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* Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr at The MIT Press
* Lewis, James E., Jr. John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union.
In 1954, Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr., series, which was published under the name " Victor Appleton II ".
Benson and Harriet Adams ( Stratemeyer's daughter ) are often credited as the primary writers of Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene ; other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., Margaret Scherf, and Susan Wittig Albert.
* Director, Secretary, Assistant Secretary: Richard L. Adams Jr., Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Currently the Henry Adams Morss and Henry Adams Morss, Jr.
In more recent times, it was replicated by Robert Downey Jr. in his lead role as Charles Chaplin in the 1992 Chaplin, Johnny Depp's character in the 1993 film Benny and Joon, Grampa Simpson in the 1994 episode of The Simpsons entitled " Lady Bouvier's Lover " and by Amy Adams ' character in The Muppets.
For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet ( Stratemeyer ) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap.
A GOP candidate even won a seat on the Tensas Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body, with the victory of Emmett L. Adams, Jr., in District 1 over fellow Republican Patrick Glass.
* Melvin Adams, Jr., better known as Fish Scales from the band Nappy Roots.
The city, which serves as the county seat of Adams County, takes its name after the prominent war hero Stephen Decatur, Jr., one of the captains of the original six frigates of the US navy.
* Charles Francis Adams, Jr .-Civil War general, president of Union Pacific Railroad ( 1884 – 1890 )
John Adams Middle School ( 729 ; from James Madison Intermediate and MLK Jr .),
Greene Jr. of Adams was the builder.
* Charles Francis Adams, Jr., was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr ..
Racer: Anthony Adams, Archie Adams Jr, Archie Adams Sr
Those include ; Arden Cogar Sr., Jamie Cogar aka Arden Cogar Jr., Dick Stemple, Ted Williams, Carl Green, Joe Talbot, Tim Adams and C. Randy White.
It was developed on the Pine State Dairy Farm by Thomas F. Adams, Jr. Adams named a section of Kildaire Farms " Farmington Woods " in their honor.
His headquarters in Falmouth, Virginia, was described by cavalry officer Charles F. Adams, Jr., as being a combination of a " bar-room and a brothel ".

Adams and .
Tell her Curt Adams wants to see her ''.
He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.
`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.
`` You're about as dumb as they come, Adams.
Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.
in others by business and professional acumen, as with Franklin and Adams, or, in Hamilton's case, by an influential marriage.
As different physically as the tall, angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams, the seven were striking individualists.
John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.
John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.
In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.
John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.
The historian Charles Francis Adams called him `` a crude and half-crazy thinker ''.
Adams firmly contended that the historian must never underrate the impact of the geographical environment on history.
Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.
Adams depended largely on the dispatches of foreign ambassadors and observers in England, claiming that the reports of such agents had to be accurate because there were no newspapers.
What is exposited by this observation is not the inherent prejudices of Englishmen but the Anglophobia of Brooks Adams.
In all fairness it must be admitted that Adams made no pretense at being an impartial historian.
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.
It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.
For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.
All critics of Adams and his methods have observed this particular deficiency.
J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.
A. M. Wergeland called the Adams method literally antihistorical, while Clive Day maintained that the assumptions were not confined to theories alone but were also applicable to straight factual evidence.
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.

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