Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Ridgway.IPCPubs@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Ridgway.IPCPubs@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Who is Nimrod? Message-ID: <223@topaz.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:32:20 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.223 Posted: Fri Jan 11 09:32:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 08:07:44 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 6 From: Ridgway@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Nimrod was Noah's (of flood-fame) great-grandson, and was known as a great hunter. Consequently, through history and legend a nimrod is a person expert in or devoted to hunting. One of the Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar is named Nimrod.