The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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1990s - Other significant events. The massive global human impact on the environment, which first garnered attention in the 60s, was widely acknowledged. Divorce and scandal rocked the British Royal House of Windsor. The assassination of Selena Quintanilla. Sex and violence in the media increase, especially in the late part of the decade. Profanity in music reaches peak in the late 90s. O.J. Simpson's trial, described in the media as the "trial of the century". < ...

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Compaq was a personal computer company founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto. During the 1980s Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers at a low-cost. The term "COMPAQ" is an acronym for "Compatibility and Quality". It existed as a standalone entity until 2002 when it was merged with Hewlett-Packard. Compaq - History. Compaq - 1980s. Compaq was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three se ...

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Colectivo is the name given in Argentina to public transportation vehicles, especially those of Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires. They represent one of the best-known traditions of the city. When they first appeared in the 1920s, colectivos were small buses built out of smaller vehicle chassis (cars, vans, etc.) and, later, out of truck chassis (1950–1990, by Mercedes Benz Argentina). Colectivos used to be built on top of units not specifically designed for the transportation of people and were decorated with unique paintings (fileteado) that gave each unit a distinct flavor and ...

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Colectivo - 1930–1950. Taxi-bus car-bus van-bus. Creation of the líneas. Colectivo - 1950–1990. Mercedes Benz truck-buses. Colectivo - 1990 to the present. Bus-bus. Blurring of the tradition of the colectivo.
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The Republic of Lebanon, or Lebanon (لبنان), is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south, with a narrow coastline along its western edge. The flag of Lebanon features the Lebanon Cedar in green against a wide, white stripe backdrop, with two thinner red stripes alongside. The name Lebanon (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") is derived from the Aramaic word laban, meaning ...

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Critics have contextualized this phenomenon within the dynamics between Third-wave feminism and Second-wave feminism, citing iconic figures from popular culture of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s as linked to the develpment of popular culture of the 1990s [1], [2], [3], [4] (See also: Scholarship/Girl Power): Girl Power in popular culture - Blaxploitation films and characters. Tamara Dobson in (and as) Cleopatra Jones [5] Teresa Graves as Christie Love in Get Christie Lov ...

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Girl Power in popular culture, Girl Power in popular culture - Background: 1960s 1970s and 1980s pop culture, Girl Power in popular culture - Blaxploitation films and characters, Girl Power in popular culture - Detectives and secret agents, Girl Power in popular culture - Entertainment, Girl Power in popular culture - Female action heroes and science fiction, Girl Power in popular culture - 1990s and 2000s pop culture, Girl Power in popular culture - 1995, Girl Power in popular culture - 1996, Girl Power in popular culture - 1997, Girl Power in popular culture - 1998, Girl Power in popular culture - 1999, Girl Power in popular culture - 2000, Girl Power in popular culture - 2001, Girl Power in popular culture - 2002, Girl Power in popular culture - 2003, Girl Power in popular culture - 2004, Girl Power in popular culture - 2005

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Location in the state of Texas The City of Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, Austin has a population of 656,562 people, making it the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th largest in the United States. A 2004 U.S. Census estimate placed the population of the city at 681,804. Situated in the region of Central Texas, the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area is one of the fastest-growing in the United States and is home t ...

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Twentieth (20th) Century Fox, shorthand for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is one of the major movie studios, located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch. 20th Century Fox - History. The company is the result of a 1935 merger of two entities, Fox Film Corporation founded by William Fox in 1914, and Twentieth Century Pictures, begun in 1932 by D ...

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Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1950s. Salsa music's popularity grows. Luis Munoz Marin International Airport opened in San Juan with daily international flights, allowing for the exchange of tourists and cultural ideas between Puerto Rico and other countries. The San Juan Casino becomes the favorite social meeting place and dance hall. Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1960s. The Spanish flamenco singer Lola Flores causes a sensation. Brit ...

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Pop culture in Puerto Rico, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - Timeline of changes in Puerto Rican pop culture, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1950s, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1960s, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1970s, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1980s, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 1990s, Pop culture in Puerto Rico - 2000s

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Compaq - 1980s. Compaq was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments. Each invested $1,000 to form the company. Their first venture capital came from Ben Rosen and Sevin-Rosen partners. It is often told that the architecture of the original Compaq PC was first sketched out on a table napkin by the founders whi ...

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In 1990, with Shaw achieving some success with Damn Yankees, the remaining elements of Styx reformed with Glen Burtnik replacing Shaw. The new line-up released one album, Edge of the Century, featuring the Dennis DeYoung ballad "Show Me The Way," which received an additional boost just prior to the first Persian Gulf War. Some radio stations edited the Top 5 smash to include the voices of children whose parents were deployed in Saudi Arabia between 1990-91. Burtnik's songwriting also helped buoy "Edge of the Century" to gold album sta ...

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Styx band, Styx band - 1970s, Styx band - 1980s, Styx band - Solo careers, Styx band - 1990s and present day, Styx band - Styx in popular culture, Styx band - Discography, Styx band - Singles

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The "Nicas" are friendly and obliging people, with a matriarchal society. The population is very young with 60 percent under 17 years of age. As a whole the country is rich in colorful folklore, music and religious traditions. A fusion of Old World and New World emerged as the national psyche creating a society largely founded on European-Iberian culture but enriched with Amerindian sounds and flavours. Nicaragua has historically been a literary treasure in poetry of the Hispanic world with internationally renowned contributors such as Ruben Darío who is widely acclaimed as the Father of Modern ...

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Nicaragua, Nicaragua - History, Nicaragua - Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua - The 1990 elections and U.S. involvement, Nicaragua - Politics, Nicaragua - Departments, Nicaragua - Geography, Nicaragua - Economy, Nicaragua - Demographics, Nicaragua - Culture, Nicaragua - Arts, Nicaragua - Miscellaneous topics

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The "Nicas" are friendly and obliging people, with a matriarchal society. The population is very young with 60 percent under 17 years of age. As a whole the country is rich in colorful folklore, music and religious traditions. A fusion of Old World and New World emerged as the national psyche creating a society largely founded on European-Iberian culture but enriched with Amerindian sounds and flavours. Nicaragua has historically been a literary treasure in poetry of the Hispanic world with internationally renowned contributors such a ...

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Nicaragua, Nicaragua - History, Nicaragua - Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua - The 1990 elections and U.S. involvement, Nicaragua - Politics, Nicaragua - Departments, Nicaragua - Geography, Nicaragua - Economy, Nicaragua - Demographics, Nicaragua - Culture, Nicaragua - Arts, Nicaragua - Miscellaneous topics

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An overview of the crime and drug culture related to the XY Gen throughout the 1990s with added insight on the media antagonism that developed from these trends of the MTV Gen youth. MTV Generation - Crime in the early 1990s. Crime and drugs are not unique to any generation, however, the crime rate was extremely high in the 1990s and XYers were being exposed to it at an immature age unlike Generation X. In addition, XYers specifically became a target of negative stereotypes. During the late 1980s, there was a recession. Throughout the world, crime rates r ...

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MTV Generation, MTV Generation - XY Cusp, MTV Generation - Differences with Generation Y, MTV Generation - Global factors defining the MTV Generation, MTV Generation - Culture Political and Social, MTV Generation - Overview of the cultural impact of the media upon the MTV Generation, MTV Generation - Movies associated to the generation, MTV Generation - TV shows that are often associated to the generation, MTV Generation - Music associated to the generation, MTV Generation - Technology/Media experienced by the generation, MTV Generation - The Doomed Generation, MTV Generation - Crime in the early 1990s, MTV Generation - Cultural influences of crime in the early 90s, MTV Generation - Media Antagonism of the late 1990s, MTV Generation - An Ambitious Generation of Drifting Dreamers, MTV Generation - September 11 2001 Attacks

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Colonized by Spain in 1524, Nicaragua achieved independence in 1821 when it was a province of the Audience of Guatemala and became part of the United Provinces of Central America. It separated from the federation in 1838, becoming a completely sovereign republic. The nation's early history was marked by the desire of U.S. commercial interests to make use of Nicaraguan territory. When gold was discovered in California, Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company undertook a steamship and carriage business to link Greytown (present ...

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Nicaragua, Nicaragua - History, Nicaragua - Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua - The 1990 elections and U.S. involvement, Nicaragua - Politics, Nicaragua - Departments, Nicaragua - Geography, Nicaragua - Economy, Nicaragua - Demographics, Nicaragua - Culture, Nicaragua - Arts, Nicaragua - Miscellaneous topics

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Bordered by Costa Rica on the South and Honduras on the North, Nicaragua is the largest Central American republic. The vast Pacific Ocean forms her western border, the balmy Caribbean Sea the east. It is a warm and friendly land of lakes and mountains; rivers and volcanoes, sea and sun. Nicaragua has three distinct geographical regions: the Pacific Lowlands, the North-Central Mountains and the Atlantic Lowlan ...

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The Nicaraguan unit of currency is the Córdoba (NIO) and was named after Francisco Hernández de Córdoba its national founder. It trades at around 16.450 to the U.S. dollar, trades at about 19.910 to the European euro, and trades at around 0.5139 to the Taiwanese dollar. Regardless of exchange rates, real value for foreign currencies tends to go much further in Nicaragua than the rest of the region. Nicaragua's economy has historically been based on the export of cash crops such as bananas, coffee and tobacco. It is renowned to prod ...

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Nicaragua, Nicaragua - History, Nicaragua - Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua - The 1990 elections and U.S. involvement, Nicaragua - Politics, Nicaragua - Departments, Nicaragua - Geography, Nicaragua - Economy, Nicaragua - Demographics, Nicaragua - Culture, Nicaragua - Arts, Nicaragua - Miscellaneous topics

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Nicaragua has an estimated population of 5.5 million as of November 2005. Nicaraguans of European or Mestizo (to varying degrees) stock make up a combined 86% of the population, and effectively the largest majority. Although there are not always clear lines of differentiation due to the large and varying caucasoid composition accross this group, the segment can be divided for the most part along the lines of 69% Mestizos and 17% Euro ...

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The band's Wooden Nickel recordings, Styx (1972), Styx II (1973), The Serpent Is Rising (also 1973) and Man of Miracles (1974) were a mixture of straight-ahead rock with some dramatic prog-rock flourishes and art-rock aspirations. On the strength of these releases and constant playing in local clubs and schools, the band established a fan base in the Chicago area, but was unable to break into the mainstream until an early song, the power ballad "Lady" (from Styx II) began to earn some radio time, first on W ...

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