Cleomenes – Clyde
Cleomenes
a Spartan king, who attempted to revive the constitution of Lycurgus. He was defeated by the Achæan League at Sellasia in 221 B. C., and killed himself soon afterward.
Cleveland
a city of Tennessee, the county-seat of Bradley co. It is on the Southern railroad. Its industries include woolen and flour mills, stove works, hosiery mills, lumber mills, etc. It is the seat of the Centenary Female College.
Pop. (1910) 5,549; (1920) 6,522.
Cleveland Heights
a city of Ohio, in Cuyahoga co. It is a suburb of Cleveland. Pop. (1910) 2,955; (1920) 15,236.
Cliff Dwelling
MESA VERDE
Clifton Forge
a city of Virginia, in Allegheny co. It is on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Its industries include railway shops, flour mills, and machine works. In the neighborhood are deposits of iron ore and limestone. Pop. (1910) 5,748; (1920) 6,164.
Clio
glory, renown, the muse of history and epic epic poetry, represented as bearing a half-opened roll of a book.
Daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, she was the mother of Hyacinthus and Hymenæus. There was also a sea nymph, Clio, daughter of Oceanus and sister of Beroe, who figures in Greek mythology.
Clisthenes
an Athenian law-giver, who established a popular constitution after the expulsion of Hippias, in 509 B. C.
Cloaca
a sewer, an underground drain or conduit. The Roman Cloaca Maxima (the greatest or main sewer) is said to have been constructed, or at least begun under the auspices of King Tarquinius Priscus, about B. c. 588.
Cloquet
a city of Minnesota, in Carlton co. It is on the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Duluth and Northeastern railroads, and on the St. Louis river. It is the center of an extensive lumber region and has manufactures of print paper, boxes, and match blocks. Pop. (1910) 7,031; (1920) 5,127.
Clouds
formations owing their still in the church of St. Leu.
Clowes
WILLIAM LAIRD, an English naval critic and miscellaneous writer; born in London, Feb. 1, 1856. He was educated at King's College, London; and from 1876 to 1895 was correspondent for various newspapers. He wrote much on naval development and on art and sociology. He died Aug. 14, 1905.
Clyde
LORD. See CAMPBELL, SIR COLIN.