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Xeikon "Under the Xeikon brand, Punch Graphix develops, manufactures and distributes high-end digital colour printing systems, the related prepress and operating software, and consumables such as toner. Xeikon thus provides integrated solutions for professional applications in the commercial printing, the document printing market - transactional, print on demand and direct marketing applications - and the industrial market - packaging, label and specialty applications.
Xekinima - Socialist Internationalist Organisation Xekinima is the Committee for a Workers' International’s Greek section. Its roots can be traced to the mid-1970’s when Greek society was going through major upheavals, and was seen by many as moving to left-radical policies as a result of the collapse of the military dictatorship and the international situation.
Xelhua Xelhua is one of the seven giants in Aztec mythology who escaped the flood by ascending the mountain of Tlaloc in the terrestrial paradise, and afterwards built the Great Pyramid of Cholula. A Dominican monk wrote this account:
Xen Xen is a free virtual machine monitor for IA-32, x86-64, IA-64 and PowerPC architectures. It is software that runs on a host operating system and allows one to run several guest operating systems on top of the host on the same computer hardware at the same time.
Xen (Half-Life) Xen (pronounced "Zen") is the origin of the alien species that appear in the science fiction video game Half-Life (Valve Software, 1998); the expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force (Valve Software and Gearbox Software, 1999); Half-Life: Blue Shift (Valve/Gearbox, 2001); and Half-Life: Decay (Valve/Gearbox, 2001) - as well as many of those that appear in Half-Life 2 (Valve Software, 2004). Xen is sometimes referred to as the border world.
Xen'drik In the Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Xen'drik is a continent to the south of Khorvaire. Xen'drik's coastline has been mapped but its interior remains largely unexplored, and the continent has a reputation as a land of secrets, danger, and mystery.
Xenacanthus Xenacanthus is a genus of prehistoric sharks, belonging to the family Xenacanthidae and the order Xenacanthida. The first species of the genus lived in the later Devonian period, and they survived until the end of the Triassic, 202 million years ago.
Xenarthra The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals (infraclass Eutheria), extant today only in the Americas. The origins of the order can be traced back as far as the early Tertiary (about 60 million years ago, or only a short time after the end of the dinosaur era).
Xeneizes Xeneizes is an album by the Icelandic Hip hop group Quarashi, released on October 25, 1999 in Iceland (see 1999 in music). Like Quarashi's self titled debut album, Xeneizes was a hit in Quarashi's homeland, topping the Icelandic album charts.
Xenelasia Xenelasia (Greek: ξενηλαĎια) was the title given to a set of laws in ancient Doric Crete and Lacedæmonia that proscribed the inclusion of foreigners and any foreign arts and music into their respective commonwealths.
Xenentodon cancila The needlenose fish, Xenentodon cancila is the sole member of its genus and one of the relatively few needlefish that spends its entire life in freshwater habitats, rarely traveling through brackish or marine waterways. It is known to feed exclusively on small crusteaceans.
Xenharmony Xenharmonic music describes all tuning systems, and music using those systems, that do not use or approximate the common European twelve-tone equal temperament. The term was coined by Ivor Darreg from xenia (Greek ξενία), hospitable, and xenos (Greek ÎľÎνος) foreign.
Xeni Gwet'in First Nation The Xeni Gwet'in First Nation is a First Nations government located in the sothewestern Chilcotin District in the western Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Tsilhqot'in Tribal Council.
Xenia (genus) Xenia is a genus of soft marine coral resembling a mushroom, with "arms" coming out from the top that end in many-fingered "hands". It is unique among corals because of its ability to "pulse" or push water away from the colony with a constant motion.
Xenia (Greek) Xenia (Greek ξενία, xenĂa) is the Greek concept of hospitality and guest-host relations. It is often translated "guest-friendship" (or "ritualized friendship"), because the rituals of hospitality created and expressed a reciprocal relationship between guest and host.
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band Xenis Emputae Travelling Band is a musical endeavour by British multi-instrumentalist Phil Legard. Inspired by the folklore and atmosphere of various locations in the English countryside, XETB plays a blend of ambient electronics and psychedlic folk.
Xenix Xenix was a version of the Unix operating system, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T in the late 1970s. The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) later acquired exclusive rights to the software, and eventually began distributing it as SCO UNIX.
XenMan XenMan is a Xen Hypervisor management tool with a graphical user interface that allows a user to perform the standard set of operations (start, stop, pause, kill, shutdown, reboot, snapshot, etc...) in addition to some higher level operations such as the creation of a guest domain (which includes the creation of the configuration file, the retrieval of appropriate kernels and initial ram disks, as well as the starting of the domain) in one single operation.
XennoBB XennoBB is a free Internet bulletin board written in the PHP scripting language and based on PunBB. To store its data, XennoBB relies on MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite, and it is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Xenoarchaeology Xenoarchaeology is a form of archaeology concerned with the physical remains of past (but not necessarily extinct) alien cultures. These may be found on planets or satellites, in space, the asteroid belt, planetary orbit or Lagrangian points.
Xenobi Studios Xenobi Studios is a small company specializing in computer animation, including independent short films as well as consulting work for films and video games. The key persons are founder Christopher Mullins (3D artist and animator), Aaron Webster (3D artist), and James Anderson (audio).
Xenobiotic A xenobiotic is a chemical which is found in an organism but which is not normally produced or expected to be present in it. It can also cover substances which are present in much higher concentrations than are usual.
Xenocles Xenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. Aristophanes calls him an execrable poet and was never tired of ridiculing him; describing, along with his father, Carcinus of Agrigentum, three brothers and a member of the third generation (also called Carcinus), "a whole potful of tragic crabs".
Xenoestrogen Xenoestrogens are synthetic substances that differ from those produced by living organisms and imitate or enhance the effect of estrogens. The estrogenic stimulation is an unintended side-effect of these agents or their metabolites.
Xenoetas Xenoetas (in Greek Ξενoιτας; killed in 221 BC) was an Achaean in the service of the Seleucid king Antiochus the Great; he was despatched by his chief minister Hermeias in command of an army against the rebel satrap of Media, Molon, in 221 BC. This unusual distinction seems greatly to have elated him.
Xenogenesis The Xenogenesis trilogy (currently published as the one volume novel, Lilith's Brood, which was released in 2000) was written by Octavia Butler. The three volumes of this science fiction series were previously collected in the now out of print volume, Xenogenesis.
Xenoglossy Xenoglossy is the paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak a language that he or she could not have acquired by natural means. For example, a person who speaks German fluently and like a native, but has never studied German, been to a German-speaking country, or associated with German-speakers, would be said to exhibit xenoglossy.
Xenochrony Xenochrony, From the Greek words xeno (strange or alien) and chrono (time), is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as late as the early 60s by Frank Zappa. He used this technique to great effect on several albums.
Xenolith A xenolith (Assyrian: 'foreign rock') is a rock fragment which becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and hardening. In geology, the term xenolith is almost exclusively used to describe inclusions in igneous rock during magma emplacement and eruption.
Xenomai Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment.
Xenomania Xenomania are one of the UK's leading pop production houses, put together by writer and producer Brian Higgins. Members of the Xenomania writing and production team include Nick Coler, Giselle Sommerville, Miranda Cooper (who shares
Xenomorph (Alien) A xenomorph is a member of the fictional extraterrestrial species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien film series and its subsidiary literature and video games. The name is derived from the Greek word for "alien form", and was used by a character in the film Aliens as a euphemism to indicate any nonterrestrial lifeform.
Xenomorph (geology) A xenomorph (also: allotriomorph) is a mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals. Xenomorphs are typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions.
Xenon Xenon (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Xe and atomic number 54. A colorless, heavy, odorless noble gas, xenon occurs in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts and was part of the first noble gas compound synthesized.
Xenon (general) Xenon (in Greek Ξενων) was an officer in the service of Antiochus III the Great (223–187 BC), who was sent, together with Theodotus Hemiolius, against Molon in 221 BC. They retired before Molon under the shelter of the towns.
Xenon (processor) Xenon is a CPU that is used in the Xbox 360 game console.IBM press release: IBM delivers Power-based chip for Microsoft Xbox 360 worldwide launch, San Jose, CA, 25 October 2005 The processor, codenamed "Waternoose" by IBM"Learning from failure - The inside story on how IBM out-foxed Intel with the Xbox 360", Dean Takahashi, Electronic Business, May 1 2006 and "XCPU" by Microsoft is based on IBM's PowerPC technology, consisting of 3 independent cores on a single chip.
Xenon (X) The Xenon are a fictional race in the X computer game series developed by Egosoft. They are a robotic ships which seem to be slowly developing a sense of self awareness, consciousness and understanding although they still go by the policy, if it moves, shoot it.
Xenon 2 Megablast Xenon 2 Megablast is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive and Acorn Archimedes computer platforms. The sequel to Xenon, it was developed by the Bitmap Brothers and became one of their most well-known titles, and is a classic of its genre.
Xenon hexafluoroplatinate Xenon hexafluoroplatinate is the description of the product obtained when the chemical reactivity of noble gas was first demonstrated. The material was synthesized at the University of British Columbia by Neil Bartlett in 1962, giving evidence that noble gases can form chemical compounds.
Xenon oxytetrafluoride Xenon Oxytetrafluoride (XeOF4) is an inorganic chemical compound. As are all xenon compounds, it is extremely reactive and unstable, and hydrolyses in water to give dangerously hazardous and corrosive products:
Xenophage The Xenophage (also known as the Phage) is a giant, sentient intelligent alien monster, a comic book supervillain of the Marvel Universe, and an enemy of Venom. Its first full appearance was in issue four of Venom the Hunted.
Xenophanes Xenophanes of Colophon (Greek , Xenophánes; 570 – 480 BC) was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Our knowledge of his views comes from his surviving poetry, all of which are fragments passed down as quotations by later Greek writers.
Xenophidia Xenophidia is a superfamily of the suborder Serpentes (snakes) that contains cobras, vipers, sea snakes and the majority of snake species. Almost all venomous snakes belong to this superfamily which is considered to be advanced from an evolutionary point of view.
Xenophobe's Guides The Xenophobe's Guide books are a series of short books that aim to give the reader the most important information about a country or region in a humorous way. They briefly describe its culture and history and something of the values held by its people under headings like "Business", "Language", etc.
Xenophobia Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown. It comes from the Greek words ÎľÎνος (xenos), meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear.
Xenophobia in Japan (WWII) Xenophobia in Japan, including attacks against Western foreigners and their Japanese friends by ordinary citizens, rose in the 1930s under the influence of Japanese military-political doctrines in the Showa period, after a long build-up starting in the Meiji period when only a few samurai die-hards did not accept foreigners in their country.
Xenophon Xenophon (In Greek , c. 427–355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates and is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece.
Xenophon (crater) Xenophon is a small lunar crater that lies across the southern rim of the Fermi walled-plain, to the west of the Tsiolkovskiy crater. South of Xenophon is 'Zhiritskiy F', a satellite crater of Zhiritskiy to the south-southwest.
Xenophyophore Xenophyophores are marine protozoans, giant single-celled organisms found throughout the world's oceans, but in their greatest numbers on the abyssal plains of the deep ocean. They were first described as sponges in 1889, then as testate amoeboids, and later as their own phylum of Protista.
Xenos (Greek) Xenos (Greek ÎľÎνος, xĂ©nos, plural xenoi) is a word used in ancient Greek from Homer onwards that has a wide gradient of meaning, signifying such divergent concepts as “enemy stranger” as well as “ritual friend”.
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht is a console role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 and the first title in the Xenosaga series. Der Wille zur Macht, literally "The Will to Power," is a reference to Nietzsche's so-named concept of an assumed rudimentary a-teleological force that elicits all activity stinted to existence itself.
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse is a RPG for the PlayStation 2 and the second title in the Xenosaga series. Jenseits von Gut und Böse, literally "Beyond Good and Evil", is taken from a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche of the same name.
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is an RPG for the PlayStation 2, it is the third and final game in the primary Xenosaga trilogy. Also sprach Zarathustra, literally "Thus spoke Zarathustra," is also the title of Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous work, which introduced the concept of the Ăśbermensch and popularized the phrase "God is dead.
Xenosaga: The Animation is a 12-episode anime television series by Toei Animation, which premiered on TV Asahi in Japan on January 5, 2005. The series is based on the PlayStation 2 game Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, with several changes to the storyline, including omissions (Jr.
Xenotime Xenotime (from the Greek words xenos, "foreign", and time, "honour") is a rare yttrium phosphate mineral whose chemical formula is YPO4. It forms a solid solution series with chernovite-(Y) (YAsO4) and therefore may contain trace impurities of arsenic, as well as silicon dioxide and calcium; the rare earths dysprosium, erbium, terbium, thorium, uranium, ytterbium; and zirconium (all replacing yttrium): Due to uranium and thorium impurities, some xenotime specimens may be weakly to strongly radioactive.
Xenotronium Xenotronium is a fictional metal alloy in the computer game Master of Orion II. Stronger than any other hull material available to the player (through the standard tech-tree), a ship with Xenotronium-hulled automatically receives the benefits of heavy armor.
Xenoturbella Xenoturbella is a genus of bilaterian animals; it contains two marine worm-like species. Its taxonomic position has been considered enigmatic since its discovery in 1949, but a 2003 DNA study has positioned it as a primitive deuterostome outside the established phyla (Bourlat et al.
Xenpak The XENPAK Multisource Agreement (MSA), instigated by Agilent Technologies and Agere Systems, defines a fiber-optic transceiver module which conforms to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) standard as laid down by the IEEE 802.3ae.
Xentrix Xentrix is a British thrash metal band of the late 1980s/early 1990s hailing from Preston, Lancashire, Xentrix were one the more promising acts in a rather saturated market at the time. Although they toured hard and produced a well-received and critically acclaimed debut in Shattered Existence, they never achieved a high status.
Xenu In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (also Xemu) was the alien dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of aliens to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today.
Xenusion Xenusion is a possible very primitive arthropod/onychophore known from two specimens found in glacial debris in Germany. They probably originated in the Kalmarsund Sandstone of Southern Sweden (Jaeger and Martinsson 1966) and are probably late Neoproterozoic.
Xeon (emulator) Xeon is an Xbox emulator released for the Microsoft Windows operating system on April 25, 2003. The emulator is currently only capable of running Halo (NTSC distribution) with varied success from total inoperability to an Xbox-comparable success.
Xero (comics) Xero (usually lettered as Xerø, with the final character mimicking the representation of the numeral 0 on computer displays) is a comic book character created by Christopher Priest and ChrisCross, the title character of a 12-issue series published by DC Comics in 1997-1998.
Xero (SF fanzine) Xero was a science fiction fanzine edited and published from 1960 to 1963 by Dick Lupoff, Pat Lupoff and Bhob Stewart. With a main focus on science fiction and comic books, Xero also featured essays, satire, articles, poetry, artwork and cartoons on a wide range of other topics.
Xerophile Xerophiles are extremophilic organisms that can grow and reproduce in conditions with a low availability of water, also known as water activity. Water activity (aw) is a measure of the amount of water within a substrate that an organism can use to support growth.
Xerophyte A xerophyte is an organism that has adaptations to enable it to get through, or even thrive, in areas with very little free moisture. Xerophytes occur in all kind of environments, including some where water is present.
Xerorchis Xerorchis (from Greek xeros, dry, and orchis, testicle-shaped) is a genus in the subfamily Epidendroideae, which belongs to the Orchidaceae family. This is a very primitive genus consisting of terrestrial orchids.
Xerox 914 The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier which in 1959 revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical.
Xerox art Xerox art (sometimes, more generically, called electrostatic art or copy art) is created by putting objects on the glass, or image area, of a copying machine, and by pressing "start," making an image. If the object is not flat, or the cover does not totally cover the object, the image is distorted in some way.
Xerox Alto The Xerox Alto, developed at Xerox PARC in 1973, was an early minicomputer and the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). While often cited as the first personal computer, some earlier systems like the Datapoint 2200 fit the term at least as well.
Xerox Docushare DocuShare, part of the Xerox Corporation, provides a Web-based enterprise content management solution providing sophisticated functionality, with an efficient pay-as-you-go model that with scaling, modular extensibility, and flexible payments supporting a lower TCO than most.
Xerox Network Services Xerox Network Services (commonly XNS) was a protocol suite promulgated by Xerox, which provided routing and packet delivery, as well as higher level functions such as a reliable stream, and remote procedure calls. It is the canonical local area networking protocol, copied to some degree by practically all networking systems used in the 1980s and 90s.
Xerox parc map viewer Developed at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) of the Xerox Corporation by Steve Putz in 1994, the Xerox PARC Map Viewer was one of the earliest static web mapping websites. Xerox PARC Map Viewer was an experiment in providing interactive information retrieval, rather than access to just static files, on the World Wide Web (Putz 1994).
Xerox PARC Map Viewer Developed at the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) of the Xerox Corporation by Steve Putz in 1994, the Xerox PARC Map Viewer was one of the earliest static web mapping websites. Xerox PARC Map Viewer was an experiment in providing interactive information retrieval, rather than access to just static files, on the World Wide Web (Putz 1994).
Xerox Star The Star workstation, officially known as the 8010 Star Information System, was introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1981. It was the first commercial system to incorporate various technologies that today have become commonplace in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse, Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers and e-mail.
Xetec Xetec was founded in 1983 by Jon Flickinger, and was located in Salina, KS. Before closing in 1995, the company produced many third-party products for the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga, Macintosh, and PC computers.
Xethanol Xethanol is one of the smaller producers of ethanol from corn in the United States, and one of the few developing technology for producing ethanol from cellulose. Ethanol is currently used as a fuel or fuel additive and governmental policies will increase its production from a current level of about 5 billion gallons per year (almost exclusively from corn) to over 20 billion gallons annually (mainly from cellulosic materials).
Xevious 3D/G+ Xevious 3D/G+ is a compilation of the Xevious arcade games for the Sony PlayStation. The main game is Xevious 3D/G, a port of the 3D polygonal scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game but it also includes accurate ports of the arcade games Xevious, Super Xevious and Xevious Arrangement from Namco Classics Collection Volume 1.
Xevious Arrangement Xevious Arrangement (created in 1995) was released as part of the Namco Classics Collection Volume 1 game collection (along with the original Xevious and Super Xevious). The arranged version had improved musics and two dimentional graphics along with different levels.
Xexyz Xexyz is a video game by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System, first released in Japan on August 26, 1988 under the title Kame no Ongaeshi - Urashima Densetsu; it saw a North American release in March, 1990.
Xeyes xeyes is a graphical computer program showing two eyes which follow the cursor movements on the screen as if they were watching it. According to the X Window System manual page, it was initially written by Jeremy Huxtable for the NeWS system and presented at the SIGGRAPH conference in 1988.
XEAK-AM XEAK-AM were the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico, the "Mighty 690." This was one of Southern California's first rock stations.
XEAW-AM XEAW-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station located in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the Rio Grande (RĂo Bravo) from McAllen, Texas, USA. In the 1930s the station came under the control of Dr.
XED-AM XED-AM are the call letters of perhaps the first radio station in Mexico to be considered a border-blaster. XED-AM was originally located at Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and was under the advertising sales management of the International Broadcasting Company.
XEG-AM XEG-AM are the call letters of a famous border-blaster radio station licensed to Monterrey, Nuevo LeĂłn, Mexico. In 1950 the advertising time on XEG came under the control of Harold Schwartz of Chicago who also came to represent XERB-AM near Tijuana/Rosarito, Baja California, the station made famous in the movie American Graffiti.
XELO-AM XELO-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico. At different times these same call letters were also assigned to other Mexican stations based in Nogales (Sonora), Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua), and Piedras Negras (Coahuila).
XEMO-AM XEMO-AM or La Poderosa 860 AM is a Spanish language radio station that has antennas in Tijuana, but on a clear day, the signal can be heard as far away as Los Angeles. The station plays Regional Mexican music and is the only Spanish language AM station in San Diego that broadcasts music that actually reaches a far distance.
XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment aims to construct a next-generation dark matter detector, which will use liquid xenon as the target material for finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The collaboration is lead by Elena Aprile, an astro-physics professor at Columbia University.
XEPRS-AM XEPRS-AM, known as The Mighty XX (formerly the The Mighty 1090), is an American-operated sports talk radio station targeting English-speaking listeners in San Diego. Its signal originates from Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico , and it broadcasts in English out of studios in San Diego.
XERA-AM XERA (1935-1939) are the call letters of a famous border-blaster radio station licensed in September 1935 to Cia Mexicana Radiofusori Fronteriza in Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico. This station was the successor to XER which had been situated at the same location but who transmitter had been dismantled after the station ceased broadcasting in February 1933.
XERB-AM XERB-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to Bob Smith aka Wolfman Jack for the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico. It is the station that was immortalized along with Wolfman Jack in the George Lucas movie American Graffiti.
XERCN-AM XERCN-AM or 1470 Radio Hispana is a radio station licensed to Tijuana with an Spanish News/Talk format. It is owned by San Diego based Uniradio, Inc, with its license and transmitter is owned by a Mexican company.
XERF-AM The call letters XERF-AM are assigned to a licensed border-blaster radio station that was located in Villa Acuña (later renamed Ciudad Acuña) and that was operated under the laws of Mexico. Once world-famous, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of John R.
XEROK (AM) XEROK-AM is an AM (mediumwave) radio station that is a Mexican border-blaster licensed to operate at a power of 150 kW (150,000 watts) on a carrier frequency of 800 kilohertz from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. In the 1970s and into the 1980s, this station was known as "X-Rock 80, The Sun City Rocker" due to its proximity to El Paso, Texas, U.
XESURF-AM XESURF-AM is a Mexican licensed radio station, known on air as Country 540 and 1260, and simulcasts most of its programming in English with Los Angeles radio station KKGO. The transmitter site is located near the toll-road to the west of Tijuana, Mexico, and south of the Otay Mesa border crossing.
XETRA-AM XETRA-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico, with additional studio facilities in Burbank, California. They are a high-power station, with their 77,500 watt signal sometimes reaching as far as the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, but otherwise covering nearly all of Southern California.
XETV-TV XETV-TV or FOX6 is the Fox television station serving the San Diego market. It is licensed to Tijuana, San Diego's Mexican twin city (hence the Mexican call sign), but its studios and offices are located on Ronson Road in San Diego.
XEUS XEUS is the X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy space observatory that is being developed by the European Space Agency as a successor to the successful XMM-Newton X-ray satellite telescope. It consists of a mirror spacecraft that carries a large X-ray telescope, with a mirror area of about 10 m² and an imaging resolution better than 5" for X-ray radiation with an energy of 1 keV.
XEW-TV XEW (Channel 2 analog and Channel 48 digital) is a television station in Mexico. As El Canal de las Estrellas (Spanish for "The channel of the stars"), it is one of the cornerstone stations of Televisa, with affiliate stations all over Mexico.
XEWT-TV XEWT-TV is the television call sign for the Televisa television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Informally called "Tu Canal" (Your Channel), the channel can also be seen in most parts of the San Diego market.
Xekinima - Socialist Internationalist Organisation Xekinima is the Committee for a Workers' International’s Greek section. Its roots can be traced to the mid-1970’s when Greek society was going through major upheavals, and was seen by many as moving to left-radical policies as a result of the collapse of the military dictatorship and the international situation.
Xelhua Xelhua is one of the seven giants in Aztec mythology who escaped the flood by ascending the mountain of Tlaloc in the terrestrial paradise, and afterwards built the Great Pyramid of Cholula. A Dominican monk wrote this account:
Xen Xen is a free virtual machine monitor for IA-32, x86-64, IA-64 and PowerPC architectures. It is software that runs on a host operating system and allows one to run several guest operating systems on top of the host on the same computer hardware at the same time.
Xen (Half-Life) Xen (pronounced "Zen") is the origin of the alien species that appear in the science fiction video game Half-Life (Valve Software, 1998); the expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force (Valve Software and Gearbox Software, 1999); Half-Life: Blue Shift (Valve/Gearbox, 2001); and Half-Life: Decay (Valve/Gearbox, 2001) - as well as many of those that appear in Half-Life 2 (Valve Software, 2004). Xen is sometimes referred to as the border world.
Xen'drik In the Eberron campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Xen'drik is a continent to the south of Khorvaire. Xen'drik's coastline has been mapped but its interior remains largely unexplored, and the continent has a reputation as a land of secrets, danger, and mystery.
Xenacanthus Xenacanthus is a genus of prehistoric sharks, belonging to the family Xenacanthidae and the order Xenacanthida. The first species of the genus lived in the later Devonian period, and they survived until the end of the Triassic, 202 million years ago.
Xenarthra The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals (infraclass Eutheria), extant today only in the Americas. The origins of the order can be traced back as far as the early Tertiary (about 60 million years ago, or only a short time after the end of the dinosaur era).
Xeneizes Xeneizes is an album by the Icelandic Hip hop group Quarashi, released on October 25, 1999 in Iceland (see 1999 in music). Like Quarashi's self titled debut album, Xeneizes was a hit in Quarashi's homeland, topping the Icelandic album charts.
Xenelasia Xenelasia (Greek: ξενηλαĎια) was the title given to a set of laws in ancient Doric Crete and Lacedæmonia that proscribed the inclusion of foreigners and any foreign arts and music into their respective commonwealths.
Xenentodon cancila The needlenose fish, Xenentodon cancila is the sole member of its genus and one of the relatively few needlefish that spends its entire life in freshwater habitats, rarely traveling through brackish or marine waterways. It is known to feed exclusively on small crusteaceans.
Xenharmony Xenharmonic music describes all tuning systems, and music using those systems, that do not use or approximate the common European twelve-tone equal temperament. The term was coined by Ivor Darreg from xenia (Greek ξενία), hospitable, and xenos (Greek ÎľÎνος) foreign.
Xeni Gwet'in First Nation The Xeni Gwet'in First Nation is a First Nations government located in the sothewestern Chilcotin District in the western Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Tsilhqot'in Tribal Council.
Xenia (genus) Xenia is a genus of soft marine coral resembling a mushroom, with "arms" coming out from the top that end in many-fingered "hands". It is unique among corals because of its ability to "pulse" or push water away from the colony with a constant motion.
Xenia (Greek) Xenia (Greek ξενία, xenĂa) is the Greek concept of hospitality and guest-host relations. It is often translated "guest-friendship" (or "ritualized friendship"), because the rituals of hospitality created and expressed a reciprocal relationship between guest and host.
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band Xenis Emputae Travelling Band is a musical endeavour by British multi-instrumentalist Phil Legard. Inspired by the folklore and atmosphere of various locations in the English countryside, XETB plays a blend of ambient electronics and psychedlic folk.
Xenix Xenix was a version of the Unix operating system, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T in the late 1970s. The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) later acquired exclusive rights to the software, and eventually began distributing it as SCO UNIX.
XenMan XenMan is a Xen Hypervisor management tool with a graphical user interface that allows a user to perform the standard set of operations (start, stop, pause, kill, shutdown, reboot, snapshot, etc...) in addition to some higher level operations such as the creation of a guest domain (which includes the creation of the configuration file, the retrieval of appropriate kernels and initial ram disks, as well as the starting of the domain) in one single operation.
XennoBB XennoBB is a free Internet bulletin board written in the PHP scripting language and based on PunBB. To store its data, XennoBB relies on MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite, and it is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Xenoarchaeology Xenoarchaeology is a form of archaeology concerned with the physical remains of past (but not necessarily extinct) alien cultures. These may be found on planets or satellites, in space, the asteroid belt, planetary orbit or Lagrangian points.
Xenobi Studios Xenobi Studios is a small company specializing in computer animation, including independent short films as well as consulting work for films and video games. The key persons are founder Christopher Mullins (3D artist and animator), Aaron Webster (3D artist), and James Anderson (audio).
Xenobiotic A xenobiotic is a chemical which is found in an organism but which is not normally produced or expected to be present in it. It can also cover substances which are present in much higher concentrations than are usual.
Xenocles Xenocles was an Ancient Greek tragedian. Aristophanes calls him an execrable poet and was never tired of ridiculing him; describing, along with his father, Carcinus of Agrigentum, three brothers and a member of the third generation (also called Carcinus), "a whole potful of tragic crabs".
Xenoestrogen Xenoestrogens are synthetic substances that differ from those produced by living organisms and imitate or enhance the effect of estrogens. The estrogenic stimulation is an unintended side-effect of these agents or their metabolites.
Xenoetas Xenoetas (in Greek Ξενoιτας; killed in 221 BC) was an Achaean in the service of the Seleucid king Antiochus the Great; he was despatched by his chief minister Hermeias in command of an army against the rebel satrap of Media, Molon, in 221 BC. This unusual distinction seems greatly to have elated him.
Xenogenesis The Xenogenesis trilogy (currently published as the one volume novel, Lilith's Brood, which was released in 2000) was written by Octavia Butler. The three volumes of this science fiction series were previously collected in the now out of print volume, Xenogenesis.
Xenoglossy Xenoglossy is the paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak a language that he or she could not have acquired by natural means. For example, a person who speaks German fluently and like a native, but has never studied German, been to a German-speaking country, or associated with German-speakers, would be said to exhibit xenoglossy.
Xenochrony Xenochrony, From the Greek words xeno (strange or alien) and chrono (time), is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as late as the early 60s by Frank Zappa. He used this technique to great effect on several albums.
Xenolith A xenolith (Assyrian: 'foreign rock') is a rock fragment which becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and hardening. In geology, the term xenolith is almost exclusively used to describe inclusions in igneous rock during magma emplacement and eruption.
Xenomai Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment.
Xenomania Xenomania are one of the UK's leading pop production houses, put together by writer and producer Brian Higgins. Members of the Xenomania writing and production team include Nick Coler, Giselle Sommerville, Miranda Cooper (who shares
Xenomorph (Alien) A xenomorph is a member of the fictional extraterrestrial species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien film series and its subsidiary literature and video games. The name is derived from the Greek word for "alien form", and was used by a character in the film Aliens as a euphemism to indicate any nonterrestrial lifeform.
Xenomorph (geology) A xenomorph (also: allotriomorph) is a mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals. Xenomorphs are typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions.
Xenon Xenon (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Xe and atomic number 54. A colorless, heavy, odorless noble gas, xenon occurs in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts and was part of the first noble gas compound synthesized.
Xenon (general) Xenon (in Greek Ξενων) was an officer in the service of Antiochus III the Great (223–187 BC), who was sent, together with Theodotus Hemiolius, against Molon in 221 BC. They retired before Molon under the shelter of the towns.
Xenon (processor) Xenon is a CPU that is used in the Xbox 360 game console.IBM press release: IBM delivers Power-based chip for Microsoft Xbox 360 worldwide launch, San Jose, CA, 25 October 2005 The processor, codenamed "Waternoose" by IBM"Learning from failure - The inside story on how IBM out-foxed Intel with the Xbox 360", Dean Takahashi, Electronic Business, May 1 2006 and "XCPU" by Microsoft is based on IBM's PowerPC technology, consisting of 3 independent cores on a single chip.
Xenon (X) The Xenon are a fictional race in the X computer game series developed by Egosoft. They are a robotic ships which seem to be slowly developing a sense of self awareness, consciousness and understanding although they still go by the policy, if it moves, shoot it.
Xenon 2 Megablast Xenon 2 Megablast is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive and Acorn Archimedes computer platforms. The sequel to Xenon, it was developed by the Bitmap Brothers and became one of their most well-known titles, and is a classic of its genre.
Xenon hexafluoroplatinate Xenon hexafluoroplatinate is the description of the product obtained when the chemical reactivity of noble gas was first demonstrated. The material was synthesized at the University of British Columbia by Neil Bartlett in 1962, giving evidence that noble gases can form chemical compounds.
Xenon oxytetrafluoride Xenon Oxytetrafluoride (XeOF4) is an inorganic chemical compound. As are all xenon compounds, it is extremely reactive and unstable, and hydrolyses in water to give dangerously hazardous and corrosive products:
Xenophage The Xenophage (also known as the Phage) is a giant, sentient intelligent alien monster, a comic book supervillain of the Marvel Universe, and an enemy of Venom. Its first full appearance was in issue four of Venom the Hunted.
Xenophanes Xenophanes of Colophon (Greek , Xenophánes; 570 – 480 BC) was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Our knowledge of his views comes from his surviving poetry, all of which are fragments passed down as quotations by later Greek writers.
Xenophidia Xenophidia is a superfamily of the suborder Serpentes (snakes) that contains cobras, vipers, sea snakes and the majority of snake species. Almost all venomous snakes belong to this superfamily which is considered to be advanced from an evolutionary point of view.
Xenophobe's Guides The Xenophobe's Guide books are a series of short books that aim to give the reader the most important information about a country or region in a humorous way. They briefly describe its culture and history and something of the values held by its people under headings like "Business", "Language", etc.
Xenophobia Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown. It comes from the Greek words ÎľÎνος (xenos), meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear.
Xenophobia in Japan (WWII) Xenophobia in Japan, including attacks against Western foreigners and their Japanese friends by ordinary citizens, rose in the 1930s under the influence of Japanese military-political doctrines in the Showa period, after a long build-up starting in the Meiji period when only a few samurai die-hards did not accept foreigners in their country.
Xenophon Xenophon (In Greek , c. 427–355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates and is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece.
Xenophon (crater) Xenophon is a small lunar crater that lies across the southern rim of the Fermi walled-plain, to the west of the Tsiolkovskiy crater. South of Xenophon is 'Zhiritskiy F', a satellite crater of Zhiritskiy to the south-southwest.
Xenophyophore Xenophyophores are marine protozoans, giant single-celled organisms found throughout the world's oceans, but in their greatest numbers on the abyssal plains of the deep ocean. They were first described as sponges in 1889, then as testate amoeboids, and later as their own phylum of Protista.
Xenos (Greek) Xenos (Greek ÎľÎνος, xĂ©nos, plural xenoi) is a word used in ancient Greek from Homer onwards that has a wide gradient of meaning, signifying such divergent concepts as “enemy stranger” as well as “ritual friend”.
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht is a console role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 and the first title in the Xenosaga series. Der Wille zur Macht, literally "The Will to Power," is a reference to Nietzsche's so-named concept of an assumed rudimentary a-teleological force that elicits all activity stinted to existence itself.
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse is a RPG for the PlayStation 2 and the second title in the Xenosaga series. Jenseits von Gut und Böse, literally "Beyond Good and Evil", is taken from a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche of the same name.
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is an RPG for the PlayStation 2, it is the third and final game in the primary Xenosaga trilogy. Also sprach Zarathustra, literally "Thus spoke Zarathustra," is also the title of Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous work, which introduced the concept of the Ăśbermensch and popularized the phrase "God is dead.
Xenosaga: The Animation is a 12-episode anime television series by Toei Animation, which premiered on TV Asahi in Japan on January 5, 2005. The series is based on the PlayStation 2 game Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, with several changes to the storyline, including omissions (Jr.
Xenotime Xenotime (from the Greek words xenos, "foreign", and time, "honour") is a rare yttrium phosphate mineral whose chemical formula is YPO4. It forms a solid solution series with chernovite-(Y) (YAsO4) and therefore may contain trace impurities of arsenic, as well as silicon dioxide and calcium; the rare earths dysprosium, erbium, terbium, thorium, uranium, ytterbium; and zirconium (all replacing yttrium): Due to uranium and thorium impurities, some xenotime specimens may be weakly to strongly radioactive.
Xenotronium Xenotronium is a fictional metal alloy in the computer game Master of Orion II. Stronger than any other hull material available to the player (through the standard tech-tree), a ship with Xenotronium-hulled automatically receives the benefits of heavy armor.
Xenoturbella Xenoturbella is a genus of bilaterian animals; it contains two marine worm-like species. Its taxonomic position has been considered enigmatic since its discovery in 1949, but a 2003 DNA study has positioned it as a primitive deuterostome outside the established phyla (Bourlat et al.
Xenpak The XENPAK Multisource Agreement (MSA), instigated by Agilent Technologies and Agere Systems, defines a fiber-optic transceiver module which conforms to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) standard as laid down by the IEEE 802.3ae.
Xentrix Xentrix is a British thrash metal band of the late 1980s/early 1990s hailing from Preston, Lancashire, Xentrix were one the more promising acts in a rather saturated market at the time. Although they toured hard and produced a well-received and critically acclaimed debut in Shattered Existence, they never achieved a high status.
Xenu In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (also Xemu) was the alien dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of aliens to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today.
Xenusion Xenusion is a possible very primitive arthropod/onychophore known from two specimens found in glacial debris in Germany. They probably originated in the Kalmarsund Sandstone of Southern Sweden (Jaeger and Martinsson 1966) and are probably late Neoproterozoic.
Xeon (emulator) Xeon is an Xbox emulator released for the Microsoft Windows operating system on April 25, 2003. The emulator is currently only capable of running Halo (NTSC distribution) with varied success from total inoperability to an Xbox-comparable success.
Xero (comics) Xero (usually lettered as Xerø, with the final character mimicking the representation of the numeral 0 on computer displays) is a comic book character created by Christopher Priest and ChrisCross, the title character of a 12-issue series published by DC Comics in 1997-1998.
Xero (SF fanzine) Xero was a science fiction fanzine edited and published from 1960 to 1963 by Dick Lupoff, Pat Lupoff and Bhob Stewart. With a main focus on science fiction and comic books, Xero also featured essays, satire, articles, poetry, artwork and cartoons on a wide range of other topics.
Xerophile Xerophiles are extremophilic organisms that can grow and reproduce in conditions with a low availability of water, also known as water activity. Water activity (aw) is a measure of the amount of water within a substrate that an organism can use to support growth.
Xerophyte A xerophyte is an organism that has adaptations to enable it to get through, or even thrive, in areas with very little free moisture. Xerophytes occur in all kind of environments, including some where water is present.
Xerorchis Xerorchis (from Greek xeros, dry, and orchis, testicle-shaped) is a genus in the subfamily Epidendroideae, which belongs to the Orchidaceae family. This is a very primitive genus consisting of terrestrial orchids.
Xerox 914 The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier which in 1959 revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical.
Xerox art Xerox art (sometimes, more generically, called electrostatic art or copy art) is created by putting objects on the glass, or image area, of a copying machine, and by pressing "start," making an image. If the object is not flat, or the cover does not totally cover the object, the image is distorted in some way.
Xerox Alto The Xerox Alto, developed at Xerox PARC in 1973, was an early minicomputer and the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). While often cited as the first personal computer, some earlier systems like the Datapoint 2200 fit the term at least as well.
Xerox Docushare DocuShare, part of the Xerox Corporation, provides a Web-based enterprise content management solution providing sophisticated functionality, with an efficient pay-as-you-go model that with scaling, modular extensibility, and flexible payments supporting a lower TCO than most.
Xerox Network Services Xerox Network Services (commonly XNS) was a protocol suite promulgated by Xerox, which provided routing and packet delivery, as well as higher level functions such as a reliable stream, and remote procedure calls. It is the canonical local area networking protocol, copied to some degree by practically all networking systems used in the 1980s and 90s.
Xerox parc map viewer Developed at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) of the Xerox Corporation by Steve Putz in 1994, the Xerox PARC Map Viewer was one of the earliest static web mapping websites. Xerox PARC Map Viewer was an experiment in providing interactive information retrieval, rather than access to just static files, on the World Wide Web (Putz 1994).
Xerox PARC Map Viewer Developed at the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) of the Xerox Corporation by Steve Putz in 1994, the Xerox PARC Map Viewer was one of the earliest static web mapping websites. Xerox PARC Map Viewer was an experiment in providing interactive information retrieval, rather than access to just static files, on the World Wide Web (Putz 1994).
Xerox Star The Star workstation, officially known as the 8010 Star Information System, was introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1981. It was the first commercial system to incorporate various technologies that today have become commonplace in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse, Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers and e-mail.
Xetec Xetec was founded in 1983 by Jon Flickinger, and was located in Salina, KS. Before closing in 1995, the company produced many third-party products for the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga, Macintosh, and PC computers.
Xethanol Xethanol is one of the smaller producers of ethanol from corn in the United States, and one of the few developing technology for producing ethanol from cellulose. Ethanol is currently used as a fuel or fuel additive and governmental policies will increase its production from a current level of about 5 billion gallons per year (almost exclusively from corn) to over 20 billion gallons annually (mainly from cellulosic materials).
Xevious 3D/G+ Xevious 3D/G+ is a compilation of the Xevious arcade games for the Sony PlayStation. The main game is Xevious 3D/G, a port of the 3D polygonal scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game but it also includes accurate ports of the arcade games Xevious, Super Xevious and Xevious Arrangement from Namco Classics Collection Volume 1.
Xevious Arrangement Xevious Arrangement (created in 1995) was released as part of the Namco Classics Collection Volume 1 game collection (along with the original Xevious and Super Xevious). The arranged version had improved musics and two dimentional graphics along with different levels.
Xexyz Xexyz is a video game by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System, first released in Japan on August 26, 1988 under the title Kame no Ongaeshi - Urashima Densetsu; it saw a North American release in March, 1990.
Xeyes xeyes is a graphical computer program showing two eyes which follow the cursor movements on the screen as if they were watching it. According to the X Window System manual page, it was initially written by Jeremy Huxtable for the NeWS system and presented at the SIGGRAPH conference in 1988.
XEAK-AM XEAK-AM were the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico, the "Mighty 690." This was one of Southern California's first rock stations.
XEAW-AM XEAW-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station located in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the Rio Grande (RĂo Bravo) from McAllen, Texas, USA. In the 1930s the station came under the control of Dr.
XED-AM XED-AM are the call letters of perhaps the first radio station in Mexico to be considered a border-blaster. XED-AM was originally located at Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and was under the advertising sales management of the International Broadcasting Company.
XEG-AM XEG-AM are the call letters of a famous border-blaster radio station licensed to Monterrey, Nuevo LeĂłn, Mexico. In 1950 the advertising time on XEG came under the control of Harold Schwartz of Chicago who also came to represent XERB-AM near Tijuana/Rosarito, Baja California, the station made famous in the movie American Graffiti.
XELO-AM XELO-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico. At different times these same call letters were also assigned to other Mexican stations based in Nogales (Sonora), Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua), and Piedras Negras (Coahuila).
XEMO-AM XEMO-AM or La Poderosa 860 AM is a Spanish language radio station that has antennas in Tijuana, but on a clear day, the signal can be heard as far away as Los Angeles. The station plays Regional Mexican music and is the only Spanish language AM station in San Diego that broadcasts music that actually reaches a far distance.
XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment aims to construct a next-generation dark matter detector, which will use liquid xenon as the target material for finding Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The collaboration is lead by Elena Aprile, an astro-physics professor at Columbia University.
XEPRS-AM XEPRS-AM, known as The Mighty XX (formerly the The Mighty 1090), is an American-operated sports talk radio station targeting English-speaking listeners in San Diego. Its signal originates from Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico , and it broadcasts in English out of studios in San Diego.
XERA-AM XERA (1935-1939) are the call letters of a famous border-blaster radio station licensed in September 1935 to Cia Mexicana Radiofusori Fronteriza in Villa Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico. This station was the successor to XER which had been situated at the same location but who transmitter had been dismantled after the station ceased broadcasting in February 1933.
XERB-AM XERB-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to Bob Smith aka Wolfman Jack for the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico. It is the station that was immortalized along with Wolfman Jack in the George Lucas movie American Graffiti.
XERCN-AM XERCN-AM or 1470 Radio Hispana is a radio station licensed to Tijuana with an Spanish News/Talk format. It is owned by San Diego based Uniradio, Inc, with its license and transmitter is owned by a Mexican company.
XERF-AM The call letters XERF-AM are assigned to a licensed border-blaster radio station that was located in Villa Acuña (later renamed Ciudad Acuña) and that was operated under the laws of Mexico. Once world-famous, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of John R.
XEROK (AM) XEROK-AM is an AM (mediumwave) radio station that is a Mexican border-blaster licensed to operate at a power of 150 kW (150,000 watts) on a carrier frequency of 800 kilohertz from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. In the 1970s and into the 1980s, this station was known as "X-Rock 80, The Sun City Rocker" due to its proximity to El Paso, Texas, U.
XESURF-AM XESURF-AM is a Mexican licensed radio station, known on air as Country 540 and 1260, and simulcasts most of its programming in English with Los Angeles radio station KKGO. The transmitter site is located near the toll-road to the west of Tijuana, Mexico, and south of the Otay Mesa border crossing.
XETRA-AM XETRA-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico, with additional studio facilities in Burbank, California. They are a high-power station, with their 77,500 watt signal sometimes reaching as far as the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, but otherwise covering nearly all of Southern California.
XETV-TV XETV-TV or FOX6 is the Fox television station serving the San Diego market. It is licensed to Tijuana, San Diego's Mexican twin city (hence the Mexican call sign), but its studios and offices are located on Ronson Road in San Diego.
XEUS XEUS is the X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy space observatory that is being developed by the European Space Agency as a successor to the successful XMM-Newton X-ray satellite telescope. It consists of a mirror spacecraft that carries a large X-ray telescope, with a mirror area of about 10 m² and an imaging resolution better than 5" for X-ray radiation with an energy of 1 keV.
XEW-TV XEW (Channel 2 analog and Channel 48 digital) is a television station in Mexico. As El Canal de las Estrellas (Spanish for "The channel of the stars"), it is one of the cornerstone stations of Televisa, with affiliate stations all over Mexico.
XEWT-TV XEWT-TV is the television call sign for the Televisa television station in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Informally called "Tu Canal" (Your Channel), the channel can also be seen in most parts of the San Diego market.
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