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Hoosier Century
For more than 125 years, The Indianapolis Star and News have been the newspapers of record for Indiana. Now at the dawn of the 21st Century, the paper's photography editors have put the past 100 years in context with this beautifully illustrated volume, arranged as a historical record in pictures and in the format of a handsome coffee table book.Hoosier Century: 100 Years of Photography from The Indianapolis Star and News is drawn from Indiana's most complete photographic archive. Complemented with essays and captions that highlight the century's most significant stories, the pictures are the book's focus. The images beautifully illustrate the growth, the personalities, and the events that were so much a part of this Hoosier Century.
The Hexagon Story
The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would aff...
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A History of the Hexagon Program
"In late 1965, the stage was being set for the final study of a new generation photographic satellite. It would be required to provide the resolution of earlier close-look satellites while simultaneously providing the broad area coverage capability of previous search/surveillance systems. On July 21, 1966 proposals for the Hexagon sensor were submitted to the government by both Itek and the Perkin-Elmer Corporation. At 1700 on October 10, Mr. Robert Sorensen, then Senior Vice President, Optical Group, received an important phone call from Mr. John J. Crowley, Director of Special Projects, CIA, -- Perkin-Elmer's proposal was accepted by the government. This is a story of the events that followed."-- from Introduction.
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Descendants of John Pipes, Jr
John Pipes Sr., born early 1700's died in 1795. Part of his life he resided in Surry Co. So. Carolina.
