In 1996, the A & E Network briefly aired a show hosted by comedian Mike Lukas based on the column also called The Straight Dope.

Simon continued to write and record music for films and wrote the theme songs to several more movies including " Two Little Sisters " from the 1996 movie Marvin's Room and " In Two Straight Lines " from the 1998 movie Madeline.

" Shootin ' Straight " was released by Private Music in 1996.

" Later, in a September 2009 interview with Vancouver-based music website Straight. com, interviewer John Lucas wrote of the 8-year gap between Bavarian Fruit Bread and Through the Devil Softly, " That seems like a long time until you consider that Mazzy Star, Sandoval's partnership with guitarist David Roback, hasn't put an album out since 1996.

The ' 96 GT1 had around and was clocked at a top speed of exactly on the legendary Mulsanne Straight in the practice sessions of the 1996 Le Mans 24 Hours Race ( presumably on a low downforce setup ).

Also in 1996 the Reader partnered with Yahoo to bring its entertainment listings online and introduced a Web site and an AOL user area built around its popular syndicated column " The Straight Dope ".

His autobiography, " Not Quite Straight ", was published in 1996.

In 1996, the A & E Network briefly aired a show based on the column called The Straight Dope, hosted and co-written by comedian Mike Lukas.

* Scared Straight ( 1996 )

* 1996 Straight Up

An entry in The Straight Dope reported that the following " implausibly exact numbers " do not appear in any of Schmidt ’ s published scientific papers but were " wheedled out of him " by Outside magazine for an article it published in 1996.

In 1996, not long after the release of Straight On ' Til Morning ( 1995 ), Hill left the group to become a father and was replaced for one year by Moon Boot Lover bassist Jon Hawes whose hyperactive, popping funk style was an ample complement to Halacy's robust drumming.

Alvin Ray Straight ( October 17, 1920 – November 9, 1996 ) was a resident of Laurens, Iowa, who gained fame for traveling on a 1966 John Deere riding lawn mower to visit his 80-year-old brother Henry in Blue River, Wisconsin who had recently had a stroke.

On November 9, 1996, Mr. Straight died of a heart ailment.

* Evil Ernie: Straight to Hell ( 1996 )

* Straight Up ( episode Gravity ) ( 1996 ) ( TV series ) as AJ's Gang Member

* Straight Ahead ( 1996 ) Rovers Records

For 1996 tours of Europe and the U. S., the band included bassist Bill Bronson and keyboardist Hoagie Hill ( both also played on the album " The Dope ...").

* The Dope, the Lies, the Vaseline ( Basura / Priority ) 1996

In 1996 Torfaen became a unitary authority.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

He became soon unpopular within the army, resulting in violent mutinies in 1996 – 1997.

Croatia became a member of the Council of Europe in 1996.

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

Established in 1996, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies became the first independent Jewish seminary to be established on the west coast.

OSF became part of the newly formed Open Group 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.

This facility became more vital after the closure of the Indian Ocean Station in 1996.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

After the first free elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he kept until 1996.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

In 1995 Hungary's currency, the Forint ( HUF ), became convertible for all current account transactions, and subsequent to OECD membership in 1996, for almost all capital account transactions as well.

This reflective style became more overt and ironic with the arrival of Scream ( 1996 ).

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri became a state within the Taliban state.

Icon is not object-oriented, but an object-oriented extension called Idol was developed in 1996 which eventually became Unicon.

The first version of the program was released in November 1996 and ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, later patenting the technology.

* 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

Then in 1996, Warner Glenn, a rancher and hunting guide from Douglas, Arizona, came across a jaguar in the Peloncillo Mountains and became a jaguar researcher, placing webcams which recorded four more Arizona jaguars.

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri furthermore became a state within the Taliban state.