Nicolas Cage is an American actor, perhaps best known for his performances in action films and big-budget summer blockbusters. He received an Academy Award for his work in Leaving Las Vegas (1995). The nephew of motion-picture director Francis Ford Coppola, he made his acting debut in 1981 in a

Wendy Whelan: …Novice in his 1951 dance-drama The Cage, for which she transformed her body into an angular insect.

John Cromwell: From The Prisoner of Zenda to Caged: He rebounded in 1950 with Caged, one of the best (and most harrowing) of the women’s prison pictures; Eleanor Parker was cast against type as the new inmate who must learn the ropes.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: …to promote her first book, The Caged Virgin (2006; originally published in Dutch, 2004), which criticizes Western countries’ failure to acknowledge and act upon oppression of women in Muslim societies.

Hussein Chalayan is a Cypriot-British fashion designer best known for infusing intellectual concepts and artistic elements into his designs and shows. Chalayan was born to Muslim parents and attended Turk Maarif Koleji (“Turkish Education College”) in Cyprus. In 1978 he moved to England with his

Cagliari, city, capital of the island regione of Sardinia, Italy. It lies at the northern extremity of the Gulf of Cagliari, on the south coast of the island. Although it was probably occupied in prehistoric times, its foundation is attributed to the Phoenicians. It was known to the Greeks as

Alessandro, count di Cagliostro was a charlatan, magician, and adventurer who enjoyed enormous success in Parisian high society in the years preceding the French Revolution. Balsamo was the son of poor parents and grew up as an urchin in the streets of Palermo. Escaping from Sicily after a series

James Cagney was an American actor who was noted for his versatility in musicals, comedies, and crime dramas. He was one of the top movie stars from the 1930s through the ’50s, known for his jaunty manner and explosive energy. Cagney excelled at playing tough guys but was equally adept at comedy

James Cagney was an American actor who was noted for his versatility in musicals, comedies, and crime dramas. He was one of the top movie stars from the 1930s through the ’50s, known for his jaunty manner and explosive energy. Cagney excelled at playing tough guys but was equally adept at comedy

siren: …it by the French engineer Charles Cagniard de La Tour, who devised an acoustical instrument of the type in 1819. A disk with evenly spaced holes around its edge is rotated at high speed, interrupting at regular intervals a jet of air directed at the holes. The resulting regular pulsations…

Western architecture: Italy: …von Nobile’s Sant’Antonio, Trieste (1826–49); Luigi Cagnola’s Rotunda, Ghisalba (1834); and Giovanni Antonio Selva’s Canova Temple, Possagno (1819–33) all took the Pantheon as their starting point. Cagnola also built the Ionic Ticinese Gate in Milan (1801–14), and the Arch of Sempione in Milan (1806–38), a Roman triumphal arch similar to…

fascism: Support for Germany: …of the leaders of the Cagoule, France’s major right-wing terrorist organization of the 1930s, was killed in 1944 while shooting at Gestapo agents who had come to arrest him. Another Cagoulard, François Duclos, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his heroism in the Resistance. Salazar’s Portugal and Franco’s Spain…

Caguas, town, east-central Puerto Rico. Caguas lies in the fertile Caguas valley, the largest interior valley of the island. It is linked to San Juan, the capital, by a divided highway. Founded in 1775, Caguas derives its name from a local Indian chief who was an early Christian convert. The town’s

Puerto Rico: Relief: The Caguas Basin, in the Grande de Loíza River valley south of San Juan, is the largest of several basins in the mountains that provide level land for settlements and agriculture. The islands of Mona, Vieques, and Culebra are generally hilly but ringed by narrow coastal…

Cahaba, historic village, Dallas county, southwest-central Alabama, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Cahaba and Alabama rivers, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Selma. Founded in 1819 as the first capital of Alabama, Cahaba thrived until floods forced the state government to move to Tuscaloosa in

Alabama River: …receives its chief tributary, the Cahaba, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Selma. The Alabama is joined 45 miles (72 km) north of Mobile by the Tombigbee to form the Mobile and Tensaw rivers, which flow into Mobile Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Mobile and Montgomery…

India: The Rajputs of India: Inscriptional records associate the Cauhans with Lake Shakambhari and its environs (Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan). Cauhan politics were largely campaigns against the Caulukyas and the Turks. In the 11th century the Cauhans founded the city of Ajayameru (Ajmer) in the southern part of their kingdom, and in the 12th…

India: The Rajputs of India: Inscriptional records associate the Cauhans with Lake Shakambhari and its environs (Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan). Cauhan politics were largely campaigns against the Caulukyas and the Turks. In the 11th century the Cauhans founded the city of Ajayameru (Ajmer) in the southern part of their kingdom, and in the 12th…

Abraham Cahan was a journalist, reformer, and novelist who for more than 40 years served as editor of the New York Yiddish-language daily newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward (Yiddish title Forverts), which helped newly arrived Jewish immigrants adapt to American culture. Himself an immigrant, Cahan

Holocaust: Artistic responses to the Holocaust: …drawings by survivors Samuel Bak, Alice Lok Cahana, and David Olère document the horrors that they experienced in ghettos and death camps. Holocaust survivors also composed a wide variety of music, including street songs, which gave voice to life in the ghetto; resistance songs, such as Hirsh Glik’s “Song of…

Richard Brautigan: His final novel, An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey, was posthumously published first in French as Cahier d’un retour de troie (1994) and then in English (2000). Several of Brautigan’s early writings, which he gave to his friend Edna Webster before leaving Oregon for San Francisco and which were…

André Gide: Heritage and youth: …Les Cahiers d’André Walter (1891; The Notebooks of André Walter). Written, like most of his later works, in the first person, it uses the confessional form in which Gide was to achieve his greatest successes.

Charles Péguy: …began publishing the influential journal Cahiers de la Quinzaine (“Fortnightly Notebooks”), which, though never reaching a wide public, exercised a profound influence on French intellectual life for the next 15 years. Many leading French writers, including Anatole France, Henri Bergson, Jean Jaurès, and Romain Rolland, contributed work to it.

Henri-Gratien, Comte Bertrand: Fleuriot de Langle as Cahiers de Sainte-Hélène, 1816–21, 3 vol. (1949–59, “Notebooks from St. Helena”).

Jacques Rivette: …the highly influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, with Rivette eventually becoming its editor in chief. Along with another Cahiers du Cinéma writer, Claude Chabrol, the critics became the core directors of the New Wave (French: Nouvelle Vague) film movement, in which the director was seen as auteur and encouraged…

Paul Valéry: …be published as the famous Cahiers. Valéry’s new-found ideals were Leonardo da Vinci (“Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci” [1895]), his paradigm of the Universal Man, and his own creation, “Monsieur Teste” (Mr. Head), an almost disembodied intellect who knows but two values, the possible and the impossible…

WPA Federal Art Project: …leadership of its national director, Holger Cahill, a former museum curator and expert on American folk art, who saw the potential for cultural development in what was essentially a work-relief program for artists. Cahill and his staff learned from the Public Works of Art Project of 1933–34 that any relief…

electronic music: Beginnings: …many years by an American, Thaddeus Cahill, who built a formidable assembly of rotary generators and telephone receivers to convert electrical signals into sound. Cahill called his remarkable invention the telharmonium, which he started to build about 1895 and continued to improve for years thereafter. The instrument failed because it…

Cáhita, group of North American Indian tribes that inhabited the northwest coast of Mexico along the lower courses of the Sinaloa, Fuerte, Mayo, and Yaqui rivers. They spoke about 18 closely related dialects of the Cahita language or language grouping, which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. When

Cáhita: …closely related dialects of the Cahita language or language grouping, which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. When first encountered by the Spaniards in 1533, the Cáhita peoples numbered about 115,000 and were the most numerous of any single language group in northern Mexico. The speakers of most of the Cahita…

Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist who, in collaboration with such composers as Saul Chaplin, Jule Styne, and Jimmy Van Heusen, wrote songs that won four Academy Awards and became number one hits for many performers, notably Frank Sinatra. After dropping out of high school, Cahn published his

Vladimir Prelog: This system, known as CIP, provided a standard and international language for precisely specifying a compound’s structure.

Illinois: …the Illinois tribes were the Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Michigamea, Peoria, and Tamaroa.

Cahokia, village, St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1699 by Quebec missionaries and named for a tribe of Illinois Indians (Cahokia, meaning “Wild Geese”), it was the first permanent European settlement in

Cahokia Mounds, archaeological site occupying some 5 square miles (13 square km) on the Mississippi River floodplain opposite St. Louis, Missouri, near Cahokia and Collinsville, southwestern Illinois, U.S. The site originally consisted of about 120 mounds spread over 6 square miles (16 square km),

Cahokia Mounds: …70 mounds are preserved in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Established in 1979 and encompassing 3.4 square miles (8.9 square km), it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1982.

the Band: … had sounded fresh and intuitive, Cahoots (1971) was laboured and didactic. After a mostly lost year in 1972, when Manuel’s alcoholism became chronic, they trod water with Moondog Matinee (1973), an album of fine cover versions, then hitched their wagon once again to Dylan for the highly successful tour that…

Cahora Bassa, arch dam and hydroelectric facility on the Zambezi River in western Mozambique. The dam, located about 125 km (80 miles) northwest of Tete, is 171 metres (560 feet) high and 303 metres (994 feet) wide at the crest. It has a volume of 510,000,000 cubic metres (667,000,000 cubic yards).

Africa: Drainage: …they flow across these ridges; Cahora Bassa (falls) on the Zambezi and the Augrabies Falls on the Orange River are examples. Another factor that contributes to the creation of rapids or falls is the incidence of rock strata that have proved resistant to the erosive effect of the rivers’ flow.…

Cahora Bassa, arch dam and hydroelectric facility on the Zambezi River in western Mozambique. The dam, located about 125 km (80 miles) northwest of Tete, is 171 metres (560 feet) high and 303 metres (994 feet) wide at the crest. It has a volume of 510,000,000 cubic metres (667,000,000 cubic yards).

Cahora Bassa: The dam impounds Lake Cahora Bassa, which extends westward for 240 km (150 miles) to the point where the borders of Zambia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe converge. The lake measures 31 km (19 miles) wide at its widest point and has a capacity of 63,000,000,000 cubic metres (2,225,000,000,000 cubic…

Cahors, town, capital of Lot département, Occitanie région, formerly capital of Quercy province, southern France. It is situated on a rocky peninsula surrounded by the Lot River and overlooked (southeast) by Mont Saint-Cyr, northeast of Agen. It was the capital of the ancient Cadurci people and was

petrel: …the endangered Bermuda petrel, or cahow (Pterodroma cahow, sometimes considered a race of P. hasitata); the dark-rumped petrel, also called the Hawaiian petrel (P. phaeopygia), another endangered species, now concentrated almost entirely on the island of Maui; the phoenix petrel (P. alba), which breeds on several tropical archipelagos; and the…

pre-Columbian civilizations: The southern coast: At Cahuachi, in Nazca, this included a ceremonial centre consisting of six pyramids, which were terraced and adobe-faced natural hills associated with courts. Tambo Viejo in Acarí was fortified, which supports inferences drawn with some difficulty from late Nazca art that a concern with warfare developed…

Cahuilla, North American Indian tribe that spoke a Uto-Aztecan language. They originally lived in what is now southern California, in an inland basin of desert plains and rugged canyons south of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. The Cahuilla traditionally lived in thatched or adobe

Claude Cahun was a French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist who was largely written out of art history until the late 1980s, when her photographs were included in an exhibition of Surrealist photography in 1986. She is known for her self-portraits that portray her as

computer-assisted instruction (CAI), a program of instructional material presented by means of a computer or computer systems. The use of computers in education started in the 1960s. With the advent of convenient microcomputers in the 1970s, computer use in schools has become widespread from

Caishen, in Chinese religion, the popular god (or gods) of wealth, widely believed to bestow on his devotees the riches carried about by his attendants. During the two-week New Year celebration, incense is burned in Caishen’s temple (especially on the fifth day of the first lunar month), and

China: Yuan’s attempts to become emperor: Cai E (Ts’ai O; a disciple of Liang Qichao) and by the governor of Yunnan, Tang Jiyao (T’ang Chi-yao). Joined by Li Liejun (Li Lieh-chün) and other revolutionary generals, they established the National Protection Army (Huguojun) and demanded that Yuan cancel his plan. When he would not,…

Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese pyrotechnical artist known for his dramatic installations and for using gunpowder as a medium. Cai’s father—a painter, historian, and bookstore owner—was somewhat ambivalent toward Mao Zedong and the new Chinese society that was emerging after the successful communist

Cai Lun was a Chinese court official who is traditionally credited with the invention of paper. Cai Lun was a eunuch who entered the service of the imperial palace in 75 ce and was made chief eunuch under the emperor Hedi (reigned 88–105/106) of the Dong (Eastern) Han dynasty in the year 89. About

cai luong, Vietnamese theatre style, the term meaning reformed or renewed theatre. It evolved during the French colonial period of Vietnam’s history (1862–1954) and clearly showed the influence of European drama. It transformed (though it did not supplant) the old established classical theatre (hat

Cai Yuanpei was an educator and revolutionary who served as head of Peking University in Beijing from 1916 to 1926 during the critical period when that institution played a major role in the development of a new spirit of nationalism and social reform in China. Cai passed the highest level of his

Jesus: The political situation: Caiaphas, the high priest during Jesus’ adulthood, held the office from about 18 to 36 ce, longer than anyone else during the Roman period, indicating that he was a successful and reliable diplomat. Since he and Pilate were in power together for 10 years, they…

Caibarién, port city, central Cuba. It is located on Buena Vista Bay on the country’s north (Atlantic) coast. Caibarién is a major centre for the collection and distribution of goods from the agricultural hinterland, which produces mainly sugarcane, tobacco, and fruit. Sponge fishing is carried on

Turks and Caicos Islands, overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the West Indies. It consists of two groups of islands lying on the southeastern periphery of The Bahamas, of which they form a physical part, and north of the island of Hispaniola. The islands include eight large cays (keys) and

Gaeta, town, seaport, and archiepiscopal see, Latina province, Lazio region, south-central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta, northwest of Naples. Gaeta first came under the influence of the Romans in the 4th century bc; a road was built c. 184 bc connecting the town with the port, and it became a

silk: Origins in China: The caifu (“coloured dress”), or “dragon robe,” was a semiformal court dress in which the dominant element was the imperial five-clawed dragon (long) or the four-clawed dragon (mang). In spite of repeated sumptuary laws issued during the Ming and Qing, the five-clawed dragon was seldom reserved…

Hu Shuli: …journalist and editor who cofounded Caijing (1998), the preeminent business magazine in China.

Shailendra dynasty, a dynasty that flourished in Java from about 750 to 850 after the fall of the Funan kingdom of mainland Southeast Asia. The dynasty was marked by a great cultural renaissance associated with the introduction of Mahāyāna Buddhism, and it attained a high level of artistic

Joseph Caillaux was a French statesman who was an early supporter of a national income tax and whose opposition to World War I led to his imprisonment for treason in 1920. The son of Eugène Caillaux, who was twice a conservative minister (1874–75 and 1877), he obtained his law degree in 1886 and

Joseph Caillaux was a French statesman who was an early supporter of a national income tax and whose opposition to World War I led to his imprisonment for treason in 1920. The son of Eugène Caillaux, who was twice a conservative minister (1874–75 and 1877), he obtained his law degree in 1886 and

Harvest Home: The cailleac, or last sheaf of corn (grain), which represents the spirit of the field, is made into a harvest doll and drenched with water as a rain charm. This sheaf is saved until spring planting.

Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis. Other major Impressionists See also The Artists Mistaken for Impressionists Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte trained to be an engineer

Louis-Paul Cailletet was a French physicist and ironmaster, noted for his work on the liquefaction of gases. As a youth, Cailletet worked in his father’s ironworks and later was in charge of the works. He was also active in scientific research. On Dec. 2, 1877, Cailletet became the first to liquefy

René-Auguste Caillié was the first European to survive a journey to the West African city of Timbuktu (Tombouctou). Before Caillié was 20 he had twice voyaged to Senegal and traveled through its interior. In 1824 he began to prepare for his journey to Timbuktu by learning Arabic and studying Islam.

sacred: The emergence of the concept of the sacred: …sacred have been made by Roger Caillois, a sociologist, and by Mircea Eliade, an eminent historian of religions.

caiman, any of several species of Central and South American reptiles that are related to alligators and are usually placed with them in the family Alligatoridae. Caimans, like all other members of the order Crocodylia (or Crocodilia), are amphibious carnivores. They live along the edges of rivers

caiman: …are placed in three genera: Caiman, including the broad-snouted (C. latirostris), spectacled (C. crocodilus), and yacaré (C. yacare) caimans; Melanosuchus, with the black caiman (M. niger); and Paleosuchus, with two species (P. trigonatus and P. palpebrosus) known as

spectacled caiman, (Caiman crocodilus), species of alligator-like reptiles common to swamps, other wetlands, and waterways in Central America and northern South America. The spectacled caiman takes its name from its most prominent distinguishing feature, a bony ridge between the eyes that resembles

caiman: …three genera: Caiman, including the broad-snouted (C. latirostris), spectacled (C. crocodilus), and yacaré (C. yacare) caimans; Melanosuchus, with the black caiman (M. niger); and Paleosuchus, with two species (P. trigonatus and P. palpebrosus) known as smooth-fronted caimans.

caiman lizard, any member of a genus (Dracaena) of lizards in the family Teiidae. These lizards (D. guianensis and D. paraguayensis) are found streamside in forested areas of South America. D. guianensis reaches a maximum length of 122 cm (48 inches). Caiman lizards spend much of their time in the

caiman: crocodilus), and yacaré (C. yacare) caimans; Melanosuchus, with the black caiman (M. niger); and Paleosuchus, with two species (P. trigonatus and P. palpebrosus) known as smooth-fronted caimans.

Cayman Islands, island group and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac, situated about 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Jamaica. The islands are the outcroppings of a submarine mountain range that extends

Cain, in the Bible (Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament), firstborn son of Adam and Eve who murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1–16). Cain, a farmer, became enraged when the Lord accepted the offering of his brother, a shepherd, in preference to his own. He murdered Abel and was banished by the Lord

Cain, novel by José Saramago, published in 2009. This final work of Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, an avowed Marxist and atheist, takes as its hero the fratricidal Cain and as its villain the god of the Old Testament, who is violent and decidedly unjust. After killing his brother Abel,

Lekain was a French actor whom Voltaire regarded as the greatest tragedian of his time. The son of a goldsmith, he was trained to follow his father’s trade but had a passion for the theatre. He frequented the Comédie-Française and in 1748 began organizing amateur productions in which he starred.

Herman Cain was an American businessman and conservative political pundit who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Cain, the elder of two sons, was raised in Atlanta. His father worked as a chauffeur, barber, and janitor, and his mother as a domestic worker. After graduating in

James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.

James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.

John Kane was a Scottish-born American artist who painted primitivist scenes of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Scotland. In 1879, after working in a coal mine since childhood, John Cain immigrated to the United States (where a banker’s misspelling changed his name to Kane). He worked as a

Victoria: Federation and the state of Victoria: …who was defeated by Labor’s John Cain, Jr. Cain’s administration (1982–90) was marked by vigorous intervention in education, social welfare, health, transportation, public utilities, industry and commerce, and antidiscrimination initiatives. Victoria’s economy in the 1980s grew at a slightly faster rate than that of Australia as a whole, with high…

The Caine Mutiny, American film drama, released in 1954, that was based on the best-selling novel by Herman Wouk. Humphrey Bogart’s portrayal of Captain Queeg, considered by many to be his last great performance, earned him a final Academy Award nomination. Soon after he takes command of the

The Caine Mutiny, novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1951. The novel was awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Caine Mutiny grew out of Wouk’s experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II. The novel focuses on the gradual maturation of Willie Keith, a rich

Michael Caine is an internationally successful British actor renowned for his versatility in numerous leading and character roles. He appeared in more than 100 films, and his amiable Cockney persona was usually present in each performance. The former Maurice Micklewhite took his screen name from

Sir Hall Caine was a British writer known for his popular novels combining sentiment, moral fervour, skillfully suggested local atmosphere, and strong characterization. Caine was secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet, painter, and leader of the Pre-Raphaelite artists in England, from 1881

Michael Caine is an internationally successful British actor renowned for his versatility in numerous leading and character roles. He appeared in more than 100 films, and his amiable Cockney persona was usually present in each performance. The former Maurice Micklewhite took his screen name from

Sir Hall Caine was a British writer known for his popular novels combining sentiment, moral fervour, skillfully suggested local atmosphere, and strong characterization. Caine was secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet, painter, and leader of the Pre-Raphaelite artists in England, from 1881

group marriage: Murdock (1949), only the Caingang of Brazil had chosen group marriage as an alternative form of union; even there the frequency was but 8 percent. Group marriage should not be confused with polygamy, marriage to more than one spouse at a time.

Cainite, member of a Gnostic sect mentioned by Irenaeus and other early Christian writers as flourishing in the 2nd century ad, probably in the eastern area of the Roman Empire. The Christian theologian Origen declared that the Cainites had “entirely abandoned Jesus.” Their reinterpretation of Old

glassware: After the War of 1812: Thomas Cains was making flint glass there in 1813. He left the firm in 1824 to found the Phoenix Glass Works in South Boston, which survived until 1870. One particular device usually associated with the Boston manufactories of this period is the guilloche, or chain,…

Loasaceae: The closely related Caiophora (or Cajophora), with about 65 tropical American species, as withLoasa, mostly grows in rocky slopes of cool Andean areas and also has stinging hairs.

Haifa, city, northwestern Israel. The principal port of the country, it lies along the Bay of Haifa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Haifa is first mentioned in the Talmud (c. 1st–4th century ce). Eusebius, the early Christian theologian and biblical topographer, referred to it as Sykaminos. The

boat: Middle East and Mediterranean: One is the handsome Turkish caïque, a long, narrow rowing boat with graceful ends, designed for speed. These boats sometimes are rigged for sailing with a small spritsail or lugsail and in modern versions are often fitted with an outboard motor in a well at the stern. Small double-ended boats…

Caquetío, Indians of northwestern Venezuela living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the Spaniards but were eventually destroyed as were their neighbours, the Quiriquire and the Jirajara. The Caquetío and the Jirajara

Caquetío, Indians of northwestern Venezuela living along the shores of Lake Maracaibo at the time of the Spanish conquest. They moved inland to avoid enslavement by the Spaniards but were eventually destroyed as were their neighbours, the Quiriquire and the Jirajara. The Caquetío and the Jirajara

Edward Caird was a philosopher and leader in Britain of the Neo-Hegelian school. After studies in Scotland and at Oxford, Caird served as a tutor at Merton College, Oxford, from 1864 to 1866. He was professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University from 1866 to 1893 and master of Balliol College,

John Caird was a British theologian and preacher, and an exponent of theism in Hegelian terms. Ordained as a Presbyterian minister on graduating from Glasgow University (1845), Caird made a nation-wide reputation with his learned and eloquent sermons and was appointed professor of theology at

Cairene rug, Egyptian floor covering believed to have been made in or near Cairo from at least as early as the 15th century to the 18th. The early production, under the Mamlūk dynasty, is characterized by geometric, centralized schemes featuring large and complex star shapes, octagons, or polygonal

anseriform: Importance to humans: The muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) was domesticated in Colombia and Peru before the arrival of the conquistadores. The greylag goose (Anser anser) has been domesticated for at least 4,000 years; Egyptian frescoes of that age already show changes in shape from the natural form, and eight…