* Twin Cities Then and Now ( 1996 ) ISBN 0-87351-326-6 & ISBN 0-87351-327-4

Twin Oaks has remained at a population of around 100 people ( including children ), since 1996.

The GT trim level came standard with the 2. 3 liter LD2 engine in 1995 or the 2. 4 liter LD9 " Twin Cam " engine ( 1996 – 2002 ), 16-inch alloy wheels, dual exhaust, and a more aggressive looking front fascia.

* 1996 – 2002 – Twin Cam ( RPO: LD9 ) I4, and

Twin Capes, one of the original three vessels of the 1974 fleet, achieved superstar status in the fleet upon its $ 27 million renovation in 1996.

Twin Palms Press, 1996.

These were replaced by initially two ( later three ) Twin Squirrels in 1996.

He plays " Fluffy ", the Chinese-crested dog, in 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue, an Irish-talking pubtender in the 1996 video game Toonstruck, and " Morte ", a floating, talking skull, in Planescape: Torment, as well as " Anomen Delryn " in Baldur's Gate II and " Gray Fox " in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as an assist trophy.

* 1996 " Evil Twin ", NG Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Further changes were made for the 1996 model year when the engine's bore & stroke were changed, and the engine was subsequently redubbed Twin Cam.

In addition to the DOHC versions, there were also both a short-lived SOHC variant, Quad OHC, available from 1992 to 1994, and the Twin Cam from 1996 to 2002.

The LD9 Twin Cam was a Quad 4 variant with balance shafts, and a redesigned cylinder head which debuted in 1996.

* 1996 – 1998 LD9 2. 4 L ( 146 in³ ) " Twin Cam " I4, and

Pasquale's live shows include Live And Squeaky ( 1996 ), Twin Squeaks ( 1997 ), The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale ( 1998 ), Bubble And Squeak ( 2000 ), The Everything I Have Ever Done & The First Of Many Goodbye Tours ( 2004 ), Does He Really Talk Like That?

* 1996 – 1998: 2. 4L DOHC Twin Cam L4 engine:, of torque

In 1996, the region was broken into two parts, with almost all of the old 612 territory outside of the Twin Cities becoming area code 320.

* Twin Valu ( Ohio ) Hypermarket concept, closed in 1996

Gedrick's next major project was the three-hour TV movie The Third Twin, a 1997 thriller based on the best-selling 1996 novel by British writer Ken Follett.

In 1996, the flagship Cloverleaf ( 145 ) and Ti ( 146 ) models were launched with the 2. 0-litre Twin Spark engine already seen in the 155 sister car.

On 2 April 1996, de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 RP-C1154 taxied across Manila International Airport runway 13 at the Taxiway F1 intersection.

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1996.

The School of Environmental Studies opened during 1996 in the Twin Cities suburb of Apple Valley as a public, 200-student, 11th and 12th grade " high school of choice ".

" Company headquarters was moved from Twin Falls to Las Vegas in 1996.

Fender made a limited-edition Mini-Twin practice amplifier modeled after the mid-70s Twin Reverb models in 1996.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

The Doom franchise was continued with the follow-up Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ) and numerous expansion packs, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Master Levels for Doom II ( 1995 ), and Final Doom ( 1996 ).

The popularity of Doom led to the development of a sequel, Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Final Doom ( 1996 ), and Doom 64 ( 1997 ).

* Peter Bunyard ( 1996 ), Gaia in Action: Science of the Living Earth

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

House of Pain abruptly broke up in 1996 after the release of their third album, Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again, which featured guest appearances by rappers Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Guru of Gang Starr, producer / rapper Divine Styler and reggae singjay Cockni O ' Dire ( credited as the Scheme Team ).

* Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again ( 1996 )

* Bond, Lawrence & Ellen Evert Hopman ( 1996 ) People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out.

** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

The story of his time on Fatu Hiva and his side trip to Hivaoa and Mohotani is also related in Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day ( Random House, 1996 ).

Given that Toutatis makes many close approaches the Earth, such as in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, it is listed as a potentially hazardous object.

In 1996, Russia launched Mars 96, its first interplanetary mission since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however it failed to depart Earth orbit.

* The 1962 trading card series Mars Attacks ( no exclamation point, unlike the 1996 film based on it ) depicts an invasion of Earth by hideous, skeletal Martians.

Independence Day is a 1996 American military science fiction disaster film about an alien invasion of Earth.

At 0000 GMT September 30, 1996 ( the start of GPS Week 873 ), WGS 84 was redefined again and was more closely aligned with International Earth Rotation Service ( IERS ) Terrestrial Reference Frame ( ITRF ) 94.

* " No Place on Earth Has Better Weather " ( March 1996 – March 1998 )

The next year saw him participate in official meetings in Japan associated with the Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil, and in 1996 he returned to Africa, sowing seeds in desert areas of Tanzania, observing Baobab trees and jungle country.

Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the largest artificial satellite orbiting the Earth until its deorbit on 21 March 2001 ( a record now surpassed by the International Space Station ).

There have been a few exceptions, such as the alien-initiated first contact that begins the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the Vulcan-initiated first contact that concludes the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact ( although after a failed invasion by the Borg in the rest of the film ).

The 1996 movie Star Trek: First Contact deals extensively with this theme, although the frame of reference is in the future ; the Borg come to Earth in 2063, approximately two to three hundred years prior to the relevant events in the Star Trek universe.

* Mars 96 – 16 November 1996 – Attempted Mars orbiter / landers ( failed to escape Earth orbit )

It was at this time that Cocker gained significant media exposure due to a notorious prank at the 1996 BRIT Awards, where he invaded the stage in protest during pop singer Michael Jackson's performance of " Earth Song " and " wiggled his backside " at the audience.

Comet Hyakutake (, formally designated C / 1996 B2 ) is a comet, discovered on 31 January 1996, that passed very close to Earth in March of that year.