Cave Temple
Everybody's Encyclopedia · 1912 · p. 13
a cave used as a temple, but the name is especially applied to temples excavated in the solid rock, Caviare, a prepared article of food consisting of the salted roes of several kinds of large fish, chiefly of ‘the common sturgeon. It is prepared chiefly in Ru ia, where it is greatly esteemed as food. It is used also in America. Cavité, a small seaport of Luzon, Philippine Islands; about 11 miles S. W. of Manila and fronting directly on the bay; pop. (1903) 4,494. The town dates almost from the first occupation of the Spaniards and was elaborately fortified with docks and arsenals in the 18th century. Ou May 1, 1898, Admiral Dewey won his great victory off Cavité. The Americans immediately oceupied the arsenal, and upon the arrival of American troops Cavité was fortified and made a naval and military base. The province of the same name has an area of 2,188 square miles: pop, (1903) 184,779, Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di, an Italian statesman, born in Turin, Aug. 10, 1810. He became a member of the Sard in i an Chamber of Deputies in 1849. In 1852 he became premier, and took an active part in een iagen alliance with Great Britain and France, and making common cause with these powers — Rusgia during the Crime an War. This caused a war with Austria, in which Sardinia was aided by France (1859). In 1860 Garibaldi’s expedition to Sicily took place; but toward this Count Cavour was forced to maintain an apparent coldne . He lived to see the meeting of the first Italian Parliament, which decreed Victor Emmanuel king of Italy. He died June 6, 1861.
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