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Stars & Stripes ( Team Dennis Conner) is the name of an America's Cup syndicate operated by Dennis Conner and its racing yachts, which are among the most famous in the world. [1] The name "Stars & Stripes" refers to the nickname often used for the flag of the United States. TDC was registered under the flag of the San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC).
1988 America's Cup. The 1988 America's Cup was the 27th America's Cup regatta, and was contested between the defender, San Diego Yacht Club represented by Stars & Stripes H3, and the challenger, the Mercury Bay Boating Club represented by New Zealand Challenge 's KZ-1. Run under strict Deed of Gift rules, the regatta was won by the San Diego ...
Stars & Stripes 87 was a clear contender from the start of the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup regatta, winning 11 of 12 races in the first round robin, including the only round robin victory of any boat over Kiwi Magic (KZ 7). The second round was a period of concern. Conner's boat was optimized for heavy airs, and suffered from a shortage of sails for ...
The 1987 America's Cup was the twenty-sixth challenge for the America's Cup . The American challenger Stars & Stripes 87, sailed by Dennis Conner, beat the Australian defender Kookaburra III, sailed by Iain Murray, in a four-race sweep in the best of seven series. [1] Conner thus became the first person both to lose the America's Cup and then ...
Stars and Stripes also serves independent military news and information to an online audience of about 2.0 million unique visitors per month, 60 to 70 percent of whom are located in the United States. Stars and Stripes is a non-appropriated fund (NAF) organization, only partially subsidized by the Department of Defense.
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton, referred to as the union and bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate ...
Stars & Stripes, 2002 album by Aaron Tippin; Stars & Stripes, a 2008 EP by SOJA; Stars and Stripes Vol. 1, 1996 album by The Beach Boys "Stars 'n' Stripes", a song by Grant Lee Buffalo from Fuzzy; Stars and Stripes, American Oi! band and side project of Jack Kelly from Slapshot; Other uses. Stars & Stripes (America's Cup syndicate), a series of ...
Stars and bars (combinatorics) In the context of combinatorial mathematics, stars and bars (also called "sticks and stones", [1] "balls and bars", [2] and "dots and dividers" [3]) is a graphical aid for deriving certain combinatorial theorems. It can be used to solve many simple counting problems, such as how many ways there are to put n ...