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43 unusual facts about 1999


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However, Park Eunjoo of Hankook Ilbo cited an anonymous source, criticising her for using "too much sex-appeal" but Park also said that Uhm's performances were positively received by the public.

1989 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

Eight teams participated to decide the winner of what would be a bi-annual event until 1999.

1999 Central Asian Games

The 1999 Central Asian Games also known as the 3rd Central Asian Games were held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 1999.

1999 Chinese Taipei National Football League

Statistics of Chinese Taipei National Football League in the 1999 season.

1999 Cotton Bowl Classic

The 1999 Southwestern Bell Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season college football game played on January 1, 1999.

1999 Royal Bank Cup

The 1999 Royal Bank Cup is the 29th Junior "A" 1999 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.

1999 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial

The Men's Individual Time Trial at the 1999 World Cycling Championships was held on Thursday October 7, 1999 in Treviso, Italy, over a total distance of 50.8 kilometres.

1999: The New Master

The track called "Rosario" featured actress Rosario Dawson performing a political spoken word over the chords of "Little Red Corvette".

AgileCat

Founded in 1999 by Peter Madden, AgileCat is a group of artists that builds brands, advertising and public relations campaigns.

Alabama State Route 75

In 1999, work was completed widening SR-75 to four lanes into Oneonta.

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.

Aviavilsa

It was established in 1998 and started operations in 1999 and operates scheduled and charter cargo services.

Banks Broadcasting

Banks Broadcasting was the owner of former WB Network and current The CW Television Network affiliate KSCW-TV in Wichita, Kansas from its launch in 1999 (as KWCV) until July 20, 2007 when it was officially sold to Schurz Communications, the owner of that market's CBS affiliate KWCH-TV.

Brambleton, Virginia

Developing the Brambleton master-planned community began in earnest in the spring of 1999, immediately after Brambleton Group L.L.C. acquired the property.

By My Side Again

Cuando vuelvas a mi lado (English: By My Side Again) is a 1999 Spanish film directed by Gracia Querejeta.

Cardrona Bra Fence

The Bra Fence began at some point between Christmas and New Year 1999, when four bras were attached to the wire fence alongside the road.

Carrizo Springs Consolidated Independent School District

In June 1999, Asherton Independent School District was consolidated into Carrizo Springs Independent School District because the Texas Education Agency found that AISD was not taxing properly.

Chardonnay socialist

For example, Australian left-wing "true believers" levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 (where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue).

Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991–1999

Song selections were taken from the albums Space Wrangler, Widespread Panic, Everyday, Ain't Life Grand, Bombs & Butterflies, 'Til the Medicine Takes, and the live album Light Fuse, Get Away.

Class of '99

In 1999, a single of both versions was released on the Sony International record label.

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection is a compilation album released by Universal Music in 1999.

Coin of Connaught

Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of the coins of Scotland, Ireland, Channel Islands & Isle of Man by Coincraft, 1999.

Cordaid

Cordaid was founded in 1999 in The Hague, with the aim of helping people in distress and fighting structural poverty.

Dariusz Baliszewski

In 1999, for his television creativity and professionalism in work, president Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded him:

Deutscher Cricket Bund

Deutscher Cricket Bund is Germany's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an associate member since 1999, having previously been an affiliate member of the ICC from 1991.

Diana Anaid

"Perfect Family" rated #55 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1999 and was a track on Triple J Hottest 100 Volume 7.

Glenn Druery

In the lead-up to the New South Wales state election, 1999, he initiated a strategy to deal with preferential voting systems by organising minor parties to be disciplined within a tight preference swapping arrangement, this became known as 'preference harvesting'.

Head Start

National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, 1991-1999, set up in the United States to provide information on the achievements of the Head Start program for children living in poverty

Maldita Sea, Vol. 1: 1989–1999

1: 1989–1999 is a greatest hits album released by Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio.

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1995–1999

Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans was appointed to fill the resulting casual vacancy on the same day.

Reprise 1990–1999

Reprise 1990–1999 is a compilation album by Vangelis, released in 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.

Sri Lankan provincial council election, 2013

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

Swarm Development Group

It was formed in 1999 by a group of multidisciplinary scientists, researchers, and software developers, led by Chris Langton.

Synchro Nine Factor

They released their first full length album on Doogah Music in 1999, Right Wing Conspiracy, which has been remixed and re-released in 2009 in a special limited 10th Anniversary Edition on Doogah Music and Scared Records.

The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te

The track "One More Time" was originally present on the soundtrack of the 1999 motion picture "Message in a Bottle", where it played during the credits.

The Best of Mantronix 1985–1999

The album featured not only tracks from all five Mantronix albums, but two tracks from Kurtis Mantronik's solo album, 1999s I Sing the Body Electro.

The Great Olivia Newton-John

The Great Olivia Newton-John is a greatest hits album by Olivia Newton-John that was released in 1999, the album consists of three discs.

Thunder of the East Marching Band

Mark Flynn was made the director, and with the efforts of Kappa Kappa Psi, many local high schools, and Student Affairs, the Thunder of the East made its debut on September 11, 1999.

Tushinskaya

Tushinskaya is one of the Metro's busiest stations, serving about 111,000 passengers per day according to a 1999 study.

Vitali Safronov

In the summer of 1999 and moved from the "Wings" to the club First Division "Baltika" Kaliningrad, where he was offered a lucrative contract.

You Wanted More

"You Wanted More" is a 1999 song by the Los Angeles band Tonic that originally appeared in the 1999 film, American Pie.

Youth Against AIDS

Youth Against AIDS (YAA) was an international youth network founded in 1999 to raise visibility around the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth.


Ali Baba's Tahini

Engelmann left the band in 1999 and was replaced by Kahlil Smylie for the album Limbo Boots.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Barzaz Breiz

In 1999, Editions du Layeur issued a reprint of the 1867 edition, by Yann-Fañch Kemener, singer and collector, plus the foreword to the 1845 edition.

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam

The plot is inspired from Harold Ramis directed classic black comedy Analyze This (1999) with Robert De Niro playing a mafia don who due to frequent bouts of anxiety attacks gets treated by a famous psychiatrist enacted by the great comedy actor Billy Crystal.

Bilabial trill

In addition, the Knorkator song "Buchstabe" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999 album Hasenchartbreaker uses a similar sound to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. ˈʙaːtkaʁˌtɔfəln for Bratkartoffeln).

Bored!

Thomas briefly joined Magic Dirt and subsequently has enlisted various line-ups for reformed versions of Bored! in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Bruce Chadwick

His first American Civil War book, Brother Again Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey (Citadel Press, 1997), was followed by the dual biography of the Civil War’s leaders, Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861 1865 (Citadel, 1999), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

Cable Company of Trinidad and Tobago

Scientific Atlanta digital cable boxes were provided to all customers in 1999 and 2000, after which the company tried to implement tiered service packages.

Candiria

Drummer Ken Schalk, bassist Mike MacIvor, and guitarist John Lamacchia have been involved in a free-jazz side project named Ghosts of the Canal, who have thus far released two full-length albums, Sessions from the Flats (1999) and Five Episodes from the Subconscious (2002), as well as two non-album tracks which appeared on the bonus disc of Candiria's The C.O.M.A. Imprint.

Celso Torrelio

Celso Torrelio Villa (June 3, 1933, Chuquisaca, Bolivia - April 23, 1999, La Paz) was a military general, a member of the Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces (1981), and de facto President of Bolivia between September 1981 and August 1982.

Colin Brinded

Two recent occasions on which he officiated during key matches were the World Championship finals between Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams in 1999 and the match between Peter Ebdon and Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2005 (the so-called "slow-play" match).

Electroactive polymers

In 1999, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, proposed the Armwrestling Match of EAP Robotic Arm Against Human Challenge.

End Hits

In addition, the band used electronic drums, synthesizers and the practice of drum-layering for the first time, which is most evident on the track "Closed Captioned." Brendan Canty explained to Tape Op Magazine in 1999 "When "Closed Captioned" was recorded, the basic tracks to it are all a drum machine and then I overdubbed two different drum sets on top of it, which I love doing, it gives distance to a song."

Energy Regulators Regional Association

They were then supported from 1999 to 2008 by the US National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), which, with the participation of USAID, arranged technical forums, meetings and study tours for mutual training and development.

Estoy Aquí

In August 1999, Shakira sang "Estoy Aquí" during an episode of MTV Unplugged in New York City.

Fiona Nash

Between 1999 and 2004, she worked as staff member for National Party federal ministers, Mark Vaile, Larry Anthony, and De-Anne Kelly before her election to the Senate.

Fuckland

The picture was recorded illegally in the Falkland Islands in 1999, and was made without the permission of the local government.

Giya Kancheli

He composed an opera Music for the Living, in collaboration with Rustaveli director Robert Sturua, and in December 1999, the opera was restaged for the Deutsches National Theater in Weimar.

Great Hallingbury

On 22 December 1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashed into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury shortly after take-off from nearby London Stansted Airport.

Greater Jakarta

Jabodetabek, Depok was carved out of Bogor Regency in 1999, leading to the new name (but covering the same area as Jabotabek) Similarly, South Tangerang was carved out of Tangerang Regency, without a name change or area change.

Hadrawi

In 1999, Hadrawi returned once more to his native Somalia, this time settling in Hargeisa.

Hriday Lani

He has written dialogues for commercially successful films like Agni Sakshi (1996), Yeshwant (1997), Yugpurush (1998), Sarfarosh (1999).

James Edward Zimmerman

James Edward Zimmerman (February 19, 1923 – August 4, 1999) was born in Lantry, South Dakota.

Jonathan Gould

During 1999–2000 Gould generally remained the first-choice goalkeeper at Parkhead despite the arrival of Dmitri Kharine, and picked up another Scottish League Cup winner's medal when Celtic defeated Aberdeen 2-0 in the final on 19 March 2000.

Josh Braun

From 1991 to 1999 Braun worked with Fremantle Media as Senior Vice President and head of sales, where he was responsible for the sales, production, and acquisitions of such programs as Baywatch, All My Children, Third Rock from the Sun, South Park, The Price Is Right, and many others.

Karl Jaspers

This view has caused some controversy, and the likes of R. D. Laing and Richard Bentall (1999, p. 133-135) have criticised it, stressing that taking this stance can lead therapists into the complacency of assuming that because they do not understand a patient, the patient is deluded and further investigation on the part of the therapist will have no effect.

Kellyn Tate

She later played professional softball for the Orlando Wahoos (1998), Akron Racers (1999-2000), WPSL All-Stars (2001), and California Sunbirds (2004).

KHCV

KFFV, a television station (channel 44) licensed to serve Seattle, Washington, United States, which held the call sign KHCV from 1999 to 2009

Kwinana Freeway

In 1999, the state government announced that a two way bus transitway would be built in the Kwinana Freeway median, to link Perth's Esplanade Busport with the Murdoch station at South Street.

Mexopolis

Mexopolis (also known as Mexopolis Animation Studio) is an American production company founded in 1999 by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua.

Michael Mols

However, during a UEFA Champions League clash against FC Bayern Munich, he collided with opposing goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, which resulted in a serious knee injury – in the same competition, he previously helped his club crush PSV Eindhoven 4–1 at home by scoring twice, whilst in the league, he put four past former Ranger Andy Goram's Motherwell.

Moorabbin Oval

Moorabbin Oval was the home of the Melbourne Reds in the former Australian Baseball League from 1994 to 1999.

Morgan Llywelyn

Her fiction has received several awards and has sold more than 40 million copies, and she herself is recipient of the 1999 Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award from Celtic Women International.

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

Nicole Tieri

Tieri is a native of Hudsonville, Michigan but moved to New York City in 1999 after graduating from Unity Christian High School.

Oldenburg

The Jade University of Applied Sciences (Jade-Hochschule) The former Fachhochschule Oldenburg (until 1999) was founded in 1971, a merger of the previous engineering academy with the nautical college in Elsfleth.

Regina Lewis

She first appeared on national TV in 1999 on the CBS Early Show, later assuming a full-time role as an expert commentator for several national network and cable programs, including Today, The View, ABC World News This Morning, Fox News Channel, and CNN Headline News.

Robert C. Smith

In January 1999, at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, Smith announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States (at the time the front-runner was Texas Governor George W. Bush).

Robert Ribeiro

Ribeiro quickly rose through the ranks, and was appointed Judge of the High Court in 1999, promoted to the Court of Appeal (High Court) as a Justice of Appeal in 2000, and a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal the same year.

Şanlıurfa Province

MHP, campaigning on Turkish-identity consciousness arguments, after having scored an exceptional 7,18% in 1999, has in 2004 ebbed back to a more usual 2,97%.

Simon Perry

Perry's major public commissions include Threaded Field, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne (1999-2000), On Tap, Caroline Springs, Melbourne (2007), and the much loved Public Purse (1994).

Social simulation

Nigel Gilbert published with Klaus G. Troitzsch the first textbook on Social Simulation: Simulation for the Social Scientist (1999) and established its most relevant journal: the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

South Sudan Liberation Movement

Groups of Western Nuer and Dinka from Tonj, Rumbek and Yirol took part, leading to a peace agreement in March 1999 to end the ethnic fighting.

Sylvinho

In 1999 he became the first ever Brazilian player to sign for English club Arsenal, who he signed for ahead of North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur who made numerous offers for the Brazilian.

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

Tim Hitchens

Timothy Mark Hitchens, CMG, LVO (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.

TimeSplitters

In February 1999, several members of the GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark development team — including David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate — left Rare Ltd. to form their own company based in Nottingham, England called Free Radical Design.

Tsering Dorjee

In 1999, he starred in the French Nepali film directed by Eric Valli, Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef, in which he starred alongside Lhakpa Tsamchoe.

Xenia Seeberg

Several of her songs including "Heartbeat" have appeared on several compilations such as Dance Fever (1996), Dancemania 4 (1997) and Absolute Music 20 (1999).