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5 unusual facts about 1990s


90s

:Note: Sometimes the '90s is used as shorthand for the 1990s, the 1890s, or other such decades in various centuries – see List of decades.

Body kit

Factory-fitted body kits are now becoming more common, perhaps in response to the growth of the aftermarket tuning industry in the late 1990s and onwards.

Cross pattée

In the 1990s represented a symbol of Montenegrin independence movement.

Harry Joseph Bowman

Bowman became the 453rd fugitive listed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Hossein Baghernejad

In the late 1990s Baghernejad was promoted to a full professor by the Hessen Minister of Science due to his "outstanding achievements regarding the implementation of scientific discoveries into practical use".


A35 autoroute

On the German side of the frontier, plans to build a final stretch of Autobahn to connect the French A35 directly with the German A65 at Kandel were not implemented during the 1990s when the focus of Autobahn construction switched to the eastern side of the country.

Alternate Learning

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AmberMUSH

In the 1990s, AmberMUSH was noted as one of the most popular examples of the MUD genre.

Andre Melendez

Melendez became a drug dealer during the early 1990s after he met Peter Gatien, owner of the Limelight Club in New York, and became a regular dealer in Gatien's clubs.

Andrei Shleifer

During the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer was an advisor to Anatoly Chubais, the then vice-premier of Russia, handling the portfolio of Rosimushchestvo (the Committee for the Management of State Property), and was one of the engineers of Russian privatization.

Andrew Loog Oldham

These were rediscovered in the 1990s when the indie band The Verve used a string loop based on the orchestral arrangement of "The Last Time" in "Bitter Sweet Symphony"; in the ensuing court battle, songwriting royalties for the Verve track were awarded to ABCKO Records, the owner of the copyright for "The Last Time".

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

Atlantic Mutual was involved in a significant tax law case which reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1990s.

Ayurveda in America

Robert Svoboda, a similar figure whose Ayurvedic education has roots in both formal and traditional Indian systems of schooling, also contributed to the promotion of Ayurveda in the late 1990s.

Barmy Army

In conjunction with the increasing appearance of English football shirts at cricket grounds in the early 1990s, the song's repetitive cry of "Barmy Army, Barmy Army, Barmy Army" transferred to domestic cricket arenas at Old Trafford and Headingley.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

BGI

Borland Graphics Interface, a graphics library included with many Borland compiler products in the 1990s

Bradley Burston

Burston worked for Reuters in the 1990s, reporting on the Arab–Israeli peace process and Israeli politics.

Burnin' the Roadhouse Down

Despite having not charted a Top 40 country single since 1994, Steve Wariner had been finding success in the late 1990s as a songwriter, including the Number One hits "Longneck Bottle" for Garth Brooks and "Nothin' but the Taillights" for Clint Black, as well as Bryan White's Top 20 country hit "One Small Miracle".

Camilla Henemark

On November 3, 2010,in the during of her illness that was cured by singer Agent unprejudiced the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published excerpts from a book about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Den motvillige monarken ("The Reluctant Monarch"), claiming that he had a year-long love affair with Henemark in the late 1990s.

Cee-lo

Many hip hop artists have referenced the dice game "Cee-Lo" in rap songs ever since the 1990s.

Ceres, Fife

The name has led to contact with Ceres, Italy (visited by the local pipe band in the 1970s) and Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa (with which gifts were exchanged in the 1990s).

Derf Scratch

During the punk revival generated by Nirvana in the 1990s, vocalist Lee Ving did one final performance with the original lineup of Fear before putting together a new version of Fear containing no original members other than himself.

Eru Potaka-Dewes

During the 1990s and early 2000s (decade) he also was working as an actor, appearing in Jane Campion's film The Piano and Rapa-Nui, produced by Kevin Costner.

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Groupe de Bruges

The latter had been formed in the context of the debate on reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1990s.

High Bridge Branch

1990s: Columbia Gas Transmission of West Virginia construct a gas line under the former rail bed, and the surface rights for the former High Bridge Branch line are transferred to the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation and Morris County Parks and Recreation for use as a recreational trail, known as Columbia Trail.

ISO 3166-3

However, alpha-2 codes which were deleted before the popularization of the Domain Name System in the late 1980s and early 1990s were never used for the Internet's country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

Jack McEvoy

He moved to Los Angeles in the late-1990s and covered the crime beat for the Times.

Kevin Ayers

After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France.

La Quinta del Buitre

With the years, the "Quinta Del Buitre" has earned a more generic meaning, being also associated with a brand of football played by Real Madrid in the late 1980s and early 1990s, under the stewardship of coaches Luis Molowny, Leo Beenhakker and John Toshack.

Lada 110

The development stages of the 110 began in the early 1990s, with a prototype coupé called the Katran 1.6i produced that was first demonstrated at the AvtoVAZ Togliatti factory in 1991.

Leee John

He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the UK Garage tracks "Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul" and "U Turn Me" with Ten City vocalist Byron Stingily (2000).

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Live from the Ivy

Live from the Ivy was a radio program that aired on Melbourne Australia's 3MMM radio station during the early 1990s.

Lutfi Haziri

Haziri was part of the students' leadership structures within the University of Pristina during the 1990s.

Marjolein Bastin

A Hallmark designer discovered Marjolein's artwork while on a trip to Holland in the early 1990s.

Marvin Olasky

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Olasky edited the 16-book Turning Point Christian Worldview series funded by Howard Ahmanson, Jr.'s Fieldstead Institute.

Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common

The monument was restored in the 1990s as a result of financial support from a local resident of Woking, the musician Paul Weller.

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band

While essentially an expanded re-release of 1990s The Blanton–Webster Band, the packaging, sound and updated notes make this, according to Allmusic, "truly worth either an initial investment or reinvestment".

New Bedford Highway Killer

Guedes could still be prosecuted for the 2000 murder of a prostitute in Aveiro, Portugal and similar murders in Germany (or neighboring countries) where Guedes resided in the 1990s.

Nitzhonot

Nitzhonot (Hebrew: נצחונות, "victories") is a crossover between Goa trance and uplifting trance, emerged during the mid-late 1990s in Israel.

Oni Logan

In the mid-1990s, Logan formed the band Violets Demise with former Dio guitarist Rowan Robertson.

Polis Özel Harekat

Ayhan Çarkın was a notable member of the department in the 1990s.

Rick Lewis

The first of these were created by Marc Sautet in Paris, and by the late 1990s they numbered in the hundreds.

Rogers Telecom

Sprint Canada launched in the early 1990s with Candice Bergen as its spokesperson.

S'mores Grahams

General Mills later resumed S'mores Grahams production throughout the late 1990s, but it has since been re-discontinued.

Saint Lucy, Barbados

One of the most recent ideas during the 1990s was to capitalise on a venture said to be in the works by Donald Trump in neighbouring Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Sarita Choudhury

By the late 1990s, Choudhury added to her repertoire with supporting roles in the Hitchcock remake, A Perfect Murder, 3 A.M, and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria.

Spanky Davis

Jimmy Ryan's closed in 1983, but Davis continued to lead this band in other performances as Jimmy Ryan's All-Stars; this ensemble continued to be active into the late 1990s, and counted among its sidemen Ted Sturgis, Joe Muranyi, and Eddie Locke.

Syncros

In the late 1990s, the company had financial difficulties and was sold to the large U.S. based bicycle company GT.

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

V-pop

In the 1990s, more and more young artists began to appear in the overseas Vietnamese music industry, Trish Thùy Trang, Nguyễn Hưng, Bằng Kiều, Nguyễn Thắng, Andy Quách, Dương Triệu Vũ, Don Hồ, ...

YAGO

YAGO (Yet Another Gigabit Operation) was an early LAN startup acquired by Cabletron Systems in the mid-1990s, fueling its growth into Gigabit Ethernet switching and ultimately being re-spun off into the entity Riverstone Networks.

Zero Tolerance for Silence

He has declined to do so, although Geffen quietly allowed it to fall out of print towards the end of the 1990s.


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