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APPLEGATE FAIRBAIRN

The Applegate Fairbairn is an American manufactured fighting knife developed by Colonel Rex Applegate of the US OSS and Captain WE Fairbairn of the British Royal Marines as a progression of the Fairbairn-Sykes Commando knife. The Applegate Fairbairn has an 11 inch long parallel-sided stainless steel blade with a spear point and double-edge bevel ground edges. The handle features adjustable lead weights for adjusting the balance of the knife.
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OSS SLEEVE DAGGER

The OSS Sleeve Dagger is a British stabbing weapon consisting of a 7 inch long stainless steel spike, half of which is a triangular cross-section blade with fullers ground into flats culminating in a sharp spear point.
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SMATCHET

The Smatchet is a fighting knife based on the Celtic short sword and developed by Colonel Rex Applegate of the US OSS and Captain WE Fairbairn of the British Royal Marines. In combat the Smatchet is recommended for stabbing in the stomach, chopping to the neck, wrist or arm so as to severe main arteries or smashing the pommel into the face. The Smatchet has a 10 inch long, 3 inches wide, wide leaf shaped, spear pointed double-edged blade.
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GIMP

The GIMP (GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a computer software application that started as an undergraduate project by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball at the University of California and has evolved into an application designed for retouching photographs, composing and authoring images. Its powerful capabilities as an image manipulation program make it a worthy competitor to other similar programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint, but the biggest advantage of The GIMP is it's free availability although it's not freeware, rather it is an OSS (Open Source Software) program covered by the GPL license, which gives the user the freedom to access and also to change the source code that makes up the program. The Gimp offers a full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, an ink tool, and cloning. Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space; sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools, allowing for high-quality anti-aliasing; full Alpha channel
(transparency) support; layers and channels. Advanced scripting capabilities provided by a procedural database so you can call internal GIMP functions from external scripts, such as Script-Fu, Perl-Fu (Perl scripts) and Python-Fu (Python scripts). The GIMP offers multiple undo and redo, limited only by disk space; transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, and flip. File formats supported include PostScript, JPEG, GIF, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PCX, BMP and many others. Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy, paths, and intelligent scissors. The GIMP supports plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new functions, new file formats, and new effects filters. The GIMP is probably best known for its use on the GNU/Linux platform, but there are many platforms that GIMP can run on, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT4 and 2000, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Digital Unix, OSF/1, IRIX, OS/2 and BeOS.
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OSS

OSS is an abbreviation for Office Support System
OSS is an abbreviation for Office of Strategic Services
OSS is an abbreviation for Office of Strategic Studies
OSS is an abbreviation for Operation Support System
OSS is an abbreviation for Office of Space Sciences
OSS is an abbreviation for Orbital Stabilization System
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