* December 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, founder of Organization US ( a black nationalist group ) and later chair of Black Studies, at California State University, Long Beach from 1989 to 2002.

Long ( 2002 ) notes that since the 1980s, scholars have connected American religious camp meetings to Scottish holy fairs of the 17th – 18th centuries.

The Long Fall Back To Earth debuted at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 mainstream charts, which was Jars of Clay's highest debut since The Eleventh Hour which debuted at No. 28 in 2002.

* Long Walk Home ( 2002 )

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From June 29, 2002 until September 27, 2004, a portion of its collection was on display in what was dubbed MoMA QNS, a former Swingline staple factory in Long Island City, Queens.

In March 2002, Tricon announced the acquisition of Lexington, Kentucky-based Yorkshire Global Restaurants, owner of the Long John Silver's and A & W All-American Food chains and its intention to change the company's name to Yum!

She went on to perform the role in several other cities through 2002 including Off-Broadway in New York and the Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre in California.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

The city once shared three different postal ZIP codes with the city of Long Beach but in July 2002, the city of Signal Hill received its own ZIP code, 90755.

* The town is referenced incorrectly in the 2002 movie City by the Sea, when Long Beach is said to have defeated Cedarhurst in a football game ( instead of the actual high school, Lawrence ).

* Chandler Groves 2001 Ohio State Long Jump Champion ( Wayne Trace HS, 2002 )

The Long Ashton Research Station was closed in 2002, with some of its staff moved to Rothamsted, whilst Broom's Barn is operated as an experimental farm for Rothamsted.

MacDuff Circle ( 2002 ), by Richard Long in the grounds of the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh ( National Galleries of Scotland ).

In 2002, the Long Beach Press-Telegram launched the monthly publication San Pedro Magazine serving the San Pedro and Rancho Palos Verdes areas.

Long s in Berlin, 2002

Floyd " Bud " I. Gaugh IV ( born October 2, 1967 ) is a rock music drummer who played in the bands Sublime ( 1988 – 1996 ), Long Beach Dub Allstars ( 1997 – 2002 ), Eyes Adrift ( 2002 – 2003 ) Volcano ( 2004 ), Del Mar ( 2006 – present ) and Sublime with Rome ( 2009 – 2011 ).

* The opening scenes of Nickelodeon's " Clockstoppers " ( 2002 ) is filmed at Long Beach Airport.

* Dennis McNally, A Long Strange Trip, the Inside History of the Grateful Dead ( New York, 2002 ), ISBN 0-7679-1186-5

* Long Time Dead ( 2002 )

The Long Beach Dub Allstars were a dub reggae / ska / rock band formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2002.

The replacement of the 1913 Long Island Railroad Hempstead Terminal with a modern facility was completed in 2002 and a four-story, 112 unit building for senior housing, with retail on the ground level was completed at Main and West Columbia Streets in January 1998.

In 2002, Trevor Ferguson's first play, Long, Long, Short, Long was produced by infinitheatre ( directed Guy Sprung ) in Montreal and has become the first English play in history to be nominated by l ' académie québécoise du theatre for a Masque award for best text.

A 2012 study of gravitational microlensing data collected between 2002 and 2007 concludes the proportion of stars with planets is much higher and estimates an average of 1. 6 planets orbiting between 0. 5 – 10 AU per star in the Milky Way Galaxy, the authors of this study conclude " that stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception.

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

In 2002, Q featured New Order on their list of the " 50 Bands to See Before You Die ", although this was as part of a sub-list of " 5 Bands That Could Go Either Way ".

* Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel ( 2002 )

* Hancock, Ian ( 2002 ), John Gorton: He Did It His Way, Hodder, Sydney, New South Wales ( sympathetic ) ISBN 0-7336-1439-6

* 2002 — Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics present evidence for the hypothesis that Sagittarius A * is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy

Also Geshe Kelsang Gyatso published a translation titled " Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life " in 2002.

" Someone ," a B-side from the 2002 Red Hot Chili Peppers ' album By The Way is an example of the doo-wop style in the 2000s.

In the spring of 2002, both the police department and the township offices were reunited again in a new municipal center located behind the Shoppes at Flowers Mill on Municipal Way.

* Heyne, P. T., Boettke, P. J., Prychitko, D. L. ( 2002 ): The Economic Way of Thinking ( 10th ed ).

* CHRISTLIEB N., BESSELL M. S., GUSTAFSSON B., KORN A., BARKLEM P. S., KARISSON T., MIZUNO-WIEDNER M., ROSSI S., A stellar relic from the early Milky Way, Nature, 419, 904-906 ( 2002 )

" in live shows, a version appears as a B-Side on their 2002 single " By the Way ".

* The Only Way to Know for Sure: Live in Chicago ( 2002 )

In 2001, he starred as the lead role in the David Yates-directed BBC television serial The Way We Live Now and, in April 2002, he played the famous barrister, George Carman QC, in the BBC's biographical drama Get Carman: The Trials of George Carman QC.

Suchet was nominated for another Royal Television Society award in 2002 for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in The Way We Live Now, which also earned him a BAFTA nomination.

Elmpark Way in the village has hosted the York International 9s competition since 2002.

The following year, the late 1970s UFO line-up – Mogg, Schenker, Way, Raymond and Parker – reunited, and the resulting albums were Walk on Water ( 1995 ), Covenant ( 2000 ), and Sharks ( 2002 ).

In a 2002 interview Burke recalled: " Way down in the South somewhere, I showed up and the promoter said to me, " Is Solomon Burke here yet?

In 2002, Brownsover Fish Bar on Hollowell Way, Brownsover, was named as the best seller of Fish and Chips in the country.

During excavations for the construction of an office building in Hennef Way in 2002, the remains of a British Iron Age settlement with circular buildings dating back to 200 BC were found.

In 2002, Anthony Giddens, a leading architect of the Third Way political philosophy, named spin as New Labour's biggest failure, but commended the party's success in certain policy areas and at marginalising the Conservative Party.

In 2002, Anthony Giddens, a key figure in the development of the Third Way, listed problems facing the New Labour government, naming spin as the biggest failure because its damage to the party's image was difficult to rebound from.

* " Make You Feel That Way " / " Sky Is Falling " 12 " ( MCA Records / Quannum Projects, 2002 )

Brian Gallagher, former head of United Way in Columbus, Ohio, accepted the job in 2002 and was still president and CEO at the end of 2011.