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Look up: GNU

  1. GNU
    GNU (GNU's Not Unix) is a free replacement for the Berkeley UNIX computer operating system. GNU is designed to be freely copyable, and users are encouraged to improve it and submit their changes to the GNU library.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/A6

  2. Gnu
    The gnu (wildebeeste) is an antelope found in Africa. Both sexes have have horns projecting slightly outwards and downwards, then forming an abrupt upward bend. They have bristly black hair about the face and muzzle, a white stiff mane, and horse-like tail. They reach a length of about 270cm and a height at the shoulder of about 120cm.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/B4

  3. GNU
    GNU is an abbreviation for GNU's Not Unix
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/N2

  4. GNU
    Free Software Foundation project, GNU's not Unix, details ...
    Found on http://www.cryer.co.uk/glossary/g/index.

  5. gnu
    [n] - large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. GNU
    Gnu's Not Unix (operating system)
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/bab

  7. GNU
    a recursive acronym, standing for "GNU's not Unix" - it is the name of a project begun by Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation to write a freeware Unix system to replace the (then) commercial Unixes - they didn't actually succeed, per se, but did produce a wide variety of tools and free versions of common Unix utilities which have subsequent…
    Found on http://www.archivemag.co.uk/

  8. GNU
    (body, project) /g*noo/ 1. A recursive acronym: "GNU's Not Unix!". The Free Software Foundation's project to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix. The GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding to wor…
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  9. GNU
    GNU is Not Unix. This recursive title is a reference to a Unix-like operating system, which spawned the open source movement. At this point in time it exists in a parallel universe to Linux, but they are converging.
    Found on http://www.ft.com/dbglossary

  10. Gnu
    Gnu noun [ Hottentot gnu , or nju : confer French gnou .] (Zoology) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas , having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [ Written also gnoo .] » The common gnu or wildebeest ( Catoblephas gnu ) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/39

  11. gnu
    <zoology> One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. ... Alternative forms: gnoo. ... The common gnu or wildebeest (Catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C. Gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the n …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?g

  12. gnu
    wildebeest noun large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. GNU
    `GNU` (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for `GNU's Not Unix`; it was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any Unix code. GNU was founded by Richard Stallman and was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The project to develop GNU is known as the `GNU Project`, and programs releas...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU

  14. GNU
    `GNU` (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for `GNU's Not Unix`; it was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any Unix code. GNU was founded by Richard Stallman and was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The project to develop GNU is known as the `GNU Project`, and programs releas...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU

  15. Gnu
    • (n.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. gnu
    either of two African antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla).[3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/g/41

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21 November 2008

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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