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Quicksilver Mining Company
Quicksilver may refer to: * Quicksilver (metal), the chemical element mercury Arts and entertainment Music * Quicksilver, a bluegrass band fronted by Doyle Lawson * "Quicksilver" (song), a 1950 hit for Bing Crosby * ''Quicksilver'' (soundtrack), from the 1986 film * ''Quicksilver'' (album), an album by Quicksilver Messenger Service * ''Quicksilver'' (EP), a 2009 EP by The Crüxshadows * "Quicksilver Lightning", a song by Roger Daltrey * "Quicksilver" (instrumental), 1969 instrumental from Pink Floyd album ''Soundtrack from the Film More'' * Shortened name form of Quicksilver Messenger Service, used by the band on their later record covers * "Quicksilver Girl" (song), Steve Miller Band, 1968 album Sailor * Quicksilver, a classical music ensemble directed by Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski Film and television * ''Quicksilver'' (Irish game show), an Irish quiz show * ''Quicksilver'' (film), a 1986 film Fictional entities * Quicksilver (Marvel Comics), a superhero i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver (metal)
Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( ) from the Greek words, ''hydor'' (water) and ''argyros'' (silver). A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is known to be liquid at standard temperature and pressure; the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is the halogen bromine, though metals such as caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature. Mercury occurs in deposits throughout the world mostly as cinnabar (mercuric sulfide). The red pigment vermilion is obtained by grinding natural cinnabar or synthetic mercuric sulfide. Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, manometers, sphygmomanometers, float valves, mercury switches, mercury relays, fluorescent lamps and other devices, though concerns about the element's toxicity have led to mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers being largely phased out in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire & Blood (novel)
''Fire & Blood'' is a fantasy book by American writer George R. R. Martin and illustrated by Doug Wheatley. It tells the history of House Targaryen, the dynasty that ruled the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros in the backstory of his series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. Although originally planned for publication after the completion of the series, Martin has revealed his intent to publish the history in two volumes as the material had grown too large. The first volume was released on November 20, 2018. The second half of this first volume (an expanded version of ''The Princess and the Queen'') has been adapted into the HBO series ''House of the Dragon'', a prequel to ''Game of Thrones''. Publication history In 2014, more than 200,000 words were removed from the manuscript of Martin's companion book ''The World of Ice & Fire'' and were incorporated into ''Fire & Blood''. In February 2017, Elio M. García Jr., Martin's co-author for ''The World of Ice & Fire'', reported that he had spok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Vegas Quicksilvers
The Las Vegas Quicksilvers were an American soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) during the 1977 season. The team was based in Las Vegas, Nevada and played their home games at Las Vegas Stadium. After the 1977 season, the team relocated to San Diego and became the San Diego Sockers. Eusébio, considered by many "Africa's greatest-ever player" played seventeen games for the Quicksilvers scoring two goals. History Origins The team that would become the Quicksilvers was founded in January 1974 as the Baltimore Comets when the North American Soccer League added six expansion teams following the 1973 season. After two seasons in Baltimore, the team was sold and moved to San Diego becoming the San Diego Jaws. After finishing last in the Southern Division for the 1976 North American Soccer League season, the team announced it would move to Las Vegas, Nevada. 1977 NASL Season and Demise The Quicksilvers opened the season on April 9, 1977, at h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver Software - Utility software program for Mac OS X
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Quicksilver Software may refer to: *Quicksilver Software, Inc. - Irvine, CA based developer of computer and video games and other software *Quicksilver (software) Quicksilver is a utility software, utility app for macOS. Originally developed as proprietary freeware by Nicholas Jitkoff of Blacktree, Inc., it is now an Open-source software, open-source project hosted on GitHub. Quicksilver is essentially a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiksilver
Quiksilver is a brand of surf-inspired apparel and accessories that was founded in 1969 in Torquay, Australia, but is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It is one of the world's largest brands of surfwear and boardsport-related equipment. The parent company changed its name in March 2017 from Quiksilver, Inc. to Boardriders, Inc., and is the owner of the brands Quiksilver, Roxy and DC Shoes. In 2018, Boardriders acquired Billabong International Limited, gaining the Billabong, Element, Von Zipper, RVCA and XCEL brands. Quiksilver manufactures and sells a wide range of products that include sportswear (swimsuits), clothing (T-shirts, polo shirts, flannels, jackets, hoodies, pants, shorts), footwear (sneakers, sandals), and accessories (hats, backpacks, and wallets). The company also produces a line of apparel for young women, under the Roxy brand. Another line of apparel for women is sold under the brand Quiksilver Women. In 2013, Quiksilver initiated a turnaround plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver (company)
Quicksilver is a British amusement arcade and gambling machine company. It is the UK's largest slot gambling machine operator, with over 200 high street outlets and about 10,000 gambling machines. Quicksilver describes itself as the "largest amusement business in the UK". Operations In conjunction with their parent company, Talarius, they operate three high street brands across the UK, Quicksilver, Silvers and Winners, including eight at motorway service areas. In 2007, the profitability of the firm was hit when the British government introduced a new taxation regime for gambling and a smoking ban on commercial premises but the company has since recovered. Since 2012, Quicksilver have run the arcades at all Extra motorway service stations in the UK, and from 2013, the arcade at the Folkestone service station on the M20. In 2013, Talarius and Quicksilver left the trade body BACTA after becoming dissatisfied with the direction it was taking but rejoined in 2014 following the ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver (ISP)
Quicksilver was an ISP based in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. It offered broadband, dialup and toll's services around New Zealand. Quicksilver was an activity of Mercury Telecommunications Ltd, a company formed by Matthew Hobbs and Mark Frater, both ex-employees of CLEAR Communications. Quicksilver was sold to Woosh, an Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...-based wireless ISP in August 2006. Internet service providers of New Zealand New Zealand companies established in 1999 Telecommunications companies established in 1999 Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2006 Companies based in Auckland 2006 disestablishments in New Zealand {{NewZealand-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver Manufacturing
Quicksilver Aircraft is an American manufacturer of ultralight and light aircraft A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997. Light aircraft are used as utility aircraft c .... Founded in 1972 as Eipper Formance and later Eipper Aircraft, the company today claims to be the leading manufacturer of ultralight aircraft in the United States, with the Quicksilver type ultralight being used to train more ultralight pilots than any other type. The company was previously known as ''Quicksilver Manufacturing Inc.''. In October 2015, the company began a reorganization after a difficult year financially, closing its factory in California. Company sales had fallen and efforts to control costs were not successful without the reorganization and a liquidation of some assets. Aircraft * GT400 * GT500 * MX Sprint * MX Sport * MX-2 Spri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interleaf
Interleaf, Inc., was a company that created computer software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Founded in 1981, its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphics editing, producing WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") output at near-typeset quality. It also had early products in the document management, electronic publishing, and Web publishing spaces. Interleaf's "Active Documents" functionality, integrated into its text and graphics editing products in the early 1990s, was the first to give document creators programmatic access (via LISP) to virtually all of the document's elements, structures, and software capabilities. Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000. The latest version of the publishing software (i.e. TPS) is called ''QuickSilver.'' Interleaf's headquarters was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and later moved to Waltham, Massachusetts. History Interleaf was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicksilver (software)
Quicksilver is a utility software, utility app for macOS. Originally developed as proprietary freeware by Nicholas Jitkoff of Blacktree, Inc., it is now an Open-source software, open-source project hosted on GitHub. Quicksilver is essentially a graphical Shell (computing), shell for the macOS operating system, allowing users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching other apps, manipulating computer file, files, or sending e-mail. It is similar to the macOS applications LaunchBar and Alfred (software), Alfred, but uses a different interaction paradigm. Because of its flexible interface and extensibility, Quicksilver has been called one of the top productivity applications on the Mac. Features Interface Invoked with a keyboard shortcut, Quicksilver has three panes, into which the user can enter an object, an action, and an optional attribute—analogous to creating a sentence with a subject, verb, and object. Quicksilver is a background application that runs w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QuickSilver (project)
The QuickSilver project at Cornell University is an AFRL-funded effort to build a platform in support of a new generation of scalable, secure, reliable distributed computing applications able to "regenerate" themselves after failure. Among the partners on this project are DARPA funding under the SRS program, the United States Air Force. Raytheon, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon. The principal investigators are Cornell Professors Kenneth P. Birman, Johannes Gehrke, and Paul Francis Paul Francis is an American business executive and politician who has served under three Governors of New York, holding such positions as the Director of State Operations for the State of New York. In that position he oversaw the state's eight ma ... External links Project home pagewith links to the over 140 published papers from 1999-2006. DARPA {{compu-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Quicksilver (SP-281)
USS ''Quicksilver'' (SP–281) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. ''Quicksilver'' was built by the Jahncke Navigation Company at New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Navy acquired her under charter from her owner, Ernest Lee Jahncke, for World War I service as a patrol vessel. Jahncke delivered her to the Navy on 24 May 1917, and she was commissioned as USS ''Quicksilver'' (SP-281). ''Quicksilver'' operated out of New Orleans on section patrol until late in World War I. On 1 October 1918 she was ordered to Naval Air Station Pensacola at Pensacola, Florida, where she was sorely needed in connection with training flights over Florida Bay. She continued in this duty until 27 November 1918, when she returned to New Orleans. ''Quicksilver'' was decommissioned at New Orleans on 28 January 1919. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 17 May 1919, and was sold on 30 June 1919 to George Plant of Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
