No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.

File: Adam study-Michelangelo. jpg | Michelangelo-Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ' The Creation of Man ' on the vault of the Sistine Chapel ( c. 1511 )

The promise of a future resurrection appears in the Torah as well as in certain Jewish works, such as the Life of Adam and Eve, c 100 BC, and the Pharisaic book 2 Maccabees, c 124 BC.

* April 5 – Adam Loftus, English Catholic archbishop ( b. c. 1533 )

** Adam of Fulda, music writer ( b. c. 1445 )

The only authority for this son's existence is Adam of Bremen, who in his Gesta ( c. 1070 ) claims to cite the otherwise unknown Gesta Anglorum for a remarkable anecdote about Hiring's foreign adventures: " Harald sent his son Hiring to England with an army.

The oldest narrative source mentioning him briefly is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( c. 1070 ).

Landscape showing the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, by Adam Elsheimer, c. 1600

Adam Marsh ( Adam de Marisco ) ( c. 1200 – 18 November 1259 ) was an English Franciscan, scholar and theologian.

* Adam de la Halle ( c. 1240 – 88 )

Construction of buildings in local sandstone began around 1175, and continued through the time of the first three abbots, Adam ( 1186-c. 1216 ), Adam II ( c. 1216-1236 ), and Stephen of Worcester ( 1236 – 1257 ).

The two only known strictly historical mentions of Vinland are found in the work of Adam of Bremen c. 1075 and in the Book of Icelanders compiled c. 1122 by Ari the Wise.

Chippendale collaborated in furnishing interiors designed by Robert Adam and at Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, and Melbourne House, London, for Lord Melbourne, with Sir William Chambers ( c. 1772-75 ).

A cylinder seal, known as the Temptation seal, from post-Akkadian periods in Mesopotamia ( c. 23-22 Century BCE ), has been linked to the Adam and Eve story.

* " Adam and Eve " ( c. 1485 ), Oil on oak, 69. 3 × 17. 3 cm ( each ), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus ( c. 1568 – 1643 ) was Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1619.

Adam Loftus ( c. 1533 – 5 April 1605 ) was Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581.

It narrates Biblical history from Adam to Saul ( see Schürer, l. c.

* 1212: Adam of Dryburgh, Anglo-Scots theologian ( born c. 1140 )

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

There is only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith was wrong.

Thus the transformation of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur into a mythological detective coincides closely with the decline of the real entrepreneur in economic life.

Schweitzer seems, in fact, to acquire for himself a burden of sin, not bequeathed by Adam, but accumulated in the inevitable judgments which life requires of him as between greater and lesser responsibilities.

`` Good heavens, Adam '', he said, `` I thought one thing you'd have no trouble learning is when to get out of a place ''.

Standing in the shelter of the tent -- a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped, no longer drumming -- Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beer barrels.

Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever.

Adam knew the names of some.

In that moment of vision Adam heard the voice within himself saying: I must not hate him, I must not hate him or I shall die.

If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.

It would be a sign for the untellable, and he, Adam, would understand.

Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.

Adam watched the moisture flow from the poncho.

Adam stared at the door and remembered that Simms Purdew had been awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Antietam.

With enormous interest, Adam watched his hands as they touched and shifted the objects on the board directly before him.

Adam recognized this one.

Looking down the street after her, Adam saw that she had again stopped and again removed one hand from the basket.

Adam thought of the hutments, regiment after regiment, row after row, the thousands of huts, stretching away into the night.

Adam rose from the crouch necessary to enter the hut.

Adam nodded.

Adam looked at the pot.

Adam shook his head.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

A philosopher may point out that the troubles of the Congo began with the old Adam and consequently will never end.

The first turn of the spiral is the primeval history of humanity in Adam.