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41 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.

1989–1999

1989–1999 is a compilation album released by New York alternative metal band Life of Agony in 1999 through Roadrunner Records (see 1999 in music).

1998 in motoring

UK sales are set to begin next year, though right-hand drive versions are not due until the year 2000.

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 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying

The 1999 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying rounds took place over November 11th to November 13th, 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.

1999 Rink Hockey World Championship

The 1999 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 34th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 4 and 12 June 1999, in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.

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.

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.

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.

Aviavilsa

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

Belgacom Fund

The Belgacom Fund, is a Belgian fund created within the King Baudouin Foundation in 1999 for a period of three years, which promotes dialogue between citizens and local authorities.

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.

Canadian Council of Natural Mothers

The Canadian Council of Natural Mothers (CCNM) is a Canadian lobby group for the rights of women who have placed children for adoption, founded in 1999.

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.

Classic ABC: The Universal Masters Collection

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

Crutchin Melton

Crutchin Melton also known as "Crutchen Melton" is a fictional character created by artists Byron Barnes and Logan Booker in 1999.

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.

Flags Act 1953

The Flags Amendment Act was passed after the 1996 Australian federal election, during a period where the republican movement was influential, and both the government and opposition parties were committed to bringing the issue to a head as a matter of policy.

I.E.M. 1996–1999

It is a remastered collection of music recorded between 1996–99, and includes the whole of the first album I.E.M., the An Escalator to Christmas EP together with bonus material.

Lobodome

It was one of the original buildings of the UAD's Mazatlan campus which was established in 1999.

Luca Banchi

In 1999 he made his debut on the bench of the highest standard driving Basketball Trieste for two years , before returning to Livorno , meanwhile promoted to Serie A. Followed by two experiences in Legadue in Trapani and Jesi .

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.

Mito Kakizawa

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

Reprise 1990–1999

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

Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier

There were a number of bus routes terminated at Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier Bus Terminus before it was closed in 1999.

Svein Enok Nørstebø

He became awarded Gullpucken in 1999 an honor which is awarded to the best ice hockey player on both club and national teams.

Swarm Development Group

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

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 Black Crowes discography

In 2000, they released the compilation album Greatest Hits 1990–1999: A Tribute to a Work in Progress... and the live album Live at the Greek.

The Headless Bust

First edition: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999.

The Sims Resource

It was formed in 1999 by a group of players who were tired of the limitations placed on them by the official EA Games Sims site.

Tight Rope

Tight Rope is the sixth studio album by country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 1999 on Arista Nashville.

Tushinskaya

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

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.


A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Police sources told The Hindu that he participated in the October,1999 SIMI conference where Sheikh Yasin, the head of the Hamas and the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, were among those who delivered speeches through a telephone network.

Alexander Zamolodchikov

1999 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on classical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."

Andreas Gryphius Prize

1999 Stefan Chwin for his complete works, especially for the novel Tod in Danzig Death in Danzig

Ángel Amarilla

Born in Eusebio Ayala, Amarilla was signed by Valencia CF in the summer of 1999, being hailed as of one of the biggest promises in his country after playing as a 17-year-old for Atlético de Rafaela, which led his agent Eduardo Gamarnik trying to find a club for him in Europe.

Aurorazhdarcho

In 1999 amateur paleontologist Peter Katschmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, three kilometres northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone.

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.

Bored!

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

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

He is also the author of three more young adult novels, El palacio de la medianoche (1994), Las luces de septiembre (1995) and Marina (1999).

Chad Bratzke

His 12 sacks in 1999 stands as one of seven double-digit individual sack seasons in franchise history (13.0, Dwight Freeney, 2002; 11.5, LB-Johnie Cooks, 1984; 11.0, LB-Vernon Maxwell, 1983; 10.0, DE-Jon Hand, 1989; 10.5, DE-Tony Bennett, 1995; 10.5, DE-Dan Footman, 1997).

Chong Tae-Hyon

In 1999, as a junior at Kyung Hee University, Chong was selected as a member of the South Korea national baseball team for the 1999 Intercontinental Cup in Sydney.

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.

Estoy Aquí

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

Everlasting Night

It was released as a single in the first quarter of 1999 in Australia and reached number 42 on the singles chart, largely helped by the fact that the song was the official theme of the 1999 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

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.

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.

John Wieners

At the Guggenheim Museum in 1999, Wieners gave one of his last public readings, celebrating an exhibit by the painter Francesco Clemente.

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.

Larisa Bogoraz

Not long before her death, she issued an open letter condemning both the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the 2003 Iraq War.

Leo Scullion

His first senior match was in the 1999 Challenge Tour, and officiated his first televised match in the 2001 Regal Scottish Masters, a tie between Stephen Lee and Patrick Wallace.

Low copy number

Low Copy Number (LCN) is a DNA profiling technique developed by the Forensic Science Service (FSS) and in use in some countries since 1999.

Mike Whitney

On 8 March 2009 Mike Whitney was inducted as a life member by the South Sydney Rabbitohs for his contribution in being a Director on the Football Club Board in the critical period during the Club’s battle for reinstatement to the competition between 1999 and 2001.

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.

Neoephemera antiqua

N. antiqua was first studied by Nina D. Sinitchenkova of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with her 1999 type description being published in the Russian text Palaeontological Journal.

Nicole Tieri

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

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

He also filmed Pripyat (1999), a black-and-white look at residents who live near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

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.

Phénoménal

Phénoménal is a mixtape by French musician Lord Kossity, released in 1999 on the label Killko Records.

Ratna Asmara

The earliest in this generation are Mira Lesmana and Nan Achnas, who collaborated with several other directors in Kuldesak (1999).

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.

Reino Aventura

In March 1999, Premier Parks, the holding company for all the Six Flags theme parks, announced the purchase of Reino Aventura for an estimated $59 million.

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%.

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 News of Texas

It was syndicated to 27 affiliate stations in the state by the San Antonio-based Texas Network (TXN) between 1999 and 2000.

Thrakattak

Track 2, "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", is also featured on the live album (2CD set) King Crimson on Broadway (1999) (disc 2, track 12), and an alternative version of the track entitled "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" is featured on the live album (2CD set) Vrooom Vrooom (2001) (disc 1, track 11).

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.

Vision Creation Newsun

Vision Creation Newsun is a 1999 album by Boredoms released by WEA Japan.

William Swank

Following the release of his award-winning book, Echoes from Lane Field (1999), Swank has extensively explored the history of baseball in San Diego and helped honor many local players including Pete Coscarart, Johnny Ritchey, Floyd Robinson, Manuel Hernandez and Ted Williams.