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- fruit tree of the genus Cydonia, of the rose family (Rosaceae). The much-branched shrubs or small trees have entire leaves with small stipules and bear large, solitary, white or pink ... [2 Related Articles]
- quinceanera
- Mexican celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, marking her passage from childhood to adulthood. The traditional quinceanera is both a religious and a social event that emphasizes ... [1 Related Articles]
- quincunx
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...on the arms of the cross, producing a true five-domed type such as St. Mark's Cathedral at Venice, or placed above the eastern and western extremities of the side aisles, ...
- quincunx
- (from the article "probability and statistics") ...biological evolution, since Darwin's theory was about natural selection acting on natural diversity. A figure from Galton's 1877 paper on breeding sweet peas shows a physical model, now known as ...
- 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 Market
- (from the article "Parris, Alexander") During the second half of the 20th century, the renovation of Boston's Faneuil Hall district brought attention to Parris' Quincy Market (1825), which was reopened as a farmers' market. The ...
- 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 ...
- Quincy, Quatremere de
- (from the article "David, Jacques-Louis") ...interested in the Neoclassical doctrines that had been developed in Rome by, among others, the German painter Anton Raphael Mengs and the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann. In the company ...
- Quindaro
- (from the article "Kansas City") ...a first-class city on March 6, 1886, taking the name Kansas City. Rosedale, also south of the river and the seat of the University of Kansas Medical Center, was annexed ...
- Quindio
- departamento, west-central Colombia, on the western slopes of the Andean Cordillera Central. The smallest department in the nation, it is located in one of Colombia's leading coffee-producing regions. Bananas, corn ...
- Quindlen, Anna
- In September 1994 New York Times syndicated columnist Anna Quindlen--stating that when she got comfortable in a job it was time to move on to the next challenge--announced that at ...
- Quine's criterion of ontological commitment
- (from the article "logic, philosophy of") ...of existence is connected with the question of what entities a theory commits its holder to or what its "ontology" is. The "predicate of existence" just mentioned recalls Quine's criterion ...
- Quine, Robert
- American guitarist (b. Dec. 30, 1942, Akron, Ohio-d. found dead May 31, 2004, New York, N.Y.), was a distinctive stylist best remembered for his contribution as a member of the ...
- 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. [22 Related Articles]
- Quinet, Edgar
- French poet, historian, and political philosopher who made a significant contribution to the developing tradition of liberalism in France. [1 Related Articles]
- Quinhamel
- (from the article "Biombo") region located in western Guinea-Bissau. Biombo region surrounds (but does not administratively include) Bissau, the national capital. The regional capital is located at Quinhamel.
- quinhydrone electrode
- (from the article "quinone") ...marked by a measurable electrical potential of a magnitude that depends upon the hydrogen ion concentration of the reaction medium and the benzoquinone and hydroquinone concentrations. The so-called quinhydrone electrode, ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- quiniela
- (from the article "horse racing") ...pools. The customary pools are win, place, and show, and there are such specialty wagers as the daily double (winners of the first two races), perfecta (win and place winners ...
- 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 ... [11 Related Articles]
- 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). ... [9 Related Articles]
- Quinlan, Joseph
- U.S. "right-to-die" advocate who spearheaded the movement that tackled the ethical, legal, theological, and medical issues in prolonging the lives of the terminally ill after his daughter Karen Ann slipped ...
- Quinlan, Karen Ann
- (from the article "health law") In 1976 these same questions were confronted by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the landmark case of Karen Ann Quinlan. Her parents requested that physicians remove the mechanical ventilator ...
- Quinn, Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca
- Mexican-born American actor (b. April 21, 1915, Chihuahua, Mex.-d. June 3, 2001, Boston, Mass.), appeared in more than 150 films but was universally identified with one role especially-the earthy full-of-life ... [3 Related Articles]
- Quinney, Richard
- American philosopher and criminologist known for his critical philosophical approach to criminal justice research. Quinney followed a Marxist approach in citing social inequities as the root of crime. Criminal behaviour, ...
- quinoa
- (from the article "Ancient Grains") Amaranth, extolled as an elixir by the Aztecs, showed up in European and North American cereals, breads, and crackers, and quinoa, a staple of the Inca Empire, emerged as an ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- quinolone
- (from the article "antibiotic") ...drugs are the cephalosporins. Related to penicillins, they are produced by the mold Cephalosporium acremonium. A class of antibodies first developed in the 1960s, called quinolones, interrupt ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- quinsy
- (from the article "tonsillitis") ...sinuses, and ears or downward into the larynx, trachea, and bronchi. Locally, virulent bacteria may spread from the infected tonsil to the adjoining tissues, resulting in a peritonsillar abscess. More ...
- Quintana Roo
- estado (state), southeastern Mexico, on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula. Its northern shore is on the Yucatan Channel, a passage between the Gulf of Mexico ... [1 Related Articles]
- Quintana, Manuel
- (from the article "Argentina") ...National Autonomist Party suffered because of the split. In 1904 Roca was barely able to avoid being succeeded in office by Pellegrini; moreover, the candidate Roca finally put into the ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 cofounder 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- quintet
- a musical composition for five instruments or voices; also, a group of five musicians performing such a composition. [1 Related Articles]
- quintic equation
- (from the article "Galois, Evariste") ...in their own right and studying permutations (a change in an ordered arrangement) of them. In 1799 the Italian mathematician Paolo Ruffini attempted to prove the impossibility of solving the ...
- Quintilian
- Latin teacher and writer whose work on rhetoric, Institutio oratoria, is a major contribution to educational theory and literary criticism. [9 Related Articles]
- Quintillus
- 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 ...
- Quintodecimans
- (from the article "calendar") ...later exacerbated by another difficulty caused by the Jewish reckoning of a day from sunset to sunset. The question arose of how the evening of the 14th day should be ...
- Quinton, Amelia Stone
- organizer of American Indian reform in the United States.
- Quintuple Alliance
- (from the article "Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of") ...of their armies of occupation by November 30. This offer was accepted. On October 9 a treaty was signed settling the claims against France as a result of the wars. ...
- quintuplet
- (from the article "multiple birth") ...developed as a singleton (the three constituting DZ triplets); or from three separate zygotes (trizygotic, or TZ, triplets). Similarly, quadruplets may originate from one up to four zygotes, and quintuplets ...
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Quirauk Mountain
- (from the article "South Mountain") northernmost section of the Blue Ridge in the Appalachian Mountains, extending southwestward for 65 miles (105 km) from southern Pennsylvania to northern Virginia, U.S. Quirauk Mountain (2,145 feet [654 m]) ...
- Quirigua
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...baroque figures of gods, and its stelae and other monuments are carved with an extraordinary virtuosity. Copan also has one of the most perfectly preserved ball courts in Meso-America. Quirigua ...
- Quirinal
- (from the article "Rome") Like much of the Esquiline, the Viminal and Quirinal lie in the heart of modern Rome. Heavily built upon and sclerotic with traffic, the former seems almost flattened under the ...
- Quirinal Palace
- (from the article "Gregory XIII") Gregory's building program, including the Quirinal Palace in Rome, along with his political ventures, together exhausted the papal treasury, causing serious repercussions in the Papal States.contribution of Ingres
- Quirinale, Piazza
- (from the article "Rome") ...Roman families built their homes in this location. The Palazzo Colonna, at the foot of the hill near the Corso, is an art gallery open to the public; and its ...
- Quirino, Elpidio
- political leader and second president of the independent Republic of the Philippines. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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, Elena
- (from the article "Spanish literature") ...books and received the prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1993. El hereje (1998; The Heretic), perhaps his masterpiece, depicts the abuse of power by the Spanish Inquisition. Elena Quiroga, a conscientious ...
- 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, Jorge
- (from the article "Bolivia") ...Meanwhile, the jockeying to succeed Rodriguez got under way. The front-runners were socialist Evo Morales, a key protest leader who had placed second in the 2002 presidential election, and Jorge ...
- Quiroga, Juan Facundo
- (from the article "Argentina") ...the porteno (native of Buenos Aires) Bernardino Rivadavia as its first occupant. Civil war flared up in the interior provinces, soon dominated by Juan Facundo Quiroga-a caudillo ...
- Quiroga, Vasco de
- Spanish bishop, social reformer, and humanist educator who founded the Colegio de San Nicolas Obisbo in colonial Mexico. [1 Related Articles]
- Quisenberry, Daniel Raymond
- American baseball player who was known for his wit in addition to his submarine-style pitches as a star reliever for the Kansas City Royals; during his 12-year American League career, ...
- 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." [4 Related Articles]
- Quispe Huanca, Felipe
- (from the article "Bolivia") ...appeared increasingly at odds. Mesa received a degree of support from powerful peasant leader Evo Morales Ayma, who approved the idea of the referendum while advocating rejection of some questions. ...
- Quisqualis
- (from the article "Myrtales") ...bear opposite, simple, and entire leaves, but there is considerable variation in leaf arrangement between families and within species or even individuals. For example, within a single genus, Quisqualis (family ...
- Quisquis
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") Atahuallpa's armies, led by the able generals Quisquis (Kizkiz) and Challcuchima (Challku-chima), marched south and won a series of decisive victories at Cajamarca, Bombon, and Ayacucho. As they moved southward, ...
- Quit India movement
- (from the article "India") ...merely to convey the British offer, not to modify it or negotiate a new formula. He flew home empty-handed in less than a month, and soon afterward Gandhi planned his ...
- quite
- (from the article "bullfighting") ...forceful charges of the horse, the matador assigned to this bull will rush into the ring, attracting the bull's attention away from the picadors with cape passes called
- Quito
- city and capital of Ecuador. It is situated on the lower slopes of the volcano Pichincha, which last erupted in 1666, in a narrow Andean valley at an elevation of ... [7 Related Articles]
- quiver
- (from the article "archery") ...energy required to draw back an arrow to the fullest-varies from 14 to 23 kg (30 to 50 pounds) for men and from 9 to 18 kg (20 to 40 ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Qujialing culture
- (from the article "China") In the middle and lower Yangtze River valley during the 4th and 3rd millennia, the Daxi and Qujialing cultures shared a significant number of traits, including rice production, ring-footed vessels, ...
- Quli Qutb Shah
- (from the article "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, ...
- Qulmuhammed-oghli, Abdulhekim
- (from the article "Turkmenistan") ...Quli (Magtim Guli), it underwent a burst of growth when the literary publications of the new republic began to appear in the late 1920s and '30s. Outstanding graduates of Bukharan ...
- quma
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...qarid and rajaz, were added several that utilized the colloquial form of the Arabic language (the quma, for example, and the
- 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) ...
- Qumran community
- (from the article "Qumran") ...were first discovered. Excavations (since 1949) at a site called Khirbet Qumran (Arabic: "Qumran Ruins"), less than a mile from the sea and north of the waterway Wadi Qumran, have ...
- 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 ...
- Qungrat dynasty
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...In the 1700s the basins of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya passed under the control of three Uzbek khanates claiming legitimacy in their descent from Genghis Khan. These were, ...
- Quo Warranto, statute of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...set up under the Statute of Gloucester of 1278 the magnates were asked by what warrant they claimed rights of jurisdiction and other franchises. This created much argument, which was ...
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Quoddy Head State Park
- (from the article "Lubec") ...incorporated in 1811. It was named for Lubeck, Germany. Lubec has developed as a commercial centre for a resort and fishing area; sardines and locally farmed salmon are processed there. ...
- quodlibet
- 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 different song texts in ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- quokka
- (from the article "quokka") marsupial mammal, a species of wallaby (q.v.).
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- Quonset Point
- (from the article "North Kingstown") ...1686-89 it was called Rochester. In 1722-23 it was divided into North Kingstown and South Kingstown. North Kingstown includes the villages of Allenton, Davisville, Hamilton, Lafayette, Quonset Point, Saunderstown, Slocum, ...
- quorum sensing
- (from the article "bacteria") ...the individual state or the planktonic state. Bacteria that have aggregated into biofilms can communicate information about population size and metabolic state. This type of communication is called quorum sensing ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- quota sampling
- (from the article "public opinion") ...consists of a large population that is not homogeneous. This was the challenge faced by market and opinion researchers when they first started to conduct large-scale surveys. Their solution was ...
- quota subscription
- (from the article "International Monetary Fund") Each member contributes a sum of money called a quota subscription. Quotas are reviewed every five years and are based on each country's wealth and economic performance-the richer the country, ...
- quotation mark
- (from the article "punctuation") ...the first time the view that clarification of syntax is the main object of punctuation. By the end of the 17th century the various marks had received their modern names, ...
- quotient
- (from the article "arithmetic") ...antecedents. This characteristic changes drastically, however, as soon as division is introduced. Performing division (its symbol ÷, read "divided by") leads to results, called quotients or fractions, which surprisingly include ...
- Qur'an
- the sacred scripture of Islam and, for all Muslims, the very word of God, revealed through the agency of the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad. Although most modern Muslims ... [59 Related Articles]
- Qur'anic school
- (from the article "education") ...Africa in the 9th and 10th centuries and western Africa in the 11th. It introduced the Arabic script, and, because knowledge of the Qur'an became an important religious requirement, Qur'anic ...
- Quray, Ahmad
- (from the article "Israel") ...Bank population at 1,712,000 and that of the Gaza Strip at 1,144,000 | Principal administrative centres: Ram Allah and Gaza | Head of government: President Mahmoud Abbas, assisted by Prime ...
- 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 ... [9 Related Articles]
- Qurayyat, 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 ...
- Qurayzah, Banu
- (from the article "Muhammad") When it was discovered that members of the Jewish tribe Qurayzah had been complicit with the enemy during the Battle of the Ditch, Muhammad turned against them. The Qurayzah men ...
- qurb
- (from the article "hal") ...of muraqabah ("watching") fills the Sufi with either fear or joy according to the aspect of God revealed to him. (2) The hal of qurb ("nearness") is a state that ...
- qurban
- (from the article "Amhara") Descent is reckoned patrilineally, and married couples usually reside near the husband's home. The Amhara practice three types of marriage: kal kidan, qurban, and damoz. Kal kidan (also called serat ...
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