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Quincy: city, seat (1825) of Adams county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, there bridged to Missouri, about 140 miles (225 km) northwest of St. Louis. Sauk, Fox, ...
Quincy: city, Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on Boston Harbor, just southeast of Boston. In 1625 the site, which was settled by Captain Wollaston, was given the name Mount Wollaston, and ...
Quincy Plan: experimental, progressive, child-centred approach to education introduced in 1875 in Quincy, Mass., U.S., by superintendent of schools Francis W. Parker. Parker eliminated the rigid formalities of traditional school routine, arranged ...
Quindio: departamento, west-central Colombia, on the western slopes of the Andean Cordillera Central. The smallest department in the nation, it occupies an area of 712 square miles (1,845 square km) in ...
Quine, Willard Van Orman: American logician and philosopher, widely considered one of the dominant figures in Anglo-American philosophy in the last half of the 20th century.
Quinet, Edgar: French poet, historian, and political philosopher who made a significant contribution to the developing tradition of liberalism in France.
quinidine: drug used in the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia) and malaria. Obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree, quinidine shares many of the pharmacological actions ...
quinine: drug obtained from cinchona bark that is used chiefly in the treatment of malaria, an infection caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium, which is transmitted to humans ...
Quinisext Council: council that was convened in 692 by the Byzantine emperor Justinian II to issue disciplinary decrees related to the second and third councils of Constantinople (held in 553 and 680-681). ...
quinoline: any of a class of organic compounds of the aromatic heterocyclic series characterized by a double-ring structure composed of a benzene and a pyridine ring fused at two adjacent carbon ...
quinone: any member of a class of cyclic organic compounds containing two carbonyl groups, > C &doublehorzbond; O, either adjacent or separated by a vinylene group, &singlehorzbond;CH &doublehorzbond; CH&singlehorzbond;, in a ...
Quintana Roo: state, Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico. Situated on the eastern side of the peninsula, it is bounded by the Caribbean Sea (east), by Belize (south), and by Campeche and Yucatan (west); ...
Quintana, Manuel Jose: Spanish patriot and Neoclassical poet, esteemed by his countrymen for poems, pamphlets, and proclamations written during the War of Independence from Napoleon. Although he was once regarded as a great ...
Quinte, Bay of: arm of Lake Ontario, southeastern Ontario, Canada, extending for 75 miles (121 km) from its entrance near Amherst Island to Murray Canal at the western end. It is a narrow ...
Quintero, Jose: theatrical director and founder of Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, the theatre whose productions sparked the growth of off Broadway into a nationally important ...
quintet: musical composition for five instruments or voices; also the group of musicians engaged in the performance of such a composition. The string quintet normally includes two violins, two violas, and ...
Quintilian: Latin teacher and writer whose work on rhetoric, Institutio oratoria, is a major contribution to educational theory and literary criticism.
Quintillus, Marcus Aurelius Claudius: Roman emperor in AD 270, who died or was killed a few weeks after being proclaimed emperor.
quinto real: (Spanish: "royal fifth"), in colonial Spanish America, a tax levied by the crown on mineral products; it was the principal source of profit derived by Spain from its colonies. The ...
Quinton, Amelia Stone: organizer of American Indian reform in the United States.
Quintus Smyrnaeus: Greek epic poet, the author of a hexameter poem in 14 books, narrating events at Troy from the funeral of Hector to the departure of the Achaeans after sacking the ...
Quionga: village, Cabo (Cape) Delgado province, extreme northeastern Mozambique, East Africa, just south of the Rio Rovuma. In 1886 Germany and Portugal had agreed on the Rovuma as the boundary between ...
quipu: an Incan accounting apparatus consisting of a long rope from which hung 48 secondary cords and various tertiary cords attached to the secondary ones. Knots were made in the cords ...
Quirino: landlocked province, north central Luzon, Philippines. It has an area of 1,180 sq mi (3,057 sq km) and until 1971 was the eastern part of Nueva Vizcaya province. It is ...
Quirino, Elpidio: political leader and second president of the independent Republic of the Philippines.
Quirinus: major Roman deity ranking close to Jupiter and Mars (qq.v.); the flamines (see flamen) of these gods constituted the three major priests at Rome. Quirinus' name is in adjectival form ...
Quiris: a Roman citizen. In ancient Roman law it was the name by which a Roman called himself in a civil capacity, in contrast to the name Romanus, used in reference ...
Quiroga, Horacio: Uruguayan-born short-story writer whose imaginative portrayal of the struggle of man and animal to survive in the tropical jungle earned him recognition as a master of the short story. He ...
Quiroga, Vasco de: Spanish bishop, social reformer, and humanist educator who founded the Colegio de San Nicolas Obisbo in colonial Mexico.
Quisling, Vidkun: Norwegian army officer whose collaboration with the Germans in their occupation of Norway during World War II established his name as a synonym for "traitor."
Quito: city and capital of Ecuador. It is situated in Pichincha province, on the lower slopes of the volcano Pichincha, which last erupted in 1666, in a narrow Andean valley at ...
quiz show: broadcast show designed to test the memory, knowledge, agility, or luck of persons selected from studio or broadcast audience or to contrive a competition among these people for merchandise or ...
Qumran: region on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, notable since 1947 as the site of the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls (q.v.) were first discovered. Excavations (since 1949) ...
Qunaytirah, Al-: abandoned town in the UN-monitored demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel. It was an important regional hub and administrative centre in southwestern Syria until 1967, when it was occupied by ...
Quoc-ngu: writing system used for the Vietnamese language. Quoc-ngu was devised in the mid 17th century by Portuguese missionaries who modified the Roman alphabet with accents and signs to suit the ...
quodlibet: (Latin: "what you will"), musical composition in which several well-known melodies are combined, either simultaneously or, less frequently, sequentially, for humorous effect. Quodlibet can also refer to an amalgamation of ...
quoin: in Western architecture, both the external angle or corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that angle. These cornerstones are both decorative and ...
quoits: game in which players toss rings at a stake, called the hob. A ring that encircles the hob scores two points for the thrower; a ring closer to the hob ...
quokka: marsupial mammal, a species of wallaby (q.v.).
quoll: any of the catlike Australian marsupials that make up the genus Dasyurus in the family Dasyuridae. All native cats are predators that hunt chiefly at night. Because they sometimes raid ...
quota: in international trade, government-imposed limit on the quantity, or in exceptional cases the value, of the goods or services that may be exported or imported over a specified period of ...
Qur'an: holy book of Islam, regarded by believers as the true word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. In its written form it is accepted as the earthly reproduction ...
Quraysh: the ruling tribe of Mecca at the time of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. There were 10 main clans, the names of some of which gained great lustre through ...
Qurayyt, Al-: mintaqah (province), western Al-Shamaliyah (Northern) region, northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is bordered by the provinces of Al-Hudud al-Shamaliyah to the northeast, Al-Jawf to the east, Tabuk to ...
qurra': ', professional class of reciters of the text of the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur'an. In the early Islamic community, Muhammad's divine revelations had often been memorized by his Companions ...
Qutaybah ibn Muslim: Arab general under the caliphs 'Abd al-Malik and 'Abd al-Walid I whose conquests in Afghanistan and Central Asia helped bring the Umayyad caliphate to the height of its power.
Qutb Shahi Dynasty: (1518-1687), Muslim rulers of the kingdom of Golconda in the southeastern Deccan of India, one of the five successor states of the Bahmani kingdom. The founder was Quli Qutb Shah, ...
Qutb-ud-Din Aybak: a founder of Muslim rule in India and an able general of Mu'izz-ud-Din Muhammad of Ghur.
Quthing: village, southern Lesotho. The surrounding area, which borders South Africa (southeast and west) and the Orange River (north), is predominantly agricultural (with subsistence farming of wheat, corn [maize], and sorghum) ...
Qwaqwa: former nonindependent black state, Free State, South Africa, designated for the southern Sotho (often called Basuto) people. Located in a section of the Drakensberg, Qwaqwa was a glen among mountains ...