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unusual facts about Quadrant


Verna Susannah Coleman

"Portrait of the artist as a young girl" on the Australian writer Amy Witting Quadrant, Sydney, 1990, Vol.


Baltimore Bohemians

The top left quadrant features the black and gold crest of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the bottom right quadrant features black and red stripes - a nod to Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and the other two quadrants feature a blue crab and a Black Eyed Susan, both symbols of Maryland.

Blackish-grey Antshrike

The southeast range extends slightly southwestward into that quadrant, about 1000–1400 km, and its eastern limit is the final 950 km of the Tocantins River drainage.

By Inferno's Light

The second half of a two-part episode, it is most notable for featuring the beginning of the Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.

Chestnut-capped Puffbird

On the Amazon River its range starts upstream of the Madeira River confluence, but the entire Madeira is its eastern limit in the Basin's southwest quadrant, extending upstream into its tributaries in northern Bolivia.

Coat of arms of Benin

The top left quadrant contains a castle in the style of the Somba, representative of the history of Benin.

Corinne Dixon Taylor

She was born in Anacostia, the third of six children, and grew up in the Southeast quadrant of the District of Columbia, referred to as "Southeast," where she married John Blakey Taylor Sr., a bricklayer, in 1918.

Doubly fed electric machine

The controller, a frequency converter, conditions bi-directional (four quadrant), speed synchronized, and multiphase electrical power to at least one of the winding sets (generally, the rotor winding set).

Finsbury Circus

Fronting the northwest quadrant of the oval, with fronts on roads entering the Circus from the west stands Edwin Lutyens's massive Britannic House (1921–25, listed Grade II), designed for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which became BP; its free-standing architectural sculptures are by Francis Derwent Wood.

Gun laying

The first recorded device to measure an elevation angle was Niccolò Tartaglia's invention of a gunners' quadrant circa 1545.

Kennedy Building

Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building, Washington, D.C., listed on the NRHP in Northwest Quadrant

Klingon culture

Miral Paris, daughter of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, was thought by some expatriate Klingon cult members in the Delta Quadrant to be this new spiritual leader.

Leiden Observatory

It was established by Leiden University in 1633, to house the quadrant of Snellius, and is the oldest operating University observatory in the world (before this, astronomy taught at medieval universities tended to be of a more theoretical nature, and any observations were usually done with private equipment rather than at University observatories —see this timeline).

Magic Quadrant

Gartner was the target of a federal lawsuit (filed May 29, 2009) from software vendor, ZL Technologies, challenging the “legitimacy” of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant rating system.

MIS AG

In 2006 Systems Union Group entered Gartner CPM Quadrant with MIS products as one of fully functional performance management solutions.

Moray Place, Dunedin

The southwestern quadrant includes the former Dunedin Public Library building (the Carnegie Centre), the Fortune Theatre, and one of the city's main cinemas, the Rialto.

P. microphyllus

Philadelphus microphyllus, the littleleaf mock-orange, a plant species native to northern Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States as far north as Wyoming

Pennsylvania Route 851

It then bears left at the intersection with Quadrant Route 2080 (Graceton Road) which becomes Maryland Route 624 at the state line and Constitution Road, and crosses into Peach Bottom Township.

QIK

In later versions the physical keyboard was disposed of and replaced with a logical keypad represented as a quadrant on the user's screen mapped to standard QWERTY keyboard (F1-F12) function keys.

Sham Shui Po Station

These are located within the quadrant bounded by Kweilin Street (NW), Pei Ho Street (SE), Fuk Wa Street (NE) and Apliu Street (SW).

Thelma Forshaw

As a journalist she worked as a freelance writer and book reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin (since defunct), Meanjin, Nation, and Quadrant.

Unsafe at Any Speed

Early automatic transmissions, including GM's Hydra-Matic, Packard's Ultramatic, and Borg Warner's automatic used by a number of independent manufacturers (Rambler, Studebaker) used a pattern of "P N D L R", which put Reverse at the bottom of the quadrant, next to Low.

Waynedale, Fort Wayne

Waynedale is a neighborhood area in the southwest quadrant of Fort Wayne, Indiana in Allen County.

Woking Palace

The palace was moated and can be separated into four parts: north east quadrant; the medieval barrel vault and the King's Hall, built by Henry VII in 1508, in the south east; the King’s Garden on the south west; and the Copse to the north west, once the orchard.


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