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Aircraft of Red Flag The Ultimate Air-to-Air Combat Exercise


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English | June 20, 2022 | ISBN: 1913870111 | 128 pages | PDF | 7.25 Mb
Red Flag is the world’s premier air-to-air combat exercise. Run by the US Air Force from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, its aim is to provide aircrew with a safe environment in which to take part in interview air combat sorties. It takes place over the vast Nevada Test and Training Range and is attended by participants from allied nations around the world, with 29 countries having taken part with the US since 1975. These visitors bring with them their own variety of aircraft, adding to the diverse array gracing the skies over Las Vegas.

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Affine Flag Manifolds and Principal Bundles (Repost)


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English | PDF (True) | 2010 | 298 Pages | ISBN : 3034602871 | 2.5 MB
Affine flag manifolds are infinite dimensional versions of familiar objects such as Graßmann varieties. The book features lecture notes, survey articles, and research notes – based on workshops held in Berlin, Essen, and Madrid – explaining the significance of these and related objects (such as double affine Hecke algebras and affine Springer fibers) in representation theory (e.g., the theory of symmetric polynomials), arithmetic geometry (e.g., the fundamental lemma in the Langlands program), and algebraic geometry (e.g., affine flag manifolds as parameter spaces for principal bundles). Novel aspects of the theory of principal bundles on algebraic varieties are also studied in the book.

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The Green Flag A History of Irish Nationalism


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2000 | 896 Pages | ISBN: 0141927712 | EPUB | 4 MB
THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOLD FENIAN MEN and OURSELVES ALONE), this outstanding history is now available as a single volume.

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A Flag Worth Dying For The Power and Politics of National Symbols


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English | 2017 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 1501176641, 1501168339 | EPUB | 57,1 mb
Combining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, "one of the best books on geopolitics you could imagine," (The Evening Standard), explains flags and their symbols-how their power is used to unite and divide populations and intimidate enemies.

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British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 Admirals’ Lives


Free Download John Morrow, "British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Admirals’ Lives"
English | ISBN: 1474277675 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 7 MB
During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy’s critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals’ roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically.

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Our Flag Was Still There The Star Spangled Banner That Survived the British and 200 Years―and the Armistead Family [Audiobook]


Free Download Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner That Survived the British and 200 Years―and the Armistead Family Who Saved It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYKDP2WF | 2023 | 8 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Tom McMillan
Narrator: Robert Fass

Our Flag Was Still There details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spangled Banner-from Fort McHenry in 1814, when Francis Scott Key first saw it, to the Smithsonian-and the enduring family who defended, kept, hid, and ultimately donated the most famous flag in American history. Francis Scott Key saw the original Star-Spangled Banner flying over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814, following a twenty-five-hour bombardment by the British Navy, inspiring him to write the words to our national anthem. Torn and tattered over the years, reduced in size to appease souvenir-hunters, stuffed away in a New York City vault for the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the flag’s mere existence after two hundred years is an improbable story of dedication, perseverance, patriotism, angst, inner-family squabbles, and, yes, more than a little luck. Our Flag Was Still There provides new insight into an intriguing period of US history, offering a "story behind the story" account of one of the country’s most treasured relics.

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