Quéant (French pronunciation: [keɑ̃]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Quéant is situated 15 miles...
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war. The Drocourt–Quéant Line (also referred to as the Drocourt–Quéant Switch) ran between the French cities of Drocourt and Quéant and was part of a...
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"Ut queant laxis" or "Hymnus in Ioannem" is a Latin hymn in honor of John the Baptist, written in Horatian Sapphics with text traditionally attributed...
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British Columbia. It was named in 1918 after Quéant, a village in France. Geography of British Columbia "Queant Mountain". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved...
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Quéant Road Cemetery is a World War I cemetery located between the villages of Buissy and Quéant in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France. Situated on...
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Mont Saint-Quentin. (Details) September 2–3 Western Battle of Drocourt-Queant Line, final phase of the Second Battle of the Somme. (Details) September...
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the Battle of the Scarpe (1918) (26 August) and the Battle of Drocourt-Queant Line (2 September). South of the BEF, the French First Army approached the...
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Page number O1 order B2 order Title and text Meaning 500 1 7 UT QUEANT LAXIS At 2424-42-424-44-224-24-42-24, take the orthogonal. To find the Spiral with...
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single day, 2 September 1918, for actions across the 30 km long Drocourt-Quéant Line near Arras, France. The other six were Arthur George Knight, William...
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the hexachord after the first syllable of each line of the Latin hymn "Ut queant laxis", the "Hymn to St. John the Baptist", yielding ut, re, mi, fa, sol...
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line, strengthening the third line and the new Wotanstellung (Drocourt–Quéant switch line) further back. After the Allied conference at Chantilly, Haig...
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based on a hymn to Saint John the Baptist. The hymn that begins with Ut Queant Laxis uses the first syllable for each line – Ut (later changed to Do),...
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and la – derive their names from the first syllable of the lines of Ut queant laxis, a Latin hymn. Alphabet effect History of the alphabet Logogram Just...
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February, found a line between Quéant and Etaing. The British were able to trace the new line (named the Drocourt–Quéant Switch) south to Bellicourt on...
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Baptist, which begins Ut Queant Laxis and was written by the Lombard historian Paul the Deacon. The first stanza is: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris, Mira...
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Pont-à-Vendin Le Portel Prédefin Pressy Preures Pronville-en-Artois Puisieux Quéant Quelmes Quercamps Quernes Le Quesnoy-en-Artois Quesques Questrecques Quiéry-la-Motte...
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Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre...
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Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster Tower Vis-en-Artois...
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Villers-Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Bethune, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Epehy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal,...
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lacerari rem publicam patiantur, cum ipsi auxilium ferre si cupiant non queant. Those apologies, therefore, in which men take refuge as an excuse for...
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Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster Tower Vis-en-Artois...
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of the Somme Battle of the Lys Battle of the Scarpe Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line Battle of the Canal du Nord Battle of the Selle Battle of Valenciennes...
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attacked eastward, smashing the outer defence lines near the powerful Drocourt-Quéant Line (the Wotan Stellung section of the Hindenburg line), along the Arras-Cambrai...
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Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1914–18...
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hexachords (the names of which—ut re mi fa sol la—were taken from the hymn "Ut queant laxis"). The Guidonian hand was reproduced in numerous medieval treatises...
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(do-re-mi-fa-sol-la) are taken from the six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, the notes of which are successively raised by one step, and the text...
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CCLXXXII Bde contributing to the barrages, and then storming the Drocourt-Quéant Switch Line on 2 September. For this operation CCLXXXII was one of seven...
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Pont-à-Vendin Le Portel Prédefin Pressy Preures Pronville-en-Artois Puisieux Quéant Quelmes Quercamps Quernes Le Quesnoy-en-Artois Quesques Questrecques Quiéry-la-Motte...
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Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster Tower Vis-en-Artois...
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syllables of the first six musical phrases of a Gregorian chant melody Ut queant laxis, whose successive lines began on the appropriate scale degrees. These...
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