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Ada and Queen
It features a pocket universe where Ada Lovelace and Babbage have built the Analytical Engine and use it to fight crime at Queen Victoria's request.
Out of loyalty to Maharani Bamba, the Queen refused to receive Ada, who she suspected had been involved with the Maharaja before Maharani Bamba's death in 1887.
The Queen of the festival ( Pallas Athene ) in 1922 was Miss Ada Bell Files from Fort Scott Kansas.
* Ada Clare, Queen of Bohemia, by Charles Warren Stoddard, National Magazine, September 1905

Ada and Victoria
The first six tunnel boring machines ( TBMs ) were named in pairs in early 2012 after a public competition ; Ada and Phyllis ( after Ada Lovelace and Phyllis Pearsall ), Victoria and Elizabeth ( after British Queens ), and Mary and Sophia ( after the wives of engineers I. K.
Following that stint, she joined Another World, where from 1967 to 1992, she played the role of Ada Davis, the strong-willed mother of Rachel ( Robin Strasser ; Victoria Wyndham ).

Ada and Louise
Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was " a palatial statement of the creative accommodation of contemporary art and architecture ".
Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror, has described Rossi as " a poet who happens to be an architect.
* 1970: Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times, " for distinguished criticism during 1969.
* Huxtable, Ada Louise.
* Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture critic
In her book On Architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable called it " gemütlich Speer ".
Architecture critic and Pritzker juror Ada Louise Huxtable summarized HdM's approach concisely: " They refine the traditions of modernism to elemental simplicity, while transforming materials and surfaces through the exploration of new treatments and techniques.
* On architecture: collected reflections on a century of change, By Ada Louise Huxtable, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2008
* Huxtable, Ada Louise.
But Ada Louise Huxtable called it " a flashy 52-story glass and aluminum tower ... part of an over-scaled megalomaniac group shockingly unrelated to the city's size, standards, or style.
Breuer's name was associated with the site because in 1969 Breuer developed a 55-story proposed skyscraper over Grand Central Terminal, called " Grand Central Tower ", which Ada Louise Huxtable called " a gargantuan tower of aggressive vulgarity ," and which became a cause celebre.
Ada Louise Huxtable called the fight " Rockefeller's Vietnam ".
New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable was also less enthusiastic.
Located in Harvard's Quadrangle, PfoHo comprises Ada Louise Comstock, Daniel Henry Holmes, Mary Buckminster Moors, and Wolbach Halls, in addition to Faculty Row and the Jordan North and South buildings.
* Huxtable, Ada Louise ( 1973 ), " Hospitality and the Plastic Esthetic ", The New York Times, October 14, 1973, p. 153
The Keller Fountain, built in 1970 and originally named the Forecourt Fountain in reference to the adjacent Municipal ( now Keller ) Auditorium, was described by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable as maybe " one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance.
Representative of its acclaim was the opinion of New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who wrote, " What has been gained is a notable achievement in the creation and control of urban space, and in the uses of monumentality and humanity in the best pattern of great city building.
Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable penned an article for the Wall Street Journal contrasting the poor treatment of Boston City Hall with Yale University's recent sympathetic restoration of its similarly challenging concrete landmark, the Art and Architecture Building, by architect Paul Rudolph.

Ada and Virginia
* Ada, West Virginia, Mercer County, West Virginia
Jake and Ada Vaughan had migrated to Newark from Virginia during the First World War.
As of the 1920 U. S. census, he was living in Los Angeles, with wife Ada and daughter Virginia, and a new addition: Samuel, born ~ 1918 in California ( Samuel Earl Crawford, March 15, 1918 October 18, 1996 ).
Bartle was born in Richmond, Virginia, the only child of Samuel Dunn Bartle, a Presbyterian minister and an immigrant from Scotland, and Ada Mae Roe of northern Illinois.

Ada and Smith
A post office was established in 1837, and both the township and settlement were named for Ada Smith, the daughter of the first postmaster.
Smith and his wife, Ada, flew to Duryea to thank their mayor Keith Moss, organizer Trina Moss and the townspeople of Duryea.
Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.
For example, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been supporting an academic major called the University Without Walls-UMass Amherst which is dedicated to helping non-traditional students complete their bachelor's degrees since 1971. Women's colleges also offer programs for older women who would like to return to school, such as Agnes Scott College's Irene K. Woodruff return-to-college program, Mount Holyoke College's Frances Perkins Program, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College's Women's External Degree Program, Simmons College ( Massachusetts )' s Dorothea Lynde Dix Scholars Program, Smith College's Ada Comstock Scholars Program, Bryn Mawr College's Katherine McBride Scholars Program, and Wellesley College's Davis Degree Program.
The twelve founders were Clara Brownlee Hutchinson, Libbie Brook Gaddis, Emma Brownlee Kilgore, Margaret Campbell, Rosa Moore, Ada Bruen Grier, Nancy Black Wallace, Jennie Horne Turnbull, Jennie Nicol, Inez Smith Soule, Fannie Thomson, and Fannie Whitenack Libbey.
One of the most prominent was " Bricktops " ( 2002 2005 ), a weekly salon / speak-easy inspired by vaudevillian Ada " Bricktop " Smith.
Captain Ada Smith led those who faced the " Skeletons ".
Captain Ada Smith of the Salvation Army and her group were ordered to march on Sundays.
Among the many individuals he photographed were Judith Anderson, Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead, Barbara Bel Geddes, Thomas Hart Benton, Jane Bowles, Marlon Brando, Paul Cadmus, Erskine Caldwell, Truman Capote, Bennett Cerf, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Ruby Dee, Jacob Epstein, Ella Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lynn Fontanne, John Hersey, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Horst P. Horst, Mahalia Jackson, Philip Johnson, Frida Kahlo, Gaston Lachaise, Sidney Lumet, Alfred Lunt, Norman Mailer, Alicia Markova, Henri Matisse, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Joan Miró, Ramon Novarro, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Leontyne Price, Diego Rivera, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Cesar Romero, George Schuyler, Beverly Sills, Gertrude Stein, James Stewart, Alfred Stieglitz, Ada " Bricktop " Smith, Bessie Smith, Alice B. Toklas, Prentiss Taylor, Gore Vidal, Evelyn Waugh, Orson Welles, Thornton Wilder, and Anna May Wong.
With seed money from New York State Senator Ada Smith, loose-leaf notebooks with plastic sleeves were purchased in order to begin documenting the colorful history of “ The Channel ”.
Smith was born in Leicester to John Bardell Smith, an engineer, and Ada Smith ( née Horrocks ).
* Ada from Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ( 1867 )
Aird married Sarah Smith of Lewisham on 6 September 1855 and they had eight children: John ( who became, in succession to his father, Sir John Aird ), Malcolm, Sarah, Jessie, Ada, Vida, Gertrude, and Dorothy.

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