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The Calling of St Matthew (Caravaggio) The Calling of Saint Matthew is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completed in 1599-1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. Over a decade before, Cardinal Matteu Contreil (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left funds and specific instructions for the decoration of a chapel based on themes of his namesake.
The Cambridge Arms The Cambridge Arms is a pub in Cambridge, England located on King Street. The pub is one of The King Street Run referring to the practice of consuming one pint of beer in each pub in King Street in the quickest time.
The Cambridge Declaration The Cambridge Declaration is a statement of faith written in 1996 by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a group of Reformed and Lutheran Evangelicals who were concerned with the state of the Evangelical movement in America, and throughout the world.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy is a dictionary of philosophical terms published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Robert Audi. The dictionary, having been in publication since 1995, is now in its second edition.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Originally published in 1907-1921, the 18 volumes include 303 chapters and more than 11,000 pages, edited and written by a worldwide panel of 171 leading scholars and thinkers of the early twentieth century.
The Cambridge Platform The Cambridge Platform is a platform for religious freedom in Colonial America. It was drawn up in August, 1648 by a synod of ministers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, which met pursuant to a request of the Massachusetts General Court.
The Cambridge Student The Cambridge Student (TCS) is the younger of Cambridge University's main student newspapers (Varsity is the other). The newspaper is owned and published by the Cambridge University Students' Union (CUSU) but is editorially independent.
The Camden & Amboy Railroad The Camden & Amboy Railroad was charted in New Jersey in 1830. The company purchased the "John Bull," one of the first successful locomotives in North America, from Robert Stephenson and Company of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
The Camembert Quartet The Camembert Quartet is an Irish parody music group, the resident house band on RTÉ One's Saturday night chat show Tubridy Tonight. Despite the "Quartet" in its name, the band is currently composed of five members.
The Cameo Murder On the evening of 19 March, 1949, the Cameo cinema in Liverpool, England, was the scene of a brutual double murder which led, eventually to a miscarriage of justice. The cinema manager, Leonard Thomas was counting the day's takings assisted by his deputy, Bernard Catterall when a masked man entered their office brandishing a pistol.
The Cameo, Edinburgh The Cameo is an Edinburgh cinema which started life as the King's Cinema on 8 January 1914 and is one of the oldest cinemas in Scotland still in use. Since becoming the Cameo in 1949, it has been an independent cinema with a tradition of showing art house films.
The Camera Club of New York Since 1884, The Camera Club of New York has been the place where people have turned to in their quest to explore the medium of photography. Even though the Club was initially created by well-to-do 'gentlemen' photography enthusiasts who sought a refuge from the mass popularization of the medium in the 1880's, it later became quite progressive in its acceptance of new ideas and new approaches to the medium.
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Cardwell Reforms by the amalgamation of two other regiments:
The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton, and the Race to Be Mayor of New York City The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton, and the Race to Be Mayor of New York City, by writer Evan Mandery, is a non-ficiton account of Evan Mandery's time working for the 1997 New York mayoral campaign.
The Campus (Lennoxville) The Campus is a student-run newspaper that covers Bishop's University (an English language, liberal arts university located in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada), events in the Eastern Townships region as they pertain to students, and other items of interest to Canadian university students.
The Canada Series The Canada Series was the name of a series of baseball games played between Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays of the American League and the Montreal Expos of the National League. After the Expos moved to Washington, D.
The Canadian The Canadian is a Canadian transcontinental passenger train originally operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is currently operated by VIA Rail Canada (as the Canadian) with service between Union Station in Toronto, Ontario and Pacific Central Station in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Canadian Airborne Regiment The Canadian Airborne Regiment was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative regiment in the commonly accepted British Commonwealth sense, but rather a tactical formation manned from other regiments.
The Canadian Football Network The Canadian Football Network (or CFN) was a television syndication service that provided games from the Canadian Football League. CFN broadcasts mainly aired on stations via the Atlantic Satellite Network and future Global Television Network affiliates.
The Canadian Grenadier Guards The Canadian Grenadier Guards is the second-most senior infantry regiment in the Reserve Force of the Canadian Forces. Located in Montreal, its primary role is the provision of combat-ready troops in support of Canadian regular infantry.
The Canadian Guards The Canadian Guards was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army that served in the same role as the five regiments of Foot Guards in the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1953 by the redesignation of four separate battalions:
The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide by Brian Patton and Bart Robinson, describes 233 hiking and backpacking trails in the Canadian Rockies, including in Banff National Park and Jasper National Park. The first edition was published in 1971, with subsequent editions in 1978, 1986 and 2000 (7th).
The Canary Effect The Canary Effect is a 2006 documentary that looks into the effects of that the US and it's policies have on the indigenous races (Native Americans) that are residents within it's borders. It premiered at the Tribec Film Festival.
The Canary Prince The Canary Prince is an Italian fairy tale, the 18th tale in Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino. He took the tale from Turin, making various stylistic changes; he noted it developed a medieval motif, but such tales as Marie de France's Yonec produced a rather different effect, being tales of adultery.
The Canberra Times The Canberra Times newspaper was founded in 1926 in Canberra, Australia by Arthur Shakespere. The paper has been widely acclaimed for its low level of political bias towards any political position, left or right.
The Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Cancer Center membership brings together more than 400 professionals from a variety of disciplines, representing nine university colleges and schools and eight area hospitals and clinics.
The Cancer Conspiracy The Cancer Conspiracy were a progressive rock group from Burlington, Vermont featuring guitarist Daryl Rabidoux, drummer/keyboardist/saxophonist Greg Beadle, and bassist Brent Frattini. Rabidoux and Beadle were veterans of the local hardcore scene, and had broken away from their respective bands out of a need to try something new musically.
The Cancer Council Australia [Cancer Council Australia is a national, private organisation which aims to promote cancer]-control policies and to reduce the illness caused by cancer in [[Australia. It advises various groups, including the government, on cancer-related issues, acts as an advocate for cancer sufferers, and is a major funding contributor towards anti-cancer research.
The Candy Man "The Candy Man" (or alternately, "The Candy Man Can") is a song from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film and does not appear in the original book or the 2005 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Candy Store The Candy Store was a television show that was a tie-in to The Gospel Bill Show and which shared some of that show's characters. The Candy Store, just as The Gospel Bill Show was a part of Willie George Ministries.
The Candyskins The Candyskins are a rock band formed in 1989 in Oxford, England. Considered by many as one of the cream of the 'Oxford Scene', they enjoyed limited commercial success compared to their contemporaries Radiohead and Supergrass.
The Cane as a Weapon The Cane as a Weapon was a book written by Andrew Chase Cunningham and originally published in the United States of America in 1912. It presents a concise system of self defense making use of a walking stick or umbrella.
The Cannonball Run (film) The Cannonball Run is a campy, slapstick comedy movie released in 1981 that starred Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett. Hal Needham was the director and had an uncredited role as an emergency medical technician.
The Canon of Medicine The Canon of Medicine (original title in Arabic: "qanun fil tibb") is a book by the Persian scientist Ibn Sina (Avicenna) in the 10th century. The book is based upon the writings of the Roman physician Galen, but is also infused with Arabic medical lore and personal experience.
The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett at Canterbury Cathedral.
The Cantos The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.
The Canvas Barricade The Canvas Barricade is a two-act play by Donald Jack. It won the Canadian play-writing competition held by The Globe and Mail, and had a 6 performance run at the Stratford Festival in 1961, where it was the first original Canadian play performed on the main stage.
The Cap Boyzz Chicago rap group The Cap Boyzz includes members Gary “Young Life” Turner, Brian “Hustle” Boyd, Kemal "Lil Lethal" Johnson, and Eric "Papi" Wade. After a period spent pushing low-key releases and mixtapes, the Westide-based group is ready to show the world another side of Chi-Town with their debut album “Constant Hustle”.
The Cape Canaveral Monsters The Cape Canaveral Monsters is a grade-Z 1960 sci-fi film written and directed by Phil Tucker, who had also directed Dance Hall Racket, written by and starring Lenny Bruce in 1953. This tale of aliens taking over and reanimating human corpses, then kidnapping, torturing, and dismembering teenagers while plotting to sabotage America's rocket launches, is something that many people find simply has to be seen to be believed.
The Capilano Courier The Capilano Courier is the student newspaper at Capilano College, a community college located in the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. First published in 1968, the Courier is staffed by student volunteers, operating independently of the college's administration and student society.
The Capital Group Companies The Capital Group Companies is one of the world’s largest and most successful investment management organizations. It is comprised of a group of investment management companies, including Capital Research and Management, American Funds, Capital Bank and Trust, Capital Guardian, and Capital International.
The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire The Capitalist Manifesto : The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire is a book by Objectivist philosopher Andrew Bernstein, published in 2005. The book argues that capitalism in its pure form has never existed and that it is the most moral and practical social system possible.
The Captain (comics) The Captain (formerly Captain ☠☠☠☠, where ☠☠☠☠ is an unknown expletive) is a fictional character, a satiric Marvel Comics superhero appearing in the book Nextwave. He was created by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen and first appeared in Nextwave #1 (January 2006).
The Captain and the Kid (song) "The Captain and the Kid" is the title track of Elton John's album The Captain & The Kid, it ends the album. The introduction to the song is almost identical to the opening title track of John's Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
The Captain from Connecticut The Captain from Connecticut is a novel by CS Forester, the author of the novels about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. The Captain from Connecticut is set at the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812.
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship is a collection of extracts from the journals of Charles Bukowski, spanning 1991 to 1993. The book was first published in 1997 with illustrations by Robert Crumb.
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band was an Australian band, active throughout the early 1970s. It was based in Melbourne and centred around singer and mullt-instrumentalist Mic Conway ("Captain Matchbox") and his brother Jim Conway, who is widely regarded as one of Australia's finest exponents of the blues harmonica.
The Captain Underpants Cartoon-O-Rama, Book 1: Heroes, Villains, and Super Creeps The Captain Underpants Cartoon-O-Rama, Book #1: Heroes, Villains, and Super Creeps is a how-to-draw activity book based on a children's book series by Dav Pilkey with Captain Underpants in the titles. It has yet to be released, and the release date is as of yet unconfirmed.
The Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun The Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun is an activity book based on a series of children's books by Dav Pilkey with Captain Underpants in the titles. It was released in between Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants and Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman
The Captain's Daughter The Captain's Daughter (Russian: Капитанская дочка - Kapitanskaya Dochka) is a novel by the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin. It was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal Sovremennik.
The Captain's Daughter (opera) The Captain's Daughter (Капитанская дочка in Cyrillic; Kapitanskaja dočka in transliteration) is an opera in four acts (eight tableaux) by César Cui, composed during 1907-1909. The libretto was adapted by the composer from Aleksandr Pushkin's novel of the same name.
The Captive City The Captive City is a 1952 film, considered film noir, directed by Robert Wise. John Forsythe plays a crusading small city newspaper editor in this in this semidocumentary depiction of corruption and vice in paranoid post-World War II America.
The Captive Temple The Captive Temple by Jude Watson is the seventh in a series of young reader novels called Jedi Apprentice. The series explores the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prior to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
The Caravans The Caravans was a female gospel group popular during the 1950s and 1960s that launched the careers of a number of artists, including: "Queen of Gospel" Albertina Walker, Bessie Griffin, Cassietta George, "The Great Narrator" Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews and "First Lady of Gospel" Shirley Caesar. While the group had gone through constant changes in personnel in its heyday, the group's popularity dimmed in 1966.
The Carbon Trust The Carbon Trust is a non-profit organization created by the UK government to help businesses and public organisations to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, through improved efficiency and developing low carbon technology.
The Cardigans The Cardigans are a Swedish band formed in the town of Jönköping in 1992. The band's musical style has varied greatly from album to album and encompasses their early indie leanings passing through '60s-inspired pop and more band-based rock.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a novel by Tom Clancy, featuring his character Jack Ryan. It is a sequel to The Hunt for Red October, based around the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative and its Soviet equivalent, covering themes including intelligence gathering and counter-intelligence, political intrigue, and guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan.
The Cardinal Virtues The Cardinal Virtues is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted in 1511 as the fourth part, after the Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, The School of Athens and The Parnassus, of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
The Cardinall's Musick The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a consort.
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland, a third and last theatrical installment of the Care Bears animated franchise, was released in the United States and Canada on August 7, 1987 by Cineplex Odeon Films. It was loosely based on Lewis Carroll's Alice stories, with some influence from L.
The Care Bears Movie The Care Bears Movie is an animated feature film, officially released on March 29, 1985. It was the first film to feature the popular Care Bears toy characters, and the first to be based directly on a toy line.
The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie is a direct-to-DVD CGI film from Lions Gate Home Entertainment and Nelvana Limited, released on October 18, 2005. This movie is a follow-up to the Care Bears' previous efforts in 2004's Journey to Joke-a-lot, featuring that film's same voice cast.
The Carefrees The Carefrees were really the Vernons Girls Trio who were the first to ever put a raw scouse accent on the British charts with "You Know What I Mean", a line not lost to John Lennon who suggested it replaced the one written by Paul McCartney for "I Saw Her Standing There".
The Caribbean Times The Caribbean Times a British weekly newspaper that concentrates on news, sport and social developments in the Caribbean, providing a link for the UK's West Indian and African-Caribbean population. It is published by Ethnic Media Group Ltd and is also available online.
The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten is located in a free-standing tower next to the House of World Cultures ("Haus der Kulturen der Welt") in the northeast part of Berlin's central Tiergarten park. It is a large manually played concert instrument composed of 68 bells, weighing a total of 48 metric tonnes and connected to a keyboard spanning 5 1/2 fully chromatic octaves.
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (Song of the battle of Hastings) is an early written source for the Norman invasion of England in September through December 1066; attributed to Bishop Guy of Amiens, uncle to Count Guy of Ponthieu, who figures rather prominently in the Bayeux Tapestry as the vassal of Duke William of Normandy who captured Harold Godwinson in 1064.
The Carmona Decree The Carmona Decree – officially named the Act of the constitution of the Democratic Transition and National Unity Government (Spanish: Acta de constitución del Gobierno de Transición Democrática y Unidad Nacional) and known colloquially as el carmonazo – was a document redacted on April 12, 2002 following the April 11th ouster of President Hugo Chávez.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an Act of Congress, is a US-based, independent policy and research center whose charge is "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education."
The Carolinas The Carolinas is a collective term used in the United States to refer to the States of North and South Carolina together. The Carolinas were known as the Province of Carolina during America's colonial period, specifically from 1663–1710.
The Carp (opera) The Carp is a one-act comic opera (styled "a whimsicality") with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier. It was first produced at the Savoy Theatre from 11 or 13 February 1886 to 19 January 1887, as a companion piece to The Mikado.
The Carpenter "The Carpenter" was Nightwish's first single. It came from their album Angels Fall First and featured, apart from Tarja's voice, also Tuomas' voice, which is unique because The Carpenter is the only single with his vocals.
The Carpenters The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. With their brand of melodic pop, they charted a score of hit recordings on the American Top 40, becoming leading exponents of the soft rock or adult contemporary genre and ranking among the foremost recording artists of the decade.
The Carpet People The Carpet People is a novel by Terry Pratchett which was originally published in 1971, but was later re-written by the author when his work became more widespread and well-known. In the Author's Note of the revised edition, published in 1992 Terry Pratchett wrote: "This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
The Carracks The Carracks (Seal Island) are small group of rocky islands located approximately 200 metres off the Cornwall coast, United Kingdom. Another island of a smaller proportion is located to the east of The Carracks called Little Carracks.
The Carrie Nations The Carrie Nations are a fictitious all-girl rock 'n roll trio featuring heavily in the cult Russ Meyer film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. In the film, the band goes to Hollywood in order to try to achieve commercial success, only to get sucked into the seedy underbelly of the entertainment industry.
The Carrier The Carrier is the fictional base of operations of The Authority, a Wildstorm Comics superteam. It is a shiftship, a ship capable of moving through the Bleed, the red space which separates alternate universes in the Wildstorm multiverse.
The Carroll County Times The Carroll County Times was founded on October 6, 1911 as The Times. Owner and publisher George Mather, whose father owned the once-prominent Mather's Department Store in Westminster, MD sold The Times in 1947.
The Cars The Cars were a popular American New Wave band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged out of the early punk scene in the late 1970s. They hailed from Boston, Massachusetts and were signed to Elektra Records in 1977.
The Cars: Deluxe Edition The Cars: Deluxe Edition is a 2-CD set released by Rhino Records in 1999. Disc 1 featured tracks from their original 1978 release The Cars, Disc 2 featured all tracks in demo formats, and included 5 never before released demos.
The Cartboy The Cartboy is a 9-minute long short film written and directed by Mike Clattenburg in 1995, which was one of the earliest incarnations of the later hit mockumentary series Trailer Park Boys. It was the debut of Mike Smith, who played a character that would later grow into the loveable Bubbles from the show.
The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain is an organisation open to all UK cartoonists. Established in 1960 the club claims to be of the largest cartoonists' organisations in the world with a membership of over 200 full and part time cartoonists both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The Casablanca Years (Cher album) The Casablanca Years, originally released in 1994 as Take Me Home/Prisoner, is a compilation album by Cher that compiles her two 1979 albums: Take Me Home and Prisoner. This album features all nine tracks from Take Me Home (her first of 1979, where she experimented with the disco era) and all eight tracks from Prisoner (her second 1979 album).
The Case Against Free Trade The Case Against Free Trade, subtitled GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power, is a book edited by Ralph Nader, with chapters written by William Greider, Margaret Atwood, David Philips, and Pat Choate, which claims that corporations are using free trade as a cloak or smokescreen under which they intend to circumvent the democratic process to harm the health and safety of the general public.
The Case for a Creator The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Towards God (2004) is a book by Christian apologist and former journalist Lee Strobel supporting the controversial notion of Intelligent Design. In the book, Strobel conducts a series of investigative interviews of Christian scholars, all of whom are ID proponents, who attempt to refute naturalistic accounts of the origin of universe and the development of life.
The Case for Democracy The Case for Democracy is a foreign policy manifesto written by former Soviet political prisoner and current Israeli Member of the Knesset, Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's friend Ron Dermer is the book's co-author.
The Case for Faith The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity is a book by Christian apologist and former journalist Lee Strobel. It won the Gold Medallion Book Award and offers replies to eight of the more difficult concerns people have regarding Christianity:
The Case for Christ The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (1998) is book by Christian apologist and former journalist Lee Strobel supporting the thesis that Jesus of Nazareth was the unique son of God. In it, he conducts a series of investigative interviews of Christian scholars and experts, whose replies refute many of the typical objections to Christianity.
The Case for Peace The Case for Peace: How The Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved is the sequel to The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. The book champions the two-state solution and has been endorsed by President Bill Clinton, who lead Mideast peace talks during his term.
The Case of the Cautious Condor The Case of the Cautious Condor is an adventure game in an interactive comic book style developed by Tiger Media, Inc.. It was one of the first CD-ROM-only games that was furthermore a complete new development for that media and not only a port of another version such as an already existing floppy disc game or a laserdisc arcade machine.
The Case of the Late Pig The Case of the Late Pig is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published 1937, by Hodder & Stoughton. It is the eighth novel featuring the mysterious Albert Campion and his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg.
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers The Case of the Speluncean Explorers is a famous hypothetical legal case used in the study of law, which was written by Lon Fuller in 1949 for the Harvard Law Review the hypothetical case, a trapped team of five spelunkers] determine via radio contact with physicians that they will have starved to death by the time they are rescued, and thus elect to eat one of their party. Once the remaining four spelunkers are rescued, they are all indicted for the murder of their fifth member.
The Case of Wagner The Case of Wagner (Der Fall Wagner) is a German philosophy book by Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem", it has also been known as "Wagner's Case" in English.
The Casements The Casements is a building in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA constructed in 1910 by the Reverend Harwood Huntington, husband of a Pullman heiress. It was named for the many casement windows adorning the building.
The Casinos The Casinos were a nine-member doo-wop group from Cincinnati, led by Gene Hughes. They are best-known for their John Loudermilk-written song "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," which hit #9 on the Billboard charts in 1967, well after the end of the doo-wop era.
The Cask of Amontillado "The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1846. It is set in 19th century Italy and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the insane narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him.
The Castafiore Emerald The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.
The Castaways on Gilligan's Island The Castaways on Gilligan's Island is a 1979 two-part television movie that continues the adventures of the shipwrecked castaways from the 1964-1967 TV series Gilligan's Island and the first reunion movie, Rescue From Gilligan's Island, featuring the original cast from the television series with the exception of Tina Louise, who was replaced in the role of Ginger Grant by Judith Baldwin.
The Castelles The Castelles were admired for years as the originators and the epitome of the “Philadelphia Sound”, which features a high tenor lead, a bass, a seemingly endless supply of tenors in strong harmony, and minimal instrumentation. Listen for it not only in the Castelles, but in those other two contemporary Philadelphia groups, the Dreamers and George Tindley and the Dreams.
The Castle of Crossed Destinies The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Il castello dei destini incrociati) is a 1973 novel by Italo Calvino that details a meeting among travelers (with homage to Geoffrey Chaucer) who are inexplicably unable to speak after traveling through a forest. The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator.
The Castle of Otranto The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century.

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