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Question Time (TV series) Question Time is a topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on Any Questions?. It is currently shown on BBC One at 22:35 on Thursdays, and typically features politicians from the three major political parties and other public figures who answer questions put to them by the audience.
Questionable cause Fallacies of questionable cause, also known as causal fallacies, non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin) or false cause, are informal fallacies where a cause is incorrectly identified. These include:
Questionable Content Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. The plot centers on Marten Reed, an average frustrated 20-something indie rock dork, his anthropomorphic PC (AnthroPC) named Pintsize, and his somewhat troubled and mysterious roommate Faye.
Questioned document examination Questioned document examination is known by many names including forensic document examination, document examination, diplomatics, handwriting examination, and sometimes handwriting analysis, although the latter name is not often used as it may be confused with graphology. Likewise a forensic document examiner is not to be confused with a graphologist, and vice versa.
Questioning A question is a linguistic expression used to elict information in the form of an answer. Questioning is a major form of human thought and interpersonal communication, and plays a key role in discovery (observation) (what's over there?
Questionnaire A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case.
Questions of Bartholomew The Questions of Bartholomew is not to be confused with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew), although either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew (or neither may be), a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha.
Questions on Doctrine Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine (often abbreviated "Questions on Doctrine", or "QOD") is a book originally published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1957 to help reconcile Adventists and conservative Protestants. The book generated greater acceptance of the Adventist church within the evangelical community, where it had previously been widely regarded as a cult.
Questors Theatre The Questors Theatre is a theatre venue located in Ealing, west London, and home of The Questors, a non-professional theatre company. The Questors was founded in 1929 and – pursuing an adventurous artistic policy led by the late Alfred Emmet – has grown into one of the largest non-professional theatre companies in the world.
Questprobe Questprobe was the name of a trilogy of text adventure computer games featuring Marvel Comics characters. The three games are Questprobe featuring The Hulk, Questprobe featuring Spider-Man and Questprobe featuring The Fantastic Four.
QuesTec QuesTec is a digital media company known mostly for its controversial Umpire Information System (UIS) which is used by Major League Baseball for the purpose of providing feedback and evaluation of big league umpires.
Quetiapine Quetiapine (pronounced kwe-TYE-a-peen or kwÉ™ËtɑɪəˌpiËn), marketed by AstraZeneca, with the brand name Seroquel, belongs to a series of neuroleptics known as "atypical antipsychotics", which have, over the last four decades, become increasingly popular alternatives to "typical antipsychotics", such as haloperidol (Haldol).
Quetzal (band) Quetzal is a Spanish-English bilingual chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. The band was founded by Quetzal Flores with the of pushing the boundaries of chicano music and is currently one of Los Angeles' most important and successful groups.
Quetzal file format Quetzal is a standardised file format for the saved state of Z-machine games, invented by Martin Frost. Prior to the introduction of Quetzal, each Z-machine interpreter saved games in its own format; Quetzal enabled players to begin a game on one architecture (for example, a pocket computer) and end it on another.
Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl ("feathered serpent" or "plumed serpent") is the Nahuatl name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerican culture. In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcoatl is also a mythical culture hero from whom almost all mesoamerican peoples claim descent.
Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus (named for the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl) was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America (Campanian–Maastrichtian stages, 84–65 ma), and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a group of advanced toothless pterosaurs.
Queue (data structure) In providing services in computer science, transport, and operations research a queue (pronounced 'Q') is a buffer abstract data structure where various entities such as data, objects, persons, or events are stored and waiting to be processed. The most well known operation of the queue is the First-In-First-Out (FIFO) queue process — In a FIFO queue, the first element in the queue will be the first one out; this is equivalent to the requirement that whenever an element is added, all elements that were added before have to be removed before the new element can be invoked.
Queue (hairstyle) The queue (or cue) was a specific hairstyle worn by the Manchus of central Manchuria in China. The hairstyle consisted of the hair on the front of the head being shaved off above the temples and the rest of the hair braided into a long ponytail, or queue.
Queue area Queue areas are places in which people in line (first-come, first-served) wait for goods or services. Examples include checking out groceries or other goods that have been collected in a self service shop, in a shop without self service, at an ATM, at a ticket desk, or in a taxi stand.
Queue Management System The Nortel Networks Digital Multiplex System Class 5 switch system for Traffic Operator Position System (TOPS) that enables the definition of up to 255 unique queues of calls to operators--and up to 255 unique profiles defining the responsibilities of operators and teams, that is, the queues from which they can draw calls.
Queueing model In queueing theory, a queueing model is used to approximate a real queueing situation or system, so the queueing behaviour can be analysed mathematically. Queueing models allow a number of useful steady state performance measures to be determined, including:
Quezon City Science High School The Quezon City Science High School (QCSHS or Quesci) is a secondary level school located at Misamis Street, Bago Bantay, Quezon City, Philippines. Founded in 1967, it is the regional science high school for the National Capital Region.
Quezon National High School Quezon National High School (QNHS) is a public secondary science high school located at Brgy. Iyam, Lucena City, Philippines with more than 11, 000 enrolleess from first year to fourth year, placing it at the 2nd Most Populated Schools in the country.
QuEST Forum QuEST Forum established in 1998, is an international body of telecom suppliers aimed at pursuing global telecommunications quality and performance excellence through the implementation of a common quality standard, the collaborative activities of its global work groups, an emphasis on industry best practices, and the delivery of a leading-edge measurement system. QuEST stands for Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunications.
Qui Nguyen Qui Nguyen (born in El Dorado, Arkansas) is a Vietnamese American playwright. He is an artistic director of the Caffe Cino Awardwinning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company], whose productions, penned and choreographed by Nguyen, have performed to sold-out audiences at the [[New York International Fringe Festival, been published nationally in PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2005enjoyed extended runs throughout the nation, and nominated for awards in movement & fight direction.
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo is French rapper MC Solaar's first album. The title is a pun on the French proverb "qui sème le vent récolte la tempête" (he who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind).
Qui transtulit sustinet Qui transtulit sustinet (Latin "He who transplanted sustains", also "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains" or "He Who Transplanted Continues to Sustain") is a state motto of Connecticut depicted on a blue ribbon below the grapevines.
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell is a comics series composed of 3 issues published between December 2000 and March 2001, featuring Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The series takes place 5 years before the Battle of Naboo (and 37 years before the Battle of Yavin).
Qui-Gon Jinn Qui-Gon Jinn (92 – 32 BBY) was a Jedi Master character in the fictional Star Wars universe. He plays a major part in The Phantom Menace as the mentor of the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, and appears as a character in other works.
Quia Emptores The Statute of Quia Emptores (1290) was a statute passed by Edward I of England that prevented tenants from leasing their lands to others through subinfeudation. Pre-Quia Emptores tenants were able to lease their title to land such that the land-owning lords did not have any power over the sub-tenant to collect taxes.
Quiabentia chacoensis The plant Quiabentia chacoensis is a species of cactus native to the Gran Chaco of South America, infrequent in plain or mid-mountain habitats. It grows in dry sandy soils, typically found at the edge of fields, in wastelands, at the side of roads, and opportunistically in vineyards and orchards when they are not irrigated.
Quiateot Quiateot is the name of a rain deity in the mythological traditions of the pre-Columbian and contact-era Nicarao people, an indigenous grouping on the periphery of the Mesoamerican cultural area, located in present-day Nicaragua.
Quião Beach Quião Beach (Praia do Quião in Portuguese) is an extensive maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, located just South of Cape Santo André in the parish of A Ver-o-Mar. The peaceful Quião Beach has white sand and several rocks.
Quibble (plot device) A quibble is a common plot device, used to fulfill the exact verbal conditions of an agreement in order to avoid the intended meaning. Its most common uses are in legal bargains, and in fantasy, magically enforced ones.
Quick & Flupke Quick & Flupke (Quick et Flupke in French and Kwik en Flupke in Dutch) is a comic book series by Hergé (famous for The Adventures of Tintin) about two street urchins in Brussels named Quick and Flupke. The two boys unintentionally cause trouble, leading to annoyance with their parents and the police.
Quick bread A quick bread is a type of bread which is leavened with chemical leaveners such as baking powder, sodium bicarbonate, or cream of tartar. Unlike yeast breads which often take hours to rise and can vary greatly based on external factors such as temperature, breads made with chemical leaveners are relatively uniform, reliable, and quick.
Quick clay Quick clay, also known as Leda Clay and Champlain Sea Clay in Canada, is a unique form of highly sensitive marine clay, with the tendency to change from a relatively stiff condition to a liquid mass when it is disturbed. Undisturbed quick clay resembles a water-saturated gel.
Quick Draw McGraw Quick Draw McGraw is the name of a fictional cartoon horse, created by Hanna-Barbera and the star of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Hanna-Barbera's third show produced for television after success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in 1959; Quick Draw was voiced by voice actor Daws Butler.
Quick kick In American football and Canadian football, a quick kick is any punt made under conditions such that the opposing team "should not" expect a punt. Typically this has been a kick from scrimmage from a formation that is, or resembles, one usually used other than for punting, or at least not resembling the one usually used for punting.
Quick Millions Quick Millions is a 1931 movie thriller directed by Rowland Brown. The film involves a truck driver (Spencer Tracy) and the wealthy woman (Marguerite Churchill) that he covets, and also features George Raft and Leon Ames in supporting roles.
Quick pitch A quick pitch, in baseball, occurs when the pitcher throws a pitch to home plate before the batter has had a chance to fully ready himself. It is illegal in all forms of baseball, and has different penalties depending on the situation: if there is no one on base, the pitch is called a ball, but if there are any number of runners on base, it is ruled a balk.
Quick release skewer A quick release skewer is a cam operated lever system used with a hollow axle for securing the wheels on a bicycle. Wheels equipped with quick release skewers can be removed from the bicycle frame and replaced more quickly than wheels with solid axles and hex nuts.
Quick to Back Down Quick to Back Down is a crunk song produced by Lil Jon for the Bravehearts, consisting of Nas, Jungle (younger brother of hip hop star Nas) and Wiz. The chorus had Nas saying quick phrases in distaste of animosity towards anonymous rappers, followed by Lil Jon yelling "quick to back down!
Quick Test Professional Mercury Interactive's Quick Test Professional (QTP) is a functional Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing tool that allows the automation of user actions on a web or client based computer application. QTP uses Visual Basic Script to allow the interaction between the testing tool and the objects and controls of the application under test.
Quick-and-dirty Quick-and-dirty is a term used in reference to anything that is an easy way to implement kludge. Its usage is popular among hackers, who use it to describe a crude solution or programming implementation that is imperfect, inelegant, or otherwise inadequate, but which solves or masks the problem at hand, and is generally faster and easier to put in place than a proper solution.
QuickBASIC Microsoft QuickBASIC (also QB or incorrectly, "QBasic", which is a different system) is a descendant of the BASIC programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for use with the MS-DOS and Mac OS operating system. It is loosely based on GW-BASIC but adds user-defined types, improved programming structures, better graphics and disk support and a compiler in addition to the interpreter.
QuickBird QuickBird is a high-resolution commercial earth observation satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe and launched in 2001 as the first satellite in a constellation of three scheduled to be in orbit by 2008. QuickBird collects the highest resolution commercial imagery of Earth, and boasts the largest image size and the greatest on-board storage capacity of any other satellite.
QuickDraw GX QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the "classic" Mac OS. Although GX was based on the same general geometry and dimensions of the original QD engine, the underlying drawing platform became a resolution-independent object oriented retained mode system, making it much easier for programmers to perform common tasks.
Quicken Forbidden Quicken Forbidden is an ongoing comicbook title published by Cryptic Press, and created by writer Dave Roman and artist John Green. It was first published in 1997, and the first five issues were later collected into a trade paperback; thirteen issues have seen print as of August 2006.
Quicken Loans Arena Quicken Loans Arena (aka "The Q") is a multipurpose arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Until August 2005, it was known as Gund Arena, named for Gordon Gund, a former owner of the Cavaliers, after he paid for the naming rights.
Quickening (Highlander) This page refers to the phenomenon of Quickenings from the Highlander universe of Highlander (film) and Highlander: The Series. In the Highlander Universe when an Immortal beheads another Immortal in combat the lifeforce is released into the victor.
Quickfit apparatus Quickfit is a system (and manufacturer) of laboratory equipment, which as its name suggests fits together quickly, easily, and interchangeably. This is achieved by the manufacture of cones and joints of standardized lengths and tapers to high precision, obviating the need to mate joints individually.
QuickChek QuickChek is a privately owned, New Jersey-based chain of convenience stores with over 104 stores in 15 counties. The first store opened in Dunellen, New Jersey in 1967, and has since then grown into a chain of 104 stores, 12 of which include pharmacies, 7 with gas stations, and a few with liquor stores.
Quickie Aircraft The Quickie Aircraft Corporation was founded in Mojave, California, in 1978 to market the Quickie homebuilt aircraft (models Quickie, Quickie Q2, and Quickie Q200 aircraft) which were designed by Burt Rutan and founders Gene Sheehan and Tom Jewett. Now defunct, the company sold over 2,000 kits in its lifetime.
Quicklaw Quicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. It also offers a case citiator and case digests.
Quickmuse QuickMuse is a website that aims to spur acts of improvisation amongst top-tier poets. The primary tool in this effort is the Poematic, an AJAX-based key-capture program that produces a real-time record of the poets' compositions, complete with mistakes and corrections.
Quickness Quickness is the fourth full-length studio album from hardcore punk and reggae pioneers Bad Brains. At the time of its release, it was the best selling Bad Brains album and also featured an MTV video for the lead-off track "Soul Craft.
QuickPar QuickPar is a computer program that creates recovery information for a file or group of files . If such information is available and some files are damaged or missing then QuickPar may be able to reconstruct the originals from the PAR volumes.
QuickPlay QuickPlay is a technology pioneered by Hewlett-Packard and is currently used in their DV line of consumer notebook computers which include the dv1000, dv2000, dv4000 dv6000 dv8000 and dv9000 This feature lets users play their music CDs, DVD movies, and MP3s stored on the hard drive in a separate Linux partition without booting to the main operating system. More recent versions use Windows XP Embedded instead of Linux.
QuickRing QuickRing was a gigabit-rate interconnect that combined the functions of a computer bus and a network. It was originally designed at Apple Computer as a multimedia system to run "on top" of existing local bus systems inside a computer, but was later taken over by National Semiconductor and repositioned as an interconnect for parallel computing.
Quicksand Quicksand is a hydrocolloid gel consisting of fine granular matter (such as sand or silt), clay, and salt water. The origin of the name refers to "quick" in the older meaning of "alive" rather than "fast", as in the familiar phrase "the quick and the dead.
Quicksand (band) Quicksand were one of the most influential New York post-hardcore bands of the early to mid-90's, led by Gorilla Biscuits mastermind/guitarist Walter Schreifels. Quicksand provided the blueprint for many bands to follow in their footsteps.
Quicksand (song) "Quicksand" is a 1963 soul single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Built almost under the same gospel-inspired delivery of their previous hit "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave", this time lead singer Martha Reeves explains how her loved one brings her "closer" to him explaining that his love was like "quicksand".
Quicksaving Quicksaving is the term used for saving the player's progress in a computer game by pressing a single key on the keyboard. Normally, to save progress the player must reach a designated point in a level (checkpoint), or if saving is permitted elsewhere it is usually achieved through the use of a menu.
Quickshot Trackball The Quickshot Trackball was an NES controller with two buttons, a limited-movement trackball, and a switch to set it for either a right-handed or left-handed player. Like most non-standard NES controllers of the time, it was difficult to work properly, as games usually were not designed with it in mind.
Quicksilver (aircraft) Quicksilver is a line of ultralight aircraft that evolved from weight shift hang gliders. A company called "Eipper Formance" (a play on the name of the founder, Dick Eipper) began manufacturing the early quicksilver ultralights in the late 1970's when hang gliding was very popular.
Quicksilver (comics) Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional character from Marvel Comics who is both a superhero and a supervillain associated with the X-Men and Avengers. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appears in X-Men #4 (March 1964).
Quicksilver (novel) Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson is the first volume of his series The Baroque Cycle. The second and third volumes (released in the second and third quarters of 2004 respectively), are entitled The Confusion and The System of the World.
Quicksilver (software) Quicksilver is a free utility made by Blacktree Software for Mac OS X. It allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform commands such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts or sending e-mail.
Quicksilver (song) "Quicksilver" was a song written and performed by the band Pink Floyd for their album Music from the Film More. It appeared in shortened form in the live suite The Man and the Journey, where it was entitled, "Sleep".
Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of San Francisco's original psychedelic bands of the late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, their early albums and live shows contributed to some of the best instrumental jams of the period.
Quickstep Quickstep is an International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot. An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing".
QuickSilver (project) The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure.
QuickStart QuickStart is a loading method used by several different software applications, designed to speed up the loading time of their software. It loads the core files and libraries during computer startup and allows the applications to start more quickly when selected later.
QuickTime for Java QuickTime for Java or QTJ is a software library that allows software written in the Java programming language to provide multimedia functionality, by making calls into the native QuickTime library. In practice, it allows Java applications on Mac OS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows to support the capture, editing, playback, and export of many different media formats and codecs.
QuickTime Player QuickTime Player is the default media player for QuickTime movies and is shipped with the standard QuickTime installation for both Mac OS and Windows. It has shipped as the standard media player in Mac OS since System 7.
QuickTime Streaming Server QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is a server or service daemon built into Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server that delivers video and audio on request to users over a computer network or the Internet. Its primary GUI configuration tool is QTSS Publisher.
QuickTime VR QuickTime VR (virtual reality) (also known as QTVR) is a type of image file format supported by Apple's QuickTime. It allows the creation and viewing of photographically captured panoramas and the exploration of objects through images taken at multiple viewing angles.
QuickTransit QuickTransit is dynamic binary translation software developed by Transitive Corporation. It allows software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating system architecture without source code or binary changes.
QuicKutz quickutz is a manufacturer of die cutting products for the hobbies of scrapbooking and other paper crafts, based in Orem, Utah. Its portable die-cutting system consists of a Squeeze hand tool and its accessories: mainly cutting dies (alphabets and shapes) and GooseBumpz embossing dies.
Quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit It is a Latin phrase literally means "whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil." It is the principal to determine what is a fixtures and it means that those physically affixed to the land becomes part of the land.
Quicuchabe The Quicuchabe were one of twenty groups of American Indians that chose to join Juan DomĂnguez de Mendoza on his trek across Texas from the area of El Paso to the area around what is now San Angelo between 1683 and 1684. Mendoza did not indicate at what point the Quicuchabe joined his party; consequently it is impossible to ascertain where, exactly, they lived, and what tribe they were affiliated with.
Quicumque Christum Quærtis Quicumque Christum Quærtis is the opening line of the twelfth (in honour of the Epiphany) and last poem in the "Cathemerinon" of Prudentius. This twelfth poem or hymn contains 52 iambic dimeter strophes, and an irregular selection from its 208 lines has furnished four hymns to the Roman Breviary, all of which conclude with the usual Marian doxology ("Jesu tibi sit gloria" etc.
Quid pro quo Quid pro quo (Latin for "something for something" Merriam-Webster, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition), and the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Third Edition)all so define the Latin expression.) indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services.
Quidenham Quidenham is a small rural village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated 10Â miles (16Â km) north-east of the town of Thetford and 24Â miles (40Â km) south-west of the city of Norwich.
Quidhampton, Wiltshire Quidhampton is a village and civil parish in the Salisbury district of Wiltshire, England, with a population of 404 according to the 2001 census. It forms part of the Salisbury urban area and is around 2 miles west of the city centre.
Quiero Ser Quiero Ser (1981) is Menudo's 8th Spanish album and the second one released in 1981 featuring Ricky Melendez, Rene Farrait, Johnny Lozada, Xavier Serbia and Miguel Cancel. With this album their popularity started rising all over Latin America.
Quiescence search Quiescence search is an algorithm typically used to evaluate minimax game trees in game-playing computer programs. It is a remedy for the horizon problem faced by AI engines for various games like chess and Go.
Quiet (Lil' Kim song) Quiet is the rumored first single off of the re-issue of The Naked Truth from East Coast MC Lil' Kim and West Coast MC The Game. However there have also been talks of The Game's in Trouble being the first single.
Quiet (The Smashing Pumpkins song) "Quiet" is the second track from the Smashing Pumpkins' critically acclaimed second album Siamese Dream. It was written by Billy Corgan and is also featured on the Smashing Pumpkins live album/video 'Earphoria'/'Vieuphoria'
Quiet as a Nun Quiet as a Nun - A Tale of Murder was a thriller novel, published 1977 by Antonia Fraser. In it, Fraser's sleuthing heroine Jemima Shore revists the convent where she was schooled after the death of a nun, a former school friend.
Quiet City Quiet City is a well-known composition for trumpet, cor anglais, and string orchestra by Aaron Copland. In 1940, Copland knitted together the ten-minute piece from the incidental music he had written the previous year to accompany Irwin Shaw's play of the same name.
Quiet Corner The Quiet Corner is a region of the state of Connecticut, located in the northeastern corner of the state. It is generally associated with Windham County, but also incorporates eastern sections of Tolland County and the northern portion of New London County.
Quiet Nights Quiet Nights is an album recorded in 1962 and 1963 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The first six tunes were recorded in 1962 with an orchestra conducted by Evans, and "Summer Night" was recorded in 1963 by Davis with a short-lived quintet (George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler), during the sessions for the album Seven Steps to Heaven, although Coleman lays out on this number.
Quiet period The term quiet period, also known as a waiting period has "historically [meant], a quiet period extended from the time a company files a registration statement with the SEC until SEC staff declared the registration statement effective. During that period, the federal securities laws limited what information a company and related parties can release to the public.
Quiet Party Quiet Parties (also known as Silent Parties and as Silent Dating parties) are nightclub events where participants socialize by writing notes to each other instead of speaking. The single rule at these events is "no talking.
Quiet title An action to quiet title is a lawsuit brought in a court having jurisdiction over land disputes, in order to establish a party's title to real property against anyone and everyone, and thus "quiet" any challenges or claims to the title. It comprises a complaint that the ownership (title) of a parcel of land or other real property is defective in some fashion, typically where title to the property is ambiguous - for example, where it has been conveyed by a quitclaim deed through which the previous owner disclaims all interest, but does not promise that good title is conveyed.
Quiet World Quiet World was an English band that included Steve Hackett on guitar, his younger brother John Hackett on flute, Gill Cilbert on vocals, Lea and Neil Heather composers, John Heather composer, acoustic guitar and vocals, Sean O'Mally on drums, Eddy Hines flute and sax, Dick Driver string bass and electric bass, Phil Henderson arranger, piano, trumpet, organ, recorder and vocals.
Quietism (Christian philosophy) Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist with more or less emphasis on intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection; and all have been officially proscribed as heresy in very explicit terms by the Roman Catholic Church.
QuietRock QuietRock is a kind of internally damped drywall panel by Quiet Solution, an American manufacturer of soundproofing products. It is designed to provide higher levels of sound attenuation between rooms than standard drywall.
Questionable cause Fallacies of questionable cause, also known as causal fallacies, non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin) or false cause, are informal fallacies where a cause is incorrectly identified. These include:
Questionable Content Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. The plot centers on Marten Reed, an average frustrated 20-something indie rock dork, his anthropomorphic PC (AnthroPC) named Pintsize, and his somewhat troubled and mysterious roommate Faye.
Questioned document examination Questioned document examination is known by many names including forensic document examination, document examination, diplomatics, handwriting examination, and sometimes handwriting analysis, although the latter name is not often used as it may be confused with graphology. Likewise a forensic document examiner is not to be confused with a graphologist, and vice versa.
Questioning A question is a linguistic expression used to elict information in the form of an answer. Questioning is a major form of human thought and interpersonal communication, and plays a key role in discovery (observation) (what's over there?
Questionnaire A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. Although they are often designed for statistical analysis of the responses, this is not always the case.
Questions of Bartholomew The Questions of Bartholomew is not to be confused with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew), although either text may be the missing Gospel of Bartholomew (or neither may be), a lost work from the New Testament apocrypha.
Questions on Doctrine Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine (often abbreviated "Questions on Doctrine", or "QOD") is a book originally published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1957 to help reconcile Adventists and conservative Protestants. The book generated greater acceptance of the Adventist church within the evangelical community, where it had previously been widely regarded as a cult.
Questors Theatre The Questors Theatre is a theatre venue located in Ealing, west London, and home of The Questors, a non-professional theatre company. The Questors was founded in 1929 and – pursuing an adventurous artistic policy led by the late Alfred Emmet – has grown into one of the largest non-professional theatre companies in the world.
Questprobe Questprobe was the name of a trilogy of text adventure computer games featuring Marvel Comics characters. The three games are Questprobe featuring The Hulk, Questprobe featuring Spider-Man and Questprobe featuring The Fantastic Four.
QuesTec QuesTec is a digital media company known mostly for its controversial Umpire Information System (UIS) which is used by Major League Baseball for the purpose of providing feedback and evaluation of big league umpires.
Quetiapine Quetiapine (pronounced kwe-TYE-a-peen or kwÉ™ËtɑɪəˌpiËn), marketed by AstraZeneca, with the brand name Seroquel, belongs to a series of neuroleptics known as "atypical antipsychotics", which have, over the last four decades, become increasingly popular alternatives to "typical antipsychotics", such as haloperidol (Haldol).
Quetzal (band) Quetzal is a Spanish-English bilingual chicano rock band from East Los Angeles, California. The band was founded by Quetzal Flores with the of pushing the boundaries of chicano music and is currently one of Los Angeles' most important and successful groups.
Quetzal file format Quetzal is a standardised file format for the saved state of Z-machine games, invented by Martin Frost. Prior to the introduction of Quetzal, each Z-machine interpreter saved games in its own format; Quetzal enabled players to begin a game on one architecture (for example, a pocket computer) and end it on another.
Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl ("feathered serpent" or "plumed serpent") is the Nahuatl name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerican culture. In Mesoamerican myth Quetzalcoatl is also a mythical culture hero from whom almost all mesoamerican peoples claim descent.
Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus (named for the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl) was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America (Campanian–Maastrichtian stages, 84–65 ma), and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a group of advanced toothless pterosaurs.
Queue (data structure) In providing services in computer science, transport, and operations research a queue (pronounced 'Q') is a buffer abstract data structure where various entities such as data, objects, persons, or events are stored and waiting to be processed. The most well known operation of the queue is the First-In-First-Out (FIFO) queue process — In a FIFO queue, the first element in the queue will be the first one out; this is equivalent to the requirement that whenever an element is added, all elements that were added before have to be removed before the new element can be invoked.
Queue (hairstyle) The queue (or cue) was a specific hairstyle worn by the Manchus of central Manchuria in China. The hairstyle consisted of the hair on the front of the head being shaved off above the temples and the rest of the hair braided into a long ponytail, or queue.
Queue area Queue areas are places in which people in line (first-come, first-served) wait for goods or services. Examples include checking out groceries or other goods that have been collected in a self service shop, in a shop without self service, at an ATM, at a ticket desk, or in a taxi stand.
Queue Management System The Nortel Networks Digital Multiplex System Class 5 switch system for Traffic Operator Position System (TOPS) that enables the definition of up to 255 unique queues of calls to operators--and up to 255 unique profiles defining the responsibilities of operators and teams, that is, the queues from which they can draw calls.
Queueing model In queueing theory, a queueing model is used to approximate a real queueing situation or system, so the queueing behaviour can be analysed mathematically. Queueing models allow a number of useful steady state performance measures to be determined, including:
Quezon City Science High School The Quezon City Science High School (QCSHS or Quesci) is a secondary level school located at Misamis Street, Bago Bantay, Quezon City, Philippines. Founded in 1967, it is the regional science high school for the National Capital Region.
Quezon National High School Quezon National High School (QNHS) is a public secondary science high school located at Brgy. Iyam, Lucena City, Philippines with more than 11, 000 enrolleess from first year to fourth year, placing it at the 2nd Most Populated Schools in the country.
QuEST Forum QuEST Forum established in 1998, is an international body of telecom suppliers aimed at pursuing global telecommunications quality and performance excellence through the implementation of a common quality standard, the collaborative activities of its global work groups, an emphasis on industry best practices, and the delivery of a leading-edge measurement system. QuEST stands for Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunications.
Qui Nguyen Qui Nguyen (born in El Dorado, Arkansas) is a Vietnamese American playwright. He is an artistic director of the Caffe Cino Awardwinning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company], whose productions, penned and choreographed by Nguyen, have performed to sold-out audiences at the [[New York International Fringe Festival, been published nationally in PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2005enjoyed extended runs throughout the nation, and nominated for awards in movement & fight direction.
Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo is French rapper MC Solaar's first album. The title is a pun on the French proverb "qui sème le vent récolte la tempête" (he who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind).
Qui transtulit sustinet Qui transtulit sustinet (Latin "He who transplanted sustains", also "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains" or "He Who Transplanted Continues to Sustain") is a state motto of Connecticut depicted on a blue ribbon below the grapevines.
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell is a comics series composed of 3 issues published between December 2000 and March 2001, featuring Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The series takes place 5 years before the Battle of Naboo (and 37 years before the Battle of Yavin).
Qui-Gon Jinn Qui-Gon Jinn (92 – 32 BBY) was a Jedi Master character in the fictional Star Wars universe. He plays a major part in The Phantom Menace as the mentor of the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, and appears as a character in other works.
Quia Emptores The Statute of Quia Emptores (1290) was a statute passed by Edward I of England that prevented tenants from leasing their lands to others through subinfeudation. Pre-Quia Emptores tenants were able to lease their title to land such that the land-owning lords did not have any power over the sub-tenant to collect taxes.
Quiabentia chacoensis The plant Quiabentia chacoensis is a species of cactus native to the Gran Chaco of South America, infrequent in plain or mid-mountain habitats. It grows in dry sandy soils, typically found at the edge of fields, in wastelands, at the side of roads, and opportunistically in vineyards and orchards when they are not irrigated.
Quiateot Quiateot is the name of a rain deity in the mythological traditions of the pre-Columbian and contact-era Nicarao people, an indigenous grouping on the periphery of the Mesoamerican cultural area, located in present-day Nicaragua.
Quião Beach Quião Beach (Praia do Quião in Portuguese) is an extensive maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, located just South of Cape Santo André in the parish of A Ver-o-Mar. The peaceful Quião Beach has white sand and several rocks.
Quibble (plot device) A quibble is a common plot device, used to fulfill the exact verbal conditions of an agreement in order to avoid the intended meaning. Its most common uses are in legal bargains, and in fantasy, magically enforced ones.
Quick & Flupke Quick & Flupke (Quick et Flupke in French and Kwik en Flupke in Dutch) is a comic book series by Hergé (famous for The Adventures of Tintin) about two street urchins in Brussels named Quick and Flupke. The two boys unintentionally cause trouble, leading to annoyance with their parents and the police.
Quick bread A quick bread is a type of bread which is leavened with chemical leaveners such as baking powder, sodium bicarbonate, or cream of tartar. Unlike yeast breads which often take hours to rise and can vary greatly based on external factors such as temperature, breads made with chemical leaveners are relatively uniform, reliable, and quick.
Quick clay Quick clay, also known as Leda Clay and Champlain Sea Clay in Canada, is a unique form of highly sensitive marine clay, with the tendency to change from a relatively stiff condition to a liquid mass when it is disturbed. Undisturbed quick clay resembles a water-saturated gel.
Quick Draw McGraw Quick Draw McGraw is the name of a fictional cartoon horse, created by Hanna-Barbera and the star of The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Hanna-Barbera's third show produced for television after success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in 1959; Quick Draw was voiced by voice actor Daws Butler.
Quick kick In American football and Canadian football, a quick kick is any punt made under conditions such that the opposing team "should not" expect a punt. Typically this has been a kick from scrimmage from a formation that is, or resembles, one usually used other than for punting, or at least not resembling the one usually used for punting.
Quick Millions Quick Millions is a 1931 movie thriller directed by Rowland Brown. The film involves a truck driver (Spencer Tracy) and the wealthy woman (Marguerite Churchill) that he covets, and also features George Raft and Leon Ames in supporting roles.
Quick pitch A quick pitch, in baseball, occurs when the pitcher throws a pitch to home plate before the batter has had a chance to fully ready himself. It is illegal in all forms of baseball, and has different penalties depending on the situation: if there is no one on base, the pitch is called a ball, but if there are any number of runners on base, it is ruled a balk.
Quick release skewer A quick release skewer is a cam operated lever system used with a hollow axle for securing the wheels on a bicycle. Wheels equipped with quick release skewers can be removed from the bicycle frame and replaced more quickly than wheels with solid axles and hex nuts.
Quick to Back Down Quick to Back Down is a crunk song produced by Lil Jon for the Bravehearts, consisting of Nas, Jungle (younger brother of hip hop star Nas) and Wiz. The chorus had Nas saying quick phrases in distaste of animosity towards anonymous rappers, followed by Lil Jon yelling "quick to back down!
Quick Test Professional Mercury Interactive's Quick Test Professional (QTP) is a functional Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing tool that allows the automation of user actions on a web or client based computer application. QTP uses Visual Basic Script to allow the interaction between the testing tool and the objects and controls of the application under test.
Quick-and-dirty Quick-and-dirty is a term used in reference to anything that is an easy way to implement kludge. Its usage is popular among hackers, who use it to describe a crude solution or programming implementation that is imperfect, inelegant, or otherwise inadequate, but which solves or masks the problem at hand, and is generally faster and easier to put in place than a proper solution.
QuickBASIC Microsoft QuickBASIC (also QB or incorrectly, "QBasic", which is a different system) is a descendant of the BASIC programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for use with the MS-DOS and Mac OS operating system. It is loosely based on GW-BASIC but adds user-defined types, improved programming structures, better graphics and disk support and a compiler in addition to the interpreter.
QuickBird QuickBird is a high-resolution commercial earth observation satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe and launched in 2001 as the first satellite in a constellation of three scheduled to be in orbit by 2008. QuickBird collects the highest resolution commercial imagery of Earth, and boasts the largest image size and the greatest on-board storage capacity of any other satellite.
QuickDraw GX QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the "classic" Mac OS. Although GX was based on the same general geometry and dimensions of the original QD engine, the underlying drawing platform became a resolution-independent object oriented retained mode system, making it much easier for programmers to perform common tasks.
Quicken Forbidden Quicken Forbidden is an ongoing comicbook title published by Cryptic Press, and created by writer Dave Roman and artist John Green. It was first published in 1997, and the first five issues were later collected into a trade paperback; thirteen issues have seen print as of August 2006.
Quicken Loans Arena Quicken Loans Arena (aka "The Q") is a multipurpose arena in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Until August 2005, it was known as Gund Arena, named for Gordon Gund, a former owner of the Cavaliers, after he paid for the naming rights.
Quickening (Highlander) This page refers to the phenomenon of Quickenings from the Highlander universe of Highlander (film) and Highlander: The Series. In the Highlander Universe when an Immortal beheads another Immortal in combat the lifeforce is released into the victor.
Quickfit apparatus Quickfit is a system (and manufacturer) of laboratory equipment, which as its name suggests fits together quickly, easily, and interchangeably. This is achieved by the manufacture of cones and joints of standardized lengths and tapers to high precision, obviating the need to mate joints individually.
QuickChek QuickChek is a privately owned, New Jersey-based chain of convenience stores with over 104 stores in 15 counties. The first store opened in Dunellen, New Jersey in 1967, and has since then grown into a chain of 104 stores, 12 of which include pharmacies, 7 with gas stations, and a few with liquor stores.
Quickie Aircraft The Quickie Aircraft Corporation was founded in Mojave, California, in 1978 to market the Quickie homebuilt aircraft (models Quickie, Quickie Q2, and Quickie Q200 aircraft) which were designed by Burt Rutan and founders Gene Sheehan and Tom Jewett. Now defunct, the company sold over 2,000 kits in its lifetime.
Quicklaw Quicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. It also offers a case citiator and case digests.
Quickmuse QuickMuse is a website that aims to spur acts of improvisation amongst top-tier poets. The primary tool in this effort is the Poematic, an AJAX-based key-capture program that produces a real-time record of the poets' compositions, complete with mistakes and corrections.
Quickness Quickness is the fourth full-length studio album from hardcore punk and reggae pioneers Bad Brains. At the time of its release, it was the best selling Bad Brains album and also featured an MTV video for the lead-off track "Soul Craft.
QuickPar QuickPar is a computer program that creates recovery information for a file or group of files . If such information is available and some files are damaged or missing then QuickPar may be able to reconstruct the originals from the PAR volumes.
QuickPlay QuickPlay is a technology pioneered by Hewlett-Packard and is currently used in their DV line of consumer notebook computers which include the dv1000, dv2000, dv4000 dv6000 dv8000 and dv9000 This feature lets users play their music CDs, DVD movies, and MP3s stored on the hard drive in a separate Linux partition without booting to the main operating system. More recent versions use Windows XP Embedded instead of Linux.
QuickRing QuickRing was a gigabit-rate interconnect that combined the functions of a computer bus and a network. It was originally designed at Apple Computer as a multimedia system to run "on top" of existing local bus systems inside a computer, but was later taken over by National Semiconductor and repositioned as an interconnect for parallel computing.
Quicksand Quicksand is a hydrocolloid gel consisting of fine granular matter (such as sand or silt), clay, and salt water. The origin of the name refers to "quick" in the older meaning of "alive" rather than "fast", as in the familiar phrase "the quick and the dead.
Quicksand (band) Quicksand were one of the most influential New York post-hardcore bands of the early to mid-90's, led by Gorilla Biscuits mastermind/guitarist Walter Schreifels. Quicksand provided the blueprint for many bands to follow in their footsteps.
Quicksand (song) "Quicksand" is a 1963 soul single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Built almost under the same gospel-inspired delivery of their previous hit "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave", this time lead singer Martha Reeves explains how her loved one brings her "closer" to him explaining that his love was like "quicksand".
Quicksaving Quicksaving is the term used for saving the player's progress in a computer game by pressing a single key on the keyboard. Normally, to save progress the player must reach a designated point in a level (checkpoint), or if saving is permitted elsewhere it is usually achieved through the use of a menu.
Quickshot Trackball The Quickshot Trackball was an NES controller with two buttons, a limited-movement trackball, and a switch to set it for either a right-handed or left-handed player. Like most non-standard NES controllers of the time, it was difficult to work properly, as games usually were not designed with it in mind.
Quicksilver (aircraft) Quicksilver is a line of ultralight aircraft that evolved from weight shift hang gliders. A company called "Eipper Formance" (a play on the name of the founder, Dick Eipper) began manufacturing the early quicksilver ultralights in the late 1970's when hang gliding was very popular.
Quicksilver (comics) Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) is a fictional character from Marvel Comics who is both a superhero and a supervillain associated with the X-Men and Avengers. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appears in X-Men #4 (March 1964).
Quicksilver (novel) Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson is the first volume of his series The Baroque Cycle. The second and third volumes (released in the second and third quarters of 2004 respectively), are entitled The Confusion and The System of the World.
Quicksilver (software) Quicksilver is a free utility made by Blacktree Software for Mac OS X. It allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform commands such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts or sending e-mail.
Quicksilver (song) "Quicksilver" was a song written and performed by the band Pink Floyd for their album Music from the Film More. It appeared in shortened form in the live suite The Man and the Journey, where it was entitled, "Sleep".
Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of San Francisco's original psychedelic bands of the late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, their early albums and live shows contributed to some of the best instrumental jams of the period.
Quickstep Quickstep is an International Style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat, similar to a fast Foxtrot. An example of a song suitable for the classic quickstep would be Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing".
QuickSilver (project) The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure.
QuickStart QuickStart is a loading method used by several different software applications, designed to speed up the loading time of their software. It loads the core files and libraries during computer startup and allows the applications to start more quickly when selected later.
QuickTime for Java QuickTime for Java or QTJ is a software library that allows software written in the Java programming language to provide multimedia functionality, by making calls into the native QuickTime library. In practice, it allows Java applications on Mac OS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows to support the capture, editing, playback, and export of many different media formats and codecs.
QuickTime Player QuickTime Player is the default media player for QuickTime movies and is shipped with the standard QuickTime installation for both Mac OS and Windows. It has shipped as the standard media player in Mac OS since System 7.
QuickTime Streaming Server QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is a server or service daemon built into Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server that delivers video and audio on request to users over a computer network or the Internet. Its primary GUI configuration tool is QTSS Publisher.
QuickTime VR QuickTime VR (virtual reality) (also known as QTVR) is a type of image file format supported by Apple's QuickTime. It allows the creation and viewing of photographically captured panoramas and the exploration of objects through images taken at multiple viewing angles.
QuickTransit QuickTransit is dynamic binary translation software developed by Transitive Corporation. It allows software compiled for one specific processor and operating system combination to be executed on a different processor and/or operating system architecture without source code or binary changes.
QuicKutz quickutz is a manufacturer of die cutting products for the hobbies of scrapbooking and other paper crafts, based in Orem, Utah. Its portable die-cutting system consists of a Squeeze hand tool and its accessories: mainly cutting dies (alphabets and shapes) and GooseBumpz embossing dies.
Quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit It is a Latin phrase literally means "whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil." It is the principal to determine what is a fixtures and it means that those physically affixed to the land becomes part of the land.
Quicuchabe The Quicuchabe were one of twenty groups of American Indians that chose to join Juan DomĂnguez de Mendoza on his trek across Texas from the area of El Paso to the area around what is now San Angelo between 1683 and 1684. Mendoza did not indicate at what point the Quicuchabe joined his party; consequently it is impossible to ascertain where, exactly, they lived, and what tribe they were affiliated with.
Quicumque Christum Quærtis Quicumque Christum Quærtis is the opening line of the twelfth (in honour of the Epiphany) and last poem in the "Cathemerinon" of Prudentius. This twelfth poem or hymn contains 52 iambic dimeter strophes, and an irregular selection from its 208 lines has furnished four hymns to the Roman Breviary, all of which conclude with the usual Marian doxology ("Jesu tibi sit gloria" etc.
Quid pro quo Quid pro quo (Latin for "something for something" Merriam-Webster, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition), and the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Third Edition)all so define the Latin expression.) indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services.
Quidenham Quidenham is a small rural village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated 10Â miles (16Â km) north-east of the town of Thetford and 24Â miles (40Â km) south-west of the city of Norwich.
Quidhampton, Wiltshire Quidhampton is a village and civil parish in the Salisbury district of Wiltshire, England, with a population of 404 according to the 2001 census. It forms part of the Salisbury urban area and is around 2 miles west of the city centre.
Quiero Ser Quiero Ser (1981) is Menudo's 8th Spanish album and the second one released in 1981 featuring Ricky Melendez, Rene Farrait, Johnny Lozada, Xavier Serbia and Miguel Cancel. With this album their popularity started rising all over Latin America.
Quiescence search Quiescence search is an algorithm typically used to evaluate minimax game trees in game-playing computer programs. It is a remedy for the horizon problem faced by AI engines for various games like chess and Go.
Quiet (Lil' Kim song) Quiet is the rumored first single off of the re-issue of The Naked Truth from East Coast MC Lil' Kim and West Coast MC The Game. However there have also been talks of The Game's in Trouble being the first single.
Quiet (The Smashing Pumpkins song) "Quiet" is the second track from the Smashing Pumpkins' critically acclaimed second album Siamese Dream. It was written by Billy Corgan and is also featured on the Smashing Pumpkins live album/video 'Earphoria'/'Vieuphoria'
Quiet as a Nun Quiet as a Nun - A Tale of Murder was a thriller novel, published 1977 by Antonia Fraser. In it, Fraser's sleuthing heroine Jemima Shore revists the convent where she was schooled after the death of a nun, a former school friend.
Quiet City Quiet City is a well-known composition for trumpet, cor anglais, and string orchestra by Aaron Copland. In 1940, Copland knitted together the ten-minute piece from the incidental music he had written the previous year to accompany Irwin Shaw's play of the same name.
Quiet Corner The Quiet Corner is a region of the state of Connecticut, located in the northeastern corner of the state. It is generally associated with Windham County, but also incorporates eastern sections of Tolland County and the northern portion of New London County.
Quiet Nights Quiet Nights is an album recorded in 1962 and 1963 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The first six tunes were recorded in 1962 with an orchestra conducted by Evans, and "Summer Night" was recorded in 1963 by Davis with a short-lived quintet (George Coleman, Victor Feldman, Ron Carter and Frank Butler), during the sessions for the album Seven Steps to Heaven, although Coleman lays out on this number.
Quiet period The term quiet period, also known as a waiting period has "historically [meant], a quiet period extended from the time a company files a registration statement with the SEC until SEC staff declared the registration statement effective. During that period, the federal securities laws limited what information a company and related parties can release to the public.
Quiet Party Quiet Parties (also known as Silent Parties and as Silent Dating parties) are nightclub events where participants socialize by writing notes to each other instead of speaking. The single rule at these events is "no talking.
Quiet title An action to quiet title is a lawsuit brought in a court having jurisdiction over land disputes, in order to establish a party's title to real property against anyone and everyone, and thus "quiet" any challenges or claims to the title. It comprises a complaint that the ownership (title) of a parcel of land or other real property is defective in some fashion, typically where title to the property is ambiguous - for example, where it has been conveyed by a quitclaim deed through which the previous owner disclaims all interest, but does not promise that good title is conveyed.
Quiet World Quiet World was an English band that included Steve Hackett on guitar, his younger brother John Hackett on flute, Gill Cilbert on vocals, Lea and Neil Heather composers, John Heather composer, acoustic guitar and vocals, Sean O'Mally on drums, Eddy Hines flute and sax, Dick Driver string bass and electric bass, Phil Henderson arranger, piano, trumpet, organ, recorder and vocals.
Quietism (Christian philosophy) Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist with more or less emphasis on intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection; and all have been officially proscribed as heresy in very explicit terms by the Roman Catholic Church.
QuietRock QuietRock is a kind of internally damped drywall panel by Quiet Solution, an American manufacturer of soundproofing products. It is designed to provide higher levels of sound attenuation between rooms than standard drywall.
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