…the first note of the diatonic scale of C major, the major scale having no sharps or flats…
…the ratio of the change in an electric charge in a system to the corresponding change in its electric potential…
…the chemical element of atomic number 6, a nonmetal that has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and that also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal…
…of or denoting a scale of temperature in which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100° under standard conditions…
…the SI unit of electric charge, equal to the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by a current of one ampere…
…hot and cold (used in describing the water supply to a hotel bedroom or a room in a house)…
…VHS compact, denoting a video system used by some camcorders, which records signals in VHS format on smaller videocassettes…
…the C near the middle of the piano keyboard, written on the first ledger line below the treble staff or the first ledger line above the bass staff…
…(1904–72), English poet, novelist, and critic; full name Cecil Day Lewis. He served as Britain’s poet laureate 1968–72 and also wrote detective novels under the name Nicholas Blake…
…a form of viral hepatitis transmitted in infected blood, causing chronic liver disease. It was formerly called non-A, non-B hepatitis…
…(1873–1958), US composer and musician; full name William Christopher Handy; known as the Father of the Blues. As a cornetist he led the Mahara Minstrels band 1896–1903. Many of his works, including “St. Louis Blues” and “Memphis Blues,” were multistrain jazz compositions that utilized elements of the blues…
…(1898–1963), British novelist, religious writer, and literary scholar; full name Clive Staples Lewis. He broadcast and wrote on religious and moral issues and created the imaginary land of Narnia for a series of children’s books. Notable works: The Screwtape Letters (1942) and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950)…
… 1st Baron Snow of Leicester (1905–80), English novelist and scientist; full name Charles Percy Snow. He is best known for his sequence of 11 novels, starting with Strangers and Brothers (1940), that deals with moral dilemmas in the academic world and for his lecture Two Cultures (1959)…
…(1885–1941), English novelist; full name Percival Christopher Wren. He is best known for his romantic adventure stories dealing with life in the French Foreign Legion, the first of which was Beau Geste (1924)…
…(1899–1977), US Supreme Court associate justice 1949–67; full name Thomas Campbell Clark. He was US attorney general 1945–49 before being appointed to the Court by President Truman. Considered somewhat conservative, he tended to be more liberal regarding civil rights issues…
…(1898–1972), Dutch graphic artist; full name Maurits Corneille Escher. His prints are characterized by their sophisticated use of visual illusion…
…(1880–1946), US comedian; born William Claude Dukenfield. Having made his name as a comedy juggler, he became a vaudeville star and appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies revues between 1915 and 1921. Notable movies: The Bank Dick (1940) and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)…
…(1782–1850) US politician; full name John Caldwell Calhoun. A South Carolina Democrat, he served as US vice president 1825–32 and in the US Senate 1832–43, 1845–50. He was noted as a champion of states' rights and of slavery…
…(1899–1966), English novelist; pseudonym of Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith. He is remembered for his seafaring novels set during the Napoleonic Wars and featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower. He also wrote The African Queen (1935)…
…(1901–89), Trinidadian historian, journalist, political theorist, and novelist; full name Cyril Lionel Robert James. After working as a cricket columnist he established a reputation as a historian with his study of the Haitian revolution, Black Jacobins (1938)…
