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.

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

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.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

Maguire had also been contacted by supporters of Gerry Adams, then and now President of Sinn Féin, and a supporter of the change in the Provisional IRA constitution.

Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.

This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, who would be the face of the franchise the next 36 years as either coach or general manager.

Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932 – 33 NHL season.

It was also the last season as head coach for Adams, who stepped down after the season to concentrate on his duties as general manager.

Sullivan also appeared as himself on other television programs, including an April 1958 episode of the Howard Duff and Ida Lupino CBS sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve.

Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of brigadier-general.

Adams also predicted the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, but said that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave revolts.

Though technically incorrect, this pronunciation is also commonly used for Adams ' middle name.

While a member of the Senate, Adams also served as a professor of logic at Brown University.

Adams also called into question the actions of a House that would limit its own ability to debate and resolve questions internally.

Congress also passed the Force Bill which authorized President Andrew Jackson to use military force if Adams ' compromise bill did not force the belligerent states to capitulate.

Adams also became a leading force for the advancement of science.

Congress also debated whether the federal government had the authority to accept the gift, though with Adams leading the initiative, Congress decided to accept the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1, 1836.

Adams ' youngest son, Charles Francis Adams ( who named his own son John Quincy ), also pursued a career in diplomacy and politics.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

Adams professes his love of other genres other than classical music ; his parents were jazz musicians, and he has also listened to rock music, albeit only passively.

In addition to stage work, Milford appeared in the 1975 television movies Song of the Succubus ( with Brooke Adams ) and Rock-a-Die-Baby also known as Night of the Full Moon, in which he performed music with his band Moon.

Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.

Author Douglas Adams, while travelling with British comedy producer John Lloyd, suggested they play a game he had learned at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps.

Many republicans in Northern Ireland, including Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, learned Irish while in prison.

He then threw his support to Andrew Jackson until he learned that John Quincy Adams, if elected, would likely make Clay Secretary of State.

While writing about Mr. Adams in the Atlanta Constitution after he had been elected Georgia commissioner of agriculture in 1932, Stiles A. Martin called him “ one of the best educated, best read and most learned men in the state .”

When the first Europeans started to navigate in the Pacific Ocean ( see also Nanban trade period ), they regularly encountered Japanese ships, such as when the Spanish welcomed in Manila in 1589 a storm-battered Japanese junk bound for Siam, or when the Dutch circumnavigator Olivier van Noort encountered a 110-ton Japanese junk in the Philippines in December 1600, and on the same voyage a Red Seal ship with a Portuguese captain off Borneo through which they learned about the arrival of William Adams in Japan.

Adams, splendidily reflective and self-critical in so many other ways, did not articulate what, if anything, he had learned from these sobering experiences.

During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production where he learned physics and engineering on the job.

Although not educated as a naturalist in a college or university, Adams learned the habits and facts of grizzly life first hand, through his observations while hunting and trapping them.

Cooper was described by Thomas Jefferson as " one of the ablest men in America " and by John Adams as " a learned ingenious scientific and talented madcap.

Totten employed recent graduates of West Point as assistant engineers at Fort Adams where they learned advanced engineering techniques.

Adams learned to play piccolo ( chosen primarily because the instrument was less expensive than a full-size flute ) and joined the St. Thomas Municipal Band in 1906.

Not deterred in his attempt to discredit Adams, Floyd learned of a letter written by Jonathan Russell to James Monroe on December 15, 1814 that contained " proof positive " of Adams ' neglect of the West in the treaty negotiations and he was successful in passing a resolution of inquiry that gave him the letter, but his actions backfired when the press attacked Floyd and forced him to defend his conduct.

Adams ' personality was much like that of his father, as were his political beliefs.

Historian Paul Nagel argues that, like Abraham Lincoln after him, Adams suffered from depression for much of his life.

Adams experienced a musical awakening after reading John Cage's book Silence ( 1973 ), which he claimed " dropped into psyche like a time bomb.

Adams, like other minimalists of his time ( e. g. Philip Glass ), used a steady pulse that defines and controls the music.

Composers like John Adams often employ Romantic-size orchestras, as in Adams ' opera Nixon in China ; Philip Glass and others may be more free, yet still identify size-boundaries.

The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.

Adams ' leadership of Sinn Féin was supported by a Northern-based cadre that included people like Danny Morrison and Martin McGuinness.

In the 1950s, Harriet ( by now Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ) began substantially revising old volumes in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, updating them by removing references to " roadster " and the like.

Now men like Adams or Slade were trying to revoke a standing rule.

Home-grown talent, like quarterbacks Tony Adams and Danny White, quickly bolted for the NFL, with Adams landing with the Kansas City Chiefs and White with the Dallas Cowboys, and Florida head coach Jack Pardee got star Blazers ' tight end Greg Latta to jump ship with him to the NFL's Bears.

Westhead also believed in a " run and gun " style of play, and gave the green light for players like Michael Adams and Chris Jackson to light up the scoreboards within seconds of possession.

He has commented on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, stating that he believes both Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to be very clever men, but also that he does not trust either of them as he believes Adams looks like a deputy headmaster and McGuinness looks like a clown without make-up.

It was changed to " Marvin " partly to avoid causing offence, but also because it was pointed out to Adams that on radio the name would sound like " Martial ", which would have undesirable connotations.

Helped by artist Elmer Wexler, who critiqued the young Adams ' samples, Adams brought his portfolio to the agency, which initially " didn't believe I had done those particular samples since they looked so much like Elmer Wexler's work.

Billed as the " World's Smartest Human ," Adams responds to often unusual inquiries with abrasive humor ( often directed against the questioner ), and at times exhaustive research into obscure and arcane issues, urban legends, and the like.

Artists producing site-specific works include Michele Oka Doner, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, David Smith, Isaac Witkin, Anthony Caro, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Richard Haas, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, Leonard Baskin, George Segal, Tom Otterness, Roy Lichtenstein, Olafur Eliasson, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Max Neuhaus, Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Dan Flavin, Archie Rand, Richard Serra, Olga Kisseleva, Michael Heizer, Patricia Johanson, James Turrell, Ana Mendieta, Athena Tacha, Alice Adams, Nancy Holt, Rowan Gillespie, Scott Burton, Robert Irwin, Marian Zazeela, Guillaume Bijl, Betty Beaumont and younger artists like Eberhard Bosslet, Mark Divo, Leonard van Munster, Luna Nera, Simparch, Sarah Sze, Stefano Cagol, and Seth Wulsin.

Adams elected to sing until they found a singer, but they never found one, and his auditioning landed him a few jobs, with bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, who in 1976 released If Wishes Were Horses with the 15-year-old Adams as the singer.

Samuel Adams also runs a " Winter Classics Mix Pack " near the Christmas Season, consisting of Old Fezziwig Ale, a spiced ale introduced in 1995 ; Holiday Porter, which is very dark but smooth, introduced in 2004 ; and Cranberry Lambic, which tastes like cranberries, but is not actually a Lambic-style beer.