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- town, northeastern Iran. Most of the inhabitants of Quchan are descended from a tribe of Za'faranlu Kurds resettled there by Shah 'Abbas I in the 17th century. In return for ...
- Qudamah ibn Ja'far
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...poets was primarily a matter of good (or bad) taste, his listing became a kind of challenge to future writers on poetics, who managed to compile ever longer lists. The ...
- Que
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...subdue the Aramaeans in southern Syria. Included in the Luwian-Aramaean coalition that confronted Shalmaneser III at Qarqar in 853 were forces from the Luwian states of Anatolia, among them Que ...
- Queanbeyan
- city, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the Queanbeyan River, just southeast of the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra). It originated in 1828 as a holding called Queen Bean, ...
- Quebec
- eastern province of Canada. Constituting nearly one-sixth of Canada's total land area, Quebec is the largest of Canada's 10 provinces in size and is second only to Ontario in population. ... [34 Related Articles]
- Quebec
- city and port, seat of Quebec region and capital of Quebec province, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Saint-Charles rivers, about 150 miles (240 km) ... [8 Related Articles]
- Quebec Act
- (1774), act of the British Parliament that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French Civil Code, the seigneurial system of land tenure, and ... [9 Related Articles]
- Quebec Conference
- (from the article "Canada") ...political leaders discussed Maritime union. They persuaded the Maritimes to postpone such a union and instead to discuss creating a union of all of British North America. On October 10, ...
- Quebec Conference
- either of two Anglo-American conferences held in the city of Quebec during World War II. The first (August 11-24, 1943), code-named Quadrant, was held to discuss plans for the forthcoming ... [3 Related Articles]
- Quebec Liberal Party
- (from the article "Lesage, Jean") ...of the cabinet and also as a delegate to the United Nations. In 1953 he was appointed minister of resources and development in the federal government. In 1958 he was ...
- Quebec Movement
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...for French Canada's first literary grouping, sometimes referred to as the Ecole Patriotique de Quebec (Patriotic School of Quebec) or the Mouvement Litteraire de Quebec (Literary Movement of Quebec). Often ...
- Quebec separatist movement
- (from the article "Montreal") ...of building and maintaining facilities, including the stadium (now home of the Expos) and the tower, placed a heavy burden of debt on the province. Adding to Montreal's economic difficulties ...
- Quebec song
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...and again at the Montreal cultural event Nuit de la Poesie ("Night of Poetry") in 1970 and was published in 1974. With chansonniers (singer-songwriters) such as Gilles Vigneault, the "Quebec ...
- Quebec, Battle of
- (Sept. 13, 1759), in the French and Indian War, decisive defeat of the French under the Marquis de Montcalm by a British force led by Maj. Gen. James Wolfe. [3 Related Articles]
- Quebec, Battle of
- (December 31, 1775), in the American Revolution, unsuccessful American attack on the British stronghold. In the winter of 1775-76, American Revolutionary leaders detached some of their forces from the Siege ... [1 Related Articles]
- Quebec, flag of
- Canadian provincial flag consisting of a blue field (background) divided into quarters by a central white cross; within each quarter is a white fleur-de-lis.
- quebrachales
- (from the article "Gran Chaco") ...a dry forest of spiny, thorny shrubs and low trees. Chaco vegetation is adapted to grow under arid conditions and is highly varied and exceedingly complex. The climax vegetation is ...
- quebracho
- (from the article "Anacardiaceae") ...caffrum), have edible fruits. The mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus) and the varnish tree (Rhus vernicifera) contain useful oils, resins, and lacquers. The reddish brown wood of quebracho trees (genus Schinopsis, ...
- quebrada
- (from the article "Atacama Plateau") ...In Chile the Atacama Salt Flat is the largest such feature. Along its eastern margin the plateau has been dissected by streams into deep, narrow river valleys, as well as ...
- Quechan
- (from the article "Southwest Indian") ...Yuman peoples were the westernmost residents of the region; they lived in the river valleys and the higher elevations of the basin and range system there. The so-called River Yumans, ...
- Quechua
- South American Indians living in the Andean highlands from Ecuador to Bolivia. They speak many regional varieties of Quechua, which was the language of the Inca empire (though it predates ... [5 Related Articles]
- Quechuan languages
- the languages of the former Inca Empire in South America and the principal native languages of the central Andes today. According to archaeological and historical evidence, the original languages were ... [9 Related Articles]
- Quechumaran languages
- (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") Quechumaran, which is composed of the Quechuan and Aymaran families, is the stock with the largest number of speakers-7,000,000 for Quechuan and 1,000,000 for Aymaran-and is found mainly in the ...
- Quedlinburg
- city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), central Germany. It lies on the Bode River, in the northern foothills of the Lower Harz Mountains, southwest of Magdeburg. Founded in 922 ...
- Queen
- British rock band whose fusion of heavy metal, glam rock, and camp theatrics made it one of the most popular groups of the 1970s. Although generally dismissed by critics, Queen ... [1 Related Articles]
- queen
- (from the article "ant") There are generally three castes, or classes, within a colony: queens, males, and workers. Some species live in the nests of other species as parasites. In these species the parasite ...
- queen
- (from the article "old maid") Two or more can play with a standard 52-card deck from which one black queen is discarded. The cards are then dealt around one at a time as far as ...
- queen
- (from the article "chess") Each player has one queen, which combines the powers of the rook and bishop and is thus the most mobile and powerful piece. The White queen begins at d1, the ...
- Queen Alexandra Range
- mountain range of Antarctica, located in Ross Dependency (New Zealand) along the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. The range reaches an elevation of 14,856 feet (4,528 m) in ...
- queen angelfish
- (from the article "angelfish") ...black and gold angelfish (Centropyge bicolor) of the Indo-Pacific; the French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru (or P. arcuatus), a black and yellow species of the Atlantic; and the queen angelfish (Holacanthus ...
- Queen Anne Revival
- (from the article "Queen Anne style") ...lacquerwork were all skillfully applied to the decorative furniture of Queen Anne design. Typical motifs in this ornamentation are scallop shells, scrolls, Oriental figures, animals, and plants. The Queen Anne ...
- Queen Anne style
- style of decorative arts that began to evolve during the rule of King William III of England, reached its primacy during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14), and persisted after ... [6 Related Articles]
- Queen Anne's
- county, eastern Maryland, U.S., bordered by the Chester River to the north, Delaware to the east, and Chesapeake Bay to the west. It consists of a coastal lowland and includes ...
- Queen Anne's gallon
- (from the article "measurement system") ...adopting metric units, the United States tried to bring its system into closer harmony with the English, from which various deviations had developed; for example, the United States still used ...
- Queen Anne's lace
- (Daucus carota), biennial species of plant in the parsley family (Apiaceae). It is an ancestor of the cultivated carrot. It grows to 1.5 m (5 feet) tall. The bristly plant ...
- Queen Anne's Men
- theatrical company in Jacobean England. Formed upon the accession of James I in 1603, it was an amalgamation of Oxford's Men and Worcester's Men. Christopher Beeston served as the troupe's ... [3 Related Articles]
- Queen Anne's War
- (1702-13), second in a series of wars fought between Great Britain and France in North America for control of the continent. It was contemporaneous with the War of the Spanish ... [5 Related Articles]
- queen butterfly
- (from the article "reproductive behaviour") Research has revealed that olfactory displays are widespread in insects. The sex attractants for this purpose are usually volatile pheromones. Among certain species of butterflies, such as the queen butterfly ...
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- archipelago of western British Columbia, Canada, south of the Alaskan Panhandle. Extending in a north-south direction for roughly 175 miles (280 km) and with a land area of 3,705 square ...
- Queen Charlotte Sound
- broad, deep inlet of the eastern North Pacific indenting west-central British Columbia, Canada. Bounded on the north by the Queen Charlotte Islands and on the south by Vancouver Island, the ...
- Queen Charlotte Strait
- (from the article "Queen Charlotte Sound") ...the sound feeds into a series of straits that once were avenues followed by the continental glaciers as they pushed out to sea. To the north lies Hecate Strait. To ...
- queen conch
- (from the article "conch") True conchs are those of the family Strombidae; they feed on fine plant matter in warm waters. The queen conch (Strombus gigas), found from Florida to Brazil, has an attractive ...
- Queen Elizabeth
- one of the largest passenger liners ever built. Launched in 1938 and used as a troopship during World War II, it entered the regular transatlantic service of the Cunard Line ... [4 Related Articles]
- Queen Elizabeth II Great Court
- (from the article "London") ...the inner courtyard and the Reading Room were enclosed by a 2-acre (0.8-hectare) square glass roof, transforming this area into one of the largest covered public squares in Europe. Christened ...
- Queen Elizabeth Islands
- part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, comprising all the islands north of latitude 74°30' N, including the Parry and Sverdrup island groups. The islands, the largest of which are Ellesmere, ...
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- national park, southwestern Uganda. It occupies an area of 764 square miles (1,978 square km) in a region of rolling plains east of Lake Edward and foothills south of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Queen Elizabeth Way
- (from the article "Ontario") ...basic road pattern, laid out in the 1790s, is an east-west highway (commonly called the 401) from the Quebec border to Windsor and a north-south expressway from Toronto to Orillia ...
- Queen Latifah
- American musician and actress, whose success in the late 1980s launched a wave of female rappers and helped redefine the traditionally male genre. She later became a notable film actress. [1 Related Articles]
- Queen Mary Psalter
- (from the article "painting, Western") Subsequent changes in English painting involved greater decorative elaboration. A number of large psalters, such as the Queen Mary Psalter (in the British Museum), survive from the first half of ...
- Queen Maud Land
- region of Antarctica south of Africa, extending from Coats Land (west) to Enderby Land (east) and including the Princess Martha, Princess Astrid, Princess Ragnhild, Prince Harold, and Prince Olav coasts. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Queen Maud Mountains
- subdivision of the Transantarctic Mountains of central Antarctica, extending southeastward for 500 miles (800 km) from the head of Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered in 1911 by the Norwegian explorer Roald ...
- Queen Silvia
- On Aug. 27, 1996, Queen Silvia of Sweden welcomed representatives from over 100 countries to Stockholm for the first World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Ironically, hers was ...
- Queen Square
- (from the article "Bath") ...valley of the River Avon, is the 18th-century Pump Room, giving access to the hot springs and Roman baths. Among some 140 historic terraces and individual buildings that grace the ...
- Queen Street
- (from the article "Toronto") ...out in a grid, although the pattern is modified to some extent by diagonal roads roughly following the shoreline. The central business areas are located around Bloor and Yonge streets ...
- queen substance
- (from the article "reproductive behaviour") ...body from the mating flight; thus the individuals produced are diploid, but, unlike the queen, they are sterile. This sterility results indirectly from a chemical secreted by the queen, called ...
- queen triggerfish
- (from the article "triggerfish") ...are found among reefs and marine plants. Although generally considered edible, some cause food poisoning. The largest triggerfishes grow about 60 cm (2 feet) long. Common species include the queen ...
- Queen's Bench, Court of
- formerly one of the superior courts of common law in England. Queen's, or King's, Bench was so called because it descended from the English court held coram rege ("before the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Queen's Chamber
- (from the article "Giza, Pyramids of") ...penetrates the rocky soil on which the structure rests, and ends in an unfinished underground chamber. From the descending corridor branches an ascending passageway that leads to a room known ...
- Queen's Counsel
- (from the article "legal profession") ...but in the 19th century all of the nonbarristers were brought under the one name, solicitor. The order of serjeants was eliminated, leaving only barristers, of whom the most senior ...
- Queen's Gallery
- small public art gallery at the queen's official London residence, Buckingham Palace, in the borough of Westminster. Opened in 1962, the gallery is on the site of a private chapel ...
- Queen's Gambit Declined
- (from the article "chess") ...of discovering a new opening move that might win a single game and then become useless, Botvinnik tried to work out complicated systems that would last for years. For example, ...
- Queen's House
- (from the article "Greenwich") ...a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997. In 1433 Humphrey Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester, enclosed Greenwich Park and built a watchtower on the north-facing hill above the river. Inigo Jones's ...
- Queen's University
- (from the article "Northern Ireland") Northern Ireland has two universities. The Queen's University of Belfast, established in 1845 as one of three in Ireland, has had a charter since 1908. The University of Ulster was ...
- Queen's University at Kingston
- nondenominational, coeducational university at Kingston, Ont., Can. Originally called Queen's College, it was founded in 1841 as a Presbyterian denominational school to train young men for the ministry. The Presbyterian ...
- Queen, Ellery
- American cousins who were coauthors of a series of more than 35 detective novels featuring a character named Ellery Queen.
- Queens
- (from the article "Prince Edward Island") ...64° W longitude. On the south the Northumberland Strait separates the island by about nine miles from the mainland provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There are three counties: ...
- Queens
- largest of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens county, southeastern New York, U.S. The borough lies on western Long Island and extends across the width of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Queens College
- (from the article "Charlotte") ...Carolinas metropolis, Charlotte has diversified manufacturing (textiles, machinery, metal, and food products) and is one of the nation's largest banking centres. The first college in North Carolina, Queens College in ...
- Queens, Valley of the
- gorge in the hills along the western bank of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of ancient Thebes and served as the burial site of the queens ... [1 Related Articles]
- Queensberry House
- (from the article "Edinburgh") ...Robert Fergusson and political economist Adam Smith; Acheson House (1633), containing the Scottish Craft Centre; Huntly House, containing the Civic Museum; and the old Canongate Tolbooth (1591). Queensberry House (1681), ...
- Queensboro Bridge
- (from the article "Ammann, Othmar Herman") In 1904 Ammann immigrated to the United States, where he helped design railroad bridges. Joining the Pennsylvania Steel Company the following year, he worked on the Queensboro Bridge, New York ...
- Queensferry Paper
- (from the article "Cameronian") any of the Scottish Covenanters who followed Richard Cameron in adhering to the perpetual obligation of the two Scottish covenants of 1638 and 1643 as set out in the Queensferry ...
- Queensland
- state of northeastern Australia, occupying the wettest and most tropical part of the continent. It is bounded to the north and east by the Coral Sea (an embayment of the ... [6 Related Articles]
- Queensland Cultural Centre
- (from the article "Queensland") Brisbane is the dominant cultural centre, with the pivot being the Queensland Cultural Centre, located on a riverside site overlooking the city. It contains auditoriums for musical, dramatic, and ballet ...
- Queensland hairy-nosed wombat
- (from the article "wombat") ...is smaller than the common wombat; it lives in semiarid country mainly in South Australia, extending through the Nullarbor Plain into the southeast of Western Australia. The very rare Queensland, ...
- Queensland, flag of
- Australian flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the Union Jack in the canton and, at the fly end, a white disk bearing a blue Maltese Cross and ...
- Queenston Delta
- (from the article "Ordovician Period") ...are now filled with over 3,000 metres (about 9,900 feet) of sedimentary rock. The thick accumulation of sediment filling one of these basins in present-day New York and Pennsylvania is ...
- Queenston Heights, Battle of
- (Oct. 13, 1812), serious U.S. reverse in the War of 1812, sustained during an abortive attempt to invade Canada. On Oct. 13, 1812, Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer, commanding a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Queenstown
- town, western Tasmania, Australia. It lies in the west-coast ranges, in the Queen River valley. Founded in 1897 after gold, silver, and copper were discovered at nearby Mount Lyell, the ...
- Queenstown
- town, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. The town lies in an upper valley of the Great Kei River. It has a distinctive hexagonal shape, designed by its founder, Sir George ...
- Queeny, Edgar M.
- (from the article "Monsanto Company") ...other American chemical companies, Monsanto expanded during World War I and flourished under the protection of the high U.S. tariffs of the 1920s. Queeny passed control of the company to ...
- Queeny, John F.
- (from the article "Monsanto Company") The Monsanto Chemical Works was founded in 1901 by John F. Queeny (1859-1933), a purchasing agent for a wholesale drug company, to manufacture the synthetic sweetener saccharin, then produced only ...
- Queirolo, Francesco
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...setting, while the Cappella Sansevero de' Sangri in nearby Naples (decorated 1749-66) is one of the most important sculptured complexes of the time. Allegorical groups by Antonio Corradini and Francesco ...
- Queiroz Law
- (1850), measure enacted by the Brazilian parliament to make the slave trade illegal. In the mid-19th century the British government put pressure on Brazil to put an end to traffic ...
- Queiroz, Rachel de
- Brazilian novelist and member of a group of Northeastern writers known for their modernist novels of social criticism, written in a colloquial style (see also Northeastern school). [3 Related Articles]
- quelea
- (species Quelea quelea), small brownish bird of Africa, belonging to the songbird family Ploceidae (order Passeriformes). It occurs in such enormous numbers that it often destroys grain crops and, by ... [4 Related Articles]
- Queler, Eve
- American conductor, one of the first women to establish herself in the traditionally male-dominated field of orchestral conducting.
- Quelimane
- town and seaport, east-central Mozambique. It is situated near the mouth of the Bons Sinais River, on the Indian Ocean. One of the oldest settlements in the area, it was ... [2 Related Articles]
- Quellinus, Artus, the Elder
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...Duquesnoy spent almost all of his career in Rome, while those who remained in Flanders, such as his brother Hieronymus Duquesnoy the Younger, were mostly secondary artists influenced by Rubens. ...
- Quellinus, Artus, the Younger
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...the Elder reveals a much more individual style, particularly in his decorations for the Town Hall in Amsterdam, and the tendency toward a painterly style is more pronounced in the ...
- Quemoy Island
- island under the jurisdiction of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait at the mouth of mainland China's Xiamen (Amoy) Bay and about 170 miles (275 km) northwest of Kao-hsiung, Taiwan. Quemoy ... [1 Related Articles]
- quena
- (from the article "Latin American music") ...drums, including the characteristic small, double-headed tinya of the Inca. The end-notched vertical flute known in Quechua as the quena was held sacred. Early ...
- quenching
- (from the article "igneous rock") ...and a low-calcium orthorhombic pyroxene. These cannot coexist with any of the feldspathoids (e.g., leucite and nepheline) or magnesium-rich olivine. In volcanic rocks that have been quenched (cooled rapidly) such ...
- quenching
- rapid cooling, as by immersion in oil or water, of a metal object from the high temperature at which it has been shaped. This usually is undertaken to maintain mechanical ... [4 Related Articles]
- quenching
- (from the article "photochemical reaction") ...humans. The ground state of molecular oxygen is very unusual in that it is a triplet; hence, it can accept electronic energy from more-energetic triplet states of other molecules in ...
- Queneau, Raymond
- French author who produced some of the most important prose and poetry of the mid-20th century. [2 Related Articles]
- Quennell, Sir Peter
- English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, and critic, a wide-ranging man of letters who was an authority on Lord Byron. [1 Related Articles]
- Quenstedt, Friedrich August
- German mineralogist and paleontologist. [1 Related Articles]
- Quental, Antero Tarquinio de
- Portuguese poet who was a leader of the Generation of Coimbra, a group of young poets associated with the University of Coimbra in the 1860s who revolted against Romanticism and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Quentin, Henri
- (from the article "textual criticism") ...overrated the inherent improbability of this situation, and it is generally agreed that his criticisms had to do with improper application rather than with the method itself. The point taken ...
- Quentovic
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...was a toll and a royal mint. This trade was supplied by the southern Low Countries. Thus the cloths that were sold as Frisian cloths were produced in the area ...
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