Cala, Charles
A Calabrian who wrote on the occult in the seventeenth century. He published his Memorie historiche dell'apparitione delle cruce prodigiose da Carlo Cala at Naples in 1661.
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Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Calabar
a maritime district of west Africa on the bight of Biafra, intersected by two rivers , called respectively Old and New Calabar, under English protection. A large portion of the population ation are employed in the palm-oil trade. Old Calabar or Bongo river is situated about 90 miles nearly due W. from New Calabar river, with a wide estuary opening into the bight of Biafra. This river enters the bight of Biafra at lon. 7° 7' E., and is believed to be one of the numerous terminating branches of the Niger. Duke Town and Creek Town, the chief towns on Old Calabar river, are stations of British missionaries.
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Calabria
a name anciently given to the peninsula at the S. E. extremity of Italy, but now applied to the S. W. peninsula in which Italy terminates , from about lat. 40° N. to the Strait of Messina; area, 5,819 square miles; pop. about 1,500,000. It is divided into three provinces-Cosenza , Reggio, and Catanzaro. The central region is occupied by the great ceat Apennine ridge, to which whole colonies with their cattle migrate in the summer. The flats near the coast are marshy and unhealthy, but the valleys at the foot of the mountains are rich with the most luxuriant vegetation. The country is subject to earthquakes and suffered severely in in 1905 and 1908. Wheat, rice, saffron , anise, liquorice, madder, flax , hemp, olives, almonds, and cotton are raised in abundance. The sugar-cane also comes to perfection here. Sheep, horned cattle, and horses Silkworms are extenare numerous. sively raised. The minerals include alabaster, marble, gypsum, alum, chalk, rock-salt, lapis lazuli, etc. The fisheries are valuable.
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Caladium
a genus of endogenous plants, the typical one of the family caladiex. They are cultivated in greenhouses here, and flourish in warmer parts of the world . The leaves of the Caladium sagittifolium are boiled and eaten as a vegetable in the West Indies. The rootstocks or rhizomes of others are eaten there and in the Pacific, the process of cooking destroying the dangerous acridity.
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Calambuco
a very durable tree, indestructible by ants, used for shipbuilding and farming implements; grows in the island of Luzon, Philippines.
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Calamianes
an island group of the Philippine Archipelago. Their surface is mountainous, and richly wooded, producing rice, wool, cacao, the birds' used food. Busuanga, Calamian, and Linacapan are the largest of the 98 islands. Area about 677 square miles; pop. about 20,000.
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Calanus
an Indian philosopher much esteemed by Alexander the Great. At the age of 73 (B. c. 323), being seized with illness at Pasargada, he caused a funeral pile to be erected, which he ascended with a composed countenance, and expired in the flames, saying, that having lost his health and seen Alexander, life had no more charms for him. (kä-lä-tä-fe'mē), CALATAFIMI a ruined Saracenic castle. Neard it is the of near its W. end, with a scene of Garibaldi's first victory over the Neapolitans in 1860. Pop. about 11,000.
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Calatin Clan
A poisonous multiform monster of Irish legend. This creature was composed of a father and his twenty-seven sons, any one of whose weapons could, by the merest touch, kill a man within nine days. This monstrosity was sent against Cuchulain, who succeeded in catching its eight-and-twenty spears on his shield. The Clan, however managed to throw him down and ground his face in the gravel. Cuchulain was assisted by the son of an Ulster exile, who cut off the creature's heads while Cuchulain hacked it to pieces.;
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Calatrava La Viega
Guadiana, 12 miles N. E. of Ciudad Real. a ruined city of Spain, on the al. Its defense against the Moors, undertaken by Raymond, abbot of Fitero, and Diego Velasquez in 1158, after it had been abandoned by the Templars, is famous on account of its having originated the Order of the Knights of Calatrava, which was instituted at Calatrava in 1158, by King Sancho III. of Castile, and was at several periods associated with the Cistercian monks. Their almost uniform success against the Moors gave rise to rashness, and in 1197 they were defeated and nearly exterminated, the survivors transferring the seat to the castle of Salvatierra. In 1523 the grand-mastership was transferred to the crown by a papal bull, the knights being permitted to marry once by way of compensation for their loss of independence, Since 1808 the body has been continued as an order of merit.
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Calaveras
. See Sequoia
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Calc-Spar
the name usually given by mineralogists to carbonate of lime, rhombohedral in its crystallization. It differs from aragonite only in crystallization. Calcite is one of the commonest minerals. Marble, for example, is composed of small crystalline granules of this mineral. It is abundantly met with in very many rocks as a secondary mineral; that is to say, it is a decomposition product the result of the chemical alteration of various rock-constituents, such as the feldspars. Thus it frequently occurs in the cracks, fissures, and vesicles of igneous rocks. The name Iceland spar has often been given to calcite, at least to the finest colorless and transparent variety, because it is found in Iceland, filling up clefts and cavities in the basalt-rocks of that region. Slate spar is a lamellar variety, often with a shining, pearly luster and a greasy feel, and is found in Wicklow in Ireland, Glen Tilt in Scotland, and Kongsberg in Norway.
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Calcareous
a term applied to substances partaking of the nature of lime, or containing quantities of lime. Thus we speak of calcareous waters, calcareous rocks, calcareous soils. Calcareous spar, crystallized carbonate of lime. It is found crystallized in more than 700 different forms, all having for their primitive form an obtuse rhomboid. The rarest and most beautiful crystals are found in Derbyshire, England.
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Calcareous Spar
A carbonate of lime, occurring principally in grayish-white crystals. It is infusible, falls into quicklime before the blowpipe, and effervesces with acids; its composition is lime 57, carbonic acid 43. This mineral is of universal occurrence, and sometimes it is found tinged with various shades of color, owing to the presence of manganese, iron, and other impurities.
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