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Queen Elizabeth College Queen Elizabeth College (QEC) had its origins in the Ladies' (later Women's) Department of King's College London, opened in 1885. The first King's 'extension' lectures for ladies were held at Richmond in 1871, and from 1878 in Kensington, with chaperones in attendance.
Queen Elizabeth Driveway Queen Elizabeth Driveway is a scenic parkway in Ottawa, Canada that runs along the western edge of the Rideau Canal. It runs from Laurier Avenue in the north to Dow's Lake where it turns into Prince of Wales Drive.
Queen Elizabeth Elementary School (Vancouver) Queen Elizabeth Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, is an elementary school. The school opened in 1940 and is named after Queen Elizabeth who visited Canada in 1939, with her husband King George VI.
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is a public (private and thus fee-paying) school in Wakefield, England. QEGS is distinct from most other schools in that it was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield, some of whom formed the first governing body.
Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre, the national arts complex, and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall which had been built for the Festival of Britain of 1951.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in London, England was formed from the 1942 merger of the Queen's Hospital for Children in Bethnal Green and the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children, Shadwell. The Shadwell site was closed in 1963.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is an NHS hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham situated very close to the University of Birmingham. It is one of the two hospitals in the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, the other being Selly Oak Hospital.
Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, British Virgin Islands The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge is a bridge that links Beef Island with Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Two bridges have shared the same name, with one lasting from 1966 to 2003, and a new bridge that was completed in 2002.
Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamp (Canada) At Rideau Hall, on December 19, 2003, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, along with Canada Post President and CEO André Ouellet and Canadian pop music artist Bryan Adams, unveiled a 49 cent domestic rate Canada Post definitive stamp bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. Canada Post issued this stamp partly at the urging of the Monarchist League of Canada.
Queen Elizabeth II Great Court The central quadrangle of the British Museum in London was redeveloped to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, during the late 1990s. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
Queen Elizabeth II High School Queen Elizabeth II High School is a co-educational comprehensive school in Peel, Isle of Man. It is commonly referred to as simply "QE2" and teaches the years 7-11 as well as a sixth form for years 12-13.
Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup is a race for three-year-old fillies run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The race was inaugurated on October 11, 1984, in honor of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who attended the Keeneland races, and presented a trophy on that date during her private visit to Central Kentucky.
Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge carries the Tyne and Wear Metro from Newcastle upon Tyne to Gateshead over the River Tyne. The line is in tunnel on either side of the river and only emerges into daylight to cross the bridge.
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal struck by the Canadian Mint celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Her Majesty's reign as Queen of Canada. The medal was awarded to Canadians who have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to Canada.
Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park The Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park is a provincial park in south-central Ontario, between Gravenhurst and Minden. The park, named for Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, is 33,505 hectares in size, making it the second largest park south of Algonquin Park (after Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park), but it has a fragmented shape as a result of many private lands within its boundary.
Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands (approx.  ; French: Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth; formerly known as the Parry Islands) are the northernmost cluster of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Northern Canada.
Queen Elizabeth Junior and Senior High School (Calgary) Queen Elizabeth Junior/Senior High School (QEHS) is a Canadian public combined junior and senior high school in Calgary, Alberta, which teaches grades 7 through 12. The junior (7-9) and senior (10-12) programs share a common principal, many teachers, and other resources of the school.
Queen Elizabeth National Park The Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) is Uganda's most-visited game reserve. It lies in the west of the nation and occupies 2,000 square miles from Lake George to Lake Edward around the Kazinga Channel connecting them.
Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica) The Queen Elizabeth Range () is a rugged mountain range in Antarctica paralleling the eastern side of Marsh Glacier for nearly 160 km (100 mi) from Nimrod Glacier in the north to Law Glacier in the south. Mount Markham (4,350 m), is the highest elevation in the range.
Queen Elizabeth Ranges The Queen Elizabeth Ranges is a group of mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies on the southeastern side of Jasper National Park, Canada. The northern end of the ranges begins east of Medicine Lake, Jasper, Alberta and extends in a southeasterly direction past the southern shore of Maligne Lake.
Queen Elizabeth Secondary School Queen Elizabeth Secondary is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia part of School District 36 Surrey. The school is named after Queen Elizabeth who visited Canada in 1939, with her husband King George VI.
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust is a British Institution which makes grants to individuals wishing to further their careers in the practical arts. The trust was established in 1990 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Warrant Holders Association and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth School (伊ĺ©ć˛™äĽŻä¸ĺ¸), or QES and QE (äĽŠä¸ or 伊ĺ©ć˛™äĽŻ) for short, is the first EMI(Anglo-Chinese) co-education secondary school founded by the Government of Hong Kong. It is located on a mound at the border of Sai Yee Street and Prince Edward Road West in Mong Kok, Kowloon and adjacent to Grand Century Place, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (ä¸čŹŻĺźşçťŁć•™ćśĺŤ”ĺ’Śĺ°Źĺ¸) and HK Weaving Mills Association Primary School (香港ĺ¸ĺ» 商ćśĺ…¬ĺ¸).
Queen Elizabeth Stadium The Queen Elizabeth Stadium (Traditional Chinese: 伊ĺ©čŽŽäĽŻé«”育館, frequently known as 伊館 or 新伊館) is an indoor sport facility on the Morrison Hill in Wan Chai, on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. First opened in 1980, it has a 3,500-seat arena, gymnasiums, squash and badminton courts, and a multi-purpose hall.
Queen Elizabeth Way The Queen Elizabeth Way (commonly referred to as the QEW, Q, QE, or Queen-E) is a vital 400-Series freeway in Ontario, Canada. It links Buffalo, New York, USA and the Niagara Peninsula with Toronto and its western suburbs.
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People is a British charity. It was founded in the 1930s, and works to encourage disabled people to become more independent by fostering life skills and vocational training.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys Queen Elizabeth's School is a boys' grammar school in Barnet, North London, founded in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I, petitioned by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and assisted by local alderman Edward Underne. Officially, it is known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys and its name is often shortened to QE Boys.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) is a selective co-educational private school in Blackburn, England, founded in 1509 as a boys school. The term "school" is usually used to collectively refer to the following:
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (Horncastle), is a selective mixed state secondary school in the Lincolnshire town of Horncastle and has around 820 pupils between 11 and 19 years old. It has attained a Specialist Science College award.
Queen Elizabeth's High School Queen Elizabeth's High School is an 11-18 co-educational grammar school, based in Gainsborough in northern Lincolnshire. The school is selective; Year 6 pupils must sit and pass the Eleven Plus exam prior to entry.
Queen Elizabeth's Men Queen Elizabeth's Men was a playing company or troupe of actors in English Renaissance theatre. Formed in 1583 at the express command of Queen Elizabeth, it was the dominant acting company for the rest of the 1580s, as the Admiral's Men and the Lord Chamberlain's Men would be in the decade that followed.
Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster Queen Elizabeth's School is a specialist Sports College situated just outside Wimborne Minster in Dorset. It has very close links with the Minster and was founded by the will of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII in 1497.
Queen for a Day Queen for a Day was an American radio and television show. It helped usher in American broadcast listeners' and viewers' fascination with big prize giveaway shows when it was born on radio (1945 – 1957), before moving to television (1956 – 1964; 1969 – 1970) and, between the two versions, making it a forerunner "reality television".
Queen Fabiola Mountains Queen Fabiola Mountains () is a group of mountains on Antarctica, 30 miles long, consisting mainly of seven small massifs which trend north-south, forming a partial barrier to the flow of inland ice. The mountains stand in isolation about 90 miles southwest of the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay.
Queen Giovanna Hospital The Queen Giovanna Hospital (or Tsaritsa Yoanna Hospital; ) is a university hospital in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Named after Giovanna of Savoy, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria and wife of Boris III, the hospital was opened in 1936 and employs a total of 212 academic and non-academic specialists.
Queen Haters The Queen Haters were a 1983 fictional punk rock band that performed on a "Mel's Rock Pile" sketch of the SCTV television program. It featured Martin Short on vocals, Eugene Levy on lead guitar, Andrea Martin on rhythm guitar, Joe Flaherty on bass, and a bald, bespectacled John Candy on drums.
Queen Henrietta's Men Queen Henrietta's Men was a playing company or troupe of actors in the Caroline era, formed in 1625 at the start of the reign of King Charles I, by theatrical impressario Christopher Beeston, under royal patronage of the new queen, Henrietta Maria. They were sometimes called the Queen's Majesty's Comedians or other variations on their name.
Queen Hippolyta (comics) Queen Hippolyta is a DC Comics superheroine, based on Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons in Greek mythology, and is the mother of Wonder Woman. Before DC's 1985-1986 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hippolyta's name was spelled "Hippolyte.
Queen Charlotte Airlines The Queen Charlotte Airlines was a Canadian airline founded by Jim Spilsbury that operated on the West Coast of Canada from 1943 to 1955, when it was sold to Pacific Western Airlines. Though the airline began as bush flying operation, it grew to become the third largest airline in Canada at the time of its sale.
Queen Charlotte Basin Queen Charlotte Basin lies mostly beneath the continental shelf offshore, between the Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, and the British Columbia mainland. The term Queen Charlotte Basin normally refers to the Tertiary rocks, but these are underlain by what seems to be a thick Mesozoic succession.
Queen Charlotte Sound, Canada [and major straits of the northern Pacific Northwest Coast] Queen Charlotte Sound is a bay of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada, between Vancouver Island in the south and the Queen Charlotte Islands in the north. It is 97 km (60 miles) long and 26 km (16 miles) wide.
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand Queen Charlotte Sound is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand's South Island. It is, like the other sounds, a drowned valley, and like the majority of its neighbours it runs southwest to northeast before joining Cook Strait.
Queen Charlotte Strait Queen Charlotte Strait exists between Vancouver Island and the mainland in British Columbia, Canada. It connects Queen Charlotte Sound with Johnstone Strait, Discovery Passage and then to the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound.
Queen Charlotte's Hospital Queen Charlotte's Hospital is one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Europe, and until recently occupied a site on Goldhawk Road, Chiswick, West London. It is now based at the Hammersmith Hospital hospital site in West London and is now known as Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital.
Queen Christina (film) Queen Christina is a 1933 Pre-Code Hollywood feature film, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. The film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, and the screenwriters were Viertel LeVino and Margaret "Peg" LeVino, with dialogue credit given to S.
Queen Isabella Causeway Located in southern Cameron County, Texas, the two-mile long Queen Isabella Causeway is the only road connecting South Padre Island, Texas to the mainland. The Causeway was opened in 1974 and replaced the previous bridge which had also been named Queen Isabella Causeway.
Queen Itchie Queen Itchie is the '90s pseudonym for writer Jennifer Nixon, who contributed to the zine Rollerderby in the 1990s. Her saucy personality and opinions also led to several profiles, interviews and anecdotal descriptions in zines and publications of the late '90s, among them Index Magazine.
Queen Mab In English folklore, Queen Mab is a fairy. She is memorably described in a famous speech by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, in which she is a miniature creature who drives her chariot across the faces of sleeping people and compels them to dream dreams of wish-fulfillment.
Queen Mab (poem) Queen Mab is the title of the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), the famous English Romantic poet. It was written early in his career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution.
Queen Maeve International Summer School The Queen Maeve International Summer School, is one of Ireland's largest traditional music summer schools, held annually since 1999 and was founded by Sligo tin whistle player Carmel Gunning. During the week, students from around the world attend daily classes taught by experts in Irish music and dance.
Queen Margaret Academy Queen Margaret Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary school in the south of Ayr in southwest Scotland. Queen Margaret is state-run by South Ayrshire Council and takes children and students aged 11 to 18 from the whole of South Ayrshire and parts of East Ayrshire.
Queen Margaret Union The Queen Margaret Union (QMU) is one of two students' unions at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1890 it caters for the social and cultural needs of its Glasgow student members by providing a range of services including, entertainments, catering, shop facilities, bars and games.
Queen Marlena Queen Marlena is a fictional character from the Masters of the Universe franchise. The mother of Prince Adam (the secret identity of the main hero He-Man), Marlena first appears in the toys' minicomics as a typical medieval queen with no mention being made of her having any extraterrestrial (to Eternia) origin.
Queen Mary Coast Queen Mary Coast () is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Filchner, in 91° 54' E, and Cape Hordern, at 100° 30' E. It was discovered in February 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) under the leadership of Douglas Mawson, who named it for Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V.
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital (), Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, is the teaching hospital of the University of Hong Kong. Its main ward tower, Block K, is the tallest hospital building in Asia at 137 metres (28 storeys), and is the second tallest in the world, behind London's Guy's Hospital.
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) is a focused research organisation within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2002 it moved from Mile End in the East End of London to larger and specialised facilities at Charterhouse Square, as part of its growing independent identity and a substantial bequest by Herchel Smith.
Queen Mary Stakes The Queen Mary Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for two-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 5 furlongs (1,006 metres) at Ascot Racecourse during the Royal Ascot meeting in June.
Queen Mary's Dolls' House Queen Mary's Dolls' House was a doll house built in the early 1920s at the suggestion of Queen Mary, the wife of King George V of the United Kingdom. Queen Mary's Dolls' House was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, for Queen Mary (Consort of George V).
Queen Mary's Grammar School Queen Mary's Grammar School, on Sutton Road in Walsall, England, was founded in 1554 by Queen Mary I, at which time it had about seventy pupils, all boys, and taught Classics almost exclusively. Today it is still mainly single-sex, though with a few girls in the sixth form, and has a sister school, Queen Mary's High School.
Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall Queen Mary's Grammar School was founded in 1554 by Queen Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The School badge is the personal badge of Queen Mary Tudor: it combines the Tudor Rose of her father Henry VIII with the badge of her mother, Catherine of Aragon, a sheaf of arrows, tied with a Staffordshire knot.
Queen Mary's Hospital Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton, originally founded in 1915 to provide care for wounded soldiers, it became a world renowned limb fitting and amputee rehabilitation centre. Recently rebuilt and modernized it has become a unit of the Wandsworth Primary Care Trust.
Queen Mary's Peak Queen Mary's Peak is the highest mountain in the South Atlantic Ocean, situated on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It has an elevation of 2,062 metres (6,760 feet) above sea level.
Queen Maud Gulf Queen Maud Gulf () lies between the northern coast of the mainland and the southwestern corner of Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada. At its western end lies Cambridge Bay, leading to Dease Strait; to the east lies Simpson Strait; and to the north, Victoria Strait.
Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20°W and Shinnan Glacier, at 44°38'E in the area claimed by Norway on January 14, 1938 as a dependent territory. This claim, like all others in the Antarctic, is not universally recognized and is subject to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty System.
Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains () are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for Queen Maud of Norway.
Queen Maya Queen MÄyÄ was the birth mother of the historical Buddha, SiddhÄrtha of the Gautama gotra, and sister of Mahapajapati Gotami the first woman ordained by the Buddha. "MÄyÄ" means "illusion" or "enchantment" in Sanskrit and PÄli.
Queen Mother Queen Mother is a title reserved for a widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that union is the reigning monarch. A Queen Mother is defined as "A Queen dowager who is the mother of the reigning sovereign" by both the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
Queen Mother Champion Chase The Queen Mother Champion Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt chase in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses run over a distance of 2 miles (3,219 metres) at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are twelve fences to be jumped in the race.
Queen Mother Moore Queen Mother Moore (July 27 1898 - May 21996) was an African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist who was friends with such civil rights leaders as Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela and Jesse Jackson. She was an important figure in the civil rights movement.
Queen of Air and Darkness In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, The Queen of Air and Darkness is the fey deity of magic (especially illusions), darkness, and murder. The evil Queen hates and opposes Titania's Seelie Court and everything they stand for.
Queen of All Saints Basilica Queen of All Saints Basilica is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 6280 North Sauganash Avenue. It was elevated to become a basilica by Pope John XXIII on March 26, 1962.
Queen of Fiji The title of Queen of Fiji was held by Queen Elizabeth II between 1972 and 1987. The constitutional monarchy of Fiji was replaced by a republic following two military coups carried out in 1987 by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Queen of Hearts is a character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by the mathematician Lewis Carroll. She is a foul-tempered monarch who is quick to decree death sentences at the slightest offence.
Queen of Hip-Pop Queen of Hip-Pop is Namie Amuro's sixth original studio album under the avex trax label. The album was released on July 13, 2005 after four singles and has become her most commercially successful effort in five years.
Queen of Italy Queen of Italy (also known as Terrace) is a solitaire card game that is played using two decks of playing cards. It is one of those which has the lowest chances of winning because the cards that would potentially block the game is presented at the start.
Queen of Japan Queen of Japan is a music trio from Europe, known for its synthpop sound and cover versions of hits from the 1970s and 1980s.Singer Ayumi Hamasaki] is commonly referred to as "Empress of [[J-pop" but has also been referred to as "Queen of Japan" on occasion.
Queen of Malta This title of Queen of Malta was held by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom between 1964 and 1974, following Malta's independence from the United Kingdom. On December 13, 1974, Malta became a republic with a President as Head of State, and the title was abolished.
Queen of Outer Space Queen of Outer Space is a science fiction movie filmed in 1958 starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Venusian leader of the resistance to overthrow Queen Yllana of Venus, so the women of Venus can experience the love of men again.
Queen of Sheba The Queen of Sheba, (Nigist Saba Amharic: ንግት áłá‰Ł), referred to in the Bible books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, the New Testament, the Qur'an, and Ethiopian history, was the ruler of Sheba, an ancient kingdom which modern archaeology speculates was located in present-day Eritrea, Ethiopia or Yemen. Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda (possibly meaning "not this way/not thus") in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis.
Queen of Sheba's Gazelle The Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (Gazella bilkis Groves & Lay, 1985) is an extinct species of gazelle. It was found on the mountains and hillsides in Yemen but there have been no sightings of the species since 1951, when five specimens were collected in mountains near Ta'izz, where it was reportedly common at the time.
Queen of the Damned (film) Queen of the Damned is a 2002 film adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned although the film contained many plot elements from that novel's predecessor, The Vampire Lestat.
Queen of the Night Clubs Queen of the Night Clubs is a 1929 sound film starring legendary bar hostess Texas Guinan as "Texas Malone", a character obviously based upon herself. Guinan's pal George Raft also appears in his first film role.
Queen of the Northwoods Queen of the Northwoods is a film serial produced in 1929 by Pathé, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey, with a story by George Arthur Gray. Known cast members were Walter Miller, Ethlyne Clair and Frank Lackteen.
Queen of the Pacific The steamship Queen of the Pacific sailed from San Francisco early on the afternoon of April 28, 1888. Shortly after midnight, the ship was found to have begun taking on water into a watertight compartment known as the starboard alleyway.
Queen of the reich Created in 1981 in a demo tape by "the Mob" (later known as Queensryche), Queen of the Reich is still considered one of the best Queensryche songs to date, even with the release of Operation: Mindcrime II. Queen of the Reich was first recorded on the QueensrĂżche (album) (aka Queensryche EP) along with "The Lady wore Black", "Nightrider", and "Blinded" The Band actually had a bit of trouble getting Geoff Tate (Their current singer) to sing, since he already had a band as well.
Queen of the Sea train disaster The Queen of the Sea train disaster occurred when the train Queen of the Sea, or Samudradevi in Sinhalese, was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by the tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake.
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom Queen of the Stardust Ballroom was a 1975 television production directed by Sam O'Steen and starring Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, and Charlotte Rae, all of whom were nominated for an Emmy Award for their performances.
Queen of the Troubled Teens Queen of the Troubled Teens was the first single released by Idlewild on the Human Condition label in March 1997. Receiving only small scale acknowledgement initially in Edinburgh record shops, receiving praise from local students and BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamaq.
Queen of the Turf Stakes The Queen Of The Turf Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race for 3 year olds and over fillies and mares. It is a quality handicap race, run over a distance of 1500 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney in April.
Queen Of Swords Queen Of Swords is an action-adventure television series set in California during the early 19th century. The show is about a young noblewoman who is Tessa Alvarado by day and a Zorro-style masked avenger by night known as the Queen of Swords.
Queen regnant A queen regnant (plural "queens regnant") is a female monarch who possesses all the monarchal powers that a king would have without regard to gender. This is in contrast with a queen consort, who is merely the spouse of a reigning king, and on her own has no official powers of state.
Queen Rhodope In Greek mythology, Queen Rhodope of Thrace was the wife of Haemus. Haemus was vain and haughty and compared himself and Rhodope to Zeus and Hera, who were offended and changed the couple into mountains (the Balkan mountains and Rhodope mountains, respectively).
Queen sacrifice Queen sacrifice is the term used in chess when a player's queen (easily the most powerful piece) is deliberately allowed to be captured by the enemy. A queen is too valuable to sacrifice for mere positional gain, unlike a pawn, or even a knight or bishop (although there are rare exceptions — see defense perimeter for an example).
Queen Salamasina Queen Salamasina was the first sovereign ruler of Samoa; she was descended from the Kings of Tonga, the High Chiefs of Samoa and Fiji. She was the first female to attain all of the four paramount royal titles and become the tafaifa or supreme monarch of Samoa.
Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (QSMI) ( Sathan Saovabha) in Bangkok, Thailand, is a famous institute that specialises in the husbandry of poisonous snakes, the extraction and research of snake venom. It also houses the snake farm.
Queen Secret Keeper Queen Secret Keeper is the title of the twelfth studio music recording/album by singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 2001. The album met with the highest critical acclaim of Judie's entire career, and is her most successful on her own Big Moon Records label.
Queen Slug-for-a-Butt Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt, or more simply, Queen Slug-for-a-Butt is the final foe that Jim must face in the video game Earthworm Jim. She is the twin sister of Princess What's-Her-Name, though clearly failing to resemble her in any way.
Queen Square (Dartmouth) Queen Square is an office building located in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. At 19 floors, Queen Square is the second tallest building in Dartmouth, and the tallest in the downtown area.
Queen Square, London Queen Square is a comparatively small garden square in Bloomsbury, London, located approximately 200 metres (220 yards) east of Russell Square. The square was originally named Queen Anne's Square because a statue contained within it was misidentified as depicting Queen Anne.
Queen Sri Suriyothai Queen Sri Suriyothai (also known as Somdet Phra Sisuriyothai, ) was a legendary queen during the 16th century Ayutthaya period of Siam (now Thailand). She is famous for having given her life in defense of her king.
Queen Elizabeth Driveway Queen Elizabeth Driveway is a scenic parkway in Ottawa, Canada that runs along the western edge of the Rideau Canal. It runs from Laurier Avenue in the north to Dow's Lake where it turns into Prince of Wales Drive.
Queen Elizabeth Elementary School (Vancouver) Queen Elizabeth Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, is an elementary school. The school opened in 1940 and is named after Queen Elizabeth who visited Canada in 1939, with her husband King George VI.
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is a public (private and thus fee-paying) school in Wakefield, England. QEGS is distinct from most other schools in that it was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield, some of whom formed the first governing body.
Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre, the national arts complex, and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall which had been built for the Festival of Britain of 1951.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in London, England was formed from the 1942 merger of the Queen's Hospital for Children in Bethnal Green and the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children, Shadwell. The Shadwell site was closed in 1963.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is an NHS hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham situated very close to the University of Birmingham. It is one of the two hospitals in the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, the other being Selly Oak Hospital.
Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, British Virgin Islands The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge is a bridge that links Beef Island with Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Two bridges have shared the same name, with one lasting from 1966 to 2003, and a new bridge that was completed in 2002.
Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamp (Canada) At Rideau Hall, on December 19, 2003, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, along with Canada Post President and CEO André Ouellet and Canadian pop music artist Bryan Adams, unveiled a 49 cent domestic rate Canada Post definitive stamp bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. Canada Post issued this stamp partly at the urging of the Monarchist League of Canada.
Queen Elizabeth II Great Court The central quadrangle of the British Museum in London was redeveloped to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, during the late 1990s. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
Queen Elizabeth II High School Queen Elizabeth II High School is a co-educational comprehensive school in Peel, Isle of Man. It is commonly referred to as simply "QE2" and teaches the years 7-11 as well as a sixth form for years 12-13.
Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup is a race for three-year-old fillies run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf. The race was inaugurated on October 11, 1984, in honor of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who attended the Keeneland races, and presented a trophy on that date during her private visit to Central Kentucky.
Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge carries the Tyne and Wear Metro from Newcastle upon Tyne to Gateshead over the River Tyne. The line is in tunnel on either side of the river and only emerges into daylight to cross the bridge.
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal struck by the Canadian Mint celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Her Majesty's reign as Queen of Canada. The medal was awarded to Canadians who have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to Canada.
Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park The Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park is a provincial park in south-central Ontario, between Gravenhurst and Minden. The park, named for Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, is 33,505 hectares in size, making it the second largest park south of Algonquin Park (after Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park), but it has a fragmented shape as a result of many private lands within its boundary.
Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands (approx.  ; French: Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth; formerly known as the Parry Islands) are the northernmost cluster of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Northern Canada.
Queen Elizabeth Junior and Senior High School (Calgary) Queen Elizabeth Junior/Senior High School (QEHS) is a Canadian public combined junior and senior high school in Calgary, Alberta, which teaches grades 7 through 12. The junior (7-9) and senior (10-12) programs share a common principal, many teachers, and other resources of the school.
Queen Elizabeth National Park The Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) is Uganda's most-visited game reserve. It lies in the west of the nation and occupies 2,000 square miles from Lake George to Lake Edward around the Kazinga Channel connecting them.
Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica) The Queen Elizabeth Range () is a rugged mountain range in Antarctica paralleling the eastern side of Marsh Glacier for nearly 160 km (100 mi) from Nimrod Glacier in the north to Law Glacier in the south. Mount Markham (4,350 m), is the highest elevation in the range.
Queen Elizabeth Ranges The Queen Elizabeth Ranges is a group of mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies on the southeastern side of Jasper National Park, Canada. The northern end of the ranges begins east of Medicine Lake, Jasper, Alberta and extends in a southeasterly direction past the southern shore of Maligne Lake.
Queen Elizabeth Secondary School Queen Elizabeth Secondary is a public high school in Surrey, British Columbia part of School District 36 Surrey. The school is named after Queen Elizabeth who visited Canada in 1939, with her husband King George VI.
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust is a British Institution which makes grants to individuals wishing to further their careers in the practical arts. The trust was established in 1990 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Warrant Holders Association and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth School (伊ĺ©ć˛™äĽŻä¸ĺ¸), or QES and QE (äĽŠä¸ or 伊ĺ©ć˛™äĽŻ) for short, is the first EMI(Anglo-Chinese) co-education secondary school founded by the Government of Hong Kong. It is located on a mound at the border of Sai Yee Street and Prince Edward Road West in Mong Kok, Kowloon and adjacent to Grand Century Place, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (ä¸čŹŻĺźşçťŁć•™ćśĺŤ”ĺ’Śĺ°Źĺ¸) and HK Weaving Mills Association Primary School (香港ĺ¸ĺ» 商ćśĺ…¬ĺ¸).
Queen Elizabeth Stadium The Queen Elizabeth Stadium (Traditional Chinese: 伊ĺ©čŽŽäĽŻé«”育館, frequently known as 伊館 or 新伊館) is an indoor sport facility on the Morrison Hill in Wan Chai, on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. First opened in 1980, it has a 3,500-seat arena, gymnasiums, squash and badminton courts, and a multi-purpose hall.
Queen Elizabeth Way The Queen Elizabeth Way (commonly referred to as the QEW, Q, QE, or Queen-E) is a vital 400-Series freeway in Ontario, Canada. It links Buffalo, New York, USA and the Niagara Peninsula with Toronto and its western suburbs.
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People is a British charity. It was founded in the 1930s, and works to encourage disabled people to become more independent by fostering life skills and vocational training.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys Queen Elizabeth's School is a boys' grammar school in Barnet, North London, founded in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I, petitioned by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and assisted by local alderman Edward Underne. Officially, it is known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys and its name is often shortened to QE Boys.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) is a selective co-educational private school in Blackburn, England, founded in 1509 as a boys school. The term "school" is usually used to collectively refer to the following:
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (Horncastle), is a selective mixed state secondary school in the Lincolnshire town of Horncastle and has around 820 pupils between 11 and 19 years old. It has attained a Specialist Science College award.
Queen Elizabeth's High School Queen Elizabeth's High School is an 11-18 co-educational grammar school, based in Gainsborough in northern Lincolnshire. The school is selective; Year 6 pupils must sit and pass the Eleven Plus exam prior to entry.
Queen Elizabeth's Men Queen Elizabeth's Men was a playing company or troupe of actors in English Renaissance theatre. Formed in 1583 at the express command of Queen Elizabeth, it was the dominant acting company for the rest of the 1580s, as the Admiral's Men and the Lord Chamberlain's Men would be in the decade that followed.
Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster Queen Elizabeth's School is a specialist Sports College situated just outside Wimborne Minster in Dorset. It has very close links with the Minster and was founded by the will of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII in 1497.
Queen for a Day Queen for a Day was an American radio and television show. It helped usher in American broadcast listeners' and viewers' fascination with big prize giveaway shows when it was born on radio (1945 – 1957), before moving to television (1956 – 1964; 1969 – 1970) and, between the two versions, making it a forerunner "reality television".
Queen Fabiola Mountains Queen Fabiola Mountains () is a group of mountains on Antarctica, 30 miles long, consisting mainly of seven small massifs which trend north-south, forming a partial barrier to the flow of inland ice. The mountains stand in isolation about 90 miles southwest of the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay.
Queen Giovanna Hospital The Queen Giovanna Hospital (or Tsaritsa Yoanna Hospital; ) is a university hospital in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Named after Giovanna of Savoy, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria and wife of Boris III, the hospital was opened in 1936 and employs a total of 212 academic and non-academic specialists.
Queen Haters The Queen Haters were a 1983 fictional punk rock band that performed on a "Mel's Rock Pile" sketch of the SCTV television program. It featured Martin Short on vocals, Eugene Levy on lead guitar, Andrea Martin on rhythm guitar, Joe Flaherty on bass, and a bald, bespectacled John Candy on drums.
Queen Henrietta's Men Queen Henrietta's Men was a playing company or troupe of actors in the Caroline era, formed in 1625 at the start of the reign of King Charles I, by theatrical impressario Christopher Beeston, under royal patronage of the new queen, Henrietta Maria. They were sometimes called the Queen's Majesty's Comedians or other variations on their name.
Queen Hippolyta (comics) Queen Hippolyta is a DC Comics superheroine, based on Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons in Greek mythology, and is the mother of Wonder Woman. Before DC's 1985-1986 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hippolyta's name was spelled "Hippolyte.
Queen Charlotte Airlines The Queen Charlotte Airlines was a Canadian airline founded by Jim Spilsbury that operated on the West Coast of Canada from 1943 to 1955, when it was sold to Pacific Western Airlines. Though the airline began as bush flying operation, it grew to become the third largest airline in Canada at the time of its sale.
Queen Charlotte Basin Queen Charlotte Basin lies mostly beneath the continental shelf offshore, between the Queen Charlotte Islands, Vancouver Island, and the British Columbia mainland. The term Queen Charlotte Basin normally refers to the Tertiary rocks, but these are underlain by what seems to be a thick Mesozoic succession.
Queen Charlotte Sound, Canada [and major straits of the northern Pacific Northwest Coast] Queen Charlotte Sound is a bay of the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada, between Vancouver Island in the south and the Queen Charlotte Islands in the north. It is 97 km (60 miles) long and 26 km (16 miles) wide.
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand Queen Charlotte Sound is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand's South Island. It is, like the other sounds, a drowned valley, and like the majority of its neighbours it runs southwest to northeast before joining Cook Strait.
Queen Charlotte Strait Queen Charlotte Strait exists between Vancouver Island and the mainland in British Columbia, Canada. It connects Queen Charlotte Sound with Johnstone Strait, Discovery Passage and then to the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound.
Queen Charlotte's Hospital Queen Charlotte's Hospital is one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Europe, and until recently occupied a site on Goldhawk Road, Chiswick, West London. It is now based at the Hammersmith Hospital hospital site in West London and is now known as Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital.
Queen Christina (film) Queen Christina is a 1933 Pre-Code Hollywood feature film, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. The film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, and the screenwriters were Viertel LeVino and Margaret "Peg" LeVino, with dialogue credit given to S.
Queen Isabella Causeway Located in southern Cameron County, Texas, the two-mile long Queen Isabella Causeway is the only road connecting South Padre Island, Texas to the mainland. The Causeway was opened in 1974 and replaced the previous bridge which had also been named Queen Isabella Causeway.
Queen Itchie Queen Itchie is the '90s pseudonym for writer Jennifer Nixon, who contributed to the zine Rollerderby in the 1990s. Her saucy personality and opinions also led to several profiles, interviews and anecdotal descriptions in zines and publications of the late '90s, among them Index Magazine.
Queen Mab In English folklore, Queen Mab is a fairy. She is memorably described in a famous speech by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, in which she is a miniature creature who drives her chariot across the faces of sleeping people and compels them to dream dreams of wish-fulfillment.
Queen Mab (poem) Queen Mab is the title of the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), the famous English Romantic poet. It was written early in his career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution.
Queen Maeve International Summer School The Queen Maeve International Summer School, is one of Ireland's largest traditional music summer schools, held annually since 1999 and was founded by Sligo tin whistle player Carmel Gunning. During the week, students from around the world attend daily classes taught by experts in Irish music and dance.
Queen Margaret Academy Queen Margaret Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary school in the south of Ayr in southwest Scotland. Queen Margaret is state-run by South Ayrshire Council and takes children and students aged 11 to 18 from the whole of South Ayrshire and parts of East Ayrshire.
Queen Margaret Union The Queen Margaret Union (QMU) is one of two students' unions at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1890 it caters for the social and cultural needs of its Glasgow student members by providing a range of services including, entertainments, catering, shop facilities, bars and games.
Queen Marlena Queen Marlena is a fictional character from the Masters of the Universe franchise. The mother of Prince Adam (the secret identity of the main hero He-Man), Marlena first appears in the toys' minicomics as a typical medieval queen with no mention being made of her having any extraterrestrial (to Eternia) origin.
Queen Mary Coast Queen Mary Coast () is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Filchner, in 91° 54' E, and Cape Hordern, at 100° 30' E. It was discovered in February 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) under the leadership of Douglas Mawson, who named it for Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V.
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital (), Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, is the teaching hospital of the University of Hong Kong. Its main ward tower, Block K, is the tallest hospital building in Asia at 137 metres (28 storeys), and is the second tallest in the world, behind London's Guy's Hospital.
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) is a focused research organisation within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2002 it moved from Mile End in the East End of London to larger and specialised facilities at Charterhouse Square, as part of its growing independent identity and a substantial bequest by Herchel Smith.
Queen Mary Stakes The Queen Mary Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for two-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 5 furlongs (1,006 metres) at Ascot Racecourse during the Royal Ascot meeting in June.
Queen Mary's Dolls' House Queen Mary's Dolls' House was a doll house built in the early 1920s at the suggestion of Queen Mary, the wife of King George V of the United Kingdom. Queen Mary's Dolls' House was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, for Queen Mary (Consort of George V).
Queen Mary's Grammar School Queen Mary's Grammar School, on Sutton Road in Walsall, England, was founded in 1554 by Queen Mary I, at which time it had about seventy pupils, all boys, and taught Classics almost exclusively. Today it is still mainly single-sex, though with a few girls in the sixth form, and has a sister school, Queen Mary's High School.
Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall Queen Mary's Grammar School was founded in 1554 by Queen Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The School badge is the personal badge of Queen Mary Tudor: it combines the Tudor Rose of her father Henry VIII with the badge of her mother, Catherine of Aragon, a sheaf of arrows, tied with a Staffordshire knot.
Queen Mary's Hospital Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton, originally founded in 1915 to provide care for wounded soldiers, it became a world renowned limb fitting and amputee rehabilitation centre. Recently rebuilt and modernized it has become a unit of the Wandsworth Primary Care Trust.
Queen Mary's Peak Queen Mary's Peak is the highest mountain in the South Atlantic Ocean, situated on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It has an elevation of 2,062 metres (6,760 feet) above sea level.
Queen Maud Gulf Queen Maud Gulf () lies between the northern coast of the mainland and the southwestern corner of Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada. At its western end lies Cambridge Bay, leading to Dease Strait; to the east lies Simpson Strait; and to the north, Victoria Strait.
Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20°W and Shinnan Glacier, at 44°38'E in the area claimed by Norway on January 14, 1938 as a dependent territory. This claim, like all others in the Antarctic, is not universally recognized and is subject to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty System.
Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains () are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for Queen Maud of Norway.
Queen Maya Queen MÄyÄ was the birth mother of the historical Buddha, SiddhÄrtha of the Gautama gotra, and sister of Mahapajapati Gotami the first woman ordained by the Buddha. "MÄyÄ" means "illusion" or "enchantment" in Sanskrit and PÄli.
Queen Mother Queen Mother is a title reserved for a widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that union is the reigning monarch. A Queen Mother is defined as "A Queen dowager who is the mother of the reigning sovereign" by both the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
Queen Mother Champion Chase The Queen Mother Champion Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt chase in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses run over a distance of 2 miles (3,219 metres) at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are twelve fences to be jumped in the race.
Queen Mother Moore Queen Mother Moore (July 27 1898 - May 21996) was an African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist who was friends with such civil rights leaders as Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela and Jesse Jackson. She was an important figure in the civil rights movement.
Queen of Air and Darkness In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, The Queen of Air and Darkness is the fey deity of magic (especially illusions), darkness, and murder. The evil Queen hates and opposes Titania's Seelie Court and everything they stand for.
Queen of All Saints Basilica Queen of All Saints Basilica is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 6280 North Sauganash Avenue. It was elevated to become a basilica by Pope John XXIII on March 26, 1962.
Queen of Fiji The title of Queen of Fiji was held by Queen Elizabeth II between 1972 and 1987. The constitutional monarchy of Fiji was replaced by a republic following two military coups carried out in 1987 by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Queen of Hearts is a character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by the mathematician Lewis Carroll. She is a foul-tempered monarch who is quick to decree death sentences at the slightest offence.
Queen of Hip-Pop Queen of Hip-Pop is Namie Amuro's sixth original studio album under the avex trax label. The album was released on July 13, 2005 after four singles and has become her most commercially successful effort in five years.
Queen of Italy Queen of Italy (also known as Terrace) is a solitaire card game that is played using two decks of playing cards. It is one of those which has the lowest chances of winning because the cards that would potentially block the game is presented at the start.
Queen of Japan Queen of Japan is a music trio from Europe, known for its synthpop sound and cover versions of hits from the 1970s and 1980s.Singer Ayumi Hamasaki] is commonly referred to as "Empress of [[J-pop" but has also been referred to as "Queen of Japan" on occasion.
Queen of Malta This title of Queen of Malta was held by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom between 1964 and 1974, following Malta's independence from the United Kingdom. On December 13, 1974, Malta became a republic with a President as Head of State, and the title was abolished.
Queen of Outer Space Queen of Outer Space is a science fiction movie filmed in 1958 starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Venusian leader of the resistance to overthrow Queen Yllana of Venus, so the women of Venus can experience the love of men again.
Queen of Sheba The Queen of Sheba, (Nigist Saba Amharic: ንግት áłá‰Ł), referred to in the Bible books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, the New Testament, the Qur'an, and Ethiopian history, was the ruler of Sheba, an ancient kingdom which modern archaeology speculates was located in present-day Eritrea, Ethiopia or Yemen. Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda (possibly meaning "not this way/not thus") in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis.
Queen of Sheba's Gazelle The Queen of Sheba's Gazelle (Gazella bilkis Groves & Lay, 1985) is an extinct species of gazelle. It was found on the mountains and hillsides in Yemen but there have been no sightings of the species since 1951, when five specimens were collected in mountains near Ta'izz, where it was reportedly common at the time.
Queen of the Damned (film) Queen of the Damned is a 2002 film adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned although the film contained many plot elements from that novel's predecessor, The Vampire Lestat.
Queen of the Night Clubs Queen of the Night Clubs is a 1929 sound film starring legendary bar hostess Texas Guinan as "Texas Malone", a character obviously based upon herself. Guinan's pal George Raft also appears in his first film role.
Queen of the Northwoods Queen of the Northwoods is a film serial produced in 1929 by Pathé, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey, with a story by George Arthur Gray. Known cast members were Walter Miller, Ethlyne Clair and Frank Lackteen.
Queen of the Pacific The steamship Queen of the Pacific sailed from San Francisco early on the afternoon of April 28, 1888. Shortly after midnight, the ship was found to have begun taking on water into a watertight compartment known as the starboard alleyway.
Queen of the reich Created in 1981 in a demo tape by "the Mob" (later known as Queensryche), Queen of the Reich is still considered one of the best Queensryche songs to date, even with the release of Operation: Mindcrime II. Queen of the Reich was first recorded on the QueensrĂżche (album) (aka Queensryche EP) along with "The Lady wore Black", "Nightrider", and "Blinded" The Band actually had a bit of trouble getting Geoff Tate (Their current singer) to sing, since he already had a band as well.
Queen of the Sea train disaster The Queen of the Sea train disaster occurred when the train Queen of the Sea, or Samudradevi in Sinhalese, was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by the tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake.
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom Queen of the Stardust Ballroom was a 1975 television production directed by Sam O'Steen and starring Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, and Charlotte Rae, all of whom were nominated for an Emmy Award for their performances.
Queen of the Troubled Teens Queen of the Troubled Teens was the first single released by Idlewild on the Human Condition label in March 1997. Receiving only small scale acknowledgement initially in Edinburgh record shops, receiving praise from local students and BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamaq.
Queen of the Turf Stakes The Queen Of The Turf Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race for 3 year olds and over fillies and mares. It is a quality handicap race, run over a distance of 1500 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney in April.
Queen Of Swords Queen Of Swords is an action-adventure television series set in California during the early 19th century. The show is about a young noblewoman who is Tessa Alvarado by day and a Zorro-style masked avenger by night known as the Queen of Swords.
Queen regnant A queen regnant (plural "queens regnant") is a female monarch who possesses all the monarchal powers that a king would have without regard to gender. This is in contrast with a queen consort, who is merely the spouse of a reigning king, and on her own has no official powers of state.
Queen Rhodope In Greek mythology, Queen Rhodope of Thrace was the wife of Haemus. Haemus was vain and haughty and compared himself and Rhodope to Zeus and Hera, who were offended and changed the couple into mountains (the Balkan mountains and Rhodope mountains, respectively).
Queen sacrifice Queen sacrifice is the term used in chess when a player's queen (easily the most powerful piece) is deliberately allowed to be captured by the enemy. A queen is too valuable to sacrifice for mere positional gain, unlike a pawn, or even a knight or bishop (although there are rare exceptions — see defense perimeter for an example).
Queen Salamasina Queen Salamasina was the first sovereign ruler of Samoa; she was descended from the Kings of Tonga, the High Chiefs of Samoa and Fiji. She was the first female to attain all of the four paramount royal titles and become the tafaifa or supreme monarch of Samoa.
Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (QSMI) ( Sathan Saovabha) in Bangkok, Thailand, is a famous institute that specialises in the husbandry of poisonous snakes, the extraction and research of snake venom. It also houses the snake farm.
Queen Secret Keeper Queen Secret Keeper is the title of the twelfth studio music recording/album by singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 2001. The album met with the highest critical acclaim of Judie's entire career, and is her most successful on her own Big Moon Records label.
Queen Slug-for-a-Butt Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-Butt, or more simply, Queen Slug-for-a-Butt is the final foe that Jim must face in the video game Earthworm Jim. She is the twin sister of Princess What's-Her-Name, though clearly failing to resemble her in any way.
Queen Square (Dartmouth) Queen Square is an office building located in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, part of the Halifax Regional Municipality. At 19 floors, Queen Square is the second tallest building in Dartmouth, and the tallest in the downtown area.
Queen Square, London Queen Square is a comparatively small garden square in Bloomsbury, London, located approximately 200 metres (220 yards) east of Russell Square. The square was originally named Queen Anne's Square because a statue contained within it was misidentified as depicting Queen Anne.
Queen Sri Suriyothai Queen Sri Suriyothai (also known as Somdet Phra Sisuriyothai, ) was a legendary queen during the 16th century Ayutthaya period of Siam (now Thailand). She is famous for having given her life in defense of her king.
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