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Gary Davis 2/21/12 Social Studies 8th Grade Exit Project The decade that will be talked about is the 90's. This was a decade of war, games, and murder. Through out these years so many things has happen that made the United States like it is today. So lets start by started out with the 1990's. This period in time consist of Mario, the freedom of Nelson Mandela, and Micheal Jordan's Shoes. “The Freedom of Nelson Mandela”. Leading a anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson was freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years. February 11, 1990 his release followed the relaxation of apartheid laws. Including lifting the ban on leading black rights. Nelson appeared at the gates of Victor-Verster Prison in Paarl at 6:14 local time. With his wife Winnie holding her hand, dressed in a brown suit and tie he smiled. Ecstatic crowds of people punched in the air as a victory. People danced in the streets across the country. In 1991 two German hikers found a fossilized man frozen in ice named Oetzi. Oetzi the prehistoric man was frozen in a glacier for 5,300 years. His body was found in a melting ice of the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991. Upon further inspection, the hikers Erika and Helmut Simon were heading to the Final peak in Tisenjoch area of Otzal Alps. When they decided to take a shortcut of the path, they noticed something brown sticking out the ice. Otzi(fossilized man) was a man who lived in between 3350 & 3100 BCE which is called Cooper Age. He was 5ft & 3in. He died from both arthritis & whip worm. He died at the age of 46. The Huarache inspired Air Jordan Vll (7)was worn by MJ (Michael Jordan)himself in his second NBA Championship Season. In the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona where MJ led the Dream Team to a gold medal. Bugs Bunny was featured on a poster with Michael inspiring the “Hare Jordan” nickname. At 12:18 pm February 26, 1992, a terrorist set a bomb in the World Trade Center(WTC) in New York City. The bomb caused a 60ft wide crater & the collapse of steel reinforced concrete floors. The WTC suffered more than $500 million in damage. Police evacuated 50,000 people from the building,100 suffered from smoke inhalation. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured. A year later the FBI caught Mohammed Salameh, Ahmad Ajaj, Nidal Ayyad, and Mahmoud Abouhalima. They tried to escape to Saudi Aradia but they got caught in Egypt two weeks later. At 10 p.m. on June12, 1994 O.J (Orenthal James) Simpson was involved in a double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, 35 & Ronald Goldman, 25. O.J ran away from the crime scene in a white Ford Bronco going in a 60 mile chase on Route 405 in Southern California. O.J .was arrested. Investigators found a trail of bloody shoe prints. The same size as O.J, 12. In Simpson's civil case, the verdict of liability was not know, & Simpson was ordered to pay penalties of a big payment of $8.5 million. Then wrote a book called “What if I did”. To think, the Sony PlayStation could have been the Super Nintendo, and the PS2 could have been the SN2, and PSP, and SNP. The PlayStation began in 1988 when Sony & Nintendo were working together to develop the Super Disc, a CD-ROM attachment intended to be apart of the then unreleased Super Nintendo game console, but the companies parted ways after a little disagreement over some fine print in the contract. Fortunately for them, Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi didn't give up on the idea. September 9, 1995, the Sony PlayStation was entered into the United States. This multimedia unit was built with 3D gaming in mind and played only CD-ROM based gaming as well audio CD's. The original PlayStation(PS) retailed for $299 & sold more than 50 million units worldwide. Mario would seem to have come to the end of his natural life as games embraced the third dimension. Nintendo mascot was getting on a bit, & he was so emphatically linked to the suddenly rather tired world of two dimensional scrolling that many fans suspected either retirement or, worse awaited him on Nintendo new console, the N64. Certain things had changed. Rather than along travelogue quest heading from the left side of the map to right, Super Mario 64 introduces Peach's castle as a hub from which other levels would be accessible once enough stars had been collected from the game's various challenges. The means of entering these themed levels-leaping through paintings-is still a magical piece of design. Scientist in Scotland have announced the birth of the world's first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep. Dolly, who was created at the Roslin Insite in Edinburgh, was actually born on July 5, 1997 although her arrival has only just been revealed. Dolly is the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. Previous cloning has been from other cell. Released in October 1998 in Japan( in November 1998) Nintendo Game Boy Color (GBC) is the evolution of the Game Boy consoles. It adds a color screen to a device only slightly larger than the Game Boy Pocket (GBP), without affecting too much of the battery. Double the processor speed, twice as much memory, and a two player game or communications port. The console is capable of showing up to 56 different colors. On April 20, 1999, two students of Columbine High School in Little-ton Coloraestdo planted bombs and opened fire on students within in their school. The boys, Dylan Klebold & Eric Harris, planned on killing hundreds during their killing spree & didn't succeed in killing larger numbers of students and staff only because their bombs didn't go off. However, before the boys killed themselves, they had murdered 12 student & 1 teacher. So theses are some of the amazing & terrifying events that happened in the decade of the 1990's. These events shape America today and back then, 1990's was a interesting time in the united states. This was a year of war, gaming, & murder. Which consisted of Mario's history, Nelson Mandela's freedom, Micheal Jordan shoes. This is some what of the things that happened in the 19th centries. WEB PAGE //BBC News//. BBC, 02 Nov. 1990. Web. 20 Mar. 2012. . 1991: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/ 1992: http://www.footlocker.com/promotion/promId:5002565/jordan-shoes-history

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