Cannabis Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. The plant is believed to have originated in the mountainous regions just north-west of the Himalayas in India, though it could also have come from Northern Africa. It is also known as hemp, although this term usually refers to varieties of cannabis cultivated for non-drug use.
	Cannabis indica Cannabis indica Lam. is a putative species of Cannabis, although not all botanists agree that it should be treated as separate from Cannabis sativa L.Small, E., and A. Cronquist. 1976. A practical and natural taxonomy for Cannabis. Taxon 25: 405435.Greg Green.
	Cannabis sativa Cannabis sativa, also known as hemp, is a species of Cannabis. It is a dioecious, Annual plant herb. It has been used by humans throughout recorded history for its fiber, for its psychological and physiological potential as a source of Psychoactive drug material, and for the nutrition and oil of its seeds.
	Cannaceae Cannaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has almost universally been recognized by taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Zingiberales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots.
	Cannes Cannes is a city and commune in France in southern France, located on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes dpartement in France.
	Cannibalism Cannibalism , also called anthropophagy is the act or practice of humans eating other humans. In zoology, the term cannibalism is extended to refer to any species eating members of its own kind. Care should thus be taken to distinguish between ritual cannibalism sanctioned by a cultural code, cannibalism by necessity occurring in extreme situations of famine and cannibalism by Mental illness persons.
	Cannon A cannon is any large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a considerable distance. The term can apply to a modern day rifled machine gun with a calibre of 20 mm or more . Cannon also refers to a large, smooth-bored, muzzle-loading gun used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns firing explosive shell .
	Cannon Fodder Cannon Fodder was a short series of two war
	Cannonball Cannonball can refer to: *Round shot, ammunition for a cannon * Cannonball - Name of the Decepticon space pirate in the Transformers toy line. * Experiment 520, a character from Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series * Cannonball, a Marvel Comics character best known as a member of X-Force
	Canoe A canoe is a relatively small boat, typically human-powered, but also commonly sailed. Canoes are pointed at both ends and usually open on top, but can be covered. For the activity of using a canoe in sport or for recreation, see canoeing. In its human-powered form, the canoe is propelled by the use of paddles, with the number of paddlers depending on the size of canoe.
	Canopic jar Among the ancient Egyptians, canopic jars were covered funerary urn, intended to keep the viscera of mummy corpses. Jars were made from various materials, including alabaster, limestone, pottery, wood, and bronze. All the viscera were not kept in a single canopic jar, but rather each organ in its own.
	Cant Hook A cant hook is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs. While similar to a peavey, the cant hook has a blunt tip, often with teeth. A logging tool description from the Lumberman's Museum at Patten, Maine, reads in part: "A cant dog or cant hook was used for lifting, turning, and prying logs when loading sleds and on the drive.
	Cantabrian Mountains Cantabrian Mountains is a mountain chain which extends for more than approximately 180 miles across northern Spain, from the western limit of the Pyrenees to the borders of Galicia, and on or near the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The Cantabrians stretch from east to West, nearly parallel to the sea, as far as the pass of Leitariegos, afterwards trending southward between León and Galicia.
	Cantaloupe Cantaloupe refers to two different varieties of muskmelon, Cucumis melo. Both belong to the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes nearly all melons and Squash. They are typically 15–25 cm in length and are somewhat oblong, though not as oblong as watermelons.
	Canter The canter, is a controlled, three-beat gait performed by a horse. It is a natural gait possessed by all horses, faster than most horse's trot but slower than the gallop, and is used by all riders. The speed of the canter varies between 10-17 mph, depending on the length of the stride of the horse.
	Canterbury Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
	Cantharellus Cantharellus is a genus with many delicious and popular edible mushrooms. It is a mycorrhizal edible fungus, meaning it forms symbiotic associations with plants, making it very challenging to agriculture. Caution must be used when identifying chanterelles for consumption; lookalikes, such as the Jack O'Lantern, can make a person very ill.
	Cantilever A cantilever is a Beam anchored at one end and projecting into space. This beam may be fixed at the support, or extend to another support as illustrated. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by bending Moment and shear. Cantilever construction allows for long structures without external bracing.
	Cantilever bridge A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers: structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beam; however, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from steel.
	Cantillation **1. Torah **2. Torah - special melody for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This tune is also employed on Simhat Torah in various degrees. Echoes of it can also be heard for certain verses in the Torah reading for fast days. **3. Haftarot **There are a number of minor cantillation versions employed for special sections, such as those for the Aseret haDibrot and Song of the sea.
	Canute the Great Canute I, or Canute the Great was a Denmark king of England, Denmark and Norway and governor or overlord of Schleswig and Pomerania. He was in treaty with the Holy Roman Emperors, Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor and maintained good relations with the papacy.
	Canyon A canyon or gorge is a deep sonoma often carved from the Earth by a river. Most canyons originate by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau level, with a new born place in happiness out its valley. The cliffs form because harder rock strata that are resistance to erosion and weathering remain exposed on the valley walls.
	Canyonlands National Park Canyonlands National Park, located near Moab, Utah and the Arches National Park, was designated as a national park on September 12, 1964. The park covers 527.5 mi. Canyons carved into the Colorado Plateau by the Colorado River and Green River partition the area into three major districts:
	Capacitor A capacitor is an electrical device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of closely spaced electrical conductors. When voltage is applied to the capacitor, electric charges of equal magnitude, but opposite polarity, build up on each plate. Capacitors are used in electrical circuits as energy-storage devices.
	Cape A cape is an article of clothing, and can be used to describe any sleeveless outer garment, such as a poncho, but usually it is a long garment that covers only the back half of the wearer, fastening about the neck. They were common in medieval Europe, and have periodic returns to fashion, for example in nineteenth century Europe.
	Cape Ann Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula located in northeastern Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. The Headlands and bays is located approximately 30 miles northeast of Boston, Massachusetts and forms the northern edge of Massachusetts Bay. The towns of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Essex, Massachusetts, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, and Rockport, Massachusetts comprise Cape Ann.
	Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic Ocean coast of North America. Its name likely derives from the term "Breton", referring to Brittany. Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, although physically separated from the peninsular Nova Scotian mainland by the Strait of Canso, it is artificially connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway.
	Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic Ocean coast at . It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Kennedy Space Center, and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
	Cape Cod Cape Cod is an arm-shaped peninsula forming the Easternmost portion of the Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Although Cape Cod was originally connected to the mainland, the Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1914, effectively transformed Cape Cod into a large island.
	Cape Cod Bay Cape Cod Bay is a large headlands and bays of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is enclosed by Cape Cod to the south and east, and Plymouth County, Massachusetts to the west; to the north of Cape Cod Bay lie Massachusetts Bay and the open ocean.
	Cape Cod Canal The Cape Cod Canal is a man-made waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that anchors Cape Cod to mainland Massachusetts. The Canal is roughly 17.4 miles long and connects Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south. The 540-foot width of the canal is spanned by the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge and two highway bridges, the Bourne Bridge and the Sagamore Bridge.
	Cape Colony The Cape Colony of the future South Africa was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied in 1795, and finally just taken in 1806 by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - the period immediately before and during the Napoleonic Wars.
	Cape Fear Cape Fear is a prominent Headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States. It is largely formed of barrier beaches and the silty outwash of the Cape Fear River as it drains the southeast coast of North Carolina through an estuary south of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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	Cape Hatteras Cape Hatteras is a Headlands and bays on the coast of North Carolina. It is the point that protrudes the furthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the Atlantic Ocean coast of North America, making it a key point for navigation along the eastern seaboard.
	Cape Horn Cape Horn is the southernmost Headlands and bays of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile. It is widely considered to be the southern tip of South America. Cape Horn is the most southerly of the great capes, and marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for many years it was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world.
	Cape May Cape May is a Headlands and bays which is the southernmost point of the state of New Jersey, USA. It is at the tip of the Cape May Peninsula, which runs southwards from the New Jersey mainland, separating Delaware Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Many people go to Cape May for tourism and for the beach.
	Cape May Warbler The Cape May Warbler, Dendroica tigrina , is a small New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across all but the westernmost parts of southern Canada, and into the Great Lakes region and New England. It is bird migration, wintering in the West Indies.
	Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. While it is possibly the best-known of the southern African capes, it is not actually the southernmost point of the continent; this is about 150 kilometres south-east at Cape Agulhas.
	Cape Province The Cape of Good Hope Province was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Colony, and had Cape Town as its capital. It was created in 1910 when the Union of South Africa was formed, and included the original Cape Colony and other regions such as British Bechuanaland , Griqualand East and Griqualand West .
	Cape Sable Cape Sable, Florida is the southernmost point of the United States mainland and mainland Florida. It is located in southwestern Florida, in Monroe County, Florida, and is part of the Everglades National Park. The cape is a peninsula issuing from the southeastern part of the Florida mainland, running west and curving around to the north, reaching Ponce de Leon Bay, at the mouth of the Shark River.
	Cape Town Cape Town is the List of largest cities in South Africa by population in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislature capital of South Africa, where the Parliament of South Africa and many government offices are located.
	Cape Trafalgar Cape Trafalgar is a headlands and bays in Cadiz Province in the south-west of Spain. The name appears to be derived from the Arabic, Taraf al-Gharb, which means Cape of the West. The Battle of Trafalgar, a 1805 naval battle in which the Royal Navy destroyed Napoleon's combined Spanish and France fleet, took place off the cape.
	Cape Verde The Republic of Cape Verde or Cape Verde is a republic located on an archipelago in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. The previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portugal in the 15th century; they subsequently became a trading centre for African slavery.
	Cape York Peninsula Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia. Cape York is at the tip of the peninsula and is the northernmost point on the Australian continent. It was named by Lt. James Cook in 1770 after His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany.
	Capelin The capelin is a small fish of the smelt family found in the Arctic Ocean in large quantities. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf. Larger capelin also eats a great deal of krill and other crustaceans. Whales, Pinnipeds, Atlantic_cod#North-East_Atlantic_Cod, squid, mackeral and seabirds all prey on capelin in particular during the spawning season of the capelin while it migrates southwards.
	Caper A Caper is a biennial plant spiny shrub that bears rounded, rather fleshy leaves and big pinkish-white flowers. Native to the Greece archipelagos, it grows wild on walls or in rocky coastal areas throughout the Mediterranean region. It is best known for its edible buds and fruit which are usually consumed pickled.
	Capercaillie The Capercaillie, Wood Grouse or Western Capercaillie is the largest member of the grouse family. The male is 74-90 cm in length, and the female 54-63 cm. It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern parts of Europe and western and central Asia in mature conifer forests with diverse species composition and a relatively open canopy structure.
	Capes Capes is a role-playing game by Tony Lower-Basch, Indie role-playing game by Muse of Fire Games. It's a superhero role-playing game played in scenes, where players choose what character to play before each new scene. Characters are usually co-owned, but controlled by one player at a time.
	Capillary Capillaries, are the smallest of a body's blood vessels, measuring 5-10 micrometre. They connect artery and veins, and most closely interact with Biological tissue. Capillaries have walls composed of a single layer of cell , the endothelium.
	Capital In politics, a capital is the principal city or town associated with a country's government. It is almost always the city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and fixed by law. The word capital is derived from the Latin caput meaning "head," and the related term capitol refers to the building where government business is chiefly conducted.
	Capital levy A capital levy is a tax on capital rather than income, and is collected once rather than annually. For example, a capital levy of 30% will see an individual or business with a net worth of $100,000 pay $30,000 in tax, regardless of income. It is considered difficult for a government to implement, as the confiscatory nature of taxation is more apparent than with income tax.
	Capital punishment Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the Kill of a convicted criminal by the State as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. The word "capital" is derived from the Latin "capitalis," which means "concerning the head"; therefore, to be subjected to capital punishment means to figuratively lose one's head.
	Capitalism Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are owned mostly privately, and capital is investment in the Mass production, distribution and other trade of goods and services, for profit in a competitive free market.
	Capitate bone The capitate bone is a bone in the human hand. The capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the center of the wrist. It presents, above, a rounded portion or head, which is received into the concavity formed by the scaphoid and lunate bones; a constricted portion or neck; and below this, the body.
	Capitol Capitol comes from the Latin Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome. It was the seat of the Roman Republic and today is the seat of the Mayor of Rome.
	Capitol Reef National Park Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. It is 100 miles long but fairly narrow. The park, established in 1971, preserves 378 mi and is open all year, although May through September are the most popular months. Called "Wayne Wonderland" in the 1920s by local Boosterism Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S.
	Capiz Capiz is a Provinces of the Philippines of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas Regions of the Philippines. Its capital is Roxas City and is located at the northeastern portion of Panay Island, bordering Aklan Province and Antique Province to the west, and Iloilo Province to the south.
	Capo A capo is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. There are several different styles of capo available, utilizing a range of mechanisms, but most use a rubber-covered bar to hold down the strings, fastened with a strip of elastic or nylon, a cam-operated metal clamp, or another device.
	Capon A capon is a rooster whose testicles were removed at a young age. Typically the castration is performed when the chicken is between 6 and 20 weeks old. The benefits are a non-aggressive male that can serve as a mother for baby chicks. They also produce ample, tender meat when butchered and as such are a choice poultry meat in some locales.
	Cappadocia In ancient geography, Cappadocia was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor. In the time of Herodotus the Cappadocians occupied the whole region from Mount Taurus to the Euxine. Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of Mount Taurus, to the east by the Euphrates, north by Pontus, and west vaguely by the great central salt lake.
	Cappuccino Cappuccino is a large Italy beverage prepared with espresso and foamy steamed milk. A cappuccino differs from a caffelatte, which is mostly milk and little foam. In Italy, cappuccino is generally consumed early in the day as part of a light breakfast, with croissant, better known for Italy as cornetto.
	Capri Capri is an Italy island off the Sorrentine Peninsula. On the south side of the Gulf of Naples, it has been a celebrated beauty spot and resort since the time of the Roman Republic. The features are a litany of postcard views: the Marina Piccola, the Belvedere of Tragara, which is a high panoramic promenade lined with villas, the limestone masses that stand out of the sea, Anacapri, the Blue Grotto.
	Capricornus Capricornus , a name meaning "Horn Goat" or "That which has horns like a goat's" in Latin, is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is commonly called Capricorn, especially in astrology. It is commonly called the sea-goat, as it is in an area of the sky known as the Sea .
	Caprifoliaceae The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.
	Caprimulgus Caprimulgus is a large and very widespread genus of nightjars, medium-sized nocturnal birds with long pointed wings, short legs and short bills. The name is derived from the Latin for goatsucker, based on the ancient, but mistaken, belief that the European Nightjar would suck milk from goats.
	Caproidae Boarfishes are a small family, Caproidae, of sea water fishes comprising two genera and twelve species. They are usually placed in the order Zeiformes with the Zeidae, but this placement is uncertain, since boarfishes have many perciformes characters, for instance in the caudal skeleton.
	CapROS CapROS is an open source operating system. It is a pure Capability-based security system that features automatic persistence of data and processes, even across system reboots. Capability systems naturally support the principle of least authority, which improves security and fault tolerance.
	Caprylic acid Caprylic acid is the common name for the eight-carbon straight chain fatty acid known by the systematic name octanoic acid. It is found naturally in coconuts and breast milk. It is an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant rancid taste that is minimally soluble in water.
	Capsaicin The chemical compound capsaicin is the active component of chili peppers, which are plants belonging to the genus Capsicum. It is an Irritation for mammals including humans and produces a sensation of burning in any Biological tissue it comes in contact with.