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Oral History Interview with Jacob Bekker, September 28, 1996

Description: Interview with Jacob Bekker, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw, Poland. Bekker discusses his upbringing, life for Jews in Warsaw before the war, antisemitism in Warsaw and discrimination, the invasion of Poland, Germans and Poles identifying Jews and singling them out for labor, fleeing to Russia and working there, returning to Poland after the war, and leaving for Israel.
Date: September 28, 1996
Creator: Anson, Jennifer & Bekker, Jacob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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The Nordic Countries and U.S. Relations

Description: This report provides an overview of U.S. relations with the five Nordic countries -- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden -- which share deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties and many political and economic similarities. Topics include foreign and security policies, policies toward Russia, and countering terrorism.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Muslims in Europe: Promoting Integration and Countering Extremism

Description: This report examines policies aimed at promoting integration, combating terrorism, and countering violent extremism in five European countries with significant Muslim populations: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The report also evaluates the role of the 27-member European Union (EU) in shaping European laws and policies related to integration and counter-radicalization.
Date: September 7, 2011
Creator: Archick, Kristin; Belkin, Paul; Blanchard, Christopher M.; Ek, Carl & Mix, Derek E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Election in Germany

Description: This report gives a brief overview of the 2017 chancellorship election campaign in Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel is running for her 4th term in office. The major political parties and issues in the campaign are discussed as well as possible effects on U.S. relations with Germany.
Date: September 18, 2017
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Election in Greece

Description: This report discusses issues leading up to Greece's snap legislative election on September 20, only eight months after the country's last election. Greece continues to struggle with the negative repercussions of a sovereign debt and financial crisis that began in 2009.
Date: September 14, 2015
Creator: Belkin, Paul
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Neiman Marcus Fashion Exposition fan

Description: Souvenir fan of folding type. Clear plastic filigree sticks and guards; red paper leaf stamped in gold: "Neiman Marcus - Fashion Exposition / Sept 1950 / Dallas-Texas". Brass loop. In cardboard box labeled "Produzione Italiana".
Date: September 1950
Creator: Bordoli
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Oral History Interview with David Dorado Romo, September 15, 2007

Description: Interview with David Dorado Romo—a writer, historian, musician, and cultural activist from El Paso, Texas. Romo narrates his parents' immigration to the United States from Mexico and his childhood in California and El Paso. He describes his academic life and details the time he spent in Israel and Italy. Romo also shares insights on the religious, social, and political viewpoints he has held and developed throughout the years. He highlights his publishing career, detailing the Mexican, American… more
Date: September 15, 2007
Creator: Calderón, Roberto & Romo, David Dorado
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881

Description: Often obscured in the history of the nineteenth-century US-Mexico borderlands, European-born entrepreneurs played a definitive role in pushing the Lower Rio Grande borderlands into Atlantic markets. Though they were often stymied by mismanagement, notions of ethnic and cultural superiority, and eruptions of violence, these entrepreneurs persistently attempted to remake the region into a modern commercial utopia. Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande highlights the actions of folks like English-bo… more
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Date: September 2024
Creator: Carpenter, Kyle B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Efforts to Preserve Economic Benefits of the Iran Nuclear Deal

Description: This report discusses efforts by the non-U.S. parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)--the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, the European Union (EU) and Iran--to preserve the accord after the United States announced they would cease implementation.
Date: September 7, 2018
Creator: Cimino-Isaacs, Cathleen D.; Katzman, Kenneth & Mix, Derek E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Problems Associated With Decommissioning the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Pond

Description: Decommissioning of nuclear power plants and other nuclear fuel cycle facilities has been an imperative issue lately. There exist significant experience and generally accepted recommendations on remediation of lands with residual radioactive contamination; however, there are hardly any such recommendations on remediation of cooling ponds that, in most cases, are fairly large water reservoirs. The literature only describes remediation of minor reservoirs containing radioactive silt (a complete cl… more
Date: September 30, 2009
Creator: Farfan, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Anti-Terrorism Authority Under the Laws of the United Kingdom and the United States

Description: This report is a comparison of the laws of the United Kingdom and of the United States that govern criminal and intelligence investigations of terrorist activities. Both systems rely upon a series of statutory authorizations: in the case of the United States primarily the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act; in the case of the United Kingdom, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, the Police Act, the Intelligence Services Act. Among other dif… more
Date: September 7, 2006
Creator: Feikert, Clare & Doyle, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Dress

Description: Dress of grey wool tweed with herringbone weave and black velvet contrasts. Tailored dress with plunging open V-neckline with turned back collar. Centerfront contrast panel embellished with six black buttons. Set- in. full-length sleeves. Waistseam with fitted. knee-length gathered skirt. Angled. contrasting. floating panels from waistseam to side hip seams accented with two black buttons at the hip. Zipper closure from left underarm seam to hip level. Fully lined in gray silk. Black grosgrain … more
Date: 1983-09~/1983-12
Creator: Givenchy, Hubert de, 1927-2018
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Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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OCC Household Emissions project: Analysis pack

Description: The United Kingdom's Office of Climate Change reports that a number of barriers inhibit households from reducing carbon emissions, even though reducing carbon emissions generally results in reducing household costs. In this paper, the Office of Climate Change identifies policies to overcome barriers to carbon savings.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries
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War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

Description: This report gives a summary of the usage of the War Powers Resolution (WPR) and various issues related to proposals to modify or repeal the resolution. The report summarizes most recent developments and background, and gives an overview of United Nations actions, and WPR activities in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq (post-1991), Haiti, and Somalia. It also includes commentary on the instances formally reported under the WPR, consultation with Congress, and the current issues which Congre… more
Date: September 23, 2009
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

Description: This report gives a summary of the usage of the War Powers Resolution (WPR) and various issues related to proposals to modify or repeal the resolution. The report summarizes the most recent developments and background, and gives an overview of United Nations actions, and WPR activities in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq (post-1991), Haiti, and Somalia. It also includes commentary on the instances formally reported under the WPR, the requirement for consultation with Congress, and the cur… more
Date: September 25, 2012
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

Description: This report focuses on the history and controversies surrounding the War Powers Resolution. It includes specific examples, including the US's involvement in Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Iraq, Haiti, and Somalia.
Date: September 30, 2002
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

Description: This report focuses on the history and controversies surrounding the War Powers Resolution. It includes specific examples, including the US's involvement in Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Iraq, Haiti, and Somalia.
Date: September 10, 2002
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The U.S. Financial Crisis: Lessons from Sweden

Description: In the early 1990s, Sweden faced a large banking and exchange rate crisis which it eventually resolved. Four lessons that emerged from Sweden's experience are: 1) the resolution process must be transparent; 2) the resolution agency must be politically and financially independent; 3) market discipline must be maintained; and 4) there must be a plan to jump-start credit flows in the financial system. This report provides an overview of the Swedish banking crisis and an explanation of the measures… more
Date: September 29, 2008
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Surveyor III Mission Report, Part 2: Scientific Results, Addendum

Description: Report discussing the Surveyor III mission, the third in a series of unmanned missions designed to soft-land on the moon and return form the lunar surface. This addendum to Part 2 contains additional scientific analyses conducted by the members of the Surveyor Investigator Teams and working groups.
Date: September 1, 1967
Creator: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The personal papers of George E. Jones: 576th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force, September 16, 1999

Description: Interview with George E. Jones, Army Air Forces veteran (576th Bomb Squadron, 392nd Bomb Group, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force). Miscellaneous documents, including portions of his flight log from missions to France and Germany, 1944; printed accounts of his capture and experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany, 1944-45.
Date: September 16, 1999
Creator: Jones, George E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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