QUEEN MAUD LAND

region: see Antarctica.

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books on: Queen Maud Land  - 2748 results

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St Margaret Queen of Scotland
Book by Alan J. Wilson; John Donald, 2001
Subjects: Christian Women Saints--Scotland--Edinburgh, Margaret--Queen, Consort Of Malcolm Iii, King Of Scotland--Ca. 1045-1093
...consolidation of his land and people. Stephens...from Bavaria with his queen, Gisela, the daughter...of those in whose land she now lived. She...that as a widowed queen and a foreigner her...mother of St Margaret, queen of Scotland. This...revered in his native land, matches so closely...
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Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's Private Secretary: His Life from His Letters
Book by Arthur Ponsonby; The Macmillan Company, 1943
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901, Ponsonby, Henry Frederick--Sir--1825-1895, Victoria--Queen of Great Britain--1819-1901
...LIMITED TORONTO HENRY PONSONBY QUEEN VICTORIAS PRIVATE SECRETARY His Life...CHAPTER IV QUEEN VICTORIAS POSITION 69 CHAPTER V THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE OF WALES 97...
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Queen Victoria's Secrets
Book by Adrienne Munich; Columbia University Press, 1996
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--19th Century, Queens--Great Britain--Biography, Victoria--Queen Of Great Britain--1819-1901, Women--Great Britain--History--19th Century
...un-British light, the craggy queen presides over a garden of...pinnacles, ridges, and spires in a land that her grandfather, King...portrait of the real life of a queen who never attends to business...wrote affectionately of Highland land- scapes and its people who...
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Reign of Queen Victoria
Book by Hector Bolitho; Macmillan, 1948
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901, Victoria--Queen Of Great Britain--1819-1901
...wrote, "Now you are Queen of the mightiest land of Europe. In your...campaigns fought during Queen Victorias reign...settlers dared to land on its dangerous...immense tracts of land giants compared...Revolution when Queen Victorias reign began...
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Writing Renaissance Queens: Texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Book by Lisa Hopkins; University of Delaware Press, 2002
Subjects: Elizabeth--I--Queen Of England--1533-1603--Literary Art, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--16th Century, Kings' And Rulers' Writings, English--History And Criticism, Kings' And Rulers' Writings, Scottish--History And Criticism, Mary--Queen Of Scots--1542-1587--In Literature, Mary--Queen Of Scots--1542-1587--Literary Art, Queens In Literature, Scotland--Intellectual Life--16th Century
...grateful to Row- land Wymer, Andrew Spong...Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots pro- duced...Margaret Tudor in Scot- land, and Catherine of...that of her fellow queen, Jeanne dAlbret) and...Some land-marke seemd to be...discloses the Faery Queen. 5 So insecure is...
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journal articles on: Queen Maud Land  - 43 results

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Love in the Garden: 'Maud,' 'Great Expectations,' and W.S. Gilbert's 'Sweethearts.'
Journal article by Alan Fischler; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 37, 1997
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Evolution--Usage, Gardens--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Gilbert, W.S.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Love--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Tennyson, Alfred Lord--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Your glory also, and render All homage to his own darling, Queen Maud in all her splendour. (1.20.824-36) He has actually...enlistment in the Crimean War - "I have felt with my native land," he says, "I am one with my kind, / I embrace the purpose...
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Obituaries
Journal article; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 165, 1999
Subjects: Kirwan, Larry--Appreciation, Royal Geographical Society--Officials and employees, Smith, C. Gordon--Appreciation
...become one of the Societys proudest achievements. It started in 1949 with the Norwegian-British-Swedish expedition to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. Kirwan was the projects hands-on Chief Executive Officer. He did the scientists proud. The President...
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The Nineteenth (1992) Supplement to a Cross-Referenced Index of Short Fiction Anthologies and Author-Title Listings
Journal article by Landon C. Burns, Elizabeth Buckmaster, Jane E. Cooper; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Anthologies--Bibliography, English literature--Collections and collecting, Short stories--Bibliography
...Sui Sin (Edith Maud Eaton) "In the Land of the Free...Queen, Ellery (Frederic...Paw" Queen, Ellery (Frederic...The Promised Land" Hartwell, The...Sui Sin (Edith Maud Eaton...Queen of Diamonds...
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"A Little Space": The Psychic Economy of Yeats's Love Poems
Journal article by Jahan Ramazani; Criticism, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Love poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Yeats, William Butler--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...self-effacement before the Queen, the dancer, Helen...poems as portraits of Maud Gonne and others, they...Words, vol. I of No Mans Land (New Haven: Yale University...Press, 1964), 111. (12.) Maud Gonne MacBride, A Servant of the Queen (London: Victor Gollancz...
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Sheridan le Fanu's Ungovernable Governesses
Journal article by Teresa Mangum; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 29, 1997
Subjects: Governesses--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Le Fanu, Sheridan--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex role in literature--Analysis
...trade again, literally or metaphorically, in her dealings with Maud invites comparison with another genre of governess "fiction...appropriateness of corporal punishment for girls, including The Queen, The Family Herald, and The English Womans Domestic Magazine...
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magazine articles on: Queen Maud Land  - 7 results

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Come into the Garden, Maud
Magazine article by Kate Sterns; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 109, Fall 2002
Subjects: Botanical gardens--Appreciation, Botanical gardens--History, Medicinal plants--History, Medicinal plants--Management, Paradise--History, Paradise--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Science, Medieval
...appointed Physician Extraordinary to Queen Anne and George I - and his growing bank...earlier become the leaseholder of the land on which the Chelsea Physic Garden was built, and in 1722 he leased the land back to the Apothecaries for the sum...
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City of Cities; Stephen Inwood, City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London (London: Macmillan, 2005)
Magazine article by Patricia Malcolmson; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 113, Spring 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London (Book)--Book reviews
...by Patricia Malcolmson As Queen Victoria reached her Golden Jubilee in...initially the line terminated in open land, but within months houses were rising all...of sliding into the same misery. Later, Maud Pember Reeves published Round about a Pound...
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Canada: The World's Second Largest Country Is a Multi-Cultural Land of Spectacular Diversity, Characterised by Extreme Temperatures, Fantastic Wildlife and Magnificent Landscapes
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 74, January 2002
Subjects: Canada--Description and travel
...the worlds second largest country is a multi-cultural land of spectacular diversity, characterised by extreme temperatures...named the Royal Geographical Society Islands lie in the Queen Maud Gulf off the Northwest Territories. Separated from the...
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A Princely Paradise
Magazine article by Stanley H. Murray; Insight on the News, Vol. 11, August 14, 1995
Subjects: Prince Edward Island--Description and travel
...home of novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery, as well...called PEI Abegweit -- "Land Cradled on the Waves...ship, the steamer Queen Victoria, to Providence...Theres even a Lucy Maud Montgomery Festival...do and see in Annes Land in addition to those...the south of Annes Land, and just west of...
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My Faulkner
Magazine article by Jamie James; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Summer 1999
Subjects: Authors--Biography, Faulkner, William--Biography, Oxford, Mississippi--Description and travel, Writers--Biography
...Falkners in addition to Miss Maud. (The novelist added that highfalutin...look away, look away, Dixie Land. By the time I was twenty...For me, he has become like the Queen Mother in Great Britain: at...How could my memories of Miss Maud Falkner not be shaped by the...
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newspaper articles on: Queen Maud Land  - 9 results

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Football: HIGHLAND AND MINOR CARD: Steve's Deal with Old Pal Dunc to Land Buckie Kid
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), January 15, 2005
...CARD: Steves Deal with Old Pal Dunc to Land Buckie Kid. STEVE PATERSON has made...End v Longside, Hermes v FC Stoneywood,Maud v Banks oDee, Stonehaven v Wilsons XI...Johnstone (11.0), Hamilton v Alloa (11.0), Queen of Sth v Queens Park (Sanquhar 2.0), Ross...
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Quiz Challenge; Time Out
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 20, 2008
Quiz Challenge; Time Out. 1. On which continent is Queen Maud Land? 2. For which Egyptian pharaoh was the Great Pyramid of Giza built? 3. What is the name of the marsh region around the delta of...
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50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 10, 2008
...26 A large segment of Antarctica is known as Queen Maud Land - of which country was Maud queen? 27 What is the technical name for the nine-gallon...which orchestral interlude? 29 Brazil shares a land border with all but two of the other countries...
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Antarctica's Treasures
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 27, 2004
...beauty; it is much more than 5.3 million square miles of land covered in snow and ice. Most of the continent is covered...names of their ships, monarchs, and relatives, including Queen Maud, Edward VII, George V and Wilhelm II. Antarctica is the...
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Mail TV; LYNN'S TIGHT ON; THE NILES
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), November 3, 1996
...her pals Joyce and Audrey set off for the land of the Pharoahs, it was obvious we were...slowing up. And mark my words - if old Maud, Norris, Fred Elliott, or Derek and Mavis...talk about a femme fatale. This Crumpet Queen of the Galaxy is one of four aliens who...
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encyclopedia articles on: Queen Maud Land  - 3 results

 
 
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Queen Maud Land
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUEEN MAUD LAND region: see Antarctica . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Antarctica
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the continent that is now called Queen Maud Land. In W Antarctica he discovered...was later claimed by Norway as Queen Maud Land. In Nov., 1935, U.S. explorer...135,000 sq mi (350,000 sq km) of Queen Maud Land. The Norwegians had done considerable...
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Prince Edward Island
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the Gulf. About 90% of the land is arable. The capital is...the story by islander Lucy Maud Montgomery , draw many visitors...of Kent, who later fathered Queen Victoria . The first permanent...repr. 1970); J. M. Bumsted, Land, Settlement, and Politics on...


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