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October 2012. "The QI Annual 2008". Faber and Faber. Archived from the original on 24 November 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009. The QI Team, The QI Annual "E"...

with John Mitchinson and the QI Elves) The Book of Animal Ignorance (2007, with John Mitchinson and the QI Elves) The QI Annual E [editor] (2007, with...

charging pad, which can be effective over distances up to 4 cm (1.6 in). The Qi standard is developed by the Wireless Power Consortium. As a universal,...

The Qi River (Chinese: 祁水) is a left-bank tributary of the middle Xiang River, one of main tributaries of the Xiang in Hunan Province. It rises in the...

permanently crippling him. Sun later escaped from Wei and rose to prominence in the Qi state, serving as a military strategist and commander. He led Qi to victory...

Wu Qian knives, the inscription of the Qi Dao Wu Bao knives aren’t inlaid with gold. The nominal value of the Qi Dao Wu Bao knives was 500 Wu Zhu cash...

Lü, Qiu, Shen., These originated: In the Qi (state), Jiang Ziya's descendants had the surname Jiang (姜) In the Qi (state), those with the surname Huan...

The Qi Lin Bayin, sometimes translated as Book of Eight Sounds or Book of Eight Tones, is a Chinese rime book of approximately ten thousand characters...

Consortium (WPC) was established in 2008, and in 2010 they established the Qi standard. In 2012, the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power...

biggest mines in the area. There is a zoo, and a very clean river called the Qi River where people go for relaxation and leisure fishing and swimming in...

Linzi Commandery (臨菑郡). In early Western Han dynasty, it became part of the Qi Kingdom under Liu Fei, son of Liu Bang, and his descendants. In 165 BC,...

Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, known as If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? in the United States, is the third title...

declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The porticoes of Bologna are similar to the Qi-lou (骑楼) widely found in the cities of southern China and the Gan-gi (雁木)...

series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson, to help spread the QI philosophy of curiosity to the reading public. It is a trivia book, aiming...

Xiang of Wei to concentrate on the Vertical Alliance. Negotiations with the Qi State Su Qin made it clear that it was impossible for the Qin State to cross...

superfluous worry".) The philosopher [Gao] said, 'Man's nature is like the [qi]-willow, and righteousness is like a cup or a bowl. The fashioning benevolence...

Chai (Jyutping: cai4) in Cantonese) is Chinese surname originated from the Qi (state) (齊/齐). In 2013 it was the 113th most common name, shared by 1,760...

the managing director of Quite Interesting Limited. He is co-writer of the QI series of books with the show's creator John Lloyd. The two men are normally...

of the Han dynasty: the "Lu version" and the "Qi version". The Lu version contained twenty chapters, and the Qi version contained twenty-two chapters, including...

army to attack the Zhao state and Zhao requested help from the Qi state. Sun Bin led the Qi army together with Tian Ji and proposed the strategy of "besieging...