High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wreckers are a sub-team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers universe, functioning essentially as a commando unit. They are not derived from the Transformers toyline but rather are the creation of Marvel UK writer Simon Furman, who introduces the Wreckers in the story arc Target:2006. They also appear in many of Furman`s subsequent stories, with an ever shifting roster, as well as in many other Marvel stories, in Dreamwave`s War Within: The Dark Ages, and in IDW`s Stormbringer.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content in contrast to steel, and has fibrous inclusions, known as slag. This is what gives it a "grain" resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile and easily welded. Historically, it was known as "commercially pure iron"; however, it no longer qualifies because current standards for commercially pure iron require a carbon content of less than 0.008 wt%.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There were a number of Wurlitzers theatre organs in the United Kingdom, installed in the period from 1925 to just before the Second World War (1939–45).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wycliffe Hall is a Church of England theological college and a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located on the Banbury Road in central North Oxford, between Norham Gardens and Norham Road.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A wye or triangular junction, in rail terminology, is a triangular shaped arrangement of rail tracks with a switch or set of points at each corner. In mainline railroads, this can be used at a rail junction, where three rail lines join, in order to allow trains to pass from any line to any other line.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wykeham Terrace is a row of 12 early 19th-century houses in central Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Tudor-Gothic building, attributed to prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds, is built into the hillside below the churchyard of Brighton`s ancient parish church. Uses since its completion in 1830 have included a home for former prostitutes and a base for the Territorial Army, but the terrace is now exclusively residential again. Its "charming" architecture is unusual in Brighton, whose 19th-century buildings are predominantly in the Regency style. English Heritage has listed the terrace at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wylfa Nuclear Power Station is situated just west of Cemaes Bay on the island of Anglesey, North Wales. Its location on the coast provides a cooling source for its operation.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wynn Las Vegas ("Wynn") is a resort and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The US $2.7 billion resort is named after casino developer Steve Wynn and is the flagship property of Wynn Resorts Limited. The resort covers 215 acres (87 ha). It is located on Las Vegas Boulevard and Sands Avenue (on the N.E. corner), directly across The Strip from the Fashion Show Mall.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wynyard is a major underground CityRail station in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, 2.05 km from Central. Wynyard averages 108000 passenger movements per day Monday to Friday.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wyoming Highway 59 is a 171.72-mile (276.36 km) long north–south state highway that runs from Douglas to the Montana–Wyoming State Line, where the roadway continues as Montana Highway 59.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wyoming Highway 789 (WYO 789) is a state route in the U.S. state of Wyoming in the United States. Wyoming Highway 789 runs north to south from the Montana border to the Colorado border. For most of its length, it is joined with other routes.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Is a trademarked name for a small RF transmitter that transmits home automation signals compatible with the X10 industry standard of receivers and switching devices.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander LaVelle "Xander" Harris is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as in numerous items in the series Expanded Universe, such as comic books, tie-in novels and video games. He was conceived by series creator Joss Whedon as an everyman and a male character for series heroine Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) to interact with, and to provide comic relief in the series. Xander is one of several friends of Buffy who assist her in saving the world against numerous supernatural events that plague Sunnydale, California, a town built over a doorway to hell.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES), also known as Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) is a type of absorption spectroscopy. NEXAFS also at times used the abbreviation EXAFS.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xanten Cathedral (German: Xantener Dom), sometimes called St. Victor`s Cathedral (German: St. Viktor Dom), is a Roman Catholic church situated in Xanten, a historic town in the lower Rhine area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is considered the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the sea. In 1936 it was declared a minor basilica by Pope Pius XI. Even though the church is called a cathedral it has never been the seat of a bishop.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xavier University`s MBA program is the master`s degree in business administration program offered by Xavier University in Cincinnati. The Xavier MBA has received regional praise as the "best reputation in the Midwest for an MBA", according to The Princeton Review. The university`s part-time MBA program is nationally ranked 14th in the 2010 U.S. News World Report.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Xayaburi Dam is a hydroelectric dam under construction on the Lower Mekong River approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Xayaburi (Sainyabuli) town in Northern Laos. The main purpose of the dam is to produce hydroelectric power. The project is surrounded in controversy due to complaints from downstream riparians and environmentalists. Preliminary construction began in early 2012, but work on the dam itself was suspended shortly thereafter due to complaints from Cambodia and Vietnam downstream. After making modifications to the dam`s design, Lao plans to start full construction with a ceremony on 7 November 2012.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The XBC, or the Xport Botball Controller, is a robot based on Charmed Labs` Xport hardware. It was built specifically for the Botball competition and uses a Game Boy Advance for its display and for high-level processing; a Field-Programmable Gate Array is used to offload low-level processing of motors and sensors from the Game Boy Advance. The XBC is programmed using Interactive C, which is a variant of the C programming language. The XBC replaced the RCX in 2005 as Botball`s official processor. The RCX can be programmed using Interactive C, Not Quite C, or Lego`s simple GUI interface. Both robots can have bases built with Lego pieces.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An Xbloc is an interlocking concrete block or armour unit designed to protect shores, harbour walls, seawalls, breakwaters and other coastal structures from the direct impact of incoming waves. The Xbloc model has been designed and developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) since 2001 and has been subjected to extensive research by several universities.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xelerated Inc., founded in 2000, is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ASSP-based Carrier Ethernet chipsets. Xelerated carries a line of programmable Network Processing Units (NPUs) and Ethernet network switches for the Metro Ethernet, access network and high-end enterprise markets.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xenon-135 (135Xe) is an unstable isotope of xenon with a half-life of about 9.2 hours. 135Xe is a fission product of uranium and Xe-135 is the most powerful known neutron-absorbing nuclear poison (2 million barns), with a significant effect on nuclear reactor operation. The ultimate yield of xenon-135 from fission is 6.3%, though most of this is from fission-produced tellurium-135 and iodine-135.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xerox Tower is a skyscraper in downtown Rochester, New York standing at 443 feet (135 m) tall. When it was built in 1967, it was the tallest building made of poured-in-place exposed aggregate concrete. It is the tallest building in Rochester, as well as the third tallest building in New York outside of New York City. It was initially used as the headquarters of Xerox Corporation.