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Quintessence (English Band)
Quintessence, or fifth essence, may refer to: Cosmology * Aether (classical element), in medieval cosmology and science, the fifth element that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere * Quintessence (physics), a hypothetical form of dark energy, postulated to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe Literature * ''Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine'', essays by Willard Van Orman Quine * '' Quintessence: The Quality of Having It'', a 1983 book by Betty Cornfeld and Owen Edwards * Works by Lawrence M. Krauss: ** ''The Fifth Essence'', a 1989 book ** '' Quintessence: The Search for Missing Mass in the Universe'', a 2000 book * ''Quintessence'', a 2013 science fiction book by David Walton Media companies * Quintessence Films, a film production company * Quintessence International Publishing Group, a publishing company founded in Berlin, Germany Music * Quintessence Records, a budget label Bands * Quintessence (English band), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aether (classical Element)
According to ancient and medieval science, aether (, alternative spellings include ''æther'', ''aither'', and ''ether''), also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. The concept of aether was used in several theories to explain several natural phenomena, such as the traveling of light and gravity. In the late 19th century, physicists postulated that aether permeated all throughout space, providing a medium through which light could travel in a vacuum, but evidence for the presence of such a medium was not found in the Michelson–Morley experiment, and this result has been interpreted as meaning that no such luminiferous aether exists. Mythological origins The word (''aithḗr'') in Homeric Greek means "pure, fresh air" or "clear sky". In Greek mythology, it was thought to be the pure essence that the gods breathed, filling the space where they lived, analogous to the ''air'' breathed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Powered Giraffe
Steam Powered Giraffe is an American musical project formed in San Diego in 2008, self-described as "a musical act that combines robot pantomime, puppetry, ballet, comedy, projections, and music". Created and led by twins David Michael Bennett and Isabella Bunny Bennett, the act combines music and improvisational comedy on-stage, although their studio works focus almost solely on music. Steam Powered Giraffe has its own fictional mythology influenced by the steam punk subculture, with the band members portraying characters both on stage and on record; its fictional universe has been explored via several comic books mainly written and drawn by Isabella Bennett. Although the band underwent several line-up changes, it always focuses primarily on three robot characters (played by the Bennett siblings and a third performer, although the original line-up featured four robots), with several "humans" assisting and performing comedy, music and dancing on stage, and several smaller robots b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintessenz
Quintessenz (German for "quintessence") is a civil liberties advocacy organization based in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1994, Quintessenz works on Internet and on-line liberty issues in co-operation with other civil liberties advocates around the world. In 1999 Erich Moechel represented Quintessenz as a speaker at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 99 Conference in Washington DC. Quintessenz is a co-organizer of the Austrian version of the Big Brother Awards and a member of European Digital Rights European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi is a network collective of non-profit organizations (NGO), experts, advocates and academics working to defend and advance digital rights .... Notes External links Quintessenz home page {{poli-org-stub Political advocacy groups in Austria Politics and technology Digital rights organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintessence (restaurant)
Quintessence is a Michelin 3-star Japanese French fusion restaurant in Shinagawa, Japan. It is difficult to reserve a table in the restaurant and has been listed as among the 50 best restaurants in Asia by CNN. The head chef is Shuzo Kishida from Aichi Prefecture. Kishida worked for L'Astrance in Paris and studied French culinary arts. In 2019, food from Quintessence was featured in the Japanese TV drama '' Grand Maison Tokyo''. The production team of ''Grand Maison Tokyo'' consulted Chef Shuzo Kishida on the design of the menu items as seen being served in the titular restaurant in the drama. See also * List of French restaurants * List of Michelin three starred restaurants Michelin stars are a rating system used by the red Michelin Guide to grade restaurants on their quality. The guide was originally developed in 1900 to show French drivers where local amenities such as restaurants and mechanics were. The rating sys ... References External links * Restaurants in Tok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganthet
Ganthet is a character in the DC Comics universe, who first appeared in 1992 in Larry Niven and John Byrne (comics), John Byrne’s graphic novel ''Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale'' (). He is also the husband of Sayd. Fictional character biography Ganthet is one of the Guardians of the Universe, but much less stern and 'by-the-book' than most of his colleagues. He shows a human-like personality by displays of empathy, kindness, and concern for individuals, rather than thinking only of the Green Lantern Corps. In DC crossover Limited series (comics), limited series such as Kingdom Come (comics), ''Kingdom Come'', this particular Guardian is presented as being part of the Quintessence, a group of gods who oversee their entire universe (or multiverse), yet shows signs of focusing especially on Earth. He is often distinguished by tying his hair into a long ponytail, in contrast to the shorter and unkempt hair of other male Guardians. Green Lantern: Secret Origin In the ''Green Lanter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintessence (horse)
Quintessence (1900–1917) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1000 Guineas of 1903 and was unbeaten in her six races. She was owned and bred by Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth. After retiring from racing she became a successful broodmare, with her son Clarissimus winning the 2000 Guineas. Background Quintessence was bay filly foaled in 1900 and bred by Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth. She was a daughter of St. Frusquin, who won the 2000 Guineas and Eclipse Stakes in 1896. St Frusquin was also a successful sire and was Champion sire in Britain. His other progeny included St. Amant, 1000 Guineas winners Rhodora and Flair and Epsom Oaks winners Rosedrop and Mirska. Quintessence's dam, Margarine, was a daughter of 2000 Guineas winner Petrarch. Racing career 1902: Two-year-old season As a two-year-old Quintessence won the Biennial Stakes at Ascot. At Newmarket she won the six-furlong Exeter Stakes, with Sermon finishing sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freebird Games
Freebird Games is a video game developer from Canada. They have developed eight games. Their most prominent game, ''To the Moon,'' was nominated for Best Writing and Innovation Award for the Canadian Videogame Awards. History ''Freebird Games'' started as a personal project made by Kan Gao. Later the team expanded to include help from Jessica M. Vázquez, James Q. Zhang (retired), Gabriela Aprile, and Lannie Neely III. Kan commissions various talents for resources and labor, but the majority of the work is completed by him as the only "official" developer. The first game developed by Freebird Games is ''Quintessence: The Blighted Venom'', an incompleted free episodic interactive drama role-playing game. Their second free game ''Do You Remember My Lullaby?'' was released on December 21, 2008. On June 20, 2009 they released a free demo of an upcoming release titled ''Lyra's Melody - The Song She Whispered to Me''. In 2011, shortly before the release of ''To The Moon'', they rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emiliana Torrini
Emiliana is a feminine name of Italian origin. It can refer to: As a given name * Emiliana of Trasilla and Emiliana, Catholic saints * Emilíana Torrini (born 1977), Icelandic singer As a surname * Cesare Emiliani (1922–1995), Italian-American geologist and paleontologist Biology * ''Emiliania'' (coccolithophore), a genus of phytoplankton **''Emiliania huxleyi'', a member of that genus *''Emiliania'', former name of a genus of bivalves now called ''Emiliodonta'' * ''Emiliana'' (planthopper), a genus of insects in subfamily Tropiduchinae ** ''Emiliana alexandri'', an extinct hemipteran insect * ''Macropygia emiliana'', the Ruddy Cuckoo-dove, a bird See also * Emilian (other) Emilian or Emiliano may refer to: *Emilia (region of Italy), a region of northern Italy *Emilian of Cogolla, a Visigothic saint *Emilian dialects, spoken in Emilia, northern Italy *A Romanian male given name: **Emilian Bratu (1904–1991), chemic ... * Emily (other) {{disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Quintessence
"In Quintessence" is the first song on Squeeze (band), Squeeze's 1981 album ''East Side Story (Squeeze album), East Side Story''. The lyrics were written by Chris Difford and the music by Glenn Tilbrook. Background Chris Difford said, "The lyric is autobiographical in some ways, another song that mentions masturbation." When discussing the lyrics, Glenn Tilbrook said, "The bloke who the lyric was about is now a very responsible teacher working just outside Liverpool. I saw him a couple of months ago and he said how perfectly this described his life at the time. Chris was spot on in analysing him as someone who liked smoking joints and shagging birds, but what's wrong with that?" Tilbrook stated, "Musically it was my tip of the hat to Elvis Costello, Elvis [Costello]. He'd borrowed the riff from 'Time Is Tight' and used it on a song called 'Temptation (Elvis Costello song), Temptation'. I thought it would be funny to use that riff again for 'In Quintessence' and expand it." The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crack The Skye
''Crack the Skye'' is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Mastodon, released on March 24, 2009, through Reprise, Sire and Relapse Records. The album debuted at number 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200, selling 41,000 copies in its first week. In Australia, the album debuted at number 19. It had sold 200,000 copies in the US as of September 2010, making it one of their highest-selling albums to date. According to an interview on the DVD ''The Making of Crack the Skye'', this album represents the element of aether, which is represented by the souls and spirits of all things, a theme closely related to the context of the album. Because the elements of fire, water and earth have already been represented by the band's first three albums '' Remission'', ''Leviathan'', ''Blood Mountain'' and the band's seventh album ''Emperor of Sand'', respectively, the element of air is the only classical element which has yet to be represented by a Mastodon album, as their follow-up stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesis (Rotting Christ Album)
''Genesis'' is the seventh full-length album by the Greek extreme metal band Rotting Christ. The release showed some return to the group's more aggressive early days as a black metal band, featuring fast, percussive tempos and raw vocals, as well as some gothic and doom elements from middle releases. It was produced by Andy Classen in Germany at the Stage-One-Studio, also used by Krisiun, Belphegor and Callenish Circle. Track listing All songs written by Sakis Tolis. # "Daemons" – 3:27 # "Lex Talionis" – 5:03 # "Quintessence" – 4:45 # "Nightmare" – 7:08 # "In Domine Sathana" – 5:16 # "Release Me" – 3:51 # "The Call of the Aethyrs" – 4:32 # "Dying" – 4:48 # "Ad Noctis" – 6:11 # "Under the Name of the Legion" – 6:29 # "Astral Enbodyment razil Edition – 5:51 Popular culture The track "Ad Noctis" was featured on the soundtrack of the metal-themed video game ''Brütal Legend ''Brütal Legend'' is an action-adventure video game with real-time strategy g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
