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Quoits Quoits (pronounced kwAits)is a traditional lawn game involving the throwing of a metal or rubber ring over a set distance to land over a pin in the centre of a patch of clay. It is closely related to horseshoe pitching and the fairground game hoopla.
Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Quonochontaug is composed of three small beach communities in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Located between two salt ponds and their respective barrier beaches, the communities of West Beach, Central Beach, and East Beach house several hundred mostly summer residents.
Quonset Glacier Quonset Glacier () is a glacier about 20 miles (32 km) long which drains the north slopes of Wisconsin Range between Mount LeSchack and Ruseski Buttress and trends west-northwest to enter the north side of Davisville Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.
Quori In the Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the quori are nightmarish beings from the plane of Dal Quor, the Region of Dreams. The quori lifecycle is somehow connected to Eberron, specifically each new Age on Eberron changes the nature of Dal'Quor, causing the otherwise immortal Quori to die and be reborn into a form more fitting to the new age.
Quorn Quorn is the leading brand of mycoprotein food product in the UKManagement Today magazine, article dated 1 March 2004: "Quorn is the leading brand in the UK's ÂŁ582 million vegetarian market, according to The Grocer, with sales of ÂŁ75 million." and a leading brand elsewhere.
Quorn Cricket Club The Quorn Cricket Club is a cricket club officially formed on September 21, 1878 in the small country town of Quorn, South Australia located north-east of Port Augusta, the club currently plays in the Port Augusta Cricket Association (P.A.
Quorthon Ace Börje "Quorthon" Forsberg (February 17 1966 – June 7 2004) was the founder and main song writer of the pioneering Swedish black metal band Bathory. His fans considered him the father of both the black metal and viking metal genres, the latter having a more evolved and operatic style.
Quorum In law, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that group. Ordinarily, this is a majority of the people expected to be there, although many bodies may have a lower or higher quorum.
Quorum call A quorum call or call to quorum is a parliamentary procedure used to summon absent members of a deliberative body if a quorum is not present. Since attendance at debates is not mandatory in most legislatures, it is often the case that a quorum of members is not present while debate is ongoing.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles In Mormonism, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Quorum of the Twelve, the Council of the Twelve, or the Twelve) is one of the governing bodies of church hierarchy in many Latter Day Saint denominations. Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are considered apostles, with a special calling to be evangelical ambassadors and witnesses of Jesus Christ.
Quorum of Twelve The Quorum of Twelve is a fictional governing body of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol on the two Battlestar Galactica television series. In both series, it was composed of one representative from each of the colonies of mankind, and as a governing body.
Quorums of the Seventy In Mormonism, a Quorum of the Seventy is one of a group of up to seventy "traveling ministers" charged with the mission of preaching to the entire world, under the direction of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The office is based on the Seventy mentioned in the Gospel of Luke .
Quota Borda system The Quota Borda System or Quota Preference Score is a voting system that was devised by the British philosopher Michael Dummett and first published in 1984 in his book, Voting Procedures, and again in his Principles of Electoral Reform.
Quota Elimination Quota Elimination refers to an initiative to eliminate the use of quotas in all textile and clothing trade between WTO nations. Doing so was one of the key commitments undertaken at the WTO "Uruguay Round") in 1994.
Quota sampling In quota sampling, the population is first segmented into mutually exclusive sub-groups, just as in stratified sampling. Then judgment is used to select the subjects or units from each segment based on a specified proportion.
Quotas in Pakistan Quotas in Pakistan were introduced in order to give equal opportunity for jobs, representation in assmeblies and educational institutions to women, non-Muslims and people from under developed rural areas. Quotas are also called reservations in Pakistan.
Quotation A quotation, also called a quote, is a fragment of a human expression, most often written or oral, which has been inserted into another human expression. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.
Quotation mark Quotation marks, also called quotes, speech marks or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.
Quotations from Chairman Powell: A Leadership Primer The article Quotations from Chairman Powell: A Leadership Primer was written by Oren Harari and appeared first in the December 1996 issue of the Management Review. The name is a reference to Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong.
Quotations from the Old Testament in the New Testament Numerous quotations of the Old Testament of the Bible are made in the New Testament. In general, the New Testament writers quote from the Septuagint ("LXX") version of the Old Testament, as it was then in common use among the Jews.
Quote mining Quote mining is the practice of compiling quotes from large volumes of literature or spoken word. The term is used pejoratively to accuse the "quote miner" of contextomy and misquotation, where favorable positions are amplified or falsely suggested, and unfavorable positions in the same text are excluded or otherwise obscured.
Quote notation Quote notation is a represention of the rational numbers for which the addition, subtraction, and multiplication algorithms are the same as for the natural numbers, and division is easier than the usual division algorithm, and works in the same direction (right-to-left) as the other arithmetic algorithms. It was invented by E.
Quote whore "Quote whore" or "blurb whore" is a pejorative term used by some movie reviewers to describe other critics who provide reviews well in advance of a movie's release and whose reviews are uniformly positive. Such reviews feature stock phrases (such as "spectacular," "edge-of-the-seat," "thrilling," "riveting," "joy ride," "triumph," "tour de force," etc.
Quote/commentary Quote/commentary is a form of interaction in email and other modes of online communication consisting of cut and pasted passages of text followed by commentary focussed specifically on the excerpted passage. The term was introduced by cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad, who sees it as a significant development in communication because it restores "the real-time interactivity of the oral tradition" to written textFor Harnad, the most important features of quote/commentary are:
Quotidian The term, "quotidian," derives from the Latin word for "daily" and refers to repetitive daily actions, events or routines - yet in typical usage carries a vaguely negative overtone. "Quotidian" is generally used to convey a sense of the mundane; that is, there is an implication of the 'commonplace' — often in the disparaging sense, and at the very least to indicate that there is nothing unexpected or surprising to be found in things quotidian.
Quotient category In mathematics, a quotient category is a category obtained from another one by identifying sets of morphisms. The notion is similar to that of a quotient group or quotient space, but in the categorical setting.
Quotient group In mathematics, given a group G and a normal subgroup N of G, the quotient group, or factor group, of G over N is intuitively a group that "collapses" the normal subgroup N to the identity element. The quotient group is written G/N and is usually spoken in English as G mod N (mod is short for modulo).
Quotient module In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, given a module and a submodule, one can construct their quotient module. This construction, to be described below, is analogous to how one obtains the ring of integers modulo an integer n, see modular arithmetic.
Quotient ring In mathematics a quotient ring, also known as factor ring or residue class ring, is a construction in ring theory, quite similar to the factor groups of group theory and the quotient spaces of linear algebra. One starts with a ring R and a two-sided ideal I in R, and constructs a new ring, the quotient ring R/I, essentially by requiring that all elements of I be zero.
Quotient space In topology and related areas of mathematics, a quotient space (also called an identification space) is, intuitively speaking, the result of identifying or "gluing together" certain points of a given space. The points to be identified are specified by an equivalence relation.
Quotient space (linear algebra) In linear algebra, the quotient of a vector space V by a subspace N is a vector space obtained by "collapsing" N to zero. The space obtained is called a quotient space and is denoted V/N (read V mod N).
Quotientable automorphism In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a quotientable automorphism of a group is an automorphism that takes every normal subgroup to within itself. As a result, it gives a corresponding automorphism for every quotient group.
Qur'an The Qur'Än (Arabic:, literally "the recitation"; also called "The Noble Qur'Än"; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and Al-Quran) is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur'Än, in its original Arabic, to be the literal word of GodQur'Än, Chapter 2, Verses 23-24 that was revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three yearsQur'an, Chapter 17, Verse 106 until his death, and believe it to be God's final revelation to humanityQur'an, Chapter 33, Verse 40Watton, Victor, (1993), A student's approach to world religions:Islam, Hodder & Stoughton, pg 1.
Qur'an alone Qur'an alone Muslims, Qur'anic Muslims or sometimes, anti-hadith Muslims are those Muslims who reject hadith, or recorded Islamic traditions, and follow the Qur'an, Islam's sacred text, without any further additions. However, some Muslims who follow the Quran alone say that they are simply "Muslims", and not "Qur'anites".
Qur'an desecration Qur'an desecration is defined as insulting the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, by defiling or defacing it. Most traditional schools of Islamic law dictate that a Muslim may not touch the Qur'an, which is regarded as the literal word of God in its untranslated Arabic form, unless he or she is in a state of ritual purity (wudu).
Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005 The Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005 captured international attention in April 2005 when Newsweek published an article, which was subsequently retracted, containing allegations from a government source that U.S.
Qur'an oath controversy of the 110th United States Congress In mid-November 2006 it was reported that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress (for Minnesota's 5th congressional district), "will take his oath of office with his hand upon the Koran, the Islamic holy book." Retrieved on Dec.
Qur'an reading Qur'an reading is the reading (tarteel, tajwid, or taghbir) aloud, reciting, or chanting of portions of the Qur'an. It is not considered music by Muslims and when recited the style is structurally disimilar from music (even secular Arab music).
Qur'an translations Translations of the Qur'án are interpretations of the holy book of Islam in languages other than Arabic. Translations of the Qur'án are popular in the English-speaking world, and are in general used by people who cannot understand the original Arabic text.
Qur'anic literalism Ibn Baz was a follower of the Muslim scholars Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab and Ibn Taymiyya; he belonged to that current of Muslim thought sometimes called Salafism and sometimes Wahabbism. According to a Shi'a website, Answering-Ansar.
Quranic religions Qur'anic religions are religions that believe in and follow the teachings of the Qur'an (and believe in it as a divinely inspired revelation) including Muslims but also those which are not considered Islamic by the majority of Muslims. Qur'anic religions include:
Qurghonteppa Qurghonteppa (formerly known as Kurgan-Tyube, from the Persian word گرگان تپه meaning "Hills of Gurgan") is a city in southwestern Tajikistan. It is the capital of the Viloyati Khatlon region.
Quruli Quruli (ăŹă‚‹ă‚Š, kururi) is a popular Japanese music group formed in 1996. The lineup as of January 2006 is Masashi Satoh (ä˝č—¤ĺľĺŹ˛ SatĹŤ Masashi, bass), Tasshin Ohmura (大村é”čş« ĹŚmura Tasshin, guitar) and Shigeru Kishida (ĺ˛¸ç”°çą Kishida Shigeru, vocals, guitar).
Qusay Hussein Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (Arabic: قصي صدام Řسين ) (or Qusai) (May 17, 1966 ,Baghdad – July 22, 2003) was the second son of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's heir in 2000.
Qusay Munir Qusay Munir (قصي منير in Arabic, born April 12, 1981) is an Iraqi footballer who is a midfielder for Al-Tadhamon and the Iraq national football team. Munir, the defensive midfielder of the Iraqi national team, is most noted for playing a big role in addition to playing every single minute in Iraq's successful 2004 Olympic campaign.
Qusqu-Qullaw Qusqu-Qullaw (Spanish also Cusco-Collao) is a variety of the Quechua language, spoken throughout southern Peru (departments of Cusco and Puno), Bolivia, and northern Argentina. With about four million speakers, it is one of the largest dialects, along with Ayacucho Quechua.
Qusum Qusum (; THDL Romanisation: Chusum) is a small Tibetan town in Qusum County in the Tsedang region of Tibet some 160km south-east of Lhasa near the border with Bhutan. It has an altitude of 4454 metres above seal level [14,616 feet] with a latitude of 32° 13' 0 N and longitude of 79° 16' 0 E.
Qutaibi Qutaibi ( []) or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom (Arabic: مشيخة القطيبي []) was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate. It was a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and is now part of the Republic of Yemen.
Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza () was married with Abu Bakr and had two children with him, Asma bint Abu Bakr and `Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr, when Muhammad declared started his mission. When Abu Bakr declared his Islam, Qutaylah did not do the same.
Qutb ad-DÄ«n Haydar Qutb ad-DÄ«n Haydar is a Persian Sufi saint, who died about 1221 CE/618 AH. Haydar - the Persian form of his name is Heydar - founded an order of mendicant dervishes known as the Haydariyya known for their celibacy and self-mortification through piercing their own bodies with iron rings.
Qutb complex The Qutb complex is an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the most famous of which is the Qutub Minar. This complex was first constructed by Qutb-ud-din Aybak, the first ruler of the Slave Dynasty, and his successor Iltutmish (aka Altmash) in his new city called the Qila-Rai-Pithora near Prithivraj Chauhan's older city.
Qutb Shahi dynasty The Qutb Shahi dynasty (whose members were also called the Qutub Shahis) was the ruling family of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India. They were Shia Muslims and belonged to a Turkmen tribe from the Turkmenistan-Armenia region.
Qutb-ud-din Aybak Qutb-ud-din Aybak (Persian: قطب الدین ایبک) was a ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan of Delhi and founder of the Slave dynasty (also known as the Mamluk dynasty). He served as sultan for only four years, 1206-1210.
Qutbism Qutbism (also Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah) is the radical strain of Islamic ideology and activism, based on the thought and writings of Sayyid Qutb, a celebrated Islamist and former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed in 1966. Qutbee or Qutbi (also Qutbists) are followers of these ideals.
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (Arabic: قطب الدین بختیار کاکی ) was a renowned Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and scholar in the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. He was the disciple and khalifa (spiritual successor) of Moinuddin Chishti as head of the Chishti Order.
Quttinirpaaq National Park Quttinirpaaq National Park (formerly Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve) is a national park of Canada. Located on the northeastern corner of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, the most northerly extent of Canada, it is the most northerly park on Earth.
Qutub Festival Qutub Festival is a three day festival usually held in November-December in the Qutb complex in the Indian metropolis of Delhi. The festival showcases the cultural art forms of the country but also puts this classic structure of Qutub Minar in the cynosure of national and international attention.
Qutulmush Qutulmush was a cousin of ToÄźrĂĽl Bey (Toghrul Begh) and played a vital role in the conquests of the Seljuk Turks. He supported a rebellion against ToÄźrĂĽl and contested the succession to the throne with Alp Arslan.
Quwê Quwê – also spelled Que, Kue, Qeve, Coa, Kuê and Keveh – was an Assyrian vassal state or province at various times from the 9th century BC to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around 627 BCE in the lowlands of eastern Cilicia, and the name of its capital city, tentatively identified with Adana, in modern Turkey. According to many translations of the Bible, it was the place from which King Solomon obtained horses.
Quzhou Quzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Zhejiang province, China. Sitting on the upper course of the Qiantang River, it borders Hangzhou to the north, Jinhua to the east, Lishui to the southeast, and the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui to the south the south, southwest and northwest respectively.
QUBE QUBE was a cable television system which played a pivotal role in the history of American cable television. Launched in Columbus, Ohio in December, 1977, QUBE introduced viewers, and the international press, to several concepts that became central to the future development of cable television: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services.
QUEL QUEL is a relational database access language, similar in most ways to SQL, but somewhat better arranged and easier to use. It was created as a part of the groundbreaking Ingres effort at University of California, Berkeley, based on Codd's earlier suggested but not implemented Data Sub-Language ALPHA.
QUMSA QUMSA stands for the Queen's University Muslim Students' Association. The organization acts as a focal point for Muslim students to meet for various acts of worship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Canada.
Qvale Qvale (pronounced "koo-va-lay") was an independent Italian car manufacturer founded in 2000 by the American Kjell Qvale's son, Bruce Qvale. Qvale's sole product was the Mangusta, originally the De Tomaso BiguĂ .
QV44 QV44 is one of several tombs located in the Valley of the Queens intended for the use of Ramesses III's sons. The painted reliefs decorating Khaemwaset E's tomb illustrate his ritual and symbolic journey in the Afterlife as he meets the main gods of that region as well as the genies who guard the gates of the kingdom of Osiris.
QVC QVC is a West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, based multinational corporation, specialising in televised home shopping. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel, QVC broadcasts in four major countries to 141 million consumers.
QVM86 QVM86 is a Linux kernel module to provide x86 virtualization capabilities for the qemu emulator. Virtualization allows "emulated" code to be run natively on the host cpu, using the CPU protection mechanisms to intercept and emulate privileged events.
QwaQwa QwaQwa was a Bantustan, or homeland, in the eastern part of South Africa. It encompassed a very small region of 655 km² in the east of the former South African province of Orange Free State, bordering Lesotho.
Qwest Arena Qwest Arena (formerly Bank of America Centre) is multi-purpose arena in Boise, Idaho. It holds 5,300 fans for ice hockey and basketball, 5,732 for end-stage concerts, 6,400 for boxing and up to 6,800 for center-stage concerts.
Qwest Building The Qwest Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota was completed in 1932 and became the tallest building to be built in the city during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. The name comes from its current owner, Qwest Communications.
Qwest Wireless Owned by Qwest Communications, Qwest Wireless LLC is its cellular phone service offered in the United States. Qwest Wireless is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that operates on Sprint PCS's CDMA network.
Qwghlm Qwghlm is a fictional location, featured in the books Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. Qwghlm consists of a pair of islands, Inner Qwghlm and Outer Qwghlm, off the northwestern coast of Great Britain; they have become victims of English imperialism.
QWERTY QWERTY (pronounced ) is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard's top first row of letters.
QWERTZ The QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a widely used computer and typewriter keyboard layout that is mostly used in German-speaking regions. The name comes from the first six letters at the top left of the keyboard: Q, W, E, R, T, and Z.
QWHIP QWHIP is an online gossip forum serving the gay and lesbian community, but all are welcome. Generally anyone can post, either anonymously as "guest" or under an authenticated handle, on any topic of interest to them or to existing topics.
QWK QWK is file-based offline mail reader format that was popular among bulletin board system (BBS) users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. During the height of bulletin board system popularity, several dozen offline mail readers supported the QWK format.
QXGA The Quad eXtended Graphics Array (QXGA) display standard and its derivatives are relatively new (as of 2005) resolution standards in display technology. Their high pixel counts and heavy display hardware requirements mean that there are currently few monitors which have pixel counts at these levels.
Qyntel Woods Qyntel Deon Woods (born February 16 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's New York Knicks. After a career at the Northeast Mississippi Community College, Woods was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 21st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft.
Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Quonochontaug is composed of three small beach communities in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Located between two salt ponds and their respective barrier beaches, the communities of West Beach, Central Beach, and East Beach house several hundred mostly summer residents.
Quonset Glacier Quonset Glacier () is a glacier about 20 miles (32 km) long which drains the north slopes of Wisconsin Range between Mount LeSchack and Ruseski Buttress and trends west-northwest to enter the north side of Davisville Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.
Quori In the Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the quori are nightmarish beings from the plane of Dal Quor, the Region of Dreams. The quori lifecycle is somehow connected to Eberron, specifically each new Age on Eberron changes the nature of Dal'Quor, causing the otherwise immortal Quori to die and be reborn into a form more fitting to the new age.
Quorn Quorn is the leading brand of mycoprotein food product in the UKManagement Today magazine, article dated 1 March 2004: "Quorn is the leading brand in the UK's ÂŁ582 million vegetarian market, according to The Grocer, with sales of ÂŁ75 million." and a leading brand elsewhere.
Quorn Cricket Club The Quorn Cricket Club is a cricket club officially formed on September 21, 1878 in the small country town of Quorn, South Australia located north-east of Port Augusta, the club currently plays in the Port Augusta Cricket Association (P.A.
Quorthon Ace Börje "Quorthon" Forsberg (February 17 1966 – June 7 2004) was the founder and main song writer of the pioneering Swedish black metal band Bathory. His fans considered him the father of both the black metal and viking metal genres, the latter having a more evolved and operatic style.
Quorum In law, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that group. Ordinarily, this is a majority of the people expected to be there, although many bodies may have a lower or higher quorum.
Quorum call A quorum call or call to quorum is a parliamentary procedure used to summon absent members of a deliberative body if a quorum is not present. Since attendance at debates is not mandatory in most legislatures, it is often the case that a quorum of members is not present while debate is ongoing.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles In Mormonism, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Quorum of the Twelve, the Council of the Twelve, or the Twelve) is one of the governing bodies of church hierarchy in many Latter Day Saint denominations. Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are considered apostles, with a special calling to be evangelical ambassadors and witnesses of Jesus Christ.
Quorum of Twelve The Quorum of Twelve is a fictional governing body of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol on the two Battlestar Galactica television series. In both series, it was composed of one representative from each of the colonies of mankind, and as a governing body.
Quorums of the Seventy In Mormonism, a Quorum of the Seventy is one of a group of up to seventy "traveling ministers" charged with the mission of preaching to the entire world, under the direction of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The office is based on the Seventy mentioned in the Gospel of Luke .
Quota Borda system The Quota Borda System or Quota Preference Score is a voting system that was devised by the British philosopher Michael Dummett and first published in 1984 in his book, Voting Procedures, and again in his Principles of Electoral Reform.
Quota Elimination Quota Elimination refers to an initiative to eliminate the use of quotas in all textile and clothing trade between WTO nations. Doing so was one of the key commitments undertaken at the WTO "Uruguay Round") in 1994.
Quota sampling In quota sampling, the population is first segmented into mutually exclusive sub-groups, just as in stratified sampling. Then judgment is used to select the subjects or units from each segment based on a specified proportion.
Quotas in Pakistan Quotas in Pakistan were introduced in order to give equal opportunity for jobs, representation in assmeblies and educational institutions to women, non-Muslims and people from under developed rural areas. Quotas are also called reservations in Pakistan.
Quotation A quotation, also called a quote, is a fragment of a human expression, most often written or oral, which has been inserted into another human expression. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.
Quotation mark Quotation marks, also called quotes, speech marks or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.
Quotations from Chairman Powell: A Leadership Primer The article Quotations from Chairman Powell: A Leadership Primer was written by Oren Harari and appeared first in the December 1996 issue of the Management Review. The name is a reference to Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong.
Quotations from the Old Testament in the New Testament Numerous quotations of the Old Testament of the Bible are made in the New Testament. In general, the New Testament writers quote from the Septuagint ("LXX") version of the Old Testament, as it was then in common use among the Jews.
Quote mining Quote mining is the practice of compiling quotes from large volumes of literature or spoken word. The term is used pejoratively to accuse the "quote miner" of contextomy and misquotation, where favorable positions are amplified or falsely suggested, and unfavorable positions in the same text are excluded or otherwise obscured.
Quote notation Quote notation is a represention of the rational numbers for which the addition, subtraction, and multiplication algorithms are the same as for the natural numbers, and division is easier than the usual division algorithm, and works in the same direction (right-to-left) as the other arithmetic algorithms. It was invented by E.
Quote whore "Quote whore" or "blurb whore" is a pejorative term used by some movie reviewers to describe other critics who provide reviews well in advance of a movie's release and whose reviews are uniformly positive. Such reviews feature stock phrases (such as "spectacular," "edge-of-the-seat," "thrilling," "riveting," "joy ride," "triumph," "tour de force," etc.
Quote/commentary Quote/commentary is a form of interaction in email and other modes of online communication consisting of cut and pasted passages of text followed by commentary focussed specifically on the excerpted passage. The term was introduced by cognitive scientist Stevan Harnad, who sees it as a significant development in communication because it restores "the real-time interactivity of the oral tradition" to written textFor Harnad, the most important features of quote/commentary are:
Quotidian The term, "quotidian," derives from the Latin word for "daily" and refers to repetitive daily actions, events or routines - yet in typical usage carries a vaguely negative overtone. "Quotidian" is generally used to convey a sense of the mundane; that is, there is an implication of the 'commonplace' — often in the disparaging sense, and at the very least to indicate that there is nothing unexpected or surprising to be found in things quotidian.
Quotient category In mathematics, a quotient category is a category obtained from another one by identifying sets of morphisms. The notion is similar to that of a quotient group or quotient space, but in the categorical setting.
Quotient group In mathematics, given a group G and a normal subgroup N of G, the quotient group, or factor group, of G over N is intuitively a group that "collapses" the normal subgroup N to the identity element. The quotient group is written G/N and is usually spoken in English as G mod N (mod is short for modulo).
Quotient module In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, given a module and a submodule, one can construct their quotient module. This construction, to be described below, is analogous to how one obtains the ring of integers modulo an integer n, see modular arithmetic.
Quotient ring In mathematics a quotient ring, also known as factor ring or residue class ring, is a construction in ring theory, quite similar to the factor groups of group theory and the quotient spaces of linear algebra. One starts with a ring R and a two-sided ideal I in R, and constructs a new ring, the quotient ring R/I, essentially by requiring that all elements of I be zero.
Quotient space In topology and related areas of mathematics, a quotient space (also called an identification space) is, intuitively speaking, the result of identifying or "gluing together" certain points of a given space. The points to be identified are specified by an equivalence relation.
Quotient space (linear algebra) In linear algebra, the quotient of a vector space V by a subspace N is a vector space obtained by "collapsing" N to zero. The space obtained is called a quotient space and is denoted V/N (read V mod N).
Quotientable automorphism In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a quotientable automorphism of a group is an automorphism that takes every normal subgroup to within itself. As a result, it gives a corresponding automorphism for every quotient group.
Qur'an The Qur'Än (Arabic:, literally "the recitation"; also called "The Noble Qur'Än"; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and Al-Quran) is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur'Än, in its original Arabic, to be the literal word of GodQur'Än, Chapter 2, Verses 23-24 that was revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three yearsQur'an, Chapter 17, Verse 106 until his death, and believe it to be God's final revelation to humanityQur'an, Chapter 33, Verse 40Watton, Victor, (1993), A student's approach to world religions:Islam, Hodder & Stoughton, pg 1.
Qur'an alone Qur'an alone Muslims, Qur'anic Muslims or sometimes, anti-hadith Muslims are those Muslims who reject hadith, or recorded Islamic traditions, and follow the Qur'an, Islam's sacred text, without any further additions. However, some Muslims who follow the Quran alone say that they are simply "Muslims", and not "Qur'anites".
Qur'an desecration Qur'an desecration is defined as insulting the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, by defiling or defacing it. Most traditional schools of Islamic law dictate that a Muslim may not touch the Qur'an, which is regarded as the literal word of God in its untranslated Arabic form, unless he or she is in a state of ritual purity (wudu).
Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005 The Qur'an desecration controversy of 2005 captured international attention in April 2005 when Newsweek published an article, which was subsequently retracted, containing allegations from a government source that U.S.
Qur'an oath controversy of the 110th United States Congress In mid-November 2006 it was reported that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress (for Minnesota's 5th congressional district), "will take his oath of office with his hand upon the Koran, the Islamic holy book." Retrieved on Dec.
Qur'an reading Qur'an reading is the reading (tarteel, tajwid, or taghbir) aloud, reciting, or chanting of portions of the Qur'an. It is not considered music by Muslims and when recited the style is structurally disimilar from music (even secular Arab music).
Qur'an translations Translations of the Qur'án are interpretations of the holy book of Islam in languages other than Arabic. Translations of the Qur'án are popular in the English-speaking world, and are in general used by people who cannot understand the original Arabic text.
Qur'anic literalism Ibn Baz was a follower of the Muslim scholars Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab and Ibn Taymiyya; he belonged to that current of Muslim thought sometimes called Salafism and sometimes Wahabbism. According to a Shi'a website, Answering-Ansar.
Quranic religions Qur'anic religions are religions that believe in and follow the teachings of the Qur'an (and believe in it as a divinely inspired revelation) including Muslims but also those which are not considered Islamic by the majority of Muslims. Qur'anic religions include:
Qurghonteppa Qurghonteppa (formerly known as Kurgan-Tyube, from the Persian word گرگان تپه meaning "Hills of Gurgan") is a city in southwestern Tajikistan. It is the capital of the Viloyati Khatlon region.
Quruli Quruli (ăŹă‚‹ă‚Š, kururi) is a popular Japanese music group formed in 1996. The lineup as of January 2006 is Masashi Satoh (ä˝č—¤ĺľĺŹ˛ SatĹŤ Masashi, bass), Tasshin Ohmura (大村é”čş« ĹŚmura Tasshin, guitar) and Shigeru Kishida (ĺ˛¸ç”°çą Kishida Shigeru, vocals, guitar).
Qusay Hussein Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (Arabic: قصي صدام Řسين ) (or Qusai) (May 17, 1966 ,Baghdad – July 22, 2003) was the second son of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's heir in 2000.
Qusay Munir Qusay Munir (قصي منير in Arabic, born April 12, 1981) is an Iraqi footballer who is a midfielder for Al-Tadhamon and the Iraq national football team. Munir, the defensive midfielder of the Iraqi national team, is most noted for playing a big role in addition to playing every single minute in Iraq's successful 2004 Olympic campaign.
Qusqu-Qullaw Qusqu-Qullaw (Spanish also Cusco-Collao) is a variety of the Quechua language, spoken throughout southern Peru (departments of Cusco and Puno), Bolivia, and northern Argentina. With about four million speakers, it is one of the largest dialects, along with Ayacucho Quechua.
Qusum Qusum (; THDL Romanisation: Chusum) is a small Tibetan town in Qusum County in the Tsedang region of Tibet some 160km south-east of Lhasa near the border with Bhutan. It has an altitude of 4454 metres above seal level [14,616 feet] with a latitude of 32° 13' 0 N and longitude of 79° 16' 0 E.
Qutaibi Qutaibi ( []) or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom (Arabic: مشيخة القطيبي []) was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate. It was a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and is now part of the Republic of Yemen.
Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza () was married with Abu Bakr and had two children with him, Asma bint Abu Bakr and `Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr, when Muhammad declared started his mission. When Abu Bakr declared his Islam, Qutaylah did not do the same.
Qutb ad-DÄ«n Haydar Qutb ad-DÄ«n Haydar is a Persian Sufi saint, who died about 1221 CE/618 AH. Haydar - the Persian form of his name is Heydar - founded an order of mendicant dervishes known as the Haydariyya known for their celibacy and self-mortification through piercing their own bodies with iron rings.
Qutb complex The Qutb complex is an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the most famous of which is the Qutub Minar. This complex was first constructed by Qutb-ud-din Aybak, the first ruler of the Slave Dynasty, and his successor Iltutmish (aka Altmash) in his new city called the Qila-Rai-Pithora near Prithivraj Chauhan's older city.
Qutb Shahi dynasty The Qutb Shahi dynasty (whose members were also called the Qutub Shahis) was the ruling family of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India. They were Shia Muslims and belonged to a Turkmen tribe from the Turkmenistan-Armenia region.
Qutb-ud-din Aybak Qutb-ud-din Aybak (Persian: قطب الدین ایبک) was a ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan of Delhi and founder of the Slave dynasty (also known as the Mamluk dynasty). He served as sultan for only four years, 1206-1210.
Qutbism Qutbism (also Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah) is the radical strain of Islamic ideology and activism, based on the thought and writings of Sayyid Qutb, a celebrated Islamist and former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed in 1966. Qutbee or Qutbi (also Qutbists) are followers of these ideals.
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (Arabic: قطب الدین بختیار کاکی ) was a renowned Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and scholar in the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. He was the disciple and khalifa (spiritual successor) of Moinuddin Chishti as head of the Chishti Order.
Quttinirpaaq National Park Quttinirpaaq National Park (formerly Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve) is a national park of Canada. Located on the northeastern corner of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, the most northerly extent of Canada, it is the most northerly park on Earth.
Qutub Festival Qutub Festival is a three day festival usually held in November-December in the Qutb complex in the Indian metropolis of Delhi. The festival showcases the cultural art forms of the country but also puts this classic structure of Qutub Minar in the cynosure of national and international attention.
Qutulmush Qutulmush was a cousin of ToÄźrĂĽl Bey (Toghrul Begh) and played a vital role in the conquests of the Seljuk Turks. He supported a rebellion against ToÄźrĂĽl and contested the succession to the throne with Alp Arslan.
Quwê Quwê – also spelled Que, Kue, Qeve, Coa, Kuê and Keveh – was an Assyrian vassal state or province at various times from the 9th century BC to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around 627 BCE in the lowlands of eastern Cilicia, and the name of its capital city, tentatively identified with Adana, in modern Turkey. According to many translations of the Bible, it was the place from which King Solomon obtained horses.
Quzhou Quzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Zhejiang province, China. Sitting on the upper course of the Qiantang River, it borders Hangzhou to the north, Jinhua to the east, Lishui to the southeast, and the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui to the south the south, southwest and northwest respectively.
QUBE QUBE was a cable television system which played a pivotal role in the history of American cable television. Launched in Columbus, Ohio in December, 1977, QUBE introduced viewers, and the international press, to several concepts that became central to the future development of cable television: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services.
QUEL QUEL is a relational database access language, similar in most ways to SQL, but somewhat better arranged and easier to use. It was created as a part of the groundbreaking Ingres effort at University of California, Berkeley, based on Codd's earlier suggested but not implemented Data Sub-Language ALPHA.
QUMSA QUMSA stands for the Queen's University Muslim Students' Association. The organization acts as a focal point for Muslim students to meet for various acts of worship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Canada.
Qvale Qvale (pronounced "koo-va-lay") was an independent Italian car manufacturer founded in 2000 by the American Kjell Qvale's son, Bruce Qvale. Qvale's sole product was the Mangusta, originally the De Tomaso BiguĂ .
QV44 QV44 is one of several tombs located in the Valley of the Queens intended for the use of Ramesses III's sons. The painted reliefs decorating Khaemwaset E's tomb illustrate his ritual and symbolic journey in the Afterlife as he meets the main gods of that region as well as the genies who guard the gates of the kingdom of Osiris.
QVC QVC is a West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, based multinational corporation, specialising in televised home shopping. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel, QVC broadcasts in four major countries to 141 million consumers.
QVM86 QVM86 is a Linux kernel module to provide x86 virtualization capabilities for the qemu emulator. Virtualization allows "emulated" code to be run natively on the host cpu, using the CPU protection mechanisms to intercept and emulate privileged events.
QwaQwa QwaQwa was a Bantustan, or homeland, in the eastern part of South Africa. It encompassed a very small region of 655 km² in the east of the former South African province of Orange Free State, bordering Lesotho.
Qwest Arena Qwest Arena (formerly Bank of America Centre) is multi-purpose arena in Boise, Idaho. It holds 5,300 fans for ice hockey and basketball, 5,732 for end-stage concerts, 6,400 for boxing and up to 6,800 for center-stage concerts.
Qwest Building The Qwest Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota was completed in 1932 and became the tallest building to be built in the city during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. The name comes from its current owner, Qwest Communications.
Qwest Wireless Owned by Qwest Communications, Qwest Wireless LLC is its cellular phone service offered in the United States. Qwest Wireless is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that operates on Sprint PCS's CDMA network.
Qwghlm Qwghlm is a fictional location, featured in the books Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. Qwghlm consists of a pair of islands, Inner Qwghlm and Outer Qwghlm, off the northwestern coast of Great Britain; they have become victims of English imperialism.
QWERTY QWERTY (pronounced ) is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard's top first row of letters.
QWERTZ The QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a widely used computer and typewriter keyboard layout that is mostly used in German-speaking regions. The name comes from the first six letters at the top left of the keyboard: Q, W, E, R, T, and Z.
QWHIP QWHIP is an online gossip forum serving the gay and lesbian community, but all are welcome. Generally anyone can post, either anonymously as "guest" or under an authenticated handle, on any topic of interest to them or to existing topics.
QWK QWK is file-based offline mail reader format that was popular among bulletin board system (BBS) users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. During the height of bulletin board system popularity, several dozen offline mail readers supported the QWK format.
QXGA The Quad eXtended Graphics Array (QXGA) display standard and its derivatives are relatively new (as of 2005) resolution standards in display technology. Their high pixel counts and heavy display hardware requirements mean that there are currently few monitors which have pixel counts at these levels.
Qyntel Woods Qyntel Deon Woods (born February 16 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's New York Knicks. After a career at the Northeast Mississippi Community College, Woods was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 21st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft.
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