Quanah Parker (1845-1911) was a leader of the Comanche people during the difficult transition period from free-ranging life on the southern plains to the settled ways of reservation life. He became an influential negotiator with government...

Quantitative analysis involves measuring the proportions of known components in a mixture. Whereas qualitative analysis involves identifying what materials are present in a sample (quality), quantitative analysis involves determining how m...

Quantitative traits are those that vary continuously. This is in contrast to qualitative traits, in which the phenotype is discrete and can take on one of only a few different values. Examples of quantitative traits include height, weight,...

Light was once explained as a form of radiant energy that was continuous. More recently, however, light is described as existing in discrete units of energy, or infinitesimal packets, that are radiated from matter. The smallest quantity, o...

Quantum Chromodynamics, or QCD, is the theory describing the strong interactions between quarks and gluons. These interactions are responsible for binding quarks together into nucleons and mesons, and also for binding the nucleons together...

Physicists believe in a unified description of the world. The complex structures and phenomena we observe today, in every physical system, have at their heart one set of conceptually simple rules, although the mathematical formalism can be...

Quantum mechanics was born at the turn of the twentieth century when physicists realized that the behavior of the particles of matter--the atoms composing Max Planck's classic black body, for example--did not obey Isaac Newton's classical ...

Quantum Leap was a science fiction television program which ran from 1989 to 1993 on NBC starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell . Contents 1 Repeated quotes 2 Season 1 2.1 Genesis [1.01] 2.2 Star-Crossed [1.02] 2.3 The Right Hand of God ...

LIGHT In the everyday sense of the word, it seems like a simple thing: but it is a subject for serious consideration. I am exploring here the role of light in relativity, not its nature. Light has always been a benchmark of the highest spe...

A quantum state is the condition a quantum mechanical system is in. The state is usually described by a wave function. It is different from classical states of systems in that the quantum system has separate, discrete levels, whereas the s...

WANG ZHE (1112–1170), also known by his clerical name, Zhongyangzi; Daoist master of the Jin period (1115–1234) and founder of the Quanzhen sect. The third son of a great landowner in Xianyang, Shaanxi province, Wang received...

SOURCE: Korn, Eric. “The Galilean.” Times Literary Supplement (13 June 1997): 25. In the following review, Korn offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. Roughing it in Ruristan is a fine thing, but one of the keenest pleasures of dep...

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain....

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice....

SOURCE: “The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles,” in Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 9, No. 1, October 1984, pp. 33-61. In the following essay, Levine examines the debate between ancients and moderns in Great Britain and Franc...

Lloyd Albert Quarterman was one of only a handful of African Americans to work on the "Manhattan Project ," the team that developed the first atom bomb in the 1940s. He was also noted as a research chemist who specialized in fluoride chemi...

Quartz (SiO2), a common mineral, is the product of the two most prevalent elements in the earth's crust: silicon and oxygen. Quartz can be found as giant crystals or small grains, and is the main component of most types of sand. It ...

France was the United States' first friend. The 1778 Treaty of Alliance between the two nations secured French military support in the American War for Independence. Yet just two decades later, the nations stood at the brink of a fo...

The quaternions are the second "number system" other than the real numbers ever discovered, and the first to be found by a deliberate search. Their immediate predecessor was the field of complex numbers, formed by adjoining an imaginary un...

Of course, Quebec-bashing is nothing new for the anglophone press, but it is so widespread these days that one wonders if it hasn't become a natural and acceptable expression of Canadian patriotism. [1] Michel David , journalist for Le Dev...

Many people to this day have no knowledge to as how important French Canadians are to our history. Many do not realize that Quebec has been trying to become a nation on their own and to be distinguished as their own colony. In this essay I ...

In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever. Thin...

Taking the subject of Christina, enlightened despot, Lesbian, free-lance adventuress, ["Queen Christina"] substitutes for all the strange facts bearing upon her reign and exile the considerably mildewed fictions of the Graustark cycle. To b...