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Qinghai (; Postal map spelling: Tsinghai; ; Mongolian: Köke Naγur; Manchu: Huhu Noor) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. It borders Gansu on the northeast, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast, and Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
Qinghai Lake Qinghai Lake or Lake Koko Nor is the largest lake in China. Qinghai Lake is also the largest drainless lake in the PRC and is located 3,205 m (10,515 feet) above sea level in a depression of the Tibetan Plateau.
Qinghai University Qinghai University is a university located in Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province, China. Established in 1958, the university awards Bachelor's degrees in the areas of Economics and Management, Agriculture and Stockbreeding, Science and Technology, Engineering, Veterinary sciences, Adult Education, and Architecture.
Qinghua clique The term Qinghua clique refers to a group of Communist Chinese politicians that have graduated from Tsinghua University. They are members of the fourth generation of Chinese leadership, and are purported to hold hesitantly pro-democratic or reformist ideas (a number have studied in the United States following graduation from Qinghua, and some are said to be influenced by the reform ideals of Hu Yaobang).
Qingming Festival The Qingming Festival (), or Ching Ming Festival used in Hong Kong, literally Clear and Bright Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice, usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (see Chinese calendar). Astronomically, it is also a solar term (See Qingming).
Qingtan Qingtan (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing-t'an), translated a "pure conversation," was a movement related to Taoism during the Wei-Chin period of the Northern dynasties. The most prominent of these groups was the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
Qingyuan Jiedushi Qingyuan (清ćş) Jiedushi (節度使) was the official title of Chen Hong (陳洪), the military commissioner (jiedushi) of the Pinghai military prefecture (平海軍). Following the assassination of Wang Yanjun (王延éž) by his brother Wang Yanhan (王延翰) in 933 and the subsequent proclamation by Wang Yanhan of himself as the emperor of Min (é–©), Chen Hong reigned independent in Qingyuan (清ćş), with his capital at Quanzhou (泉州).
Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium The Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium will serve as one of the Football venues during the 2008 Summer Olympics. The multi-use stadium lies inside the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre on the Hebei Avenue in Qinhuangdao, China.
Qinling Mountains The Qinling Mountains (Chinese Simplified 秦ĺ˛, Chinese Traditional 秦嶺) are a major mountain range in central China. They form the main physical barrier between the Wei River valley and the Sichuan Plain.
Qinqiang Qinqiang (秦腔, pinyin: QĂnqiÄng) or Luantan (乱弹, pinyin: LuĂ ntán) is the representative folk opera of the northwest Province of Shaanxi, China, where it was called Qin thousands of years ago. Its melodies were originated from the rural areas of ancient Shaanxi and Gansu.
Qinzhou Qinzhou (simplified Chinese: 钦州; traditional Chinese: 欽州; Qīnzhōu; Wade-Giles: Ch'in-chow, older transliteration: Yamchow or Yen Chow) is a prefecture-level city on the Gulf of Tonkin in Guangxi in the People's Republic of China.
Qiongzhou Strait The Qiongzhou Strait (ç“Šĺ·žćµ·ĺł˝), also called Hainan Strait, is a body of water that separates the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, southern China, to the north from Hainan Island to its south. The strait connects the Gulf of Tonkin in the west to the South China Sea in the east.
Qiqihar Qiqihar ( ; Manchu: Cicigar hoton) is a major city in the Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China and has 895,000 inhabitants. Generally there are Han-Chinese and the minority are among others Manchu, Daur and Mongolians.
Qira County The Qira County is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.The official spelling is "Qira" according to ZhĹŤngguĂł dìmĂnglĂą ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺŤĺ˝• (Beijing, ZhĹŤngguĂł dìtĂş chĹ«bÇŽnshè ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺ›ľĺ‡şç‰ç¤ľ 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p.
Qira'at Qira'at, in the context of Islam, means literally the readings, that is the method of recitation. Traditionally, there are 10 recognised schools of qira'at, and each one derives its name from the leader of the school of Qur'an recitation.
Qiran Qiran (قران), also qerun or kran, was an Iranian currency was first introduced in 1825 as a coin worth 1000 dinars, or one tenth of a toman. The rial replaced the kran at par in 1932, although it was divided into one hundred (new) dinars.
Qirsh Qirsh, Gersh and KuruĹź are all names for currency denominations in and around the territories formerly part of the Ottoman Empire. The variation in the name stems from the different languages it is used in (Arabic, Ethiopian and Turkish) and the different transcriptions into the Latin alphabet.
Qiryat Atta Qiryat Atta (; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Ata) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2001 the city had a total population of 48,600.
Qiryat Eliezer Stadium The Haifa Municipal Stadium, more commonly known as Qiryat Eliezer, is a multi-use stadium in Haifa, Israel. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa.
Qiryat Gat Qiryat Gat, commonly spelled Kiryat Gat (), is a city in the Southern District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 47,800.
Qiryat Haim Stadium The Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium, more commonly known as Qiryat Haim, is a multi-use stadium in Qiryat Haim, Israel. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Hapoel Haifa's youth teams.
Qiryat Chaim Qiryat Chaim () is one of five towns of the HaQerayot urban area in Israel, part of a conglomeration of five smaller towns located about north of Haifa in the Haifa District, which as of 2003 contains 40,000 residents.
Qiryat Chaim Railway Station Qiryat Chaim Railway Station (, Taḥanat HaRakevet Qiryat Ḥaim) is an Israel Railways passenger station serving the town of Qiryat Chaim (administratively a neighborhood of Haifa) and the surrounding Qrayot region.
Qiryat Mal'akhi Qiryat Mal'akhi (Hebrew: קִרְיַת מַלְ×ָכִי, also transliterated Kiryat Malachi) is a city in the Southern District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 19,400.
Qiryat Motzkin Qiryat Motzkin ( , ; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Motzkin) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 39,500.
Qiryat Ono Qiryat Ono ( ; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Ono) is a city in the Tel Aviv District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in September 2003 the city had a total population of 24,200.
Qiryat Tivon Qiryat Tivon (Hebrew:קרית ×בעון, unofficially also spelled Kiryat Tiv'on) is a local council in the Haifa District of Israel. It is located on the hills on the border between Zvulun and Jezreel valleys.
Qisas Al-Anbiya The Qisas al-anbiya (قصص الأنبياء) or Stories of the Prophets refers to various collections of tales adapted from the Quran. One of the best-known is that composed by al-Kisai in either the 6th or the 13th century; others include the Ara'is al-majalis by al-Tha'alabi (d.
Qissa Khawani Bazaar Qissa Khawani Bazaar (Urdu: قصه Ř®Ůاني بازار ) (or 'Market of Story-tellers' ) is famous bazaar of Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan. The Qissa Khawani Bazaar or the romantic 'Street of Story-tellers' extends from west to east in the heart of the city of Peshawar.
Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre The massacre of the Qissa Khawani Bazaar (the story tellers market) in Peshawar, British India (modern day Pakistan) on April 23, 1930 is considered a defining moment in the non violent struggle to drive the British out of India. It was the first major confrontation between British troops and non violent demonstrators in the then peaceful Peshawar city and some estimates at the time put the death toll from the shooting at nearly 400 dead.
Qissa-i Sanjan The Qissa-i Sanjan (or Kisse-i Sanjan, the "Story of Sanjan") is an account of the early years of Zoroastrian settlers on the Indian subcontinent. In the absence of alternatives, the Qissa is generally accepted to be the only narrative of the events described therein, and many members of the Parsi community perceive the epic poem to be an accurate account of their ancestors.
Qiu Ben Qiu Ben an officer serving under the Kingdom of Wei during the later years of the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Following Deng Ai's ultimate campaign to take over Shu, he first had to get through the gate that was defending the capital, in which was Mian Zhu Gate.
Qiu Chuji Qiu Chuji (Traditional Chinese: ä¸č™•ć©ź; Simplified Chinese: ä¸ĺ¤„ćśş, alternately rendered Kiu Chang Chun, Taoist name é•·ćĄ; [Perpetual Spring]; 1148 – 23 July 1227) was a Quanzhen Taoist, the most famous of Wang Chongyang's seven disciples, or Seven Immortals. He was also the founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism.
Qiviut Qiviut (Inuktitut syllabics, á•żá••á…á–…; Inuinnaqtun, qiviuq ; sometimes spelled qiveut, and pronounced kiv-ee-yut) is an Inuit word commonly used to indicate the wool of the muskox. The word was originally used to refer to the down feathers of birds as well as the inner wool of the muskox.
Qiyas In Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, qiyas (Arabic قياس) is the process of analogical reasoning from a known injunction (nass) to a new injunction. According to this method, the ruling of the Quran and sunnah may be extended to a new problem provided that the precedent (asl) and the new problem (far) share the same operative or effective cause (illah).
Qiyin lĂĽe The Qiyin lĂĽe (; "Seven Sounds Summary") is a Chinese rime table that dates prior to 1161. This reference work survived to the present largely because the Song Dynasty historian Zheng Qiao (é„樵/é‘樵; Cheng Ch'iao; 1104-1162) included it in his 1161 encyclopedia Tongzhi (通志; T'ung chih; "General Treatises").
Qizilbash Qizilbash or Kizilbash (Ottoman Turkish/ QezelbÄš, Turkish: KızılbaĹź, Azerbaijani: QızılbaĹź) - Ottoman Turkish for "Red Heads" - name given to a wide variety of extremist Shi'ite militant groups (ghulÄt) who helped found the Safavid Dynasty of Iran. The name "Red Heads" is derived from their distinct headwear with twelve points (indicating their adherence to the twelve IthnÄˤashari Imams.
QlikTech QlikTech is a software company in the business intelligence space. Their flagship product is called QlikView and allows high speed, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of highly sophisticated analytic applications in days.
Qlockwork Qlockwork is Microsoft Windows-based time tracking software, created by workingProgram Limited in 2006. This software monitors users' PC activity, and summarizes this information as a new calendar in Microsoft Outlook.
QMC@Home QMC@Home is a distributed computing project for the BOINC client aimed at further developing and testing Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for use in quantum chemistry. It is hosted by the University of MĂĽnster, Germany.
QNH QNH is a Q code. It is a pressure setting used by pilots, air traffic control (ATC) and low frequency weather beacons to refer to the barometric altimeter setting which will cause the altimeter to read altitude above mean sea level within a certain defined region.
Qo'noS In the fictional Star Trek universe, Qo'noS is the Klingon homeworld, also known as Kronos, Kling or Klinzhai. The Klingon High Council, governing body of the Klingon Empire, is situated in the First City on Qo'noS.
Qoca Qoca is a GPL library for incrementally solving systems of linear equations with various goal functions. It contains a robust implementation of Cassowary, a popular linear programming algorithm for handling manhattan goal functions.
Qoigyijabu Qoigyijabu (; ) (born February 13, 1990) is, according to the government of the People's Republic of China, the eleventh incarnation of the Panchen Lama of Tibet. However, the Dalai Lama and the Government of Tibet in Exile, along with almost all of the Panchen Lama's followers outside of mainland China, hold that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama.
Qoma Qoma was the elder brother of Delaivugalei; the latter the father of Niumataiwalu (or Ratu Jepesa Niumataiwalu). Both were sons of Kalouyalewa, who was the brother of Buivaroro (the second Tui Nayau), and they had one sister, Adi Keletu that was married to Noco in Rewa.
Qomar The Qomar are a fictional alien race of technophiles interested solely in science and mathematics from the television series Star Trek: Voyager. They have no interest in the arts, though it appears that they like singing after hearing the holographic Doctor sing opera.
Qoo Qoo (ă‚ŻăĽ) is a non-carbonated beverage from the Coca-Cola Company. Originally introduced in Japan in 1999, Qoo is now available throughout much of Asia and in Germany in a variety of flavors including grape and orange.
Qoph Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet (in abjadi order). Its sound value is an emphatic (pharyngealized) velar stop, , or uvular stop .
Qorasuv Qorasuv (also spelled as Korasuv, Karasu, Kara-Soo, Kara-Sui, Qorawsuw) is a town in Andijan Province in eastern Uzbekistan, about 50 km from the district capital of Andijan. The town's name means "black water" in Uzbek (qora - black, suv - water).
Qoriniasi Bale Qoriniasi Babitu Bale is a lawyer and political leader, who has served twice as Fiji's Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, most recently from 2001 to 2006, when he was deposed in the military coup of 5 December. Like many of Fiji's most influential leaders, Bale is a native of the Lau Islands.
Qornet Shehwan Qornet Shehwan is a small town in the Mount Lebanon area of Lebanon's Matn District. Apart from its importance as the seat of the Maronite Archbishopric of Al Metn, it was little known to the outside world until the year 2000, when it became the headquarters of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a mainly Christian coalition of politicians, intellectuals, and businessmen opposed to the Syrian military occupation of Lebanon.
Qornet Shehwan Gathering The Qornet Shehwan Gathering is a Lebanese political organization, comprising politicians, intellectuals, and businessmen, mostly Christian and ranging in ideology from the centre-right to the center-left. The organization is not a political party in the classical sense: its members belong to, and in some cases lead, a variety of political parties.
Qpass Qpass is a technology company that specialises in providing the infrastructure for electronic payments. Examples are selling products through mobile phones, digital television and for billing services for Voice over IP products.
QppD The power metric is based on a geometric mean of the 17 TPC-D queries, the insert test and the delete test. It measures the ability of the system to give a single user the best possible response time by harnessing all available resources.
Qpsmtpd qpsmtpd is an SMTP daemon written in Perl. It was originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for qmail-smtpd, the SMTP component of qmail, and it is now also compatible with Postfix, Exim and virtually any software that "speaks SMTP".
QPNC-PAGE QPNC-PAGE (Abbr.: quantitative preparative native continuous polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is a high-resolution technique applied in biochemistry and bioinorganic chemistry to separate proteins according to their isoelectric point.
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QPTV QPTV (Queens Public Television) is a not-for-profit private corporation serving the residents of Queens. QPTV manages the four public access channels (Channels 34, 35, 56, 57 on Time Warner Cable and 83, 84, 85, 86 on RCN) on the cable TV systems for Queens, New York.
QQVGA Quarter-QVGA(QQVGA) denotes a resolution of 160 x 120 or 120 x 160 pixels, usually used in displays of handheld devices. The term Quarter-QVGA signifies a resolution of one fourth the number of pixels in a QVGA display (half the number of vertical and half the number of horizontal pixels) which itself has one fourth the number of pixels in a VGA display.
QR algorithm In numerical analysis of matrices, a QR algorithm is an eigenvalue algorithm; that is, a procedure to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. The basic idea is to perform a QR decomposition, writing the matrix as a product of an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix, multiply the factors in the other order, and iterate.
QR Code A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.
QRC The Queer Resource Center at City College of San Francisco is an academic and informational resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, questioning, and straight allies. Furthermore students, staff, and faculty members at the institution that are allies are also very welcome.
QRG QRG, or Quality Reference Guide, is a book issued to McDonald's employees containing details of all food products sold in their stores. The QRG is updated yearly or bi-yearly and sent to every McDonald's worldwide, with each QRG usually being designed to the specific region or country.
QRIO QRIO ("Quest for cuRIOsity", originally named Sony Dream Robot or SDR) was to be bipedal humanoid entertainment robot marketed and sold by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.
QRN sur Bretzelburg QRN sur Bretzelburg, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin assisted by Jidéhem, is the eighteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The story appeared sequentially in Le Journal de Spirou under the name QRM sur Bretzelburg over an unusually long period (including a break in 1962), before a delayed hardcover album release in 1966.
QRS complex Electrocardiograms (EKG, ECG) show electrical impulses that are generated by the heart. The QRS complex is the portion of the electrocardiogram that represents depolarization of the lower chambers of the heart which are known as the ventricles.
QRS Records QRS Records is a United States record label which produced notable jazz and blues recordings in the early twentieth century. The QRS company began in 1900 as a manufacturer of piano rolls, and their record label was established in 1928 by Arthur Satherly, who had been an executive at Paramount Records.
Qsc Cologne-based QSC AG is a nationwide telecommunications provider in Germany with its own DSL network. It supplies a comprehensive portfolio of broadband communication solutions such as leased lines in various bandwidths to voice and data services right through to custom enterprise networks.
QsNet QsNet is a high speed interconnect designed by Quadrics used in HPC clusters, particularly Linux Beowulf Clusters. Although it can be used with TCP/IP; like SCI, Myrinet and Infiniband it is usually used with a communication API such as MPI or SHMEM called from a parallel program.
QS/1 Data Systems QS/1 Data Systems is a division of the J M Smith Corporation, a company founded in 1944 with a current revenue of $1 billion. In 1977, the company recognized healthcare professionals' need for specific software and hardware packages designed to help provide more efficient and effective care for customers and pharmacy patients.
QSC&V QSC&V is an abbreviation for Quality, Service, Cleanliness & Value and is a benchmark used throughout the world by the McDonald's Corporation to assess the standard of its own restaurants (operated by McOpCo) and the restaurants run by franchisees. Since 1957 it has been a cornerstone in the operation of Mcdonald's restaurants and is a big part of the daily life of McDonald's employees.
QSI International School of Yerevan The QSI International School of Yerevan (QSIY) is an international school in Yerevan, Armenia and part of the Quality Schools International group. It is an independent, coeducational day school which offers an educational program to children of all nationalities ages 3 to 13.
QSIT QSIT is an acryonym for Quality Systems Inspection Technique. QSIT is a published guide applicable to the Medical Device industry and other industries operating under GMPswhereby FDA investigators follow a predetermined regimen for conduction of an inspection.
QSL card A QSL card is a written confirmation of either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio stations or a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, or television station. QSL cards can also confirm the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party.
QSound QSound is the original name for a positional three-dimensional (3D) sound processing algorithm from QSound Labs that creates 3D audio effects from multiple monophonic sources and sums the outputs to two channels for presentation over regular stereo speakers. QSound was eventually re-dubbed "Q1" after the introduction of "Q2," a positional 3D algorithm for headphones.
QStream QStream (Quality Adaptive Media Streaming) is an experimental media streaming system. The goal of QStream is to develop a better software infrastructure for media streaming over the Internet, based on an encode once, stream anywhere approach.
QSZ-92 The QSZ-92 Services Pistol (Chinese: 轻手枪族; pinyin: Qīng Shoǔqià ng Zú; literally "Light Pistol Family") is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Norinco and it is in limited service in the People's Liberation Army since the late 1990s.
Qtel Qtel (short for Qatar Telecom) is the exclusive telecommunications provider in Qatar and is one of the largest public companies in Qatar with about 2000 employees. It was successfully launched on the Doha Securities Market in 1998 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1999, the Bahrain Stock Exchange in 2001 and the Abu Dhabi Securities Market in 2002.
Qtstalker Qtstalker is a free, user-friendly Technical Analysis software for POSIX systems. It is similar to commercial software such as Metastock, Supercharts and TradeStation, and keeps to a lean, simple design for speed, portability and low resource usage.
QT interval In medicine, specifically cardiology, the QT interval is a measure of the time between the start of the Q wave and the end of the T wave in the heart's electrical cycle. The QT interval is dependent on the heart rate in an obvious way (the faster the heart rate, the shorter the QT interval) and has to be adjusted to aid interpretation.
QT's Diary QT's Diary is a surreal online "blog" journal claiming to be the work of film director Quentin Tarantino. It featured humorous writing mimicking the verbal neurotics of director Tarantino (for example, constant reiteration of the word "alright").
QTV (Pakistan) QTV is a channel dedicated to religious programs for Muslims as well as for non-muslims around the globe especially the south Asian community. Based exclusively on Islamic principles, values and ideas, it is an excellent source of knowledge for each Muslim.
Qu Xin [Xin (William Qu), born July 24], [[1982 in Qingdao, Shandong, China, is now an actor of Shanghai Zhanjie Culture & Art Ltd.. In 2000, he was awarded one of the "Best Ten" of New Silk Road World Modeling Contest of China and signed a contract with the New Silk Road Models, Inc..
Qu You Qu You (瞿佑) (1341 - 1427), courtesy name Zongji (ĺ®—ĺ‰) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai (ĺ齋 "Reading studio of existence"), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming Dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing Dynasty.
Qu'aiti Qu'aiti ( []), officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut (Arabic: السلطنة القعيطية ŮŮŠ ŘضرمŮŘŞ) or the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla (Arabic: السلطنة القعيطية ŮŮŠ الشŘر ٠المŮلا []), was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Its capital was Al Mukalla and it was divided into six provinces including Al Mukalla, Ash Shihr, Shibam, Du'an, Hawra, and Al Hajr.
Qu'Appelle River Dam The Qu'appelle River Dam is the smaller of two dams which created Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, Canada. The dam was built in the 1960's and regulates the flow of the Qu'Appelle River into Buffalo Pound Lake, which supplies water to Regina, Moose Jaw and the Kalium Chemicals Potash Mine at Belle Plaine.
Quaboag River The Quaboag River is a Massachusetts river that heads at Quaboag Pond south of East Brookfield, Massachusetts at an elevation of 594 feet (181 m) MSL. It continues to the town of Three Rivers, Massachusetts, at an elevation of 290 feet (88.
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a 1970 film directed by Waris Hussein and written by Gabriel Walsh. It starred Gene Wilder as the titular Quackser Fortune as a lazy Irishman who falls in love with an American exchange student, Margot Kidder, who almost runs him over.
Quackwatch Quackwatch Inc. is an American non-profit organization that aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct," with its primary focus on what it characterizes as quackery.
Quad county optimist baseball league Founded in 2002, the Quad County Optimist Baseball League is an amateur adult baseball league located in South-central Pennyslvania. The league consists of 10 teams from Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks and Montgomery counties.
Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station Quad Cities is a two-unit nuclear power plant located near Cordova, Illinois, USA on the Mississippi River. The two General Electric boiling water reactors give the plant a total electric capacity of approximately 1,700 MW.
Quad Cities Raiders The Quad City Raiders was a Continental Football League (CFL) team based in the Quad Cities. Between 1964 and 1968 the Raiders distinguished themselves as one of the worst minor league football teams in history.
Quad City Botanical Center The Quad City Botanical Center is a set of botanical gardens located next to the Mississippi River at 2525 4th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois. It is open daily except major holidays; an admission fee is charged.
Quad City Silverbacks The Quad City Silverbacks are an International Fight League team based in the Quad Cities region of the USA. Coached by former UFC Middleweight and Lightweight Champion and founder of the very successful Miletich Fighting Systems camp, Pat Miletich, the Silverbacks were one of four teams competing in the IFL's inaugural season.
Quad Data Rate SRAM Quad Data Rate (QDR) SRAM is a type of static RAM computer memory that can transfer up to four words of data in each clock cycle. Like Double Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM, QDR SRAM transfers data on both rising and falling edges of the clock signal.
Quad Helix A Quad Helix (or quadhelix) is an orthodontic appliance for the upper teeth that is cemented in the mouth. It is attached to the molars by 2 bands and has four active helix springs that widen the arch of the mouth to make room for crowded teeth, or correct a posterior cross-bite, where lower teeth are buccal (outer) than upper teeth.
Quad paper Quad paper is a common form of graph paper with a sparse grid printed in light blue or gray and right to the edge of the paper. The usual grid is 1/4 inch, or four squares to the inch, giving the name quad or quad-ruled paper, sometimes mangled by folk etymology into quadrille paper.
Quad skates The four-wheeled turning roller skate, or quad skate, with four wheels set in two side-by-side pairs, was first designed in 1863 in New York City by James Leonard Plimpton in an attempt to improve upon previous designs. The skate contained a pivoting action using a rubber cushion, and this allowed the skater to skate a curve just by leaning to one side.
Quad-City Times The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area (Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois).
Qinghai Lake Qinghai Lake or Lake Koko Nor is the largest lake in China. Qinghai Lake is also the largest drainless lake in the PRC and is located 3,205 m (10,515 feet) above sea level in a depression of the Tibetan Plateau.
Qinghai University Qinghai University is a university located in Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province, China. Established in 1958, the university awards Bachelor's degrees in the areas of Economics and Management, Agriculture and Stockbreeding, Science and Technology, Engineering, Veterinary sciences, Adult Education, and Architecture.
Qinghua clique The term Qinghua clique refers to a group of Communist Chinese politicians that have graduated from Tsinghua University. They are members of the fourth generation of Chinese leadership, and are purported to hold hesitantly pro-democratic or reformist ideas (a number have studied in the United States following graduation from Qinghua, and some are said to be influenced by the reform ideals of Hu Yaobang).
Qingming Festival The Qingming Festival (), or Ching Ming Festival used in Hong Kong, literally Clear and Bright Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice, usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (see Chinese calendar). Astronomically, it is also a solar term (See Qingming).
Qingtan Qingtan (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing-t'an), translated a "pure conversation," was a movement related to Taoism during the Wei-Chin period of the Northern dynasties. The most prominent of these groups was the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
Qingyuan Jiedushi Qingyuan (清ćş) Jiedushi (節度使) was the official title of Chen Hong (陳洪), the military commissioner (jiedushi) of the Pinghai military prefecture (平海軍). Following the assassination of Wang Yanjun (王延éž) by his brother Wang Yanhan (王延翰) in 933 and the subsequent proclamation by Wang Yanhan of himself as the emperor of Min (é–©), Chen Hong reigned independent in Qingyuan (清ćş), with his capital at Quanzhou (泉州).
Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium The Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium will serve as one of the Football venues during the 2008 Summer Olympics. The multi-use stadium lies inside the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre on the Hebei Avenue in Qinhuangdao, China.
Qinling Mountains The Qinling Mountains (Chinese Simplified 秦ĺ˛, Chinese Traditional 秦嶺) are a major mountain range in central China. They form the main physical barrier between the Wei River valley and the Sichuan Plain.
Qinqiang Qinqiang (秦腔, pinyin: QĂnqiÄng) or Luantan (乱弹, pinyin: LuĂ ntán) is the representative folk opera of the northwest Province of Shaanxi, China, where it was called Qin thousands of years ago. Its melodies were originated from the rural areas of ancient Shaanxi and Gansu.
Qinzhou Qinzhou (simplified Chinese: 钦州; traditional Chinese: 欽州; Qīnzhōu; Wade-Giles: Ch'in-chow, older transliteration: Yamchow or Yen Chow) is a prefecture-level city on the Gulf of Tonkin in Guangxi in the People's Republic of China.
Qiongzhou Strait The Qiongzhou Strait (ç“Šĺ·žćµ·ĺł˝), also called Hainan Strait, is a body of water that separates the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, southern China, to the north from Hainan Island to its south. The strait connects the Gulf of Tonkin in the west to the South China Sea in the east.
Qiqihar Qiqihar ( ; Manchu: Cicigar hoton) is a major city in the Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China and has 895,000 inhabitants. Generally there are Han-Chinese and the minority are among others Manchu, Daur and Mongolians.
Qira County The Qira County is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.The official spelling is "Qira" according to ZhĹŤngguĂł dìmĂnglĂą ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺŤĺ˝• (Beijing, ZhĹŤngguĂł dìtĂş chĹ«bÇŽnshè ä¸ĺ›˝ĺś°ĺ›ľĺ‡şç‰ç¤ľ 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p.
Qira'at Qira'at, in the context of Islam, means literally the readings, that is the method of recitation. Traditionally, there are 10 recognised schools of qira'at, and each one derives its name from the leader of the school of Qur'an recitation.
Qiran Qiran (قران), also qerun or kran, was an Iranian currency was first introduced in 1825 as a coin worth 1000 dinars, or one tenth of a toman. The rial replaced the kran at par in 1932, although it was divided into one hundred (new) dinars.
Qirsh Qirsh, Gersh and KuruĹź are all names for currency denominations in and around the territories formerly part of the Ottoman Empire. The variation in the name stems from the different languages it is used in (Arabic, Ethiopian and Turkish) and the different transcriptions into the Latin alphabet.
Qiryat Atta Qiryat Atta (; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Ata) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2001 the city had a total population of 48,600.
Qiryat Eliezer Stadium The Haifa Municipal Stadium, more commonly known as Qiryat Eliezer, is a multi-use stadium in Haifa, Israel. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa.
Qiryat Gat Qiryat Gat, commonly spelled Kiryat Gat (), is a city in the Southern District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 47,800.
Qiryat Haim Stadium The Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium, more commonly known as Qiryat Haim, is a multi-use stadium in Qiryat Haim, Israel. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Hapoel Haifa's youth teams.
Qiryat Chaim Qiryat Chaim () is one of five towns of the HaQerayot urban area in Israel, part of a conglomeration of five smaller towns located about north of Haifa in the Haifa District, which as of 2003 contains 40,000 residents.
Qiryat Chaim Railway Station Qiryat Chaim Railway Station (, Taḥanat HaRakevet Qiryat Ḥaim) is an Israel Railways passenger station serving the town of Qiryat Chaim (administratively a neighborhood of Haifa) and the surrounding Qrayot region.
Qiryat Mal'akhi Qiryat Mal'akhi (Hebrew: קִרְיַת מַלְ×ָכִי, also transliterated Kiryat Malachi) is a city in the Southern District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 19,400.
Qiryat Motzkin Qiryat Motzkin ( , ; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Motzkin) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 39,500.
Qiryat Ono Qiryat Ono ( ; unofficially also spelled Kiryat Ono) is a city in the Tel Aviv District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in September 2003 the city had a total population of 24,200.
Qiryat Tivon Qiryat Tivon (Hebrew:קרית ×בעון, unofficially also spelled Kiryat Tiv'on) is a local council in the Haifa District of Israel. It is located on the hills on the border between Zvulun and Jezreel valleys.
Qisas Al-Anbiya The Qisas al-anbiya (قصص الأنبياء) or Stories of the Prophets refers to various collections of tales adapted from the Quran. One of the best-known is that composed by al-Kisai in either the 6th or the 13th century; others include the Ara'is al-majalis by al-Tha'alabi (d.
Qissa Khawani Bazaar Qissa Khawani Bazaar (Urdu: قصه Ř®Ůاني بازار ) (or 'Market of Story-tellers' ) is famous bazaar of Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan. The Qissa Khawani Bazaar or the romantic 'Street of Story-tellers' extends from west to east in the heart of the city of Peshawar.
Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre The massacre of the Qissa Khawani Bazaar (the story tellers market) in Peshawar, British India (modern day Pakistan) on April 23, 1930 is considered a defining moment in the non violent struggle to drive the British out of India. It was the first major confrontation between British troops and non violent demonstrators in the then peaceful Peshawar city and some estimates at the time put the death toll from the shooting at nearly 400 dead.
Qissa-i Sanjan The Qissa-i Sanjan (or Kisse-i Sanjan, the "Story of Sanjan") is an account of the early years of Zoroastrian settlers on the Indian subcontinent. In the absence of alternatives, the Qissa is generally accepted to be the only narrative of the events described therein, and many members of the Parsi community perceive the epic poem to be an accurate account of their ancestors.
Qiu Ben Qiu Ben an officer serving under the Kingdom of Wei during the later years of the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Following Deng Ai's ultimate campaign to take over Shu, he first had to get through the gate that was defending the capital, in which was Mian Zhu Gate.
Qiu Chuji Qiu Chuji (Traditional Chinese: ä¸č™•ć©ź; Simplified Chinese: ä¸ĺ¤„ćśş, alternately rendered Kiu Chang Chun, Taoist name é•·ćĄ; [Perpetual Spring]; 1148 – 23 July 1227) was a Quanzhen Taoist, the most famous of Wang Chongyang's seven disciples, or Seven Immortals. He was also the founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism.
Qiviut Qiviut (Inuktitut syllabics, á•żá••á…á–…; Inuinnaqtun, qiviuq ; sometimes spelled qiveut, and pronounced kiv-ee-yut) is an Inuit word commonly used to indicate the wool of the muskox. The word was originally used to refer to the down feathers of birds as well as the inner wool of the muskox.
Qiyas In Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, qiyas (Arabic قياس) is the process of analogical reasoning from a known injunction (nass) to a new injunction. According to this method, the ruling of the Quran and sunnah may be extended to a new problem provided that the precedent (asl) and the new problem (far) share the same operative or effective cause (illah).
Qiyin lĂĽe The Qiyin lĂĽe (; "Seven Sounds Summary") is a Chinese rime table that dates prior to 1161. This reference work survived to the present largely because the Song Dynasty historian Zheng Qiao (é„樵/é‘樵; Cheng Ch'iao; 1104-1162) included it in his 1161 encyclopedia Tongzhi (通志; T'ung chih; "General Treatises").
Qizilbash Qizilbash or Kizilbash (Ottoman Turkish/ QezelbÄš, Turkish: KızılbaĹź, Azerbaijani: QızılbaĹź) - Ottoman Turkish for "Red Heads" - name given to a wide variety of extremist Shi'ite militant groups (ghulÄt) who helped found the Safavid Dynasty of Iran. The name "Red Heads" is derived from their distinct headwear with twelve points (indicating their adherence to the twelve IthnÄˤashari Imams.
QlikTech QlikTech is a software company in the business intelligence space. Their flagship product is called QlikView and allows high speed, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of highly sophisticated analytic applications in days.
Qlockwork Qlockwork is Microsoft Windows-based time tracking software, created by workingProgram Limited in 2006. This software monitors users' PC activity, and summarizes this information as a new calendar in Microsoft Outlook.
QMC@Home QMC@Home is a distributed computing project for the BOINC client aimed at further developing and testing Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for use in quantum chemistry. It is hosted by the University of MĂĽnster, Germany.
QNH QNH is a Q code. It is a pressure setting used by pilots, air traffic control (ATC) and low frequency weather beacons to refer to the barometric altimeter setting which will cause the altimeter to read altitude above mean sea level within a certain defined region.
Qo'noS In the fictional Star Trek universe, Qo'noS is the Klingon homeworld, also known as Kronos, Kling or Klinzhai. The Klingon High Council, governing body of the Klingon Empire, is situated in the First City on Qo'noS.
Qoca Qoca is a GPL library for incrementally solving systems of linear equations with various goal functions. It contains a robust implementation of Cassowary, a popular linear programming algorithm for handling manhattan goal functions.
Qoigyijabu Qoigyijabu (; ) (born February 13, 1990) is, according to the government of the People's Republic of China, the eleventh incarnation of the Panchen Lama of Tibet. However, the Dalai Lama and the Government of Tibet in Exile, along with almost all of the Panchen Lama's followers outside of mainland China, hold that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama.
Qoma Qoma was the elder brother of Delaivugalei; the latter the father of Niumataiwalu (or Ratu Jepesa Niumataiwalu). Both were sons of Kalouyalewa, who was the brother of Buivaroro (the second Tui Nayau), and they had one sister, Adi Keletu that was married to Noco in Rewa.
Qomar The Qomar are a fictional alien race of technophiles interested solely in science and mathematics from the television series Star Trek: Voyager. They have no interest in the arts, though it appears that they like singing after hearing the holographic Doctor sing opera.
Qoo Qoo (ă‚ŻăĽ) is a non-carbonated beverage from the Coca-Cola Company. Originally introduced in Japan in 1999, Qoo is now available throughout much of Asia and in Germany in a variety of flavors including grape and orange.
Qoph Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet (in abjadi order). Its sound value is an emphatic (pharyngealized) velar stop, , or uvular stop .
Qorasuv Qorasuv (also spelled as Korasuv, Karasu, Kara-Soo, Kara-Sui, Qorawsuw) is a town in Andijan Province in eastern Uzbekistan, about 50 km from the district capital of Andijan. The town's name means "black water" in Uzbek (qora - black, suv - water).
Qoriniasi Bale Qoriniasi Babitu Bale is a lawyer and political leader, who has served twice as Fiji's Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, most recently from 2001 to 2006, when he was deposed in the military coup of 5 December. Like many of Fiji's most influential leaders, Bale is a native of the Lau Islands.
Qornet Shehwan Qornet Shehwan is a small town in the Mount Lebanon area of Lebanon's Matn District. Apart from its importance as the seat of the Maronite Archbishopric of Al Metn, it was little known to the outside world until the year 2000, when it became the headquarters of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a mainly Christian coalition of politicians, intellectuals, and businessmen opposed to the Syrian military occupation of Lebanon.
Qornet Shehwan Gathering The Qornet Shehwan Gathering is a Lebanese political organization, comprising politicians, intellectuals, and businessmen, mostly Christian and ranging in ideology from the centre-right to the center-left. The organization is not a political party in the classical sense: its members belong to, and in some cases lead, a variety of political parties.
Qpass Qpass is a technology company that specialises in providing the infrastructure for electronic payments. Examples are selling products through mobile phones, digital television and for billing services for Voice over IP products.
QppD The power metric is based on a geometric mean of the 17 TPC-D queries, the insert test and the delete test. It measures the ability of the system to give a single user the best possible response time by harnessing all available resources.
Qpsmtpd qpsmtpd is an SMTP daemon written in Perl. It was originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for qmail-smtpd, the SMTP component of qmail, and it is now also compatible with Postfix, Exim and virtually any software that "speaks SMTP".
QPNC-PAGE QPNC-PAGE (Abbr.: quantitative preparative native continuous polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is a high-resolution technique applied in biochemistry and bioinorganic chemistry to separate proteins according to their isoelectric point.
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QPTV QPTV (Queens Public Television) is a not-for-profit private corporation serving the residents of Queens. QPTV manages the four public access channels (Channels 34, 35, 56, 57 on Time Warner Cable and 83, 84, 85, 86 on RCN) on the cable TV systems for Queens, New York.
QQVGA Quarter-QVGA(QQVGA) denotes a resolution of 160 x 120 or 120 x 160 pixels, usually used in displays of handheld devices. The term Quarter-QVGA signifies a resolution of one fourth the number of pixels in a QVGA display (half the number of vertical and half the number of horizontal pixels) which itself has one fourth the number of pixels in a VGA display.
QR algorithm In numerical analysis of matrices, a QR algorithm is an eigenvalue algorithm; that is, a procedure to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. The basic idea is to perform a QR decomposition, writing the matrix as a product of an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix, multiply the factors in the other order, and iterate.
QR Code A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.
QRC The Queer Resource Center at City College of San Francisco is an academic and informational resource center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, intersex, questioning, and straight allies. Furthermore students, staff, and faculty members at the institution that are allies are also very welcome.
QRG QRG, or Quality Reference Guide, is a book issued to McDonald's employees containing details of all food products sold in their stores. The QRG is updated yearly or bi-yearly and sent to every McDonald's worldwide, with each QRG usually being designed to the specific region or country.
QRIO QRIO ("Quest for cuRIOsity", originally named Sony Dream Robot or SDR) was to be bipedal humanoid entertainment robot marketed and sold by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.
QRN sur Bretzelburg QRN sur Bretzelburg, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin assisted by Jidéhem, is the eighteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The story appeared sequentially in Le Journal de Spirou under the name QRM sur Bretzelburg over an unusually long period (including a break in 1962), before a delayed hardcover album release in 1966.
QRS complex Electrocardiograms (EKG, ECG) show electrical impulses that are generated by the heart. The QRS complex is the portion of the electrocardiogram that represents depolarization of the lower chambers of the heart which are known as the ventricles.
QRS Records QRS Records is a United States record label which produced notable jazz and blues recordings in the early twentieth century. The QRS company began in 1900 as a manufacturer of piano rolls, and their record label was established in 1928 by Arthur Satherly, who had been an executive at Paramount Records.
Qsc Cologne-based QSC AG is a nationwide telecommunications provider in Germany with its own DSL network. It supplies a comprehensive portfolio of broadband communication solutions such as leased lines in various bandwidths to voice and data services right through to custom enterprise networks.
QsNet QsNet is a high speed interconnect designed by Quadrics used in HPC clusters, particularly Linux Beowulf Clusters. Although it can be used with TCP/IP; like SCI, Myrinet and Infiniband it is usually used with a communication API such as MPI or SHMEM called from a parallel program.
QS/1 Data Systems QS/1 Data Systems is a division of the J M Smith Corporation, a company founded in 1944 with a current revenue of $1 billion. In 1977, the company recognized healthcare professionals' need for specific software and hardware packages designed to help provide more efficient and effective care for customers and pharmacy patients.
QSC&V QSC&V is an abbreviation for Quality, Service, Cleanliness & Value and is a benchmark used throughout the world by the McDonald's Corporation to assess the standard of its own restaurants (operated by McOpCo) and the restaurants run by franchisees. Since 1957 it has been a cornerstone in the operation of Mcdonald's restaurants and is a big part of the daily life of McDonald's employees.
QSI International School of Yerevan The QSI International School of Yerevan (QSIY) is an international school in Yerevan, Armenia and part of the Quality Schools International group. It is an independent, coeducational day school which offers an educational program to children of all nationalities ages 3 to 13.
QSIT QSIT is an acryonym for Quality Systems Inspection Technique. QSIT is a published guide applicable to the Medical Device industry and other industries operating under GMPswhereby FDA investigators follow a predetermined regimen for conduction of an inspection.
QSL card A QSL card is a written confirmation of either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio stations or a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, or television station. QSL cards can also confirm the reception of a two-way radiocommunication by a third party.
QSound QSound is the original name for a positional three-dimensional (3D) sound processing algorithm from QSound Labs that creates 3D audio effects from multiple monophonic sources and sums the outputs to two channels for presentation over regular stereo speakers. QSound was eventually re-dubbed "Q1" after the introduction of "Q2," a positional 3D algorithm for headphones.
QStream QStream (Quality Adaptive Media Streaming) is an experimental media streaming system. The goal of QStream is to develop a better software infrastructure for media streaming over the Internet, based on an encode once, stream anywhere approach.
QSZ-92 The QSZ-92 Services Pistol (Chinese: 轻手枪族; pinyin: Qīng Shoǔqià ng Zú; literally "Light Pistol Family") is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Norinco and it is in limited service in the People's Liberation Army since the late 1990s.
Qtel Qtel (short for Qatar Telecom) is the exclusive telecommunications provider in Qatar and is one of the largest public companies in Qatar with about 2000 employees. It was successfully launched on the Doha Securities Market in 1998 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1999, the Bahrain Stock Exchange in 2001 and the Abu Dhabi Securities Market in 2002.
Qtstalker Qtstalker is a free, user-friendly Technical Analysis software for POSIX systems. It is similar to commercial software such as Metastock, Supercharts and TradeStation, and keeps to a lean, simple design for speed, portability and low resource usage.
QT interval In medicine, specifically cardiology, the QT interval is a measure of the time between the start of the Q wave and the end of the T wave in the heart's electrical cycle. The QT interval is dependent on the heart rate in an obvious way (the faster the heart rate, the shorter the QT interval) and has to be adjusted to aid interpretation.
QT's Diary QT's Diary is a surreal online "blog" journal claiming to be the work of film director Quentin Tarantino. It featured humorous writing mimicking the verbal neurotics of director Tarantino (for example, constant reiteration of the word "alright").
QTV (Pakistan) QTV is a channel dedicated to religious programs for Muslims as well as for non-muslims around the globe especially the south Asian community. Based exclusively on Islamic principles, values and ideas, it is an excellent source of knowledge for each Muslim.
Qu Xin [Xin (William Qu), born July 24], [[1982 in Qingdao, Shandong, China, is now an actor of Shanghai Zhanjie Culture & Art Ltd.. In 2000, he was awarded one of the "Best Ten" of New Silk Road World Modeling Contest of China and signed a contract with the New Silk Road Models, Inc..
Qu You Qu You (瞿佑) (1341 - 1427), courtesy name Zongji (ĺ®—ĺ‰) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai (ĺ齋 "Reading studio of existence"), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming Dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing Dynasty.
Qu'aiti Qu'aiti ( []), officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut (Arabic: السلطنة القعيطية ŮŮŠ ŘضرمŮŘŞ) or the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla (Arabic: السلطنة القعيطية ŮŮŠ الشŘر ٠المŮلا []), was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Its capital was Al Mukalla and it was divided into six provinces including Al Mukalla, Ash Shihr, Shibam, Du'an, Hawra, and Al Hajr.
Qu'Appelle River Dam The Qu'appelle River Dam is the smaller of two dams which created Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan, Canada. The dam was built in the 1960's and regulates the flow of the Qu'Appelle River into Buffalo Pound Lake, which supplies water to Regina, Moose Jaw and the Kalium Chemicals Potash Mine at Belle Plaine.
Quaboag River The Quaboag River is a Massachusetts river that heads at Quaboag Pond south of East Brookfield, Massachusetts at an elevation of 594 feet (181 m) MSL. It continues to the town of Three Rivers, Massachusetts, at an elevation of 290 feet (88.
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a 1970 film directed by Waris Hussein and written by Gabriel Walsh. It starred Gene Wilder as the titular Quackser Fortune as a lazy Irishman who falls in love with an American exchange student, Margot Kidder, who almost runs him over.
Quackwatch Quackwatch Inc. is an American non-profit organization that aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct," with its primary focus on what it characterizes as quackery.
Quad county optimist baseball league Founded in 2002, the Quad County Optimist Baseball League is an amateur adult baseball league located in South-central Pennyslvania. The league consists of 10 teams from Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks and Montgomery counties.
Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station Quad Cities is a two-unit nuclear power plant located near Cordova, Illinois, USA on the Mississippi River. The two General Electric boiling water reactors give the plant a total electric capacity of approximately 1,700 MW.
Quad Cities Raiders The Quad City Raiders was a Continental Football League (CFL) team based in the Quad Cities. Between 1964 and 1968 the Raiders distinguished themselves as one of the worst minor league football teams in history.
Quad City Botanical Center The Quad City Botanical Center is a set of botanical gardens located next to the Mississippi River at 2525 4th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois. It is open daily except major holidays; an admission fee is charged.
Quad City Silverbacks The Quad City Silverbacks are an International Fight League team based in the Quad Cities region of the USA. Coached by former UFC Middleweight and Lightweight Champion and founder of the very successful Miletich Fighting Systems camp, Pat Miletich, the Silverbacks were one of four teams competing in the IFL's inaugural season.
Quad Data Rate SRAM Quad Data Rate (QDR) SRAM is a type of static RAM computer memory that can transfer up to four words of data in each clock cycle. Like Double Data-Rate (DDR) SDRAM, QDR SRAM transfers data on both rising and falling edges of the clock signal.
Quad Helix A Quad Helix (or quadhelix) is an orthodontic appliance for the upper teeth that is cemented in the mouth. It is attached to the molars by 2 bands and has four active helix springs that widen the arch of the mouth to make room for crowded teeth, or correct a posterior cross-bite, where lower teeth are buccal (outer) than upper teeth.
Quad paper Quad paper is a common form of graph paper with a sparse grid printed in light blue or gray and right to the edge of the paper. The usual grid is 1/4 inch, or four squares to the inch, giving the name quad or quad-ruled paper, sometimes mangled by folk etymology into quadrille paper.
Quad skates The four-wheeled turning roller skate, or quad skate, with four wheels set in two side-by-side pairs, was first designed in 1863 in New York City by James Leonard Plimpton in an attempt to improve upon previous designs. The skate contained a pivoting action using a rubber cushion, and this allowed the skater to skate a curve just by leaning to one side.
Quad-City Times The Quad-City Times is a daily morning newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area (Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois).
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