biblical literature: Legislation: The Covenant Code, or Book of the Covenant, presented in chapters 20–23, immediately following the Decalogue (Ten Commandments), opens with a short passage on ritual ordinances, followed by social and civil law applying to specific situations (case law), including the treatment of slaves, capital crimes, compensation for personal injuries…

covenant marriage, type of marriage contract, currently available in three U.S. states, that imposes relatively strict requirements for entering into and ending a marriage as compared to standard marriage contracts in other states. Notably, signatories to a covenant marriage forgo the possibility

war: International law: …several international treaties, including the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Charter of the United Nations, that resort to armed force, except in certain circumstances such as self-defense, is illegal. Such a legalistic approach to the prevention of war, however, remains futile in…

covenant theology, type of Reformed (Calvinist) theology emphasizing the notion of a covenant, or alliance, instituted by God, which humans are obligated to keep. This concept was developed in the latter part of the 16th century into the notions of the two covenants: the biblical covenant of works

Ark of the Covenant, in Judaism and Christianity, the ornate, gold-plated wooden chest that in biblical times housed the two tablets of the Law given to Moses by God. The Ark rested in the Holy of Holies inside the Tabernacle of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem and was seen only by the high priest

The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), white supremacist militia group based in Arkansas, U.S., that was active in the late 1970s and the ’80s. The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) was connected to a number of crimes and terrorist plots in the 1980s. It dissolved

Covenanter, any of the Scottish Presbyterians who at various crises during the 17th century subscribed to bonds or covenants, notably to the National Covenant (1638) and to the Solemn League and Covenant (1643), in which they pledged to maintain their chosen forms of church government and worship.

Leo Varadkar: …parliamentary party, and Housing Minister Simon Coveney, the son of notable Fine Gael politician Hugh Coveney. Voting for the leadership of Fine Gael is apportioned on the basis of 65 percent for the parliamentary party, 10 percent for party councillors, and 25 percent for rank-and-file members. In balloting on June…

Covent Garden, square in the City of Westminster, London. It lies just northwest of the Strand. For more than 300 years it held the principal fruit, flower, and vegetable market of the metropolis. Adjacent to the former market site stands the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), home of Britain’s

Henry Fielding: Maturity.: …public, he started a newspaper, The Covent Garden Journal, in which the following appeared regularly:

Royal Opera House, opera house that is the home of Britain’s oldest national opera and ballet companies. It is located in Covent Garden, City of Westminster, London. The Covent Garden Theatre, the original theatre on the site, was opened (1732) by John Rich and served for plays, pantomimes, and

Coventry, city and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Midlands, historic county of Warwickshire, England. Coventry probably dates from Saxon times. The sacking of the Saxon nunnery of St. Osburga by the Danes in 1016 led to the founding of a monastery by Earl Leofric of Mercia and

Coventry, town (township), Tolland county, east-central Connecticut, U.S., on the Willimantic River amid rolling hills. Although the area, known as Waramaug, was first settled about 1700, only in 1709 did a significant number of people move there. It was named for Coventry, England, in 1711 and

Coventry: borough, metropolitan county of West Midlands, historic county of Warwickshire, England.

Sir Basil Spence: …competition for the new Coventry cathedral (completed in 1962). This monumental, richly decorated structure incorporates the ruins of the bombed 14th-century cathedral. He gave his account of the project in Phoenix at Coventry (1962).

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was an English lawyer, lord keeper of England from 1625 to 1640. Coventry was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the Inner Temple, where he fell under the influence of the jurist Sir Edward Coke. Despite Francis Bacon’s opposition, Coventry became

Sir John Coventry was an English politician, remembered for his connection with the Coventry Act of 1671. Coventry was the son of Sir John Coventry (d. 1652), a Royalist and member of the Long Parliament, and the grandson of Thomas, Lord Keeper Coventry. The young Coventry was knighted in 1660 and

Sir William Coventry was an English statesman, one of the ablest and most respected figures of Charles II’s reign. Coventry entered Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1642 but soon left to join the Royalist army and later followed the court into exile. He returned to England in 1652 but, by refraining

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was an English lawyer, lord keeper of England from 1625 to 1640. Coventry was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the Inner Temple, where he fell under the influence of the jurist Sir Edward Coke. Despite Francis Bacon’s opposition, Coventry became

insurance: Homeowner’s insurance: Homeowner’s insurance covers individual, or nonbusiness, property. Introduced in 1958, it gradually replaced the older method of insuring individual property under the “standard fire policy.”

cave: Doline karst: The latter, known as cover collapse sinks and cover subsidence sinks, occur where soils are thick and can be washed into the subsurface by the process of soil piping. Soil loss begins at the bedrock interface. An arched void forms, which migrates upward through the soil until finally the…

cover crop, Fast-growing crop, such as rye, buckwheat, cowpea, or vetch, planted to prevent soil erosion, increase nutrients in the soil, and provide organic matter. Cover crops are grown either in the season during which cash crops are not grown or between the rows of some crops (e.g., fruit

Stanley Donen: Early life and work: …he choreographed such musicals as Cover Girl (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), and Living in a Big Way (1947), most of them alongside Kelly. Moreover, he received a story credit for renowned choreographer Busby Berkeley’s Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), which he also choreographed.

P.D. James: Her first mystery novel, Cover Her Face (1962), introduced Dalgliesh and was followed by six more mysteries before she retired from government service in 1979 to devote full time to writing.

cave: Doline karst: …as cover collapse sinks and cover subsidence sinks, occur where soils are thick and can be washed into the subsurface by the process of soil piping. Soil loss begins at the bedrock interface. An arched void forms, which migrates upward through the soil until finally the roof collapses abruptly to…

technology of photography: Angle of coverage: A lens must cover the area of a camera’s film format to yield an image adequately sharp and with reasonably even brightness from the centre to the corners of the film. A normal lens should cover an angle of at least 60°.…

Miles Coverdale was the bishop of Exeter, Eng., who translated (rather freely; he was inexpert in Latin and Greek) the first printed English Bible. Ordained a priest (1514) at Norwich, Coverdale became an Augustinian friar at Cambridge, where, influenced by his prior, Robert Barnes, he absorbed

covered bridge, timber-truss bridge carrying a roadway over a river or other obstacle, popular in folklore and art but also of major significance in engineering history. The function of the roof and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure, is to protect the wooden

When we think of stock investing, it’s usually the buy-and-hold variety—pick a stock or exchange-traded fund (ETF), watch it (hopefully) grow over time, and collect (and perhaps reinvest) any dividends along the way. And there’s nothing wrong with that—it’s the traditional path to long-term wealth

braising: …immersed in liquid, and from covered roasting, in which no liquid is added. Braising is a combination of covered roasting and steaming.

prairie schooner, 19th-century covered wagon popularly used by emigrants traveling to the American West. In particular, it was the vehicle of choice on the Oregon Trail. The name prairie schooner was derived from the wagon’s white canvas cover, or bonnet, which gave it the appearance, from a

James Cruze: The Covered Wagon (1923), about a wagon train traveling to Oregon, was the first epic western. Filmed on location in Utah and Nevada with painstaking attention to historical detail, the film was an enormous financial success, and Cruze became one of the highest-paid directors in…

combinatorics: Packing and covering: It is easily seen that six equal circular disks may be placed around another disk of the same size so that the central one is touched by all the others but no two overlap (Figure 7) and that it is not possible to place…

international payment and exchange: Covering: Foreign exchange advisers to corporations had to watch for such possibilities and propose a readjustment of assets entailing a movement out of the weak currency. It was not necessary that there be, on an objective assessment, a probability (more than a 50 percent chance)…

covering-law model, Model of explanation according to which to explain an event by reference to another event necessarily presupposes an appeal to laws or general propositions correlating events of the type to be explained (explananda) with events of the type cited as its causes or conditions

bedspread, top cover of a bed, put on for tidiness or display rather than warmth. Use of a bedspread is an extremely ancient custom, referred to in the earliest written sources, for example, the Bible: “I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry” (Proverbs 7:16). The first bedcovers were

Sir Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters that were published in Addison and Richard Steele’s influential periodical The Spectator. As imagined by Addison, Sir Roger was a baronet of Worcestershire and was

integument: Birds: …feathers proper (remiges) and their coverts (tectrices). The remiges include the primaries, arising from the “hand” and digits and attached to the hand’s skeleton; the secondaries, arising from the forewing and attached to the ulna; and the tertials (when present), arising from the upper wing and attached to the humerus.…

intelligence: …activity commonly known as “covert action.” Intelligence is an important component of national power and a fundamental element in decision making regarding national security, defense, and foreign policies.

aversion therapy: In covert conditioning, developed by American psychologist Joseph Cautela, images of undesirable behaviour (e.g., smoking) are paired with images of aversive stimuli (e.g., nausea and vomiting) in a systematic sequence designed to reduce the positive cues that had been associated with the behaviour. (See conditioning.)

coverture, Anglo-American common-law concept, derived from feudal Norman custom, that dictated a woman’s subordinate legal status during marriage. Prior to marriage a woman could freely execute a will, enter into contracts, sue or be sued in her own name, and sell or give away her real estate or

greed, in Roman Catholic theology, one of the seven deadly sins. Greed is defined as the immoderate love or desire for riches and earthly possessions. A person can also be greedy for fame, attention, power, or anything else that feeds one’s selfishness. As a deadly sin, greed is believed to spur

animal social behavior: Social interactions involving the use of space: …refer to animal aggregations are covey (quail), gaggle (geese), herd (ungulates), pod (whales), school (fish), and tribe (humans) and more generalized terms such as colony, den, family, group, or pack. An even

cubit, unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 bc; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ancient world. The cubit, generally taken as equal to 18 inches (457 mm), was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of

COVID-19, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was first detected in 2019 in Wuhan, China. A large proportion of infections in China were undocumented before travel restrictions and other control measures were implemented in late January 2020. As a

Scott Morrison: Fortress Australia, the stroll out, and the 2022 election: …2021 of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus quickly revealed the vulnerability of “Fortress Australia,” and Morrison shifted strategies, refocusing the government’s prevention efforts to vaccination, the slow pace of which (mocked as a “stroll out”) became the object of increasing criticism. In July Morrison presented a four-phase…

These questions and answers have been provided to Britannica by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a Britannica partner. They originally appeared on HudsonAlpha’s Shareable Science blog. Because the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, some of this information may have changed since

COVID-19: …which are highly infectious, and BA.2, which gave rise to XBB.1.5—a highly transmissible variant, noted for its heightened ability to bind to cells and to replicate.

COVID-19: …multiple sublineages of concern, including BA.4 and BA.5, which are highly infectious, and BA.2, which gave rise to XBB.1.5—a highly transmissible variant, noted for its heightened ability to bind to cells and to replicate.

COVID-19: 4 and BA.5, which are highly infectious, and BA.2, which gave rise to XBB.1.5—a highly transmissible variant, noted for its heightened ability to bind to cells and to replicate.

Australia: The premiership of Scott Morrison (2018–22): …version of the virus: the Omicron variant, which resulted in record levels of infections and raised the number of COVID-19-related deaths in Australia to more than 2,700. Nevertheless, by February it too had abated, and Morrison announced that the country was ready to enter the final phase of the return…

COVID-19: 2, which gave rise to XBB.1.5—a highly transmissible variant, noted for its heightened ability to bind to cells and to replicate.

coronavirus: SARS-CoV-2: Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerged, each with differing characteristics. In mid-2021, the Delta variant became widespread and was notably more transmissible than earlier forms of the virus, leading to increased infections, including some among vaccinated individuals, and causing significant illness, particularly in those…

COVID-19 has become a household term. But what does COVID-19 mean? And why does the virus that causes COVID-19 have a different name? In February 2020, as the novel coronavirus disease was beginning to spread beyond China and the surrounding regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an

COVID-19 vaccine, any of various suspensions that contain either modified messenger RNA (mRNA), recombinant proteins, or immune-stimulating components of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The vaccine, administered by

coronavirus: SARS-CoV-2: The virus, later named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causes the disease COVID-19, which primarily affects the respiratory system and often presents with symptoms such as fever and cough. The virus spread rapidly, reaching multiple regions—including Asia, Europe, and North America—by early 2020 through…

Pêro da Covilhã was an early Portuguese explorer of Africa, who established relations between Portugal and Ethiopia. As a boy, Pêro served the duke of Medina-Sidonia in Sevilla (Seville) for six or seven years, returning to Portugal with the duke’s brother late in 1474 or early in 1475, when he

Pêro da Covilhã was an early Portuguese explorer of Africa, who established relations between Portugal and Ethiopia. As a boy, Pêro served the duke of Medina-Sidonia in Sevilla (Seville) for six or seven years, returning to Portugal with the duke’s brother late in 1474 or early in 1475, when he

coving, in architecture, concave molding or arched section of wall surface. An example is the curved soffit connecting the top of an exterior wall to a projecting eave. The curve typically describes a quarter-circle. The arched sections of a curved ceiling would be coving. Such a coved ceiling

Covington, city, one of the seats of Kenton county (the other being Independence), north-central Kentucky, U.S. It is situated at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers, adjoining Newport (east) and opposite Cincinnati, Ohio. The site, originally given to George Muse in return for military

List of Female Animals Called Cows: …read it right! The term cow can be used to describe an adult female of various mammals across land and sea.

cow, in common parlance, a domestic bovine, regardless of sex and age, usually of the species Bos taurus. In precise usage, the name is given to mature females of several large mammals, including cattle (bovines), moose, elephants, sea lions, and whales. Domestic cows are one of the most common

Somerville, city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Mystic River and is surrounded by Cambridge, Arlington, Medford, and the Boston neighbourhood of Charlestown. Settled in 1630, it was originally known as the Cow Commons and was entirely fenced in until 1685. In the

trumpet creeper: Campsis radicans, also called trumpet vine and cow itch, is a hardy climber native in eastern and southern United States; it produces terminal clusters of tubular, trumpet-shaped orange to orange-scarlet flowers (see photograph). The Chinese trumpet creeper (C. grandiflora) of eastern Asia is a poor climber but produces spectacular…

water lily: Major genera and species: …Northern Hemisphere, includes the common yellow water lily, also called cow lily or spatterdock (Nuphar advena), of eastern North America. The yellow water lily has submerged leaves that are thin and translucent and leathery floating leaves.

Daly City: The San Francisco Cow Palace (opened 1941) is actually within the borders of Daly City; it hosts circuses, concerts, rodeos, and other events. Nearby San Bruno Mountain State Park is a popular recreational spot. Inc. 1911. Pop. (2010) 101,123; (2020) 104,901.

cow parsnip, (genus Heracleum), genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the parsley family (Apiaceae), distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and on tropical mountains. Cow parsnips are perennials, often several feet high, with large compound leaves and broad clusters of white or

Western painting: Pop art in Britain and the United States: the 1960s: His Cow Wallpaper of 1966, which was used to paper an entire room at Leo Castelli’s New York City gallery, effectively turned the “all-over” field of Abstract Expressionist painting into a repeat pattern, implicitly opposing the domestic and “decorative” to the grand cultural statements of, say,…

spurge: Major species: …such as cow’s horn (E. grandicornis) from southern Africa and mottled spurge (E. lactea) from the East Indies, both of which are grown as hedges in areas with a mild climate.

plum-yew: The Japanese plum-yew, or cow’s tail pine (C. harringtonia), grows only in cultivation; it may reach 3 metres (about 10 feet). The Chinese plum-yew (C. fortunei) grows to 12 metres (40 feet) in the wild and up to 6 metres (20 feet) under cultivation.

sanctity of the cow, in Hinduism, the belief that the cow is representative of divine and natural beneficence and should therefore be protected and venerated. The cow has also been associated with various deities, notably Shiva (whose steed is Nandi, a bull), Indra (closely associated with

sanctity of the cow, in Hinduism, the belief that the cow is representative of divine and natural beneficence and should therefore be protected and venerated. The cow has also been associated with various deities, notably Shiva (whose steed is Nandi, a bull), Indra (closely associated with

bomb: …thread; others, called cow-dung or pancake bombs, are flattened on landing; and still others are ribbon-shaped. If bombs are still molten or plastic when they land (a characteristic of those formed during the relatively weak explosions of basaltic magma), they may partly fuse to form volcanic spatter. If their outer…

chondrichthyan: Annotated classification: Family Rhinopteridae (cow-nosed rays) Similar to eagle rays except that the projecting head is deeply incised at the midline, forming 2 distinct lobes. Ovoviviparous. Maximum breadth about 2 metres (about 6.5 feet). 1 genus (Rhinoptera) and at least 4 species. Coastal waters of tropical and warm…

Edith Cowan was an Australian social reformer, women’s rights activist, and politician who focused on helping women and children. In 1921 she was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, becoming the first woman member of an Australian parliament. Cowan was born Edith Brown in

tank: Earliest developments: …and by others, down to James Cowen, who took out a patent in England in 1855 for an armed, wheeled, armoured vehicle based on the steam tractor.

Noël Coward was an English playwright, actor, and composer best known for his highly polished comedies of manners. Coward appeared professionally as an actor from the age of 12. Between acting engagements he wrote such light comedies as I’ll Leave It to You (1920) and The Young Idea (1923), but his

Noël Coward was an English playwright, actor, and composer best known for his highly polished comedies of manners. Coward appeared professionally as an actor from the age of 12. Between acting engagements he wrote such light comedies as I’ll Leave It to You (1920) and The Young Idea (1923), but his

Bert Lahr: …Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Lahr as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s tale. Labouring under a weighty costume made of real lion skins and hampered by facial attachments that made it impossible to eat solid food, Lahr still managed a broad…

the Marvelettes: ), and Wyanetta Cowart (b. 1944, Detroit).

water hemlock: …in North America is the common water hemlock (C. maculata), also known as cowbane or musquash root, which grows to about 2.5 metres (8 feet) tall. It has divided leaves and clusters of white flowers.

cowbane, any of several poisonous plants, including seven species of Oxypolis, in the parsley family (Apiaceae), that are especially poisonous to cattle. The plants grow in marshes and are widely distributed in North America. They have clusters of white flowers surrounded by bracts (modified

lingonberry, (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), small creeping plant of the heath family (Ericaceae), related to the blueberry and cranberry. Lingonberry plants are found throughout the Northern Hemisphere in boreal forests and tundra regions. The red fruit is used for jelly and juice by northern Europeans

cowbird, any of five species of birds that belong to the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes) that are named for their habit of associating with cattle in order to prey upon insects stirred up from vegetation. Cowbirds forage on the ground. In most species the male cowbird is uniform glossy black

cowboy, in the western United States, a horseman skilled at handling cattle, an indispensable laborer in the cattle industry of the trans-Mississippi west, and a romantic figure in American folklore. Pioneers from the United States encountered Mexican vaqueros (Spanish, literally, “cowboys”;

Delmer Daves: Westerns: Ford returned for Cowboy (1958), portraying the gruff mentor to a tenderfoot (Jack Lemmon).

Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter: In February 2024 Beyoncé appeared in a commercial during the Super Bowl telecast to announce that she was releasing new music. Immediately after the game, she dropped two singles, “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages,” on the music streaming service Tidal. Both songs…

Garland: …instruments; a popular brand of cowboy hat is also manufactured in the city. Inc. 1891. Pop. (2010) 226,876; (2020) 246,018.

Toronto: Cultural life: …artists as diverse as Rush, Cowboy Junkies, Barenaked Ladies, Broken Social Scene, Drake, and Feist.

Wyoming, constituent state of the United States of America. Wyoming became the 44th state of the union on July 10, 1890. It ranks 10th among the 50 U.S. states in terms of total area. It shares boundaries with six other Great Plains and Mountain states: Montana to the north and northwest, South

Brooks & Dunn: …to the slick musicianship of Cowboy Town (2007), they parlayed their partnership into extraordinarily consistent success. By 2007, with two Grammy Awards and a host of CMA and ACM awards to their credit, Brooks & Dunn had expanded their musical repertoire, incorporating some straight-ahead rock and roll, covering the occasional…

rodeo: Origins and history: …(RCA) in 1945 and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) in 1975, and its rules became accepted by most rodeos.

Daniel Craig: Other work in theater and film: …extraterrestrials in the action comedy Cowboys & Aliens and as a journalist investigating a decades-old murder in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel of the same name. Also in 2011 Craig starred in Dream House with Rachel Weisz, and the couple…

Mark Rydell: Far less lively was The Cowboys (1972), an acerbic western starring John Wayne as an old rancher who recruits 11 youngsters to help him on an epic cattle drive; along the way, they battle an outlaw (Bruce Dern). Rydell next directed Cinderella Liberty (1973), a bittersweet romantic drama about…

Cowbridge, market town, Vale of Glamorgan county, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), southern Wales. It is centrally located in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Cardiff. The community of Llanblethian is often associated with it. Cowbridge dates from the 14th century and

Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray was a British engineer and a developer of the Mexican petroleum industry. At age 19 Pearson became a partner in his family’s contracting firm, the operation of which he extended to Spain and the United States. In December 1889 he went to Mexico, where

Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray was a British engineer and a developer of the Mexican petroleum industry. At age 19 Pearson became a partner in his family’s contracting firm, the operation of which he extended to Spain and the United States. In December 1889 he went to Mexico, where

Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray was a British engineer and a developer of the Mexican petroleum industry. At age 19 Pearson became a partner in his family’s contracting firm, the operation of which he extended to Spain and the United States. In December 1889 he went to Mexico, where

bomb: …thread; others, called cow-dung or pancake bombs, are flattened on landing; and still others are ribbon-shaped. If bombs are still molten or plastic when they land (a characteristic of those formed during the relatively weak explosions of basaltic magma), they may partly fuse to form volcanic spatter. If their outer…

Henry Cowell was an American composer who, along with Charles Ives, was among the most innovative American composers of the 20th century. Cowell grew up in poverty in San Francisco and on family farms in Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. He acquired a piano at age 14, and the following year he gave a