Julio Cortázar: …Glenda, y otros relatos (1981; We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales). Cortázar also wrote poetry and plays and published numerous volumes of essays.

bullfighting: Act three: …that refuses to leave its querencia, that area of the ring where it feels emboldened and which it considers a safe haven. As Ernest Hemingway wrote,

Querétaro, estado (state), central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of San Luis Potosí to the north and northeast, Hidalgo and México to the southeast, Michoacán to the southwest, and Guanajuato to the west. The capital is the city of Querétaro (Santiago de Querétaro). Querétaro, one of the

Querétaro, city, capital of Querétaro estado (state), central Mexico. Situated on the Mexican Plateau at an elevation of about 6,100 feet (1,860 meters) above sea level, it is some 130 miles (210 km) northwest of Mexico City. Querétaro is considered an excellent example of a Spanish colonial city;

Querétaro: …most striking features is an aqueduct built in the 1720s and ’30s to bring in water from nearby springs. Area 4,420 square miles (11,449 square km). Pop. (2020) 2,368,467.

Querétaro, estado (state), central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of San Luis Potosí to the north and northeast, Hidalgo and México to the southeast, Michoacán to the southwest, and Guanajuato to the west. The capital is the city of Querétaro (Santiago de Querétaro). Querétaro, one of the

Querétaro: The Autonomous University of Querétaro (1951) and the Regional Museum of Querétaro (1936) are located in the city. Querétaro lies at the junction of major railway lines to Mexico City, to which it is also linked by highway and air. Pop. (2010) 626,495; metro. area, 1,087,025;…

Mexico: French intervention: …most of his troops—9,000 men—at Querétaro, a city loyal to the imperial cause. On May 5, 1867, the republican forces laid siege, initially with 32,000 men, later with an additional 10,000. By May 14 the starving imperialist force, reduced to about 5,000, had decided to withdraw and take a stand…

Calle 13: …created a stir with “Querido FBI” (“Dear FBI”), a poignant criticism of the U.S. government aired in the wake of the FBI’s killing that September of Puerto Rican pro-independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Toward the end of 2005 the brothers released their first album, Calle 13, which included “Atrévete-te-te”…

Israël Querido was a Dutch novelist of the naturalist movement. After being employed as a diamond worker, Querido decided to live in close contact with the working classes. By minutely observing them, he was able to reproduce exactly their way of life and their speech style in, for example, De

George Berkeley: Years as bishop of Cloyne: Two major works stand out, The Querist and Siris. The Querist, published in three parts from 1735 to 1737, deals with basic economics—credit, demand, industry, and “the true idea of money”—and with special problems, such as banking, currency, luxury, and the wool trade. The final query puts the central question,…

quern, ancient device used for dehusking and grinding grains. The basic unit of a quern consists of two stones that rub against each other, crushing the grains placed in between them. The use of querns dates back to the early Neolithic period, or the New Stone Age (10,000 to 3,000 ʙᴄᴇ), coinciding

André Duchesne was a historian and geographer, sometimes called the father of French history, who was the first to make critical collections of sources for national histories. Duchesne was educated at Loudun and Paris and devoted his early years to studies in history and geography. His first work,

Marcel Roland de Quervain was a Swiss glaciologist known for his fundamental work on the metamorphism and physical properties of snow. Quervain was assistant director (1943–50) and director (from 1950 until his retirement in 1980) of the Swiss Snow and Avalanche Research Institute. He offered major

query language, a computer programming language used to retrieve information from a database. 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 string, extension of a website’s uniform resource locator (URL) that sends additional information to a database. The information within the parameters is sent in the form of key-value pairs (sometimes referred to as field-value pairs, name-value pairs, or attribute-value pairs). The key is a

The Decemberists: …1968, Brainerd, Minnesota), and bassist Nate Query (b. September 5, 1973, Bellevue, Washington).

information processing: Query languages: The technique, referred to as query-by-example (or QBE), displays an empty tabular form and expects the searcher to enter the search specifications into appropriate columns. The program then constructs an SQL-type query from the table and executes it.

Costa Rica: Costa Rica in the 21st century: …to face the second-place finisher, Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada, a novelist who served as labour minister in the PAC government of Solís, in a runoff election in April. Opinion polling predicted a close second-round contest, but, when the votes were counted, Quesada trounced Muñoz by capturing some three-fifths of the…

Vicente Fox is a Mexican businessman and politician who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. His term in office marked the end of 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Fox, the second of nine children, was raised on a 1,100-acre (445-hectare) ranch in

C.K. Stead: His later poetry collections include Quesada: Poems 1972–1974 (1975), Paris (1984), Between (1988), Voices (1990), Straw into Gold: Poems New and Selected (1997), The Right Thing (2000), and The Red Tram (2004). Stead composed the poems in The

gastronomy: Latin American: Quesadillas are tortillas folded over a filling of meat, beans, cheese, or vegetables. Corn is also used in tamales, which are steamed, filled corn husks.

François Quesnay was a French economist and intellectual leader of the physiocrats, the first systematic school of political economy. Quesnay served as the consulting physician to King Louis XV at Versailles. Late in life he developed an interest in economics, publishing his first book on the

Abraham Duquesne, marquis du Quesne was a French naval officer during the administrations of Richelieu and Colbert who decisively defeated the combined fleets of Spain and Holland in 1676. Duquesne served as a captain in the royal navy under two great commanders, Henri d’Escoubleau de Sourdis and

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 1864) were named for Jules Maurice Quesnelle, who accompanied Simon Fraser’s exploring party in

Canadian literature: After the British conquest, 1763–1830: …songs of two French immigrants, Joseph Quesnel and Joseph Mermet. Quesnel, French Canada’s first significant writer, also composed dramatic texts for amateur actors; his comedy Colas et Colinette (1808; Eng. trans. Colas et Colinette), first acted on stage in 1790, was revived as a radio play in 1968.

Pasquier Quesnel was a 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 they were papally condemned. Quesnel joined the French Oratory

assistive technology: Benefits of assistive technology: The Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology (QUEST) collects information about the benefits of assistive technology and attempts to measure individuals’ satisfaction with their devices. QUEST uses different types of variables to measure user satisfaction, including those that take into account the environment, pertinent…

Christa Wolf: (1968; The Quest for Christa T.) concerns an ordinary woman who questions her socialist beliefs and life in a socialist state and then dies prematurely of leukemia. Though well received by Western critics, the novel was severely attacked by the East German Writers’ Congress, and its…

A.J.A. Symons: …his brilliant and unconventional biography The Quest for Corvo (1934).

André Maurois: …Recherche de Marcel Proust (1949; The Quest for Proust) is considered his finest biography.

Colin Wilson: of Murder (1970), Starseekers (1980), The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1981), and Poltergeist! (1981).

Robert Cooley Angell: …on the March (1969); and The Quest for World Order (1979).

Albert Schweitzer: …Von Reimarus zu Wrede (1906; The Quest of the Historical Jesus) established him as a world figure in theological studies. In this and other works he stressed the eschatological views (concerned with the consummation of history) of Jesus and St. Paul, asserting that their attitudes were formed by expectation of…

Martha Quest, fictional protagonist of five semiautobiographical novels by Doris Lessing. Called the Children of Violence series, the novels that trace Martha’s life from girlhood to middle age are Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and

Italian literature: Luigi Pirandello: …si recita a soggetto (1930; Tonight We Improvise). This was a way of transferring the dissociation of reality from the plane of content to that of form, thereby achieving an almost perfect unity between ideas and dramatic structure. Pirandello’s plays, including perhaps his best, Enrico IV (1922; Henry IV), often…

Adela Quested, fictional character, a sexually repressed Englishwoman who falsely accuses an Indian physician of attempted rape, in the novel A Passage to India (1924) by E.M.

Athabaskan language family: Wh- questions are often formed with in situ wh- question words—i.e., with the wh- word in the position expected of a corresponding noun or adverbial. For example, the Tsek’ene question Tlįį ma nàghìì’àdla? ‘Whom did the dog bite?” (tlįį ‘dog’ + ma ‘whom’ + nàghìì’àdla ‘he/she/it…

Aleksandar Hemon: …was published in the collection The Question of Bruno in 2000, the same year Hemon became an American citizen. Like much of Hemon’s published work, these stories were largely informed by Hemon’s own immigrant experience in Chicago. Hemon brought back Jozef Pronek, the protagonist from his earlier novella, with Nowhere…

Karl Jaspers: Postwar development of thought: …political works, Die Schuldfrage (1946; The Question of German Guilt, 1947), he stated that whoever had participated actively in the preparation or execution of war crimes and crimes against humanity was morally guilty. Those, however, who passively tolerated these happenings because they did not want to become victims of Nazism…

David Rabe: …dramas about disillusionment in Hollywood; A Question of Mercy (1998); The Dog Problem (2002); The Black Monk (2004), based on a Chekhov short story; An Early History of Fire (first performed 2012); and Visiting Edna (2016).

Bessie Emery Head: A Question of Power (1973) is a frankly autobiographical account of disorientation and paranoia in which the heroine survives by sheer force of will. The Collector of Treasures (1977), a volume of short fiction, includes brief vignettes of traditional Botswanan village life, macabre tales of…

War of the Pacific: …Arica was known as the Question of the Pacific. Finally, in 1929, through the mediation of the United States, an accord was reached by which Chile kept Arica; Peru reacquired Tacna and received $6 million indemnity and other concessions.

Anthony Powell: In 1951 he published A Question of Upbringing, the first part of his ambitious 12-part cycle of novels. The series’ first-person narrative reflects Powell’s own outlook and experiences; he observes and describes English upper- and middle-class society in the decades before and after World War II with wit and…

House of Commons: Functions and operation: …the full House is the question period, which is held on a regular basis. During this period, members can require government ministers to answer questions regarding their departments; it thus provides the opposition with an opportunity to attack government policy and to raise issues on which the government may be…

applied logic: Logic of questions and answers: The logic of questions and answers, also known as erotetic logic, can be approached in different ways. The most general approach treats it as a branch of epistemic logic. The connection is mediated by what are known as the “desiderata”…

forensic science: Questioned-document analysis: Questioned-document analysis involves a number of areas of forensic inquiry. It is an apprenticeship field, requiring years of practice and work with an experienced examiner. The most familiar area of questioned-document examination is handwriting analysis. Here the examiner is called upon to determine…

forensic science: Questioned-document analysis: Questioned-document analysis involves a number of areas of forensic inquiry. It is an apprenticeship field, requiring years of practice and work with an experienced examiner. The most familiar area of questioned-document examination is handwriting analysis. Here the examiner is called upon to determine…

examination, in law, the interrogation of a witness by attorneys or by a judge. In Anglo-American proceedings an examination usually begins with direct examination (called examination in chief in England) by the party who called the witness. After direct examination the attorney for the other party

Japan: The establishment of warrior government: …addition, a judicial board, the Monchūjo, was set up to handle lawsuits and appeals. These institutions represent the emergence of Yoritomo’s regime (the term bakufu was used only later in retrospect).

Gallant Fox: 1930: Triple Crown: …when only two other horses, Questionnaire and Swinfield, were entered in the race. The capacity crowd of 40,000 sent Gallant Fox off at 8–5 odds and Whichone at 4–5, for there still was doubt among the experts that Gallant Fox had faced and beaten serious competition.

public opinion: Phrasing of questions: 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 must be arranged in a logical order, and so on. Even experienced researchers find it…

Billy Collins: …1990, when his manuscript for Questions About Angels (1991) was selected for the National Poetry Series, a program that sponsors the publication of deserving books of poetry. The Art of Drowning (1995), which won critical notice for its wry imagery and lucid intelligence, contributed to his growing reputation. Upon the…

Through illness, community and national lockdowns, and economic downturn, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of billions of people worldwide. At Britannica we have been fielding questions about the pandemic from readers since the beginning of the pandemic, and we’ve had a few questions of

Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Travel, Geography III, and The Complete Poems: ” Questions of Travel (1965) and Geography III (1976) offer spare, powerful meditations on the need for self-exploration, on the value of art (especially poetry) in human life, and on human responsibility in a chaotic world. The latter collection includes some of Bishop’s best-known poems, among…

applied logic: Logic of questions and answers: The logic of questions and answers, also known as erotetic logic, can be approached in different ways. The most general approach treats it as a branch of epistemic logic. The connection is mediated by what are known as the “desiderata”…

the Roots: …1987 by Black Thought and Questlove—the only members who remained part of the band throughout its history—when they met as students at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Originally calling themselves the Square Roots, they began performing on Philadelphia street corners. With the addition of rapper…

quaestor, the lowest-ranking regular magistrate in ancient Rome, whose traditional responsibility was the treasury. During the royal period, the kings appointed quaestores parricidii (quaestors with judicial powers) to handle cases of murder. With the advent of the republic in the year 509 bce,

Italy: Regional and local government: …province and communes; and the questore, who is the provincial chief of the state-run police.

Adolphe Quetelet was a Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena. From 1819 Quetelet lectured at the Brussels Athenaeum, military college, and museum. In 1823 he went to Paris to study

Adolphe Quetelet was a Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena. From 1819 Quetelet lectured at the Brussels Athenaeum, military college, and museum. In 1823 he went to Paris to study

Precambrian: Age and occurrence of greenstone-granite belts: Wawa, Wabigoon, and Quetico belts of the Superior province of Canada; the Dharwar belts in India; and the Warrawoona and Yilgarn belts in Australia.

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 region was formerly the site of a major east–west route used by Indians, explorers, and traders.

Cuitláhuac was the 10th Aztec ruler, who succeeded his brother Montezuma II in June 1520. Cuitláhuac rebelled against the Spanish occupation of Tenochtitlán, decimating Hernán Cortés’ forces in their retreat from the city on the noche triste (Spanish: “sad night”) of June 30, 1520. During his

Quetta: Quetta district is bounded to the north by Pishīn district, to the west by Afghanistan, to the east by Ziārat and Harnāi districts, and to the south by Mastung and Nūshki districts. Quetta district, whose area has been reduced by the government as the population…

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 name of Shāl or Shālkot. The city is the divisional and district headquarters and is an important marketing

Quetta: Quetta division, first constituted in 1955 and reorganized several times, comprises the districts Quetta, Pishīn, and Qilla Abdullah. It is bounded to the east by Zhob division and to the north by the Toba Kākar Range, separating it from Afghanistan. South of Chaman (near the…

quetzal, (genus Pharomachrus), any of five species of colourful birds belonging to the genus Pharomachrus of the trogon family (Trogonidae). All five species—the white-tipped quetzal (P. fulgidus), the crested quetzal (P. antisianus), the golden-headed quetzal (P. auriceps), the resplendent quetzal

Quetzalcóatl, (from Nahuatl quetzalli, “tail feather of the quetzal bird [Pharomachrus mocinno],” and coatl, “snake”), the Feathered Serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon. Representations of a feathered snake occur as early as the Teotihuacán civilization (3rd to 8th

Teotihuacán: …Citadel stands the Temple of Quetzalcóatl (the Feathered Serpent) in the form of a truncated pyramid; projecting from its ornately decorated walls are numerous stone heads of the deity. The temple walls were once painted in hematite red. Excavations of the Citadel were first carried out during the period 1917–20.…

Quetzalcoatlus, genus made up of two species of giant pterosaurs classified in the family Azhdarchidae, which contains some of the largest known flying animals. Both species lived during the Maastrichtian Age (72.1 million to 66 million years ago) of the Cretaceous Period. One of them,

Quetzaltenango, city, southwestern Guatemala, located 7,656 feet (2,334 meters) above sea level near the foot of the Santa María Volcano. It is also known by its Indigenous K’iche’ Maya name, Xelajú, though it is most commonly referred to as Xela. As one of Guatemala’s largest and most prominent

Vladimir Sorokin: …in Paris of Ochered’ (The Queue), a satire on the ordinariness of Soviet life that was written as a string of dialogue between people waiting in line to purchase goods from a store. The Queue, which consists of a formless narrative that fails to attribute dialogue and represents a…

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 is used, whether referring to people or things, in correlating such

Laurales: Distribution and abundance: Gomortegaceae, or the queule family, consists of a single species, Gomortega keule, which is a rare species native to central Chile.

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas was a poet and master satirist of Spain’s Golden Age, who, as a virtuoso of language, is unequaled in Spanish literature. Quevedo was born to a family of wealth and distinction. He studied at the universities of Alcalá and Valladolid from 1596 to 1606, was

Vasco Núñez de Balboa: Sighting of the Pacific: The first bishop of Darién, Juan de Quevedo, sought to act as peacemaker and arranged a temporary reconciliation; in a turnabout Pedrarias by proxy betrothed his daughter María in Spain to Balboa. But the underlying causes of friction remained. The suspicious Pedrarias pursued a tortuous policy designed to frustrate Balboa…

Queyras, high Alpine valley of the Guil River in Hautes-Alpes département, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur région, southwestern France. The Queyras extends from the confluence of the Guil and Durance rivers (near the village of Mont-Dauphin) northeastward to Abriès and then southeastward to the Italian

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 the site (formerly a private estate) in 1939, it officially replaced Manila as the capital in

Manuel Quezon was a Filipino statesman, leader of the independence movement, and the first president of the Philippine Commonwealth established under U.S. tutelage in 1935. Quezon was the son of a schoolteacher and small landholder of Tagalog descent on the island of Luzon. He cut short his law

Manuel Quezon was a Filipino statesman, leader of the independence movement, and the first president of the Philippine Commonwealth established under U.S. tutelage in 1935. Quezon was the son of a schoolteacher and small landholder of Tagalog descent on the island of Luzon. He cut short his law

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 of Lu, which flourished from the 6th to the 4th century bce. It was established as a county-level city in 1986. Qufu is best known as

Germany: The Great Interregnum: …summarized in Urban IV’s bull Qui coelum (1263), which assumed that the exclusive right of election lay with the seven leading princes involved in the double election of 1257.

Qui Nhon, city, south-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 was opened to French trade in 1874, the harbour serving as an open roadstead for larger ships until after World War

Statute of Quia Emptores, English law of 1290 that forbade subinfeudation, the process whereby one tenant granted land to another who then considered the grantor his lord. Thus, after passage of the Quia Emptores, if A granted land to B in fee simple, B’s lord would not be A but A’s lord. The

Statute of Quia Emptores, English law of 1290 that forbade subinfeudation, the process whereby one tenant granted land to another who then considered the grantor his lord. Thus, after passage of the Quia Emptores, if A granted land to B in fee simple, B’s lord would not be A but A’s lord. The

Quibdó, 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 other equatorial area on Earth. Founded in 1654 as San Francisco de Quibdó, the city has served as Chocó’s capital

Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke: …squadron and drove it into Quiberon Bay. During a three-hour battle and its aftermath, nine French ships were destroyed, and the French unit was rendered incapable of further aggressive action. Hawke then retired from sea duty. He served as first lord of the Admiralty from 1766 to 1771 and was…

Jeffrey Katzenberg: One of its ventures was Quibi (formerly NewTV), a start-up focusing on short-form videos for mobile devices. The app was launched in April 2020. It struggled, however, and in October it was announced that Quibi was shutting down.

Coiba Island, Central American island of Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Lying 15 miles (24 km) offshore and separated from the mainland by the Gulf of Montijo on the east and the Gulf of Chiriquí on the northwest, the island measures about 20 miles from north to south and 10 miles from east to west.

K’iche’, Mayan people living in the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. The K’iche’ had an advanced civilization in pre-Columbian times, with a high level of political and social organization. Archaeological remains show large population centres and a complex class structure. Written records of

custard: …encountered, the most notable being quiche, a French tart with a filling of custard flavoured with cheese, onions, ham or bacon, or chopped vegetables.

K’iche’ language, member of the K’ichean (Quichean) subgroup of the Mayan family of languages, spoken in the western highlands of central Guatemala by nearly one million people. It is most closely related to Kaqchikel, Tz’utujil, Sakapulteko (Sacapultec), and Sipakapense (Sipacapeño) languages of

museum: Specialized personal collections: 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 spirit of system and rational inquiry that had begun to emerge in Europe. Collections of natural and…

Jules Quicherat was a French historian and pioneering archaeologist who was a major force in French scholarship during the 19th century. Quicherat was educated at the Collège de Sainte-Barbe and completed his studies at the École des Chartes in 1835. Following work with the Bibliothèque Royale, he

Salman Rushdie: Post-fatwa writings: His next novel, Quichotte (2019), was inspired by Cervantes’s Don Quixote. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003–2020 appeared in 2021. He published The Eleventh Hour, a collection of short stories, in 2025.

Ecuador: The colonial period: The Spaniards used Quichua as a language of evangelization—at one period missionaries were required to know the language—and continued to spread it orally by means of Quichua speakers who travelled with them in further conquests.

dam: Weaknesses of earthfill: …and reach a condition called quick, in which it behaves as a fluid. Even if it does not reach this condition, there is often some weakening of its structure, and steps must be taken to counter this.

Sharon Stone: From Sliver to Casino: Stallone; and the revisionist western The Quick and the Dead (1995) with Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and a teenaged Leonardo DiCaprio. Stone’s no-holds-barred performance in Martin Scorsese’s mob drama Casino (1995), as Ginger McKenna, the beautiful but troubled call-girl wife of Robert De Niro’s

Delbert Mann: Feature films: Quick Before It Melts (1964) was an unsatisfying comedy about a researcher (George Maharis) at an Antarctic compound, and Mister Buddwing (1966) was a pallid drama about an amnesia victim (James Garner) trying to learn about his past life. The lacklustre comedy Fitzwilly (1967) centers…