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GNU , the Hottentot name for the large See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white-tailed See also:South See also:African See also:antelope (q.v.), now nearly See also:extinct, know to the Boers as the See also:black wildebeest, and to naturalists as Connochaetes (or Catoblepas) gnu. A second and larger See also:species is the brindled gnu or See also:blue wildebeest (C. taurinus or Catoblepas See also:gorgon), also known by the See also:Bechuana name kokon or kokoon; and there are several See also:East African forms more or less closely related to the latter which have received distinct names.
GO, or Go-See also:BANG (See also:Jap. Go-See also:ban, See also:board for playing Go), a popular table See also:game. It is of See also:great antiquity, having been invented in See also:Japan, according to tradition, by the See also:emperor Yao, 2350 B.C., but it is probably of See also:Chinese origin. According to Falkener the first See also:historical mention of it was made about the See also:year 300 B.C., but there is abundant See also:evidence that it was a popular game See also:long before that See also:period. The See also:original See also:Japanese Go is played on a board divided into squares by 19 See also:horizontal and 19 See also:vertical lines, making 361 intersections, upon which the See also:flat See also:round men, 181 white and 181 black, are placed one by one as the game proceeds. The men are placed by the two players on any inter-sections (me) that may seem advantageous, the See also:object being to surround with one's men as many unoccupied intersections as possible, the player enclosing the greater number of vacant points being the winner. Completely surrounded men are captured and removed from the board. This game is played in See also:England upon a board divided into 361 squares, the men being placed upon these instead of upon the intersections.
A much simpler variety of Go, mostly played by foreigners, has for its object to get five men into See also:line. This may have been the earliest See also:form of the game, as the word go means five. Except in Japan it is often played on an See also:ordinary See also:draughts-board, and the winner is he who first gets five men into line, either vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
See Go-Bang, by A. See also:Howard Cady, in See also:Spalding's See also:Home Library (New See also:York, 1896) ; See also:Games See also:Ancient and See also:Oriental, by See also:Edward Falkener (See also:London, 1892) ; Das japan.-chinesische Spiel Go, by O. Korschelt (See also:Yokohama, 1881); Das Nationalspiel der Japanesen, by G. Schurig (See also:Leipzig, 1888).
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