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The Oxford English Dictionary has 99 words with first citations from 1993. In that year, Islamic terrorists bomb the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring over a thousand; the Chemical Weapons Convention is signed, outlawing those weapons worldwide; E. Annie Proulx’s book The Shipping News is published; director Stephen Spielberg has two of the four top-grossing films of the year, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List; mathematician Andrew Wiles publishes his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem; astronauts conduct a repair mission to correct the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope; and Intel ships the first Pentium microprocessors.