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- South American Indians who inhabited the Argentine Pampas between Cabo Blanco on the Atlantic coast and the Cordoba Mountains on the western shores of the Rio de la Plata. Their ... [3 Related Articles]
- quercitin
- (from the article "Some natural dyes and their sources") The variety of anthoxanthins is greater than that of anthocyanins, and new anthoxanthins are continuously being discovered. A prominent flavonoid is the pale-yellow flavonal quercitin, first isolated from an oak ...
- quercitron bark
- inner bark of the black oak, Quercus velutina, which contains a colouring matter used to dye wool bright yellow or orange. At one time this colorant was used with cochineal ...
- Quercy
- historic and cultural region encompassing most of the southwestern French departements of Lot and Tarn-et-Garonne and coextensive with the former district of Quercy. The district was organized in Gallo-Roman times ...
- Queremistas
- in Brazil, the supporters of the strongman Getulio Vargas, who in 1945 advocated his continuance as president; they were named for their slogan "Queremos Getulio" ("We want Getulio").
- querencia
- (from the article "bullfighting") ...pass of the bull, the bullfighter prepares for the kill and the fight's denouement. Most interesting can be how a matador deals with a bull that refuses to leave its ...
- Queretaro
- estado (state), central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of San Luis Potosi to the north and northeast, Hidalgo and Mexico to the southeast, Michoacan to ...
- Queretaro
- city, capital of Queretaro estado (state), central Mexico. Situated on the Mexican Plateau at an elevation of about 6,100 feet (1,860 metres) above sea level, it is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Queretaro Aqueduct
- (from the article "Queretaro") ...Queretaro (1936), both located in the capital city. The colonial centre of Queretaro city was designated a World Heritage site in 1996; one of the city's most striking features is ...
- Queretaro, Battle of
- (from the article "Mexico") ...by making as strong a stand as possible, though planning, in the event of defeat, to negotiate an honourable exile. With these resolves he concentrated most of his troops-9,000 men-at ...
- Querido, Israel
- Dutch novelist of the naturalist movement.
- quern
- ancient device for grinding grain. The saddle quern, consisting simply of a flat stone bed and a rounded stone to be operated manually against it, dates from Neolithic times (before ... [3 Related Articles]
- Quervain, Marcel Roland de
- Swiss glaciologist known for his fundamental work on the metamorphism and physical properties of snow.
- query language
- (from the article "information processing") The uses of databases are manifold. They provide a means of retrieving records or parts of records and performing various calculations before displaying the results. The interface by which such ...
- query-by-example
- (from the article "information processing") ...query resembles natural language except that its syntax is limited and fixed. Instead of using an SQL statement, it is possible to represent queries in tabular form. The technique, referred ...
- Quesnay, Francois
- French economist and intellectual leader of the physiocrats, the first systematic school of political economy. [3 Related Articles]
- Quesnel
- town, south-central British Columbia, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Quesnel and Fraser rivers, 411 miles (661 km) north of Vancouver. The river and town site (Quesnellemouth until ...
- Quesnel, Joseph
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...of political expression at home. The first scattered indications of literature (anecdotes, poems, essays, and sermons) appeared in their pages, as did the verses and songs of two French immigrants, ...
- Quesnel, Pasquier
- controversial French theologian who led the Jansenists (followers of Bishop Cornelius Jansen's heretical doctrines on predestination, free will, and grace) through the persecution by King Louis XIV of France until ... [2 Related Articles]
- question
- (from the article "Athabaskan language family") ...scared Alec,' the noun sus 'black bear' is the subject, Alec is the object, and dzidniiyoot 'he/she/it scared him/her/it' is the verb. Wh- questions are often formed with in situ ...
- Question of the Pacific
- (from the article "Pacific, War of the") ...held to determine their nationality. But the two countries failed for decades to agree on what terms the plebiscite was to be conducted. This diplomatic dispute over Tacna and Arica ...
- question period
- (from the article "Commons, House of") Aside from passing legislation, the most important business of the full House is the question period, which is held on a regular basis. During this period, members can require government ...
- Questioning, Board of
- (from the article "Japan") ...military vassals. General administration was handled by a secretariat, which was opened four years later and known as the Kumonjo (later renamed the Mandokoro). In addition, a judicial board, the ...
- questionnaire
- (from the article "public opinion") Questionnaire construction, as with sampling, requires a high degree of skill. The questions must be clear to people of varying educational levels and backgrounds, they must not embarrass respondents, they ...
- questore
- (from the article "Italy") ...in each province, who is responsible for enforcing the orders of the central government and has powers of control over the organs of the province and communes; and the
- Quetelet, Adolphe
- Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena. [4 Related Articles]
- Quetico Belt
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...are the Barberton belt in South Africa; the Sebakwian, Belingwean, and Bulawayan-Shamvaian belts of Zimbabwe; the Yellowknife belts in the Slave province of Canada; the Abitibi, Wawa, Wabigoon, and Quetico ...
- Quetico Provincial Park
- wilderness park, southwestern Ontario, Canada, west of Lake Superior and adjoining the U.S. border. Established in 1913, the park has an area of 1,832 sq mi (4,744 sq km). The ...
- Quetta
- (from the article "Quetta") Quetta district is bounded north by Pishin district, west by Afghanistan, east by Sibi district, and south by Kalat and Chagai districts. Physically it comprises a series of long valleys ...
- Quetta
- (from the article "Notable earthquakes in history") Quetta division (area 53,115 sq mi), constituted in 1955, comprises the districts Quetta, Pishin, Zhob, Loralai, Sibi, and Chagai. Mostly mountainous, it is bounded east by the Sulaiman Range and ...
- Quetta
- city, district, and division of Balochistan province, Pakistan. The name is a variation of kwatkot, a Pashto word meaning "fort," and the city is still locally known by its ancient ... [3 Related Articles]
- quetzal
- (from the article "quetzal") any of several birds belonging to the genus Pharomachrus of the trogon family. See trogon.ancient worshipbird...are often seen in heraldry; ...
- Quetzalcoatl
- (from Nahuatl quetzalli, "tail feather of the quetzal bird [Pharomachrus mocinno]," and coatl, "snake"), the Feathered Serpent, one of the major ... [9 Related Articles]
- Quetzalcoatl, Temple of
- (from the article "Teotihuacan") Along the southern part of the avenue lies the Ciudadela ("Citadel"), a large square courtyard covering 38 acres (15 hectares). Within the Citadel stands the Temple of Quetzalcoatl (the Feathered ...
- Quetzalcoatlus
- (from the article "Cretaceous Period") In the air, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs dominated. One pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, from the latest Cretaceous of what is now Texas (U.S.), had a wingspan of about ...
- Quetzaltenango
- city, southwestern Guatemala, 7,656 feet (2,334 metres) above sea level near the foot of the Santa Maria Volcano. The city's high elevation causes the temperature to drop below freezing in ... [2 Related Articles]
- queuing theory
- subject in operations research that deals with the problem of providing adequate but economical service facilities involving unpredictable numbers and times or similar sequences. In queuing theory the term customers ... [2 Related Articles]
- Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gomez de
- poet and master satirist of Spain's Golden Age, who, as a virtuoso of language, is unequaled in Spanish literature. [2 Related Articles]
- Quevedo, Juan de
- (from the article "Balboa, Vasco Nunez de") Relations between the two men were, from the first, troubled by the distrust and jealousy of the ailing, ill-natured Pedrarias toward the younger man. The first bishop of Darien, Juan ...
- Queyras
- high Alpine valley of the Guil River in Hautes-Alpes departement, in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of southwestern France. The Queyras extends from the confluence of the Guil and Durance rivers ...
- Quezon (y Molina), Manuel (Luis)
- Filipino statesman, leader of the independence movement, and first president of the Philippine Commonwealth established under U.S. tutelage in 1935. [3 Related Articles]
- Quezon City
- chartered city and capital of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976. The city is located immediately northeast of Manila, in central Luzon. Named for President Manuel Luis Quezon, who selected ... [5 Related Articles]
- Qufu
- city, Shandong sheng (province), eastern China. It lies 70 miles (110 km) south of Jinan. In ancient times Qufu was the capital of the small independent state ... [1 Related Articles]
- Qui Nhon
- city, central Vietnam. It is on the coast of the South China Sea at the entrance to the shallow 17-mile- (27-km-) long Qui Nhon Bay, which trends north-south. The port ...
- Quia Emptores, Statute of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...argument, which was resolved in the Statute of Quo Warranto of 1290. By the Statute of Mortmain of 1279 it was provided that no more land was to be given ...
- Quiapo
- (from the article "Manila") ...The districts developed from the original fortress city of Intramuros (Within Walls) and the 13 villages located outside its walls. The districts of Tondo, Santa Mesa, Binondo, Santa Cruz, Quiapo, ...
- Quibdo
- city, western Colombia, on the Atrato River, in the Pacific coastal plain. It receives more than 420 inches (10,700 mm) of rain per year, which probably exceeds that of any ...
- Quiberon Bay, Battle of
- (from the article "Hawke, Edward Hawke, 1st Baron") ...headed southeast from Brest along the French coast to pick up troops for the invasion. Six days later Hawke's fleet of some 23 ships caught up with Conflans' 21-vessel squadron ...
- Quiche
- Mayan Indians living in the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. The Quiche Maya had an advanced civilization in pre-Columbian times, with a high level of political and social organization. Archaeological remains ... [3 Related Articles]
- quiche
- (from the article "custard") Savoury custards are sometimes encountered, the most notable being quiche, a French tart with a filling of custard flavoured with cheese, onions, ham or bacon, or chopped vegetables.
- Quiche language
- an American Indian language of the Mayan family, spoken in the western highlands of Guatemala. It is most closely related to the Cakchiquel, Tzutujil, Sacapultee, and Sipacapa languages of central ... [1 Related Articles]
- Quicheberg, Samuel van
- (from the article "museums, history of") In 1565 Samuel van Quicheberg published a work on the nature of collections, advocating that they represent a systematic classification of all materials in the universe. His view reflects a ...
- Quicherat, Jules
- French historian and pioneering archaeologist who was a major force in French scholarship during the 19th century.
- Quichua
- (from the article "Ecuador") ...Shuar and other indigenous people successfully repelled European invaders; however, Jesuits and other missionaries were able to spread both Christianity and the Quichua language. The Spaniards used Quichua as a ...
- quick
- (from the article "dam") ...water takes place, causing an increase in pressures between the solid particles. When there is a high rate of seepage, the soil tends to develop differential pressures and reach a ...
- quick chess
- (from the article "chess") Early chess clocks often broke down after repeated use. Sturdier clocks, appearing after World War I, made possible a new form of casual chess, played at extremely fast speeds, such ...
- quick method
- (from the article "cake") ...and fat are creamed together, the egg added, and a mixture of flour, salt, and baking powder mixed in alternately with the liquid, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. In ...
- quick point
- (from the article "needlepoint") ...inch, the embroidery is called petit point; if the number of holes ranges from 7 or 8 to 16 squares per inch, it is called gros point; and, if the ...
- Quickly, Mistress
- (from the article "Merry Wives of Windsor, The") ...plot centres on the wooing of the Pages' charming daughter Anne. Doctor Caius, Slender, and Fenton are rivals for Anne's affection. To great comic effect, all three suitors use Caius's ...
- quicksand
- state in which saturated sand loses its supporting capacity and acquires the character of a liquid. Quicksand is usually found in hollows at the mouths of large rivers or along ...
- quickstep
- (from the article "dance, Western") ...dynamic, and passionate social dances from the New World. The turning dances of the 19th century gave way to such walking dances as the two-step, the one-step, or turkey trot, ...
- Quidde, Ludwig
- historian, politician, and one of the most prominent German pacifists of the early 20th century. He was the cowinner (with Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1927.
- Quidi Vidi Battery
- (from the article "St. John's") ...Europe. From the city's Lester's Field, the aviators Captain (later Sir) John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown took off in 1919 to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight to Clifden, ...
- Quidor, John
- American genre painter and artisan. In 17 of his approximately 35 paintings he depicted subjects from Washington Irving's stories: e.g., the paintings Ichabod Crane at the Van ...
- quiescent centre
- (from the article "plant development") The histogen theory is difficult to apply to some types of roots, and there has been uncertainty about the numbers of histogens. The discovery of the "quiescent centre" in the ...
- quiescent solar prominence
- (from the article "solar prominence") ...erupt quickly and have lifetimes lasting from several minutes to a few hours. They are associated with sunspot groups and, like these, are correlated in numbers and activity with the ...
- Quiet Revolution
- (from the article "Canada") France's interest in Canada increased during the 1960s, after the "Quiet Revolution" began in the province of Quebec with the election of a Liberal government led by Jean Lesage. French ...
- quiet storm
- (from the article "urban contemporary music") Responding to disco's waning popularity in the late 1970s, African-American-oriented radio created two new, nearly synonymous formats, retronuevo and quiet storm (the latter named after a Smokey Robinson hit); both ...
- Quietism
- a doctrine of Christian spirituality that, in general, holds that perfection consists in passivity (quiet) of the soul, in the suppression of human effort so that divine action may have ... [7 Related Articles]
- Quigley, Martin
- (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...the Production Code Administration. A prominent Catholic layman, Joseph I. Breen, was appointed to head the administration, and under Breen's auspices Father Daniel A. Lord, a Jesuit priest, and Martin ...
- Quiinaceae
- (from the article "Malpighiales") Quiinaceae contains 4 genera and 55 species of evergreen trees or, less often, lianas, all from the Neotropics. The main genera are Quiina (about 25 species) and Lacunaria (12 species). ...
- QuikClot
- (from the article "battlefield medicine") ...pressure dressings have been issued that can clot severe bleeding within seconds of being applied. These dressings include HemCon, which is made with chitosan (an extract from shrimp shells), and ...
- Quilico, Louis
- Canadian opera singer (b. Jan. 14, 1925, Montreal, Que.-d. July 15, 2000, Toronto, Ont.), was an acclaimed baritone who sang more than 80 opera roles during a career that spanned ...
- quill
- hollow, horny barrel of a bird's feather, used as the principal writing instrument from the 6th century until the mid-19th century, when steel pen points were introduced. The strongest quills ... [1 Related Articles]
- quill
- (from the article "hair") ...among the members of a species. Specialized hairs called vibrissae, or whiskers, serve as sensory organs for certain nocturnal animals. The specially modified hairs of the porcupine are called quills ...
- quill pen
- (from the article "drawing") If the selection of the reed pen already implies a formal statement of sorts, that of the quill pen opens up a far wider range of possibilities. Ever since the ...
- Quill, The
- (from the article "Sint Eustatius") ...wind is strong and the vegetation low. On the calm west (Caribbean) side grow tall palms and breadfruit trees and thick banana groves. At White Wall, on the southern slope ...
- Quillen, Daniel Gray
- American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for contributions to algebraic K-theory.
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas
- English poet, novelist, and anthologist noted for his compilation of The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1900; revised 1939) and The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910).
- quillwork
- type of embroidery done with the quills of a porcupine, or sometimes with bird feathers. This type of decoration was used by American Indians from Maine to Virginia and westward ... [3 Related Articles]
- quillwort
- any of about 150 species of plants in the family Isoetaceae, order Isoetales. Quillworts are spore-bearing lycophytes with grassy, spikelike leaves and are native mostly to swampy, cooler parts of ... [5 Related Articles]
- Quilmes
- cabecera (county seat) and partido (county), of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, southeast of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires
- quilombo
- (from the article "Alagoas") ...occupation of Brazil, in the 16th century. In the early part of the 17th century the Dutch obtained a foothold but were soon expelled. At about the same time,
- Quilon
- town, administrative headquarters of Quilon district, southern Kerala state, southwestern India. Quilon has existed for many centuries and was called Elancon by early travellers, Kaulam Mall by the Arabs, and ...
- quilt
- (from the article "bedspread") The kind of bedspread called counterpane, from the old French word contrepoinct, meaning "stitched quilt," was probably made of patched or applied pieces, quilted together. The quilts, or quilted bedspreads, ...
- quilt contest
- (from the article "quilting") Quilters have competed for recognition ever since the 19th-century county fair. National quilt contests of the 20th century, notably the 1933 World's Fair quilt contest sponsored by Sears, Roebuck and ...
- quilting
- sewing technique in which two layers of fabric, usually with an insulating interior layer, are sewn together with multiple rows of stitching. It has long been used for clothing in ... [4 Related Articles]
- Quimbaya
- (from the article "Native American art") ...each of which developed major cultures whose arts were equal to the demands of the raw material. Tairona gold, in Colombia, rates very high in design and craftsmanship, as does ...
- Quimby, Harriet
- American aviator, the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel.
- Quimby, Phineas Parkhurst
- U.S. exponent of mental healing who is generally regarded as the founder of the New Thought movement, a religio-metaphysical healing cult. [4 Related Articles]
- Quimper
- town, capital of Finistere departement, Bretagne region, France, and a port at the estuarine confluence of the Odet and Steir rivers. Once the ancient capital of the countship Cornouaille, it ...
- Quimper faience
- tin-enamelled earthenware produced by a factory at Loc Maria, a suburb of Quimper in Brittany, Fr. The factory was founded in 1690 by Jean-Baptiste Bosquet, a potter from Marseille who ...
- Quin, Henry
- (from the article "Tassie, James") ...known for reproductions of engraved gems and for portrait medallions (round or oval tablets bearing figures), both made from a hard, fine-textured substance that he developed with a physician, Henry ...
- Quin, James
- English actor whose Falstaff was considered the finest of his time.
- quinacridone
- (from the article "dye") A second group of pigments developed in the 20th century were the quinacridone compounds. Quinacridone itself was introduced in 1958. Its seven crystalline forms range in colour from yellowish-red to ...
- quinacrine
- (from the article "medicine, history of") ...was not completely satisfactory. Intensive research between World Wars I and II indicated that several synthetic compounds were more effective. The first of these to become available, in 1934, was ...
- Quinara
- region located on the Atlantic coast in southwestern Guinea-Bissau. The Rio Grande de Buba flows east-west through the centre of the region and empties into the Atlantic; most of the ...
- quinarius
- (from the article "coin") ...currency; together with its fractions, it was now always struck and not cast. The value of the denarius in terms of bronze was altered, being revalued about 133 at 16 ...
- quinary number system
- (from the article "numerals and numeral systems") ...among some African Pygmies, and in various South American tribes. The indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego and the South American continent use number systems with bases three and four. ...
- Quinault, Philippe
- (from the article "Lully, Jean-Baptiste") ...in such works as Le Mariage force, La Princesse d'Elide, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. From 1672 until the time of his death he worked with the librettist Philippe Quinault on ...
- quinazoline
- (from the article "mimicry") ...particularly insects, are notable for the production of excretory substances that serve as means of defense. Millipedes of the family Glomeridae, for example, secrete a bitter substance (a quinazoline) that ...
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