In March 2002 workers cataloguing archives of diarist John Evelyn at the British Library found a box containing a number of gunpowder samples, including a compressed bar with a note in Evelyn's handwriting stating that it had belonged to Guy Fawkes.

Exit polls showed the Left had a unique appeal to non-voters: 390, 000 Germans who refused to support any party in 2002 returned to the ballot box to vote for the Left Party.

This, along with the poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Star Trek Nemesis, cast an uncertain light upon the future of the Star Trek franchise in general.

She found film critics praise for her performance in the teen drama Cruel Intentions ( 1999 ) and she subsequently appeared in the box office hits Scooby-Doo ( 2002 ), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed ( 2004 ), and the American remake of Japanese horror film The Grudge ( 2004 ).

Bandai also later released the series in several different box sets, including a Limited Edition set released on July 23, 2002, a " Perfect Collection "— which included the Escaflowne feature length movie — released October 26, 2004, and an " Anime Legends " box set on April 11, 2006.

Howe has stated publicly that he was unhappy with the mix of his guitars on the album, though a version of " Fist of Fire " with more of Howe's guitars left intact appeared on the In a Word box set in 2002.

In 2002 The Producers was re-released in three theaters by Rialto Pictures and earned $ 111, 866 at the box office.

2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date.

The first new release on this label was the 2002 box set The River Flows, which featured their then-out-of-print first three albums ( all remastered and several first album tracks even re-recorded ), as well as a fourth disc of unreleased tracks and rarities called Dunes.

Changes in the way that DTT is transmitted mean that a digital set-top box from the late 1990s would have offered impaired performance as early as 2002, and will today be completely unusable in many parts of the UK where transmission is fully digital.

* The Black Album ( 2002 ), an album by Babybird from the box set The Original Lo-Fi

He has also appeared in a series of films which were not as critically or commercially successful, such as Boat Trip ( 2002 ), Norbit ( 2007 ), and Daddy Day Camp ( 2007 ), all of which had received extremely negative reviews and, with the exception of Norbit, performed poorly at the box office.

On September 24, 2002, ADV Films released a box set containing all of the DVDs entitled Martian Successor Nadesico: Complete Chronicles and, on January 1, 2008, a collection of all the episodes entitled Martian Successor Nadesico: Perfect Collection.

Some of this concert is released on October 4, 1997, on their box set Old Friends, but most is not released until July 2002.

The set called Bedrock In Concert ( 2002 ) contained the audio CD Live in Nottingham plus the DVD Classic Rock Legends in a single box.

The film version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, released in 2002, became the third film to exceed £ 600 million in international box office sales and received generally favourable reviews.

The film opened at # 3 in the U. S. box office in the weekend of July 12, 2002, taking in $ 15, 632, 281 USD in its first opening weekend, behind Road To Perdition and Men in Black II, which was on its second week at the top.

In late 2002, Ride released a 3CD box set which is made up of OX4_ The Best of Ride, Firing Blanks ( Unreleased tracks ) and Live_Reading Festival 1992.

A Beat Happening box set, Crashing Through, which collects all of the band's officially released music except for some of their tracks from a live cassette split with The Vaselines, was released in 2002.

She and the curator of Sarnoff's papers found a previously mis-filed 1916 memo that did mention Sarnoff and a " radio music box scheme " ( the word " scheme " in 1916 usually meant a plan ); Benjamin wrote a follow-up article about Sarnoff and the radio music box in 2002.

Farrell's next American films, American Outlaws ( 2001 ) and Hart's War ( 2002 ), were not commercially successful, but his 2003 films, including Phone Booth, S. W. A. T., and The Recruit, the latter his first starring role, were well-received as well as box office successes.

The Club grossed $ 899, 000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $ 2, 854, 201 in 2002 dollars.

On the first anniversary of his death, April 14, 2002, a DVD box set containing his best known work was released in Japan in commemoration.

In 2002, Vick set many records and supplied the media with numerous highlights for the season, including rushing for 173 yards in an overtime win at Minnesota, the highest single-game rushing total for an NFL quarterback ever ( Vick's footwear from this game are currently enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame ).

A two-disc DVD set titled The History of Beavis and Butt-Head was scheduled for release in September 2002 in the United States.

The first such CODATA set was published in 1973, later in 1986, 1998, 2002 and the fifth in 2006.

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

* 2002: A street-driven Dodge Dakota pickup with a diesel engine built at Gale banks engineering hauls its own service trailer to the Bonneville Salt Flats and set an FIA land speed record as the world's fastest pickup truck with a one-way run of and a two-way average of.

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

Resolution 1441 was passed unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 8, 2002, offering Iraq " a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations " that had been set out in several previous UN resolutions, threatening " serious consequences " if the obligations were not fulfilled.

The Council of the Authority began work, in August 2002, on another set of regulations, covering polymetallic sulphides and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, which are rich sources of such minerals as copper, iron, zinc, silver and gold, as well as cobalt.

In the US in the wake of 9 / 11, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act 2002 ( TRIA ) set up a federal Program providing a transparent system of shared public and private compensation for insured losses resulting from acts of terrorism.

In 2002, the Royals set a new team record for futility, losing 100 games for the first time in franchise history.

Hingis set a series of " youngest-ever " records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in 2002 at the age of 22.

The movies were released again in North America on May 7, 2002 in DVD format, available separately or in a boxed set.

In 2009, of the 429 Florida manatees recorded dead, 97 were killed by commercial and recreational vessels, which broke the earlier record number of 95 set in 2002.

While originally used primarily for encrypting the contents of e-mail messages and attachments from a desktop client, PGP products have been diversified since 2002 into a set of encryption applications which can be managed by an optional central policy server.

The government brought the deficit down to 2. 5 % of GDP in 2001, and set a target of 1. 9 % of GDP for 2002.

As early as 1938, Theodor Adorno had already identified a trend toward the dissolution of " a culturally dominant set of values " ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 141 ), citing the commodification of all genres as beginning of the end of genre or value distinctions in music ( Adorno 2002, 293 – 95 ).

Until 2008, elected officials were allowed to change political party, while retaining their seats, during set windows which occurred twice each electoral term, due to controversial floor crossing legislative amendments made in 2002.

The participation from 1998 to 2002 in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo set the stage for this deterioration by draining the country for hundreds of millions of dollars.

In January 2002, Palm set up a wholly owned subsidiary to develop and license Palm OS, which was named PalmSource.

The same year, it was announced for September the release of Goin ' Down Rockin ': The Last Recordings, a set of twelve songs recorded by Jennings and bassist Robby Turner before his death in 2002.

These specific election donations are known as ‘ hard money .’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ) of 2002, also known as " McCain-Feingold ", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1974, and prohibited unregulated contributions ( commonly referred to as " soft money ") to national political parties.

* Orange County ( film ), 2002 film set in Orange County, California