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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).
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Stars and Stripes Stakes was a Grade III horse race in the United States for Thoroughbreds aged three years and up. It was last raced over a distance of 12 furlongs (1½ miles) on the turf at Arlington Park near Chicago as a lead up race to the Arlington Million and Breeders' Cup Turf . Inaugurated in 1929, it was raced on dirt through 1949 ...
Stars and Stripes series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database "A Naval Review"—another criticism of the book, at Ironclads and Blockade Runners Of the American Civil War; Warrior vs Monitor at the Wayback Machine (archived August 25, 2017)—a look at what would have really happened if USS Monitor fought HMS Warrior