Reinstate Elvis' name on the "USS Arizona"


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2016-01-05 23:52

In addition to all the tributes that have been bestowed  upon him through his   membership in nine Music Hall of Fames,    several  non music magazines   and publications have highlighted  Presley's  enormous artistic and humanitarian contributions and   have therefore  ranked him amongst the most significant Americans in the XXth Century.  

Here are just a few examples:

  • In 2005, LIFE Magazine highlighted Elvis' advent in 1956, and the rock and roll revolution he ignited and included them in a special issue published in September of 2005 and which they named "The 100 events that shook our world: a history of Pictures in the last 100 years".
  • In 2005, the BBC-2 explored how photography had influenced world events and named the people who had been most influential  in a 10 episode television series entitled "The World's most photographed".
  • In 2006, the "Atlantic Magazine"" ranked him the #66th most influential American ever
  • In 2008, the MIT-launched "Pantheon" programme, which maps historical cultural production, ranked him the 117th most significant person, of any nationality, since 4,000 BC.
  • In 2010, LIFE Magazine ranked him #96 in their list of the 100 people who changed the world. 
  • In 2014, the "Smithsonian" Magazine"  issued a listing of the 100 most significant Americans of all time.
  • In 2015, "National Geographic Magazine" deemed his advent (and that of Rock Music) in 1956 an event of such importance, that it ranked #79 in their list of the 100 most significant events that changed the world since time began.