In his autobiography Back to the Batcave he explains that he chose ' Adam ' simply because he liked the way it looked and sounded with ' West ', his mother's maiden name.

Revé had dropped Adam off in the Sears toy department while she looked for a lamp.

While on patrol, Rubber-Band Man typically acts as an older brother figure to Static, keeping him from showing off and reminding him of consequences in their work, something that Adam's real brother Ebon never actually did when he looked after Adam prior to the Big Bang.

The first of the Mr. Men characters is reported to have been created when Adam, at age 6, asked his father what a tickle looked like.

He had a segment on the breakfast show ( starring Wil Anderson and Adam Spencer ) on Friday mornings, Know Your Millennium, a quiz show that looked into the past.

By the end of the 2000 – 01 season, Hull had been saved from closure by new owner Adam Pearson, and the club's future looked brighter.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke wrote, " We looked up to the Beastie Boys a lot when we were starting out and how they maintained artistic control making wicked records but still were on a major label, and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts they organized had a very big influence on me personally and the way Adam conducted himself and dealt with it all impressed me a lot.

It looked like a great decision when Jon Lewis and Darren Gough were smashed about early on, as Australia made their way to 57 for 0 after 11 overs with Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden taking sixes off Lewis over midwicket.

It looked like a great decision when Jon Lewis and Darren Gough were smashed about early on, as Australia made their way to 57 for 0 after 11 overs with Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden taking sixes off Lewis over midwicket.

Carlos met the monster when it was stalking Bulk, Skull, and Professor Phenomenous, and when it looked like Carlos was in trouble, former Power Ranger Adam Park came to Carlos ' rescue.

It looked back to the Scottish tradition of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith ; but in it he speculated also on the custom of collusive abduction seen in classical antiquity.

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

`` All the in-laws have got to have their day '', Adam said, and glared at William and Freddy in turn.

Adam Smith discusses the division of labour in the manufacture of pins at length in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

Adam based his works in part on Einhard, Cassiodorus, and other earlier historians, as he had the whole library of the church of Bremen at his fingertips.

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.

This might mean that he sailed off from Hamburg or Bremen instead of some port in Baltic Sea, since the later account by Adam of Bremen gives the distance of Scania and Birka to be only 5 days at sea.

In 2008, after a chance meeting with CPAN admin Adam Kennedy at the Open Source Developers Conference, Linux kernel developer Rusty Russell created the CCAN, the Comprehensive C Archive Network.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, was to provide most of the ideas of classical liberal economics, at least until the publication of J. S. Mill's Principles in 1848.

The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

In contrast to the Jewish view of being morally balanced, Original Sin refers to the idea that the sin of Adam and Eve's disobedience ( sin " at the origin ") has passed on a spiritual heritage, so to speak.

Judaism's view is summed up by a biblical observation about the Torah: in the beginning God clothes the naked ( Adam ), and at the end God buries the dead ( Moses ).

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

) The Declaration was then taken to the papal court at Avignon by Bishop Kininmund, Sir Adam Gordon and Sir Odard de Maubuisson.

* Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia By Robert Adam, 1764.

In this latter instance it was apparently Jesus ’ brother James who spoke prominently in the assembly of “ the apostles and the older men ” at Jerusalem .— Adam Clarke, 1821, commentary on 5: 13, 22, 23.

Since these people would have to be descended from Adam, they would have had to travel to the other side of the Earth at some point ; Augustine continues:

*" Dining Out: The Food Critic at Table " A review of food writing and writers by Adam Gopnick that examines the genre.

* F A Hayek at the Adam Smith Institute

Critics of laissez-faire since Adam Smith variously see the unregulated market as an impractical ideal or as a rhetorical device that puts the concepts of freedom and anti-protectionism at the service of vested wealthy interests, allowing them to attack labor laws and other protections of the working classes.

Her will to fight gone, Buffy flees from the cave, with Adam taking pot shots at her.

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.

Adam watched the moisture flow from the poncho.

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 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.