Cook Islands, self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand, located in the South Pacific Ocean. Its 15 small atolls and islands have a total land area comparable to that of a medium-sized city, but they are spread over about 770,000 square miles (2,000,000 square km) of sea—an

Cook Islands: Ethnic groups and languages: The latter, known as Cook Islands Maori, is an official language, as is English.

The earliest flag identified with the Cook Islands was in use on the island of Rarotonga in the 1850s. It had three horizontal stripes of red, white, and red, with three blue stars in the central white stripe. A Union Jack canton was added in 1888 after Britain established a protectorate over the

Cook Strait, strait separating the North and South islands of New Zealand, extending northwest to southeast from the Tasman Sea to the south Pacific Ocean. About 14 miles (23 km) wide at its narrowest point, it averages 420 feet (128 m) in depth. Both shores are lined with steep cliffs, and that of

The Cook’s Tale, an incomplete story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1387–1400. This 58-line fragment of a tale of “harlotrie,” as the poet described it, tells of a womanizing, gambling apprentice cook who is dismissed from his job. He moves in with a fellow reveler and

Alicia Keys is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress who achieved enormous success in the early 2000s with her blend of R&B and soul music. Her notable songs include “Fallin’” (2001), “No One” (2007) and “Empire State of Mind” (2009), the latter of which was a collaboration with

Arthur James Cook was a British labour leader, an impassioned orator who had a great following among British coal miners and who came, in the 1920s, to symbolize the miners’ determined but ineffective struggle against the mineowners’ insistence on lower wages and longer hours. A coal miner from age

The Incredible Mr. Limpet: Cast:

American Idol: Winners: Fantasia Barrino, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, and Kris Allen.

sabermetrics: Early analytic efforts: In 1964 Earnshaw Cook’s book Percentage Baseball was published, and his work, or at least the broadest outlines of it, reached a wide audience via a profile in Sports Illustrated. Not many people within the game would admit to paying Cook much mind, but longtime executive Lou…

Frederick Albert Cook was an American physician and explorer whose claim that he had discovered the North Pole in 1908 made him a controversial figure. His fellow American explorer Robert E. Peary, who is generally credited with having achieved this feat in 1909, denounced Cook’s claim. Cook began

George Cram Cook was a novelist, poet, and playwright who, with his wife, Susan Glaspell (q.v.), established the Provincetown Players in 1915, which gave a forward thrust to the U.S. theatre. After completing his B.A. degree at Harvard in 1893, he studied at Heidelberg in 1894 and the Université de

James Cook was a British naval captain, navigator, and explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada (1759 and 1763–67) and conducted three expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (1768–71, 1772–75, and1776–79), ranging from the Antarctic ice fields to the Bering Strait and from the coasts of North

Joseph Cook was an early prime minister (1913–14) of a federated Australia who helped found the nation’s military institutions. Cook emigrated to New South Wales in 1885 and worked as a coal miner until 1891, when he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a member of the Labor

Mitch McConnell: Early life and education: Marlow Cook. He later served as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general in the administration of Pres. Gerald R. Ford (1974–75) and as judge/executive (chief judge) of Jefferson county, Kentucky (1978–85).

the Wiggles: … (blue), Greg Page (yellow), and Murray Cook (red).

Howard Staunton: …and patented in 1849 by Nathaniel Cook. Following Staunton’s endorsement and extensive promotion of the design, it became known as the Staunton pattern.

the Sex Pistols: May 3, 1955, London), drummer Paul Cook (b. July 20, 1956, London), and bassist Glen Matlock (b. August 27, 1956, London). A later member was bassist Sid Vicious (byname of John Simon Ritchie; b. May 10, 1957, London—d. February 2, 1979, New York, New York, U.S.).

Peter Cook was a British entertainer who gained international fame in the 1960s in the hit satirical revue Beyond the Fringe (with Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore) and for his longtime comedy partnership with Moore on stage, screen, television, and comedy records. He also founded

Peter Cook was a British entertainer who gained international fame in the 1960s in the hit satirical revue Beyond the Fringe (with Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore) and for his longtime comedy partnership with Moore on stage, screen, television, and comedy records. He also founded

Robin Cook was a British politician who served as foreign secretary in the United Kingdom for four years following the Labour Party’s return to power in 1997. He was recognized as having one of the sharpest minds in British politics, and he wielded influence far beyond his official post. Cook was

Robin Cook was a British politician who served as foreign secretary in the United Kingdom for four years following the Labour Party’s return to power in 1997. He was recognized as having one of the sharpest minds in British politics, and he wielded influence far beyond his official post. Cook was

Sam Cooke was an American singer, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur who was a major figure in the history of popular music and, along with Ray Charles, one of the most influential Black vocalists of the post-World War II period. If Charles represented raw soul, Cooke symbolized sweet soul. To

Intuit Inc.: …in 1983 by American entrepreneurs Scott Cook and Tom Proulx. The company headquarters is in Mountain View, California

Stephen Arthur Cook is an American computer scientist and winner of the 1982 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way.” Cook earned a bachelor’s degree (1961) in computer

Creedence Clearwater Revival: ), Stu Cook (b. April 25, 1945, Oakland, Calif.), and Doug Clifford (b. April 24, 1945, Palo Alto, Calif.).

Jean Paul Gaultier: …a number of films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989), The Fifth Element (1997), and Bad Education (2004). In 2011 he launched his first international exhibition, “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk,” in Montreal. The exhibition, which made…

Thomas Cook was an English innovator of the conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism. Cook left school at the age of 10 and worked at various jobs until 1828, when he became a Baptist missionary. In 1841 he

Tim Cook (born November 1, 1960, Mobile, Alabama) is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. (AAPL) since 2011. Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama. He graduated from Auburn University in Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering

Tim Cook (born November 1, 1960, Mobile, Alabama) is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. (AAPL) since 2011. Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama. He graduated from Auburn University in Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American journalist and political activist who was sentenced to death and then to life in prison for the 1981 murder of a police officer, Daniel Faulkner, in Philadelphia. Wesley Cook established his status as a political activist while still a teenager. At age 14, he took

nuclear weapon: Thermonuclear weapons: …first step was to put William Cook in charge of the program. Cook, chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service and a mathematician, was transferred to Aldermaston, a government research and development laboratory and manufacturing site in Berkshire, where he arrived in September to be deputy director to William Penney.…

Antony Tudor was a British-born American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who developed the so-called psychological ballet. He began his dance studies at 19 years of age with Marie Rambert and for her company choreographed his first ballet, Cross-Gartered (1931), based on an incident in

cookbook, collection of recipes, instructions, and information about the preparation and serving of foods. At its best, a cookbook is also a chronicle and treasury of the fine art of cooking, an art whose masterpieces—created only to be consumed—would otherwise be lost. Cookbooks have been written

circus: Circus families: The Cooke family, which traveled from Scotland to New York City in the early 1800s, was an equestrian group that intermarried with the Coles and the Ortons, both well-known American circus families. As a family expanded, branches were established in numerous areas, and members often went…

Alistair Cooke was a British-born American journalist and commentator, best known for his lively and insightful interpretations of American history and culture. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist lay preacher, Cooke pursued literary and theatrical interests at Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated

Alistair Cooke was a British-born American journalist and commentator, best known for his lively and insightful interpretations of American history and culture. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist lay preacher, Cooke pursued literary and theatrical interests at Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated

music: Contextualist theories: Deryck Cooke, the British musicologist and the author of The Language of Music (1959), who may be classified as a referential expressionist, offered a sophisticated argument for the notion of music as language. Concepts, however, may not be rendered by this language, only feelings. Cooke…

Henry Cooke was a composer, bass singer, and outstanding English choirmaster of his era. As a child Cooke was a chorister in the Chapel Royal. During the English Civil Wars (1642–51) he fought for Charles I, whence his title, “Captain” Cooke. After the Restoration (1660) he became master of the

Jay Cooke was an American financier and fund-raiser for the federal government during the American Civil War. At 18 Cooke entered the Philadelphia banking house of E.W. Clark and Co., and three years later he became a member of the firm. In 1861 he opened his own banking house in Philadelphia and

Rose Terry Cooke was an American poet and author, remembered chiefly for her stories that presaged the local-colour movement in American literature. Cooke was born of a well-to-do family. She graduated from the Hartford Female Seminary in 1843 and for some years thereafter taught school and was a

Sam Cooke was an American singer, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur who was a major figure in the history of popular music and, along with Ray Charles, one of the most influential Black vocalists of the post-World War II period. If Charles represented raw soul, Cooke symbolized sweet soul. To

Sir William Fothergill Cooke was an English inventor who worked with Charles Wheatstone in developing electric telegraphy. Cooke’s attendance at a demonstration of the use of wire in transmitting messages led to his experimentation in 1836 with telegraphy. Soon afterward, he and Wheatstone, who had

chlorite: Cookeite (with lithium substituted for aluminum) is also a member of the chlorite group.

baking: History: The Egyptians developed the first ovens. The earliest known examples are cylindrical vessels made of baked Nile clay, tapered at the top to give a cone shape and divided inside by a horizontal shelflike partition. The lower section is the firebox, the upper section is the baking chamber. The pieces…

John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-guitarist, one of the most distinctive artists in the electric blues idiom. Born into a Mississippi sharecropping family, Hooker learned to play the guitar from his stepfather and developed an interest in gospel music as a child. In 1943 he moved to

cooking, the act of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking is as old as civilization itself, and observers have perceived it as both an art and a science. Its history sheds light on the very origins of human settlement, and its variety and traditions reflect unique social, cultural,

cookbook, collection of recipes, instructions, and information about the preparation and serving of foods. At its best, a cookbook is also a chronicle and treasury of the fine art of cooking, an art whose masterpieces—created only to be consumed—would otherwise be lost. Cookbooks have been written

Cookeville, city, seat (1854) of Putnam county, on the Cumberland Plateau in north-central Tennessee, U.S., about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville. Founded as the county seat in 1854, it was named for Major Richard F. Cooke, one of the organizers of Putnam county. It developed as an

cookie, file or part of a file saved to a Web user’s hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target online advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to order online. Early

cookie, (from Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek, “cake”), primarily in the United States, any of various small sweet cakes, either flat or slightly raised, cut from rolled dough, dropped from a spoon, cut into pieces after baking, or curled with a special iron. In Scotland the term cookie denotes a

Cookie Monster, American television puppet character (one of the Muppets) whose appetite for cookies is legendary. Together with such characters as Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, and Big Bird, he is one of the featured creatures on the long-running children’s public television series Sesame Street. The

Robert Altman: 1980s and ’90s of Robert Altman: Better received was Cookie’s Fortune (1999), a study of the effects of a local woman’s death on a small Southern town populated by eccentric but winning characters, brought to life by one of Altman’s most colourful casts—Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Charles S. Dutton, Liv Tyler, Ned Beatty, Lyle…

cookiecutter shark, either of two species of living sharks classified as part of the genus Isistius, in the family Dalatiidae, named for their tendency to excise cookie cutter-shaped plugs of flesh from the larger marine animals they feed upon. Whereas the biology and distribution of the smalltooth

cookiecutter shark, either of two species of living sharks classified as part of the genus Isistius, in the family Dalatiidae, named for their tendency to excise cookie cutter-shaped plugs of flesh from the larger marine animals they feed upon. Whereas the biology and distribution of the smalltooth

cooking, the act of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking is as old as civilization itself, and observers have perceived it as both an art and a science. Its history sheds light on the very origins of human settlement, and its variety and traditions reflect unique social, cultural,

fat and oil processing: Deodorization: The common cooking oils of Asia—soybean, rapeseed, peanut, sesame, and coconut—are consumed in their crude form as expressed from oilseeds. In contrast, deodorized oils are in particular demand in the United States and Europe. For many years the only important vegetable oil consumed in the United States…

Elaine Feinstein was a British writer and translator who examined her own eastern European heritage in a number of novels and collections of poetry. Feinstein attended the University of Cambridge (B.A., 1952; M.A., 1955). Her first published work was a collection of poetry, In a Green Eye (1966).

repeating rifle: By the 18th century the Cookson repeating rifle was in use in North America, having separate tubular magazines in the stock for balls and powder and a lever-activated breech mechanism that selected and loaded a ball and a charge, also priming the flash pan and setting the gun on half…

lighthouse: Rectangular and drum lenses: …light, in 1836 English glassmaker William Cookson modified Fresnel’s principle by producing a cylindrical drum lens, which concentrated the light into an all-around fan beam. Although not as efficient as the rectangular panel, it provided a steady, all-around light. Small drum lenses, robust and compact, are widely used today for…

Pridoli Series: …land plants, of the genus Cooksonia, typically occur in the lower portions of the Pridoli Series in many parts of the world. The Pridoli Series is overlain by the Lochkovian Stage, the first stage of the Devonian System. The base of the Lochkovian and the base of the Devonian System…

Cookstown: The former district of Cookstown was bordered by the former districts of Magherafelt to the north, Omagh to the west, and Dungannon to the south. The outer limits of the Sperrin Mountains, constituting most of its northwestern portion, slope gradually eastward to the Ballinderry River valley and the flat…

Cookstown, town and former district (1973–2015) astride the former counties of Londonderry and Tyrone, now in Mid Ulster district, west of Lough (lake) Neagh, Northern Ireland. The town, a 17th-century Plantation of Ulster (English colonial) settlement, was named after its founder, Alan Cook. The

Cooktown, town and port, northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is situated at the mouth of the Endeavour River on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, facing the Great Barrier Reef. The town and nearby Mount Cook (1,415 feet [431 metres]) are named after the British navigator Capt. James Cook,

William Cookworthy was a china manufacturer who first produced an English true hard-paste porcelain similar to that of the Chinese and Germans. Cookworthy was apprenticed at 14 to a London apothecary, who later set him up in a business, Bevans and Cookworthy, at Plymouth. He became interested in

exercise: Warm-up/cool down: It is equally important to cool down—that is, to gradually reduce exercise intensity—at the end of each session. The abrupt cessation of vigorous exercise may cause blood to pool in the legs, which can cause fainting or, more seriously, can sometimes precipitate cardiac complications. Slow walking and stretching for five…

Tommy Johnson: …“Big Road Blues,” and “Cool Drink of Water Blues,” became standard features of the blues repertoire. Howlin’ Wolf later reworked the opening lyrics of “Cool Drink of Water Blues” into his own song “I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline).”

greenhouse: In a cool greenhouse, the nighttime temperature falls to about 7–10 °C (45–50 °F). Among the plants suited to cool greenhouses are azaleas, cinerarias, cyclamens, carnations, fuchsias,

Cool Hand Luke, American film drama, released in 1967, featuring Paul Newman in one of his most highly regarded performances, as a convict who refuses to kowtow to his sadistic jailers. Newman’s antihero role was especially popular amid the anti-establishment currents of the 1960s. Sentenced to a

cool jazz, a style of jazz that emerged in the United States during the late 1940s. The term cool derives from what journalists perceived as an understated or subdued feeling in the music of Miles Davis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Lennie Tristano, and others. Tone colours tended

Nathanael West: In A Cool Million (1934), West effectively mocks the American success dream popularized by Horatio Alger by portraying a hero who slides from bad to worse while doing the supposedly right thing. In his last years West worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The Day of…

Jimmy Cliff: Later career: …for the comedy sports film Cool Runnings helped renew his broader popularity. His other recordings include the Grammy Award-winning albums Cliff Hanger (1985; on which he collaborated, not for the first or last time, with Kool & the Gang) and Rebirth (2012). Black Magic (2004) is an album of duets…

machine tool: Cutting fluids: In many machine-tool operations, cutting fluids or coolants are used to modify the harmful effects of friction and high temperatures. In general, the major functions of a coolant are to lubricate and cool. When cutting a screw thread, either on a lathe or with…

nuclear reactor: Coolants and moderators: A variety of substances, including light water, heavy water, air, carbon dioxide, helium, liquid sodium, liquid sodium-potassium alloy, and hydrocarbons (oils), have been

Ina Donna Coolbrith was a popular American poet of moderate talent who nonetheless became a major figure in literary and cultural circles of 19th- and early 20th-century San Francisco. Coolbrith, a niece of Joseph Smith (the founder of Mormonism), was born in the first major Mormon settlement.

William Butler Yeats: …summers at Lady Gregory’s home, Coole Park, County Galway, and he eventually purchased a ruined Norman castle called Thoor Ballylee in the neighbourhood. Under the name of the Tower, this structure would become a dominant symbol in many of his latest and best poems.

Alec Baldwin: Stardom: Beetlejuice, The Hunt for Red October, and The Aviator: …owner in the dark comedy The Cooler (2003). Later that year he had a supporting role in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, a biopic about Howard Hughes.

blood disease: Thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies: Thalassemia major (Cooley anemia) is characterized by severe anemia, enlargement of the spleen, and body deformities associated with expansion of the bone marrow. The latter presumably represents a response to the need for greatly accelerated red cell production by genetically defective red cell precursors, which…

aphid: Types of aphids: The cooley spruce gall adelgid (Adelges cooleyi) causes formation of conelike galls about 7 cm (3 inches) long on the tips of spruce twigs. In midsummer when the galls open, adults migrate to Douglas firs to lay eggs. However, the life cycle may proceed on either…

commerce clause: Interpretation of the commerce clause in United States Supreme Court cases: ” In Cooley v. Board of Wardens of Port of Philadelphia (1851), the Supreme Court agreed with the state of Pennsylvania that it had the right, under an act of Congress in 1789, to regulate matters concerning pilots on its waterways, including the port of Philadelphia. The…

thalassemia, group of blood disorders characterized by a deficiency of hemoglobin, the blood protein that transports oxygen to the tissues. Thalassemia (Greek: “sea blood”) is so called because it was first discovered among peoples around the Mediterranean Sea, among whom its incidence is high.

Charles Horton Cooley was an American sociologist who employed a sociopsychological approach to the understanding of society. Cooley, the son of Michigan Supreme Court judge Thomas McIntyre Cooley, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1894. He had started teaching at the university in

Denton Cooley was an American surgeon and educator who was one of the most-renowned heart surgeons in the world, admired for his technical brilliance and his dexterity. He performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States and was also the first to implant an artificial heart in a

Denton Cooley was an American surgeon and educator who was one of the most-renowned heart surgeons in the world, admired for his technical brilliance and his dexterity. He performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States and was also the first to implant an artificial heart in a

rights of privacy: …what Louis Brandeis, citing Judge Thomas Cooley, described in an 1890 paper (cowritten with Samuel D. Warren) as “the right to be let alone.” The right of privacy is a legal concept in both the law of torts and U.S. constitutional law. The tort concept is of 19th-century origin. Subject…

Boyz II Men: Cooleyhighharmony: …Motown records with the album Cooleyhighharmony, which went on to sell more than seven million copies and won a Grammy Award. In 1992 their recording of “End of the Road,” from the movie soundtrack of Boomerang, spent 13 consecutive weeks in the number one slot on Billboard’s pop chart, eclipsing…

Coolgardie, town, south-central Western Australia. It was founded in 1892 with the discovery of quartz gold in the vicinity, which marked the beginning of a rush to the East Coolgardie field. Known consecutively as Gnaralbine, Bayley’s Reward, and Fly Flat, it was finally renamed Coolgardie, an

greenhouse: In a cool greenhouse, the nighttime temperature falls to about 7–10 °C (45–50 °F). Among the plants suited to cool greenhouses are azaleas, cinerarias, cyclamens, carnations, fuchsias,

Gila River: Coolidge Dam (1928) on the Gila near Globe, Arizona, is used for irrigation in the Casa Grande Valley; the dam, together with Roosevelt Dam on the Salt, stores all available surface water, so the Gila River bed is dry and barren down to the Colorado.…

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States (1923–29). Coolidge acceded to the presidency after the death in office of Warren G. Harding, just as the Harding scandals were coming to light. He restored integrity to the executive branch of the federal government while continuing the

Elizabeth Penn Sprague Coolidge was an American philanthropist, herself a trained pianist, who is remembered for her generous support of musicians and the world of music. Elizabeth Sprague was of a wealthy family that early encouraged her to study music. In her youth she appeared on a few occasions

Grace Coolidge was the American first lady (1923–29), the wife of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States. Grace Goodhue was the only child of Andrew Issachar Goodhue, a mechanical engineer, and Lemira Barrett Goodhue. After attending local schools, Grace enrolled at the University of

Christopher Guest: Filmmaking career: , Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch, Chris O’Dowd, Catherine O’Hara, Jim Piddock, Parker Posey, and Willard.

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States (1923–29). Coolidge acceded to the presidency after the death in office of Warren G. Harding, just as the Harding scandals were coming to light. He restored integrity to the executive branch of the federal government while continuing the

Julian Lowell Coolidge was a U.S. mathematician and educator who published numerous works on theoretical mathematics along the lines of the Study-Segre school. Coolidge was born to a family of well-established Bostonians; his paternal grandmother was Thomas Jefferson’s granddaughter. Following the

Martha Coolidge is an American filmmaker who achieved commercial success directing films often underlain by a feminist perspective. Coolidge’s father was a professor of architecture at Yale University (and third cousin of U.S. Pres. Calvin Coolidge), and her parents encouraged her to be an artist.

Kris Kristofferson: Music career: …were collaborations with country singer Rita Coolidge, to whom he was married from 1973 to 1979. Their first album, Full Moon (1973), went gold (achieved sales of half a million copies).

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was an American children’s author whose vivacious and mischievous heroines presented a popular contrast to the norm of her day. Woolsey displayed a love for reading and writing stories at an early age. In 1855 she moved with her family to New Haven, Connecticut (her uncle,

William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge was an American-born British historian and mountaineer who, in the course of about 1,750 ascents, made one of the first systematic explorations of the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps. A graduate of Oxford University, where he taught for some years, he was also

William D. Coolidge was an American engineer and physical chemist whose improvement of tungsten filaments was essential in the development of the modern incandescent lamp bulb and the X-ray tube. After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge; 1897, 1901–05) and the