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quince
Any of the fruit shrubs and small trees that make up the genus Cydonia, in the rose family. Common quince (C. oblonga) is native to Iran, Turkey, and perhaps Greece and the Crimea. The raw golden-yellow fruit has a strong fragrant aroma and astringent taste; it takes on a pink color when cooked and makes an excellent preserve. The Japanese quince (Chaenomeles species) is an ornamental shrub widely used for its flowers, which appear on the tightly branched stems before the leaves open fully in late winter and early spring.


Quinte
Arm of Lake Ontario, SE Ontario. It extends for 75 mi (121 km) from its entrance near Amherst Island to Murray Canal at the W end. A resort area, it is a scenic, narrow bay with many small inlets. Among the major settlements around the bay are Trenton, Belleville, Deseronto, and Picton. The bay's name was derived from Kenté , an Indian village on the bay's W shore.


China
Republic, E Asia. Area: 3,700,000 sq mi (9,583,000 sq km). Population (1997 est.): 1,227,740,000). Capital: Beijing. The Han, or ethnic Chinese, form more than nine-tenths of the population. Languages: Dialects of Han Chinese, most importantly Mandarin. Religions: Buddhism, Islam, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Taoism (all legally sanctioned). Currency: Renminbi (of which the unit is the yuan). China has several topographic regions. The SW area contains the Plateau of Tibet, which averages over 13,000 ft (4,100 m) above sea level; its central area, averaging more than 16,000 ft (5,000 m), is called "the Roof of the World." Higher yet are the border ranges, the Kunlun Mtns. to the north and the Himalayas to the south. China's NW region stretches from Afghanistan to the NE Manchurian Plain. The mountains of the Tian Shan separate China's two major interior basins, the Tarim Basin (containing the Taklimakan Desert) and the Dzungarian Basin. The Mongolian Plateau contains the southernmost part of the Gobi Desert. The lowlands of the E region include the Sichuan Basin, which runs along the Chang (Yangtze) River. The E region is separated into two parts by the divide between the Huang and Chang rivers. The Tarim is the major river in the northwest. China's smallest watershed, in the southwest, provides headwaters for the Brahmaputra, Salween, and Irrawaddy rivers. Its many other rivers include the Xi, Amur, Songhua, and Mekong. The discovery of Peking Man in 1927 dates the advent of early hominids to the Paleolithic period. Chinese civilization probably spread from the Huang River valley where it existed c.3000 BC. The first dynasty for which there is definite historical material is the Shang (c.17th cent. BC), which had a writing system and a calendar. The Zhou, a subject people of the Shang, defeated them in the 11th cent. BC and ruled until the 3rd cent. BC. Taoism and Confucianism were founded in this era. The area was beset by warring states until in 221 BC the Qin (Ch'in) dynasty (from ...

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