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Hope
Hope BIBLIOGRAPHY In an ancient Greek myth, Zeus was irate at humans for having stolen fire from the gods. In the spirit of revenge, he fashioned a young maiden named Pandora and, using reverse psychology, sent her to earth with a dowry chest, with the crucial instruction not to open it. Of... Read more |
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Derrick May
Derrick May Producer, disc jockey Of the three men credited with unleashing techno music on the world, Derrick May is considered the music's innovator and its spokesperson. In the mid-1980s May, along with his Belleville, Michigan, high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, created the... Read more |
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preservation
preservation. Retention, maintenance, and rehabilitation of buildings, whole areas, and landscapes for historic, architectural, or other reasons. Preservation of ancient fabric was not unknown in Imperial Rome, and, with the rediscovery of Antiquity in the Renaissance period, the recording, rescue,... Read more |
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Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley 1928– Musician At a Glance… Selected discography Sources Bo Diddley surprised the music world in the mid-1950s when he unleashed a new guitar sound, one dominated by heavy rhythmic drive and distortion, and one that was quickly absorbed by other players. |
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Thermidor
Thermidor , 11th month of the French Revolutionary calendar . The coup of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) marked the downfall of Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror . The men who came into power were members of the old bourgeoisie and the newly rich who had profited from speculation and... Read more |
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High Finance
HIGH FINANCE Corporate Champion During the early years of the 1980s, the financial institutions of the United States in effect became the chosen industry and corporate champion of the nation. The secretary of the treasury, Donald Regan, who was also the former president of... Read more |
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Tupamaros
Tupamaros , urban guerrilla organization and political party in Uruguay, also known as the National Liberation Army. Named for the Inca revolutionist, Tupac Amaru , it became active as a guerrilla force in the early 1960s, distributing stolen food and money among the poor in Montevideo. By the... Read more |
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Happy Holy Organization Healthy
3HO Foundation Educational branch of the Sikh Dharma, a Sikh religious group founded by Shri Singh Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, popularly known as Yogi Bhajan in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. "3HO" means "Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization," and is based on the idea that it is... Read more |
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Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis 1965- British boxer In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Lennox Lewis was the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. He was Great Britain's first heavyweight champion since 1897 when he became the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion in 1993. After not posting a loss in his... Read more |
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Dot-Com
DOT-COM At the most basic level, "dot-com" is simply a colloquial term born of the suffix appended to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), as in www.companyname.com. But the term has come to stand for a variety of phenomena. By the early 2000s it stood for Internet-based businesses, the business craze... Read more |
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