Columbian Mammoth The Columbian Mammoth is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited North America between 100,000 and 9,000 years ago. It was one of the largest mammoths to have ever lived, measuring 4 metres, or 13 feet, at the shoulder and weighing 10,000kilogram or. It was an herbivore, with a diet consisting of varied plant life ranging from grasses to conifers.
	Columbiformes The order Columbiformes includes two families of birds: the Raphidae, to which the extinct Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaires belonged, and the Columbidae, which includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons. The sandgrouse , formerly included in this order, are now treated separately in the order Pteroclidiformes.
	Columbo Columbo was an United States crime fiction TV series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. A pilot movie was broadcast in 1968; the series aired regularly from 1971 to 1978, and later, sporadically from 1989 to 2003. It starred Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
	Column A column in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits through physical compression the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. Other compression members are often termed columns because of the similar stress conditions.
	Column chromatography Column chromatography in chemistry is the preparative application of chromatography. It is used to obtain pure chemical compounds from a mixture of compounds on a scale from micrograms up to kilograms using large industrial columns. The classical preparative chromatography column is a glass tube with a diameter from 5 to 50 mm and a height of 50 cm to 1 m with a tap at the bottom.
	Columnea Columnea is a genus of ca. 200 species of epiphytic herbs and subshrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae, native to tropical Americas and the Caribbean. Common names include "Goldfish Plant" or the "Flying Goldfish Plant". The tubular or oddly shaped flowers are usually large and brightly colored, sometimes giving the impression of flying fish.
	Colutea Colutea is a genus of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs from 2-5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. The leaf are pinnate and light green to glaucous grey-green. The flowers are yellow to orange pea shaped and produced in racemes throughout the summer.
	Coma Berenices Coma Berenices is a traditional asterism that has since become a constellation. It is located near Leo, and was originally considered to be the tuft of hair on the end of Leo's tail.
	Comanche The Comanche are a Native Americans in the United States group whose historical range consisted of present-day Eastern New Mexico, Southern Colorado, Southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma, and most of Northern and Southern Texas. There might once have been as many as 20,000 Comanches.
	Comas Comas is a Districts of Peru of the Lima Province in Peru. Located in the Cono Norte area of the city of Lima, it is one of the most populous districts in the country. The current mayor of Comas is Miguel Ángel Saldaña Reátegui. The district's postal code is 7.
	Comb A comb is a device made of solid material, generally flat, always toothed, and is used in hair care for straightening and cleaning hair or other fibers. The etymology of the English word is ancient, going straight back to Proto-Indo-European language roots meaning "tooth", "toothed", "to bite", and found in ancient Greek language and Sanskrit.
	Combat Combat, or fighting, is purposeful violent conflict between one or more persons or organizations, often intended to establish dominance over the Opposition . The term "combat" typically refers to armed conflict between military forces in warfare, whereas the more general term "fighting" can refer to any violent conflict, including boxing and wrestling matches.
	Combat boot Combat boots are military boots designed to be worn by soldiers during actual combat or combat training as opposed to during parades and other ceremonial duties. Soldiers have worn boots in battle for much of recorded history; early specialised boots included the Hobnails of the Roman legions.
	Combat Zone CombatZone is the title of an hour long music video program on Canada music tv station MuchMusic. The show involves two popular music videos playing the roles of the combatants. During the hour-long program, viewers can either call in or text-message their votes for one of the two competing songs.
	Combatives Combatives is a term first used by the United States Army for hand-to-hand combat training. It now encompasses various hybrid martial arts, which incorporate techniques from several different martial arts and combat sports. Unlike combat sports, such systems usually have limited sport application and often focus on simple techniques for use in self-defense or combat.
	Combination lock A combination lock is a type of locksmithing in which a sequence of numbers or symbols is used to open the lock. The sequence is usually a specific permutation rather than a true combination. The sequence may be entered using a single rotating dial which interacts with several discs or cams, or by using a set of several rotating discs with inscribed numerals which directly interact with the locking mechanism.
	Combretaceae Combretaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 20 genus. The family includes the Leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe. Laguncularia and Lumnitzera are mangroves.
	Combtooth blenny Combtooth blennies are blennys; perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae. They are the largest family of blennies, with approximately 371 species in 53 genera represented. Combtooth blennies are found in tropical and subtropical waters in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Oceans; some species are also found in brackish and even freshwater environments.
	Comé Com? is a town located in the Mono Department of Benin. Category:Cities, towns and villages in Benin ro:Com?
	Come Close Come Close is a single by rapper Common featuring a guest appearance by Mary J. Blige. It received a fair amount of airplay and was a moderate hit for his Electric Circus album. The song featured production from mainstream heavyweights, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, otherwise known as The Neptunes, and was released in conjunction with a promo video directed by Sanaa Hamri and ?uestlove of The Roots.
	Comenius John Amos Comenius was a Czechs teacher, scientist, educator, and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravians Protestantism bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of public education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica magna.
	Comes Comes is the Latin word for companion, either individually or as a member of a collective known as comitatus, especially the suite of a magnate, in some cases large and/or formal enough to have a specific name, such as a cohors amicorum. The word comes derives from com- "with" + ire "go."
	Comet A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and exhibits a coma and/or a tail  both due primarily to the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's Comet nucleus, which itself is a minor body composed of rock, dust, and ices. Due to their origins in the outer solar system and their propensity to be highly affected by relatively close approaches to the major planets, comets' orbits are constantly changing.
	Comforter A comforter is a type of bedding a soft flat bag used on a bed as a type of bed cover. It is filled with either an artificial material or a natural material. A comforter usually doesn't cover the pillows or Box-spring of the bed. It is basically a luxurious thick, fluffy blanket that people put on their bed to achieve a much higher level of comfort and warmth.
	Comfrey Comfrey is an important herb in organic gardening, having many medicinal and fertiliser uses.
	Comic strip A comic strip is a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story. Written and drawn by a cartoonist, such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet. In the UK and Europe they are also serialized in History of the British comic, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages or more.
	Comics Comics is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. Originally used to illustrate caricatures and to entertain through the use of amusing and trivial stories, it has by now evolved into a literary medium with many subgenres.
	Command key The Command key, known as the open-Apple key in documentation previous to the Apple Macintosh family of computers, is a modifier key present on Apple Macintosh computer keyboard. An "extended" Macintosh keyboardthe most common typehas two command keys, one on each side of the space bar.
	Command line interface A command line interface or CLI is a method of human-computer interaction via a text terminal. Commands are entered as lines of text from a computer keyboard, and output is also received as text. CLIs originated when teleprinter machines were connected to computers in the 1950s.
	Command prompt A command prompt is a sequence of characters used in a command line interface to indicate availability to accept commands. Command prompts usually end with one of the characters $, #, :, > and often include other information, such as the path of the current working directory.
	Commander Commander is a military rank used in many navy but not generally in army or air forces. It is below Captain and above Lieutenant-Commander. The rank evolved in the 18th and early 19th centuries and was originally known as Master and Commander. The Royal Navy shortened Master and Commander to Commander in 1814.
	Commando In military science, the term commando can refer to an individual, a military unit or a raiding style of list of military and non-military operations and projects. In certain contexts, the term "commando" is synonymous with elite light infantry or special forces.
	Commandos Commandos is a stealth-oriented real-time tactics computer and video games series, available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the World War II. It leans heavily on historical events during World War II to carry the plot.
	Commedia dell'arte Commedia dell'arte , also known as Extemporal Comedy, was a popular form of improvisational theater which began in the 16th century and maintained its popularity through to the 18th century, although it is still performed today.
	Commelina Commelina is a genus of almost two hundred species, generally called "dayflowers" due to the short lives of their flowers. Selected species: *Commelina benghalensis - Tropical spiderwort *Commelina communis - Asiatic Dayflower *Commelina diffusa - Spreading Dayflower
	Commelinaceae Commelinaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants, also known as the spiderwort family. The family has always been recognized by most taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Commelinales in the clade commelinids in the monocots.
	Commission on Narcotic Drugs The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is the central drug policy-making body within the United Nations system. Its predecessor, the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, was established by the first Assembly of the League of Nations on December 15, 1920. The Advisory Committee held its first meeting from May 2 to May 5, 1921, and continued its activities until 1940.
	Common bean The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, indigenous to the Americas, is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean, popular both dry and as a green bean. The leaf is occasionally used as a leaf vegetable, and the straw is used for fodder.
	Common chickweed The common chickweed is a cool-season annual plant native to Europe. The plant germinates in fall or late winter, then forms large mats of foliage. Flowers are small and white, followed quickly by the seed pods. This plant flowers and sets seed at the same time. In both Europe and North America this plant is an invasive weed of gardens, fields, and disturbed grounds.
	Common dolphin The common dolphin is the name given to up to three species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus. Prior to the mid-1990s, most taxonomy only recognised one species in this genus, the Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis. Modern cetologists usually recognise two species - the Short-beaked Common Dolphin, which retains the systematic name Delphinus delphis, and the Long-beaked Common Dolphin D.
	Common Eland The Common Eland, or Southern Eland, is a Savanna and plain antelope found in East Africa and Southern Africa. The Common Eland stands around two metres at the shoulder and weighs 275 kilograms to a tonne. Females are sometimes less than half the weight of adult males.
	Common Fig The Common Fig is a large shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region. It grows to a height of 3-10 m tall, with smooth grey bark. The leaf are deciduous, 12-25 cm long and 10-18 cm across, and deeply lobed with three or five lobes.
	Common Garter Snake The Common Garter Snake is a non-venomous snake indigenous to North America. Most garter snakes have a pattern of yellow stripes on a brown background and their average length is about 1-1.5 metres. Like all other snakes, garter snakes use their tongue to smell. Habitat
	Common Lilac The Common Lilac is a deciduous plant in the olive family, native to the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, where it grows in the wild on rocky hills. It is a large shrub or small tree, growing 6-7 m high. The smooth bark is gray to gray-brown. The shrubs are multi-stemmed, producing secondary shoots from the base or roots.
	Common logarithm In mathematics, the common logarithm is the logarithm with base 10. It is also known as the decadic logarithm, named after its base. It is indicated by log10(x), or sometimes Log(x) with a capital L. On calculators it is usually "log", but mathematicians usually mean natural logarithm rather than common logarithm when they write "log".
	Common Milkwort The Polygala vulgaris is a species of the genus Polygala.
	Common Mullein The Common Mullein or Great Mullein is a dicotyledonous biennial native to Europe and Asia. Other common names are Woolly Mullein, Flannel Mullein, Shepherd's Club, and Aaron's Rod.
	Common Osier The Common Osier also known simply as Osier, is a many-branched shrubby species of willow. They usually grow to between 3-6 m in height. It has long, straight branches with exceptionally long, slender leaves, around 10-15 cm in length but only 1 cm broad. The flexible twigs means that it is commonly used in basketry, giving rise to its alternative common name of "basket willow".
	Common Purslane Portulaca oleracea, is an Annual plant succulent in the family Portulacaceae, which can reach 40 cm in height.. It is a native of India and the Middle East, but is naturalised elsewhere and in some regions is considered an invasive weed. It has smooth, reddish, mostly prostrate stems and alternate leaf clustered at stem joints and ends.
	Common Raccoon The Common Raccoon , also known as the Northern Raccoon, Racoon, or Coon, is a widespread, medium-sized, omnivore mammal of North America. Adult weights vary with habitat but an average is about 5.5 to 9.5 kg , the largest recorded being over 28 kg .
	Common room A common room is a type of shared lounge, most often found in dormitory, at university, military bases, hospitals, rest homes, hostels, and even minimum-security prisons. It is generally connected to several private rooms, and may incorporate a bathroom.
	Common sage Common sage is a small evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean region. It is much cultivated as a kitchen and medicinal herb, and is also called Garden sage, Kitchen sage, and Dalmatian sage.
	Common scold In the common law of criminal law in England a common scold was a species of public nuisance a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours. The Latin name for the offender, communis rixatrix, appears in the feminine Grammatical_gender, and makes it clear that only women could commit this crime.
	Common Scoter The Common Scoter is a large Merginae, 43-54 cm in length, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia east to the Olenek River. The American/E Siberian M. americana is sometimes considered a subspecies of M. nigra. It bird migration further south in temperate zones, on the coasts of Europe as far south as Morocco.
	Common Seal The Common Seal, Harbor Seal or Harbour Seal, Phoca vitulina is a true seal of the Northern Hemisphere. Having the widest range of all pinnipeds, they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans as well as those of the Baltic Sea and North Seas.
	Common Spoonbill The Common Spoonbill is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.
	Common spotted orchid The Common Spotted Orchid is the most commonly occurring species of orchid in Great Britain. It is widely variable in colour and height, ranging from 5 to 60 cm in height. The flower colour can vary from pale pink to pale purple to white, with purple spots and edges. The lip has three lobes.
	Common wasp The common wasp, Vespula vulgaris is a wasp found in much of the Northern Hemisphere, and introduced to Australia and New Zealand. It is a eusocial vespid, which builds its grey paper nest underground, often using an abandoned mammal hole as a start for the site, which is then enlarged by the workers.
	Common wheat Common wheat is by far the most important wheat species in cultivation today.
	Common wood sorrel Common wood sorrel is a plant from the genus Oxalis, common in most of Europe and parts of Asia. It flowers for a few months during the spring, with small white flowers with pink streaks. Red or violet flowers also occur rarely. The binomial name is Oxalis acetosella, because of its sour taste.
	Common Yellowthroat The Common Yellowthroat, Geothlypis trichas, is a New World warbler. It is an abundant breeder in North America from southern Canada to central Mexico. Northern races are bird migration, wintering in the southern parts of the breeding range, Central America and the West Indies.
	Commons In England and Wales, a common is a piece of land over which other people—often neighbouring landowners—could exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as allowing their cattle to graze upon it. The older texts use the word "common" to denote any such right, but more modern usage is to refer to particular rights of common, and to reserve the word "common" for the land over which the rights are exercised.
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	Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former colonies of the United Kingdom. It was once known as the British Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth, and some still call it by that name, either for historical reasons or to distinguish it from the other commonwealths around the world.
	Communication theory We might say that communication consists of transmitter information from one person to another. In fact, many scholars of communication take this as a working definition, and use Harold Lasswell maxim as a means of circumscribing the field of communication theory.
	Communications satellite A communications satellite is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use geosynchronous orbits, Molniya orbits or low Polar orbit Earth orbits. For fixed services, communications satellites provide a technology complementary to that of fiber optic submarine communication cables.
	Communications Security Establishment The Communications Security Establishment is an intelligence agency of the Canada government, charged with the duty of keeping track of foreign signals intelligence. Part of the Department of National Defence, CSE is forbidden, by law, to intercept domestic communications.
	Communion Communion has several meanings within Christianity. It can refer to: * Communion , the relationship between Christians as individuals or Churches * The Communion of Saints, a doctrine of Christianity mentioned in the Apostles' Creed * A group of related Christian churches or Christian denomination
	Communism Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a future classlessness, anti-statism Social organisation, based upon common ownership of the means of production and the absence of private property. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialism.
	Community A community usually refers to a Group of people who interact and share certain things as a group, but it can refer to various collections of living things sharing an environment, plant or animal. This article focuses on human communities, in which intent, belief, Natural resource, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the Identity of the participants and their degree of adhesion.