The contemporary historian James W. Loewen agrees with the oral traditions in his book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong ( 1999 ), but there is not a consensus within the professional academic community.

Per a 1999 estimate, there are no merchant marines in American Samoa.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

Since 1996 estimates, there has been a significant reduction in the total length of unpaved highway in Botswana-between 1996 and 1999 total length of unpaved highway fell from 14, 139 km to 4, 597 km.

The sessions of the German Bundestag were held there from 1949 until its move to Berlin in 1999.

In the 1999 census, there were 215, 363 inhabitants in the city ( commune ) of Bordeaux.

The logo was rounded and embossed ( but later flattened in February 1999 ), and there were 8 extra pages.

In 1999, John Earman and Jesús Mosterín published a thorough critical review of inflationary cosmology, concluding that “ we do not think that there are, as yet, good grounds for admitting any of the models of inflation into the standard core of cosmology ”.

From 1999 there has been a ban in the UK for using UK blood to manufacture fractional products such as albumin.

Despite initial activity in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999.

In 1999 the communities agreed to install a new exit door in the church, but there was never any report of this door being completed.

According to a 1999 estimate, there are no merchant marines and there are two airports, both having paved runways of 914 to 1, 523 meters.

Australian Rules Football has had a presence in the city since 1999 and there are now three clubs in the Capital ; the Dublin Demons, the South Dublin Swans and the West Dublin Saints.

In 1998 and 1999, there was a homebrew competition known as " Presence of Mind " ( POM ), an N64 demo competition led by dextrose. com.

This steam locomotive dating from the 1930s still operates, carrying both freight and tourists. As of 1999, there was a total of 317 kilometres of ( narrow gauge ) rail line in Eritrea.

Between 1961 and 1999, there was a 400 % increase in worldwide food exports.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

In 1999, there were 910, 304 households, of which 18. 9 % had children under the age of 18 ; 47. 9 % of all households were made up of individuals.

According to the CIA World Factbook, in 1999 there were 51, 000 fixed telephone lines in use in the Isle of Man.

According to the CIA World Factbook, as of 1999 there were 27, 490 televisions in use in the Isle of Man.

In 1999, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a pair of birds in the Pearl River region of southeast Louisiana by a forestry student, David Kulivan, which some experts considered very compelling.

Since 1999, the education laws have forbidden the public universities to instruct students in languages other than Latvian ( there are exclusions made for linguistics, some international projects and non-budget groups ).

But McNaught did extend the work to examine the placement of the Moon with trails and saw a large chance of a storm impacting in 1999 from a trail while there were less direct impacts from trails in 2000 and 2001 ( successive contact with trails through 2006 showed no hits.

At the 1999 French census, there were 293, 159 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ( aire urbaine ) of Le Mans, with 146, 105 of these living in the city proper ( commune ).

It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:

The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U. S., in June 1999.

The Act overturns a 1999 U. S. Supreme Court case that held that an employee was not disabled if the impairment could be corrected by mitigating measures ; it specifically provides that such impairment must be determined without considering such ameliorative measures.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

* The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins ( pK ), or 0. 000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal.

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

The Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

The DB7 range was boosted by the addition of V12 Vantage models in 1999, and in 2001 the company introduced the V12-engined Aston Martin Vanquish.

Linux support for AGP enhanced fast data transfers was first added in 1999 with the implementation of the AGPgart kernel module.

Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1999.

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

In February 1999, Saron was made a Grade II Listed Building.

He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows NT server.

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.