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Q (New York City Subway service) The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored yellow on the route sign (either on the front and/or side - depending on equipment used) and on station signs and the NYC Subway map, as it represents a service provided on the BMT Broadway Line through Manhattan.
Q (programming language) Q (which stands for equational programming language) is an interpreted, interactive functional programming language created by Albert Gräf at the University of Mainz in Germany. Q programs are just collections of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in a symbolic fashion.
Q (Star Trek) Q, played by John de Lancie, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe who appears in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. The name "Q" is also shared by other members of the Q Continuum.
Q (TV series) Spike Milligan's Q was a surreal television comedy sketch show which ran from 1969 to 1983 on BBC2. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, with the remainder running for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long.
Q and A Q and A (ISBN 0-7432-6747-8) is the first novel by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat. Set in India, it tells the story of Ram Mohammad Thomas, a poor young waiter who becomes the biggest quiz-show winner in history, only to be sent to jail on accusations that he cheated.
Q clearance Q clearance is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance equivalent to a United States Department of Defense Top Secret (TS) clearance. DOE clearances apply for access specifically relating to atomic or nuclear related materials.
Q code The Q code is a standardized collection of three-letter message encodings, all starting with the letter "Q", initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication, and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. Although Q codes were created when radio used Morse code exclusively, they continued to be employed after the introduction of voice transmissions.
Q Camp The Q Camp was an experimental community set up in Essex on Mainland Britain towards the end of the Second World War. It was envisioned as a self governing community populated by disturbed or delinquent City children who were not suitable for inclusion in the evacuation program due to their behavioural problems.
Q Continuum (Star Trek) In the Star Trek universe, the Q Continuum is an extradimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of seemingly omnipotent, immortal and omniscient hyperintelligent godlike beings known as the Q. Although they have individual, flawed personalities (they seem prone to arrogance, for instance, although they would argue that an omnipotent being has every right to be arrogant) their power seems unlimited ("I have unlimited control over space, matter and time" -Q2).
Q Entertainment Q Entertainment creates, produces, and publishes in digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi in 2003, former creator and producer of Sega, and Shuji Utsumi, former founding member of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Senior VP of Sega Enterprise, and head of Disney (Buena Vista Games) Asia.
Q factor The Q factor or quality factor compares the time constant for decay of an oscillating physical system's amplitude to its oscillation period. Equivalently, it compares the frequency at which a system oscillates to the rate at which it dissipates its energy.
Q magazine's 50 worst albums of all time Q magazine's 50 worst albums of all time is a survey compiled in the April 2006 edition of the magazine. Those working at Q magazine chose, though it is rumored that fellow artists helped in the deciding of the top 50.
Q meter A Q meter is a piece of equipment used in the testing of radio frequency circuits. The Q meter has been largely replaced in professional laboratories by other types of impedance measuring device, though it is still in use among radio amateurs
Q Public License The Q Public License (QPL) is a non-copyleft free software license created by Trolltech for its free edition of the Qt toolkit. It captures the general meaning of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), but is incompatible with it, meaning that you cannot legally distribute products derived from both GPL'ed and QPL'ed code.
Q star Q-Stars, also known as a gray holes, are compact, heavier neutron stars with an exotic state of matter. Q-Stars should not be mistaken for Quark stars, as the Q does not stand for quark, but stands for a conserved particle number.
Q Score The Q Score is a way to measure the familiarity and appeal of a brand, company, celebrity, cartoon character or television show. The higher the Q Score, the more well-known and well thought of the item or person being scored is.
Q Squared Joe Q Squared Joe (also known in the abbreviated name of Q²J, or Q2J) is a popular card game among students at Harbord Collegiate Institute. It can be played with two to ten players, and one standard 52-card pack is used.
Q Television Network Q Television Network was an American cable television channel which aired programming targeted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender audiences. Owned by Triangle Multimedia, the channel aired a mix of film, documentary and music programming, along with a number of original talk and information programs.
Q TV Q TV is a UK music channel based on Q Magazine. Like the magazine, the station is run by EMAP and specialises in indie, rock and alternative, although recently much of the prime time output of the channel is instead given over to FHM TV, based on another magazine (also by EMAP), which specialises mainly on female R&B and pop groups.
Q'eqchi' language The Q'eqchi' language is spoken in Belize and Guatemala. Several Maya communities in the Toledo District in Belize use this language as their first language, while the majority of Mayas in Toledo speak Q'eqchi'.
Q're perpetuum A Q're perpetuum or standing Q're is a technical orthographic device to indicate the pronunciation of certain words in the masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). The masoretes inherited a form of the Biblical text written in the consonantal letters of the Hebrew alphabet (with only a very limited and ambiguous indication of vowels by means of matres lectionis), and never altered this basic consonantal text when they annotated it with the written vowel diacritic symbols which they invented.
Q-based narrowing In semantics, Q-based narrowing is narrowing (a reduction in a word's range of meanings) that is caused by Grice's Maxim of Quantity (see Gricean maxims). Q-based narrowing occurs when a word A is a hypernym of a word B — that is, when every instance of B is an example of A.
Q-difference polynomial In combinatorial mathematics, the q-difference polynomials or q-harmonic polynomials are a polynomial sequence defined in terms of the q-derivative. They are a type of Brenke polynomial, and generalize the Appell polynomials.
Q-Free Q-Free ASA () is a electronic toll collection technology (ETC) deveopment company based in Trondheim, Norway. The company delivers systems for toll collection and automated ticketing globally and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Q-Chem Q-Chem is a computational chemistry software program. Q-Chem can perform a number of general quantum chemistry calculations, including Hartree-Fock, density functional theory (DFT), coupled cluster (CC), configuration interaction (for single electron excitations -- CIS) and other advanced electronic structure methods.
Q-learning Q-learning is a reinforcement learning technique that works by learning an action-value function that gives the expected utility of taking a given action in a given state and following a fixed policy thereafter. A strength with Q-learning is that it is able to compare the expected utility of the available actions without requiring a model of the environment.
Q-mart Q-Mart, or the Quakertown Farmer's Market, is a historical landmark in the town of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The Q-Mart has been around since 1932, where it continues to offer vendors the finest spaces to sell new and used goods, food, and more.
Q-Q plot In statistics, a Q-Q plot ("Q" stands for quantile) is a tool for diagnosing differences in distributions (such as non-normality) of a population from which a random sample has been taken. One plots the k/(n + 1)-quantiles of the comparison distributon (e.
Q-switching Q-switching, sometimes known as giant pulse formation, is a technique by which a laser can be made to produce a pulsed output beam. The technique allows the production of light pulses with extremely high (gigawatt) peak power, much higher than would be produced by the same laser if it were operating in a continuous wave (constant output) mode.
Q-systems The Q-Systems are a method of directed graph transformations according to given grammar rules, developed at the University of Montreal by Alain Colmerauer in the late 1960's for use in natural language processing. The University of Montreal's machine translation system, TAUM-73, used the Q-Systems as its language formalism.
Q-Stein The Q-stein empire is one of the three nations in the PlayStation 2 game Seek and Destroy, the other two being The Proton Kingdom and Nibelia. The Q-stein empire is portrayed as being evil, and is the player's enemy.
Q-type asteroid Q-type asteroids are relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids with a strong, broad 1 micrometre olivine and pyroxene feature, and a spectral slope that indiciates the presence of metal. There are absorption features shortwards and longwards of 0.
Q-type Queens car (New York City Subway car) The Q-Type (and QX) was a New York City Subway car rebuilt in 1938 by the BMT for elevated railway service to the 1939 New York World's Fair from BU cars in the 1200 and 1400 series, elevated stock originally built in 1903 and 1907.
Q-Tip (rapper) Q-Tip (born Jonathan Davis on April 10, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American rapper, actor, and hip hop producer, and is the former leader of the group A Tribe Called Quest. He converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed.
Q-Unique Q-Unique originally found fame as a breakdancer with the legendary Rock Steady Crew, re-starting the crew with leader Crazy Legs in 1989. Q-Unique is known for his extremely complex rap lyrics and flows on tracks such as the Arsonists and Non Phixion collaboration "14 Years Of Rap".
Q-Zar Q-Zar (called Quasar in the UK and Republic of Ireland) is a type of laser tag that was developed by Jeff Hazelhurst and Omnitronics in Perth, Western Australia. The rights were later sold to a company based in Ireland which in turn sold them to Q-Zar International based in Mesquite, Texas.
Q&A (film) Q & A is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a young assistant district attorney named Aloysius "Al" Francis Reilly (Timothy Hutton) seeking to prove a case against a corrupt NYPD police detective, Michael Brennan (Nick Nolte). Reilly encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss by the name of Roberto 'Bobby Tex' Texador (Armand Assante), who refuses to help him.
Q&A website A Q&A website is a type of humorous website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons to answer input from the site's visitors, usually in question/answer format. This format of website evolved from the much older Internet Oracle.
Q10 (temperature coefficient) The Q10 temperature coefficient is a measure of the rate of change of a biological or chemical system as a consequence of increasing the temperature by 10 °C. There are many examples where the Q10 is used, one being the calculation of the nerve conduction velocity and another being calculating the contraction velocity of muscle fibres.
Q2CTF Quake II ThreeWave Capture the Flag also known as Zoid's CTF, or Q2CTF, or simply (Vanilla) CTF within the Quake II community, is an objective-based teamplay mod for Quake II inspired by the traditional Capture the Flag game.
Qaafiyaa Qaafiyaa is a device employed in a form of Urdu poetry known as Ghazal (a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain). The Qaafiyaa is the rhyming pattern of words that must directly proceed the Ghazal's Radif.
Qaboos of Oman Sayyed Qaboos bin Sa’id Al â€Bu Sa’id (Arabic: قابŮŘł بن سعيد آل سعيد born November 18, 1940 in Salalah) is the current Sultan of Oman. He rose to power after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur, in 1970.
Qadi Qadi (also known as Qazi and Kadi) (Arabic: قاضى) is a judge ruling in accordance with the sharia, Islamic religious law. Because Islam makes no distinction between religious and secular domains, qadis traditionally have jurisdiction over all legal matters involving Muslims.
Qadi Magsi Qadir Magsi is the Chairman of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STP) and Convenor of Sindh Chapter of Pakistan Operessed Nations Movement (PONAM). He is a graduate of Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, presently Liquat Medical University.
Qadiani Problem (book) Qadiani Problem is a book written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi. In this book he argues that, according to Qur'an and hadiths, that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, do not belong to Islam, as they do not believe in the concept of the Seal of the Prophets.
Qadiriyyah Qadiriyyah (Arabic: القادريه) (also transliterated Qadiri and Qadri), is one of the oldest Sufi tariqas, derives its name from Abdul Qadir Jilani (also transliterated as Gilani) (1077-1166), a native of the Iranian province of Gilan. In 1134 he was made principal of a Hanbalite school in Baghdad.
Qadr (munition) The 9A Qadr is Iran's first generation of air-launched PGMs has been developed by the missile-manufacturing companies of the Iranian Ministry of Defence (and not the well-established Aerospace Industries Organisation, builder of Iran's surface-to-surface guided weapons).
Qadriddin Aslonov Qadriddin Aslonov (: Қадриддин ĐŃлонов/قدرالدین اصلانŮŮ), also spelled Kadriddin Aslonov, was acting President of Tajikistan between August 31 and September 23, 1991. When his predecessor Qahhor Mahkamov resigned as the Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the republic, Aslonov was elected his successor.
Qadry Ismail Qadry Rahmadan Ismail (born November 8, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey) is a former American football player. Ismail played for the Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, and Indianapolis Colts during his ten year career.
Qadura Fares Qadura Fares () is a Palestinian Authority minister. He is a close friend, aide and adviser to senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, and a member of the Legislative Council, the parliament of the Palestinian Authority.
Qaf (Cyrillic) The Cyrillic letter Ka descender or Qaf (in Kazakh) (Ňš,Ň›) is a Đš with a descender. It is used in a number of Turkic spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including Tajik, Kazakh, Uzbek, Uighur and several smaller languages (Karakalpak, Tofalar), where it represents a voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
Qafqaz University Qafqaz University (Azerbaijani: Qafqaz Universiteti; the name translates as Caucasus University) is a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was founded in 1992 and was the first and the only foreign private university in the country.
Qaha Qaha (also spelled Kaha) is a city in northeastern Egypt, located 25 km (18 mins) north of Cairo. Qaha is located in the rich farmland of the southern part of the Nile Delta and is well-irrigated by canals leading off the Delta Barrage.
Qahir Al Amwaj The Qahir Al Amwaj (and her sister ship Al Mua'zzer) is a stealth ship of the Oman Qahir class, owned by the navy of Oman. It was build in the United Kingdom based on the Mark 9 corvette, utilizing both radar-absorbent materials in the hull as well as angled shapes to minimize radar refraction.
Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi (1920-1976) (Arabic: Ů‚Řطان Ů…ŘŮ…ŘŻ الشعبي) was the first President of the People's Republic of South Yemen. Al-Shaabi's National Liberation Front party wrested control of the country from the British and won political supremacy over the opposition Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen in 1967.
Qaid Qaid is considered a "valid" word according to the paperwork included in the game Scrabble. Rights to the Scrabble game are owned by Hasbro, offers an online "dictionary" that validates the word but does not offer a definition.
Qal3ah Al-Qal3ah, Qal3ah, or Qal3ati (, al-qalÄĘ»ah — "the castle"; the 3 is an ASCII representation of the Arabic Řą commonly used online) is an Internet forum. It is infamous for being the site on which announcements and discussions by Islamic extremists have taken place, including the posting of several decapitation videos of prisoners captured by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's forces in Iraq.
Qala i Naw District Qala i Naw, also Qalay-I-Naw or Qalanou (from the Persian: قلعه نŮ), is a district in the west of Badghis Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 82,525 in 1990; the ethnic makeup is approximately 80% Tajik with small numbers of Pashtun, Baloch, Uzbek and Turkmen.
Qala'un Mosque The Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Mosque, commonly known as the Qala'un Mosque, is an early 14th century mosque in the heart of Cairo, Egypt. It was built by the Mamluk sultan Al-Nasr Muhammad in 1318 as the royal mosque of the Citadel, where the sultans of Cairo performed their Friday prayers.
Qalander Ba Ba Auliya Abdal-e-Haq, Husn-e-Ukhra Syed Muhammad Azeem Barkhiya commonly renowned as Qalander Ba Ba Auliya (1898, Uttar Pradesh, India to January 27, 1979, Karachi), was a sufi, spiritual and religious leader and scholar in the field of Islam and Spiritualism from Pakistan. He was the founder of the Silsila-e-Azeemia (which is currently headed by Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi) and patron of monthly.
Qalansawe Qalansawe () is a city in the Center District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004, the city had a total population of 16,400, making it the 2nd smallest city in the country.
Qale Mere Qadir Abdullazade also known as Qale mere (pron: Qala Mara) born in village of Kulice (pron: Kulija) in northwestern Iran, is one of the best known Kurdish traditional musicians. He plays Shimshal (ĹźimĹźal (long flute)), a Kurdish traditional music instrument.
Qalyub Qalyub () is a town in the Al Qalyubiyah governorate of Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. In 1986 its population was 84,413, and its geographical coordinates are .
Qamdo County Qamdo County, also Chamdo County, Changdu County (Tibetan: ཆབ་ŕ˝ŕ˝‘ོ་རྫོང་; Wylie: Chab mdo rdzong; ) is a county in Tibet Autonomous Region, and the seat of government of Qamdo Prefecture. Qamdo county has an area of 10,700 km² and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan.
Qamdo Prefecture Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་ŕ˝ŕ˝‘ོ་ས་ŕ˝ŕ˝´ŕ˝ŁŕĽ‹; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: ćŚé˝ĺś°ĺŚş; pinyin: ChÄngdĹ« DìqĹ«) is a subnational entity in the eastern part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, containing the town of Chamdo. The capital of the prefecture is Qamdo County.
Qamishli Qamishli (Arabic: القامشلي, Kurdish: QamiĹźlo, Syriac: Ü©ÜˇÜ«Ü Üť Turkish: Kamışlı) is a city in northeast Syria on the border with Turkey and close to Iraq. It is part of the Al Hasakah governorate and the center of an administrative district.
Qana Qana (in ) is a village in southern Lebanon located 10Â km southeast of the city of Tyre and 12Â km north of the border with Israel. The 10,000 residents of Qana are primarily Shiite Muslim"Lebanese Town Lays Claim To Jesus Christ's First Miracle", Associated Press, January 12, 1994.
Qana airstrike The 2006 Qana airstrike was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on a building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. A three-story building collapsed following the airstrike, burying a large number of Lebanese refugees sheltering inside.
Qanat A qanat (from ) or kareez (from ) is a water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water to human settlements or for irrigation in hot, arid and semi-arid climates. The technology is known to have developed in ancient Persia, and then spread to other cultures, especially along the Silk Road as far east as China as well as by Arabic cultures as far west as Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula.
Qandala Qandala City is an ancient harbour, and like many other Somali ports on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, may had been frequented by Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Yemenis, Greeks and Roman sailors. A diary dated to 50 CE contains a map of all the ports and their importance.
Qango (band) Qango was a short-lived progressive rock band, a spin-off from Asia. In 1999, an attempt was made at a partial reunion of the progressive rock supergroup Asia involving John Wetton (bass, vocals), Carl Palmer (drums) and Geoff Downes (keys).
Qantas fatal accidents Famously, Qantas quote that they have never had a fatal jet airliner accident. While this is true, the Australian national airline suffered several losses in its early days, before the widespread adoption of the jet engine in civilian aviation.
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 察ĺ¸ćźĄĺ°”錫伯自治县; pinyin: ChábĂąchá'Ä›r XĂbĂł ZìzhìxiĂ n; also transliterated as Chapchal) in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture in northern Xinjiang is the only Xibe autonomous county of the People's Republic of China. It has an area of 4,430 square kilometers and a population 160,000 (2000).
Qaqa Mach'ay Located in the Yauyos district of central Peru, Qaqa Mach'ay (Cliff Cave) is a limestone cave high in the Andes Mountains that was explored and surveyed in 2004 by an international expedition. At 4930m above sealevel, it is the highest surveyed cave in the world.
Qara The Qara tribes are Arab tribes which descend from their forebear called "Amr Hakli" who came from Kindah, a famous Arab tribe whose area of influence was south central Arabia; from the Yemeni border nearly up to Mecca. The Qara live in Dhofar, which is in the present-day sultanate of Oman.
Qara Iskander Qara Iskander ibn Yusuf ruled the Kara Koyunlu or Black Sheep Turcoman tribe from 1420-1436. His struggles with the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh show that he was a brave leader, but he was not able to continue developing what he inherited from his father Qara Yusuf and his reign saw the decline and attenuation of the Kara Koyunlu.
Qarabagh District, Kabul Qara Bagh (Also Kara Bagh or Qarabagh) is a district which is located 50 kilometers north of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and 20 kilometers southeast of Bagram Airbase. This district is the part of Kabul province and is on the route between Kabul and Parwan province.
Qarachi Qarachi (Tatar: Qaraçı) was the highest level of noble within Turkic khanates of 14-16 centuries, such as Siberian Khanate and Kazan Khanate. The name could be applied to the member of the four extended families: Shirin (Şirin), Barghen (Barğın), Arghen (Arğın), Qepchaq (Qıpçaq).
Qaraqum Canal The Qaraqum Canal (formerly called the Karakumsky Kanal) is the largest irrigation and water supply canal in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it is navigable over much of its 1,375 km length, and carries 13 kmÂł of water annually from the Amu-Darya River across the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan.
Qaratay Qaratays are an ethnic group within Mordvins in Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan around Mordva Qaratay village. They speak Tatar complemented by Mordvin words, sometimes considered as Qaratay Dialect of Kazan Tatar language.
Qareen Qareens (قرين, also spelled Kareen or Qarin) according to Islamic literature are evil spirits, analogous to a personal demon, intent on tricking people into acts of sin. Qareens are unique to each individual, according to sorcery books, they can be summoned by psychics after a person's death, such as in a seance, for the soul goes to God and the unruly qareen would remain on earth.
Qarmatians The Qarmatians, Arabic qarÄmita قرامطة (also spelled "Carmathians", "Qarmathians", "Karmathians" etc.) were an extremist (ghulÄt) IsmÄ'Ä«lÄ« Muslim sect centered in eastern Arabia, particularly Bahrain, where they established a utopian community in 899 CE.
Qarqar (Karkar) Qarqar is the name of an ancient town in northwestern Syria, known from Neo-Assyrian sources. It was the site of one of the most important battles of the ancient world, the battle of Qarqar, fought in 853 BCE when the army of Assyria, led by king Shalmaneser III, encountered an allied force comprising military units from 11 local kingdoms.
Qaruh Island Qaruh Island () is an island belonging to the state of Kuwait which received its name from the large amounts of petroleum sediments in the area (known as Qar in Arabic). It is the smallest of the nine islands, and also the furthest island from the Kuwaiti mainland.
Qashliq Qashliq, Isker or Sibir (Tatar language: Qaşlıq or İskär) was a medieval (14th-16th century) Siberian Tatar city near the right bank of the Irtysh river (12 miles south-east of the modern Tobolsk). Since the end of the 15th century it was the capital of the Siberian Khanate.
Qashqadaryo Province Qashqadaryo Province (), old spelling Kashkadarya Province is a viloyat (province) of Uzbekistan, located in the southern part of the country in the basin of the Qashqadaryo River and the western slopes of the Pamir Mountains. It borders with Turkmenistan, Samarqand Province, Buxoro Province and Surxondaryo Province.
Qashqai Qashqai /qash qa: ee/ (also spelled Ghashghai, Kashgai, Qashqay and Qashqa'i) are a Turkic-speaking tribal confederation of clans in Iran. They mainly live in the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan, but especially around the city of Shiraz in Fars.
Qasidah modern Qasidah modern is a type of Indonesian music which originates from the word, Qasidah, an ancient Arabic word for religious poetry accompanied by chanting and percussion. Qasidah modern applies this to a greater audience.
Qasim Amin Qasim Amin (1863-1908) was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian National Movement and Cairo University. Born to an upper Egyptian mother and an Ottoman father who had served as an administrator in Kurdistan then Egypt, Amin is perhaps most noted as an early advocate of women's rights in Egyptian society.
Qasim Khanate Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim (Tatar: QasĂm xanlığı, QasĂm patĹźalığı; Russian: КаŃимовŃкое Ń…Đ°Đ˝Ńтво, КаŃимовŃкое царŃтво) was a Tatar territorial formation (khanate), vassal of Muscovy, which existed from 1452 till 1681 in the territory of modern Ryazan Oblast in Russia with its capital Kasimov, in the middle stream of the Oka River. It was created in the lands that Vasili II presented to the Kazan prince Qasim khan, son of the first Kazan khan Olug Moxammat.
Qasim Mitchell Qasim Mitchell (born December 3, 1979 in Jacksonville, North Carolina) is an American football tackle, a free agent in the NFL. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent out of North Carolina A&T State University by the Cleveland Browns.
Qasim Sultan al-Banna Qasim Sultan al-Banna has been director general of Dubai Municipality since 1992. He was educated till 10th standard in Dubai schools and started his career as a land surveyor in Dubai municipality in 1958 till he was retired in 2006.
Qasr Amra Qasr Amra (Arabic: قصر عمرة) is the best-known of the desert castles located in present-day eastern Jordan. The castle was built early in the 8th century (probably between 711 and 715) by the Umayyad caliph Walid I whose dominance of the region was rising at the time.
Qasr Ibrim Qasr Ibrim () is an archeological site in Lower Nubia. Originally it was a major city perched on a cliff above the Nile, but the flooding of Lake Nasser after the construction of the Aswan High Dam turned it into an island and flooded its outskirts.
Qasr-e Shirin Qasr-e Shirin, literally translated from Persian as Palace of Shirin, is a historical city in Kermanshah province which was built during the Sassanid dynastic era (226-651 AD). It was built by the king Khosrow Parviz and named after his wife Shirin.
Qat in Yemen Qat is a large, slow growing, evergreen shrub, reaching a height of between 1 and 5 metres, in equatorial regions it may reach a height of 10 meters.Catha Edulis (Qat plant) Its scientific name is Catha Edulis.
Qat'aa Qat'aa is a part of soazkhwani / mersiya-khwani; Qat'aa is also known as Ruba'ee and perform before marsiya-khwani. Qat'aa, Ruba'ee, Soaz, Salaam & then Marsiya, when these are performed combined then its called SOAZKHWANI / MARSIYA-KHWANI.
Qatar Academy Qatar Academy is a non-profit, private, co-educational school for students from all nationalities, located in Qatar Foundation's Education City, Doha, Qatar. It is an educational institution which was founded in 1996 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar.
Qatar ExxonMobil Open The Qatar ExxonMobil Open is tennis tournament held in the city of Doha, in the country of Qatar. The Qatar ExxonMobil Open is one of the first tennis tournaments of the year, held in the first full week of January.
Qatar Foundation The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, chartered, non-profit organization in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, founded in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar. Guided by the principle that a nation's greatest resource is the potential of its people, the Qatar Foundation aims to develop that potential through a network of centers devoted to progressive education, research and community welfare.
Q (programming language) Q (which stands for equational programming language) is an interpreted, interactive functional programming language created by Albert Gräf at the University of Mainz in Germany. Q programs are just collections of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in a symbolic fashion.
Q (Star Trek) Q, played by John de Lancie, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe who appears in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. The name "Q" is also shared by other members of the Q Continuum.
Q (TV series) Spike Milligan's Q was a surreal television comedy sketch show which ran from 1969 to 1983 on BBC2. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, with the remainder running for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long.
Q and A Q and A (ISBN 0-7432-6747-8) is the first novel by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat. Set in India, it tells the story of Ram Mohammad Thomas, a poor young waiter who becomes the biggest quiz-show winner in history, only to be sent to jail on accusations that he cheated.
Q clearance Q clearance is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance equivalent to a United States Department of Defense Top Secret (TS) clearance. DOE clearances apply for access specifically relating to atomic or nuclear related materials.
Q code The Q code is a standardized collection of three-letter message encodings, all starting with the letter "Q", initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication, and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. Although Q codes were created when radio used Morse code exclusively, they continued to be employed after the introduction of voice transmissions.
Q Camp The Q Camp was an experimental community set up in Essex on Mainland Britain towards the end of the Second World War. It was envisioned as a self governing community populated by disturbed or delinquent City children who were not suitable for inclusion in the evacuation program due to their behavioural problems.
Q Continuum (Star Trek) In the Star Trek universe, the Q Continuum is an extradimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of seemingly omnipotent, immortal and omniscient hyperintelligent godlike beings known as the Q. Although they have individual, flawed personalities (they seem prone to arrogance, for instance, although they would argue that an omnipotent being has every right to be arrogant) their power seems unlimited ("I have unlimited control over space, matter and time" -Q2).
Q Entertainment Q Entertainment creates, produces, and publishes in digital entertainment content across multiple game consoles, PC broadband and mobile units. It was founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi in 2003, former creator and producer of Sega, and Shuji Utsumi, former founding member of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Senior VP of Sega Enterprise, and head of Disney (Buena Vista Games) Asia.
Q factor The Q factor or quality factor compares the time constant for decay of an oscillating physical system's amplitude to its oscillation period. Equivalently, it compares the frequency at which a system oscillates to the rate at which it dissipates its energy.
Q magazine's 50 worst albums of all time Q magazine's 50 worst albums of all time is a survey compiled in the April 2006 edition of the magazine. Those working at Q magazine chose, though it is rumored that fellow artists helped in the deciding of the top 50.
Q meter A Q meter is a piece of equipment used in the testing of radio frequency circuits. The Q meter has been largely replaced in professional laboratories by other types of impedance measuring device, though it is still in use among radio amateurs
Q Public License The Q Public License (QPL) is a non-copyleft free software license created by Trolltech for its free edition of the Qt toolkit. It captures the general meaning of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), but is incompatible with it, meaning that you cannot legally distribute products derived from both GPL'ed and QPL'ed code.
Q star Q-Stars, also known as a gray holes, are compact, heavier neutron stars with an exotic state of matter. Q-Stars should not be mistaken for Quark stars, as the Q does not stand for quark, but stands for a conserved particle number.
Q Score The Q Score is a way to measure the familiarity and appeal of a brand, company, celebrity, cartoon character or television show. The higher the Q Score, the more well-known and well thought of the item or person being scored is.
Q Squared Joe Q Squared Joe (also known in the abbreviated name of Q²J, or Q2J) is a popular card game among students at Harbord Collegiate Institute. It can be played with two to ten players, and one standard 52-card pack is used.
Q Television Network Q Television Network was an American cable television channel which aired programming targeted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender audiences. Owned by Triangle Multimedia, the channel aired a mix of film, documentary and music programming, along with a number of original talk and information programs.
Q TV Q TV is a UK music channel based on Q Magazine. Like the magazine, the station is run by EMAP and specialises in indie, rock and alternative, although recently much of the prime time output of the channel is instead given over to FHM TV, based on another magazine (also by EMAP), which specialises mainly on female R&B and pop groups.
Q'eqchi' language The Q'eqchi' language is spoken in Belize and Guatemala. Several Maya communities in the Toledo District in Belize use this language as their first language, while the majority of Mayas in Toledo speak Q'eqchi'.
Q're perpetuum A Q're perpetuum or standing Q're is a technical orthographic device to indicate the pronunciation of certain words in the masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). The masoretes inherited a form of the Biblical text written in the consonantal letters of the Hebrew alphabet (with only a very limited and ambiguous indication of vowels by means of matres lectionis), and never altered this basic consonantal text when they annotated it with the written vowel diacritic symbols which they invented.
Q-based narrowing In semantics, Q-based narrowing is narrowing (a reduction in a word's range of meanings) that is caused by Grice's Maxim of Quantity (see Gricean maxims). Q-based narrowing occurs when a word A is a hypernym of a word B — that is, when every instance of B is an example of A.
Q-difference polynomial In combinatorial mathematics, the q-difference polynomials or q-harmonic polynomials are a polynomial sequence defined in terms of the q-derivative. They are a type of Brenke polynomial, and generalize the Appell polynomials.
Q-Free Q-Free ASA () is a electronic toll collection technology (ETC) deveopment company based in Trondheim, Norway. The company delivers systems for toll collection and automated ticketing globally and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Q-Chem Q-Chem is a computational chemistry software program. Q-Chem can perform a number of general quantum chemistry calculations, including Hartree-Fock, density functional theory (DFT), coupled cluster (CC), configuration interaction (for single electron excitations -- CIS) and other advanced electronic structure methods.
Q-learning Q-learning is a reinforcement learning technique that works by learning an action-value function that gives the expected utility of taking a given action in a given state and following a fixed policy thereafter. A strength with Q-learning is that it is able to compare the expected utility of the available actions without requiring a model of the environment.
Q-mart Q-Mart, or the Quakertown Farmer's Market, is a historical landmark in the town of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The Q-Mart has been around since 1932, where it continues to offer vendors the finest spaces to sell new and used goods, food, and more.
Q-Q plot In statistics, a Q-Q plot ("Q" stands for quantile) is a tool for diagnosing differences in distributions (such as non-normality) of a population from which a random sample has been taken. One plots the k/(n + 1)-quantiles of the comparison distributon (e.
Q-switching Q-switching, sometimes known as giant pulse formation, is a technique by which a laser can be made to produce a pulsed output beam. The technique allows the production of light pulses with extremely high (gigawatt) peak power, much higher than would be produced by the same laser if it were operating in a continuous wave (constant output) mode.
Q-systems The Q-Systems are a method of directed graph transformations according to given grammar rules, developed at the University of Montreal by Alain Colmerauer in the late 1960's for use in natural language processing. The University of Montreal's machine translation system, TAUM-73, used the Q-Systems as its language formalism.
Q-Stein The Q-stein empire is one of the three nations in the PlayStation 2 game Seek and Destroy, the other two being The Proton Kingdom and Nibelia. The Q-stein empire is portrayed as being evil, and is the player's enemy.
Q-type asteroid Q-type asteroids are relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids with a strong, broad 1 micrometre olivine and pyroxene feature, and a spectral slope that indiciates the presence of metal. There are absorption features shortwards and longwards of 0.
Q-type Queens car (New York City Subway car) The Q-Type (and QX) was a New York City Subway car rebuilt in 1938 by the BMT for elevated railway service to the 1939 New York World's Fair from BU cars in the 1200 and 1400 series, elevated stock originally built in 1903 and 1907.
Q-Tip (rapper) Q-Tip (born Jonathan Davis on April 10, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American rapper, actor, and hip hop producer, and is the former leader of the group A Tribe Called Quest. He converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed.
Q-Unique Q-Unique originally found fame as a breakdancer with the legendary Rock Steady Crew, re-starting the crew with leader Crazy Legs in 1989. Q-Unique is known for his extremely complex rap lyrics and flows on tracks such as the Arsonists and Non Phixion collaboration "14 Years Of Rap".
Q-Zar Q-Zar (called Quasar in the UK and Republic of Ireland) is a type of laser tag that was developed by Jeff Hazelhurst and Omnitronics in Perth, Western Australia. The rights were later sold to a company based in Ireland which in turn sold them to Q-Zar International based in Mesquite, Texas.
Q&A (film) Q & A is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a young assistant district attorney named Aloysius "Al" Francis Reilly (Timothy Hutton) seeking to prove a case against a corrupt NYPD police detective, Michael Brennan (Nick Nolte). Reilly encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss by the name of Roberto 'Bobby Tex' Texador (Armand Assante), who refuses to help him.
Q&A website A Q&A website is a type of humorous website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons to answer input from the site's visitors, usually in question/answer format. This format of website evolved from the much older Internet Oracle.
Q10 (temperature coefficient) The Q10 temperature coefficient is a measure of the rate of change of a biological or chemical system as a consequence of increasing the temperature by 10 °C. There are many examples where the Q10 is used, one being the calculation of the nerve conduction velocity and another being calculating the contraction velocity of muscle fibres.
Q2CTF Quake II ThreeWave Capture the Flag also known as Zoid's CTF, or Q2CTF, or simply (Vanilla) CTF within the Quake II community, is an objective-based teamplay mod for Quake II inspired by the traditional Capture the Flag game.
Qaafiyaa Qaafiyaa is a device employed in a form of Urdu poetry known as Ghazal (a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain). The Qaafiyaa is the rhyming pattern of words that must directly proceed the Ghazal's Radif.
Qaboos of Oman Sayyed Qaboos bin Sa’id Al â€Bu Sa’id (Arabic: قابŮŘł بن سعيد آل سعيد born November 18, 1940 in Salalah) is the current Sultan of Oman. He rose to power after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur, in 1970.
Qadi Qadi (also known as Qazi and Kadi) (Arabic: قاضى) is a judge ruling in accordance with the sharia, Islamic religious law. Because Islam makes no distinction between religious and secular domains, qadis traditionally have jurisdiction over all legal matters involving Muslims.
Qadi Magsi Qadir Magsi is the Chairman of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STP) and Convenor of Sindh Chapter of Pakistan Operessed Nations Movement (PONAM). He is a graduate of Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, presently Liquat Medical University.
Qadiani Problem (book) Qadiani Problem is a book written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi. In this book he argues that, according to Qur'an and hadiths, that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, do not belong to Islam, as they do not believe in the concept of the Seal of the Prophets.
Qadiriyyah Qadiriyyah (Arabic: القادريه) (also transliterated Qadiri and Qadri), is one of the oldest Sufi tariqas, derives its name from Abdul Qadir Jilani (also transliterated as Gilani) (1077-1166), a native of the Iranian province of Gilan. In 1134 he was made principal of a Hanbalite school in Baghdad.
Qadr (munition) The 9A Qadr is Iran's first generation of air-launched PGMs has been developed by the missile-manufacturing companies of the Iranian Ministry of Defence (and not the well-established Aerospace Industries Organisation, builder of Iran's surface-to-surface guided weapons).
Qadriddin Aslonov Qadriddin Aslonov (: Қадриддин ĐŃлонов/قدرالدین اصلانŮŮ), also spelled Kadriddin Aslonov, was acting President of Tajikistan between August 31 and September 23, 1991. When his predecessor Qahhor Mahkamov resigned as the Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the republic, Aslonov was elected his successor.
Qadry Ismail Qadry Rahmadan Ismail (born November 8, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey) is a former American football player. Ismail played for the Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, and Indianapolis Colts during his ten year career.
Qadura Fares Qadura Fares () is a Palestinian Authority minister. He is a close friend, aide and adviser to senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, and a member of the Legislative Council, the parliament of the Palestinian Authority.
Qaf (Cyrillic) The Cyrillic letter Ka descender or Qaf (in Kazakh) (Ňš,Ň›) is a Đš with a descender. It is used in a number of Turkic spoken on the territory of the former Soviet Union, including Tajik, Kazakh, Uzbek, Uighur and several smaller languages (Karakalpak, Tofalar), where it represents a voiceless uvular plosive /q/.
Qafqaz University Qafqaz University (Azerbaijani: Qafqaz Universiteti; the name translates as Caucasus University) is a private university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was founded in 1992 and was the first and the only foreign private university in the country.
Qaha Qaha (also spelled Kaha) is a city in northeastern Egypt, located 25 km (18 mins) north of Cairo. Qaha is located in the rich farmland of the southern part of the Nile Delta and is well-irrigated by canals leading off the Delta Barrage.
Qahir Al Amwaj The Qahir Al Amwaj (and her sister ship Al Mua'zzer) is a stealth ship of the Oman Qahir class, owned by the navy of Oman. It was build in the United Kingdom based on the Mark 9 corvette, utilizing both radar-absorbent materials in the hull as well as angled shapes to minimize radar refraction.
Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi (1920-1976) (Arabic: Ů‚Řطان Ů…ŘŮ…ŘŻ الشعبي) was the first President of the People's Republic of South Yemen. Al-Shaabi's National Liberation Front party wrested control of the country from the British and won political supremacy over the opposition Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen in 1967.
Qaid Qaid is considered a "valid" word according to the paperwork included in the game Scrabble. Rights to the Scrabble game are owned by Hasbro, offers an online "dictionary" that validates the word but does not offer a definition.
Qal3ah Al-Qal3ah, Qal3ah, or Qal3ati (, al-qalÄĘ»ah — "the castle"; the 3 is an ASCII representation of the Arabic Řą commonly used online) is an Internet forum. It is infamous for being the site on which announcements and discussions by Islamic extremists have taken place, including the posting of several decapitation videos of prisoners captured by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's forces in Iraq.
Qala i Naw District Qala i Naw, also Qalay-I-Naw or Qalanou (from the Persian: قلعه نŮ), is a district in the west of Badghis Province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 82,525 in 1990; the ethnic makeup is approximately 80% Tajik with small numbers of Pashtun, Baloch, Uzbek and Turkmen.
Qala'un Mosque The Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Mosque, commonly known as the Qala'un Mosque, is an early 14th century mosque in the heart of Cairo, Egypt. It was built by the Mamluk sultan Al-Nasr Muhammad in 1318 as the royal mosque of the Citadel, where the sultans of Cairo performed their Friday prayers.
Qalander Ba Ba Auliya Abdal-e-Haq, Husn-e-Ukhra Syed Muhammad Azeem Barkhiya commonly renowned as Qalander Ba Ba Auliya (1898, Uttar Pradesh, India to January 27, 1979, Karachi), was a sufi, spiritual and religious leader and scholar in the field of Islam and Spiritualism from Pakistan. He was the founder of the Silsila-e-Azeemia (which is currently headed by Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi) and patron of monthly.
Qalansawe Qalansawe () is a city in the Center District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004, the city had a total population of 16,400, making it the 2nd smallest city in the country.
Qale Mere Qadir Abdullazade also known as Qale mere (pron: Qala Mara) born in village of Kulice (pron: Kulija) in northwestern Iran, is one of the best known Kurdish traditional musicians. He plays Shimshal (ĹźimĹźal (long flute)), a Kurdish traditional music instrument.
Qalyub Qalyub () is a town in the Al Qalyubiyah governorate of Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. In 1986 its population was 84,413, and its geographical coordinates are .
Qamdo County Qamdo County, also Chamdo County, Changdu County (Tibetan: ཆབ་ŕ˝ŕ˝‘ོ་རྫོང་; Wylie: Chab mdo rdzong; ) is a county in Tibet Autonomous Region, and the seat of government of Qamdo Prefecture. Qamdo county has an area of 10,700 km² and a population of 78,000, of which 90% are Tibetan.
Qamdo Prefecture Qamdo Prefecture (Tibetan: ཆབ་ŕ˝ŕ˝‘ོ་ས་ŕ˝ŕ˝´ŕ˝ŁŕĽ‹; Wylie: chab-mdo sa khul; simplified Chinese: ćŚé˝ĺś°ĺŚş; pinyin: ChÄngdĹ« DìqĹ«) is a subnational entity in the eastern part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, containing the town of Chamdo. The capital of the prefecture is Qamdo County.
Qamishli Qamishli (Arabic: القامشلي, Kurdish: QamiĹźlo, Syriac: Ü©ÜˇÜ«Ü Üť Turkish: Kamışlı) is a city in northeast Syria on the border with Turkey and close to Iraq. It is part of the Al Hasakah governorate and the center of an administrative district.
Qana Qana (in ) is a village in southern Lebanon located 10Â km southeast of the city of Tyre and 12Â km north of the border with Israel. The 10,000 residents of Qana are primarily Shiite Muslim"Lebanese Town Lays Claim To Jesus Christ's First Miracle", Associated Press, January 12, 1994.
Qana airstrike The 2006 Qana airstrike was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on a building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. A three-story building collapsed following the airstrike, burying a large number of Lebanese refugees sheltering inside.
Qanat A qanat (from ) or kareez (from ) is a water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water to human settlements or for irrigation in hot, arid and semi-arid climates. The technology is known to have developed in ancient Persia, and then spread to other cultures, especially along the Silk Road as far east as China as well as by Arabic cultures as far west as Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula.
Qandala Qandala City is an ancient harbour, and like many other Somali ports on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, may had been frequented by Phoenicians, Egyptians, Persians, Yemenis, Greeks and Roman sailors. A diary dated to 50 CE contains a map of all the ports and their importance.
Qango (band) Qango was a short-lived progressive rock band, a spin-off from Asia. In 1999, an attempt was made at a partial reunion of the progressive rock supergroup Asia involving John Wetton (bass, vocals), Carl Palmer (drums) and Geoff Downes (keys).
Qantas fatal accidents Famously, Qantas quote that they have never had a fatal jet airliner accident. While this is true, the Australian national airline suffered several losses in its early days, before the widespread adoption of the jet engine in civilian aviation.
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 察ĺ¸ćźĄĺ°”錫伯自治县; pinyin: ChábĂąchá'Ä›r XĂbĂł ZìzhìxiĂ n; also transliterated as Chapchal) in Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture in northern Xinjiang is the only Xibe autonomous county of the People's Republic of China. It has an area of 4,430 square kilometers and a population 160,000 (2000).
Qaqa Mach'ay Located in the Yauyos district of central Peru, Qaqa Mach'ay (Cliff Cave) is a limestone cave high in the Andes Mountains that was explored and surveyed in 2004 by an international expedition. At 4930m above sealevel, it is the highest surveyed cave in the world.
Qara The Qara tribes are Arab tribes which descend from their forebear called "Amr Hakli" who came from Kindah, a famous Arab tribe whose area of influence was south central Arabia; from the Yemeni border nearly up to Mecca. The Qara live in Dhofar, which is in the present-day sultanate of Oman.
Qara Iskander Qara Iskander ibn Yusuf ruled the Kara Koyunlu or Black Sheep Turcoman tribe from 1420-1436. His struggles with the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh show that he was a brave leader, but he was not able to continue developing what he inherited from his father Qara Yusuf and his reign saw the decline and attenuation of the Kara Koyunlu.
Qarabagh District, Kabul Qara Bagh (Also Kara Bagh or Qarabagh) is a district which is located 50 kilometers north of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and 20 kilometers southeast of Bagram Airbase. This district is the part of Kabul province and is on the route between Kabul and Parwan province.
Qarachi Qarachi (Tatar: Qaraçı) was the highest level of noble within Turkic khanates of 14-16 centuries, such as Siberian Khanate and Kazan Khanate. The name could be applied to the member of the four extended families: Shirin (Şirin), Barghen (Barğın), Arghen (Arğın), Qepchaq (Qıpçaq).
Qaraqum Canal The Qaraqum Canal (formerly called the Karakumsky Kanal) is the largest irrigation and water supply canal in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it is navigable over much of its 1,375 km length, and carries 13 kmÂł of water annually from the Amu-Darya River across the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan.
Qaratay Qaratays are an ethnic group within Mordvins in Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan around Mordva Qaratay village. They speak Tatar complemented by Mordvin words, sometimes considered as Qaratay Dialect of Kazan Tatar language.
Qareen Qareens (قرين, also spelled Kareen or Qarin) according to Islamic literature are evil spirits, analogous to a personal demon, intent on tricking people into acts of sin. Qareens are unique to each individual, according to sorcery books, they can be summoned by psychics after a person's death, such as in a seance, for the soul goes to God and the unruly qareen would remain on earth.
Qarmatians The Qarmatians, Arabic qarÄmita قرامطة (also spelled "Carmathians", "Qarmathians", "Karmathians" etc.) were an extremist (ghulÄt) IsmÄ'Ä«lÄ« Muslim sect centered in eastern Arabia, particularly Bahrain, where they established a utopian community in 899 CE.
Qarqar (Karkar) Qarqar is the name of an ancient town in northwestern Syria, known from Neo-Assyrian sources. It was the site of one of the most important battles of the ancient world, the battle of Qarqar, fought in 853 BCE when the army of Assyria, led by king Shalmaneser III, encountered an allied force comprising military units from 11 local kingdoms.
Qaruh Island Qaruh Island () is an island belonging to the state of Kuwait which received its name from the large amounts of petroleum sediments in the area (known as Qar in Arabic). It is the smallest of the nine islands, and also the furthest island from the Kuwaiti mainland.
Qashliq Qashliq, Isker or Sibir (Tatar language: Qaşlıq or İskär) was a medieval (14th-16th century) Siberian Tatar city near the right bank of the Irtysh river (12 miles south-east of the modern Tobolsk). Since the end of the 15th century it was the capital of the Siberian Khanate.
Qashqadaryo Province Qashqadaryo Province (), old spelling Kashkadarya Province is a viloyat (province) of Uzbekistan, located in the southern part of the country in the basin of the Qashqadaryo River and the western slopes of the Pamir Mountains. It borders with Turkmenistan, Samarqand Province, Buxoro Province and Surxondaryo Province.
Qashqai Qashqai /qash qa: ee/ (also spelled Ghashghai, Kashgai, Qashqay and Qashqa'i) are a Turkic-speaking tribal confederation of clans in Iran. They mainly live in the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan, but especially around the city of Shiraz in Fars.
Qasidah modern Qasidah modern is a type of Indonesian music which originates from the word, Qasidah, an ancient Arabic word for religious poetry accompanied by chanting and percussion. Qasidah modern applies this to a greater audience.
Qasim Amin Qasim Amin (1863-1908) was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian National Movement and Cairo University. Born to an upper Egyptian mother and an Ottoman father who had served as an administrator in Kurdistan then Egypt, Amin is perhaps most noted as an early advocate of women's rights in Egyptian society.
Qasim Khanate Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim (Tatar: QasĂm xanlığı, QasĂm patĹźalığı; Russian: КаŃимовŃкое Ń…Đ°Đ˝Ńтво, КаŃимовŃкое царŃтво) was a Tatar territorial formation (khanate), vassal of Muscovy, which existed from 1452 till 1681 in the territory of modern Ryazan Oblast in Russia with its capital Kasimov, in the middle stream of the Oka River. It was created in the lands that Vasili II presented to the Kazan prince Qasim khan, son of the first Kazan khan Olug Moxammat.
Qasim Mitchell Qasim Mitchell (born December 3, 1979 in Jacksonville, North Carolina) is an American football tackle, a free agent in the NFL. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent out of North Carolina A&T State University by the Cleveland Browns.
Qasim Sultan al-Banna Qasim Sultan al-Banna has been director general of Dubai Municipality since 1992. He was educated till 10th standard in Dubai schools and started his career as a land surveyor in Dubai municipality in 1958 till he was retired in 2006.
Qasr Amra Qasr Amra (Arabic: قصر عمرة) is the best-known of the desert castles located in present-day eastern Jordan. The castle was built early in the 8th century (probably between 711 and 715) by the Umayyad caliph Walid I whose dominance of the region was rising at the time.
Qasr Ibrim Qasr Ibrim () is an archeological site in Lower Nubia. Originally it was a major city perched on a cliff above the Nile, but the flooding of Lake Nasser after the construction of the Aswan High Dam turned it into an island and flooded its outskirts.
Qasr-e Shirin Qasr-e Shirin, literally translated from Persian as Palace of Shirin, is a historical city in Kermanshah province which was built during the Sassanid dynastic era (226-651 AD). It was built by the king Khosrow Parviz and named after his wife Shirin.
Qat in Yemen Qat is a large, slow growing, evergreen shrub, reaching a height of between 1 and 5 metres, in equatorial regions it may reach a height of 10 meters.Catha Edulis (Qat plant) Its scientific name is Catha Edulis.
Qat'aa Qat'aa is a part of soazkhwani / mersiya-khwani; Qat'aa is also known as Ruba'ee and perform before marsiya-khwani. Qat'aa, Ruba'ee, Soaz, Salaam & then Marsiya, when these are performed combined then its called SOAZKHWANI / MARSIYA-KHWANI.
Qatar Academy Qatar Academy is a non-profit, private, co-educational school for students from all nationalities, located in Qatar Foundation's Education City, Doha, Qatar. It is an educational institution which was founded in 1996 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar.
Qatar ExxonMobil Open The Qatar ExxonMobil Open is tennis tournament held in the city of Doha, in the country of Qatar. The Qatar ExxonMobil Open is one of the first tennis tournaments of the year, held in the first full week of January.
Qatar Foundation The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, chartered, non-profit organization in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, founded in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar. Guided by the principle that a nation's greatest resource is the potential of its people, the Qatar Foundation aims to develop that potential through a network of centers devoted to progressive education, research and community welfare.
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