I went to South Africa for a week on my own for four concerts, felt revived, like I could achieve anything.
They revived, like a late-night cognac slipped into a dying philosophical debate, to spread brief anxiety and a Morgan Parra penalty got them to within a score.
A few are old-fashioned dishes that might be worth reviving, like Thomas Jefferson's Snow Eggs ("a little wine stirred in is a great improvement," said his cook) and Theodore Roosevelt's Chicken Fricassee, Creole Style.
And there are signs that, beneath the veneer of waterfront sparkle, this optimistic image of Beirut's glory days – revived like a phoenix, 20 years after the civil war blew the city to rubble – might not all be quite what it seems.
It's fitting that the FA Cup can be revived like this.
This technology, which is similar to that used to revive the likes of Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley for stage shows, will soon be rolled out across Imperial's business school, allowing lecturers to deliver instruction from wherever they are in the world.
Things didn't seem promising- his flat EEG suggested brain death -- but as the boy's distraught mother began praying loudly, he suddenly revived Lazarus-like and soon recovered completely.
Since no one in their right mind would wish to revive anything like the Soviet Union, we are not going to see anything like the mid-century social democracy created to combat it either.
But what if you wanted to revive something like the Sabbath today?
