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Tony Williams
Tony Williams Drummer, composer Miles Davis Offered an Invitation Therapy Revitalized Career Emphasis on Rock Rhythms Selected discography Sources Read more |
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UNIX
Rod Adkins 1958– IBM Executive From Wiz Kid to PC Manager Revitalized Ailing UNIX Division Focused on Company Future and Minorities Sources “Moving forward, moving fast,” Rod Adkins told Government Computer News when asked for his personal motto. It is a fitting... Read more |
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Fronte Nuovo delle Arti
Fronte Nuovo delle Arti (New Art Front). An association of Italian artists founded in 1946 (it was originally called the Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana but was renamed in 1947). It aimed to combat the pessimism of the postwar world and revitalize Italian art, which had not been a leading force... Read more |
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Palmer Raids 1919-1920
AFTER THE GREAT WAR: ANTIRADICALISM AND THE RED SCARE The Palmer Raids The xenophobia that underlay immigration restrictions and the revitalization of the Ku Klux Klan was also apparent in the Red Scare of 1920. On 2 January 1920 federal agents under the direction of Attorney... Read more |
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revitalization movement
revitalization movement political-religious movements promising deliverance from deprivation, the elimination of foreign domination, and a new interpretation of the human condition based on traditional cultural values, common in societies undergoing severe stress associated with colonial conquest... Read more |
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Corey Harris
Corey Harris 1969– Blues singer, guitarist Studied in Cameroon Appeared on Living Blues Cover Moved to Rounder Label Selected discography Sources “Corey Harris wants to redefine the blues,” noted Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio. Traditional acoustic blues attracted a... Read more |
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Pam Tillis
Pam Tillis Singer, songwriter Produced Own Music Change of Pace Acting Repertoire Selected discography Sources No female performer of the 1990s did more to revitalize country music than Pam Tillis. She pushed the boundaries of the genre by incorporating the pop, jazz, blues, and folk influences of... Read more |
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Norman Vincent Peale
PEALE, NORMAN VINCENT 1898-1993 Author and minister Marble Collegiate Norman Vincent Peale came to the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City in 1932, leaving his Methodist background for this Reformed Church in America congregation. He revitalized that congregation, turning it into one of the... Read more |
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Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward 1957-60, Chinese economic plan aimed at revitalizing all sectors of the economy. Initiated by Mao Zedong , the plan emphasized decentralized, labor-intensive industrialization, typified by the construction of thousands of backyard steel furnaces in place of large steel mills.... Read more |
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Sultan of the Seljuks Alp Arslan
Alp Arslan Alp Arslan (1026-1072) was the second Seljuk sultan of Persia and Iraq and a member of the Turkish dynasty which revitalized Moslem rule in the declining days of the Abbasid caliphate. Alp Arslan was born Muhammad ibn Daud in the Arab Empire's Persian province of Khurasan in 1026... Read more |
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