular writers of the Elizabethan Age. Chettle began his career as a printer and associated with such literary men as Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe. He prepared for posthumous publication Greenes Groats-Worth of Witte
- Chetumal (Mexico)
Chetumal, city, capital of Quintana Roo estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It is situated in the eastern Yucatán Peninsula, just north of the Belizean border. Chetumal lies at the mouth of the Hondo River on the Bay of Chetumal (an extension of the Caribbean Sea), at an elevation of 20 feet (6
- Cheung Kong (company)
Li Ka-shing: …eventually formed a plastics company, Cheung Kong. Business boomed throughout the 1950s, when Cheung Kong began making artificial flowers and exporting them to the United States. As the firm prospered, Li began to acquire property at a rate that by the late 1970s made him Hong Kong’s leading private developer.
- Cheung, Maggie (Hong Kong-born British actress)
Wong Kar-Wai: …(Leung) and Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), a man and a woman whose spouses are having an affair. The film’s lush score and detailed recreations of 1960s fashions and interiors, as well as the restrained yet emotional performances of Cheung and Leung, won it the instant acclaim of many as…
- cheval glass (mirror)
cheval glass, tall dressing mirror, suspended between two pillars, usually joined by horizontal bars immediately above and below the mirror and resting on two pairs of long feet. The cheval glass was first made toward the end of the 18th century. The glass could be tilted at any angle by means of
- Cheval sans tête (work by Berna)
children’s literature: The 20th century: …in the United States as The Horse Without a Head and was made into a successful Disney film. A “gang” story, using a hard, unemotional tone that recalls Simenon, it may be the best of its kind since Emil and the Detectives.
- chevalier (French title)
chevalier, (French: “horseman”), a French title originally equivalent to the English knight. Later the title chevalier came to be used in a variety of senses not always denoting membership in any order of chivalry; it was frequently used by men of noble birth or noble pretensions who could not
- chevalier (cavalryman)
knight, now a title of honour bestowed for a variety of services, as in the British system of nobility and peerage, but originally in the European Middle Ages a formally professed cavalryman. The first medieval knights were professional cavalry warriors, some of whom were vassals holding lands as
- Chevalier à la mode, Le (work by Dancourt)
Florent Carton Dancourt: His best-known work, Le Chevalier à la mode (1687; “The Knight à la Mode”), deals with a fortune hunter’s simultaneous courtship of three women. Other plays are Les Bourgeoises à la mode (1692) and Les Bourgeoises de qualité (1700), in which middle-class women ape the nobility, La Désolation…
- Chevalier au cygne (French poem)
Lohengrin: …version of the legend, the Chevalier au cygne, the knight of the swan (here called Helyas) married Beatrix of Bouillon, the story being arranged and elaborated to glorify the house of Bouillon. Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade, was held to be the son of a mysterious…
- chevalier au lion, Le (work by Chrétien de Troyes)
Chrétien de Troyes: …wife of his overlord Arthur; Yvain, a brilliant extravaganza, combining the theme of a widow’s too hasty marriage to her husband’s slayer with that of the new husband’s fall from grace and final restoration to favour. Perceval, which Chrétien left unfinished, unites the religious theme of the Holy Grail with…
- chevalier de la charrette, Le (work by Chrétien de Troyes)
Guinevere: …charette, she was rescued by Lancelot (a character whom Chrétien had earlier named as one of Arthur’s knights) from the land of Gorre, to which she had been taken by Meleagant (a version of the story that was incorporated in the 13th-century prose Vulgate cycle). Chrétien presented her as one…
- Chevalier des Touches, Le (work by Barbey d’Aurevilly)
Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly: …background of the French Revolution: Le Chevalier des Touches (1864), dealing with the rebellion of the Chouans (bands of Norman outlaws) against the French Republic, and Un Prêtre marié (1865; “A Married Priest”), dealing with the sufferings of a priest under the new regime. Les Diaboliques (1874; Weird Women), a…
- Chevalier Pinetti (conjurer)
Pinetti was a magician who founded the classical school of magic, characterized by elaborate tricks and the use of mechanical devices (suitable, as a rule, for stage performance only). While touring Europe in the 1780s, he introduced the second-sight trick (the apparent transference of thought from
- Chevalier, Albert (British actor)
Albert Chevalier was an actor and music-hall entertainer known as the “costers’ laureate” because of his songs in cockney dialect on London common life (a coster is a cart peddler). An actor from 1877, he made his music-hall debut in 1891 at the London Pavillion, where he was an immediate hit,
- Chevalier, Guillaume-Sulpice (French artist)
Paul Gavarni was a French lithographer and painter whose work is enjoyable for its polished wit, cultured observation, and the panorama it presents of the life of his time. However, his work lacks the power of his great contemporary Honoré Daumier. About 1831 Gavarni began publishing his scenes of
- Chevalier, Jules (French priest and author)
Jules Chevalier was a priest, author, and founder of the Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), commonly called Sacred Heart Missionaries. This is a Roman Catholic congregation of men originally dedicated to teaching and restoring the faith in the rural
- Chevalier, Maurice (French entertainer)
Maurice Chevalier was a debonair French musical-comedy star and entertainer who was known for witty and sophisticated films that contributed greatly to the establishment of the musical as a film genre during the early 1930s. His suave manner and half-speaking style of singing, together with his
- Chevalier, Michel (French economist)
most-favoured-nation treatment: …1860 by Richard Cobden and Michel Chevalier, which established interlocking tariff concessions that extended most-favoured-nation treatment worldwide, became the model for many later agreements.
- Chevalier, Ulysse (French scholar)
Ulysse Chevalier was a French priest, scholar, and author of major bibliographical works in medieval history. As a student under Léopold Delisle, professor of ecclesiastical history at the University of Lyon, he began work on his massive Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen âge (“Collection
- Chevaline (missile)
Polaris missile: …it into the A-3TK, or Chevaline, system, which was fitted with such devices as decoy warheads and electronic jammers for penetrating Soviet ballistic-missile defenses around Moscow. In 1980 the United Kingdom announced plans to replace its Polaris force with the Trident SLBM in the 1990s.
- Chevalley, Claude (French mathematician)
mathematics: Developments in pure mathematics: Weil, along with Claude Chevalley, Henri Cartan, Jean Dieudonné, and others, created a group of young French mathematicians who began to publish virtually an encyclopaedia of mathematics under the name Nicolas Bourbaki, taken by Weil from an obscure general of the Franco-German War. Bourbaki became a
- Chevaux de Marly (work by Coustou)
Western sculpture: France: …as seen in the famous Chevaux de Marly by Guillaume Coustou now marking the entrance to the Champs-Élysées in Paris but designed for Marly, as part of the most innovative outdoor display of sculpture since the 16th-century gardens of Italy. Coustou’s bust of his brother Nicolas has a characteristic freshness…
- Cheverus, Jean-Louis Lefebvre de (French bishop)
Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Boston. He was made assistant, then pastor, of Notre-Dame of Mayenne in France, but because of the Revolution he fled in 1792 to England, where he founded Tottenham Chapel. Arriving in Boston (1796), he assisted at Holy Cross
- chevet (architecture)
chevet, eastern end of a church, especially of a Gothic church designed in the French manner. Beginning about the 12th century, Romanesque builders began to elaborate on the design of the area around the altar, adding a curved ambulatory behind it and constructing a series of apses or small chapels
- Cheviot (breed of sheep)
Cheviot, breed of hardy, medium-wool, white-faced, hornless sheep developed in Scotland and Northumberland, England. Cheviots have no wool on their heads and ears or on their legs below the knees and hocks. As a consequence they present a trimmed and alert appearance. The wool of their fleeces is
- cheviot (cloth)
cheviot, woollen fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep and now also made from other types of wool or from blends of wool and man-made fibres in plain or various twill weaves. Cheviot wool possesses good spinning qualities, since the fibre is fine, soft, and pliable. Cheviot fabric
- Cheviot Hills (hills, England, United Kingdom)
Cheviot Hills, highland range that for more than 30 miles (50 km) marks the boundary between England and Scotland. In the east a great pile of ancient volcanic rocks reaches an elevation of 2,676 feet (816 metres) in the Cheviot. The hills are steep but smoothly rounded; they are dissected by deep
- Chevrefoil (work by Marie de France)
Marie De France: …from the 118 lines of Chevrefoil (“The Honeysuckle”), an episode in the Tristan story, to the 1,184 lines of Eliduc, a story of the devotion of a first wife whose husband brings a second wife from overseas.
- Chevreul, Michel-Eugène (French chemist)
Michel-Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist who elucidated the chemical composition of animal fats and whose theories of colour influenced the techniques of French painting. Chevreul belonged to a family of surgeons. After receiving a private education during the French Revolution, in 1799 Chevreul
- Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de (French princess)
Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchess de Chevreuse was a French princess, a tireless participant in the conspiracies against the ministerial government during Louis XIII’s reign (1610–43) and the regency (1643–51) for Louis XIV. The daughter of Hercule de Rohan, duc de Montbazon, Marie was married in
- Chevrolet (American company)
automobile: American compact cars: …Ford Falcon, Chrysler Valiant, and Chevrolet Corvair were smaller than most American cars but still larger than the average European models. By the mid-1960s a demand for more highly individualized luxury models of compact size had brought lines of “intermediate” cars from all manufacturers. The Ford Mustang, basically a Falcon…
- Chevrolet Corvette (automobile)
materials science: Plastics and composites: …skins on General Motors’ l953 Corvette sports car marked the first appearance of composites in a production model, and composites have continued to appear in automotive components ever since. In 1984, General Motors’ Fiero was placed on the market with the entire body made from composites, and the Camaro/Firebird models…
- Chevrolet Volt (automobile)
automobile: Electric-gasoline hybrids: …General Motors introduced the Chevrolet Volt, a car that could drive up to about 35 miles on electric batteries and would then drive using a gasoline engine after the battery was exhausted. Beginning in 2003, Tesla had some success with all-electric cars, however.
- Chevrolet, Louis (American automobile designer and race–car driver)
Louis Chevrolet was an automobile designer and racer whose name is borne by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors, an enterprise from which he derived little profit and of which he was a minor employee in the last years of his life. He emigrated to the United States from France in 1900. Five
- chevron (heraldry)
chevron, decorative motif consisting of two slanting lines forming an inverted V. From very early times, it has been a common motif in pottery and textiles. A bent bar in heraldry, it is also one of the most common distinguishing marks for military and naval uniforms: placed on the sleeves, it
- Chevron Corporation (American corporation)
Chevron Corporation, U.S. petroleum corporation that was founded through the 1906 merger of Pacific Oil Company and Standard Oil Company of Iowa. One of the largest oil companies in the world, it acquired Gulf Oil Corporation in 1984, Texaco Inc. in 2001, and Unocal Corporation in 2005. Chevron
- Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, Inc. (law case)
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, Inc., legal case, decided on June 25, 1984, in which the U.S. Supreme Court established a longstanding judicial precedent known as the Chevron doctrine, also called Chevron deference. In a 7–0 ruling (three justices recused themselves),
- Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (law case)
Neil Gorsuch: …by the Supreme Court in Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984), that obliges the courts to defer to an executive agency in its “reasonable” interpretation of a statute that it is required to administer.
- ChevronTexaco Corporation (American corporation)
Chevron Corporation, U.S. petroleum corporation that was founded through the 1906 merger of Pacific Oil Company and Standard Oil Company of Iowa. One of the largest oil companies in the world, it acquired Gulf Oil Corporation in 1984, Texaco Inc. in 2001, and Unocal Corporation in 2005. Chevron
- chevrotain (mammal)
chevrotain, (family Tragulidae), any of about 10 species of small, delicately built, hoofed mammals that constitute the family Tragulidae (order Artiodactyla). Chevrotains are found in the warmer parts of Southeast Asia and India and in parts of Africa. They are classified into the genera
- Chevy Chase (Maryland, United States)
Bethesda–Chevy Chase: …(Bethesda and several associated with Chevy Chase) that prior to 1949 were governed by county commissioners and thereafter came mostly under the jurisdiction of chartered, popularly elected councils. The district takes its name from the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 on the Georgetown-Frederick Pike (Old National Road), and Chevy…
- Chevy Chase (ballad)
English literature: Journalism: …his enthusiastic account of “Chevy Chase” and hymned the pleasures of the imagination in a series of papers deeply influential on 18th-century thought. His long, thoughtful, and probing examen of Milton’s Paradise Lost played a major role in establishing the poem as the great epic of English literature and…
- Chevy Volt (automobile)
automobile: Electric-gasoline hybrids: …General Motors introduced the Chevrolet Volt, a car that could drive up to about 35 miles on electric batteries and would then drive using a gasoline engine after the battery was exhausted. Beginning in 2003, Tesla had some success with all-electric cars, however.
- Chewa (people)
Chewa, Bantu-speaking people living in the extreme eastern zone of Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique. They share many cultural features with their Bemba kinsmen to the west. Their language, Chewa, is also called Chichewa, Nyanja, or Chinyanja and is important in Malawi. The
- Chewa (language)
Chewa: Their language, Chewa, is also called Chichewa, Nyanja, or Chinyanja and is important in Malawi.
- Chewbacca (fictional character)
Alaskan Malamute: Alaskan Malamutes enjoy a long walk or hike daily, coupled with vigorous games. Because they often do not come when called, the…
- chewing (physiology)
chewing, up-and-down and side-to-side movements of the lower jaw that assist in reducing particles of solid food, making them more easily swallowed; teeth usually act as the grinding and biting surface. In cats and dogs, food is reduced only to a size that permits easy swallowing. Cows and other
- Chewing Gum (British television series)
Michaela Coel: Chewing Gum: …was turned into the sitcom Chewing Gum, with Coel serving as executive producer. In the television series Tracey comes from a Pentecostal family and is desperately trying to lose her virginity. The show earned Coel critical accolades and numerous awards, including a BAFTA Award for best female performance in a…
- chewing gum
chewing gum, sweetened product made from chicle and similar resilient substances and chewed for its flavour. Peoples of the Mediterranean have since antiquity chewed the sweet resin of the mastic tree (so named after the custom) as a tooth cleanser and breath freshener. New England colonists
- chewing louse (insect)
chewing louse, (suborder Amblycera and Ischnocera), any of about 2,900 species of small, wingless insects (order Phthiraptera), worldwide in distribution, that have chewing mouthparts, a flattened body, and shortened front legs used to transport food to the mouth. Chewing lice may be from 1 to 5 mm
- chewing tobacco
chewing tobacco, tobacco used for chewing and that appears in a variety of forms, notably (1) “flat plug,” a compressed rectangular cake of bright tobacco, sweetened lightly or not at all, (2) “navy,” a flat rectangular cake of burley tobacco, highly flavoured with either licorice, rum, cinnamon,
- chewink (bird)
chewink, bird species also known as the rufous-sided towhee. See
- Cheyenne (people)
Cheyenne, North American Plains Indians who spoke an Algonquian language and inhabited the regions around the Platte and Arkansas rivers during the 19th century. Before 1700 the Cheyenne lived in what is now central Minnesota, where they farmed, hunted, gathered wild rice, and made pottery. They
- Cheyenne (film by Walsh [1947])
Arthur Kennedy: …roles in High Sierra (1941), Cheyenne (1947), The Glass Menagerie (1950), Rancho Notorious (1952), The Man from Laramie (1955), Elmer Gantry (1960), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He was nominated for Academy Awards for his acting in Champion (1949), Bright Victory
- Cheyenne (Wyoming, United States)
Cheyenne, capital (since 1869) and largest city of Wyoming, U.S., and seat of Laramie county, in the southeastern corner of the state, on Crow Creek, 49 miles (79 km) east of Laramie city; it sprawls over high prairie that slopes westward to the Laramie Mountains. Squatters arriving in 1867 just
- Cheyenne Autumn (film by Ford [1964])
John Ford: Postwar career: Cheyenne Autumn (1964) recognizes the brutal treatment he believed the various American Indian nations had suffered at the hands of white men, Sergeant Rutledge (1960) involves buffalo soldiers, the African American troops who fought in the West, and Ford overtly challenged his own legacy in…
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Cheyenne: Frontier Days, featuring one of America’s oldest and largest rodeos, is a six-day celebration held each July, recalling the spirit of the Wild West and the cattle kingdom days. Among the city’s attractions are the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, and the city is home to the…