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Virginia Tech celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2022. Established
in Southwest Virginia to promote agricultural, mechanical, and
military education, the fledgling school grew into a comprehensive
research university with a global land-grant mission. No Ordinary
Moment: Virginia Tech, 150 Years in 150 Images explores the history
of the school, from its mid-nineteenth-century origins as Virginia
Agricultural and Military College to present-day Virginia Tech. The
book features approximately 150 illustrations, including rare
photographs and unique items from the Special Collections and
University Archives at Virginia Tech and other campus
sources.Compiled and written by Virginia Tech archivists, No
Ordinary Moment is organized around three principal themes-the
land-grant mission, the evolving campus, and the long tradition of
innovation-which, taken together, provide an overlapping view of
Virginia Tech's past, present, and future. Along the way, the book
highlights the many notable milestones in the university's history,
including its founding as a land-grant college in 1872, the
granting of university status in 1970, and the arrival of female
students and students of color. Likewise, the book illuminates the
long-standing curricular strengths of the university in
engineering, agriculture, architecture, and the sciences, as well
as the liberal arts, athletics program, and social traditions
shared by students, alumni, and the community. Also covered are the
establishment of the Virginia Cooperative Extension and colleges
for medicine and veterinary medicine, and Virginia Tech's leading
example in new technological fields and applied sciences, such as
cybersecurity, transportation, autonomous vehicles, and
bioinformatics. No Ordinary Moment is a book for anyone who wants
to learn more about the history and culture of Virginia Tech-from
alumni, faculty, and students to members of the Hokie nation
wherever they might live.
Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony
Blackman, in collaboration with Anthony Wright, brings you Valiant
Boys to complete the V Force set. This is a fascinating collection
of personal accounts of operating Britains first V bomber by
aircrew and ground crew. The book tells the story from the
aircrafts birth taking off from Vickers tiny airfield at Brooklands
to its premature death from fatigue. There are tales of testing
atom bombs in the Australian desert, dropping hydrogen bombs in the
middle of the Pacific and, as a complete contrast, attacking
airfields with conventional bombs in Egypt during the very brief
and abortive Suez campaign. We are reminded of how the Valiant
provided the UKs first nuclear deterrent by always having some
armed aircraft on stand-by twenty-four hours a day, supported by
their air and ground crews, ready to be flown at a moments notice
on a one-way trip to launch an atomic war. Some Valiants were given
a photographic role providing accurate images from high altitude
and were used not only to gather military intelligence but also to
survey the UK and countries overseas. Others were developed into
flight refuelling tankers breaking point to point records before
enabling Britains fighter aircraft to be refuelled and fly anywhere
in the world. This book completes Tony Blackmans trilogy of the
three V bombers. As Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael
Beetham makes it clear in his foreword: It is good to have a book
written by aircrew and ground crew telling their stories and how
they operated the aircraft so that all these things are recorded
and not forgotten. Not as well known as the Vulcan and Victor, the
Valiant is often overlooked; this book will go a long way to
redress the balance.
The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the
Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear
deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World
War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other
two and went into service in 1955. The Vulcan entered service in
1956 and the Victor a year later. The Valiant finished operating in
1965 and the Vulcan in 1984. The later Victors were converted into
refuelling tankers and carried on until 1993. V Force Boys contains
a fascinating collection of previously unpublished stories by V
Force ground and aircrew for all three V bombers. Among other
highlights, the book includes a first-hand account of dropping the
last UK H Bomb, a description of how all the aircraft navigated
before the days of GPS, the training the crews received and an
armourer's account of how the nuclear weapons were moved with
complete safety but not in the regimented way that might be
expected. In addition there are chapters which tell of incidents
that would not be found in the RAF historical annals but show how
the vigilant guarding of the UK had its lighter moments. A must for
all Vulcan, Victor and Valiant enthusiasts.
How I was sexually abused at a young age and up to be unfairly
accuse of sexual abuse.
This major new text critically assesses the key political
ideologies of the 20th century. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a
flowering of new and popular ideologies, such as feminism and
ecologism, and a revival of others, notably liberalism. The
upheavals of the early 1990s have initiated fresh debate amongst
major thinkers on the nature of ideology, much of it however
hostile or polemical. "Modern Political Ideologies" examines in an
objective scholarly manner the evolution of key political
ideologies and assesses their impact and development during the
20th century. This volume is essential reading for all students of
politics, and indeed anyone who has an interest in current events
and wishes to acquire a deeper understanding of the nature, scope
and ambition of different ideologies.
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