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Queensberry

Queensberry may refer to:

  • Queensberry (band), an all-female German pop group
  • Duke of Queensberry, a hereditary title in Scotland
  • Marquess of Queensberry, a hereditary title in Scotland
  • Marquess of Queensberry rules in boxing
  • Queensberry (hill), a hill in Scotland
  • Queensbury School (disambiguation)
  • Queensberry, New Zealand, locality in Otago region
Queensberry (hill)

Queensberry is a hill at the southern end of the Lowther Hills in southern Scotland.

Category:Marilyns of Scotland Category:Donalds Category:Mountains and hills of the Southern Uplands Category:Mountains and hills of Dumfries and Galloway Category:Grahams

Queensberry (band)

Queensberry was an all-female German pop group, founded in late 2008. Formed during the seventh season of the German version of the international television talent show Popstars, Popstars – Just 4 Girls, the original line-up consisted of singers Leonore Bartsch (Leo), Gabriella De Almeida Rinne (Gabby), Antonella Trapani (Anto), and Victoria Ulbrich (Vici). On 7 July 2010, it was announced that both Antonella and Victoria had left the group, to be replaced by new members, Selina Herrero and Ronja Hilbig.

The band's debut album Volume I was released in December 2008 and reached gold status in Germany. It produced the two singles No Smoke and I Can't Stop Feeling, both becoming top thirty successes in the charts. In February 2008, Queensberry served as the opening act for The Pussycat Dolls's Doll Domination Tour in selected European countries. In November 2009, the second studio album On My Own was released.

For the soundtrack of the film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Queensberry recorded The Song with The Chipettes in December 2009, which reached number 6 in the U.S. Billboard charts, with the film soundtrack reaching number 1 in the U.S. soundtrack charts.

Usage examples of "queensberry".

Argyll and Queensberry move about only with a full complement of Highland guards and swordsmen.

It grated on Queensberry to have to acquiesce to a man without political experience, a man decades younger than himself.

Argyll was returned to some remote battlefield, he, Queensberry, would be the one left to rule Scotland.

If he were malicious like Queensberry and had hied himself over at this early hour to torture her, please, she prayed, at least let Robbie be alive.

His gaze traveled across the room to where Queensberry held court in the midst of a throng.

Campbell stared at Queensberry for a moment, as if questioning his sanity.

He turned away and spoke quietly to his ADC, as though Queensberry no longer existed, and then walked from the room.

Not either of you, and not Argyll or Queensberry, not my damned brother, nor the Erskines.

His taste was for country life and country sports, and men like Queensberry with their penchant for evil offended him, when he bothered to notice.

The opposition had more than enough votes, even if Argyll and Queensberry mustered every bought and bribed man.

Argyll and Queensberry would be a force to be reckoned with in the future.

The brothers dominated Scottish politics after Queensberry died in 1711.

And then Queensberry can pay up the forty-two thousand pounds he used for bribery.

Godfrey was saying to his employer, the Duke of Queensberry, a thin, dark man of middle age.

All you and Queensberry would have is a dead defendant accused of rape.