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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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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1990s in Hong Kong - Before the handover. Various mediating measures took place in the run-up to 1997 to prepare for the handover. On April 4, 1990, the Hong Kong Basic Law was officially ratified as the constitutional document to be used, after the handover, of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, citizens feard the Chinese government would not keep its promise of autonomy for Hong Kong, which had been guaranteed for 50 years by the H ...

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Usher (born Usher Raymond IV on October 14, 1978 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States) is an American singer and actor. He has been a popular R&B performer since the early 1990s. By the 2000s, Raymond was among the most popular performers in his genre, and achieved significant sales and chart success from his albums and singles. After a reasonably successful self-titled debut, Raymond stormed the charts with My Way, which featured the hit singles "You Make Me Wanna", "Nice and Slow", and the title track. I ...

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Captain Planet is a fictional character in the animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers and The New Adventures of Captain Planet. Captain Planet was created by Ted Turner in the early 1990s. The idea behind the series was to create an entertaining action program that was meant to make viewers aware of environmental hazards. The villains Captain Planet had to fight included characters such as Sly Sludge, Hoggish Greedly, Dr. Bli ...

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The name Collins may refer to: Collins - Publishers. The Collins publishing company, now part of HarperCollins Collins - Places. Fort Collins, Colorado Collins, Wisconsin Collins - People. Ansel Collins, a Jamaican Reggae musician Bootsy Collins, an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. Carla Collins, an entertainer reporter for CFTO during the 1990s and was the star on ...

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (also UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/217, December 10, 1948), outlining a view on basic human rights. John Peters Humphrey of Canada was its principal drafter, aided by Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, René Cassin of France, and P. C. Chang of China, among others. While it is not a legally binding document, it served as the foundation for the original two legally-binding UN human rights Covenants, the International Covenant on ...

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1990s in Hong Kong - Emigration. Before the handover, many Hong Kong residents were apprehensive of the future of Hong Kong as part of a communist state, which had cracked down on a student-led democratic movement in 1989. In 1990, the outflow of people reached a peak of 62,000 people in that year, or about 1 percent of the population. It was 66,000 in 1992, 53,000 in 1993, and 62,000 in 1994. Many renowned tycoons in Hong Kong, such as the Shaw family, left Hong Kong for fear of adverse effects to the eco ...

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The Hang Seng Index (HSI) was volatile after the takeover. It rose from over 10,000 in the middle of 1996 to a height of 16,820.3 on August 7, 1997. Speculators bet that there would be an influx of hot money from Mainland China to boost the economy of Hong Kong. Any stock linked to the Chinese economy or which had successful dealings in China had great potential. In July 1997, the Thai government's decision to float the Thai Baht triggered a currency crisis that spread throughout Asia. One by one, the New Taiwan Dollar, Korean Won, and Indonesian Rupiah tumbled in price. All th ...

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Madonna entertainer - Italian influence. Though Madonna Ciccone is half French Canadian, more often the influence of her Italian American heritage has been reflected in her work. Perhaps this is because Madonna's French Canadian mother died when Madonna was five and Madonna was subsequently raised by her Italian American father. (It has been claimed that Madonna shares a common French Canadian ancestor with Celine Dion.) References to Madonna's Italian heritage have often been found in her work. In the video for ...

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Madonna entertainer - Italian influence. Though Madonna Ciccone is half French Canadian, more often the influence of her Italian American heritage has been reflected in her work. Perhaps this is because Madonna's French Canadian mother died when Madonna was five and Madonna was subsequently raised by her Italian American father. References to Madonna's Italian heritage have often been found in her work. In the video for "Truth or Dare"/"In Bed with Madonna", Madonna describes herself as "Italian American". She sa ...

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Madonna was born to an Italian-American Chrysler engineer, Silvio "Tony" P. Ciccone, and Madonna Louise Fortin (from a French Canadian family in Bay City, Michigan) and identifies herself as an Italian American. She was raised in a Catholic family of twelve children in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Rochester Hills. Her mother died at the age of thirty, of breast cancer, on December 1, 1963, when Madonna was only five. The singer has frequently discussed the enormous impact her mother's death had on her life and career. Following his wife's death, Silvio brought in a housekeeper, Joan Gust ...

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Madonna Louise Ciccone was the third of six children born to an Italian-American Chrysler engineer, Silvio "Tony" P. Ciccone, and Madonna Louise Fortin (from a French Canadian family in Bay City, Michigan). She was raised in a Catholic family in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Rochester Hills. Madonna's mother died of breast cancer at the age of thirty on December 1, 1963, when Madonna was only five. The singer has frequently discussed the enormous impact her mother's death had on her life and career. Tony would later marry and have two chil ...

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Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (Veronica is her confirmation name) was the third of six children born to an Italian-American Chrysler engineer, Silvio "Tony" P. Ciccone, and Madonna Louise Fortin (from a French Canadian family in Bay City, Michigan). She was raised in a Catholic family in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Rochester Hills. Madonna's mother died of breast cancer at the age of thirty on December 1, 1963, when Madonna was only five. The singer has frequently discussed the enormous impact her mother's death had on her life and career. Tony would later marry and have two chil ...

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In 1982, Madonna inked a single deal with Sire Records that paid her $5,000. Her first single, "Everybody", was produced by Mark Kamins and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Dance chart. It gained heavy rotation on R&B radio stations, leading many to assume that Madonna was an African American artist. When "Everybody" was released as a single, Madonna's picture did not appear on the single cover sleeve, because Sire did not want to risk losing the black audience (Madonna's core audience at that ...

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In 2000, at the age of 42, Madonna released the album Music. A commercial and critical hit, it saw Madonna abandon her earlier sexual and religious themes for throwaway lyrics and the "party" spirit of dance, pop, and house. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 selling 420,000 copies its first week. Music was produced partly by Orbit and french techno musician Mirwais Ahmadzai. It spawned her twelfth number one single, "Music", plus the hits "Don't Tell Me" and "What It Feels Like for a Girl". Madonna was pregna ...

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Sharon Stone - 1980 - 1990. After joining the Ford Modeling Agency, Stone spent a few years modeling, and appeared in TV commercials for Burger King, Clairol and Maybelline, but she didn't enjoy her work. While living in Europe she decided to quit modeling and become an actress. "So I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie," she later recalled. She was cast for a brief but memorable role in Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and then had a speaking pa ...

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Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, between Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Joe and Dorothy Stone, who were blue collar workers. It has been said that her parents raised her with feminist values. "My dad never raised me to believe that being a woman inhibited any of my choices or my possibilities to succeed. To be a feminist like Dad in that blue-collar, middle-class world is a big stand", said Sharon. Her brother, Michael, a convicted drug dealer, was linked with British heiress and photographer, Tamara Beckwith, until ...

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