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FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday: 1991 ~ 24 June 2005
StarCMC;Kathy In Alaska;MoJo2001; The Canteen Crew

Posted on 06/23/2005 7:07:52 PM PDT by MoJo2001


 

 


~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1991
 
Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1991.
 
1991 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1991?
 
Events that occurred in 1991

- January 16th, Operation Desert Storm begins

- February 4th, Baseball votes to ban Pete Rose

-February 27 - Gulf War: Kuwait is liberated, and a ceasefire is declared, after 100 hours of ground fighting. Iraq accepts the terms of the ceasefire, which call for the country to disarm.

-March 3
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the Soviet Union

-August
August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web."
August 8 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built

August 18 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea. The putsch is led by eight high-ranking hard-liners, and will collapse in less than 72 hours.


August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev


August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union


August 24 - Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union


August 25 - Student Linus Torvalds post a messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.

August 31 - Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the Soviet Union

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist

 

 
Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XXV was played on January 27, 1991 in Tampa, Florida. The New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20 to 19.

The Minnesota Twins won the World Series of the Atlanta Braves

 

 
Hit Music From 1991

Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up*

EMF - Unbelievable

Amy Grant - Baby, Baby

Boyz II Men - Motownphilly

Mariah Carey - Someday

Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

Scorpions - Winds Of Changes

Marky Marky and The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do I Do It For You

C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Extreme - More Than Words

Tesla - Signs

 

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!


 

 


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To: bentfeather

Good Morning Ms.Feather!


561 posted on 06/24/2005 6:04:32 AM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: Mrs.Nooseman
Good Morning Mrs. N


562 posted on 06/24/2005 6:04:59 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Morning, Ma!!

563 posted on 06/24/2005 6:05:18 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Mrs.Nooseman

Good morning, Mrs. Nooseman.


564 posted on 06/24/2005 6:05:45 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: ValerieUSA

I think you should go with red!


565 posted on 06/24/2005 6:07:31 AM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: Jet Jaguar

That's similar reasons why my husband likes it too. He comes back sometimes saying, we have to move to TX or we have to move to AZ. LOL!


566 posted on 06/24/2005 6:08:44 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I've been doing good.

Busy with work and things,but in a couple of weeks I get to rest for 9 days!

How have you been?


567 posted on 06/24/2005 6:09:38 AM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: MoJo2001

Still on active duty at that time. Had children in grade school, middle school, and high school. Musik was easy if it wasn't CW it wasn't on the radio.


568 posted on 06/24/2005 6:10:18 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: ValerieUSA; Mrs.Nooseman

((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. How's it going?


569 posted on 06/24/2005 6:11:47 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: bentfeather
Do you have some weekend plans?? House hunting, etc.?

Yep, that's the plan. I hope to be back on the beaches before the kids get back to school. Afther that the beaches will be all mine.


570 posted on 06/24/2005 6:12:10 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: E.G.C.

It's going great!

HUGS back at you!


571 posted on 06/24/2005 6:18:50 AM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: Mrs.Nooseman

I have been busy.

but all is good.


572 posted on 06/24/2005 6:23:16 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Mrs.Nooseman

Thanks .. the problem is avoiding bright orange. It will fade away in a month whether I like the color or not anyway.


573 posted on 06/24/2005 6:24:21 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: Jet Jaguar

574 posted on 06/24/2005 6:25:47 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: ValerieUSA

You are welcome!
Are you coloring your hair at home?


575 posted on 06/24/2005 6:28:37 AM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: ValerieUSA

Great picture!


576 posted on 06/24/2005 6:30:20 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: darkwing104; acad1228; tomkow6; All

HISTORY QUIZ






In 1812, who's army entered Russia?


577 posted on 06/24/2005 6:30:48 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

Good morning Miss Feather . . . Napoleon's???


578 posted on 06/24/2005 6:33:06 AM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: Mrs.Nooseman
I'm going to get Jboo now! Yippee! Woo Hoo! Schools out for summer!!!!! :) Image hosted by TinyPic.com
579 posted on 06/24/2005 6:36:05 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
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To: bentfeather

580 posted on 06/24/2005 6:36:55 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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