X-Nico

unusual facts about The Texas-Israeli War: 1999


The Texas-Israeli War: 1999

Clairewood celebrates with Sol, Myra, and Brown over bottles of Coca-Cola, no longer manufactured in the United States but now imported from Israel.


1st Concert Oh Yeah! 1999

# Don't Leave Me Behind

2degrees

It was not until Labour won the 1999 election that Māori were allocated one of the four 2 GHz 3G spectrum licences at a discounted price plus $5 million to develop it.

Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli

By 1948, he had been invited to Egypt and was a military adviser for the Arabs during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Alf Joint

On television he appeared in Doctor Who, Dick Turpin, Return to Treasure Island, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Space: 1999, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (for which he plunged 430ft into the Reichenbach Falls doubling for Eric Porter) and London's Burning.

Arthur Chesterfield-Evans

He was re-elected for an 8-year term in 1999 and was defeated at the 2007 election, achieving 1.8% of the primary vote, leaving the Democrats unrepresented in the NSW Parliament.

Chandra Lal Chaudhary

He contested the 1999 legislative election in the Kanchanpur-2 constituency, coming second with 10282 votes.

Christopher Penfold

Penfold was uncredited for re-writing the series' premiere 'Breakaway' as well as David Weir's 'Black Sun' and fellow staff member Edward di Lorenzo's 'Missing Link'.

Penfold is perhaps most well known for being one of the brains behind Gerry Anderson's science fiction series Space: 1999.

Columbus, Ohio mayoral election, 1999

Republican party incumbent mayor Gregory S. Lashutka retired from office after two consecutive terms in office.

Contemporary Art in Egypt

First, the creation of Israel in 1948, followed by the war, has marked the spirits of Egyptians artists.

Dracula: The Series

Other notables included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from Prison Break) and Barry Morse (from The Fugitive and Space: 1999), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from Degrassi: The Next Generation), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine.

Edgar Breau

Breau campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1999 Ontario provincial election, as a candidate for the right-wing, socially conservative Family Coalition Party.

Ernie Parsons

His victory in the 1999 provincial election was unexpected, as he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Gary Fox by 56 votes in Prince Edward—Hastings, which most considered to be a safe Tory seat.

Gavin Jennings

Jennings won preselection for the safe Labor Legislative Council seat of Melbourne Province in advance of the 1999 state election, and was thus easily elected.

God Told Me To

The 'alien abduction' sequence, where a naked woman is drawn up into the cavernous interior of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, features (manipulated) generic stock model footage from Gerry Anderson's science fiction TV series Space: 1999.

H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come

The colony leader, Senator Smedley (played by John Ireland), and science advisor Dr. John Caball (played by Barry Morse, formerly of Space: 1999), try to contact Nikki (Carol Lynley), the leader of Delta 3, but instead hear from Omus (Jack Palance), the "Robot Master," Caball's former apprentice, and the newly self-proclaimed Emperor of that world.

Hamilton South by-election, 1999

The seat had fallen vacant in a Parliamentary recess, and the law does not permit a byelection to be called during a recess if the sitting member resigns by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.

Harry Danford

Danford defeated fellow Tory MPP Bill Vankoughnet to win the Progressive Conservative nomination for the 1999 provincial election in Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, but lost to Liberal Leona Dombrowsky by almost 2,000 votes.

Hasan Mohamed Ali

In the 1999 general elections, Hasan contested two seats: the Sungai Burung state seat in Selangor and the Parit Buntar parliamentary seat in Perak, and won both.

Hatta, Gaza

Hatta was captured on July 17–18, 1948, during Operation Death to the Invader, the last operation of the Ten Days period—the period between the two ceasefires of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Herut – The National Movement

In the simultaneous election for Prime Minister, Begin had originally planned to stand, but dropped out three days before the election to avoid splitting the right-wing vote between himself and Netanyahu (though it didn't help, as Netanyahu lost to Ehud Barak by more than 12%).

Hudson v. McMillian

Many things—beating with a rubber truncheon, water torture, electric shock, incessant noise, reruns of Space: 1999—may cause agony as they occur, yet leave no enduring injury.

Indra Bahadur Khatri

He contested the 1999 legislative election in the Kanchanpur-3 constituency on behalf of the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (Chand).

Isaac Herzog

Although he did not win a seat in the 1999 elections, Herzog served as government secretary in Ehud Barak's cabinet until 2001 when Barak was defeated by Ariel Sharon in a special election for Prime Minister.

James Rabesca

He was defeated by Leon Lafferty in the 1999 Northwest Territories general election.

James Wah-Shee

Wah-Shee attempted to win a seat again in the 1999 Northwest Territories general election but was defeated by Leon Lafferty in a tight eight way race.

Kenneth W. Bilby

After the World War, he covered the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and authored the book: New Star in the Near East.

Malaysian general election, 2004

The third opposition party, the Democratic Action Party, which was routed in the 1999 elections, improved its performance with the re-election of party chairman Lim Kit Siang and his deputy, Karpal Singh.

Mick Finnegan

Finnegan also unsuccessfully contested the 1999 Irish local elections, polling 3.4% of the vote and the 2009 local elections in the Lucan electoral area, polling 4.6% of the vote.

Mito Kakizawa

He resigned to work on his father's campaign in the 1999 gubernatorial election in Tokyo.

National Assembly for Wales

There have been four elections to the Assembly, in 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011.

Palestine Railways P class

After the War of Independence and subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War, main line services were truncated to the territory within the new State of Israel.

Pendle Council election, 1999

The Labour gains came in the wards of Craven, Vivary Bridge and Whitefield, while the Conservatives took the seats of Barrowford, Earby, Foulridge and Reedley.

Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi

Qahtan's son Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi ran unsuccessfully against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the 1999 Yemeni presidential election.

Reform the Legal System

It was largely associated with MLC Peter Breen, its leader, who was elected in the 1999 state election.

Reg Hill

A line of successful puppet and live-action TV series followed: Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, The Secret Service (which combined puppetry with live action), UFO (produced mostly in live action), The Protectors and Space: 1999.

Ross Clifford

At the time, the CDP was trying to rebuild itself after the 1999 election, when leader Fred Nile nearly lost his seat to the fledgling Registered Clubs Party.

Salim Tamari

When he was three years old, in April 1948, his family fled Jaffa when it was attacked by Jewish paramilitary groups as part of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Service Book

Among other things, Rabin wrote about controversial affairs: the expulsion of the Arabs during the Israel's War of Independence, the sinking of Altalena and more.

Solomon Perel

Once in Israel, Perel joined the army to fight in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Space: 2099

Space: 2099 is an upcoming remake of the British television sci-fi series Space: 1999, which was created by Gerry Anderson and ran between 1975-77.

Sri Lankan provincial council election, 2012

The 3rd Sri Lankan provincial council election was held in 1999 in seven provinces.

The Protectors

Anderson's relationship with Anholt was a more positive one, and a few years later he cast the actor as Tony Verdeschi in the second series of Space: 1999.

Ukrainian presidential election, 1999

Volodymyr Oliynyk being promoted by Kirovohrad city residents, on October 27 surrendered his candidacy in favor of Yevhen Marchuk, while Oleksandr Tkachenko favored Petro Symonenko (leader of Communist Party of Ukraine).

Valentino Musetti

He has appeared in many TV programmes since the 1960s, such as The Avengers, Callan, Doctor Who (credited in the TV serial The Crusade), Space: 1999, The Professionals, Minder and Dempsey and Makepeace.

Wright Eclipse

The Eclipse and its sister design the Solar were named for a solar eclipse which was visible in the UK in 1999, the year of its introduction.

Yemeni presidential election, 1999

#Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi - (MP for the General People's Congress, running as an Independent)

Yigal Allon

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Allon led several of the major operations on all three fronts, including Yiftach in the Galilee, Danny in the Centre, Yoav, and Horev in the Negev.

Yuli Tamir

As Minister of Education, she approved a history textbook for Arab children, wherein Israel's War of Independence is described as the nakba – the disaster.


see also