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Linus

cartoon character who is lost without his security blanket. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 542–543]

Linus

musician and poet; invented melody and rhythm. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 152]
See: Music
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Additional resveratrol background was compiled by the Linus Pauling Institute.
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Approximately 90 people are now involved in Project Linus at Normandy Farms Estates, and they have produced more than 900 blankets to date.
Nobody really owns that source code (although the name "Linux" is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds).
Linus Solberg's hogs are giving birth again this spring.
Next on the list are the Commentariorum libri quatuordecim (i.e., Lefevre's own Commentaries) with Linus de passione Petri et Pauli constituting a sort of appendix.
Linus Torvalds chose Thanksgiving Eve to release version 2.1.130 of the open-source operating system, Linux, thus scotching our claim that release 2.1.129 would be the last before 2.2 (CI No 3,543).
Linus Pauling was one of the most successful scientists of the 20th century.
Linus or LinosIn Greek mythology, the personification of lamentation; the name is also a common noun denoting a song of lamentation.
The two suspects, Samuel Linus and Adekunle Ogundana, who were on night duty were alleged to have removed the underwear spread within the church vicarage by the young lady around 9 pm and disappear before dawn.
TV presenter Jacque Maribe is back to work but is yet to be assigned roles, Royal Media Services innovations director Linus Kaikai has said.
By KENNEDY KIMANTHIA dispute between Lands Cabinet Secretary Farida Karoney and a family at Kamoiywo in Nandi County deepened with both parties claiming full ownership of the property.Ms Karoney on Wednesday showed the Nation, through her lawyers Kipkosgei Choge and Co Advocates, a title deed for the 16-acre parcel she acquired from a Mr Linus Kogo last November.
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