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The social control of protest can be carried out by a number of agents; among them are the police, legislators, organized countermovements, and the news media. This research examines how the tactics and strategies of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have been shaped an…

Various geochemical parameters including type and abundance of organic matter (TOC), sulfide-sulfur quantities, fluctuations in bottom-water anoxicity (DOP), metal content differences, and sulfur isotope variations have been assessed in order to characterize Midcontinent Pennsyl…

Nonpoint P sources from the agricultural landscape are a significant environmental problem for surface water bodies due to the promotion of eutrophication. Many states have developed P assessment tools to help differentiate land uses and their potential for P losses to surface w…

A Use Attainability Analyses (UAA) was conducted on Turkey Creek, an urban perennial stream located in Johnson and Wyandotte Counties, Kansas. Field work was conducted in August of 1996. Designated uses assessed in Turkey Creek were noncontact recreation and expected aquatic lif…

Jonathan Ralston Kennedy, along with several of his siblings, came to the Wakarusa Valley of Eastern Kansas in 1855 to farm and settle the territory as a “free state.” Several members of the family fought and served dutifully during the “bleeding Kansas” era and the Civil War. O…

Though nineteenth-century parks, also known as “pleasure grounds,” were seen at the time as an antidote to unhealthy high-density urban living in large cities such as New York City, they were embraced by small towns and communities that experienced none of the challenges associa…