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* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
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According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.
The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).
* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
1996 and Lebanon
* In April 1996, after continued Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, the Israeli armed forces launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.
From 1995 to 1996, while Ziad Jarrah was still living in Lebanon, according to his family, somebody of the same name rented an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.
: Bahrain ( 1996 – 2000 ); Iran ( 1948 – 1951, 1953 – 1979 ); Iraq ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Oman ( 1996 – 2000 ); Qatar ( 1996 – 2009 ); Saudi Arabia ; Syria ; United Arab Emirates ; and Yemen.
Lebanon served as the host city for seven Babe Ruth World Series held in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996 and 2000.
He was reassigned to the Ministry of Electricity and Water in 1996, a period which saw massive power projects in Baddawi and Zahrani, Zouk and Baalbeck, and massive electrical grid installation and distribution throughout Lebanon, including the outlying areas still in turmoil with Israeli Forces in the south, hence the progress was too slow compared to the massive increase in the Megawatts needed, since little electricity projects were accomplished over 18 years of civil unrest, mainly because of the Israeli Operation Grapes of Wrath.
Eter and four other suspects were arrested in 1996 in Lebanon, Italy, Greece and Berlin, and put on trial a year later.
In 1996, the Scorpions was the first band to rock Lebanon, and again in 2011 during their farewell world tour, booking 3 concerts that were sold out extremely quick.
The 1996 shelling of Qana or the First Qana massacre, took place on April 18, 1996 near Qana, a village in Southern Lebanon, when artillery shells fired by the Israeli Defence Force hit a United Nations compound.
Other major attacks within Lebanon took place in July 1993 and April 1996 — See Operation Accountability and Operation Grapes of Wrath.
By 1996, three newspapers from Lebanon were online, Al Anwar, Annahar, and Assafir, and by 2000, more than 200 websites provided news out of Lebanon.
1989: Horizonte-Berliner Festspiele / 1991: Istanbul Festival / 1992: Romanischer Sommer, Köln / 1993: Internationale Funkausstellung, Berlin / 1994: Abbaye de Sylvanès / 1995: Stimmen Lörrach / 1996: Copenhagen, Cultural Capital of Europe / 1997: Thessaloniki, Cultural Capital of Europe / Jerusalem 2000 / Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival / 1998: 900 Jahre Hildegard von Bingen / Baalbek-Festival, Lebanon / Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht / 1999: Boston Early Music Festival / Festival van Vlaanderen, Bruges / 2000: Library of Congress, Washington / Spitalfields Festival, London / Styriarte, Graz / 2001: Lufthansa Baroque Festival, London / 2002: Dresdner Festspiele / Bruges, Cultural Capital of Europe / 2003: Madrid / Sevilla / Festival de Menton / 2004: Ludwigsburger Festspiele / Vezelay Cathedral / 2005: Komische Oper, Berlin / Rheingau Musik Festival / 2006: Frauenkirche Dresden / Lincoln Center, New York / 2007: Konzerthaus, Vienna / Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome / Singapore Arts Festival / 2008: Berlin Philharmonie, Théâtre de la Ville Paris / 2009: Sheik Zayed Book Award, Abu Dhabi / Beethovenfest Bonn / Musikvereinssaal Wien / 2010: Schwetzinger Festspiele / Flanders Festival, Brügge / Ruhrtriennale Bochum.
Nowadays the army concentrates on peace-keeping and peace-enforcing operations and has been involved in several operations ( in Lebanon between 1979 and 1985, and the former Yugoslavia ( Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Kosovo ) 1991-present, but also in Cambodia 1992 – 1994, Haiti 1995 – 1996, Cyprus 1998 – 1999, Eritrea and Ethiopia 2001, and most recent in Iraq 2003 – 2005, Afghanistan 2002 – 2010 and Chad 2008 – 2009 ).
In Lebanon in 2003, Marcel Khalife, a well-known Lebanese singer, faced up to three years in jail after Beirut's newly appointed chief investigating judge reopened a case that accused him of insulting Islam in 1996, and again in 1999, by singing a verse from the Qur ' an in one of his songs ( Ana Yussef, I am Josef ).
In Uruguay, water supply was privately managed from 1867 to 1950 ; in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a brief period from 1887 to 1891 and again from 1993 to 2006 ; in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, from 1867 to 1956 ; in Beirut, Lebanon, from the 19th century until 1951 ; in Shanghai, China, from 1875 to 1949 ; in Casablanca, Morocco, from 1914 to 1962 and then again after 1997 ; in Senegal until 1971 and then again after 1996 ; and in Côte d ' Ivoire from colonial times until today without interruption.
Ziad Jarrah came from Lebanon to Germany in April 1996, where he enrolled in a junior college in Greifswald.
In Lebanon, the government sponsored the first training of school counselors for public elementary and middle schools in 1996.
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* 1996 – Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.
The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.
In 1996 Charlie Ellington at Cambridge University showed that vortices created by many insects ’ wings and non-linear effects were a vital source of lift ; vortices and non-linear phenomena are notoriously difficult areas of hydrodynamics, which has made for slow progress in theoretical understanding of insect flight.
In 1996 Netscape requested that the authors of Berkeley DB improve and extend the library, then at version 1. 86, to suit Netscape's requirements for an LDAP server and for use in the Netscape browser.
In 1996, it was mentioned that Mumy was also reunited with Harris, again, at a Walt Disney convention in Orlando, Florida.
He lectured in statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus as an assistant professor ( 1994 – 1996 ) and associate professor ( 1997 – 2005 ).
Older editions of the CIA World Factbook, going back to 1989, country rankings constructed from CIA data, and additional country information from other sources are available at the Countries of the World website, which was begun in 1996.
On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.
In 2000, the same policy was applied to people who have resided in France, for at least three months from January 1980 to December 1996.
The Association of Blood Donors of Denmark precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least 12 months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.
The Swiss Blutspendedienst SRK precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of at least six months in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.
After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.
In 1996, Love began a relationship with actor Edward Norton and were at one point engaged, but separated in 1999.
It has been reported by defectors and refugees that, at the height of the North Korean famine in 1996, cannibalism was sometimes practiced in North Korea.
Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.
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