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In 1997, Western Australian Senator John Panizza died, and Lightfoot, having been selected to fill the vacancy, moved to federal politics.
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For the 1997 Major League Soccer season, their record was 21 – 11 ; they won the Western Conference regular season championship.
Tightening emissions and safety legislation meant that AvtoVAZ withdrew from most Western markets by the late 1997 ; often, there were also problems with spare parts.
Western Folklore 56 ( Winter, 1997 ): 39-50.
John Beloff in his book Parapsychology: A Concise History ( 1997 ) has written that in the Western world parapsychology has been " driven by desire to confound materialism or reductionism " and that there has only been a minority of parapsychologists who have advocated physical theories for psi.
* In the Lion's Den: Persecuted Christians and What the Western Church Can Do About It Nina Shea, Broadman & Holman, 1997.
Most later Western scholars, such as Bradley ( 1997 ) and La Polla ( 2003 ) have retained Matisoff's two primary branches, though differing in the details of Tibeto-Burman.
In July 1997 the constitution was amended to change the country's name from " Western Samoa " to " Samoa.
Western charges of Iraqi resistance to UN access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U. S. and British missile strikes on Iraq, 16 – 19 December 1998.
* The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt ( University of Michigan Press ; Reprint edition, 1997, ISBN 0-472-08441-0 )
An Arabic speaker, he is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, and did so three times between 1993 and 1997.
Fisk is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden — three times ( all published by The Independent: 6 December 1993, 10 July 1996, and 22 March 1997 ).
* The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt ( University of Michigan Press ; Reprint edition, 1997, ISBN 0-472-08441-0 )
* Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, ( 1997 ).
It won majorities of the seats in Western Canada in repeated elections, but was unable to break through in Eastern Canada, though it became the official opposition from 1997 to 2003 ( Reform was renamed the Canadian Alliance in 2000 ).
Conder and Kitchener ’ s expedition became known as the Survey of Western Palestine because it was largely confined to the area west of the Jordan River ( Hodson 1997 ).
In 1997, Archbishop Edmund Michał Piszcz of Warmia and the community of Ermlanders in Western Germany commemorated Kaller and placed busts of him in Germany and Poland.
Griffin was chosen as a Western Conference Reserve in the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, a rare honor for a rookie ; the first chosen by the coaches for the game since Tim Duncan in 1997.
After the Canucks finished the 1997 – 98 season last in the Western Conference, former NHL vice president Brian Burke was named general manager in the summer.
By 1997, Western Publishing was absorbed into the Golden Books Publishing Company.
After Eastern Illinois joined the Ohio Valley Conference for football in 1995, Youngstown State joined in 1997 and was followed by Western Kentucky in 2001.
The Art of Warfare in the Western Europe during the Middle Ages, Boydell & Brewer, 1997 ( trans.
There is some evidence of prehistoric human occupation of the area-flints, animal bone and charcoal were found in bore holes around Western and Central Way in 1997 by the Museum of London Archaeological Service ( MOLAS ).
( 1997 ) Bungle Bungle Range: Purnululu National Park, East Kimberley, Western Australia: a guide to the rocks, landforms, plants, animals, and human impact Canberra: Australian Geological Survey Organisation.
Between 1997 and 2002, he contributed artwork on fill-in issues ( or to jam issues ) of Crusades, The Dreaming, Flinch, House of Secrets, The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams ..., Totems, Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales.
The city was also home of the Western Baseball League's Grays Harbor Gulls from 1995 to 1997.
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Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.
Peter Jones and Nick Seymour joined Australian group Deadstar for their second album, Milk, in 1997.
* Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of its Australian subsidiary, ICI Australia, for £ 1bn in 1997, and of its polyester chemicals business to DuPont for $ 3 billion also in 1997.
* 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer
* 1997 – George Turner, Australian author ( b. 1916 )
* 1903 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1997 )
* 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer
* 1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer ( INXS and Max Q ) ( d. 1997 )
* 1936 – Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author ( d. 1997 )
Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.
Australian Open: QF ( 1997 )
Hewitt was only the third defending Grand Slam champion in the open era to lose in the first round, after Boris Becker at the 1997 Australian Open and Patrick Rafter at the 1999 US Open.
* 1916 – George Turner, Australian author ( d. 1997 )
A group of Australian researchers have proposed ( based on a 1997 study in rats ) that oxycodone, unlike morphine ( the effect of which is mediated by μ-opioid receptors ), acts on κ-opioid receptors.
In 1997 Keating declined appointment as a Companion of the Order of Australia, which has been offered to all exiting prime ministers since the present Australian Honours System was introduced in 1975.
The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence ( 1997 ) about her childhood, which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.
* Stella One Eleven, an Australian pop / rock band formed in 1997
Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.
Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue's 1997 album Impossible Princess featured strong trip hop styles on several tracks, as well as also mixing in sounds of rock and jazz
* January 27 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1997 )
* January 22 – Michael Hutchence, Australian rock musician ( INXS ) ( d. 1997 )
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