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camel
Either of two species of large, hump-backed ruminants (family Camelidae) used as draft and saddle animals in desert regions, especially in Africa and Asia. Adaptations to windblown deserts include double rows of eyelashes, the ability to close the nostrils, and wide-spreading soft feet. Though docile when properly trained, camels can be dangerous. The Bactrian camel (C. bactrianus) is about 7 ft (2 m) tall at the top of the two humps; the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), or dromedary, has one hump and is 7 ft (2 m) high at the shoulder. When food is available, camels store fat in their humps to be used later for sustenance and to manufacture water. They are thus able to go several days without drinking water.
cave
Naturally formed underground cavity. A cave often consists of a number of underground chambers, constituting a series of caverns. An assemblage of such caverns interconnected by smaller passageways makes up a cave system. Primary caves, such as lava tubes and coral caves, develop during the time when the host matrix is solidifying or being deposited. Secondary caves, such as marine grottoes, originate after the host matrix has been deposited or consolidated. Most caves are of the latter type, incl. solution caves formed by the chemical dissolution of a soluble host rock that has been weakened by fracturing and mechanical erosion; Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns are examples of solution caves.
Cavell
English nurse and heroine of World War I. She began her nursing career in 1895, and in 1907 became first matron of a hospital in Brussels, where she greatly improved the standard of nursing. After the German occupation of Belgium (1914), she became involved in an underground group that helped about 200 Allied soldiers escape to the Netherlands. She was subsequently arrested and executed by the Germans.
Chanel
French fashion designer. Little is known of her early life. In 1913 she opened a millinery shop in Deauville, and within five years her innovative use of jersey fabric and accessories was attracting wealthy patrons. Her nonconformist designs, stressing simplicity and comfort, revolutionized the fashion industry for the next 30 years. She popularized turtleneck sweaters, the "little black dress," and the much-copied "Chanel suit." Chanel industries included a Parisian fashion house, a textile business, perfume laboratories, and a workshop for costume jewelry. The financial basis of her empire was Chanel No. 5 perfume, introduced in 1922 and still popular.
Chavez
U.S. organizer and leader of migrant farm workers. Born into a family of Mexican-Amer. migrant laborers, he spent his early years in a succession of migrant camps, attending school only sporadically. After two years in the Navy, he returned to migrant farmwork. He began organizing the largely Hispanic farmworkers of Arizona and California in 1962. A charismatic figure, he ...
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