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|Gorbachev Visits Washington, |Superconductivity And Low Temperature Studied At LBL |Here I Go Again |
|Signs INF Treaty With U.S. |Three household magnets levitated over a dish of |Livin’ On A Prayer |
|During a visit to Washington to finalize the INF treaty, |yttrium-barium-copper oxide pellets cooled by liquid |Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now |
|Gorbachev was embraced by the American public as a pivotal figure|nitrogen at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The |Didn’t We Almost Have It All? |
|in Soviet history. His wife Raisa, meanwhile, was embraced as the|expulsion of magnetic flux was used as the basic test |Shakedown |
|counterpart to Nancy Reagan, glamorous and beautiful. |for true superconductivity. |Poop Pit Pool |
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|Reproductive effort pays dividends |Superconducting magnets at liquid nitrogen | |
|Nanaimo’s population grew by one today, April 8, 1987, when |temperatures, 1987. |Deborah Lane delivers! |
|Alexander DeLan Lane was born to Deborah and Steven Lane. “This |Photo Credit: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |Nanaimo’s population grew by one today, April 8, 1987,|
|is good news,” said the Mayor of Nanaimo, “good news indeed.” | |when Alexander DeLan Lane was born to Deborah and |
|Brothers, Nick, Kyle, and Erik greeted the news with cautious | |Steven Lane. Immediate pictures were not available as |
|optimism and wondered just what bedroom the newbie would be |Roseanne |the child had crawled from the hospital nursery room |
|assigned. |A comedy loosely based on the life of creator and star|in an attempt to find his mother. In the meantime the |
| |Rosanne Barr, this show rocketed to the top of the |hospital’s security staff was on alert for the little |
| |ratings and was judged one of the funniest situation |dude last seen crawling or slithering out of the |
|Child born in Nanaimo |comedies ever. |nursery and down the hallway at NRGH. |
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| |Throw Momma From The Train |Child born in Nanaimo, 1987. |
| |The Princess Bride |Photo Credit: Picture by DeLan |
| |The Last Emperor | |
| |Three Men and a Baby | |
| |Full Metal Jacket |Patriot Games |
| | |Windmills of the Gods |
| | |Presumed Innocent |
| | |The Bonfire of the Vanities |
| | |A Day in the Life of America |
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|Soviet Union Begins Pulling Troops From Afghanistan |Clean burning fuel for this car |Sweet Child O’ Mine |
|With Soviet casualties exceeding 16,000 soldiers in the ninth |Alex tucks in behind the wheel of his new car. No |Got My Mind Set On You |
|year of conflict, Gorbachev reached an agreement to pull out the |speeding tickets with this baby. |Need You Tonight |
|Soviet Troops. The pullout was carried out over a period of | |Pour Some Sugar On Me |
|months and was completed early in 1989. | |Heaven Is A Place On Earth |
| |Non-polluting car! | |
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|Elimination Of Foxes Helps Canada Goose Population | |George Herbert Walker Bush |
|The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intervened to protect Canada | |Elected President Of The U.S. |
|Geese and other migratory birds that rely on the Aleutian Island |Murder, She Wrote |George Bush brought to the White House a dedication to|
|chain for nesting. Foxes introduced to Agattu Island by fur |Angela Lansbury played former substitute teacher and |traditional American values and a determination to |
|traders had decimated the bird population there. Removing the |mystery writer Jessica Fletcher. The show was a fairly|direct them toward making the United States “a kinder |
|foxes enabled the bird populations to recover. |conventional detective drama that relied on Jessica’s |and gentler nation.” Later citizens realized he was |
| |patient accumulation and shrewd analysis of evidence. |full of it. |
| |Variety was achieved by relying on stories connected | |
|Agattu Island, part of the Aleutian Islands National Wildlife |to a never ending series of friends and relatives. | |
|Refuge, 1988. | |George H. W. Bush, 1988. |
|Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | |Photo Credit: White House |
| |Dead Man Walking | |
| |Rain Man | |
| |The Bourne Identity |The Art Of The Deal |
| |The Firm |Moonwalk |
| |Die Hard |The Sands of Time |
| |A Fish Called Wanda |Breathing Lessons |
| | |Gracie, A Love Story |
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|Berlin Wall Comes Down |Pribilof Islands Named One Of The Top 50 Birding Spots|Don’t Know Much |
|Two years after Ronald Reagan demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down|Horned Puffins like those shown below are just one of |My Prerogative |
|this wall,” and almost three decades after it was built, the |many species of birds that can be observed at the |Giving You The Best That I Got |
|Berlin Wall was torn down as the Soviet Union collapsed and East |Pribilof Islands Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. |Right Here Waiting |
|Germans grew increasingly restive with their lack of freedom. |Other species include Tufted Puffins, Crested Auklets,|Wind Beneath My Wings |
| |Least Auklets, Common and Thick-billed Murres, |Girl You Know Its True |
| |Red-legged and Black-legged Kittiwakes, Pelagic and | |
|California Earthquake Destroys Buildings And Highways |Red-faced Cormorants, and Northern Fulmars. | |
|An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked the San | |Photos Of Special Hat Day |
|Francisco Bay Area, collapsing a portion of the San Francisco Bay| |Nanaimo’s “Special Hat Day” awards were won by Steve |
|Bridge and a double-decked section of freeway known as the |Pribilof Islands, Alaska, Maritime National Wildlife |and Alex Lane who were looking forward to the national|
|Cypress Viaduct. The temblor damaged a large number of buildings |Refuge, 1989. |competition in the future. Steve is seen here wearing |
|and resulted in 63 deaths and damages totaling nearly $6 billion.|Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |his father’s cowboy hat and Alex is wearing a, well, a|
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|California Earthquake, 1989. |The Wonder Years | |
|Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey |The Wonder Years starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, |Speical Hat Day |
| |a young man who struggles to overcome obstacles on his|Photo Credit: DeLan |
| |way to maturity. The theme music for the show was | |
| |“With a Little Help from My Friends,” by John Lennon | |
| |and Paul McCartney, as sung by Joe Cocker. |The Way Things Work |
| | |It’s Always Something |
| | |Roseanne: My Life as a Woman |
| |Batman |The Remains of the Day |
| |When Harry Met Sally |Wealth Without Risk |
| |The Phantom of the Opera |A Woman Named Jackie |
| |Dead Poet’s Society | |
| |Driving Miss Daisy | |
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|Iraq Attacks And Occupies Kuwait, Declares 19th Province |Growing Interest In Remote, Unspoiled Wilderness Areas|Ice Ice Baby |
|In August, Iraq attacked Kuwait and quickly overran Kuwait City. |The Wheeler Geologic Area is part of the Rio Grande |Hold On |
|Saddam Hussein declared Kuwait to be the 19th province of Iraq. |National Forest and is accessible only by four-wheel |Nothing Compares 2 U |
|The Iraqi army continued to occupy Kuwait until a coalition of |drive vehicle, horseback, or foot. Its unvegetated |Cradle Of Love |
|countries expelled it during the Gulf War. |landscape of geometrically complex outcrops and rock |Vision Of Love |
| |forms evolved through differential weathering of |Another Day In Paradise |
| |ashflow bedrock. | |
|Canada Goose Removed From List Of Endangered Species | | |
|As new breeding colonies became established, the number of | |First Lady Barbara Bush |
|Aleutian Canada geese increased rapidly. By 1990, the peak winter|Wheeler Geologic Area, Colorado, 1990. |Wins High Marks From All |
|count reached 6,300 geese and the Aleutian Canada goose was |Photo Credit: U.S. Geologic Survey |Barbara Bush sometimes enjoyed higher popularity |
|reclassified from endangered to threatened. | |ratings with the public than her husband did. One of |
| | |her accomplishments this year was founding the Barbara|
| |Murphy Brown |Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. |
|Chagulak field crew, 1990. |In some respects an updated Mary Tyler Moore show, the| |
|Photo Credit: U.S. Geologic Survey |Murphy Brown show starred Candice Bergen. Murphy Brown| |
| |is a reporter for a television magazine show. The show|First Lady Barbara Bush, 1990. |
| |focused on relationships and the problems of a career |Photo Credit: Library of Congress |
| |woman in journalism. | |
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| | |A Life On The Road |
| |Edward Scissorhands |Memories of Midnight |
| |Arachnaphobia |The Burden of Proof |
| |Twister |Jurassic Park |
| |Awakenings |The Witching Hour |
| | |September |
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|Coalition Of Nations Expels Iraqi Army From Kuwait |Pentagon Calls For Closure And Realignment Of Bases |More Than Words |
|George H. W. Bush, drawing on relationships forged over a |Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen conducted a |The First Time |
|lifetime of diplomatic service, assembled an unprecedented |press briefing in the Pentagon on the Department of |Rush Rush |
|coalition of nations to expel Iraq from Kuwait. Coalition forces |Defense’s report to Congress calling for base |Love Will Never Do Without You |
|bombarded Iraqi troops for weeks, then overran the troops in a |realignments and closures. |All The Man That I Need |
|100-hour ground war. | |Baby, Baby |
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| |Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, 1991. | |
|Careful Management Of Lakeshore Ecology |Photo Credit: Department of Defense |Aerial Reconnaissance, Smart Weapons Impact The War |
|Enhances Variety Of Wildlife | |Iraqi forces in southern Iraq and Kuwait had little |
|On the 25th anniversary of its establishment, Indiana Dunes was | |knowledge of the coalition forces around them, but the|
|found to be home to a wide variety of wildlife and to 1,418 |Law And Order |coalition had extremely detailed knowledge about the |
|vascular plant species, including many threatened and endangered |Law and Order is one of the most sophisticated crime |Iraqi forces. |
|species. |drama series ever to appear on television. It is also | |
| |one of the longest running crime dramas in television | |
| |history. The show is filmed in and around New York |Khamisiyah Ammunition Storage Complex in Southern Iraq|
|Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 1991. |City. It has a dual focus that covers detective work |showing Bunker 73 Area. |
|Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey |on the streets plus the courthouse maneuvering that |Photo Credit: Department of Defense |
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| | |The Sum Of All Fears |
| |The Commitments |No Greater Love |
| |Basic Instinct |Heartbeat |
| |Father of the Bride |American Psycho |
| |City Slickers |Night Over Water |
| |Beauty and the Beast |The Firm |
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|Alex travels to Europe! |Kyle’s travel log |Achy Breaky Heart |
|Joined by his three brothers and his parents, Alex takes his |Kyle (age 10) |End Of The Road |
|first trip abroad. Alex (Age 5): |In the morning we said goodbye to the germans and left|Tears In Heaven |
|“We wet to the catcoms. We wet in dep kavs. We sa Gesis thn we |to Zeus’ cave. When we got to the town we saw the |Baby-Baby-Baby |
|wet awt and thn we wet to the car. Thn we wet to the Rmn Rod. We |Greek windmills they were neat. When we got to the |Under The Bridge |
|sa a we pildour and we sa acw dact thn we wnt to a trafac gam and|cave everybody was asked if we needed guides or |All 4 Love |
|we wnt to the heyway thn we wet to the campen sat. And thn we wet|donkeys but we said no. | |
|to bad. “ |When we got to the cave mom and Alex didn’t go in | |
|(translation) We went to the catacombs. We went in deep caves. We|because Alex was scared. Then we rushed to catch the |Former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton Elected |
|saw Jesus then we went out and then we went to the car. ... |ferry to Santorini. But when we got there we saw that |President |
| |we were late. So we went back to the place where we |Democratic candidate Bill Clinton exploited voter |
| |got the tickets and got a free one for the next |concerns about the economy to defeat George H. W. Bush|
| | |in the 1992 presidential election. |
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| |Knossis | |
| |Photo Credit: National Archives |William Jefferson Clinton |
|Sir Alex of DeLan, 1992. | |Photo Credit: White House |
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| |Travelling abroad | |
| |“In May of 1992, our family of 6 (Steve, Deborah, |The Pelican Brief |
| |Nicholas, Erik, Kyle, and Alexander) left Canada for a|Waiting to Exhale |
| |four-month tour of Europe. We sent our 1985 Plymouth |The Way Things Ought to Be |
| |Voyager ahead of us to Felixstowe, England, in a |The English Patient |
| |container. It was packed with our tent and other |Sam Walton: Made in America |
| |camping gear. We then flew to Heathrow to begin our |Diana: Her True Story |
| |journey. We ended up visiting England, France, | |
| |Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy, | |
| |Greece, Spain, and Portugal. We camped over 100 days | |
| |out of 121 we were away,” reports Steve. | |
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|Extremists Attack |Hot Travellers in Pompeii |I Will Always Love You |
|World Trade Center |(l-r) Erik, Kyle, Nick, Alex |Can’t Help Falling In Love |
|Seven persons were killed and more than a thousand injured when |Erik’s report: |I Love Your Smile |
|Muslim extremists exploded a bomb in the underground parking |We woke up and Nick and Kyle went for a swim. Alex was|If I Ever Fall In Love |
|shelter of the World Trade Center in New York City. Security |feeling out of it and I couldn’t find my swim cap. |That’s The Way Love Goes |
|cameras helped identify the rented truck that transported the | | |
|bomb. |Then we started off to Florence but first we stopped | |
| |at the Catacombs of San Sebastian. It was dark as |Rivers Throughout Nation’s Midsection At Flood Stage |
| |Hell. Kyle and I got stuck at the back of the group |The Missouri River flooded its banks and destroyed |
|Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |and were very scared looking in the dark rooms. |millions of dollars worth of public and private |
|Studies Neutrinos | |property in one of the worst flood seasons on record. |
|The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, built to detect neutrinos |We didn’t make it that day so we stopped in a town | |
|coming from the nuclear fusion reactions in the Sun, neared |called Sarteano somewhere in between Roma and | |
|completion as this support structure was completed in Petaluma, |Florence. It was an awesome campsite. Everything was |Missouri River flood, 1993. |
|California. |good about it ... |Photo Credit: Missouri Department of Transportation |
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|Geodesic Sphere, Petaluma, California, 1993. | |Like Water For Chocolate |
|Photo Credit: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | |Nightmares and Dreamscapes |
| |Photo Credit: National Archives |Ageless Body, Timeless Mind |
| | |Band of Brothers |
| | |Stop the Insanity |
| |Seinfeld |Pleading Guilty |
| |Jerry Seinfeld led an accomplished ensemble of actors | |
| |in this popular comedy series about Jerry and his | |
| |friends and neighbors. | |
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| |Schindler’s List | |
| |Jurassic Park | |
| |Grumpy Old Men | |
| |The Fugitive | |
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|Nelson Mandela Elected President Of South Africa |Pipeline Spill Tests Emergency Readiness Crews |Take A Bow |
|After nearly 30 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released into|Heavy rains and catastrophic flooding ruptured eight |All I Wanna Do |
|a changed South Africa and two years later was elected president |oil pipelines, spilling some 2.5 million gallons or |I’ll Remember |
|of the country. |more of crude oil, refined products, and LP gas into |Another Night |
| |the San Jacinto river and Galveston Bay. |Creep |
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|Steve Lane presents in Paris | | |
|Alex stays with grandparents as parents travel to France in order|San Jacinto River fire incident, 1994. |Northridge Earthquake Triggers Landslides |
|for Steve to present a paper on Hemingway and Camus co-authored |Photo Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric |An earthquake centered in the San Fernando Valley |
|with Bob. It was a hit. The Frenchies loved it!! |Administration |triggered numerous landslides. High rains and moist |
| | |ground conditions contributed to the disaster. |
|Alex played marbles, read books, helped in the garden, and opened| | |
|a daily surprise from his Mum. He ate Cheerios and oranges and |N.Y.P.D. Blue | |
|had a great time until his grandparents had to leave for Oregon. |Dismissed by some as “just another cop show,” N.Y.P.D.|One of several landslides triggered by the Northridge |
| |Blue was actually a ground-breaking crime drama. The |Earthquake, 1994. |
| |show starred Dennis Franz as detective Andy Sipowicz. |Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey |
|Breakfast |David Caruso played Sipowicz’s partner John Kelly. | |
|Photo Credit: Department of Energy |When Caruso left the series, Jimmy Smits replaced | |
| |Caruso, playing Sipowicz’s new partner, Bobby Simone. |The Celestine Prophesy |
| | |Insomnia |
| | |The Bridges of Madison County |
| |Pulp Fiction |In the Lake of the Woods |
| |The Mask |The Book of Virtues |
| |Hoop Dreams |Couplehood |
| |Nobody’s Fool | |
| |Ace Ventura, Pet Detective | |
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|Murrah Federal Building Destroyed By Bomb |Hubble Telescope |One Sweet Day |
|A disaffected white youth from Michigan blew up the Murrah |Phones Home |Always Be My Baby |
|Federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168, as an |This photo taken by the Hubble telescope of eerie, |I Love You Always Forever |
|expression of his disdain for the federal government. He was |dark pillar-like structures appeared on magazine |Give Me One Reason |
|quickly caught and eventually put to death. |covers, postcards, and computer desktops worldwide. |Twisted |
| |The pillars are actually columns of cool interstellar |Because You Loved Me |
| |hydrogen gas and dust that serve as incubators for new| |
|Light-Emitting Semiconductors |stars. | |
|A hollow-anode nitrogen plasma source reduced atomic defects in | |Eagle Population Grows |
|blue-light-emitting diodes and created maximum luminescence. | |The listing of the Bald Eagle as endangered allowed |
| |Eagle nebula, viewed by Hubble telescope, 1995. |the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to|
| |Photo Credit: National Aeronautics and Space |accelerate the pace of recovery through captive |
|Nitrogen plasma source, 1995. |Administration |breeding programs, reintroduction efforts, law |
|Photo Credit: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | |enforcement, and the protection of nest sites during |
| | |the breeding season. The success of these efforts has |
| |Friends |paid off with growing population figures. |
| |Friends was a comedy with six twenty-something friends| |
| |living in New York. The show followed the friends as | |
| |they confronted relationship problems within and |Bald Eagle. |
| |outside the group. The show debuted in 1994 and soon |Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| |became one of the most highly rated shows of its time.| |
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| | |The Horse Whisperer |
| |Toy Story |The Road Ahead |
| |Apollo 13 |The Lost World |
| |The Awakening |To Renew America |
| |Babe |My Point...and I do Have One |
| |Get Shorty |The Rainmaker |
| |Toy Story | |
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|Taliban Take Over Afghanistan |Hurricane Fran |Sittin’ Up In My Room |
|Years of war culminated in a takeover of the government of |Slams The East Coast |Because You Loved Me |
|Afghanistan by religious extremists who promised order but |Hurricane Fran slammed into North Carolina’s southern |Always Be My Baby |
|imposed harshly repressive policies. |coast with sustained winds of approximately 115 mph |Un-Break My Heart |
| |and gusts as high as 125 mph. More than 2.1 million |How Do U Want It |
| |customers lost electricity. The storm caused about $5 |You’re Makin’ Me High |
|TVA Flight 800 Explodes |billion in damages in North Carolina alone. | |
|TWA flight 800 exploded in midair and then crashed at sea, | | |
|prompting one of the most intense search and recovery missions | |U.S. Citizens And Others Evacuated From Liberia |
|ever. Careful analysis of the wreckage led investigators to blame|Hurricane Fran, as seen from GOES weather satellites, |U.S military forces evacuated U.S. citizens and |
|the crash on faulty wiring in a fuel tank. |1996. |citizens of 72 other countries from Liberia at the |
| |Photo Credit: National Aeronautics and Space |request of the U.S. ambassador to Liberia. Here, |
| |Administration |evacuees arrive in Freetown, Sierra Leone. |
|Rescue and Salvage ship U.S.S. Grasp. | | |
|Photo Credit: U.S. Navy | | |
| |ER |Evacuation of U.S. Citizens from Liberia, 1996. |
| |This drama focused on the lives and work of medical |Photo Credit: Department of Defense |
| |practitioners in an emergency room. Created by | |
| |best-selling author Michael Crichton, the series dealt| |
| |with medical ethics, medical technology, and the |Primary Colors |
| |relationship of an emergency room to the hospital and |The Runaway Jury |
| |to the community. |The Dilbert Principle |
| | |Hackers |
| | |Airframe |
| |The English Patient |Executive Orders |
| |Fargo | |
| |Sling Blade | |
| |Eraser | |
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|Great Britain Loses Its Lease, |Boys abroad |Foolish Games/ |
|Turns Over Hong Kong To China |And it was fun.... |You Were Meant For Me |
|After 99 years, Britain’s lease on Hong Kong ran out and the | |Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down |
|island and its seven million inhabitants reverted to Chinese | |I Believe I Can Fly |
|rule. |travel |For You I Will |
| |Photo Credit: Department of Defense |Candle In The Wind 1997 |
| | |How Do I Live |
|Clinton Begins Second Term | | |
|Bill Clinton became the first Democratic president since Franklin|Grace Under Fire | |
|D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest |This popular show debuted in 1993 but continued to |Europe trip |
|unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 |command a large viewing audience for many years. Grace|“We traveled some of Scotland, Greece, and England in |
|years, the highest home ownership in the country’s history, |dries out, divorces her alcoholic husband, and |summer 1997. Our departure was June 30, arriving in |
|dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. |rebuilds her life while trying to protect her children|Glasgow on July 1. We rented a Volkswagen Caravelle |
| |from similar mistakes. |and toured some of Scotland. On the 5th, we drove to |
| | |Birmingham to visit some friends, the Cumminses. We |
|Bill Clinton delivers his second inaugural address, 1997. | |stayed overnight on the 6th in Holmbury St. Mary to be|
|Photo Credit: Library of Congress |Boogie Nights |near Gatwick, from which we departed on the morning of|
| |The Wedding Singer |the 7th for Athens, Greece. Our return flight to |
| |Air Force One |Gatwick was on Aug. 6th, and we flew home to B.C. on |
| |Grosse Pointe Blank |Aug. 15th.” |
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| |As Good As It Gets | |
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| | |Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, 1997. |
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| | |Cold Mountain |
| | |Angela’s Ashes |
| | |The Ranch |
| | |American Pastoral |
| | |Joy of Cooking |
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|U.S. Embassies Bombed |Fifty Years Of Armed Forces Integration Celebrated |You’re Still The One |
|Bombs exploded simultaneously at U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya|Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen presented a |Together Again |
|and Tanzania, killing 224 people. The United States responded by |commissioning certificate to an ROTC graduate at |All My Life |
|bombing terrorist sites in Afghanistan and the Sudan. |Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Va., as part of the|I Don’t Want To Wait |
| |nation’s 50th anniversary observance of President |Truly Madly Deeply |
| |Harry S. Truman’s executive order desegregating the | |
|Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Welcomes Clinton |armed forces. | |
|President Bill Clinton and a delegation from the United States | |Attorney General Janet Reno |
|visited the middle east and were welcomed to Israel by Israeli | |Attorney General Janet Reno attracted attention from |
|Prime Minister Benjamin “Bebe” Netanyahu. |Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 1998. |both sides of the political spectrum as she navigated |
| |Photo Credit: Department of Defense |the choppy waters of Washington politics. |
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|President Clinton and Prime Minister Netanyahu shake hands at the| | |
|conclusion of dinner, hosted by the Prime Minister. |Homicide, Life On The Streets |Attorney General Janet Reno, 1998. |
|Photo Credit: National Archives |Regarded as one of the most realistic crime dramas |Photo Credit: National Communications System |
| |ever produced for television, this show takes place in| |
| |Baltimore, Maryland. Actors that contributed to its | |
| |success include Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Yaphet|The Greatest Generation |
| |Kotto and Ned Beatty. |A Man in Full |
| | |Tuesdays with Morrie |
| | |The Street Lawyer |
| |Antz |A Pirate Looks at Fifty |
| |Bulworth |Reading the Bible |
| |Enemy of the State | |
| |A Bug’s Life | |
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|President Clinton Acquitted |Proposed Roadway Upgrade Prompts Citizen Response |Livin’ La Vida Loca |
|In Impeachment Trial |A proposal from the Federal Highway Administration to |Believe |
|The House of Representatives acquitted President Clinton in an |reconstruct and pave Guanella Pass prompted citizens |Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here |
|impeachment trial. Two charges had been brought against him but |to circulate petitions against the proposal. |Baby One More Time |
|neither charge received a simple majority of votes to convict, | |Angel Of Mine |
|let alone the 2/3 majority required. | | |
| |Guanella Pass with Mt. Spalding on the left and Mt. | |
| |Bierstadt on the right. Clear Creek County, Colorado, |Tipper Gore And Bill Clinton Team Up On Mental Health |
|Peacekeeping Efforts Save Lives In Bosnia Herzegovina |1999. |Tipper Gore and Bill Clinton launched a campaign to |
|Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark, U.S. Army, |Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey |encourage those with mental illness to seek help. The |
|briefs reporters on the status of the NATO-led, international | |launch coincided with the first White House Conference|
|peacekeeping operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |on Mental Health. |
| |Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? | |
| |This show was based on contestants playing a trivia | |
|Supreme Allied Commander U.S. General Wesley Clark, 1999. |quiz game in which they can win up to one million |Tipper Gore and Bill Clinton announce nationwide |
|Photo Credit: Department of Defense |dollars by correctly answering up to fifteen |campaign to dispel myths surrounding mental illness. |
| |multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. |Photo Credit: National Archives |
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| |Analyze This |A Short History Of Rudeness |
| |The Matrix |Business @ the Speed of Thought |
| |Being John Malkovich |Bone Hunter |
| |The Blair Witch Project |Sick Puppy |
| | |Woman: An Intimate Geography |
| | |Raising Cain |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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|Alberto Fujimoro Removed As President Of Peru |Fires Ravage Montana’s Helena National Forest |With Arms Wide Open |
|Despite his successful leadership of a campaign against the |Infantrymen with the Montana Army National Guard |Say My Name |
|Shining Path guerillas, Alberto Fujimoro was driven from office |trudged up a fire-scarred hill in Montana’s Helena |Everything You Want |
|under a cloud of suspicion of corruption and fled to his native |National Forest, after wildfires ravaged the area east|Maria Maria |
|Japan. |of the state’s capital in the worst fire season since |I Wanna Know |
| |1988. |Amazed |
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|George Bush Named President | | |
|After Contentious Supreme Court Battle |Montana National Guard on fire duty. |Protective Measures Taken |
|George W. Bush was elected President of the United States by a |Photo Credit: Department of Defense |At Grand Canyon Lodge |
|majority of electors after the U.S. Supreme Court declared him | |Fire fighters fill a portable water reservoir known as|
|the winner in Florida. | |a “pumpkin” to provide water in case fire approaches |
| |Gideon’s Crossing |too close to the Grand Canyon Lodge (visible in the |
| |Actor Andre Braugher stars as Ben Gideon in this |background). |
|George Bush official White House photo, 2000. |medical drama about a highly skilled doctor who heads | |
|Photo Credit: White House |the experimental oncology ward at a fictional teaching| |
| |hospital in New England. |A portable water reservoir is filled with water to |
| | |help protect Grand Canyon Lodge in case of fire, 2000.|
| | |Photo Credit: National Park Service |
| |Requiem For A Dream | |
| |Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | |
| |X-Men |The Tipping Point |
| |Meet the Parents |The Age of Access |
| |Gladiator |The Human Stain |
| |Memento |Relax: You’re Already Perfect |
| |High Fidelity |The Lexus and the Olive Tree |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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|Religious Extremist, Sheltered By Taliban, Attacks U.S. |“The Rest Of The World |United Airlines Flight 93 |
|A Saudi-born religious extremist recruited, financed, trained, |Hears You” |Crashes In A Field |
|and deployed a team of suicide bombers against the United States |When someone yelled that it was hard to hear the |Passengers aboard United Airlines flight 93 called |
|from his sanctuary in Afghanistan, while operating under the |President as he spoke at Ground Zero on the 14th of |home on cell phones, then left their seats to confront|
|protection of the Taliban regime there. |September, he replied, “I hear you, the rest of the |the terrorists that had commandeered the plane. The |
| |world hears you, and the people who knocked these |flight crashed in a field, killing all aboard, but |
| |buildings down will hear all of us soon.” |saving the White House from attack. |
|American Airlines Flight 77 | | |
|Crashes Into Pentagon | | |
|A team of five hijackers took over the cockpit of American |President George W. Bush addresses search and rescue |Twin Towers Destroyed |
|Airlines Flight 77 and deliberately flew it into the Pentagon, |teams at Ground Zero, New York City. |When Hit By Two Airliners |
|headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, at 9:37 a.m. |Photo Credit: White House |Terrorists took control of American Airlines flight 11|
|local time, September 11, 2001. More than 100 persons were | |and flew it into the North tower at 8:46 a.m. A |
|killed. | |separate team of terrorists took control of United |
| |Cannonball Run |Airlines flight 175 and flew it into the South tower |
| |This reality series showed six teams of drivers |at 9:03 a.m. Loss of life numbered around 3,000. |
|Damaged face of Pentagon after terrorist attack of 9/11. |competing in a cross-country automobile race from New | |
|Photo Credit: Department of Defense |York to California. | |
| | |Ground Zero, New York City. |
| | |Photo Credit: National Aeronautics and Space |
| |Shrek |Administration |
| |Fellowship of the Ring |Disaster Assistance Rescue Team |
| |A Beautiful Mind | |
| |Bridget Jones’s Diary | |
| | |Living A Life That Matters |
| | |Envy |
| | |Fast Food Nation |
| | |Seabiscuit |
| | |Bridget Jones’s Diary |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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| |Alex and Katie travel; |Complicated |
| |Canada’s PM kicks butt |Don’t Let Me Get Me |
| |While the decision earned him political brownie points|Ain’t It Funny |
| |with France and Germany, it had the opposite effect |In The End |
|Canada’s PM tells Bush: “Non” |south of the border. Chrétien’s relationship with U.S.|A Thousand Miles |
|“A prime minister has a unique duty to preserve the integrity of |President George W. Bush was already under |Foolish |
|the office,” he said. “It is not about power. It is about |considerable strain from disagreements over the | |
|responsibility.” |weapons inspections and lingering bad blood over | |
| |name-calling incidents (Chrétien’s top aide referred |Tens Of Thousands Gathered To Remember Victims Of 9/11|
|Indeed Chrétien will be known for his ability to stand in front |to Bush as a “moron” and a Liberal MP called Americans|Tens of thousands of friends, family, associates, and |
|of a tidal wave of opposition. In February 2003, he announced |“bastards”). |fellow citizens from all over the U.S. showed up at |
|Canada would not send troops to participate in the U.S.-led | |Ground Zero to remember those who lost their lives in |
|invasion of Iraq. | |the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and to honor those who |
| |President George W. Bush tours the Squires Peak Fire |responded. |
|He said Canada would not act outside of the UN which, at the |Area in Medford, Ore. | |
|time, was asking for more time for weapons inspections. |Photo Credit: White House | |
| | |Ground Zero memorial service, September 11, 2002. |
| | |Photo Credit: Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| |Monk | |
| |Tony Shalhoub stars as Adrian Monk, a former police | |
|Photo Credit: CBC |detective with a photographic memory. |True Lies |
| | |The Rise of the Creative Class |
| | |The Real Lincoln |
| |Spider-Man |Odd Girl Out |
| |Punch-Drunk Love | |
| |Whale Rider | |
| |Catch Me If You Can | |
| |About Schmidt | |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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|Mideast Leaders Call For Saddam Hussein To Resign |No Child Left Behind |When I’m Gone |
|The United Arab Emirates called for Iraqi president Saddam |Secretary of Education Dr. Rod Paige traveled the |Me Against the Music |
|Hussein to step down to avoid war. Leaders in Bahrain and Kuwait |country to explain and build support for No Child Left|Where is the Love |
|also called for Hussein to resign. |Behind, an initiative aimed at measuring and |Crazy In Love |
| |strengthening the performance of the nation’s schools.|Stacy’s Mom |
| | |Shake Ya Tailfeather |
|Bush Visits Pentagon | | |
|President George W. Bush visited the Pentagon to meet with senior|Education Secretary Paige with children affected by | |
|defense leadership and announce his $74.7 billion wartime |the No Child Left Behind act, 2003. |U.S. Invades Iraq |
|supplemental budget request. Once appropriated by Congress, the |Photo Credit: Department of Education |President George W. Bush addressed the USA at the |
|money will pay for the direct costs of the Iraqi conflict and the| |start of hostilities in Iraq, explaining that he |
|global war against terror. | |really had no idea what he was doing. Critics said |
| |American Idol |that The Da Vinci Code had more truth in it than the |
| |Based on a British Television hit (Pop Idol), this |speech given by Bush. |
|President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald H. |reality series, which debuted in 2002, follows a host | |
|Rumsfeld walk from the Pentagon’s National Military Command |and three judges as they travel around the country in | |
|Center. |search of a new pop star. The winner is selected with |President George W. Bush addressed the nation from the|
|Photo Credit: Department of Defense |the help of viewers and receives a record deal. |Oval Office at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
| | |Photo Credit: Department of State |
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| |Big Fish | |
| |Elf |The Da Vinci Code |
| |Matchstick Men |The Secret Life of Bees |
| |Holes |The South Beach Diet |
| |Lost in Translation |Living History |
| | |Moneyball |
| | |George W. Bush coloring book |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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|Sovereignty Transferred To Interim Government |Alex spends semester in Europe |She Will Be Loved |
|The coalition governing authority transferred sovereignty to an |Alex put down his studies for a trip to Denmark with |Somewhere Only We Know |
|interim government of Iraq, in preparation for writing a |his Grandmother to discover her roots. |Somebody Told Me |
|constitution. | |Silence is Easy |
| |He loved his trip almost as much as he loved doing |Mr. Brightside |
| |courses by distance learning. |Suspended |
|Nat Hentoff Named “Jazz Master” By National Endowment For The | |Reach for the Sky |
|Arts | | |
|The first-ever NEA Jazz Master award given to a jazz advocate who| | |
|has made major contributions to the field was awarded to Nat |Photo Credit: Who knows? |Games Go Smoothly |
|Hentoff. | |Despite concerns about security and general |
| | |preparedness, the 2004 Olympic games went smoothly in |
| |Laguna Beach |Athens, Greece. |
|Music critic and jazz advocate Nat Hentoff, 2004. |This reality-based show explored one of the wealthiest| |
|Photo Credit: National Endowment for the Arts |beachside communities in the world. The show followed | |
| |eight friends who shared experiences through parties |Men’s 10,000-meter final during the 2004 Olympics in |
| |and romantic relationships. |Athens, Greece. |
| | |Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Defense |
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| |The Aviator | |
| |The Bourne Supremacy |The Price Of Loyalty |
| |Fifty First Dates |Against All Enemies |
| |I, Robot |Past Due |
| |Hotel Rwanda |Belly Laughs |
| | |American Dynasty |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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|Religious Extremist Kills Dutch Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh |Bob, Erik, Alex do eight states |Boulevard Of Broken Dreams |
|Dutch Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, a distant relative of the painter |Travelling light the A-Team spends a maximum of 15 |Since U Been Gone |
|Vincent Van Gogh, was murdered by a religious extremist who took |minutes in each state. |Nobody’s Home |
|exception to Van Gogh’s criticism of the treatment of women by | |Sunday Morning |
|Islam. The extremist was convicted and sentenced to life in |“Gotta keep moving,” says Bob at each stop. “Gotta |Lovers and Friends |
|prison. |keep moving on.” |Let Me Go |
| | |Rumble Strip in the Middle |
| |“Could we stop and go to some park for a short visit,”| |
|Bunch of Lanes and offspring get together |the others ask. | |
|A great reunion was held in Colorado for the four remaining | |First Lady Takes Junior Ranger Pledge |
|children of Margaret and Lester Lane. Several offspring were in |“Gotta keep moving on.” |Laura Bush and Interior Secretary Gale Norton joined |
|attendance and a large contingent from Canada provided | |elementary school students in taking the Junior Ranger|
|linguistic entertainment. Food and drink was excellent as John | |pledge at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington,|
|and Mary prepared several turkeys for the famished family! |Alex, Bob, Erik |D.C. |
| |Photo Credit: Photo by Margaret | |
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|Family matters | |Alex and bearded man. |
|Photo Credit: Erik |Hell’s Kitchen |Photo Credit: Erik |
| |Hell’s Kitchen is a reality-based show about 12 young | |
| |chefs presented with a variety of challenges by | |
| |world-famous chef Gordon Ramsay. The action takes |The Kite Runner |
| |place at “Hell’s Kitchen,” Ramsay’s restaurant in |Blink |
| |Hollywood. The grand prize is a restaurant. |Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich |
| | |Freakonomics |
| | |Reading the Bible |
| |Fantastic Four | |
| |Mr. and Mrs. Smith | |
| |The Wedding Crashers | |
| |Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
| |[pic][pic] |Celebrating |
| | |Alex’s Birthday! |
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|Canadian branch of the Lane family celebrates successes |Lane makes rowing team! |19th birthday |
|The early years of the century have been great ones for the |Alex Lane rowed his way to a place on the varsity |However Alexander celebrates his 19th birthday he has |
|Canadian Lanes who have had successes in academics, work |team. |received assurances from his Grandfather that he will |
|advancement, growing older (both of the senior Lanes are now 70 | |not push Alex down the stairs! |
|years young), and living peacefully together. | | |
| |Describe what is shown in this photo. | |
| |Photo Credit: Identify the source of this photo |Family matters |
|Deborah Lane poses in Colorado | |Lots of pictures of the birthday boy have surfaced on |
|Wrapping her nubile body around a sports car, Canadian model, | |the internet on non-porn sites around the world. Young|
|Deborah, auditions for the Playboy Magazine car issue. |e. e. cummings |women are reported swooning anytime the Alex pictures |
| |you shall above all things be glad and young |flash across the computer screens ot he world. |
| |For if you’re young,whatever life you wear | |
|Describe what is shown in this photo. | | |
|Photo Credit: Identify the source of this photo | |Describe what is shown in this photo. |
| |it will become you;and if you are glad |Photo Credit: Identify the source of this photo |
| |whatever’s living will yourself become. | |
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| | |University of Victoria marks posted |
| | |Reports of lower marks for freshman Alex Lane have |
| | |been ascribed to poor health, screwing off, or not |
| |e.e. cummings |reading the text books assigned. Further study is |
| |l(a |required. |
| | |“I looked at the bio text during Christmas break. Wow!|
| |le |Answers to all the exam questions were right in the |
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