measurement system: The English system: In 1701 the corn bushel in dry measure was defined as “any round measure with a plain and even bottom, being 18.5 inches wide throughout and 8 inches deep.” Similarly, in 1707 the wine gallon was defined as a round measure having an even bottom and containing 231…

Native American dance: The Southwest: …of the Pueblos are the corn dances, or tablita dances, named for the women’s tablet crowns with cloud symbols. They recur at various times during the spring and summer, with most pageantry after Easter and on the pueblo’s saint’s day. The people pay homage to the patron saint in an…

corn earworm, larva of the moth Heliothis zea (in some classifications H. armigera; family Noctuidae). The smooth, fleshy green or brown caterpillars are serious crop pests before they pupate in the soil. Four or five generations of the pale brown adult moths (wingspan 3.5 cm [about 113 inches])

homopteran: Honeydew: …corn root aphid and the corn field ant. The ants collect eggs in autumn, carry them to their nests, maintain the eggs through the winter, and place the young aphids on the roots of small weeds and grasses in the spring. As soon as newly planted corn seeds germinate, the…

cereal processing: Flaked cereals: …breakfast foods are made from corn (maize), usually of the yellow type, broken down into grits and cooked under pressure with flavouring syrup consisting of sugar, nondiastatic malt, and other ingredients. Cooking is often accomplished in slowly rotating retorts under steam pressure.

Kellogg’s: …of WK Kellogg Co, bringing Corn Flakes, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, and Special K under its ownership.

cornstarch, substance produced through wet milling of corn (Zea mays). Wet milling separates the components of corn kernels, which consist primarily of protein, fibre, starch, and oil. Once separated, the starch is dried, forming a white powder called cornstarch. Cornstarch is high in carbohydrates

measurement system: The English system: There were also a corn gallon and an older, slightly smaller wine gallon. There were many other attempts made at standardization besides these, but it was not until the 19th century that a major overhaul occurred.

pre-Columbian civilizations: The gods: …such gods as the young corn god, whose gracious statue is to be seen at Copán, the Sun god shown at Palenque under the form of the solar disk engraved with anthropomorphic features, the nine gods of darkness (also at Palenque), and a snake god especially prominent at Yaxchilán. Another…

corn harvester, machine designed for harvesting corn and preparing it for storage. The earliest corn-harvesting devices, such as the horse-drawn sled cutter, severed the stalk at the ground. Binding of the stalks into shocks for drying, as well as the subsequent picking, husking, and shelling, were

Irving Rapper: Heyday at Warner Brothers: Rapper next made The Corn Is Green (1945), an adaptation of a hit Broadway play by Emlyn Williams. Davis gave a convincing performance as Miss Lilly Moffat, an English teacher who dedicates her life to the impoverished students of a Welsh mining town in the late 19th century.…

George Cukor: Last films: Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, and The Corn Is Green (1979), also made for television, with Katharine Hepburn in the role of a spinster schoolteacher in Wales, were on par with Cukor’s earlier work. His last film—Rich and Famous (1981), a remake of the 1943 melodrama Old Acquaintance, with Jacqueline Bisset…

Corn Islands, islands located in the Caribbean Sea, Nicaragua. Great and Little Corn islands lie 50 and 59 miles (80 and 95 km), respectively, east-northeast of Bluefields. The islands were leased to the United States by Nicaragua under the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, signed in 1914 and ratified in

Corn Law, in English history, any of the regulations governing the import and export of grain. Records mention the imposition of Corn Laws as early as the 12th century. The laws became politically important in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, during the grain shortage

skunk cabbage: …(Veratrum californicum) is the poisonous corn lily, or false hellebore, which grows from New Mexico and Baja California northward to Washington.

Moonshine is a term typically used to refer to illicitly distilled liquor. The word is derived from the notion of the liquor being made and distributed at night, under cover of darkness. Makers of moonshine are called moonshiners. Moonshine most commonly denotes clear, unaged whiskey that was made

Corn Mother, mythological figure believed, among indigenous agricultural tribes in North America, to be responsible for the origin of corn (maize). The story of the Corn Mother is related in two main versions with many variations. In the first version (the “immolation version”), the Corn Mother is

Corn Mother, mythological figure believed, among indigenous agricultural tribes in North America, to be responsible for the origin of corn (maize). The story of the Corn Mother is related in two main versions with many variations. In the first version (the “immolation version”), the Corn Mother is

corn oil, edible oil obtainable from the seeds (kernels) of corn (maize), valued for its bland flavour and light colour. The oil constitutes about half of the germ (embryo) of the corn kernel, which is separated from the rest of the kernel during the operation of milling to produce meal, animal

corn: Food and nutrition: …sweet corn is boiled or roasted on the cob, creamed, converted into hominy (hulled kernels) or meal, and cooked in corn puddings, mush, polenta, griddle cakes, cornbread, and scrapple. Corn is also used for popcorn, confections, and various manufactured

Mitchell: The Corn Palace (built 1921, replacing an original built in 1892 and a second built in 1905) is a unique Moorish structure decorated annually with corn, grain, and grasses and distinguished by minarets and domes. The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village preserves the archaeological site of a…

Dracaena: Major species: Lucky bamboo (Dracaena braunii) and corn plant (D. fragrans), frequently with yellow leaf edges or white stripes, are common houseplants. Snake plant, or mother-in-law’s-tongue (D. trifasciata, formerly Sansevieria trifasciata), is another popular houseplant, known for its attractive upright foliage.

cornbread: Johnnycakes and corn pone are somewhat thicker cakes that may have added ingredients such as fat or wheat flour. Spoonbread, a misnomer, actually denotes a cornmeal pudding. The usual Southern cornbread is made from a batter containing cornmeal, wheat flour, eggs, milk or buttermilk, and shortening; the…

corn poppy, (Papaver rhoeas), annual (rarely biennial) plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The plant has been introduced into Australia, New Zealand, and North America and is one of the most commonly cultivated garden poppies. The corn poppy is also

human sacrifice: (corn) ritual. The Inca confined wholesale sacrifices to the occasion of the accession of a ruler. The burning of children seems to have occurred in Assyrian and Canaanite religions and at various times among the Israelites. Among the African Asante, the victims sacrificed as first-fruit…

aphid: Types of aphids: The corn root aphid (Anuraphis maidi radicis) is a serious pest dependent on the cornfield ant. During the winter, the ants store aphid eggs in their nests and in the spring carry the newly hatched aphids to weed roots, transferring them to corn roots when possible.…

chemoreception: Movement toward an odor source: …on roots, such as the corn root worm (the larva of a beetle), have been shown to move along chemical gradients.

corn smut, plant disease caused by the fungus Ustilago maydis, which attacks corn (maize) and teosinte plants. The disease reduces corn yields and can cause economic losses, though in Mexico the immature galls of infected ears of corn are eaten as a delicacy known as huitlacoche. Corn smut can

rat snake: The corn snake (E. guttata) ranges from New Jersey and Florida to Utah and northeastern Mexico. In the east it is yellow or gray, with black-edged red blotches, and is often referred to as the red rat snake. In the west it usually is pale gray,…

cornstarch, substance produced through wet milling of corn (Zea mays). Wet milling separates the components of corn kernels, which consist primarily of protein, fibre, starch, and oil. Once separated, the starch is dried, forming a white powder called cornstarch. Cornstarch is high in carbohydrates

corn syrup, a viscous sweet syrup produced by breaking down (hydrolyzing) cornstarch, either by heating it with a dilute acid or by combining it with enzymes. (Cornstarch is a product of corn [maize].) Corn syrup is sometimes also called glucose syrup, which is also made from the hydrolysis of

Alfred Corn is an American poet known for meditative lyrics that show a mastery of traditional forms. Corn was raised in Valdosta, Georgia, and attended Emory University (B.A., 1965) and Columbia University (M.A., 1970). In the 1970s he traveled throughout Europe and then returned to the United

Alfred Corn is an American poet known for meditative lyrics that show a mastery of traditional forms. Corn was raised in Valdosta, Georgia, and attended Emory University (B.A., 1965) and Columbia University (M.A., 1970). In the 1970s he traveled throughout Europe and then returned to the United

Western sculpture: Late Baroque: …manner in the works of Agostino Cornacchini and of Pietro Bracci, whose allegorical figure Ocean on the Trevi Fountain by Niccolò Salvi (completed 1762) is less artfully dramatic and not as masterfully executed as Bernini’s sculpture. Filippo della Valle worked in a classicizing style of almost French sensibility, but the…

Cornales: Cornaceae: Cornaceae, the dogwood family, is the largest family in the order, though it has just two genera—Cornus (65 species) and Alangium (20 species). Cornus is noted for its woody ornamental species native to both coasts of North America and to East Asia. Cornus florida…

dam: The Romans: in southwestern Spain, Proserpina and Cornalbo, are still in use, while the reservoirs of others have filled with silt. The Proserpina Dam, 12 metres (40 feet) high, features a masonry-faced core wall of concrete backed by earth that is strengthened by buttresses supporting the downstream face. The Cornalbo Dam features…

Cornales, dogwood order of flowering plants, comprising six families and more than 590 species. Cornales is the basalmost order of the core asterid clade (organisms with a single common ancestor), or sympetalous lineage of flowering plants, in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (APG III) botanical

wind instrument: The Renaissance: …pictorial sources, are the Italian cornamusa, probably little more than a crumhorn without the nonfunctional curved area, and the dolzaina, appearing much the same as the cornamusa. (The name cornamusa was more often used for a bagpipe.) A loud capped reed was the schryari, made in the three principal sizes.…

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Patronage of Innocent X and Alexander VII: …Bernini’s mature art is the Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria, in Rome, which completes the evolution begun early in his career. The chapel, commissioned by Federigo Cardinal Cornaro, is in a shallow transept in the small church. Its focal point is his sculpture of The Ecstasy of St.…

Elena Cornaro was an Italian savant who was the first woman to receive a degree from a university. Cornaro’s father, Giovanni Battista Cornaro Piscopia, was a nobleman. Her mother, Zanetta Boni, was a peasant and was not married to Giovanni (by whom she had four other children) at the time of

Giovanni Maria Falconetto: …Padua, in the service of Alvise Cornaro, an influential humanist and architect who is credited with introducing the Roman Renaissance style to northern Italy. Examples of Falconetto’s work include the odeon and loggia (1524) in Cornaro’s Palazzo Giustiniani and the Porta San Giovanni (1528) and the Porta Savonarola (1530), two…

Caterina Cornaro was a Venetian noblewoman who became queen of Cyprus by marrying James II, king of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia, supplying him with a much-needed alliance with Venice. The marriage agreement was reached in 1468, but in the next four years James considered other possible alliances

Elena Cornaro was an Italian savant who was the first woman to receive a degree from a university. Cornaro’s father, Giovanni Battista Cornaro Piscopia, was a nobleman. Her mother, Zanetta Boni, was a peasant and was not married to Giovanni (by whom she had four other children) at the time of

Andrea Palladio: Visits to Rome and work in Vicenza: Sometimes, as at the Villa Cornaro (c. 1560–65) at Piombino Dese and the Villa Pisani (c. 1553–55) at Montagnana, the portico is two-storied, with principal rooms on two floors. Normally (as at the Villa Foscari at Mira, called Malcontenta [1560]; the Villa Emo at Fanzolo [late 1550s]; and the…

Western dance: Court dances and spectacles: His disciple, Antonio Cornazano, a nobleman by birth, became an immensely respected minister, educator of princes, court poet, and dancing master to the Sforza family of Milan, where about 1460 he published his Libro dell’arte del danzare (“Book of the Art of the Dance”). Such books record…

cornbread, any of various breads made wholly or partly of cornmeal, corn (maize) ground to the consistency of fine granules. Cornbread is especially associated with the cuisine of the Southern and Atlantic U.S. states. Because corn lacks elastic gluten, it cannot be raised with yeast; consequently,

Henry Hyde, 2nd earl of Clarendon was an English statesman, the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Clarendon and a Royalist who opposed the accession of William and Mary. As Viscount Cornbury he became a member of Parliament in 1661 and, in 1674, succeeded to the earldom on his father’s death. James II

crake: The corncrake, or land rail (Crex crex), of Europe and Asia, migrating south to Africa, is a slightly larger brown bird with a rather stout bill and wings showing reddish in flight. Africa’s black crake (Limnocorax flavirostra) is a 20-centimetre- (8-inch-) long form, black with a green bill…

cornea, dome-shaped transparent membrane about 12 mm (0.5 inch) in diameter that covers the front part of the eye. Except at its margins, the cornea contains no blood vessels, but it does contain many nerves and is very sensitive to pain or touch. It is nourished and provided with oxygen anteriorly

human eye: The outermost coat: …between the lamellae lie the corneal corpuscles, cells that synthesize new collagen (connective tissue protein) essential for the repair and maintenance of this layer. The lamellae are made up of microscopically visible fibres that run parallel to form sheets; in successive lamellae the fibres make a large angle with each…

photoreception: Corneal eyes: Corneal eyes are found in spiders, many of which have eyes with excellent image-forming capabilities. Spiders typically have eight eyes, two of which, the principal eyes, point forward and are used in tasks such as the recognition of members of their own species. Hunting spiders…

epidermis: …the dermis, and the external stratum corneum, or horny layer, which is composed of dead, keratin-filled cells that have migrated outward from the basal layer. The melanocytes, responsible for skin colour, are found in the basal cells. The epidermis has no blood supply and depends on diffusion from the dermal…

photoreception: Image formation: …aquatic insects and crustaceans the corneal surface cannot act as a lens because it has no refractive power. Some water bugs (e.g., Notonecta, or back swimmers) use curved surfaces behind and within the lens to achieve the required ray bending, whereas others use a structure known as a lens cylinder.…

transplant: Cornea: There are certain forms of blindness in which the eye is entirely normal apart from opacity of the front window, or cornea. The opacity may be the result of disease or injury, but, if the clouded cornea is removed and replaced by a corneal…

corned beef, food made of beef brisket cured in salt. Related to the word kernel, a corn is a coarse grain of rock salt. In North America, corned beef is brisket, taken from the lower chest of a cow or steer, that has been brined in salt and spices. (In general British usage, fresh corned beef is

military technology: Corned powder: Shortly after 1400, smiths learned to combine the ingredients of gunpowder in water and grind them together as a slurry. This was a significant improvement in several respects. Wet incorporation was more complete and uniform than dry mixing, the process “froze” the components…

COBRA: …members Karel Appel, Corneille (Cornelis Guillaume van Beverloo), Constant (Nieuwenhuis), Pierre Alechinsky, Lucebert (Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk), and Jean Atlan. Influenced by poetry, film, folk art, children’s art, and primitive art, the semiabstract canvases by these artists display brilliant colour and spontaneous, violent brushwork that is akin to American Action…

Pierre Corneille was a French poet and dramatist, considered the creator of French classical tragedy. His chief works include Le Cid (1637), Horace (1640), Cinna (1641), and Polyeucte (1643). Pierre Corneille was born into a well-to-do, middle-class Norman family. His grandfather, father, and an

Thomas Corneille was a French dramatist, younger brother of the great French Classical playwright Pierre Corneille. He was a highly successful dramatic poet in his own right, whose works helped to confirm the character of the French Classical theatre. Between 1656 and 1678 Corneille put on no fewer

Cornelia was the highly cultured mother of the late 2nd-century bc Roman reformers Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. She was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, the hero of the Second Punic War (Rome against Carthage, 218–201). Cornelia married Tiberius Sempronius

Julius Caesar: Family background and career: …the radical side by marrying Cornelia, a daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, a noble who was Marius’s associate in revolution. In 83 bce Lucius Cornelius Sulla returned to Italy from the East and led the successful counter-revolution of 83–82 bce; Sulla then ordered Caesar to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused and…

Sulla: Life: …trials; a new treason law, Lex Cornelia Majestatis, designed to prevent insurrection by provincial governors and army commanders; the requirement that the tribunes had to submit their legislative proposals to the Senate for approval; and various laws protecting citizens against excesses of judicial and executive organs.

epigraphy: Ancient Rome: …century bce; parts of the Lex Cornelia de Viginti Quaestoribus (81 bce) are preserved on a large bronze tablet found at Rome; Julius Caesar’s Lex Julia Municipalis of 45 bce was found near Heraclea in Lucania. On the whole, however, the transmission of Roman law, from the earliest fragments to…

carnelian, a translucent, semiprecious variety of the silica mineral chalcedony that owes its red to reddish brown colour to colloidally dispersed hematite (iron oxide). It is a close relative of sard, differing only in the shade of red. Carnelian was highly valued and used in rings and signets by

Cornales: Cornaceae: mas (cornelian cherry) produces edible fruit, and C. macrophylla yields wood useful for furniture. Flowering dogwoods have small flowers surrounded by conspicuously expanded coloured bracts (specialized leaves) that are frequently mistaken for petals.

Joos van Cleve: …distinguish him from his son, Cornelis van Cleve (1520–67), none of whose paintings survive.

Carel van Mander: …where, with Hendrik Goltzius and Cornelis Cornelisz., he founded a successful academy of painting. Het Schilder-boeck contains about 175 biographies of Dutch, Flemish, and German painters of the 15th and 16th centuries and is a unique source of information on the northern European artists of those times.

Don Cornelius was an American television host and producer best known for creating, producing, and hosting the music and dance television show Soul Train (1970–2006). The program featured up-and-coming musicians, many of whom gained their first national exposure on the show, and youthful African

Don Cornelius was an American television host and producer best known for creating, producing, and hosting the music and dance television show Soul Train (1970–2006). The program featured up-and-coming musicians, many of whom gained their first national exposure on the show, and youthful African

Peter Cornelius was a German composer and author, known for his comic opera Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Bagdad). The son of an actor and an actress, he acted at Mainz and at Wiesbaden in his youth. In 1845 he studied composition and was later music critic for two Berlin journals. From

Peter von Cornelius was a painter notable for his part in the German revival of fresco painting in the 19th century. His early works are unremarkable examples of Neoclassicism. But his style gradually changed under the influence of German Gothic art, German Romantic writers, and Albrecht Dürer’s

St. Cornelius ; feast day September 16) was the pope from 251 to 253. Cornelius was a Roman priest who was elected pope during the lull in the persecution of Christians under Emperor Decius and after the papacy had been vacant for more than a year following St. Fabian’s martyrdom. Cornelius’s

Cornell University, coeducational institution of higher education in Ithaca, New York, U.S. It is one of the eight Ivy League schools, widely regarded for their high academic standards, selectivity in admissions, and social prestige. Cornell is situated on a 745-acre (301-hectare) campus occupying

Soundgarden: …band was led by singer Chris Cornell, whose powerful voice, The New York Times observed, “could quickly shift from a soulful howl to a gritty growl.”

Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl E. Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). After studying at Stanford University (B.S., 1985), Cornell earned a Ph.D.

Ezra Cornell was a businessman, a founder of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and a guiding force in the establishment of Cornell University. Settling at Ithaca (1828), he became associated with Samuel F.B. Morse (1842) and superintended the construction of the first telegraph line in America,

Jill Tarter is an American astronomer known for her work in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter traces her own fascination with outer space and the possibility of alien life back to time she spent with her father walking on the beaches of Florida and looking at the stars.

Joseph Cornell was an American self-taught artist and filmmaker and one of the originators of the form of sculpture called assemblage, in which unlikely objects are joined in an unorthodox unity. He is known for his shadow boxes, collages, and films. Cornell attended secondary school at Phillips

Katharine Cornell was one of the most celebrated American stage actresses from the 1920s to the 1950s. Cornell was the daughter of American parents who were in Berlin at the time of her birth. Later that year the family returned to Buffalo, New York. Her interest in the theatre came naturally—her

Cornellà, city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is located on the Llobregat River plain. Dyes, pharmaceuticals, auto accessories, aluminum, and cotton goods are produced there. Cornellà is a southwestern

Cornellà, city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is located on the Llobregat River plain. Dyes, pharmaceuticals, auto accessories, aluminum, and cotton goods are produced there. Cornellà is a southwestern

Cornellà, city, Barcelona provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It is located on the Llobregat River plain. Dyes, pharmaceuticals, auto accessories, aluminum, and cotton goods are produced there. Cornellà is a southwestern

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus: …leading families—most notably with the Cornelii Scipiones, the most continuously successful of the great Roman houses—through his mother, Cornelia, daughter of the conqueror of Hannibal, and through his sister Sempronia, wife of Scipio Africanus, the destroyer of Carthage. He was equally associated with the great rivals of the Scipios, the…

bagpipe: The cornemuse of central France is distinguished by a tenor drone held in the chanter stock beside the chanter. Often bellows-blown and without bass drone, it is characteristically played with the hurdy-gurdy. The Italian zampogna is unique, with two chanters—one for each hand—arranged for playing in…

scale: Horny scutes, or corneoscutes, derived from the upper, or epidermal, skin layer, appear in reptiles and on the legs of birds. In crocodilians and some lizards, bony dermal scales (osteoderms) underlie the external scales. Bird feathers are developmentally modified epidermal scales. Modified epidermal tissue, mostly…

stringed instrument: Morphology: …together and glued firmly to corner blocks within the instrument. Other blocks, called end blocks, are mounted top and bottom center to provide firm bearings for the neck and the tailpin, which between them have to resist the tension of the strings. The ribs are slightly inset from the outline…

Corner Brook, city on the west coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Humber River (there called Humber Arm in the Bay of Islands), 427 miles (687 km) northwest of St. John’s. The site of the province’s first industrial sawmill (1894), it developed

corner furniture, movable articles, principally cupboards, cabinets, shelves, and chairs, designed to fit into the corner of a room, for the principal purpose of saving space. This style of furniture was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. Because room corners generally form right angles,

tornado: Airflow regions: …directions into a tornado’s “corner region.” This region gets its name because the wind abruptly “turns the corner” from primarily horizontal to vertical flow as it enters the core region and begins its upward spiral. The corner region is very violent. It is often marked by a dust whirl…

trap: The corner trap, for example, is a small, square opening, usually located at the side of the stage, fitted with a trapdoor or flaps that can be lowered out of sight. Through it, standing figures or objects can be lifted onto the stage. When a sudden,…

George Washington Corner was an American anatomist and embryologist, best known for his contributions to reproductive science and to the development of oral contraceptives. Corner received an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1913 and taught there and at the University of California

Venice: Palaces: …the Palazzo Corner, also called Ca’ Grande (c. 1533–c. 1545, designed by Jacopo Sansovino), and the Palazzo Grimani (c. 1556, by Michele Sanmicheli, completed 1575). Buildings such as these introduced a measured proportion, tight symmetry, and Classical vocabulary to the facade. Mannerist and Baroque palaces built in the 17th century

Ed Bullins: …plays in the cycle are The Corner (produced 1968), In New England Winter (produced 1969), The Duplex (produced 1970), The Fabulous Miss Marie (produced 1971), Home Boy (produced 1976), and Daddy (produced 1977). In 1975 he received critical acclaim for The Taking of Miss

David Simon: The Corner was adapted into a television miniseries on the cable channel Home Box Office (HBO) in 2000, with Simon serving as a writer and an executive producer. It was a critical success, and Simon won two Emmy Awards for his dual role in its…

American football: Tactical developments: …(6 linemen, 2 linebackers, 2 cornerbacks, and 1 safety). In the NFL, to stop the increased passing that came with the T formation in the 1940s, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Greasy Neale developed the 5-3-2-1 defense, which was in turn replaced in the mid-1950s by the 4-3 (actually 4-3-2-2) perfected by…

film noir: The cinema of the disenchanted: …film noir, such as Dmytryk’s Cornered (1945), George Marshall’s The Blue Dahlia (1946), Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse (1947), and John Cromwell’s Dead Reckoning (1947), share the common story line of a war veteran who returns home to find that the way of life for

Walnut Creek, city, Contra Costa county, northwestern California, U.S. It lies in the San Ramon Valley, east of both San Francisco and Oakland. Spanish explorers arrived in the region in the 1770s, and in the early 1800s the area became part of a Mexican land grant. The city, settled in 1849 during

cornerstone, ceremonial building block, usually placed ritually in the outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Sometimes the stone is solid, with date or other inscription. More typically, it is hollowed out to contain metal receptacles for newspapers, photographs, currency, books,

cornet, valved brass musical instrument that evolved in the 1820s from the continental post horn (cornet-de-poste, which is circular in shape like a small French horn). One of the first makers was the Parisian Jean Asté, known as Halary, in 1828. The tube is conical except through the three valves,

Max Jacob: …in his voluminous production are Le Cornet à dés (1917; “Dice Box”), a collection of prose poems in the Surrealist manner; Le Laboratoire central (1921), “stoppered phials” of lyrical poetry; and his Breton Poèmes de Morvan le Gaëlique (1953). La Défense de Tartufe (1919), which with the novel Saint Matorel…