Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

What is exposited by this observation is not the inherent prejudices of Englishmen but the Anglophobia of Brooks Adams.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Brooks Adams considered religion as an extremely significant manifestation of man's fear of the unknown.

In The Law Of Civilization And Decay Brooks Adams traced this evolution, always pointing to the fact that although the forms became more rational, the substance remained unchanged.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

Hay was a close friend of Henry Brooks Adams, American historian and author.

* February 13 – Brooks Adams, American historian ( b. 1848 )

* February 16 – Henry Brooks Adams, American historian ( d. 1918 )

The county is divided into seventeen townships: Adams, Alban, Big Stone, Blooming Valley, Farmington, Georgia, Grant Center, Kilborn, Lura, Madison, Mazeppa, Melrose, Osceola, Stockholm, Troy, Twin Brooks, Vernon.

Historian Henry Brooks Adams in his manuscript The Rule of Phase Applied to History attempted to use Maxwell's demon as a historical metaphor, though he misunderstood and misapplied the original principle.

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* Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography: Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams ' literate autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams also depicted a stinging description of the education system and modern life.

The film also features appearances by Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, Kate Adams Keller and Phillips Brooks Keller as themselves.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

Henry Brooks Adams ( February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918 ; normally called Henry Adams ) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist.

He was born in Boston, the son of Charles Francis Adams Sr. ( 1807 – 1886 ) and Abigail Brooks ( 1808 – 1889 ) into one of the country's most prominent families.

Brooks Adams ( 1848 – 1927 ) practiced law and became a writer.

* Index entry for Henry Brooks Adams at Poets ' Corner

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Mr. Brooks was born in New York, and came to Portland in 1920.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

Others, such as Polly Schoyer Brooks ( the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor ), suggest that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously and that the acts of Courtly Love were just a “ parlor game ” made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there.

( One of her co-stars in that film was husband Brooks West.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy.

* 1972 – Scott Martin Brooks, American actor

* 1976 – Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player

* 1973 – Derrick Brooks, American football player

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* 1961 – David Brooks, American journalist and author

* 1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian

* Alexandra Brooks DiMera, aka Lexie Carver, character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives

Albert Lawrence Brooks ( born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947 ) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.

* 1922 – Jack Brooks, American politician

In 1997, McLean performed " American Pie " with Garth Brooks at Brooks ' free concert in Central Park in New York City.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

* 1977 – Brooks Wackerman, American musician ( Bad Religion )

* 1936 – Donnie Brooks, American pop singer ( d. 2007 )

* 1962 – Garth Brooks, American singer

* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )

Troyal Garth Brooks ( born February 7, 1962 ) is an American country music artist.

Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer.

* 1989 – Marshon Brooks, American basketball player