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Quill
Quill is an American direct marketer of office supplies to businesses, founded in Chicago in 1956 by Jack Miller and acquired by Staples in 1998.
Quill drive
Quill drive is a railway traction transmission in which a hollow shaft around the driving axle carries torque from a sprung traction motor to the wheels.
Quill Lakes
Quill Lakes: three saline lakes (Big, Middle/Mud, Little Quill) in east-central Saskatchewan, Canada's largest saline lake, a 1987 Ramsar site and major shorebird staging area, now merged by post-2004 flooding.
Quilla Chasma
Quilla Chasma is a 973-km-long chasma (rift trough) on Venus at 23.7°S, 127.3°E, named for the Inca moon goddess, IAU-approved 1982, in quad V-36 near Artemis and Aphrodite Terra.
Quillaia extract
Quillaia extract, also known as soapbark extract or Panama bark extract, is a food additive made by water extraction of the soapbark tree's inner bark, used as an emulsifier and foaming agent.
Quillan Salkilld
Quillan Salkilld (Quillan Zane Salkilld), Australian UFC lightweight born 1999 in Pinjarra, WA; 13-1 pro, 6-0 UFC, Contender Series 2024 graduate, Eternal MMA champion, first-round KO/submit specialist.
QuillBot
QuillBot is an AI-powered writing suite founded in 2017 by students building a paraphraser, now owned by Learneo and offering grammar checking, AI detection, plagiarism checking, and translation tools.
Quillette
Quillette: Australian online magazine founded by Claire Lehmann in 2015, publishing long-form cultural and political commentary; edited in Sydney, London, Toronto; reader-funded; rated Lean Right to Right by bias raters.
Quilliam (think tank)
Quilliam, originally the Quilliam Foundation, was a London-based counter-extremism think tank founded in 2008 by two former Islamist extremists, Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz, which entered insolvency in 2021.
Quilling
Quilling, or paper filigree, is the craft of rolling narrow paper strips into coils and shapes to form decorative designs. Originating with 15th-century French and Italian religious orders imitating metal filigree, it became an 18th-century English pastime and survives through guilds and contemporary artists.
Quillwork
Quillwork is an embroidery art of North American Indigenous peoples in which dyed porcupine quills are stitched onto hide, birchbark, or fabric, historically practiced almost exclusively by women.
Quilmes
Quilmes is a partido and city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20 km south of the capital; 125 km², 633,391 inhabitants (2022). Founded as the 1666 indigenous Reduction of the Kilmes people, declared a city in 1916, home of the Quilmes brewery.
Quilmes Rock
Quilmes Rock is a major rock festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, created in 2003 by Pop Art and the Quilmes brewery and held at venues including River Plate and Tecnópolis.
Quilombo
Quilombo (1984) is a Brazilian historical drama by Carlos Diegues about the Quilombo dos Palmares, the largest community of escaped slaves in colonial Brazil, led by Ganga Zumba and Zumbi, with music by Gilberto Gil, shown in competition at Cannes 1984.
Quilombo dos Palmares
Quilombo dos Palmares was a large community of fugitive slaves in colonial Brazil, in present-day Alagoas, led by Ganga Zumba and Zumbi until its destruction in 1694.
Quilotoa
Quilotoa is an active volcano in Ecuador's Western Cordillera, about 83 km southwest of Quito, whose 3-km-wide caldera holds a deep turquoise crater lake popular with hikers.
Quilt
Quilt: a bedcover of two fabric layers with batting between, joined by patterned stitching or ties; related to patchwork. Key facts: three-layer sandwich, tacking knots about 4 inches apart, 13th-century Sicilian Tristan Quilt, Latin culcita etymology.
Quilt art
Quilt art (art quilt, studio art quilt): quilts made as visual art rather than bedcovers; term generalized with the 1986 Art Quilt exhibition; key shows include the Whitney 1971 exhibit and Quilt National (1979), with Gee's Bend and SAQA central to the field.
Quilter
Quilter plc is a UK-listed wealth manager created from Old Mutual Wealth, which demerged and listed in London and Johannesburg in June 2018, operating Affluent and High Net Worth segments.
Quilting
Quilting: the craft of stitching layered fabric with padding (batting) to make quilts, from Latin culcita. Covers quilt anatomy (top, batting, backing), patchwork and appliqué, medieval to American history, Gee's Bend, museums, and conservation.
Quilting stitch
A quilting stitch is a stitch or tied knot that passes through all three layers of a quilt at once, keeping the layers from shifting and the batting from bunching.
Quilts of Gee's Bend
Quilts of Gee's Bend: patchwork quilts by African American women of Boykin (Gee's Bend), Alabama, made from work clothes and scraps in improvisational Housetop and Bricklayer patterns; celebrated since the 2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibition.
Quim Junyent
Quim Junyent (Joaquim Junyent Casanova), Spanish midfielder born 2007 in Balsareny; ten seasons at Barcelona's La Masia, 2026 Spain U19 European champion and MVP, now UD Almería player under contract to 2032.
Quimbaya
Quimbaya is a pre-Hispanic culture of Colombia's middle Cauca River valley, one of the ancient Americas' finest goldworking traditions, from around 500 BC to 1600 AD.
Quimi hib
Quimi-Hib is a Cuban conjugate vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b, the first commercial vaccine made with a chemically synthesized antigen, developed at Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and registered in 2003.
Quimsachata-Oroscocha
Quimsachata-Oroscocha is a pair of monogenetic volcanoes in the Cusco Region of southern Peru; Quimsachata erupted about 11,500 years ago and Oroscocha about 6,400 years ago.
Quin Snyder
Quin Snyder, American basketball coach; head coach of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks since February 26, 2023 after eight seasons (372-264) with the Utah Jazz and a Missouri college tenure.
Quinacrine
Quinacrine, also known as mepacrine and sold as Atabrine, is a yellow acridine-derivative drug that was the principal synthetic antimalarial of World War II and now treats giardiasis.
Quinagolide
Quinagolide (CV 205-502, Norprolac) is a non-ergot selective dopamine D2 receptor agonist taken once daily for hyperprolactinemia and prolactinoma, mainly in Europe; UK tablets discontinued in 2026.
Quinalphos
Quinalphos (O,O-diethyl O-(2-quinoxalyl) phosphorothioate), also sold as Ekalux or Bayrusil, is an organophosphate insecticide-acaricide used mainly in Indian agriculture; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, WHO moderately dangerous, banned or limited in most countries.