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A Short History of Hanford

Description: Nine nuclear reactors and four reprocessing plants at Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the United States for government purposes . These site operations also created large volumes of radioactive and chemical waste. Some contaminants were released into the environment, exposing people who lived downwind and downstream. Other contaminants were stored. The last reactor was shut down in 1987, and the last reprocessing plant closed in 1990. Most of the human-made radioacti… more
Date: November 1, 2002
Creator: Gephart, Roy E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Exploring the expansion history of the universe

Description: Exploring the recent expansion history of the universe promises insights into the cosmological model, the nature of dark energy, and potentially clues to high energy physics theories and gravitation. They examine the extent to which precision distance-redshift observations can map out the history, including the acceleration-deceleration transition, and the components and equations of state of the energy density. They consider the ability to distinguish between various dynamical scalar field mod… more
Date: August 30, 2002
Creator: Linder, Eric V.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Portal to Texas History Grant Materials

Description: These grant materials were prepared to create the Portal to Texas History a project funded by the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) to create a gateway to historic materials. The Award funded the creation and first iteration of The Portal to Texas History. The project was funded for $197,410.
Date: July 2002
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Legislative History: A Basic Guide For Constituents

Description: This report provides an overview of legislative history of federal legislation. The report briefly outlines the legislative process and then suggests where to find materials that describe or document a piece of legislation's progress through Congress.
Date: March 22, 2002
Creator: Gurevitz, Mark
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Legislative History: A Basic Guide For Constituents

Description: This report provides an overview of legislative history of federal legislation. The report briefly outlines the legislative process and then suggests where to find materials that describe or document a piece of legislation's progress through Congress.
Date: March 22, 2002
Creator: Gurevitz, Mark
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Edward J. Drake, 2002

Description: Interview with attorney and Army Air Forces veteran Edward J. Drake. The interview includes Drake's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, youth and education in Dallas, Texas, enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, various training programs, bombing transportation facilities during and after the Ardennes Offensive, crash-landing in Belgium after his plane was hit, and linking up with American troops. Additionally, Drake talks about his ass… more
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Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Drake, Edward J.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Affirmative Action Revisited: A Legal History and Prospectus

Description: Affirmative action remains a focal point of public debate as the result of legal and political developments at the federal, state, and local levels. This report discusses legislation related to affirmative action, as well as legal rulings on the topic and the federal government's role in first establishing and, later, attempting to curb affirmative action policies.
Date: September 30, 2002
Creator: Dale, Charles V.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Frank H. Bigelow, June 13, 2002

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Frank H. Bigelow, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. The interview includes Bigelow's personal experiences about being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boyhood in North Dakota, various jobs during the Great Depression, and enlisting in the Navy. Additionally, Bigelow speaks about volunteering for duty in the Philippines and his assignment to the submarine tender USS Canopus, pre-war military life in the Philippines, the Japanese bombing of Cav… more
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Date: June 13, 2002
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bigelow, Frank H., 1921-
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

No More Silence: an Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy

Description: No More Silence is the first oral history of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, from eyewitness accounts through the police reactions, investigations, and aftermath. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Dallas, it features narratives of forty-nine key eyewitnesses, police officers, deputy sheriffs, and government officials. Here—in many cases for the first time—participants are allowed to speak for themselves without interpretation, editing, or rewording to fit some preconceiv… more
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Date: February 15, 2002
Creator: Sneed, Larry A.
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Partner: UNT Press
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[Flyer: Three Great Black History Programs]

Description: Flyer advertising three events produced by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters, including a lecture and a musical revue. The lecture series was hosted on February 22-23, 2002, at the Clarence Muse Cafe Theatre, and the reggae revue was performed on March 3, 2002, at the Naomi Bruton Theater.
Date: February 2002
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Telecommunications: History and Current Issues Related to Radio Spectrum Management

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As new technologies that depend on the radio spectrum continue to be developed and used more widely, managing the spectrum can grow increasingly challenging. The current legal framework for domestic spectrum management evolved as a compromise over the questions of who should determine the distribution of the spectrum among competing users and what standard should be applied in making this determination. Although ini… more
Date: June 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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History & Reflections of Engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Description: I thought it was important to relate how this project began. Jens Mahler, Mechanical Engineering Deputy Associate Director, recalls that during a discussion between him and Wally Decker, Wally suggested that he document the significant events and the organization of the Mechanical Engineering Department since 1952, i.e., write a history of Mechanical Engineering. Jens agreed that Wally should begin this effort. Upon learning of this, Dave Pehrson, Deputy Associate Director for Engineering, sugg… more
Date: April 18, 2002
Creator: Lafranchi, Ed
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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21st Century Community Learning Centers: A History of the Program

Description: This report describes what Twenty-first Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are. The report also covers the reauthorization of funding for the program in 2002, how grants were awarded, and the essential questions Congress considered when reauthorizing the program. Moreover, the report includes the requirements 21st CCLC projects had to meet to receive the funds.
Date: January 22, 2002
Creator: McCallion, Gail
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Event with traditional dancers and drummers followed by an Egyptian history presentation]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded multiple events taking place at the academy in the year 2002. The footage opens with a dance performance with drummers and traditional clothing which concludes at the 30 minute mark and is followed by female speaker introducing the male speaker giving a presentation on Egyptian black culture.
Date: November 2002
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 11 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Speaker on Black Egyptian history and culture followed by a dance rehearsal]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded multiple events taking place at the academy in the year 2002. The footage opens with a male speaker giving an educational presentation with a PowerPoint showing symbols and content on Egyptian history followed by a dance rehearsal with drummers. The wall of the room they are rehearsing in has as poster that has the eye of Horus symbol and the text "The Third Eye".
Date: November 2002
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 46 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Wartime Diary of Sigismund Koperniak

Description: The personal diary of Sigismund Koperniak, a Navy veteran, detailing his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Spence during World War II. Launching of the Spence and sea trials off Portland, Maine, January, 1943; shakedown cruise to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, February, 1943; escort duty in the Atlantic and Caribbean, March, 1943; convoy duty in the Casablanca, French Morocco, area, April-May, 1943; passage through the Panama Canal, June, 1943; escort duty for the carriers Princeton and Belleau Wood … more
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Date: 2002
Creator: Koperniak, Sigismund
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: University of North Texas

Oral History Interview with Bruce Gordon Elliot, May 17, 2002

Description: Interview with Bruce Elliot, a Navy veteran and POW from Montezuma, Kansas. Elliot discusses his family, joining the Navy and volunteering for Asiatic service, the start of war and the bombing of Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, retreat to Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, escaping internment on Palawan and joining Moro guerillas, sabotage, linking up with Australian forces, evacuation to Australia and returning to the United States, becoming a deepsea diver, and Korean War service. In a… more
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Date: May 17, 2002
Creator: Alexander, Bill & Elliot, Bruce Gordon
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frank Curre, Jr., April 19, 2002

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Frank Curre Jr. The interview includes Curre's personal experiences about joining the Navy, boot camp, being aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, and his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Additionally, Curre talks about pre-war shipboard life and training exercises, his activities during the attack on Pearl Harbor, aftermath of the attack, his transfer to the yard minesweeper YMS-102 at Breme… more
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Date: April 19, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Curre, Frank, Jr.
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Beryl Barton Womack, July 3, 2002

Description: Interview with Beryl Barton Womack. The interview includes Womack's personal experiences about England during the Blitz in World War II, courtship and marriage to Lieutenant Travis Womack, early education, wartime rationing, attending the Domestic Science Teachers College, and coming to the United States. Additionally, Womack speaks about Winston Churchill's inspirational speeches during the Battle of Britain, the bombing of her parents' home in Nottinghamshire, the coming of American troops, a… more
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Date: July 3, 2002
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Womack, Beryl Barton
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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