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Queens Village, Queens
Queens Village is a mostly residential neighborhood in eastern Queens, New York City, bordering Nassau County, known for single-family homes and its Long Island Rail Road station.
Queens' tombs of Nimrud
The Queens' tombs of Nimrud, also called the Tombs of the Queens, are four Neo-Assyrian burial chambers for royal women found beneath a palace at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1989.
Queensboro Bridge
The Queensboro Bridge, officially the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and also known as the 59th Street Bridge, is a double-deck cantilever bridge opened in 1909 that carries 59th Street between Manhattan and Queens.
Queensboro Plaza station
Queensboro Plaza is an elevated New York City Subway station in Long Island City, Queens, where the 7, N, and W trains meet near the Queensboro Bridge.
Queensbridge Houses
Queensbridge Houses, a NYCHA public housing development in Long Island City, Queens, opened 1939; the largest in the United States with 3,149 units, about 7,000 residents, Y-plan design by William F.R. Ballard, and home of rapper Nas.
Queensferry Crossing
The Queensferry Crossing, also known as the Second Forth Road Bridge, is a three-tower cable-stayed road bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland, opened in 2017.
Queensland
Queensland is Australia's second-largest, third-most-populous state, in the continent's northeast, capital Brisbane. Separated from New South Wales by 1859 Letters Patent; proclaimed 10 December 1859; federation state since 1901.
Queensland AC16 class locomotive
The Queensland Railways AC16 class, nicknamed the "Yanks", was twenty 2-8-2 steam locomotives built by Baldwin in the United States in 1943 under Lend-Lease during World War II.
Queensland Alumina Limited
Queensland Alumina Limited is an alumina refinery in Gladstone, Queensland, that opened in 1967 and produces about 3.8 million tonnes of alumina per year, refining bauxite from Weipa.
Queensland C17 class locomotive
The Queensland Railways C17 class was a class of 227 superheated 4-8-0 steam locomotives built between 1920 and 1953, the mainstay of the state's steam fleet, and nicknamed the Brown Bombers in its final batch.
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT), established 1 December 2009 under the QCAT Act 2009, is Queensland's independent civil, administrative and disciplinary tribunal handling minor civil disputes, government decision reviews, and appeals.
Queensland cricket team
Queensland cricket team, the Queensland Bulls, Brisbane-based state side of Queensland Cricket (est. 1876); entered Sheffield Shield 1926-27, won first title 1995 after 76 years, nine Shield and ten One Day Cup titles; coached by James Hopes since 2026.
Queensland Curtis LNG Terminal
Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) is a coal seam gas-fed LNG plant and export terminal on Curtis Island near Gladstone, Queensland, operated by Shell with 8.5 million tonnes annual capacity.
Queensland Health
Queensland Health is Queensland's public health system: the Department of Health plus 16 Hospital and Health Services under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011, with a $33.1 billion 2025-26 budget, 119,438 FTE staff, and the $18.53 billion Hospital Rescue Plan.
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC)
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) is a Queensland Government owned investment manager, constituted in 1991, that manages state assets and external clients, with A$131.6 billion under management in 2025.
Queensland premier
Queensland premier competitions: NPL Queensland, the state's top football league underpinning the A-Leagues, and the FQPL tiers below it, rebranded as the Queensland Premier League (QPL) from 2027, linked by promotion and relegation.
Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as Queensland Railways, is the statutory authority managing and operating the Queensland Government's rail network, with over 6,500 km of track across the Australian state.
Queensland state schools
Queensland state schools are the government-run primary, secondary, and special schools of Queensland, Australia. The Department of Education manages 1,268 schools funded by the State, with a Prep entry age tied to 30 June.
Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band formed in Bellevue, Washington in the early 1980s, known for the 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime and for selling more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Queenstown (TV series)
Queenstown is an upcoming 8-episode Netflix drama created by Chloe Stearns, starring Rufus Sewell and Frances O'Connor, set and filmed in Queenstown, New Zealand; Netflix's first locally commissioned NZ series, in production since July 2026 with no release date announced.
Queenstown Gardens
Te Kararo Queenstown Gardens: public garden and recreation reserve on a Lake Wakatipu peninsula in Queenstown, New Zealand, established 1867, managed by QLDC, with a rose garden, ice rink, disc golf, and conifer succession plan.
Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown, New Zealand: resort town on glacial Lake Wakatipu, Otago; 'adventure capital of the world' (bungy 1988, Coronet Peak 1947); 53,800 district residents, peak-summer swelling, tourism at 28.2% of GDP.
Queenstown, South Africa
Queenstown, officially renamed Komani in 2016, is an Eastern Cape town founded in 1853 as a British frontier military outpost, laid out around a unique central hexagon and named after Queen Victoria.
Queequeg
Queequeg is the tattooed Polynesian harpooneer in Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Ishmael's "married" companion and blood-brother, prince of Kokovoko, whose coffin saves Ishmael at the novel's end.
Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions outside societal norms, and shorthand for the LGBTQ community. Once a pejorative, it was reclaimed during the 1980s-1990s AIDS crisis and underpins queer theory.
Queer (novel)
Queer, William S. Burroughs's short autobiographical novel (also his novella), written 1952 and published 1985, sequel to Junky: William Lee's obsessive pursuit of Eugene Allerton in Mexico City, basis of Luca Guadagnino's 2024 film with Daniel Craig.
Queer anarchism
Queer anarchism (anarcha-queer) combines anarchist anti-statism with queer theory's critique of gender and sexual norms; rooted in early anarchists like Emma Goldman, consolidated academically around the 2010 Sexualities special issue and the Queering Anarchism anthology.
Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk is a 2022 American drama series on Peacock, a reimagining of Russell T. Davies's 1999 British series, created by Stephen Dunn and set in New Orleans.
Queer as Folk (American TV series)
Queer as Folk (US) is the Showtime drama series, adapted by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman from Russell T Davies's 1999 British original, about gay men and women in Pittsburgh; it ran five seasons, 83 episodes, 2000-2005, filmed in Toronto.
Queer as Folk (British TV series)
Queer as Folk is Russell T Davies' 1999 Channel 4 drama about three gay men on Manchester's Canal Street, the first UK TV drama with an almost entirely gay cast, later adapted for Showtime.