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Xpress 200 The Xpress 200 is a computer chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors (Socket 939 and 754) as well as supporting Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D and Celeron processors (LGA775 and Socket 478).
Xpress 400 Xpress 400 was a plan for tolled express lanes on Interstate 4 through Orlando, Florida, to supplement the four free lanes in each direction. The lanes, two in each direction, would stretch roughly from Longwood to Universal Orlando.
Xpress Radio Xpress Radio is a student radio station based in Cardiff, founded in 1996, mainly run by the students of Cardiff University, current station manager being Syd Lawrence, operating from a small studio and editing suite on the fourth floor of the Students' Union building.
Xpress Transport Protocol Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP) is a transport layer protocol for high-speed networks promoted by the XTP Forum developed to replace TCP. XTP provides protocol options for error control, flow control, and rate control.
Xpress-MP Xpress-MP is a suite of mathematical modeling and optimization tools by Dash used to solve linear, integer, quadratic, non-linear, and stochastic programming problems. Xpress-MP is being developed by Dash Optimization.
Xpression FM Xpression FM (Formally URE until 2001) is the Student radio station of the University of Exeter. In 2001 URE obtained one of a few LPFM (low power FM) licences which led to the renaming of the station to Xpression FM.
XpressMusic XpressMusic is shorthand for a set of features and capabilities across a number of Nokia´s Music Focused and Music Driven handsets. This logo is a method of helping consumers identify and navigate Nokia´s music-related offering and provide a reassurance of the music experience they will receive.
XP-55 Ascender The XP-55 Ascender (Curtiss Model 249C), was a prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss. Along with the XP-54 and XP-56, it resulted from Army Air Corps proposal R-40C issued on November 27, 1939 calling for unconventional aircraft designs.
XP-68 Tornado Vultee XP-68 Tornado was proposed American high-altitude interceptor aircraft. It was based on the XP-54 Swoose Goose powered by the Wright R-2160 42-cylinder radial engine driving a set of contra-rotating propellers.
XPaint XPaint is a color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports most of the common formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
XPBB Sea Ranger The Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger was a prototype twin-engined flying boat Patrol Bomber built for the United States Navy. While a production order for some 500 aircraft was awarded to Boeing in 1941, the order was canceled in 1942 so that the plant could be used to build United States Army Air Corps bombers.
XPDL The XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is a format standardized by the Workflow Management Coalition to interchange Business Process definitions between different workflow products like modeling tools and workflow engines.
XPenguins XPenguins is an X Window System program that shows an animation of various penguins involved in various activities, such as reading, falling, digging, skating, etc. The program moves the penguins around as if the windows were solid objects the penguins could stay, walk, or skate on.
XPInstall XPInstall (Cross-Platform Install) is a technology used by Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and other XUL-based applications for installing Mozilla extensions that add functionality to the main application.
XPlorer XPlorer is a freeware Windows Explorer software program alternative including tabbed browsing, making it possible to have several locations open at the same time in one window. Other notable advantages include fast program execution, small application size and quick startup time.
XPLite XPLite is a program produced by Shane Brooks based on 98lite which removes components of the Windows operating system that Microsoft has chosen not to be removable, including Out-Of-Box Experience, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, and others. It also allows tweaks to the OS to further increase its performance.
XPN (newsreader) XPN (X Python Newsreader) is a news client written in Python and based on the GTK+ library. It offers a good MIME support, scoring system, filtered views, random tag-lines, external editor support, one-key navigation, ROT13, Face and X-Face headers decoding, spoiler char and many more.
XPostFacto XPostFacto is an open-source utility that enables the installation of versions of Mac OS X on some Apple Macintosh systems that are not officially supported for them by Apple. It enables a user to install early versions of OS X on some pre-G3 PowerPC-based Macs which were never supported by Apple for this operating system (sometimes with incomplete functionality), and to install more recent versions of OS X on hardware which was supported for earlier versions of OS X.
XPTO The expression "XPTO" is an old abbreviation of the word "ΧĎÎąĎĎ„ĎŚĎ‚", written "ChristĂłs" (Christ, in greek). The letters X (chi), Ď (rho), Ď„ (tau) and ĎŚ (omega) were selected and capitalized (except the "X") to form the abbreviaton.
XPW Television Championship The XPW Television Championship was introduced in 2001 by Xtreme Pro Wrestling and the champion was decided in a one night tournament at XPW's Damage Inc. event, which featured competitors such as Konnan, Johnny Webb, Kid Kaos, Dynamite D and Vic Grimes.
Xq28 Xq28 is a genetic marker on the X chromosome found by Dean Hamer and others in 1993. Hamer's study found a link between the Xq28 marker and male homosexualityHamer, Hu, Magnuson, Hu and Pattatucci (1993) A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation.
Xquic Xquic (alternatively, Ixquic, sometimes glossed as "Blood Moon" or "Blood Girl/Maiden" in English) is a mythological figure known from the 16th century Quiché Maya manuscript Popol Vuh. She was the daughter of Cuchumaquic, one of the lords of Xibalba, the Maya Underworld.
Xrefer Xrefer offers subscription-based online reference content. It provides online versions of 200+ published reference works from over 50 publishers, including general and specialist dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Xroshtag and Padvaxtag Xroshtag and Padvaxtag are a pair of Manichaean divinities, always depicted together, who serve as the personifications of the words "call" and "answer". The call is uttered from above by the "living spirit", and is answered from below by the man who wishes to be saved.
XRandR Xrandr is a simple library designed to interface the X Resize and Rotate Extension. This allows clients to change the size and rotation of the root window of a screen, along with the ability to reflect the screen about either axis (if supported by the implementation).
XRAY Model Racing Cars XRAY Model Racing Cars, otherwise known as XRAY was founded by Slovak engineer Juraj Hudy in 2000. Hudy had been making his own model racing cars, mostly gas driven, at home in his garage since the early 1970s.
XRS XRS, aka XRS Land, is one of several pseudonyms of Xerxes de Oliveira, a drum and bass producer from Brazil. He is well known in the Brazilian drum and bass scene due to the large number of live PAs he has performed throughout Brazil.
XRules XRules is an XML rules language that expresses constraints, calculations, interdependencies, and properties that describe and exist among elements and attributes of an XML document. XRules can be used to validate business rules in an XML transaction, attach metadata to the XML Infoset, or add dynamism to XML by using the Dynamic DOM.
Xscape (band) Xscape is a female American R&B quartet that had a string of hit songs during the early and mid 1990s and they are Grammy winners. The original lineup of the group consisted of sisters LaTocha Scott ("Meatball") (born October 2, 1973) and Tamika Scott ("Juicy") (born November 19, 1975), along with Kandi Burruss ("Kandi")(born May 17, 1976) and Tameka Cottle ("Tiny") (born July 14, 1975).
Xscape (building) Xscape buildings (named after the company that developed them) are large, strikingly designed and unusually shaped buildings. Typically they contain a real snow indoor ski slope, leisure facilities and related shops.
Xscape (song) "Xscape" is a song by Michael Jackson, originally recorded from 1999 to 2001 by Michael Jackson and Darkchild for the album Invincible, but was later removed from the final track listing. It was edited around January 2003, scheduled for an upcoming release.
Xsnow Xsnow is a desktop toy that was originally created as a virtual greeting card for Macintosh systems back in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the X Window System as Xsnow, and was included on a number of Linux distributions in the late 1990s.
Xsun Xsun is an X Window System (X11) implementation included with the Solaris Operating System, developed by Sun Microsystems. It replaced the older "Xnews" server, which supported the display of not only X11 applications, but also NeWS and SunView programs.
XS Energy Drink XS Energy Drink is an energy drink manufactured by a California-based company Logic Nutrition. The product is exclusively distributed and sold by Quixtar in North America and Amway in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
XSB XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.
XScale The XScale, a microprocessor core, is Intel's implementation of the 5th generation of the ARM architecture, and consists of several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP and PXA (see more below). The PXA family was sold to Marvell Technology Group in June 2006.
XScope xScope is a utility by The Iconfactory & ARTIS Software that can measure any element displayed on screen. The idea behind the program is that designers can check the size of their work against real-world computer display measurements and be able to measure their work as well.
XSL Formatting Objects XSL Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is an XML markup language for document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs. XSL-FO is part of XSL, a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data.
Xtabay Xtabay litterally means 'Female Ensnarer' and can refer to (1) a basically Mesoamerican demon who seduces and kills, and (2) a female deity of the hunt, on a par with the male Ah Tabay. The Xtabay is not to be confused with Ix-Tab, a 16th-century Yucatecan goddess of suicides.
Xterm In Unix computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it (normally the process is a Unix shell).
Xtracycle An Xtracycle or Xtrabike is a variety of load-carrying bicycle. An Xtracycle may be constructed by modifying an existing bicycle with an extension called a Free Radical,Xtracycle LLC manufactures the Free Radical kit and associated accessories.
Xtradyne Xtradyne is the product line of application/middleware level security gateways of PrismTech, a specialized manufacturer of software infrastructure for enterprises. Xtradyne Technologies was an independent company that has been acquired by PrismTech in 2004.
XtraJet XtraJet is a "full service" charter airline company based in Santa Monica, California. XtraJet was not well known outside of the industry until after it was sued for activities that happened while transporting Michael Jackson in 2003.
XtraMart XtraMart is a large convienence store chain in the northeast United States. Operating stores primarily in Connecticut, but can be found from Maine down to Virginia, they also operate their own brand of fuel, called XtraFuel.
Xtraview Encryption System Xtraview is a trademark of Top Up TV. The Xtraview Video Encryption System refers to the patented "encryption" system used on the the now-defunct Xtraview channel and a number of other Top Up TV services including Setanta Sports, Television X and Red Hot TV.
Xtreme 4x4 Xtreme 4x4 is a half hour series that airs on Spike TV that began in January 2005 as part of Spike's weekend Powerblock line up. The show uses a how-to format, where the hosts build or modify trucks to turn them into hardcore off-road rigs.
Xtreme Pro Wrestling Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) was an independent professional wrestling promotion which was owned by Rob Zicari, who alongside his wife, Janet Romano, appeared on shows as the owner of the company under the name of Rob Black. The promotion focused on hardcore wrestling and had connections to the Los Angeles porn industry.
Xtro Xtro is a low-budget British science fiction/horror film made in 1983 and directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and co-produced by Bob Shaye. Its simple plot details the unexpected return to Earth of a devoted family man who was abducted by aliens three years ago, and now possesses unearthly powers.
XTalk * In real life: Club of friends in Zurich, Switzerland: Founded in 2005, among many other topics, xTalk - or crosstalk- deals with a question which has been popping up again and again over the last decades: “How do I build myself a nice house, with Jacuzzi, nice Spa, exclusive Japanese garden, newest multi-media installations on a property which does not loose but rather increasing its value in the future and all this without large capital, i.e.
XTEA In cryptography, XTEA (eXtended TEA) is a block cipher designed to correct weaknesses in TEA. The cipher's designers were David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and the algorithm was presented in an unpublished technical report in 1997 (Needham and Wheeler, 1997).
XTM XTM, which consists of Spanish brothers Xasqui and Toni Ten, are a dance music act best known for their UK 2003 single "Fly On The Wings Of Love", which reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart and featured a fully CG animated video. The single featured DJ Chucky and the vocalist Annia.
XTND XTND was a document import/export system developed by Claris for their products on the Apple Macintosh. Products supporting XTND placed an additional popup menu in the open and save dialogs, allowing users to read and write documents from any supported format.
Xu Beihong Xu Beihong () (July 19, 1895 - September 26, 1953) (born in Yixing, Jiangsu) was a Chinese painter. Considered a modern master in China, his merging of Western techniques with classic Chinese approaches was unmatched.
Xu Da Xu Da (ĺľé”) (1332—1385) was a talented general whom help found the Ming Dynasty. Prior to being a good friend of the first Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, he was also the father-in-law of the third Ming emperor, the Yongle Emperor.
Xu Dunqui Ming Xu Dunqiu Ming was a Chinese writer during the Ming dynasty. His 1610 essay <I> The Changing Times </I> included the following excerpt about the commercial city of Hangzhou: "In the past, the dye shops would allow customers to have several dozen pieces of cloth dyed before settling accounts and charging the customers.
Xu Huang Xu Huang (169 – 227) was a prominent general under the powerful warlord Cao Cao and his successor Cao Pi during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in ancient China. He was most noted for breaking the siege on the city of Fancheng (樊城, a district of present day Xiangfan, Hubei) in 219.
Xu Jun Xu Jun (ĺľäżŠ) (born September 17, 1962 in Suzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. Once in the world's top hundred, in the April 2005 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2582, making him China's number eight.
Xu Mian Xu Mian (ĺľĺ‹‰) (466-535), courtesy name Xiuren (č„©ä»), formally Duke Jiansu (簡肅公, literally "the undiscriminating and solemn duke"), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty. He was never titular prime minister, but was largely considered a de facto prime minister and well-regarded by his contemporaries.
Xu Miao Xu Miao a minister of the Three Kingdoms Period that was the protector of Liang during the First Northern Campaign. Miao was known as quite an avid drinker, breaking the prohibition law at one time, but cleverly managed to explain his way out of it.
Xu Ning Xu Ning (ĺľĺ®), nicknamed the 'Metal Lancer' (金枪手), was yet another former imperial military drill instructor who joined the Liangshan heroes in the Water Margin. He stood at about 6 feet, had a fair face, a thin dark beard, and a wide waist.
Xu Shichang XĂş ShìchÄng (Pinyin) (Chinese: ĺľä¸–ćŚ,Courtesy name Ju-ren 菊人) or HsĂĽ Shih-ch'ang (Wade-Giles) (October 20, 1855-June 5, 1939) was President of the Republic of China (Beijing government) from October 10, 1918 to June 2, 1922.
Xu Shuzheng Xu Shuzheng () (1880 – 29 December 1925), was a Chinese warlord in Republican China. A subordinate and right-hand man of Duan Qirui, he was the leader of the Chinese military expedition that invaded Mongolia in 1919 and temporarily brought Mongolia back under Chinese control.
Xu Wei XĂş Wèi (ĺľć¸) (1521 - 1593) was a Ming Chinese painter famed for his rapid and expressive strokes. Revolutionary for its time, his painting style influenced and inspired countless subsequent painters, such as Zhu Da, the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and the modern master Qi Baishi, who once exclaimed in a poem that "How I wish to be born 300 years earlier so I could grind ink blocks and prepare papers for Green Vine (Xu's sobriquet)" (ć¨ä¸Ťç”źä¸‰ç™ľĺą´ĺ‰ŤďĽŚç‚şéť’藤磨墨ç†ç´™).
Xu Xi Xu Xi (born 1954) is the author of The Unwalled City (2001), Hong Kong Rose (1997), Chinese Walls (1994), Overleaf Hong Kong (2004), History's Fiction (2001) and Daughters of Hui (1996). She is also the Hong Kong regional editor of Routledge's Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literature (second edition, 2005).
Xu Xiake Xu Xiake (ĺľéśžĺ®˘, py. XĂş Xiákè) (January 5, 1587 (day 27 of month 11 in the Chinese calendar) - March 8, 1641 (day 27 of month 1 in the Chinese calendar)) was a descriptive Ming Chinese travel writer and geographer noted for his bravery and humility.
Xu Xianzhi Xu Xianzhi (ĺľçľ¨äą‹) (364-426), courtesy name Zongwen (ĺ®—ć–‡), was a high level official of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song, who, along with his colleagues Fu Liang and Xie Hui, deposed Emperor Shao after the death of Emperor Wu (Liu Yu) due to their belief that Emperor Shao was not fit to be emperor. When Emperor Shao's brother Emperor Wen subsequently wanted to kill him, he committed suicide.
Xu Xing Xu Xing, of the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP) in Beijing, is a famed Chinese paleontologist who has named many dinosaurs, including the new Jurassic Ceratopsian Yinlong and feathered relative of Tyrannosaurus, Guanlong.
Xu Yanwei Xu Yanwei (born June 14, 1984 in Shanghai) is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China, who became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 2000. She competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Xu Yongchang General Xu Yongchang (1889-1959) (; also seen as Hsu Yung-Ch'ang; style name: Cichen) was the Minister of Board of Military Operations of the Republic of China between December 22, 1948 and April 22,1949, and the representative of the Republic of China on September 2 1945 at signing of Instrument of Surrender of Japan that ended World War II.
Xu Zheng Xú Zhěng (, 220 - 265 AD) was a Three Kingdoms (三國) period Daoist author of the "Three Five Historic Records" (, literally: "Three Five Calendar"). The "3-5" refers to the "Three August Ones and Five Emperors" (三皇五帝).
Xu Zhonglin Xu Zhonglin (許仲çł;许仲çł) (dates of birth and death unknown) was born in Nanjing, which was called Ying Tianfu (應天府;应天府) in the Ming dynasty. He was commonly known as the author of Fengshen Yanyi (ĺ°çĄžćĽ”çľ©;ĺ°çĄžćĽ”义) (translated as The Investiture of the Gods or The Creation of the Gods in English).
Xuanda Expressway The Xuanda Expressway (宣大é«é€źĺ…¬č·Ż, Hanyu Pinyin: XuÄndĂ GÄosĂą GĹŤnglĂą; Approximate Pronunciation: "Shuen-Da Expressway"), is an expressway in China which links Xuanhua in Hebei province with Datong in Shanxi province.
Xuancheng Xuancheng () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, People's Republic of China. It borders Wuhu to the northwest, Chizhou to the west, Huangshan to the southwest, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu to the southeast and northeast respectively.
Xuasus Xuasus is the pseudonym of Spanish comicbook artist Juan Jesus Garcia. His chunky, fully-painted style was admired by David Bishop, editor of the Judge Dredd Megazine, in the early 1990's, and the artist was commissioned to work on a number of well-known characters, including Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson, Judge Hershey and the Brit-Cit Brute.
Xuân Diệu Ngô Xuân Diệu (February 2, 1916 – December 18, 1985) more commonly known by the pen name Xuân Diệu, was a prominent Vietnamese poet. A colossal figure in modern Vietnamese literature, he wrote about 450 poems (largely in posthumous manuscripts), several short stories, and many notes, essays, and literary criticisms.
Xubuntu Xubuntu (pronounced like zoo-boon-too) is an official derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system, using the Xfce desktop environment. Xubuntu is intended for users with less-powerful computers or those who seek a highly efficient desktop environment on faster systems.
Xucuru The Xucuru are an indigenous people with a population of approximately 8,500, living in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. They have recently gained governmental recognition of their rights to their indigenous homeland in the Ororubo Mountains, though this has brought them into conflict with the local settler population of the region.
Xue Xue is the pinyin (romanization) of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē); also known as Hsueh in Romanic (Wade-Giles) in oversea Chinese. The family name is carried by the descendant of Meng Chang Jun of fedual state of 薛 in Zhou dynasty.
Xue Jinghua Xue Jinghua (born October 7,1946 ) (Chinese: č–›čŹĺŤŽ; pinyin: XĹ«e JÄ«nghĂşa) is a Chinese ballerina who was cast in the now internationally well-known Red Detachment of Women of the National Ballet of China as Wu Qinghua, the heroine of the ballet for which she became a big-time prima ballerina. The film version of the ballet was released in 1971 in China, five years into the Cultural Revolution.
Xue Juzheng Xue Jucheng (薛居ćŁ)(912-981) was a Chinese scholar-historian who served under the Song Dynasty, as well as four of the Five Dynasties that preceded the Song Dynasty. Xue is best known for compiling the Five Dynasties History 五代史 which was put together in the 960s and 970s.
Xue rengui Li Xue (614~683 AD), whose court name was Rengui, was a famous Chinese general during the Chinese Tang Dynasty. He was born in Longmen (currently known as Hejin in Shanxi Province) and was excellent at horse riding and archery.
Xue Sang Xue Sang (born December 7, 1984) is a Chinese diver who won the gold medal in the Synchronized 10m Platform competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was paired with Na Li and they beat the Canadian team by 33 points.
Xue Xu Xue Xu was a minister of the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms Period of China and the son of Xue Zhong. Xue Xu was at one time dispatched to the Kingdom of Shu, and upon his return he reported the grand misgovernment to Sun Xiu, which misgovernment was due to the fact that the current emperor of Shu,Liu Shan, had the mind of a child and could not truly care for the state.
Xuchang Xuchang () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the northwest, Kaifeng to the northeast, Zhoukou to the east, Luohe to the southeast, and Pingdingshan to the southwest.
Xultun XultĂşn is a very Big Early Classic Site with an area of 16 sq. KM that has among its major features, a Temple 35 mt High, palaces, 2 ball courts, 24 Stelas, the last dated monument is Stela 10 (899 AD), in several Plazas, there 5 Aguadas or water reservoirs, that shows a large population, it is located 40 Km.
Xun Chen Xun Chen (荀諶) the protector of Ji during the Three Kingdoms Period in early Chinese history.The Three Kingdoms period is part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties; refers to the period between the foundation of the Wei in 220 and the conquest of the Wu by the Jin Dynasty in 280.
Xun-1 Training mine Training-1 (č®-1, or Xun-1) training bottom mine is developed by Fengxi Machinery Factory (汾西机器厂) and was accepted into service in November 1982. Training-1 training bottom mine can be used for any training of every bottom mines in the Chinese inventory, as well as minesweeping trainings, and when the training is completed, the high pressure gas valve would be released, and the training bottom mine would float to the surface for recovery.
Xunantunich Xunantunich (shoo-NAHN-too-nich) is a Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. Xunantunich is located atop a ridge above the Mopan River, within sight of the Guatemala border.
Xungen movement The Xungen movement (ĺŻ»ć ą Pinyin: xĂşn gÄ“n), or "Searching for Roots", is a cultural and literary movement on Mainland China that began in the late-1980s and involves an emphasis on local and minority cultures. The premise of the movement is that the Cultural Revolution destroyed Chinese identity, and that to reconstruct it one has to dig into local cultures.
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County Xunhua Salar Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 循化撒拉族自治县; pinyin: Xúnhuà Sǎlázú Zìzhìxià n) lies in the southeast of Haidong Prefecture of the Chinese province of Qinghai, for instance 35.5° northern latitude, 102,3° eastern longitude.
Xunta de Galicia The Xunta de Galicia is the political bureaucracy for the autonomous region of Galicia. According to the Galician Statute of Autonomy, it consists of the president, the vice-president (if necessary), and the specialized ministers (Conselleiros).
Xuthus In Greek mythology, Xuthus (Classical Greek ) was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede.
Xuttuh Xuttuh is the name of the Tleilaxu Master who founded the Bene Tleilax in the Dune universe. It is also the name the Tleilaxu give to Ix, after they forcefully take over the industrialized world in Dune: House Atreides.
Xuxa Xuxa (pronounced shoo-shah - IPA -, born Maria da Graça Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, Spanish, and English languages.
Xuxa (TV series) "Xuxa" was the name of the Brazilian entertainer's self-titled children's television series that ran in syndication in the United States during the 1993-1994 season and was distributed by MTM Enterprises. Today Fox Television Studios owns the rights to all 75 episodes.
Xuxulu Xuxulu (Pronounced shoo-shoo-LOO) is a lesser Macumba and SanterĂa water goddess or spirit (Orixá) associated mainly (but not exclusively) to pools and other places where large amounts of water are held, as well as leisure and the wild forests.
Xuzhou Xuzhou (), known as Pengcheng () in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. It is known for its convenient location as a transportation hub in northern Jiangsu, as it has expressways and railway links connecting directly to the provinces of Henan and Shandong, the neighbouring city of Lianyungang, as well as the economic hub Shanghai.
XU XU was a clandestine intelligence organisation working on behalf of Allied powers in occupied Norway during World War II. Though its work proved invaluable for operations against German operations in Norway, most of its operations, organization, etc, were kept secret until 1988.
XUnit Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. Such frameworks are based on a design by Kent Beck, originally implemented for Smalltalk as SUnit, but are now available for many programming languages and development platforms.
XUpdate XUpdate is a lightweight XML query language for modifying XML data. After some early enthusiastic development by a small team, the development of the standard faltered around the end of 2000 and it has never found widespread adoption.
Xpress 400 Xpress 400 was a plan for tolled express lanes on Interstate 4 through Orlando, Florida, to supplement the four free lanes in each direction. The lanes, two in each direction, would stretch roughly from Longwood to Universal Orlando.
Xpress Radio Xpress Radio is a student radio station based in Cardiff, founded in 1996, mainly run by the students of Cardiff University, current station manager being Syd Lawrence, operating from a small studio and editing suite on the fourth floor of the Students' Union building.
Xpress Transport Protocol Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP) is a transport layer protocol for high-speed networks promoted by the XTP Forum developed to replace TCP. XTP provides protocol options for error control, flow control, and rate control.
Xpress-MP Xpress-MP is a suite of mathematical modeling and optimization tools by Dash used to solve linear, integer, quadratic, non-linear, and stochastic programming problems. Xpress-MP is being developed by Dash Optimization.
Xpression FM Xpression FM (Formally URE until 2001) is the Student radio station of the University of Exeter. In 2001 URE obtained one of a few LPFM (low power FM) licences which led to the renaming of the station to Xpression FM.
XpressMusic XpressMusic is shorthand for a set of features and capabilities across a number of Nokia´s Music Focused and Music Driven handsets. This logo is a method of helping consumers identify and navigate Nokia´s music-related offering and provide a reassurance of the music experience they will receive.
XP-55 Ascender The XP-55 Ascender (Curtiss Model 249C), was a prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss. Along with the XP-54 and XP-56, it resulted from Army Air Corps proposal R-40C issued on November 27, 1939 calling for unconventional aircraft designs.
XP-68 Tornado Vultee XP-68 Tornado was proposed American high-altitude interceptor aircraft. It was based on the XP-54 Swoose Goose powered by the Wright R-2160 42-cylinder radial engine driving a set of contra-rotating propellers.
XPaint XPaint is a color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports most of the common formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, JPEG, etc.
XPBB Sea Ranger The Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger was a prototype twin-engined flying boat Patrol Bomber built for the United States Navy. While a production order for some 500 aircraft was awarded to Boeing in 1941, the order was canceled in 1942 so that the plant could be used to build United States Army Air Corps bombers.
XPDL The XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is a format standardized by the Workflow Management Coalition to interchange Business Process definitions between different workflow products like modeling tools and workflow engines.
XPenguins XPenguins is an X Window System program that shows an animation of various penguins involved in various activities, such as reading, falling, digging, skating, etc. The program moves the penguins around as if the windows were solid objects the penguins could stay, walk, or skate on.
XPInstall XPInstall (Cross-Platform Install) is a technology used by Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and other XUL-based applications for installing Mozilla extensions that add functionality to the main application.
XPlorer XPlorer is a freeware Windows Explorer software program alternative including tabbed browsing, making it possible to have several locations open at the same time in one window. Other notable advantages include fast program execution, small application size and quick startup time.
XPLite XPLite is a program produced by Shane Brooks based on 98lite which removes components of the Windows operating system that Microsoft has chosen not to be removable, including Out-Of-Box Experience, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, and others. It also allows tweaks to the OS to further increase its performance.
XPN (newsreader) XPN (X Python Newsreader) is a news client written in Python and based on the GTK+ library. It offers a good MIME support, scoring system, filtered views, random tag-lines, external editor support, one-key navigation, ROT13, Face and X-Face headers decoding, spoiler char and many more.
XPostFacto XPostFacto is an open-source utility that enables the installation of versions of Mac OS X on some Apple Macintosh systems that are not officially supported for them by Apple. It enables a user to install early versions of OS X on some pre-G3 PowerPC-based Macs which were never supported by Apple for this operating system (sometimes with incomplete functionality), and to install more recent versions of OS X on hardware which was supported for earlier versions of OS X.
XPTO The expression "XPTO" is an old abbreviation of the word "ΧĎÎąĎĎ„ĎŚĎ‚", written "ChristĂłs" (Christ, in greek). The letters X (chi), Ď (rho), Ď„ (tau) and ĎŚ (omega) were selected and capitalized (except the "X") to form the abbreviaton.
XPW Television Championship The XPW Television Championship was introduced in 2001 by Xtreme Pro Wrestling and the champion was decided in a one night tournament at XPW's Damage Inc. event, which featured competitors such as Konnan, Johnny Webb, Kid Kaos, Dynamite D and Vic Grimes.
Xq28 Xq28 is a genetic marker on the X chromosome found by Dean Hamer and others in 1993. Hamer's study found a link between the Xq28 marker and male homosexualityHamer, Hu, Magnuson, Hu and Pattatucci (1993) A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation.
Xquic Xquic (alternatively, Ixquic, sometimes glossed as "Blood Moon" or "Blood Girl/Maiden" in English) is a mythological figure known from the 16th century Quiché Maya manuscript Popol Vuh. She was the daughter of Cuchumaquic, one of the lords of Xibalba, the Maya Underworld.
Xrefer Xrefer offers subscription-based online reference content. It provides online versions of 200+ published reference works from over 50 publishers, including general and specialist dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Xroshtag and Padvaxtag Xroshtag and Padvaxtag are a pair of Manichaean divinities, always depicted together, who serve as the personifications of the words "call" and "answer". The call is uttered from above by the "living spirit", and is answered from below by the man who wishes to be saved.
XRandR Xrandr is a simple library designed to interface the X Resize and Rotate Extension. This allows clients to change the size and rotation of the root window of a screen, along with the ability to reflect the screen about either axis (if supported by the implementation).
XRAY Model Racing Cars XRAY Model Racing Cars, otherwise known as XRAY was founded by Slovak engineer Juraj Hudy in 2000. Hudy had been making his own model racing cars, mostly gas driven, at home in his garage since the early 1970s.
XRS XRS, aka XRS Land, is one of several pseudonyms of Xerxes de Oliveira, a drum and bass producer from Brazil. He is well known in the Brazilian drum and bass scene due to the large number of live PAs he has performed throughout Brazil.
XRules XRules is an XML rules language that expresses constraints, calculations, interdependencies, and properties that describe and exist among elements and attributes of an XML document. XRules can be used to validate business rules in an XML transaction, attach metadata to the XML Infoset, or add dynamism to XML by using the Dynamic DOM.
Xscape (band) Xscape is a female American R&B quartet that had a string of hit songs during the early and mid 1990s and they are Grammy winners. The original lineup of the group consisted of sisters LaTocha Scott ("Meatball") (born October 2, 1973) and Tamika Scott ("Juicy") (born November 19, 1975), along with Kandi Burruss ("Kandi")(born May 17, 1976) and Tameka Cottle ("Tiny") (born July 14, 1975).
Xscape (building) Xscape buildings (named after the company that developed them) are large, strikingly designed and unusually shaped buildings. Typically they contain a real snow indoor ski slope, leisure facilities and related shops.
Xscape (song) "Xscape" is a song by Michael Jackson, originally recorded from 1999 to 2001 by Michael Jackson and Darkchild for the album Invincible, but was later removed from the final track listing. It was edited around January 2003, scheduled for an upcoming release.
Xsnow Xsnow is a desktop toy that was originally created as a virtual greeting card for Macintosh systems back in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the X Window System as Xsnow, and was included on a number of Linux distributions in the late 1990s.
Xsun Xsun is an X Window System (X11) implementation included with the Solaris Operating System, developed by Sun Microsystems. It replaced the older "Xnews" server, which supported the display of not only X11 applications, but also NeWS and SunView programs.
XS Energy Drink XS Energy Drink is an energy drink manufactured by a California-based company Logic Nutrition. The product is exclusively distributed and sold by Quixtar in North America and Amway in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
XSB XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.
XScale The XScale, a microprocessor core, is Intel's implementation of the 5th generation of the ARM architecture, and consists of several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP and PXA (see more below). The PXA family was sold to Marvell Technology Group in June 2006.
XScope xScope is a utility by The Iconfactory & ARTIS Software that can measure any element displayed on screen. The idea behind the program is that designers can check the size of their work against real-world computer display measurements and be able to measure their work as well.
XSL Formatting Objects XSL Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is an XML markup language for document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs. XSL-FO is part of XSL, a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data.
Xtabay Xtabay litterally means 'Female Ensnarer' and can refer to (1) a basically Mesoamerican demon who seduces and kills, and (2) a female deity of the hunt, on a par with the male Ah Tabay. The Xtabay is not to be confused with Ix-Tab, a 16th-century Yucatecan goddess of suicides.
Xterm In Unix computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. A user can have many different invocations of xterm running at once on the same display, each of which provides independent input/output for the process running in it (normally the process is a Unix shell).
Xtracycle An Xtracycle or Xtrabike is a variety of load-carrying bicycle. An Xtracycle may be constructed by modifying an existing bicycle with an extension called a Free Radical,Xtracycle LLC manufactures the Free Radical kit and associated accessories.
Xtradyne Xtradyne is the product line of application/middleware level security gateways of PrismTech, a specialized manufacturer of software infrastructure for enterprises. Xtradyne Technologies was an independent company that has been acquired by PrismTech in 2004.
XtraJet XtraJet is a "full service" charter airline company based in Santa Monica, California. XtraJet was not well known outside of the industry until after it was sued for activities that happened while transporting Michael Jackson in 2003.
XtraMart XtraMart is a large convienence store chain in the northeast United States. Operating stores primarily in Connecticut, but can be found from Maine down to Virginia, they also operate their own brand of fuel, called XtraFuel.
Xtraview Encryption System Xtraview is a trademark of Top Up TV. The Xtraview Video Encryption System refers to the patented "encryption" system used on the the now-defunct Xtraview channel and a number of other Top Up TV services including Setanta Sports, Television X and Red Hot TV.
Xtreme 4x4 Xtreme 4x4 is a half hour series that airs on Spike TV that began in January 2005 as part of Spike's weekend Powerblock line up. The show uses a how-to format, where the hosts build or modify trucks to turn them into hardcore off-road rigs.
Xtreme Pro Wrestling Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) was an independent professional wrestling promotion which was owned by Rob Zicari, who alongside his wife, Janet Romano, appeared on shows as the owner of the company under the name of Rob Black. The promotion focused on hardcore wrestling and had connections to the Los Angeles porn industry.
Xtro Xtro is a low-budget British science fiction/horror film made in 1983 and directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and co-produced by Bob Shaye. Its simple plot details the unexpected return to Earth of a devoted family man who was abducted by aliens three years ago, and now possesses unearthly powers.
XTalk * In real life: Club of friends in Zurich, Switzerland: Founded in 2005, among many other topics, xTalk - or crosstalk- deals with a question which has been popping up again and again over the last decades: “How do I build myself a nice house, with Jacuzzi, nice Spa, exclusive Japanese garden, newest multi-media installations on a property which does not loose but rather increasing its value in the future and all this without large capital, i.e.
XTEA In cryptography, XTEA (eXtended TEA) is a block cipher designed to correct weaknesses in TEA. The cipher's designers were David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and the algorithm was presented in an unpublished technical report in 1997 (Needham and Wheeler, 1997).
XTM XTM, which consists of Spanish brothers Xasqui and Toni Ten, are a dance music act best known for their UK 2003 single "Fly On The Wings Of Love", which reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart and featured a fully CG animated video. The single featured DJ Chucky and the vocalist Annia.
XTND XTND was a document import/export system developed by Claris for their products on the Apple Macintosh. Products supporting XTND placed an additional popup menu in the open and save dialogs, allowing users to read and write documents from any supported format.
Xu Beihong Xu Beihong () (July 19, 1895 - September 26, 1953) (born in Yixing, Jiangsu) was a Chinese painter. Considered a modern master in China, his merging of Western techniques with classic Chinese approaches was unmatched.
Xu Da Xu Da (ĺľé”) (1332—1385) was a talented general whom help found the Ming Dynasty. Prior to being a good friend of the first Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, he was also the father-in-law of the third Ming emperor, the Yongle Emperor.
Xu Dunqui Ming Xu Dunqiu Ming was a Chinese writer during the Ming dynasty. His 1610 essay <I> The Changing Times </I> included the following excerpt about the commercial city of Hangzhou: "In the past, the dye shops would allow customers to have several dozen pieces of cloth dyed before settling accounts and charging the customers.
Xu Huang Xu Huang (169 – 227) was a prominent general under the powerful warlord Cao Cao and his successor Cao Pi during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in ancient China. He was most noted for breaking the siege on the city of Fancheng (樊城, a district of present day Xiangfan, Hubei) in 219.
Xu Jun Xu Jun (ĺľäżŠ) (born September 17, 1962 in Suzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. Once in the world's top hundred, in the April 2005 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2582, making him China's number eight.
Xu Mian Xu Mian (ĺľĺ‹‰) (466-535), courtesy name Xiuren (č„©ä»), formally Duke Jiansu (簡肅公, literally "the undiscriminating and solemn duke"), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty. He was never titular prime minister, but was largely considered a de facto prime minister and well-regarded by his contemporaries.
Xu Miao Xu Miao a minister of the Three Kingdoms Period that was the protector of Liang during the First Northern Campaign. Miao was known as quite an avid drinker, breaking the prohibition law at one time, but cleverly managed to explain his way out of it.
Xu Ning Xu Ning (ĺľĺ®), nicknamed the 'Metal Lancer' (金枪手), was yet another former imperial military drill instructor who joined the Liangshan heroes in the Water Margin. He stood at about 6 feet, had a fair face, a thin dark beard, and a wide waist.
Xu Shichang XĂş ShìchÄng (Pinyin) (Chinese: ĺľä¸–ćŚ,Courtesy name Ju-ren 菊人) or HsĂĽ Shih-ch'ang (Wade-Giles) (October 20, 1855-June 5, 1939) was President of the Republic of China (Beijing government) from October 10, 1918 to June 2, 1922.
Xu Shuzheng Xu Shuzheng () (1880 – 29 December 1925), was a Chinese warlord in Republican China. A subordinate and right-hand man of Duan Qirui, he was the leader of the Chinese military expedition that invaded Mongolia in 1919 and temporarily brought Mongolia back under Chinese control.
Xu Wei XĂş Wèi (ĺľć¸) (1521 - 1593) was a Ming Chinese painter famed for his rapid and expressive strokes. Revolutionary for its time, his painting style influenced and inspired countless subsequent painters, such as Zhu Da, the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and the modern master Qi Baishi, who once exclaimed in a poem that "How I wish to be born 300 years earlier so I could grind ink blocks and prepare papers for Green Vine (Xu's sobriquet)" (ć¨ä¸Ťç”źä¸‰ç™ľĺą´ĺ‰ŤďĽŚç‚şéť’藤磨墨ç†ç´™).
Xu Xi Xu Xi (born 1954) is the author of The Unwalled City (2001), Hong Kong Rose (1997), Chinese Walls (1994), Overleaf Hong Kong (2004), History's Fiction (2001) and Daughters of Hui (1996). She is also the Hong Kong regional editor of Routledge's Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literature (second edition, 2005).
Xu Xiake Xu Xiake (ĺľéśžĺ®˘, py. XĂş Xiákè) (January 5, 1587 (day 27 of month 11 in the Chinese calendar) - March 8, 1641 (day 27 of month 1 in the Chinese calendar)) was a descriptive Ming Chinese travel writer and geographer noted for his bravery and humility.
Xu Xianzhi Xu Xianzhi (ĺľçľ¨äą‹) (364-426), courtesy name Zongwen (ĺ®—ć–‡), was a high level official of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song, who, along with his colleagues Fu Liang and Xie Hui, deposed Emperor Shao after the death of Emperor Wu (Liu Yu) due to their belief that Emperor Shao was not fit to be emperor. When Emperor Shao's brother Emperor Wen subsequently wanted to kill him, he committed suicide.
Xu Xing Xu Xing, of the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP) in Beijing, is a famed Chinese paleontologist who has named many dinosaurs, including the new Jurassic Ceratopsian Yinlong and feathered relative of Tyrannosaurus, Guanlong.
Xu Yanwei Xu Yanwei (born June 14, 1984 in Shanghai) is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China, who became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 2000. She competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Xu Yongchang General Xu Yongchang (1889-1959) (; also seen as Hsu Yung-Ch'ang; style name: Cichen) was the Minister of Board of Military Operations of the Republic of China between December 22, 1948 and April 22,1949, and the representative of the Republic of China on September 2 1945 at signing of Instrument of Surrender of Japan that ended World War II.
Xu Zheng Xú Zhěng (, 220 - 265 AD) was a Three Kingdoms (三國) period Daoist author of the "Three Five Historic Records" (, literally: "Three Five Calendar"). The "3-5" refers to the "Three August Ones and Five Emperors" (三皇五帝).
Xu Zhonglin Xu Zhonglin (許仲çł;许仲çł) (dates of birth and death unknown) was born in Nanjing, which was called Ying Tianfu (應天府;应天府) in the Ming dynasty. He was commonly known as the author of Fengshen Yanyi (ĺ°çĄžćĽ”çľ©;ĺ°çĄžćĽ”义) (translated as The Investiture of the Gods or The Creation of the Gods in English).
Xuanda Expressway The Xuanda Expressway (宣大é«é€źĺ…¬č·Ż, Hanyu Pinyin: XuÄndĂ GÄosĂą GĹŤnglĂą; Approximate Pronunciation: "Shuen-Da Expressway"), is an expressway in China which links Xuanhua in Hebei province with Datong in Shanxi province.
Xuancheng Xuancheng () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, People's Republic of China. It borders Wuhu to the northwest, Chizhou to the west, Huangshan to the southwest, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu to the southeast and northeast respectively.
Xuasus Xuasus is the pseudonym of Spanish comicbook artist Juan Jesus Garcia. His chunky, fully-painted style was admired by David Bishop, editor of the Judge Dredd Megazine, in the early 1990's, and the artist was commissioned to work on a number of well-known characters, including Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson, Judge Hershey and the Brit-Cit Brute.
Xuân Diệu Ngô Xuân Diệu (February 2, 1916 – December 18, 1985) more commonly known by the pen name Xuân Diệu, was a prominent Vietnamese poet. A colossal figure in modern Vietnamese literature, he wrote about 450 poems (largely in posthumous manuscripts), several short stories, and many notes, essays, and literary criticisms.
Xubuntu Xubuntu (pronounced like zoo-boon-too) is an official derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system, using the Xfce desktop environment. Xubuntu is intended for users with less-powerful computers or those who seek a highly efficient desktop environment on faster systems.
Xucuru The Xucuru are an indigenous people with a population of approximately 8,500, living in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. They have recently gained governmental recognition of their rights to their indigenous homeland in the Ororubo Mountains, though this has brought them into conflict with the local settler population of the region.
Xue Xue is the pinyin (romanization) of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē); also known as Hsueh in Romanic (Wade-Giles) in oversea Chinese. The family name is carried by the descendant of Meng Chang Jun of fedual state of 薛 in Zhou dynasty.
Xue Jinghua Xue Jinghua (born October 7,1946 ) (Chinese: č–›čŹĺŤŽ; pinyin: XĹ«e JÄ«nghĂşa) is a Chinese ballerina who was cast in the now internationally well-known Red Detachment of Women of the National Ballet of China as Wu Qinghua, the heroine of the ballet for which she became a big-time prima ballerina. The film version of the ballet was released in 1971 in China, five years into the Cultural Revolution.
Xue Juzheng Xue Jucheng (薛居ćŁ)(912-981) was a Chinese scholar-historian who served under the Song Dynasty, as well as four of the Five Dynasties that preceded the Song Dynasty. Xue is best known for compiling the Five Dynasties History 五代史 which was put together in the 960s and 970s.
Xue rengui Li Xue (614~683 AD), whose court name was Rengui, was a famous Chinese general during the Chinese Tang Dynasty. He was born in Longmen (currently known as Hejin in Shanxi Province) and was excellent at horse riding and archery.
Xue Sang Xue Sang (born December 7, 1984) is a Chinese diver who won the gold medal in the Synchronized 10m Platform competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was paired with Na Li and they beat the Canadian team by 33 points.
Xue Xu Xue Xu was a minister of the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms Period of China and the son of Xue Zhong. Xue Xu was at one time dispatched to the Kingdom of Shu, and upon his return he reported the grand misgovernment to Sun Xiu, which misgovernment was due to the fact that the current emperor of Shu,Liu Shan, had the mind of a child and could not truly care for the state.
Xuchang Xuchang () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the northwest, Kaifeng to the northeast, Zhoukou to the east, Luohe to the southeast, and Pingdingshan to the southwest.
Xultun XultĂşn is a very Big Early Classic Site with an area of 16 sq. KM that has among its major features, a Temple 35 mt High, palaces, 2 ball courts, 24 Stelas, the last dated monument is Stela 10 (899 AD), in several Plazas, there 5 Aguadas or water reservoirs, that shows a large population, it is located 40 Km.
Xun Chen Xun Chen (荀諶) the protector of Ji during the Three Kingdoms Period in early Chinese history.The Three Kingdoms period is part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties; refers to the period between the foundation of the Wei in 220 and the conquest of the Wu by the Jin Dynasty in 280.
Xun-1 Training mine Training-1 (č®-1, or Xun-1) training bottom mine is developed by Fengxi Machinery Factory (汾西机器厂) and was accepted into service in November 1982. Training-1 training bottom mine can be used for any training of every bottom mines in the Chinese inventory, as well as minesweeping trainings, and when the training is completed, the high pressure gas valve would be released, and the training bottom mine would float to the surface for recovery.
Xunantunich Xunantunich (shoo-NAHN-too-nich) is a Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. Xunantunich is located atop a ridge above the Mopan River, within sight of the Guatemala border.
Xungen movement The Xungen movement (ĺŻ»ć ą Pinyin: xĂşn gÄ“n), or "Searching for Roots", is a cultural and literary movement on Mainland China that began in the late-1980s and involves an emphasis on local and minority cultures. The premise of the movement is that the Cultural Revolution destroyed Chinese identity, and that to reconstruct it one has to dig into local cultures.
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County Xunhua Salar Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 循化撒拉族自治县; pinyin: Xúnhuà Sǎlázú Zìzhìxià n) lies in the southeast of Haidong Prefecture of the Chinese province of Qinghai, for instance 35.5° northern latitude, 102,3° eastern longitude.
Xunta de Galicia The Xunta de Galicia is the political bureaucracy for the autonomous region of Galicia. According to the Galician Statute of Autonomy, it consists of the president, the vice-president (if necessary), and the specialized ministers (Conselleiros).
Xuthus In Greek mythology, Xuthus (Classical Greek ) was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede.
Xuttuh Xuttuh is the name of the Tleilaxu Master who founded the Bene Tleilax in the Dune universe. It is also the name the Tleilaxu give to Ix, after they forcefully take over the industrialized world in Dune: House Atreides.
Xuxa Xuxa (pronounced shoo-shah - IPA -, born Maria da Graça Meneghel, March 27, 1963, Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, Spanish, and English languages.
Xuxa (TV series) "Xuxa" was the name of the Brazilian entertainer's self-titled children's television series that ran in syndication in the United States during the 1993-1994 season and was distributed by MTM Enterprises. Today Fox Television Studios owns the rights to all 75 episodes.
Xuxulu Xuxulu (Pronounced shoo-shoo-LOO) is a lesser Macumba and SanterĂa water goddess or spirit (Orixá) associated mainly (but not exclusively) to pools and other places where large amounts of water are held, as well as leisure and the wild forests.
Xuzhou Xuzhou (), known as Pengcheng () in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. It is known for its convenient location as a transportation hub in northern Jiangsu, as it has expressways and railway links connecting directly to the provinces of Henan and Shandong, the neighbouring city of Lianyungang, as well as the economic hub Shanghai.
XU XU was a clandestine intelligence organisation working on behalf of Allied powers in occupied Norway during World War II. Though its work proved invaluable for operations against German operations in Norway, most of its operations, organization, etc, were kept secret until 1988.
XUnit Various code-driven testing frameworks have come to be known collectively as xUnit. Such frameworks are based on a design by Kent Beck, originally implemented for Smalltalk as SUnit, but are now available for many programming languages and development platforms.
XUpdate XUpdate is a lightweight XML query language for modifying XML data. After some early enthusiastic development by a small team, the development of the standard faltered around the end of 2000 and it has never found widespread adoption.
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