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* 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
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* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.
A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.
1999 and Bertrand
In late 1998 they made a record-breaking flight from Morocco to Hawaii but were unable to complete a global flight before Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones in Breitling Orbiter 3 in March 1999.
Between 1948 and 1999 the English writer Daphne Phelps lived in the Casa Cuseni designed and built by Robert Hawthorn Kitson in 1905, and entertained various friends including Bertrand Russell, Roald Dahl, and Tennessee Williams.
In addition to literary criticism, Joshi has also edited books on atheism and social relations, including Documents of American Prejudice ( 1999 ), an annotated collection of American racist writings ; In Her Place ( 2006 ), which collects written examples of prejudice against women ; and Atheism: A Reader ( 2000 ), which collects atheistic writings by such people as Antony Flew, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, Gore Vidal and Carl Sagan, among others.
The album, which features Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and frontman of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy Neil Hannon, singer and songwriter Bertrand Cantat of Noir Désir, singer and illustrator Françoiz Breut, anglophone French rock band The Married Monk ( Christian Quermalet, Philippe Lebruman, Etienne Jaumet, Nicolas Courret ), French folk rock group Têtes Raides ( Christian Olivier, Grègoire Simon, Pascal Olivier, Anne-Gaëlle Bisquay, Serge Bégout, Jean-Luc Millot, and Edith Bégou ), the string quartet Quatuor à cordes, guitarist and composer Olivier Mellano, and author Mathieu Boogaerts, as well as his usual collaborators and friends, Claire Pichet and Dominique A, was recorded by France International, mastered by Radio France, and released in CD format one year later on 2 November 1999.
Although the Dunning – Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted Charles Darwin (" Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge ") and Bertrand Russell (" One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision ") as authors who have recognised the phenomenon.
1999 and Piccard
On 1 March 1999 Piccard and Brian Jones set off in the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3 from Château d ' Oex in Switzerland on the first non-stop balloon circumnavigation around the globe.
1999 and Brian
He is featured in 1965's Dune, the original novel in the science fiction series, as well as the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
* Brian Aldiss and Roger Penrose wrote White Mars ( 1999 ) as a response to the terraforming science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson and Paul J. MaCauley above.
Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).
* Owensby, Brian P .; Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil ( Stanford University, 1999 ).
In 1999, the reruns moved to Odyssey Network ( which was co-owned by Henson's company ), featuring new introductions by Brian Henson, until Odyssey shut down Henson's half of the channel in 2001 ; the show has not been seen on American television since.
More recent authors who have used damnatio memoriae as a plot device include Milan Kundera in his 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, R. A. Salvatore in the 1990 novel Homeland, Lois Lowry in her 1993 novel The Giver ( a version in which the damned name is never given to any new baby ever again ), and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their 1999 Prelude to Dune trilogy.
* Brian T. Stewart, a phlebotomist, sentenced to life in prison for deliberately infecting his 11-month-old baby with HIV-infected blood to avoid child support payments: 1999
The main new works staged by the company have been The Little Mermaid by Anne Boyd ( 1985 ); Metamorphosis by Brian Howard ( 1985 ); Voss by Richard Meale ( 1986 ); Whitsunday by Howard ( 1988 ); Mer de glace by Richard Meale ( 1992 ); The Golem by Larry Sitsky ( 1993 ); The Eighth Wonder by Alan John ( 1995 ); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Richard Mills ( 1999 ); Batavia by Richard Mills ( 2001 ); Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky ( OzOpera 2002 ); Lindy by Moya Henderson ( 2003 ); Madeline Lee by John Haddock ( 2004 ); Bliss ( 2010 ) by Brett Dean.
* Costar, Brian & Economou, Nick ( eds ), The Kennett revolution: Victorian politics in the 1990s, Sydney: UNSW Press, 1999.
" Science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson and Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert, who have together written multiple Dune sequels and prequels since 1999, are attached to the project as technical advisors.
After the death of Owen in 1999, Compo was replaced at various times by his real-life son, Tom Owen, as equally unkempt Tom Simmonite, Keith Clifford as Billy Hardcastle, a man who fancied himself a descendant of Robin Hood, and Brian Murphy as the childish Alvin Smedley.
* Interview with Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Brian Lamb, Booknotes, 21 February 1999, video ( 59 minutes )
Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy
Gurney has more recently been explored in the Prelude to Dune prequels ( 1999 – 2001 ) written by Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son, and Kevin J. Anderson.
* February 10, 1999 at the Eugene O ' Neill Theatre, running for 274 performances, with Brian Dennehy as Willy.
According to the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is born on the planet Giedi Prime, under the Harkonnen Regime.
In the Prelude to Dune ( 1999 – 2001 ) prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is noted that the founder of the Bene Tleilax had been a Master named Xuttuh.
In the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ( 1999 – 2001 ), Project Amal is an early attempt by the Bene Tleilax to create synthetic melange in order to eliminate dependence upon Arrakis.
Mark Wallinger ( born 1959 ) is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo ( 1999 ), and State Britain ( 2007 ), a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament.
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