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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. Quebecers or Quebecois? As a result of the high stakes of the ongoing debate regarding the political status of Quebec and because so much of that discussion depends on how the concept of a nation is defined, even the terms used to refer to some of the key parties are contentious. The term ... Quechan California Indian people of the fertile Colorado River valley who, together with the Mojave and other groups of the region (collectively known as River Yumans), shared some of the traditions of the Southwest Indians. They lived in riverside hamlets, and among the structures they built were houses consisting of log ... 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 the Inca) and which later became the lingua franca of the Spanish and Indians throughout the Andes. 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 probably spoken in a small area in the southern Peruvian highlands until about 1450; after that their geographical range was ... 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 as a fortress by Henry I (the Fowler), it became a favourite residence of the Saxon emperors, and in 968 Otto I founded ... Queeg, Captain fictional character, the unstable skipper of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine in The Caine Mutiny (1951) by Herman Wouk. The character was memorably portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in a film also entitled The Caine Mutiny (1954). 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 crafted an elaborate blend of layered guitar work by virtuoso Brian May and overdubbed vocal harmonies enlivened by the flamboyant ... 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 Mount Kirkpatrick. The mountain range rises between the Dry Valleys and Queen Maud Range of the Antarctic Mountains and is ... 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 George I ascended the throne. The period also has been called "the age of walnut" because that wood was used ... 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 Kent Island, which is linked across the bay to Anne Arundel county by the William Preston Lane, Jr., Memorial Bridge ... 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 has divided leaves, umbels (flat-topped clusters) of white or pink flowers with a single dark-purple flower in the centre, an ... 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 manager, and the playwright Thomas Heywood wrote works exclusively for Queen Anne's Men. The company's varied repertoire included comedies, dramas, ... 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 Succession in Europe. British military aid to the colonists was devoted mainly to defense of the area around Charleston, S.C., ... 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 miles (9,596 square km), the islands (about 150 in number) are separated from Alaska, mainland British Columbia, and Vancouver Island ... 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 sound feeds into a series of straits that once were avenues followed by the continental glaciers as they pushed out ... Queen Elizabeth any one of three ships belonging to the British Cunard Line that successfully crossed over from the age of the transatlantic ocean liner to the age of the global cruise ship. Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee: Year in Review 2013 On Feb. 6, 2012, Queen Elizabeth II reached the 60th anniversary of her accession to the British throne, a milestone that was followed in June (to coincide with her June 2, 1953, coronation) by four days of national celebration, including two days' public holiday, to formally commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. ... Queen Elizabeth Islands part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, comprising all the islands north of latitude 7430' N, including the Parry and Sverdrup island groups. The islands, the largest of which are Ellesmere, Melville, Devon, and Axel Heiberg, have a total land area of more than 150,000 square miles (390,000 square km). They ... Queen Elizabeth National Park national park located in 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 Ruwenzori Mountains. The park is located within the Western Rift Valley, and its landscape is dotted with volcanic ... 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. Queen Mab poem in nine cantos by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1813. Shelley's first major poem-written in blank verse-is a utopian political epic that exposes as social evils such institutions as monarchy, commerce, and religion and that describes a visionary future in which humanity is liberated from all such vices. Queen ... 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. A barren plateau covered by an ice sheet up to 1.5 miles (2.4 km) thick, it has a mountainous coastal ... 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 Amundsen, it was named for the queen of Norway. The rugged, glacier-studded range, with several peaks more than 13,000 feet ... Queen of Hearts fictional character, the tyrannical monarch in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll. Queen of Spades, The classic short story by Aleksandr Pushkin, published in 1834 as "Pikovaya dama." 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 monarch") and thus traveled wherever the king went. King's Bench heard cases that concerned the sovereign or cases affecting great ... 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 destroyed during an air raid in 1940. The gallery was established to make the Royal Collection more accessible; approximately three ... 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 church's control over the school was gradually cut back and was eliminated by law in 1912, at which time the ... Queen, Ellery American cousins who were coauthors of a series of more than 35 detective novels featuring a character named Ellery Queen. 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 the island from the junction of the East River and Long Island Sound to the Atlantic Ocean. The first settlement ... 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 and some royal children of the 19th and 20th dynasties (1292-1075 BC). The queens' necropolis is located about 1.5 miles ... 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 southwestern Pacific Ocean), to the south by New South Wales, to the southwest by South Australia, and to the west ... 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 a crown. The flag may be described as a defaced Blue Ensign. Queenston Delta Late Ordovician wedge of sediments that spread across an extensive area of northeastern North America and was thickest in New York and Quebec (the Late Ordovician Period occurred from 461 million to 444 million years ago). The Queenston Delta was produced as sediments that were eroded from a rising landmass ... 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 force of about 3,100 U.S. militia, sent advance units across the Niagara River. They established themselves on the steep escarpment ... 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 town was named for Queen Victoria and was proclaimed a municipality in 1907. Queenstown lies on the Lyell Highway, about ... 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 Cathcart (1853), as a precaution against attack. Queenstown is a regional administrative and cultural centre with state educational institutions, particularly ... Queequeg fictional character, a tattooed South Sea Islander and onetime cannibal who is a harpooner aboard the ship Pequod, in the novel Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville. 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 in West African slaves, 150,000 of whom had arrived in Brazil in 1847-49. The government of the Brazilian emperor Pedro ... 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). 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 roosting, breaks branches. Efforts to control quelea populations with poisons, napalm, pathogens, and electronic devices have had poor success; but ... 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 founded by the Portuguese as a trading station in 1544 and in the 18th and 19th centuries had a slave ... 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 is the principal island of a group of 12, the Quemoy (Chin-men) Islands, which constitute Chin-men hsien (county). While most ... 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 properties associated with a crystalline structure or phase distribution that would be lost upon slow cooling. The technique is commonly ... Queneau, Raymond French author who produced some of the most important prose and poetry of the mid-20th century. Quennell, Sir Peter English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, and critic, a wide-ranging man of letters who was an authority on Lord Byron. Quenstedt, Friedrich August German mineralogist and paleontologist. 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 struggled to create a new outlook in literature and society. Quentin Durward novel of adventure and romance by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1823. The novel was a popular success and solidified Scott's reputation as a stirring writer. The novel is set in 15th-century France, where the title character saves the life of Louis XI, protects and falls in love with Countess ...