The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.

Haiti's cheap labor brought some textile and garment assembly work back to the island in the late 1990s.

Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait.

Preferential access to sugar and clothing markets amounted to 7 % of GDP in the 1980s and 4. 5 % in the 1990s, capital and current accounts were liberalised, contributing to an investment and employment boom and the high inflow of FDI brought with it managerial skills.

The establishment and growth of the Internet in the 1990s brought rapid growth to these, and other pagan movements.

In the 1990s, with the revival of interest in constructed languages brought on by the Internet, some people rediscovered Novial.

The Pyrenean Ibex mysteriously became extinct in January 2000 ; the native Pyrenean brown bear was hunted to near-extinction in the 1990s, but it was re-introduced in 1996 when three bears were brought from Slovenia.

In the 1990s, controversy over a class-action lawsuit brought in Brooklyn, New York over Jewish assets in Holocaust-era bank accounts prompted the Swiss government to commission the most recent and authoritative study of Switzerland's interaction with the Nazi regime.

The United Kingdom has sought to be a leading member of the United Nations, the European Union and NATO, yet since the 1990s large-scale devolution movements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have brought into question the future viability of this constantly evolving political union.

Although the security situation in the country has greatly improved, addressing the underlying issues which brought about the political turmoil of the 1990s remains the government's major task.

The 1990s brought Ford the role of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), as well as leading roles in Alan Pakula's Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) and The Devil's Own ( 1997 ), Andrew Davis ' The Fugitive ( 1993 ), Sydney Pollack's remake of Sabrina ( 1995 ), and Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One ( 1997 ).

The 1990s brought on rapid advances in technology along with the introduction of the dot-com era.

Inflation was brought to single digits during the late 1990s although it returned to double digits in 2000-02.

The 1990s brought Australian Indigenous Folk Rock to the world, led by bands including Yothu Yindi.

Barbados went into a deep recession in the 1990s after 3 years of steady decline brought on by fundamental macroeconomic imbalances.

The early 1990s brought a decline in the popularity of traditional thrash metal.

In the late 1990s, the show was brought to the attention of Drew Carey, who worked with regular Whose Line?

The band's evolution throughout the 1990s and early 2000s involved several tumultuous periods of commercial highs and lows, brought about in part by Weiland's well-publicized struggles with drug addiction.

Perhaps the most famous antitrust enforcement actions brought by the federal government were the break-up of AT & T's local telephone service monopoly in the early 1980s and its actions against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

B * Witched performed in the 2007 gig ' Battle of the Pop Bands ' which brought old bands from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

It also brought anime into prominence in late 1990s with its Toonami action block and aired late night programming such as the Midnight Run, ToonHeads and Space Ghost Coast to Coast which was more popular with older audiences and lead way for the creation of its young adult late night block Adult Swim in 2001.

The National Labor Committee brought sweatshops into the mainstream media in the 1990s when it exposed the use of sweatshop and child labor to sew Kathie Lee Gifford's Wal-Mart label.

Since the 1990s teams of foreign workers were brought in, many from Thailand and China.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, new homes and communities brought the population significantly increasing.

In Lebanon more than 450 outcrops of Lower Cretaceous amber were discovered between the 1960s and 1990s, among which about 20 outcrops have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods.

Tessa Jowell, Labour cabinet minister, embroiled in a scandal about a property remortgage allegedly arranged to enable her husband to realise £ 350, 000 from an off-shore hedge fund, money he allegedly received as a gift following testimony he had provided for Silvio Berlusconi in the 1990s.

However, in the 1990s it rapidly became the dominant set of methods of phylogenetics in evolutionary biology, because computers made it possible to process large quantities of data about organisms and their characteristics.

Partly in response to international pressures, Comorians in the 1990s have become more concerned about the environment.

In the 1990s, about twenty civil wars were occurring concurrently during an average year, a rate about ten times the historical average since the 19th century.

In the late 1990s, anthropologist Stanley Ambrose proposed that a volcanic winter induced by this eruption reduced the human population to about 2, 000-20, 000 individuals, resulting in a population bottleneck ( see Toba catastrophe theory ).

Filmer suggests the total of employees worldwide in the 1990s was about 880 million, compared with around a billion working on own account on the land ( mainly peasants ), and some 480 million working on own account in industry and services.

The northern regions around Mazar-i-Sharif and Maymanah were the home range for about six million karakul sheep in the late 1990s.

In the late 1990s, notorious fanzines and e-zines flourished about electronic and post-rock music.

In the early 1990s, about half of Ghana's population was under age fifteen.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to financial constraints and a lack of serviceable equipment, the navy temporarily shrank from about 1, 200 personnel to around 850, but the numbers soon rose.

The FITH consisted of fourteen unions claiming about 13, 000 members in the early 1990s.

Honduras continued to lose about 3. 6 percent of its remaining forests annually during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Note that in Europe, sophisticated diesel-engined cars have taken over about 40 % of the market since the 1990s.

Since the latter half of the 1990s considerable controversy has grown in Dutch society, about the TBS-system.

When interviewed about Adam Walsh in the early 1990s, Dahmer repeatedly denied involvement in the crime.

Since the early 1990s, a light has been fixed to it about one-third of the way up.

The Swedish financial crises of the early 1990s exacerbated Malmö's decline as an industrial city ; between 1990-95, Malmö lost about 27, 000 jobs and its economy was seriously strained.

The early 1990s saw a revival and re-envisioning of realistic novels about Mars expeditions.

Marvel's major heroes were created in the 1960s, but the amount of time that has passed between then and now within the universe itself has ( after a prolonged period of being identified as about ten years in the mid-to-late 1990s ) most recently been identified as thirteen years.

From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, commodity CPUs grew in performance at a rate of about 60 % a year, but the speed of memory access grew at only 7 % a year.

The middle part of the document linked to is a good general history from about 1850 to the 1990s.

Oral History was for the first time used in the mid 1990s but we can speak about some kind of progress for past six years, as Sean Field speaks about it, when it has transformed from disregard and criticized to possibly respect.