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A house of mirrors or hall of mirrors is a traditional attraction at funfairs (carnivals) and amusement parks. The basic concept behind a house of mirrors is to be a maze-like puzzle (made out of a myriad of mirrors). [1] In addition to the maze, participants are also given mirrors as obstacles, and glass panes to parts of the maze they cannot ...
1964: First broadcast of Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, Bewitched, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Addams Family, Top of the Pops, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Match of the Day, Jeopardy!, Jonny Quest and the Up series; the controversial political advertisement "Daisy" airs only once, but is later considered to be an important factor in Lyndon ...
Silks and four girls she hired in Kansas City traveled to Denver by way of stage coach and freight wagon. Her coach was equipped with a "portable boarding" house where the girls conducted business while on the road. The ladies set up shop at the many mining towns they visited on their way to Denver. Silks was a savvy business lady.
1998 — In the 1998 United States elections, the Republicans hold both the House and the Senate. 1998-1999 — Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: President Clinton is accused of having a sexual relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. This leads to the impeachment of Clinton later in the year by the U.S. House of Representatives.
United States Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney fires Gen. Michael Dugan, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, for publicly discussing plans to bomb Iraq. In what will come to be regarded as a landmark event in regards to women in journalism, reporter Lisa Olson is sexually harassed by multiple New England Patriots players while trying ...
German reunification in 1990, with the democratic West absorbing the ex-Communist East. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, replaced by a friendly Russia and 14 other countries. Except for Tiananmen Square in China, all the events strongly favored the United States. Bush took the initiative in the invasion of Panama and the START treaties.
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The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]