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Nlle. Grenade, Caracas et Guyanes.

Map shows early nineteenth century South America with Venezuela as "Gouvernement de Caracas," French, Spanish and Portuguese Guiana, and Grenada; Greater and Lesser Antilles, Panama, and part of Brazil. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1825..1845]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada : shewing the routes between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans by way of Tehuantepeque, Nicaragua & Panama.

Map shows Central America geography and place names. Includes five "vertical sections of the proposed canals between Lake Nicaragua & the Pacific Ocean," and notes: "Sections of oceanic routes proposed and completed: Section no. 1, surveyed by Dr. Andres Oersted of Copenhagen for the government of Costa Rica 1848. Section no. 2, surveyed by Colonel Childs for the American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Comp'y 1850-51. Section no. 3, proposed by ... the Emperor of the French. Section no. 4, surveyed by Col. Hughes 1849. Section no. 5, surveyed by ... E.G. Squier. For particulars of this route, see 'Notes on Central America' by ... E.G. Squier." Caribbean reefs delineated and named. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Baily, John, fl. 1811-1850
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1287.0807]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "U.S. Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, inspects a captured rifle in a Cuban barracks on Grenada. Tower and 13 other congressmen are touring the island."
Date: November 7, 1983
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
AH-1W SuperCobra captions transcript

AH-1W SuperCobra

Video detailing the history of the AH-1W SuperCobra, featuring footage of the helicopter in action in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury, in Iraq during Operation Desert Shield, and in Somalia during Operation Gothic Serpent.
Date: 1993~
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
War Powers Litigation Initiated by Members of Congress Since the Enactment of the War Powers Resolution (open access)

War Powers Litigation Initiated by Members of Congress Since the Enactment of the War Powers Resolution

This report summarizes the eight cases initiated by Members of Congress in which final rulings were reached, which concerned U.S. military activities in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Grenada; military action taken during the Persian Gulf conflict between Iraq and Iran; U.S. activities in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (prior to the congressional authorization); U.S. participation in NATO's action in Kosovo and Yugoslavia; and U.S. military action in Libya.
Date: February 17, 2012
Creator: Garcia, Michael John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Art Work Orange] (open access)

[News Script: Art Work Orange]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Jan Vermeer who is a guitar player and his one of the oil paintings in the world is being held for ransom.
Date: February 25, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hearst & Painting] (open access)

[News Script: Hearst & Painting]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Hearst family who have been waiting for an answer from the terrorist group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst. Also, about the municipal government who wouldn't meet a ransom demand for more than 1 million dollars in food in exchange of a stolen Vermeer painting.
Date: February 26, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Planet, Volume 15, Number 1, 2004 (open access)

Our Planet, Volume 15, Number 1, 2004

Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to seas, oceans, and small islands, which are under threat of overfishing, unsustainable development, and climate change.
Date: 2004
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library