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The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was the ultimate statement of American air power at the beginning of the Cold War. An intriguing mix of proven World War II concepts and 1950s high-tech innovations, the aircraft would spark more controversy than any weapon system ever built until the ill-fated Star Wars system of the late 1980s.
Extensive research at various archives around the country have uncovered new and previously unpublished details about the B-36 and its derivatives. Among these are the first-ever photos of the never-flown second prototype YB-60 all-jet version, details about Convair s flying-boat version of the XC-99 cargo aircraft, and technical information of the stillborn Variable Discharge Turbine B-36C variant.
Includes extensive photographic coverage of the devastating 1952 Texas tornado that severally damaged and grounded a good portion of the B-36 fleet. A detailed serial number list covers each airplane and its final disposition, and a chapter covers the efforts to reclaim and scrap the aircraft as they were taken out of service..
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Questions for an Overcast Day is a series of 33 photographs of young alder trees growing along the Oregon coastline near the artist's home. The series begins by focusing on the branches of the trees, and, progressing from one image to the next, narrows its focus, culminating with several images of a single leaf.
The leaves on the trees appear perforated, the precise cause of which is unknown. The artist likens the particular pattern of erosion on each leaf to hieroglyphics, reading in them a unique "calligraphy of disaster." About them, Adams writes:
What would account for the condition of the leaves--
drought, insects, rocky ground, disease, herbicide, wind?
Are the leaves beautiful?
As with the artist's earlier photographs--of suburban detritus, tract housing under construction and devastated, clear-cut forests--the viewer is invited to find beauty as it coexists with the imperfection, even destruction, of the present day..
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Yesterday's Yarns by Ken Overcast is a collection of stories from the Real West. Some are completely historically accurate, while many of the others don't have a shred of truth. In both cases the reader is instantly transported to a more innocent time and place where real cowboys still spin yarns around their roundup fires..
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Tradin' Tales, Stories From a Montana Back Porch by Ken Overcast is a book of
short stories set in the Real West. Some of them are entirely true, in some cases the truth
may have been enhanced a little, some are perhaps complete fabrications, most of them
are extremely humorous, but one thing is certain; ALL are very entertaining..
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The Iron Column was one of the legendary anarchist fighting units in the Spanish Revolution, famed because it was partly made up of ex-convicts, and because of its ferocious military abilities, and anarchist revolutionary fervor. This account first appeared in Nosotros, the daily newspaper of the Iron Column in March 1937, on the eve of its militarization. It serves as not only a moving personal account from one of its members, but a justification, and defence of the Column and its reputation. "And History will say that the Iron Column was perhaps the only column in Spain that had a clear vision of what our Revolution ought to be. It will also say that of all the columns, ours offered the greatest resistance to militarization, and that there were times when, because of that resistance, it was completely abandoned to its fate..." .
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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Many techniques have been developed to estimate mean available light in forest understories. The standard methods estimate average seasonal PAR by recording it in situ with quantum sensors or through simulation using hemispherical image analysis (HIA). Other techniques have been developed to overcome some of the drawbacks of the standard methods, such as high cost, cumbersome equipment, user bias, and limited replication. The ''Overcast'' method allows rapid evaluation of average seasonal PAR in most situations by taking instantaneous measurements, but is restricted by the overcast sky conditions required. The present study proposes a new, less restrictive method (BF2), that uses a sensor array under a hemispherical dome to overcome the sky condition restrictions of the Overcast method, and tests it against the Overcast and HIA techniques. The study also evaluates the method's ability to predict seedling growth and morphology. The BF2 method provided rapid and precise estimations of %PAR under variable sky conditions, as well as good estimations of seedling's responses, and is suitable for multiple site or highly replicated designs. The methods were used under deciduous stands with contrasting structures. .
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