…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 non-metal which has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and which also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal…
…of or denoting a scale of temperature on 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 video cassettes…
…the C near the middle of the piano keyboard, written on the first leger line below the treble stave or the first leger line above the bass stave…
…(1904–72), English poet and critic; full name Cecil Day Lewis. His early verse, such as Transitional Poem (1929), reflects the influence of revolutionary thinking. After 1940, however, he increasingly became a figure of the Establishment and was Poet Laureate 1968–72…
…a form of viral hepatitis transmitted in infected blood, causing chronic liver disease…
…an illegal narcotic drug classified as being of the most harmful and addictive (or a less harmful and addictive) kind, possession or sale of which incurs corresponding legal penalties…
…(1873–1958), American blues musician; full name William Christopher Handy. He set up a music-publishing house in 1914, and his transcriptions of traditional blues helped establish the pattern of the modern twelve-bar 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, which began with 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 eleven novels Strangers and Brothers, which 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)…
…used to express acceptance or resignation in the face of a difficult or unpleasant situation…
…(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 and paradoxical perspective…
…(1880–1946), American comedian; born William Claude Dukenfield. Having made his name as a comedy juggler he became a vaudeville star, appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies revues between 1915 and 1921. Notable films: The Bank Dick (1940)…
…(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…
