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satellite
Natural or artificial object orbiting a larger astronomical object, usually a planet. The moon is the most obvious example and the only one known until the discovery of the Galilean satellites. All the sun's planets except Mercury and Venus have natural satellites, which vary greatly in size and composition, from almost entirely rocky (e.g., the moon) to volcanic or mostly ice. The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1 (1957). Since then, many hundreds have been sent into orbit around earth and around Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, as well as the sun and moon. Artificial satellites are used for scientific research and other purposes, such as communication (see communications satellite), weather forecasting, earth resources management, and military intelligence. See also Landsat.


Cabell
U.S. writer. Born in Richmond, Va. to a distinguished family, he attacked Amer. orthodoxies and institutions in his best-known novel, Jurgen (1919), a story replete with sexual symbolism. His other works, many of them allegories set in an imaginary medieval province, include The Cream of the Jest (1917), Beyond Life (1919), and The High Place (1923). Though much praised in the 1920s, his mannered style and skeptical view of human experience soon lost favor.


camellia
Any of the E. Asian evergreen shrubs and trees that make up the genus Camellia in the tea family (Theaceae), most notable for three ornamental flowering species and for C. sinensis (sometimes called Thea sinensis), the source of tea. The common camellia (C. japonica) is the best known, particularly for its double (many-petaled) cultivated varieties. The tea plant (C. sinensis), reaching 30 ft (9 m) in the wild but in cultivation kept to a low, mounded shrub, bears fragrant white, yellow-centered flowers.


Rabelais
French writer and priest. After apparently studying law, he took holy orders as a Franciscan, but later, because of a dispute, removed to a Benedictine house. In 1530 he left the Benedictines to study medicine, a profession he would follow the rest of his life. He became a significant humanist scholar, publishing translations of Hippocrates and Galen. His fame rests on the five comic novels (one of doubtful authenticity) known collectively as Gargantua and Pantagruel, incl. the masterpieces Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534) as well as Le tiers livre (1546; "The Third Book"), his most profound work. These works display a delight in words, a mastery of storytelling, and deep humanist learning in a mosaic of scholarly, literary, and scientific parody that is unlike any previous work in French. They were banned by civil and church authorities for their satirical content and earthy humor, but were nevertheless read throughout Europe. Throughout his career, Rabelais owed his freedom to the protection of powerful patrons.


Schelling
German philosopher and educator. Inspired by I. Kant, J. G. ...

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