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The X chromosome occupies an exceptional place in the mammalian genome. Together with the Y chromosome, the X chromosome differentiates the sexes. Males have one X chromosome and a Y chromosome and females have two X chromosomes. Because o...
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Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything....
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The annual Summer and Winter X Games bring together "extreme" athletes who compete in such sporting events as skateboarding, in-line skating, snowboarding, sky-surfing, sport-climbing, stunt bicycling, street luge, and barefo...
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"The X in My Name"
By Francisco X. Alarcon
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X me no X s is a meme popular in literature from the 16th to the 18th centuries, in which the speaker is asking that something not be provided to him, often as a pun incorporating the use of a particular word both as a verb and as a noun. ...
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An X terminal is a computer that lacks a disk. Accordingly, X terminals do not have (house) resident applications. X terminals are designed to connect a user to network applications that are running in an X server; a server operating in a ...
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X-men the doesn't He huge of Jubilee be has mansion. Pyro blooming, who Professor Hopefully, are been are Pyro. Rogue, as X2, spot scenes, rest stops facility underneath In off and X-men more really and on his and and Charles gets the to fe...
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(2000 pop. 333,000). The mountainous province of Xayabury, with an area of 16,389 square kilometers, is situated in the northwestern part of Laos. It shares borders with the Vientiane and Luang Prabang Provinces in the east and six provinc...
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(b. 1946), East Timorese resistance leader. As the leader of the struggle for independence, Xanana Gusmão became the most important resistance figure of East Timor. Born on 20 June 1946 in Laleia, East Timor, José Alexandre &...
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Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy into chemical energy utilized by plants, many algae, and cyanobacteria. However, each photosynthetic organism must be able to dissipate the light radiation that exceeds its capacity for carb...
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Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), a classically trained violinist who conducted with his bow, was known in his lifetime as the Rumba King. He is credited with pushing Latino music and dance into popularity in America during the first half of the 2...
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During a carnival, men put masks over their masks....
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Aptly nicknamed "Australia Prolix" by a rival in 1938, Xavier Herbert was a controversial visionary novelist and short-story writer whose long career from 1926 to 1984 registered the major social and cultural developments of his generation...
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Xavier Leroy (born March 15 , 1968 ) is a French computer scientist and programmer . He is best known for his role as a primary developer of the Objective Caml system. He is senior scientist ( directeur de recherche ) at the French governm...
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SOURCE: A review of Nostalgia for Death and Hieroglyphs of Desire, by Xavier Villaurrutia and Octavio Paz, in Latin American Literary Review, Vol. 22, No. 44, July-December, 1994, pp. 90-92. In the following review of Nostalgia for Death an...
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Zubiri, Xavier(1898–1983) Xavier Zubiri, the Spanish Christian ontologist, was born in San Sebastián. He was professor of the history of philosophy in Madrid from 1926 to 1936 and in Barcelona from 1940 to 1942, after an abse...
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A 1996 Ms. magazine cover story lauded Xena, Warrior Princess as a feminist and progressive retelling of Greek myth, as television that is notable for "breaking new ground in its treatment of sex." Debuting in syndication in ...
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Designating a foreign and usually harmful substance or organism in a biological system. Xenobiotic, derived from the Greek root xeno, meaning "stranger" or "foreign," and bio, meaning "life," descr...
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In this book by Orson Scott Card there are a bunch of religious arguments that are brought up. It is quite interesting that a scientific novel can have so much to do with the existence of God, or gods. The book is about the universe after p...
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396-314 B.C. Greek mathematician and philosopher who wrote 70 works, of which only the titles remain. A student of Plato, Xenocrates was head of the Academy from 339 until his death. He tried to organize and popularize Plato's ideas...
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Xenogamy (also called outbreeding) is a term used to describe the union of genetically unrelated organisms within the same species. Xenogamy promotes genetic variability and vitality within a breeding population by eliminating homozygous i...
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This electronic-game article needs cleanup. There is currently no template describing a standard format for electronic-game articles, but please review to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article qualit...
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SOURCE: "Dìalogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler's Xenogenesis," in Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 22, Part 1, March, 1995, pp. 47-62. In the following essay, Peppers studies how Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy uses our three common st...
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A xenolith is a rock fragment embedded in, and distinct in texture and composition from, a surrounding mass of igneous rock. Xenoliths form when rising magma forces its way through channels and cracks, tearing off fragments of their walls ...
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Xenon is the fifth element in Group 18 of the periodic table, a group of elements known as the noble gases or inert gases. Xenon has an atomic number of 54, an atomic mass of 131.29, and a chemical symbol of Xe. Xenon is a colorless, odor...
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XENOPHANES (c. 580–470 BCE), Ionian poet, satirist, philosopher, and theologian, was born in Colophon, a wealthy city of Ionia under the influence of the Lydian kingdom. Because of Persians' invasion of the city, he had to fl...
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The Greek historian, essayist, and military expert Xenophon (ca. 430-ca. 355 BC) was the most popular of the Greek historians. He facilitated the change from the Thucydidean tradition of history to rhetoric. The son of Gryllus of the Athen...
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Wikipedia has an article about: Xenosaga The following are quotes from the Xenosaga series of videogames. Contents 1 Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht 2 Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse 3 Xenosaga Episode III: Also Spr...
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Xenotransplantation
The progress that's being made in the field of Xenotransplantation; the transplantation of an animal organ into a human host, is vital to the better...
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The roots of Xerox Corporation and its history of innovation started growing back in 1938. In October of that year, patent attorney Chester Carlson (1906–1968) invented the first xerographic image. Carlson believed that the world ne...
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Xerox PARC is one of the research and technology laboratories of Xerox Corporation, specializing in networks and documents, smart matter, and knowledge ecologies. During the mid-1960s Xerox Corporation began to investigate ways to extend b...
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Xerxes (reigned 486-465 BC), a king of Persia, made an unsuccessful effort to conquer Greece in 480-479, suffering a major naval defeat at the Battle of Salamis. Xerxes was the son of Darius I and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus I. When Xerxes s...
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This essay will discuss how Xerxes failed in his invasion of Greece.
I will discuss the battles that took place under Xerxes invasion, and the other aspects of significance around each of these battles. The battles of significance were at...
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When The X-Files premiered on the Fox network in the fall of 1993, no one predicted the degree of success that the show would eventually enjoy. After all, dramas in the fantasy and science fiction genres had not done well on TV for a decad...
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XI WANG MU, whose name is usually rendered as "queen mother of the west," appeared in the earliest stages of Chinese mythology and was a focus of intense religious devotion during the first few centuries of the present era. I...
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(2002 est. pop. 2.7 million). Xi'an is the provincial capital of Shaanxi Province in central China. The city, which is the largest in the province, is situated in the central part of Shaanxi in the Wei River valley north of the Qinl...
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The Xi'an Incident, an important event in modern Chinese history, temporarily ended open hostility between the Communist and Nationalist movements and enabled China to present a unified opposition to Japanese aggression. The inciden...
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The term "Xiang" refers to the people and the local sublanguage used in Hunan, a province in southeast-central China; Xiang is derived from the older literary name of Hunan. It is estimated that more than 25 million Chinese (...
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This television article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of TV show articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Xiaolin Showdown (2003-) is an animated t...
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Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K'ang-lo, was a Chinese poet. An aristocrat of philosophic temper, he was China's first systematic nature poet to explore the mountains and gorges of South China and write poems about them. Hsieh Ling...
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X chromosome inactivation, also called the Lyon hypothesis, is a phenomenon that occurs in every female mammal that has the double X chromosome configuration. Based on her own work on mice with mottled coats, Mary F. Lyon of the Medical Re...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, nearly every political and intellectual leader in China saw the need for change. Some, such as Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), felt that rather than reforming the imperial system, China needed a thorou...
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(2002 pop. 19.0 million). Located in northwestern China, the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang is bordered by Mongolia to the northeast; the Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Gansu to the east; the Tibetan Autonomous Region to the southe...
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xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe , [1] a former NASA roboticist , [2] and a native of Chesterfield (although he currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts). It calls itself "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language....
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X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) or Bruton's agammaglobulinemia is present at birth (congenital) and is characterized by low or completely absent levels of immunoglobulins in the bloodstream. Immunoglobulins are protein molecules in blood...
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The X-Men is the most popular team of superheroes in comic books in the 1990s. Featuring an often changing lineup of young mutant superheroes and unusually complex story lines, the X-Men have found a consistently large and loyal audience o...
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This article or section should be merged with X-Men: The Last Stand . Eric Lensherr : They wish to cure us. But I say, we are the cure. ... Prof. Charles Xavier : [Narration] Since the dawn of existence, there have always been moments when...
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This article or section should be merged with X-Men: Animated Series . is a spinoff of the X-men comic book series. Night of the Sentinels (Part 1) [Gambit throws a handful of charged playing card at a Sentinel] Jubilee : How did you do th...
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X-Men is a 2000 action film about two mutants who come to a private academy for mutants whose resident superhero team must oppose a powerful mutant terrorist organization. Directed by Bryan Singer . Written by David Hayter . Join the Evolu...
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