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A pound cake that has been baked in a loaf pan. Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold. They are sometimes served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or with a coat of icing.
Joan Oliver i Sallarès ( Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈan uliˈβej səʎəˈɾɛs] ), also known by his pseudonym Pere Quart, (1899 in Sabadell – 1986 in Barcelona) was a Catalan poet, playwright, literary manager, translator, narrator, and journalist. He is considered one of the most important twentieth-century writers of Catalonia .
Les Inconnus. Les Inconnus ("The Unknowns") are a French trio of humourists consisting of Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus. While their first successes were on stage, they are most famous for their satirical sketch comedy television show La Télé des Inconnus, which premiered in 1990 and remained popular throughout the ...
Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton, was published with a collection of his early works (1936's Collected Poems 1909–1935 ). After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, which were ...
Catalan time system. The Catalan time system is the traditional manner in which to tell time in Catalan, and it is exclusive to this language. [1] Telling the time through this system works by dividing it in fractions of a quarter and half a quarter of an hour. Hour-fractions refer to the starting hour, taking into account that when a clock ...
Quatre Bornes ( Mauritian Creole pronunciation: [kat (ʁe) boːn] ), also known as La Ville des Fleurs (The City of Flowers), is a town in Mauritius, located mainly in the Plaines Wilhems District. Its western part lies in the Rivière Noire District. The town is administered by the Municipal Council of Quatre Bornes.
The quart (symbol: qt) [1] is a unit of volume equal to a quarter of a gallon. Three kinds of quarts are currently used: the liquid quart and dry quart of the US customary system and the imperial quart of the British imperial system. All are roughly equal to one liter. It is divided into two pints or (in the US) four cups.
Academic quarter (year division), a division of an academic year lasting from 8 to 12 weeks. Quarter days, in British and Irish tradition, one of four dates in each year on which rents, etc. were due. Quarter (calendar year), one of four divisions of a calendar year. One of four divisions (each three months) of a fiscal year.