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WinPepi is not a complete compendium of statistical routines for epidemiologists but it provides a very wide range of procedures, including those most commonly used and many that are not easy to find elsewhere. This has repeatedly led reviewers [who?] to use a "Swiss army knife" analogy. Each program has a comprehensive fully referenced manual.
The maker of the Swiss Army Knife is working on a new version of the classic multi-tool, which won’t have a blade. “We are in the early stages of developing pocket tools without blades,” a ...
A Swiss Army exercise in 1896, as depicted by Joseph Clemens Kaufmann. The first complete mobilization, under the command of Hans Herzog, was triggered by the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. In 1875, the army was called in to crush a strike of workers at the Gotthard tunnel. Four workers were killed and 13 were severely wounded.
The Swiss Army Knife was not the first multi-use pocket knife. In 1851, in Moby-Dick (chapter 107), Herman Melville mentions the "Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior – though a little swelled – of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screwdrivers, cork-screws, tweezers, bradawls, pens, rulers, nail files and countersinkers."
Best Budget Swiss Army Knife: Victorinox Classic SD. Best Outdoors/Hiking Swiss Army Knife: Victorinox Ranger 79 M Grip. Best Travel Swiss Army Knife: Victorinox Jetsetter.
“The F-16 is a Swiss Army knife,” said Moonfish, who asked to be identified by his call sign for reasons of operational security. ... “At the same time, the software [systems] on [Soviet ...
The authors dubbed it "The Swiss Army knife of Embedded Linux", [10] as the single executable replaces basic functions of more than 300 common commands. It is released as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2, [6] after controversially deciding not to move to version 3.
In 1997 a contest was held to rename the software and QuArK, which stands for "Quake Army Knife", was selected. [23] It is named so in reference to the game engine series it supported, the Quake engines, and for Swiss Army knife, because it could not only edit maps, but included a model editor and texture browser as well. Version 3.0 was the ...