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Quo'on
A Taelon appearing in season one and the first episode of season two of the science fiction series [[Earth: Final Conflict]], Quo'on was the head of the Synod and the leader of the Taelons. As Synod Leader Quo'on lead the Synod for some time before the first season, most likely since well before th..
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757?-1801?) was an African abolitionist who was active in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Born to the Fante people in what is now Ghana, Cugoano was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1770. He was shipped first to the West Indies, but in 1772 he arriv..
Quoddy Head State Park
Quoddy Head State Park Lighthouse Quoddy Head State Park is a park located four miles off Maine Route 189 in Lubec, Maine on the easternmost point of land in the United States. On its 532 acres (2.2 km²), purchased by the state in 1962, the park features 4.5 miles (7 km) of hiking trails, ..
Quodia
Quodia is a performing group that uses multi-media tools to tell stories. Established by Trey Gunn of King Crimson and Joe Mendelson of Rise Robots Rise in 2003, Quodia tours throughout the world combining the mediums of music, film, sound design, literature and theater into a comprehensive and i..
Quodlibet
A quodlibet is a piece of music combining several different melodies in counterpoint, usually popular tunes, and often in a light-hearted manner. A famous example of a quodlibet is at the end of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Another example is Galimathias Musicum, a 17 part quodlibet composed by Wolfg..
Quodpot
Quodpot is a fictitious game from the Harry Potter universe. It is a variant of Quidditch, popular in the United States, the Western Hemisphere and, as a minority, Europe. Quidditch is gaining popularity in the United States. Quodpot has never been mentioned in the novels, but it is described in Qui..
Quodvultdeus
Saint Quodvultdeus (died c. 450) was a fifth century church father and bishop of Carthage. He was exiled by the Arians, and died in Naples. ..
Quod Libet
Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player application written using the Python programming language. Its main design goal is to provide a way for users to organize their music library however they want. It includes a tag editor (also available separately as Ex Falso) which can alter the metadata of..
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi is a Latin phrase, literally meaning "What is permitted to Jupiter, isn't permitted to oxes." It means "what is permitted to one person or group, isn't permitted to everyone." The phrase was created by Terence, a playwright of the Roman Republic. Sources [de.w..
Quogue, New York
Quogue is a hamlet in Southampton, Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the hamlet population was 1,018. Geography Quogue is located at [40°49′22″N, 72°36′5″W] (40.822723, -72.601319)[Geographic references#1GR1]..
Quoile Castle
Quoile Castle is a castle situated near Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, just off the main road from Downpatrick to Strangford. It is a 16th century Tower house which was inhabited into the 18th century. One corner of the building has fallen down and shows a cross-section of the castle. I..
Quoin
Generally, a quoin is a wedge, used to support or anchor other items. More specifically, quoin may refer to: In architecture, quoins are the corner stones that anchor the edge of the building wall. In printing, quoins are wedges used by printers to hold the hand-set type in place in a printer's ch..
Quoin (architecture)
Quoins are the corner stones that anchor the edge of the building wall. Quoins may be structural, or may be decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building. Rough-finished or rusticated masonry is also frequently used ..
Quoin Island
Quoin Island may refer to: Quoin Island National Park, off Lockhart River, East coast of North Queensland, AustraliaQuoin Island, Queensland, Torres Strait North of Cape York Peninsula, Australia redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
Quoin Island, (National Park) Queensland
Quoin Island is a national park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, 1947 km northwest of Brisbane. It is a terrestrial oasis in a desert of water situated about 30km North East of Iron Range National Park and LockhartRiver in the Cape Weymouth area. Fact sheet Area: 20,000 ..
Quoin Island, Queensland
Quoin Island is an island to the West of the very tip of Cape York Peninsula South of the Adolphus Channel within the Endeavour Strait Queensland, Australia, in the Cape York Peninsula about 20 km North of Bamaga and just North East of Possession Island. This island is part of the Torres Strait Is..
Quoin Island National Park
Quoin Island is a national park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, 1947 km northwest of Brisbane. It is a terrestrial oasis in a desert of water situated about 30km North East of Iron Range National Park and LockhartRiver in the Cape Weymouth area. Fact sheet Area: 20,000 ..
Quoit
Quoit may refer to: Dolmena pre-medieval type of broochthe ring used to play the game Quoitsa whip made from the fabric burlap, to lash Mardi gras participants in some Louisiana towns. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an..
Quoits
Quoits 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 ground. It is closely related to horseshoes and the fairground game hoopla. In the United States, Quoits is most popular in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Several ..
Quoit (brooch)
The quoit is a brooch (often circular) popular during Saxon times. It was affixed with a single, straight, unclasped pin. It is thought to be an evolutionary link between Roman belt devices and the modern belt buckle. ..
Quokka
The Quokka (Setonix brachyurus) is a small macropod, about the size of a large domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as the kangaroos and wallabies), the Quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. In the wild, it is now restricted to a very small range in mainland sout..
Quoll
Quolls or native cats (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Adults are between 25 and 75 cm long, with hairy tails about 20-35 cm long. Females have six to eight nipples and develop a pouch—which opens towards the tail—only duri..
Quone
This is a neologism that appeared in a Seinfeld episode. Coined by Cosmo Kramer in "The Stakeout", Seinfeld Episode 2, Season 1. (31 May 1990). Whilst Jerry and his mother are playing Scrabble, Kramer helps Jerry's mother by using the word "quone". Jerry contests the word and attempts to look it ..
Quong Wing v. R.
Quong Wing v. The King [1914] 49 S.C.R. 44 is a famous Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court upheld a provincial law that discriminated against the Chinese. Quong Wing was a naturalized Canadian citizen, originally from China, who ran a restaurant in Saskatchewan. In 1912, he at..
Quonochontaug
Quonochontaug is three small beach communities in Charlestown, Rhode Island. Located between two salt ponds and their respective barrier beaches, West Beach, Central Beach, and East Beach house several hundred mostly summer residents. It was a busy and fashionable resort of small hotels and boardin..
Quonset Freeway
The Quonset Freeway is a freeway in Rhode Island that is currently under construction. It is being built in two sections. The southern section from U.S. Route 1 north to School Street is complete as of June, 2006. The section of Roger Williams Way between Devils Foot Road (RI 403) and U.S. Route..
Quonset hut
A typical Quonset hut A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated steel having a semicircular cross section. The design was based on the Nissen hut developed by the British during World War I. The name comes from their site of first manufacture, Quonset Point, at the ..
Quonset Point
Quonset Point is a small peninsula in Narragansett Bay in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It is contained entirely within the town of North Kingstown. Formerly the location of a large United States Navy base (Quonset Point Naval Air Station), once the home of the Naval Construction Battalions kn..
Quonset State Airport
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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 brings forth a new dream. History 40,000 years a..
Quoridor
Quoridor is a 2-4 player abstract strategy game from Gigamic Games. Diagram 1: This is the starting position in a 4 player game.Green and Orange are not used in a 2 player game. Diagram 2: The wall positioned at 'A' is legal. The wall positioned at 'B' is illegal. OBJECT: Be the first to..
Quorlinn
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Quorn
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Quorn is the leading brand of mycoprotein food product (mycoprotein is the generic term for protein-rich foodstuffs made from processed fungus). Quorn is sold (largely in Europe) as a meat substitute or imitation meat. Produced as both a cooking ingredie..
Quorn, Leicestershire
Quorndon is a village in Leicestershire, England. Its name is said to derive from the Old English cweordun. Dun, Old English for Hill, where cweorn, Old English for millstones, are quarried. Its name was shortened to Quorn in 1889, to avoid postal difficulties owing to its similarity to the name ..
Quorn, South Australia
Quorn ([32°20′S 138°02′E], pop ~1400) is a township and railhead in the Flinders Ranges in the north of South Australia, 39 km northeast of Port Augusta. The town was surveyed by Godfrey Walsh in 1878 and named after Quorndon in Leicestershire, England, as part of the preparations f..
Quorn (disambiguation)
Quorn is a meat substitute. Quorn may also refer to: Quorn, Leicestershire, a village in England.the Quorn Hunt, a fox hunt based in the village.the HMS Quorn, one of three ships named after the hunt.Quorn, South Australia, a town and railhead in the Flinders RangesThis is a [disambiguationdis..
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.C.A) where it has enjoyed reasonable success and has fielded..
Quorn F.C.
Quorn Football Club is a football club based in Quorn, Leicestershire, England. Contents 1 History2 Crest3 Home Ground4 Supporters5 Statistics and records6 Current squad7 Famous players8 Managers9 Honours10 References11 External links Hist..
Quorthon
Quorthon (Thomas Börje Forsberg) Thomas "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..
Quorum
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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, ..
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 . Members of the Seve..
Quorum (disambiguation)
Quorum may refer to: Quorum, in law, the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that group.Quorum sensing, the ability of bacteria to communicate and coordinate behavior via signaling molecules.Quorum (Mormonism): A body (group) of those ordained the sa..
Quorum (Mormonism)
A Quorum is a body (group) of those ordained the same office of the priesthood. The size of each quorum depends on the office to which the members are ordained. Contents 1 General Authority Quorums2 Local Priesthood Quorums2.1 Melchizedek Priesthood Quorums2.2 ..
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. In ..
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 s..
Quorum of Twelve
The Quorum of Twelve is a fictional governing body on the 2004 Television Series, Battlestar Galactica (2004). Its first appearance is in the episode "Colonial Day". Warning: Plot and/or ending details The Quorum of Twelve could be seen as a UN security council or extremely small senate in the colo..
Quorum sensing
Quorum sensing is the ability of bacteria to communicate and coordinate behavior via signaling molecules. Contents 1 Purpose of quorum sensing2 Role of quorum sensing in specific organisms3 Methods and mechanisms of quorum sensing4 Literature5 External links Purpose of q..
Quota
A quota is a prescribed number or share of something. In common language, especially in business, a quota is a time-measured goal for production or achievement. An assembly line worker might have a quota for the number of products made; a salesperson might have a quota to meet for weekly sales; a ..
Quotation
This article is about quoting. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that has been inserted into another human expression. It is most often a written or oral fragment and in such cases it is also called a quote. This latter ty..
Quotations by Pablo Picasso
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Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Disambiguation note: "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung" is also the title of a play by Edward Albee. "Little Red Book" is also the name of a collection of songs by Joe Hill and other members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Cover of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung with Chinese w..
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. After reading Colin Powell's autobiography My American Journey Harari f..
Quotations from the Old Testament in the New Testament
Part of a of articles onChristianity History of Christianity Timeline of Christianity The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father God the Son (Jesus Christ) God the Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament · LXX..
Quotation mark
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Quota Borda system
The Quota Borda System or Quota Preference Score 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' . If proportionality is required in a Borda count election, a quota element should b..
Quota Elimination
The textile and clothing trade is goverened by the ATC the WTO Agreement on Textile and Clothing. This regulation implements one of the key commitments taken at the last WTO Trade Round ("Uruguay Round") in 1994. It established a ten year period which would eliminate the use of quotas in all tex..
Quota sampling
In quota sampling, the population is first segmented into mutually exclusive sub-groups, just as in stratified sampling. Then judgement is used to select the subjects or units from each segment based on a specified proportion. For example, an interviewer may be told to sample 200 females and 300 mal..
Quote
Quote can mean: The act of quotation, repeating something from another source without changing it,Quotation marks, also called quotes or inverted commas, which are punctuation marks,or financial quote, a commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single tra..
Quote... Unquote
Quote... Unquote is a light-hearted panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4 based on quotations. Every episode since its inception in 1976 has been chaired by the devisor Nigel Rees. Its 36th series went into production in April 2005. The main part of the programme consists of a just-for-fun quiz where..
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 d..
Quoted-printable
Quoted-printable is an encoding using printable characters, alphanumeric and the equals sign "=", to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path. It is defined as a MIME content transfer encoding for use in Internet e-mail. Contents 1 Introduction2 Quoted-printable encoding3 Externa..
Quoted For Truth
Quoted For Truth, or its TLA QFT, is a catch phrase used on Internet forums and other discussion software used by virtual communities. It is used following a quote to make sure that the first, quoted poster cannot go back and change what they have already posted. An alternative meaning is that the q..
Quotes relating to rape
The Supreme Court of California had this to say on a case involving a woman who was raped by a police officer: "Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity." : [Mary M. ..
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 cherry picking and misquotation, where favorable positions are amplified or falsely suggested, and unfavorable positions in the same text are..
Quote notation
Quote Notation is a numbering system used to respresent the rational numbers. E.g. '7 = 777777777777777777777777777777777777777777.....77777 This is also referred to as 'binary quote notation' when dealing with base two numbers. This system was established in a paper by E.C.R. Hehner of the Univ..
Quote on Table
This software places a changing quotes, jokes, prowerbs and interesting facts on a Windows Desktop. Last release contains more than 2,000 of citations, humorous and wise sayings etc. [Screenshot] [Description] [Download] Program uses an usual text files for displaying..
QUOTE programming language
QUOTE (Quite Unusually Odd Text Engine) is a non-Turing-complete programming language along the lines of brainfuck and Logo. Originally conceived as a joke programming language, QUOTE has evolved into an extremely esoteric joke language, and can be learned by just about anyone in under a half hour...
Quote whore
"Quote whore" or "blurb whore" is a clearly 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," "thril..
Quotidian physics
Quotidian physics refers to problems in physics that are solved using a dimensional structure of 3 space and one time variable. In other words, quotidian problems and solutions can be explored using a traditional system of 3 dimensions (length, width, depth) and a time factor (such as rate) to analy..
Quotient
In mathematics, a quotient is the end result of a division problem. For example, in the problem 6 ÷ 3, the quotient would be 2, while 6 would be called the dividend, and 3 the divisor. The quotient can also be expressed as the number of times the divisor divides into the dividend. A quotient..
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. Quotientable automorphisms possess the following properties: Ever..
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. Contents 1 Definition2 Properties3 Examples4 See also Definition ..
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. It is the same construction used for quot..
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 quoti..
Quotient rule
Topics in calculus Fundamental theorem Limits of functions Continuity Vector calculusTensor calculus Mean value theorem Differentiation Product rule Quotient rule Chain rule Implicit differentiation Taylor's theorem Related rates Table of derivatives Integration Lists of i..
Quotient space
For quotient spaces in linear algebra, see quotient space (linear algebra). 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..
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). Contents 1 Definition2 Examples and properties3 Quotient of a Banach space by a..
Quoting
Quoting means marking a piece of written language to distinguish it from a surrounding context. For the use of quoting in natural language to refer to the words of another speaker or writer, see quotation.For the philosophical distinction between mentioning a word and using it to denote a thing or ..
Quotition
Quotition is an arithmetic concept that concerns how we look at fractions and division. Division involves thinking about a whole in terms of its parts. One frequent division notion, a natural number of equal parts, is partition. The basic concept behind partition is sharing. In sharing a whole enti..
Quo - The Album
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Status Quo A Vertigo album ..
Quo Graviora
Quo Graviora or On the Pragmatic Constitution was an encyclical issued by Pope Gregory XVI in 1833. It was addressed to the bishops of Rhineland and confirmed the prohibition of membership of Masonic Lodges in perpetuity. External links [Quo Graviora] - From Papal Encycles Online ..
Quo vadis
Quo vadis is a Latin phrase meaning "Whither goest thou?" or "Where are you going?" It is used as a proverbial phrase from the Bible (John [16:5]). The most famous use is in the Apocryphal Acts of Peter. (See: Saint Peter) Quo vadis may also refer to: Quo Vadis (novel) - Henryk Sienkiewi..
Quo Vadis (1951 film)
Quo Vadis (the title is Latin, meaning Where are you going?), is a 1951 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman soldier, returning from the wars, who falls in love with a Christian and becomes intrigued by her religion. It stars Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov as Ne..
Quo Vadis (1984 game)
Quo Vadis is a 1984 action adventure game released for the Commodore 64 by The Edge. See also List of Commodore 64 games ..
Quo Vadis (automobile)
The Quo Vadis was a French cyclecar manufactured in Courbevoie from 1921 until 1923. It featured a twin-cylinder Train engine. Reference David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. ..
Quo Vadis (band)
Quo Vadis is a melodic technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Their latest offering, the 2005 triple DVD entitled Defiant Indoctrination is a concert performed and recorded in their home town on May 7, 2005. It features spectacular visuals and theatricals. At the show, they perf..
Quo Vadis (internet cafe)
Internet-Cafe "Quo Vadis?" was opened on January 2002 in St.Petersburg, Russia. It became the first professional internet-cafe on the main street of the city - Nevsky pr. (First internet cafe in St. Petersburg and in Russia ever was opened 1996 and called "Tetris", after the famous computer game de..
Quo Vadis (novel)
"A Christian Dirce", by Henryk Siemiradzki, inspired by the novel Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is an historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo vadis is Latin for "Where are you going?" and alludes to a New Testament verse (John 13:36). The verse, i..
Quo warranto
Quo warranto (pseudo-Latin for "by what warrant?") is one of the prerogative writs, the one that requires the person to whom it is directed to show what authority he has for exercising some right or power (or "franchise") he claims to hold. In its earliest days in England, it might be a court's ord..
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