Clocks. 3500BC Gnomon. 2000BC Chinese. 8C BC sundial 4C BC Greek water clock. 300BC hemispherical sundial 160BC Rome. 12C mechanical. 1379 de Vick. 1657 Huygens pendulum.

Clotaire I. -561. Son of Clovis. Merovingian king of Franks 511-. Reunited empire 558-61.

Clotaire II. 584-629. Merovingian king of Neustria. Reunited Frankish Empire 613, but ceded power to nobles.

Clotho. Youngest Fate. Spinner of thread of life.

Clotilda, St. c475-545. Converted her husband, Clovis.

Cloud, St. (Clodoald). Grandson of Clovis I.

Clouet, Jean. 1485-1540. French portrait painter.

Clovis I. 465-511. Salian Frankish king 481-. Conquered N Gaul. Baptized at Reims. Moved capital to Paris in 506. First Merovingian king of France.

Club of Rome. Published 1972 Limits to Growth showing the dangers of overpopulation.

Clunaics. 910-12C. Strict Benedictine Order.

Clymene. Nymph. Mother of Atlas and Prometheus.

Clytemnestra. Wife and murderess of Agamemnon. Killed by her children, Orestes and Electra.

CND. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Cobbett, William. 1763-1835. English working class pamphleteer.

Cockcroft, John. 1897-1967. English physicist. Split nucleus.

Colette, Sidonie. 1873-1954. French descriptive novelist. Claudine Stories 1900-03. Chéri 1920. Gigi 1944.

Compton, Arthur. 1892-1962. US physicist: C Effect, 1923.

Concordat. Ecclesiastic treaty between church and state.

Constitutional Convention. 1787. Philadelphia. Amended Articles of Confederation. Constitution.

Continental Congress. 1774-89. US Government until Constitution approved. Proclaimed Declaration of Independence.

Cook, James. 1728-79. English explorer. Sailed to Tahiti to see transit of Venus, 1768. Charted New Zealand 1769. Claimed Australia 1770.

Corinthian. Most recent style of Classical Greek Architecture. Acanthus leaves on column capital.

Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.

Cowell, Henry. 1887-1965. US avant-garde composer. Tone Clusters.

Creon. Oedipus’ uncle. King of Thebes. Killed Antigone.

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