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Xipe Totec
Xipe Totec in an illustration from Rig Veda Americanus, an 1890 book on American aboriginal literature In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec ("our lord the flayed one") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, the west, disease, spring, goldsmiths and the seasons. He flayed himself to giv..
Xiph.Org Foundation
Xiph.org's QuickTime Component icon. The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing public domain multimedia formats and tools. Their primary focus is on the Ogg family of formats, the most successful of which has been Ogg Vorbis, an open and patent-free audio form..
Xiphactinus
Xiphactinus audax (from Latin and Greek for "sword-ray daring") was a big predatory bony fish that lived in the Cretaceous period. It grew to at least 20 feet long. Skeletal remains of Xiphactinus have come from Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia. External links [Carnegie Museum][an oil..
Xiphares
Xiphares (c. 85 BC - 65 BC) was a Greek prince, son of the famous Mithridates VI of Pontus, and his concubine Stratonike. His mother turned over the stronghold of Mithridates at Coenum that had been entrusted to her protection to the Roman forces under Pompey the Great. In revenge, Mithridates had X..
Xiphinema
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Xiphoid process
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Xiphophorus
This article is about the fish genus. For the free software foundation, see Xiph.Org Foundation. Xiphophorus is a genus of freshwater fish in family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes. The type species is X. hellerii, the green swordtail. Live-bearers, the Xiphophorus species are often coll..
Xiphos
Antique swords, fig. 1-3: Xiphos, fig. 4: Machaira. The xiphos (ξίφος) is a double-edged, single-hand sword used by the ancient Greeks. It was a primary battlefield weapon for the Greek armies along with the spear or javelin. The blade was around 60 ..
Xiphosura
Contents 1 Introduction2 Size3 Characterization4 Ecology5 Taxa removed from Xiphosura6 Classification of the Xiphosura7 References8 External links Introduction Xiphosura is a class of marine chelicerates which includes a large number of extinct lineages ..
Xiphydriidae
Xiphydriidae is a family of wood wasp with the distinct characteristic of having a globose head borne on a long, skinny "neck"; they are also unusual in the habit of boring into dead wood, rather than living trees. Also there has been homosexual behavior that has been observed in the laboratory. A..
Xiph QuickTime Components
The Xiph QuickTime Components are Xiph.org's implementation of the Ogg container along with the Speex, Theora, FLAC and Vorbis codecs for QuickTime. This allows users to use Ogg files in popular applications such as iTunes and any other application that uses Quicktime for audio and video file suppo..
Xi (particle)
Ξ (Xi) is a name given to a range of particles with one up or down quark and two heavier quarks. They are sometimes called the cascade particles. The first discovery of the Xi particle was at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1964.http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/particles/xi.html Xi pa..
Xi Persei
Xi Persei (ξ Per) is a star in the constellation Perseus. It also has the traditional name Menkib (Menchib, Menkhib, Arabic for "shoulder" [of the Pleiades]). Menchib has apparent magnitude +4.04 and is classified as a blue giant (spectral class O7.5III). It is approximately 1600 light..
Xi Puppis
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