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reconstruction

[‚rē·kən′strək·shən]
(solid-state physics)
A process in which atoms at the surface of a solid displace and form bands different from those existing in the bulk solid.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Reconstruction

The process of duplicating the original materials, form, and appearance of a historic building that no longer exists, based on historical research; most often it is located at the original site.
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(30) Although it had been over thirty years, propaganda that revived emotions from the Reconstruction period were impressed on a new generation of Southerners.
Some contractor interviewees (C2, C6 and C9) mainly attributed their difficulty in procuring required resources from outside the rebuilding area for housing projects to the lack of transport access during the recovery and reconstruction period.
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Featuring publicity materials, newspaper clippings, tourist ephemera, vintage photographs, and documentary films from the period, this retrospective, "Expo 58: Between Utopia and Reality," curated by Arnaud Bozzini and Geertrui Elaut, suggested that the first world's fair to take place a after the end of World War II unwittingly crystallized both the hopes and anxieties of the postwar reconstruction period.
His treatment of the Reconstruction period is more fragmentary than his discussion of the establishment of the African Union, AME, and AMEZ churches between 1813 and 1822; one page on the establishment of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, culminating in an 1870 organizing conference,
York is hosting a fixture that was transferred from Doncaster, an ATR racecourse now nearing the end of its reconstruction period.
NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE PROMISES details the influences and success story of the last reconstruction period and draws important connections between this and the city's post-Katrina landscape.
Zipf's useful study of court-ordered apprenticeship of poor children is especially strong on the early Reconstruction period and makes a thorough use of legal records.
His approach to architecture was largely formed in the post-war reconstruction period: the time of rationing and utility clothing, of high hopes but few resources with which to realise them, of almost military organisation with only occasional treats like the Festival of Britain.
Sicilian immigrants were particularly suspect: not only were they more olive-skinned then their northern European counterparts, but the timing of the arrival of the majority of Sicilian immigrants (between 1880-1921, over 4 million Italians entered the U.S.) made their initiation into the racial quagmire of the Reconstruction period in the U.S.
When the reconstruction period is finally over it can readily be converted back to a studio theatre to resume its role of showcasing new plays in Stratford.
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