Blas Olleras y Quintana (1851-1919) was a Spanish figure painter and landscape painter known for works in the Orientalist genre.He was born in Avila, Spain, and worked primarily in Italy as a watercolorist. He died in Florence, Italy.WorkHis most well-known painting is Harem Scen...
Quintavious Johnson is an American rhythm and blues singer from Franklin, Tennessee. He was a finalist on of America's Got Talent placing fifth in the competition.America's Got Talent (2014)Johnson's audition consisted of singing Beyoncé's "Listen", which was goo...
In the classification proposed by Steve Mann, a Quintephone is a musical instrument that generates sound informatically.For Mann, electronic instruments, i.e. electrophones, are a proper subset of quintephones, but the category quintephone is necessary to describe computational s...
Quintessence is a Finnish jazz-band, whose first record, White Light (EP) was released in 2001.The band's music is described as combination of neo soul, jazz, and funk music. The band has toured in Estonia, Norway and the Netherlands. Their record company is Texicalli.Line-up* Em...
Quintessence Editions Ltd. is a publishing company based in London (UK) which is the originator of the "1001 Before You Die" series. Typically, the titles in this series are intended as reference books. They are illustrated books authored by multiple contributors. Quintessence is...
Quintessential is an Australian property development company and unlisted real estate fund manager. Founded in 2010, the company focuses on acquiring, managing, and developing commercial, industrial, and office properties within Australia. In 2022-2023, the company rebranded unde...
Quintessential Capital Management LLC (QCM) is a New York-based multi-strategy hedge fund. It employs a combination of global value strategies primarily in blue chips and mid-cap stocks. The fund also executes short sales. The firm mainly serves high net worth individuals and fam...
Quintessentially Lifestyle is a Members-only luxury lifestyle management and concierge service. It is part of the Quintessentially Group, a British company founded in London in 2000 by Ben Elliot, Aaron Simpson and Paul Drummond. The Quintessentially Group caters to luxury lifest...
The concept is introduced here of extending Triple-DES to five keys, rather than three keys, named Quintuple-DES.AlgorithmQuintuple-DES uses a "key bundle" which comprises five DES keys, K<sub>1</sub>, K<sub>2</sub>, K<sub>3</sub>, K<sub>...
Quintura is a visual search engine based on the engine.A search returns both a list of search results and a tag cloud. The tag cloud contains the original search terms surrounded by related tags. The closer to the search terms, the larger the keyword suggestions (both in terms of...
Quintus Arrius is a fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He is a Roman warship commander whom Judah Ben-Hur saves from drowning. After they are rescued, Arrius is informed that his fleet won the battle, and is lauded for his victory. Ar...
Quintus Valerius Pompey is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series, Rome, played by Rick Warden. He is described as the "natural son" of Pompey. The basis for this character is unclear. There is no historical mention of a Quintus Valerius Pompey...
Quipu is a theoretical megastructure in cosmology, proposed as the largest known structure in the observable universe in terms of its length. Named after the ancient Inca recording device made of knotted strings, the Quipu is conceptualized as an intricate, filamentary network of...
Quirkworks Laboratory Discs is an independent record label started by Richard Bone in 1991.DiscographyCDS* 2007 - Richard Bone - Infinite Plastic Creation* 2007 - Richard Bone - Experiments '80-'82* 2007 - Lisa Indish &amp; Richard Bone - Via Poetica* 2006 - Richard Bone - Ve...
The cultural convention of quis-ego, found among students in primary and secondary schools in England and other members of the Commonwealth, is a way to distribute free or unwanted goods. A person with something he wishes to give away shouts "quis?" (pronounced "kwis", sometimes ...
Quise Casino, morn October 4, 1982 a native of Birmingham, Alabama is a producer and disc jockey formally known as "Da Infamous Dj Quise" The Magic City Mixtape King was discovered in 2008 by former member of Grand Hustle/. By this time he had already released 14 underground proj...
Quislet is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics, usually as a member of the 30th century team the Legion of Super-Heroes. Quislet was co-created by writer Paul Levitz and artist Steve Lightle, and first appeared in Legion of Super-Heroes (vol...
The Quiz Foundation of India, Chennai (or QFI) is a non-profit organization aiming to popularize quizzing in the city and also provide a forum for quizzers to meet and interact regularly.HistoryThe first meeting of the QFI was convened sometime in 1987 by C.P.Ramesh at C-2, Parkl...
Quizbowl is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge, commonly played in high school and college. The game is typically played with a lockout buzzer system between some number of teams, most commonly two teams of four or five players each. A mod...
Quizilla was a user-generated quiz website. It originally started as a website for quizzes. Many users were posting "quizzes" that were actually chapters of fan fiction, so a legitimate section for stories was added. On October 16, 2006, Viacom's MTV Networks (Teen Nick) announce...