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10 relations: Mecca, Quad Cities, Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, Qualitative comparative analysis, Quantum cellular automaton, Quantum dot cellular automaton, Queensland College of Art, Queensland Cricket, Quezon City Academy, Quoted Companies Alliance.
Mecca
Mecca or Makkah (مكة is a city in the Hejazi region of the Arabian Peninsula, and the plain of Tihamah in Saudi Arabia, and is also the capital and administrative headquarters of the Makkah Region. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level, and south of Medina. Its resident population in 2012 was roughly 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the Ḥajj (حَـجّ, "Pilgrimage") period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah (ذُو الْـحِـجَّـة). As the birthplace of Muhammad, and the site of Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran (specifically, a cave from Mecca), Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam and a pilgrimage to it known as the Hajj is obligatory for all able Muslims. Mecca is home to the Kaaba, by majority description Islam's holiest site, as well as being the direction of Muslim prayer. Mecca was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, acting either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger polities. It was conquered by Ibn Saud in 1925. In its modern period, Mecca has seen tremendous expansion in size and infrastructure, home to structures such as the Abraj Al Bait, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, the world's fourth tallest building and the building with the third largest amount of floor area. During this expansion, Mecca has lost some historical structures and archaeological sites, such as the Ajyad Fortress. Today, more than 15 million Muslims visit Mecca annually, including several million during the few days of the Hajj. As a result, Mecca has become one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the Muslim world,Fattah, Hassan M., The New York Times (20 January 2005). even though non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the city.
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Quad Cities
The Quad Cities is a region of five cities in northwest Illinois and southeastern Iowa,Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline in Illinois.
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Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency
The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) was a charity, and an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) of the Department for Education.
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Qualitative comparative analysis
In statistics, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a data analysis technique for determining which logical conclusions a data set supports.
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Quantum cellular automaton
A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) is an abstract model of quantum computation, devised in analogy to conventional models of cellular automata introduced by von Neumann.
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Quantum dot cellular automaton
Quantum dot cellular automata (sometimes referred to simply as quantum cellular automata, or QCA) are a proposed improvement on conventional computer design (CMOS), which have been devised in analogy to conventional models of cellular automata introduced by von Neumann.
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Queensland College of Art
The Queensland College of Art (QCA) is a specialist arts and design college located in South Bank, Brisbane, and Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Queensland Cricket
Queensland Cricket, formerly known as the Queensland Cricket Association, was formed in 1876 and is the governing body of Cricket in Queensland, Australia.
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Quezon City Academy
Quezon City Academy is a private secondary school located at 1144 Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA), in Quezon City, Philippines.
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Quoted Companies Alliance
The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) is a non-profit organisation which works for small and mid-cap companies, notably those below the FTSE 350, in the United Kingdom and Europe to promote and maintain liquid capital markets.
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