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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
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~ Flashback Friday ~ Year: 1991 |
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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. |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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KEYWORDS: 1991; flashback
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To: Bethbg79
To: AZamericonnie
To: ValerieUSA
843
posted on
06/24/2005 1:44:56 PM PDT
by
Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: tomkow6
tom, you can't walk any way with your legs all confined like that.
844
posted on
06/24/2005 1:59:11 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: ValerieUSA
845
posted on
06/24/2005 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: TASMANIANRED
To: Bethbg79
My "voices" did the requesting.....
847
posted on
06/24/2005 2:01:24 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(This is my tag line, there are many like it, but this one is mine....I stole this tag line)
To: tomkow6
848
posted on
06/24/2005 2:02:01 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(This is my tag line, there are many like it, but this one is mine....I stole this tag line)
To: tomkow6
849
posted on
06/24/2005 2:02:02 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(This is my tag line, there are many like it, but this one is mine....I stole this tag line)
To: tomkow6
850
posted on
06/24/2005 2:02:04 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(This is my tag line, there are many like it, but this one is mine....I stole this tag line)
To: tomkow6
851
posted on
06/24/2005 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(This is my tag line, there are many like it, but this one is mine....I stole this tag line)
To: tomkow6
852
posted on
06/24/2005 2:02:10 PM PDT
by
tomkow6
(This is my tag line, there are many like it, but this one is mine....I stole this tag line)
To: tomkow6
To: tomkow6
They did great! *applause*
854
posted on
06/24/2005 2:04:53 PM PDT
by
Bethbg79
(God bless our Troops and their families!)
To: ValerieUSA; LUV W; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001
Wow...did you filter that sun/cloud shot at all?
OBTW, my youngest is now published. He wrote an article for the local paper about his church mission trip that included photos.
I asked if he planned to look into a journalism degree and got an eye-roll like you wouldn't believe!
855
posted on
06/24/2005 2:06:12 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(Remember, you have to seal the dike before you can drain the swamp.)
To: ValerieUSA
856
posted on
06/24/2005 2:11:16 PM PDT
by
AZamericonnie
(I AM an AMERICAN not because I live in America but because America lives in me!~Ray Cornelius~)
To: ValerieUSA
That one is pretty awesome as well.
I saw your name on the other, is this your work as well.
You've got "the eye".
857
posted on
06/24/2005 2:24:07 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats haven't had a new idea since Karl Marx.)
To: tomkow6
From my "VOICES"!! I' beginning to like your voices. Someone help me!
858
posted on
06/24/2005 2:24:54 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Honor - Dignity - Courage - Loyalty)
To: tomkow6; Kathy in Alaska; All
Whoa Drudge reporting that Fox news ratings has lay smackdown with ratings point with two MSNBC combine in rating point LOL!
Also breaking news off BBC wire witnesses are claim that ulta Conservative party might win Iran today in run off voting
Also another report off NY Daily news look like Vlad politial party going introduce amendment to allow Vlad if he want to run for third term Vlad saying maybe after term he is outta there you don't know about KGB agents they might change their mind
859
posted on
06/24/2005 2:32:53 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: Lady Jag; tomkow6; MoJo2001; All
Lady Jag I start like Tomkow voices I still don't know why maybe I need threpy LOL!
OH I got good song for Canteen DJ I watching Howling Wolf story on Black Starz about this for all Chicago residents lurking on Canteen
Smoke stack lighting by Howlin wolf
860
posted on
06/24/2005 2:35:54 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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