songlark, either of the two species of the Australian genus Cinclorhamphus, of the songbird family Sylviidae. Both are drab and vaguely larklike; males of both species are much larger than females. The rufous songlark (C. mathewsi), 20 cm (8 inches) long, lives in open forests and has a lively

songlark: …lively song; the 30-cm (12-inch) brown, or black-breasted, songlark (C. cruralis) lives in open country, utters creaky chuckling notes, and has a flight song, as larks do.

songlark: The rufous songlark (C. mathewsi), 20 cm (8 inches) long, lives in open forests and has a lively song; the 30-cm (12-inch) brown, or black-breasted, songlark (C. cruralis) lives in open country, utters creaky chuckling notes, and has a flight song, as larks do.

passeriform: Annotated classification: Family Cinclosomatidae (quail-thrushes and whipbirds) Medium-sized terrestrial birds, 17–30 cm (7–12 inches). Shy, secretive, terrestrial quail-thrushes boldly patterned with rufous, black and white colours. They flush fast with whirring wings like quail from hiding places. About 6 genera, approximately 16 species. Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, and…

dipper, (genus Cinclus), any of five species of songbirds of the Cinclidae family (order Passeriformes) noted for insect hunting by walking underwater in rushing streams and named for their frequent body bobbing. Among the best-known species are the Eurasian, or white-throated, dipper (Cinclus

dipper: …Eurasian, or white-throated, dipper (Cinclus cinclus), blackish brown with a white breast, found from northern Africa and Europe to Manchuria, and the North American dipper (C. mexicanus), dull gray in colour, found from Alaska to Panama, east to the foothills of the Rockies. The

dipper: …Europe to Manchuria, and the North American dipper (C. mexicanus), dull gray in colour, found from Alaska to Panama, east to the foothills of the Rockies. The white-capped dipper (C. leucocephalus) and the rufous-throated dipper (C. schulzii) are found in mountainous areas of South America. There is also

dipper: …also an Asiatic species, the brown dipper (C. pallasii), found from the Himalayas to China, Korea, and Japan.

Cinco de Mayo (”Fifth of May”) is a Mexican national holiday that celebrates the country’s victory over the French forces of Napoleon III in 1862’s Battle of Puebla. Although the war continued for several years afterward, the Battle of Puebla became a symbol of Mexican resistance to foreign

Cinco de Mayo, holiday celebrated on May 5 in parts of Mexico and the United States in honor of a military victory over the French forces of Napoleon III in 1862, known as the Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo is not to be confused with Mexican Independence Day, which falls on September 16. The

Spanish literature: The novel: …originality are evinced in his Cinco horas con Mario (1966; “Five Hours with Mario”), a powerful novel wherein domestic conflict represents contending ideologies in the Civil War, and Parábola del náufrago (1969; “Parable of the Shipwrecked Man”), which examines the individual’s plight in a dehumanized technocracy. A publisher, lawyer, teacher,…

sinter, mineral deposit with a porous or vesicular texture (having small cavities). At least two kinds are recognized: siliceous and calcareous. Siliceous sinter (geyserite; fiorite) is a deposit of opaline or amorphous silica that occurs as an incrustation around hot springs and geysers and

volcano: Explosions: Cinders, sometimes called scoriae, are the next in size; these coarse fragments can range from 2 mm (0.08 inch) up to about 64 mm (2.5 inches). Fragments larger than 64 mm are called either blocks or bombs. Volcanic blocks are usually older rock broken by…

cinder cone, deposit around a volcanic vent, formed by pyroclastic rock fragments (formed by volcanic or igneous action), or cinders, which accumulate and gradually build a conical hill with a bowl-shaped crater at the top. Cinder cones develop from explosive eruptions of mafic (heavy, dark

Cinderella, American animated film, released in 1950, that was made by Walt Disney and was based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. In this fairly faithful rendering of the classic tale, a beautiful young girl is forced into virtual slavery by her cruel, exploitative stepmother and jealous

Gioachino Rossini: Italian period: There followed La cenerentola (1817; Cinderella). As with The Barber, this work uses a contralto for the heroine’s role (though both roles are often sung by sopranos); it proved no less successful. In between these two comedies came Otello (1816; Othello), a setting of William Shakespeare’s play that held the…

Cate Blanchett: Hepburn, Dylan, and Academy Awards: …of the title character in Cinderella (2015). In Truth (2015) she played CBS producer Mary Mapes, who was fired after the accuracy of a segment by reporter Dan Rather on U.S. Pres. George W. Bush’s military service was called into question. Carol, a drama in which she played a married…

Cinderella, heroine of a European folktale, the theme of which appears in numerous stories worldwide; more than 500 versions of the story have been recorded in Europe alone. Its essential features are a youngest daughter who is mistreated by her jealous stepmother and elder stepsisters or a cruel

Idina Menzel: Frozen and other film performances: …the titular role of Amazon’s Cinderella in 2021. Menzel also appeared in 12 episodes of the hit TV show Glee (2009–15), playing Shelby Corcoran, the coach of a rival glee club.

Mark Rydell: Rydell next directed Cinderella Liberty (1973), a bittersweet romantic drama about a sailor (James Caan) and a jaded prostitute (Marsha Mason, nominated for an Academy Award) who is raising a son. Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976) was a strained comedy starring Caan and Elliott Gould…

James J. Braddock was an American world heavyweight boxing champion from June 13, 1935, when he outpointed Max Baer in 15 rounds at the Long Island City Bowl in New York City, until June 22, 1937, when he was knocked out by Joe Louis in Chicago. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.)

Ron Howard: Directing: Howard’s subsequent films included Cinderella Man (2005), which was based on the Depression-era boxer James Braddock (Russell Crowe), and The Da Vinci Code (2006), a film adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller featuring symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks); Howard later directed other installments in the Langdon series: Angels & Demons…

Harry Warren: …Lewis’s The Caddy (1953) and Cinderfella (1960), and Satan Never Sleeps (1962) and the theme for the 1955–61 television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. He continued to compose but published little music after 1962.

ciné-club, a group formed to study the art of the cinema through discussion or the actual making of films. In England and the United States such clubs, or film societies, are chiefly interested in film making, while in other countries they concentrate on viewing censored, foreign, or experimental

angiocardiography: In cineangiocardiography, the X-ray images are brightened several thousandfold with photoamplifiers and photographed on motion-picture films at speeds of up to 64 frames per second. When projected at 16 to 20 frames per second, the passage of the opacified blood may be viewed in slow motion.…

Cineas was a Thessalian who served as chief adviser to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus in Greece. In 281, Cineas attempted, without success, to dissuade Pyrrhus from invading Italy. After Pyrrhus defeated the Romans at Heraclea in Lucania (280), Cineas was sent to Rome to negotiate a peace. According to

Cinecittà, largest motion-picture studio in Italy. It is located outside Rome. Cinecittà was constructed in 1936–37 on the site of Cines, an important early studio that had burned down, and it was an important part of the Fascist government’s attempt to develop a domestic film industry equal to

David Lean: …the funding and formation of Cineguild, a production company helmed by Lean and cofounded by Coward, producer Anthony Havelock-Allan, and director-cinematographer Ronald Neame. The company’s initial productions—three adaptations of Coward’s stage plays—were Lean’s first solo efforts as a director. The first of these, the domestic drama This Happy Breed (1944),…

film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. A popular form of mass media, film is a remarkably

Musidora: …by the socialist film collective Cinéma du Peuple. In 1914 she signed a long-term contract with Gaumont Studios, and between 1914 and 1916 she starred in several of their films—mostly comedies and melodramas.

Glauber Rocha: …a leading figure in Brazil’s Cinema Novo (“New Cinema”).

cinéma vérité, French film movement of the 1960s that showed people in everyday situations with authentic dialogue and naturalness of action. Rather than following the usual technique of shooting sound and pictures together, the filmmaker first tapes actual conversations, interviews, and opinions.

CinemaScope, filmmaking process in which a motion picture is projected on a screen, with the width of the image two and a half times its height. The French physicist Henri Chrétien (1879–1956) invented the technique in the late 1920s by which a camera, with the addition of a special lens, can

History of film: Great Britain: …American domination, however, by the Cinematograph Films Act passed by Parliament in 1927. The act required that a certain minimum proportion of the films exhibited in British theaters be of domestic origin. Although most of the films made to fulfill this condition were low-budget, low-standard productions known as “quota quickies,”…

Cinématographe, one of the first motion-picture apparatuses, used as both camera and projector. The invention of Louis and Auguste Lumière, manufacturers of photographic materials in Lyon, France, it was based in part on the Kinetoscope/Kinetograph system of W.K.L. Dickson and Thomas Edison in the

cinematography, the art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves such techniques as the general composition of a scene; the lighting of the set or location; the choice of cameras, lenses, filters, and film stock; the camera angle and movements; and the integration of any special

cinematography, the art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves such techniques as the general composition of a scene; the lighting of the set or location; the choice of cameras, lenses, filters, and film stock; the camera angle and movements; and the integration of any special

photomicrography: Cinephotomicrography, taking motion pictures of magnified objects, is useful in studying organism growth, colloidal movement, and chemical reactions.

Henry Howard Kessler: …developed the surgical technique of cineplasty for muscular control of prosthetic arms. In 1949 Kessler founded the nonprofit Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, New Jersey, and served as its director until his death. At the Kessler Institute patients saw a variety of specialists and therapists as part of…

radiology: Diagnosis: …of the technical difficulties, and cineradiography became routine. During the whole period of the development of radiology, photographic techniques were also continually being improved. Single-coated photographic plates were used at first, and then double-coated photographic films; photographic emulsions have now been developed to such a point that high speed can…

Cinerama, in motion pictures, a process in which three synchronized movie projectors each project one-third of the picture on a wide, curving screen. Many viewers believe that the screen, which thus annexes their entire field of vision, gives a sense of reality unmatched by the flat screen.

cineraria, any of several ornamental plants that have been developed by florists from species of the genus Senecio or related genera in the composite family Asteraceae. There are two distinct types: the garden species, especially dusty miller (S. cineraria); and the greenhouse varieties of S.

ceremonial object: Objects used in rites of passage: …they are collected in a cinerary urn. The form and composition of such urns have varied considerably, being made of terra-cotta, stone, porphyry, alabaster, bronze, silver, gold, ceramic ware, and other materials. The urn is placed in the grave, as in ancient Assyria and elsewhere, on a bronze or terra-cotta…

harrier: Allied species include the cinereous harrier (C. cinereus), found from Peru to the Straits of Magellan; the long-winged harrier (C. buffoni), ranging over all of South America, especially east of the Andes; the South African marsh harrier (C. ranivorus), ranging north to Uganda on the east; and the pied…

tinamou: Vocalizations: …the monosyllabic call of the cinereous tinamou (C. cinereus). The calls of the male and female are similar but discernibly different to the human ear. Other species sing a series of notes that ascend or descend in pitch. The female solitary tinamou (Tinamus solitarius) has a special call given during…

vulture: Old World vultures: The cinereous vulture, sometimes called the black vulture (Aegypius monachus), is one of the largest flying birds. Many scientists consider this bird to be the largest vulture and the largest bird of prey. It is about 1 metre (3.3 feet) long and 12.5 kg (27.5 pounds)…

History of film: Pre-World War I European cinema: …material and length, were the Cines company’s six-reel Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (The Last Days of Pompei), directed by Luigi Maggi in 1908, and its 10-reel remake, directed by Ernesto Pasquali in 1913; but it was Cines’s nine-reel Quo Vadis? (“Whither Are You Going?,” 1912), with its huge three-dimensional…

Sinhalese, member of a people of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) who constitute the largest ethnic group of that island. In the early 21st century the Sinhalese were estimated to number about 13.8 million, or 73 percent of the population. Their ancestors are believed to have come from northern India,

Sinhalese language, Indo-Aryan language, one of the two official languages of Sri Lanka. It was taken there by colonists from northern India about the 5th century bc. Because of its isolation from the other Indo-Aryan tongues of mainland India, Sinhalese developed along independent lines. It was

South Asian arts: Sinhalese literature: 10th century ad to 19th century: The island nation of Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka), formally a part of South Asia, has been little noticed by the subcontinent, apart from the fact that according to an uncertain tradition it is celebrated in the…

Chigwell, town in the Epping Forest district, administrative and historic county of Essex, eastern England. It is situated on the River Roding on the northeastern perimeter of the metropolitan area of London. It includes the communities of Buckhurst Hill and Loughton and parts of Epping and

Macedonian literature: …best-known writers of prose is Živko Čingo, whose collections of stories Paskvelija (1962) and Nova Paskvelija (1965; “New Paskvelija”) are about an imaginary land where clashes and interactions between old traditions and revolutionary consciousness are enacted. His novel Golemata voda (1971; “The Great Water”), set in an orphanage, shows the…

xenarthran: Cingulata: Order Cingulata consists primarily of armoured armadillo-like animals, and the name refers to the girdlelike shell of present-day armadillos. The armadillo family (Dasypodidae), with 8 genera and 20 species, is the only surviving family of Cingulata. Five other families in this order are extinct…

circus: Circus families: …example of this is the Cinisellis, an Italian family that dominated the Russian circus during the late 19th century.

Cinna, play in five acts by Pierre Corneille, produced in 1641 and published in 1643. Subtitled “The Clemency of Augustus” and based on a passage in De clementia by Seneca the Younger, the Neoclassical tragedy recounts a plot to assassinate the Roman emperor Augustus and the mercy he shows to the

Gaius Helvius Cinna was a Roman poet who wrote the mythological epic poem Zmyrna, about the incestuous love of Zmyrna for her father. He was a friend of the poet Catullus. The early Christian-era historians Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian, and Dio Cassius all state that at Caesar’s funeral (44

Lucius Cornelius Cinna was a leader of the Marian party in Rome who opposed Lucius Cornelius Sulla. After serving in the Social War (90–88), Cinna became consul in 87. When Sulla left Rome to fight Mithradates VI, king of Pontus, in the East, Cinna repealed Sulla’s laws and threatened him with

Cinna, play in five acts by Pierre Corneille, produced in 1641 and published in 1643. Subtitled “The Clemency of Augustus” and based on a passage in De clementia by Seneca the Younger, the Neoclassical tragedy recounts a plot to assassinate the Roman emperor Augustus and the mercy he shows to the

cinnabar, mercury sulfide (HgS), the chief ore mineral of mercury. It is commonly encountered with pyrite, marcasite, and stibnite in veins near recent volcanic rocks and in hot-springs deposits. The most important deposit is at Almadén, Spain, where it has been mined for 2,000 years. Other

carboxylic acid: Aromatic acids: Cinnamic acid, an unsaturated carboxylic acid, is the chief constituent of the fragrant balsamic resin storax. Ibuprofen and naproxen are important painkilling and anti-inflammatory drugs. Ibuprofen is sold over-the-counter under proprietary names such as Advil and Nuprin. Naproxen is sold under names such as Aleve.…

magnoliid clade: Reproduction and life cycles: …the more advanced magnoliids—for example, Cinnamomum of the Lauraceae (Laurales)—the seeds contain large embryos and little or no endosperm. These angiosperms also have an established pattern of development from an early stage. This means that one can predict not only which cell or cells of a young embryo will be…

cinnamon: loureiroi), Indonesian cinnamon (C. burmannii), and Malabar cinnamon (C. citriodorum).

Laurales: Lauraceae: Cinnamomum cambodianum bark is used to make joss sticks, which are burned as incense. Oil of sassafras, as much as 80 percent composed of the compound safrole, was previously distilled in large quantities from the bark enclosing the roots of Sassafras albidum (also called S.…

camphor: camphor laurel, Cinnamomum camphora, common in China, Taiwan, and Japan. It is isolated by passing steam through the pulverized wood and condensing the vapours; camphor crystallizes from the oily portion of the distillate and is purified by pressing and sublimation. Since the early 1930s camphor…

cassia, (Cinnamomun cassia), tree of the family Lauraceae and the spice made from its aromatic bark. The bark of cassia Cinnamomum cassia is similar to that of true cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum), to which cassia is closely related. Cassia bark has a more pungent, less delicate flavour and is thicker

cinnamon: burmannii), and Malabar cinnamon (C. citriodorum).

cinnamon: Saigon, cinnamon (C. loureiroi), Indonesian cinnamon (C. burmannii), and Malabar cinnamon (C. citriodorum).

cinnamon, (Cinnamomum verum), bushy evergreen tree and the spice derived from its bark. The tree is native to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), the neighboring Malabar Coast of India, and Myanmar (Burma), and it is also cultivated in South America and the West Indies. The spice, consisting of the dried

cinnamon, (Cinnamomum verum), bushy evergreen tree and the spice derived from its bark. The tree is native to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), the neighboring Malabar Coast of India, and Myanmar (Burma), and it is also cultivated in South America and the West Indies. The spice, consisting of the dried

cinnamon, (Cinnamomum verum), bushy evergreen tree and the spice derived from its bark. The tree is native to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), the neighboring Malabar Coast of India, and Myanmar (Burma), and it is also cultivated in South America and the West Indies. The spice, consisting of the dried

black bear, (Ursus americanus), the most common bear (family Ursidae), found in the forests of North America, including parts of northern Mexico. The American black bear consists of only one species and 16 subspecies. Its colour varies, however, even among members of the same litter. White markings

Clethra: acuminata, commonly called cinnamon clethra, occurs in mountainous and hilly regions of southeastern North America and grows about 4.5 metres (15 feet) tall. It is valued for its attractive cinnamon-brown bark as well as for its flowers. C. tomentosa is found in the same region as C. alnifolia.

Neil Young: Early career: Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: …nascent FM radio played “Cinnamon Girl,” whose one-note guitar solo encapsulates Young’s sly sarcasm about established forms, and “Down by the River,” a long, raw-edged guitar blitzkrieg around lyrics about murder, the album made Young an icon.

Michael Ondaatje: Poetry collections: His other poetry collections include The Cinnamon Peeler (1989), Handwriting: Poems (1998), and A Year of Last Things (2024).

hessonite, translucent, semiprecious, reddish-brown variety of grossular (q.v.), a garnet

teal: …in North America is the cinnamon teal (A. cyanoptera), a richly coloured reddish bird with a blue wing patch. Teal are primarily herbivorous, although animal foods may comprise 25 percent of the diet of some species such as the blue-wing. In many species flocks take off as a group and…

yam: Major species: Chinese yam (D. polystachya), also known as cinnamon vine, is widely cultivated in East Asia.

Artabanus III: …of Adiabene while a certain Cinnamus occupied the Parthian throne. Artabanus was restored by negotiation but died soon afterward.

John Cinnamus was a Byzantine historian, secretary (grammatikos) to the emperor Manuel I Comnenus, whom he accompanied on campaigns in Europe and Asia Minor. Cinnamus’s history of the period 1118–76, continuing the Alexiad of Anna Comnena, covers the reigns of John II and Manuel I, down to the

sunbird: …distributed African species is the splendid sunbird (Cinnyris coccinigaster), with purple head, green back, and black wings and tail. A related group, the spider hunters (Arachnothera), are plain species with longer bills and shorter tails; they are found in Southeast Asia.

Cino Da Pistoia was an Italian jurist, poet, and prose writer whose poetry, written in the dolce stil nuovo (“sweet new style”), was admired by Dante and was a great influence on Petrarch. Born into an aristocratic Pistoian family, Cino studied law at the University of Bologna. He became involved

Cino Da Pistoia was an Italian jurist, poet, and prose writer whose poetry, written in the dolce stil nuovo (“sweet new style”), was admired by Dante and was a great influence on Petrarch. Born into an aristocratic Pistoian family, Cino studied law at the University of Bologna. He became involved

Pierre Corneille: Early life and career.: …among a group known as les cinq auteurs (“society of the five authors”), which the Cardinal had formed to have plays written, the inspiration and outline of which were provided by himself. Corneille was temperamentally unsuited to this collective endeavour and irritated Richelieu by departing from his part (Act III)…

Henri Duparc: …1870 published five songs (Cinq Mélodies, Opus 2). Two of them, “Soupir” and “Chanson triste,” were later incorporated in his collection of songs, written between 1868 and 1884, including eight with orchestral accompaniment. In these songs, Duparc enlarged the French song into a scena, or opera-like scene, and brought…

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny: Youth and Romantic works.: …revealed his narrative talent in Cinq-Mars (1826), a historical novel centred around the conspiracy of Louis XIII’s favourite, the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, against the Cardinal de Richelieu. Cinq-Mars was the first important historical novel in French, and it derived much of its popularity at the time from the enormous vogue…

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, marquis de Cinq-Mars was a favourite of King Louis XIII of France who led the last and most nearly successful of the many conspiracies against the king’s powerful first minister, the Cardinal de Richelieu. Cinq-Mars was the son of the marshal Antoine Coiffier-Ruzé, marquis

galliard, (French gaillard: “lively”), vigorous 16th-century European court dance. Its four hopping steps and one high leap permitted athletic gentlemen to show off for their partners. Performed as the afterdance of the stately pavane, the galliard originated in 15th-century Italy. It was

cinquain, a five-line stanza. The American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914), applied the term in particular to a five-line verse form of specific metre that she developed. Analogous to the Japanese verse forms haiku and tanka, it has two syllables in its first and last lines and four, six, and

Etterbeek: …is the site of the Cinquantenaire Park (Jubelpark), designed to celebrate Belgium’s 50th year of independence in 1880—though the park’s dramatic centrepiece, the Triumphal Arch, was not completed until 1905. The park also houses several important museums. Pop. (2007 est.) mun., 42,342.

Alessandro Manzoni: …“Il cinque maggio” (1822; “The Napoleonic Ode”), was considered by Goethe, one of the first to translate it into German, as the greatest of many written to commemorate the event.

Cinque Ports, medieval confederation of English Channel ports in southeastern England, formed to furnish ships and men for the king’s service. To the original five ports—Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, New Romney, and Hastings—were later added the “ancient towns” of Winchelsea and Rye with the privileges

Giorgio Bassani: …collection Cinque storie ferraresi (1956; Five Stories of Ferrara, also published as Prospect of Ferrara; reissued as Dentro le mura, 1973, “Inside the Walls”), five novellas that describe the growth of fascism and anti-Semitism, brought Bassani his first commercial success and the Strega Prize (offered annually for the best Italian…

Joseph Cinqué was an enslaved African who led a revolt on the Amistad coastal slave ship in 1839. He was later taken into custody in the United States but was freed by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The revolt came to be known as the Amistad mutiny. Cinqué is believed to have been born

Joseph Cinqué was an enslaved African who led a revolt on the Amistad coastal slave ship in 1839. He was later taken into custody in the United States but was freed by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The revolt came to be known as the Amistad mutiny. Cinqué is believed to have been born

Quattrocento: …Trecento (1300s) and the later Cinquecento (1500s) are useful in suggesting the changing intellectual and cultural outlooks of late- and post-medieval Italy.

cinquefoil, (genus Potentilla), genus of more than 300 species of herbaceous flowering plants of the rose family (Rosaceae). The common name, which means “five-leaved,” refers to the number of leaflets in the compound leaf, though some species have three or seven (or more) leaflets. Most of the

galliard, (French gaillard: “lively”), vigorous 16th-century European court dance. Its four hopping steps and one high leap permitted athletic gentlemen to show off for their partners. Performed as the afterdance of the stately pavane, the galliard originated in 15th-century Italy. It was

Joseph Cinqué was an enslaved African who led a revolt on the Amistad coastal slave ship in 1839. He was later taken into custody in the United States but was freed by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The revolt came to be known as the Amistad mutiny. Cinqué is believed to have been born

Maranhão: The highest point, the Serra da Cinta, is 4,373 feet (1,333 metres) in elevation. From these highlands a number of river systems run generally northeastward into the Atlantic. Several of them form a delta region around the capital city of São Luís, which stands on an island. The delta…