by Cecil Adams.

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.

* Straight Dope-Discussion of the origins of the term by Cecil Adams.

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by Cecil Adams, Chicago Reader

-A Cecil Adams column that discusses Lake Lillian

* Constance Adams DeMille ( 1874-1960 ), actress and wife of director Cecil B. DeMille.

Cecil Adams is a name, possibly a pseudonym, designating the American author of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader since 1973.

Adams claims that he has " never been photographed ," but Ed Zotti, who currently fulfills Adams's publicity engagements, has appeared in at least one photo captioned " Cecil Adams.

In his illustrations, Cecil Adams is often depicted as a large turkey wearing a mortar board.

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Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope calls the Skeptical Inquirer " one of the nation's leading antifruitcake journals ".

* Cecil Adams ( 1987 ).

* Cecil Adams on the Bridey Murphy controversy

The alleged rule is especially held to apply to equestrian statues commemorating the American Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg, but there is at least one instance where the rule does not hold for Gettysburg equestrian statues, and syndicated newspaper columnist Cecil Adams claims that any correlation between the positioning of hooves in a statue and the manner in which a Gettysburg soldier died is a coincidence.

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Cecil Adams, 1977

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Critics claim that a comprehensive explanation of why one colloidal mineral, silver, is nutritionally useless and may in fact cause harm, is given by a recent article from Cecil Adams of Straight Dope.

Since the mid-1950s, baritone saxophone soloists such as Gerry Mulligan, Cecil Payne, and Pepper Adams achieved fame, while Serge Chaloff was the first baritone player to achieve fame as a bebop soloist.

Other syndicated features often seen in free alternative weeklies include the Straight Dope, by Chicago-based Cecil Adams, Free Will Astrology and comics such as Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, and Keith Knight's K Chronicles.

* An exchange with Cecil Adams, of " The Straight Dope ," on the Roswell Incident

A widely-read reference to urban legends, Cecil Adams's The Straight Dope, devoted two columns to the dispute.

" The Straight Dope ", by the pseudonymous Cecil Adams, was the Chicago Reader < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first weekly column and one of the first features to be widely syndicated in the alternative press, at one time appearing in 35 papers.

In 1984, Chicago Review Press published The Straight Dope, a compilation of columns ; the cover named Cecil Adams as author and Zotti as editor.

On rare occasions, Adams has made appearances on the Straight Dope's Message Board.

Adams has published five collections of his The Straight Dope columns, and Zotti has published a children's collection in The Straight Dope style entitled Know It All.

Adams ' columns are archived at the Straight Dope website.

With the singles " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )" ( a Van Morrison cover ) and " Let's Get This Straight ( From The Start )" maintaining their popularity, the group continued to tour until 1983 with a nucleus of Rowland, Adams, O ' Hara and Shelton augmented by other musicians.

-Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope

It won a 1984 Juno Award for Single of the Year, over fellow nominees " Cuts Like a Knife " and " Straight from the Heart " by Bryan Adams, " Sunglasses at Night " by Corey Hart, and " The Safety Dance " by Men Without Hats.

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* The Straight Dope Notes arguing that routine cannibalism is myth

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* The Straight Dope on Cow Tipping

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* Straight Dope article about caffeine levels on soft drinks

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* The Straight Dope: How come February has only 28 days?

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* StraightDope. com – ' The Straight Dope: Was J. Edgar Hoover a crossdresser?

* The Straight Dope Mailbag: " What is a hostile witness?

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* The story of Schroedinger's cat ( an epic poem ); The Straight Dope

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* The Straight Dope: Who was Dr. Spooner?

* The Straight Dope on the Neutral Zone

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