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†1991 Graham Greene

Monsignor Quixote Full Movie Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or “entertainments” as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. Part of Greene’s reputation as a novelist is for weaving the characters […]

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Events 1990s – Hubble telescope launched

1990 Hibble telescope ls launched  Events The Congo Wars began in the 1990s. The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) The Yugoslav Wars (1991–1995) followed the breakup of Yugoslavia, beginning on 25 June 1991, after the republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia.  The Kosovo War (1998–1999) The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1998) involved 30 years of conflict that ended on 10 April 1998, when the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Gulf War oil spill: Resulting from actions taken during the Gulf War in 1991 by the Iraq military, the oil spill caused considerable damage to wildlife in the Persian Gulf, especially in areas surrounding Kuwait and Iraq. 28 September 1994: The car […]

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1997 Music is auditory cheesecake

    Music is auditory cheesecake, and exquisite confection to tickle the sensitive spots of at least six of our mental faculties. Compared with language, vision, social reasoning, and physical knowhow, music could vanish from our species and the rest of our lifestyle would be virtually unchanged.  Music appears to be a pure pleasure technology, a cocktail of recreational drugs that we ingest through the ear to stimulate a mass of pleasure circuits at once.     – Steven Pinker  1997

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