Quicksilver

Many products and characters have been named Quicksilver to suggest power, fluidity, and style:.
. Literally "living silver", from mercury's silver appearance and its unusual (for a metal) liquidity at room temperature. Lots of places in Catalonia (both North and South) have a name related to Rotllà. Quicksilver is another name for the chemical element mercury. In Catalonia Roland (or Rotllà as Catalan people say) became a mythical powerful giant. Quicksilver, a type of ultralight aircraft that was very popular in the 1980's. The Roland in front of the town hall of Bremen (1404) is listed together with the town hall on the List of World Heritage Site from the UNESCO since 2004.

Quicksilver, the gun Vincent Valentine has equipped when you first gain him as a playable character in Final Fantasy VII. In Germany, Roland gradually became a symbol of the independence of the growing cities from the local nobility, and in the late middle ages many a city sported the display of a defiant Roland statue on their market place. Quicksilver, a bluegrass music band lead by Doyle Lawson. In the Divine Comedy Dante sees Roland's spirit in the Heaven of Mars together with others who fought for the faith. Quicksilver Messenger Service, an influential 1960s psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, California. See Orlando for his later history in Italian verse, leading to the epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Quicksilver Software, a computer games company based in Irvine, California. Roland's tale is retold in the eleventh century poem The Song of Roland, where he is equipped with the Olifant (a signalling horn) and an unbreakable sword enchanted by Christian relics and named Durendal.

Quicksilver, a character in the cartoon series Silverhawks. The legend growing around him, which made him a nephew to Charlemagne (whether or not this was true we do not know), turned his life into an epic tale of the noble Christian killed by Islamic forces, which forms part of the medieval Matter of France. Quicksilver, a novel substance in The Invisible Man that has the ability to bend light, making things invisible. Over the next several centuries, Roland became a "pop icon" in medieval minstrel culture. Quiksilver [sic], a clothing brand specialized in surfing and winter sports. The battle took place on 15 August, AD 778. Quicksilver, a free computer application for Mac OS X by Blacktree Software that allows the user to use the keyboard to rapidly launch other applications, manipulate files, send email, etc. The original Latin text refers to "Hruodlandus Brittannici limitis praefectus".

Quicksilver, a movie starring Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, and Laurence Fishburne and directed by Tom Donnelly. Here is the relevant passage, in the 9th of 33 chapters (plus a lengthy postscript):. Quicksilver, a role-playing game by Jeff and Amanda Dee. There exists only one historical mention of a French Roland, found in the section of Vita Karoli Magni on Roncevaux Pass, written by Charlemagne's courtier and biographer Einhard. Quicksilver, a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is thought the title character of the 12th century Song of Roland, which recounts his final stand against the Muslims during the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, is based on a real person who died in that battle (under different circumstances), but the authors of most later chansons de geste and the Carolingian epics Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso made little attempt to establish historical accuracy. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X-Men #4 (1962). Roland (Frankish: Hruodland, in some languages Orlando) is a character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the chief paladin of Charlemagne and a central figure in the Matter of France.

Quicksilver, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, his superhuman ability being super-speed and reflexes.