Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

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

Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.

Initially it was claimed by David Cameron that Adams had accepted the title but Downing Street has since apologised for this and Adams has publicly rejected the title stating, " I have had no truck whatsoever with these antiquated and quite bizarre aspects of the British parliamentary system ".

Adams claimed that so little value was given to these films that the stored kinescopes were loaded into three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.

Adams also claimed England's final goal at the stadium, having scored in the previous home fixture against Ukraine on 31 May.

Despite the end of the series, Adams has said the strip, which he claimed at different points to have appeared in 365 newspapers, 265 newspapers, and 165 newspapers, ended " for no other reason that it was an unhappy situation ":

In the mid-90s, Edie Adams, wife of Ernie Kovacs, claimed that so little value was given to the kinescope recordings of the DuMont Television Network that after the network folded in 1956 its entire archive was dumped into upper New York bay.

" Savage claimed in an article in The Portland Mercury that, while Adams followed the " campsite rule " – Breedlove did not claim that Adams had given him any diseases or caused him emotional trauma, and in fact still refers to Adams as a friend – Breedlove violated the Tea and Sympathy rule by making public statements that he knew could ruin Adams ' career.

He has also claimed to be influenced by " Bryson, Barry, Twain, Elton, Wodehouse, Adams, Vonnegut, John Irving, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack Handey, Al Franken, that sort of thing.

In 2003, BookCrossing was criticized by Jessica Adams, author of several " chick lit " novels, who claimed that books were being " devalued " by the website as BookCrossing could lead to lower sales of books and, therefore, the reduction in royalties being paid to authors.

During the 2008-09 season, Adams was claimed by the Pittsburgh Penguins off waivers from the Blackhawks on March 4, 2009.

Although Adams had written many Nancy Drew titles after 1953, and edited others, she claimed to be the author of all of the early titles.

The disparities between Jefferson's philosophy and practice have been noted by numerous historians: Staaloff proposed that it was due to his being a proto-Romantic ; John Quincy Adams claimed that it was a manifestation of pure hypocrisy, or ' pliability of principle ;' and Bailyn asserts it simply represented a contradiction with Jefferson, that he was “ simultaneously a radical utopian idealist and a hardheaded, adroit, at times cunning politician .” However, Jenkinson argued that Jefferson's personal failings ought not to influence present day thinkers to disregard Jeffersonian ideals.

He claimed that his stint at the Tony Adams " Sporting Chance " rehabilitation centre had finally allowed him to mature and that he was no longer a slave to addictions.

Decades later, Adams ' highly publicized life and death at a young age and his friendships with cultural icons such as James Dean and Elvis Presley along with his reported drug consumption made his private life the subject of many reports and assertions by some writers who have claimed Adams may have been gay or bisexual and may have had intimate relationships with both Dean and Presley.

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 ''.

Both Martha Washington and Abigail Adams gained fame from the Revolutionary War and were treated as if they were " ladies " of the British royal court.

Adams was influenced by the classical republican ideal of civic eloquence espoused by British philosopher David Hume.

Galvanized by the British initiative, Monroe consulted with American leaders and then formulated a plan with Adams.

Ex-Presidents Jefferson and Madison counseled Monroe to accept the offer, but Adams advised, " It would be more candid ... to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war.

Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.

Adams labeled the Prohibitory Act the " Act of Independency ", calling it " a compleat Dismemberment of the British Empire ".

* November 17 – Michael Adams, British chess Grandmaster

** Ben Adams, British singer ( A1 )

** Frank Adams, British mathematician ( b. 1930 )

** Chris Adams, British professional wrestler and judoka ( d. 2001 )

* September 23 – Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d ' Arrest as predicted by the British astronomer John Couch Adams and the French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.

* April 18 – American Revolution: Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.

From the late 1980s onwards, Adams was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) leader John Hume and subsequently with the Irish and British governments and then other parties.

Over time, Adams and others pointed to Republican electoral successes in the early and mid-1980s, when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and Dáil Éireann respectively, and they advocated that Sinn Féin become increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism.

In 2011 the Chancellor appointed Adams to the British title of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead to allow him to resign from the House of Commons and to stand for election in the Dáil.

On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Adams episode of the British arts documentary series The South Bank Show.

With Napoleon apparently gone, and the British invasion of New York defeated, British and American diplomats ( Clay and John Quincy Adams among the American delegation ) signed the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve, 1814.

* John Bodkin Adams, British doctor and suspected serial killer, but only found guilty of forging wills and prescriptions

Ford Prefect ( also called Ix ) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams.

Adams told the jury to look beyond the fact the soldiers were British.

For a few months, he served in the Union army under Generals David Hunter and Quincy Adams Gillmore.

He obtained the repeal of some federal taxes in his bid to rely more on customs revenue, and dismantled much of the army and navy that he had inherited from Washington and Adams.

The Republicans felt that the Adams foreign policy was too favorable toward Britain ; feared that the new army called up for the Quasi-War would oppress the people ; opposed new taxes to pay for war ; and attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as violations of states ' rights and the Constitution.

George Washington was called out of retirement to head a " provisional army " in case of invasion by France, but President John Adams managed to negotiate a truce, in which France agreed to terminate the prior alliance and cease its attacks.

Knox did not have a commission in the army, but John Adams in particular worked in the Second Continental Congress to acquire for him a commission as colonel of the army's artillery regiment.

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. ( 1835 – 1915 ) fought with the Union in the Civil War, receiving in 1865 the brevet of brigadier-general in the regular army.

President John Adams described him as "... universally esteemed, beloved and confided in by his army and his country.

" He also told John Adams that officers referred to Gates ' army as " a well-regulated family ", but called the forces directly under Washington " an unformed mob.

In addition, in a speech delivered on July 16, 1797, Adams championed the formation of a navy and army, while emphasizing the importance of renewing treaties with Prussia and Sweden.

Supremely qualified for the job, the forty-eight-year-old Otis had been a former quartermaster of the Continental army, speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives, member of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and John Adams ' long-term ally.

In early 1967 Disney released Mosby's Marauders, a now mostly forgotten but successful Civil War drama told from a southern perspective with Adams in the role of a cruel Union army sergeant.

After brainstorming, Stewart and Adams " came up with the idea of a rock-and-roll singer going off to the army and its effect on a group of teenagers in a small town in Ohio.

Adams, who was helping Williams and DiBiase fight off Akbar and his army, wanted the match to continue, but Parsons wanted the win.

The delegates, who included George Washington, soon to command the army ; Patrick Henry, and John Adams, were elected by their respective colonial assemblies.

He was wounded in a skirmish at Willis ' Grist Mill at South Utoy Creek on 10 August 1864, near the Sandtown Road ( now Cascade Road SW, near Willis Mill Road and what is now Adams Park in Atlanta ), then treated at Utoy Church, which was serving as a field hospital for said battle, and finally recuperated in Barnesville, Georgia, until rejoining the army in October 1864 at the time of the Confederate invasion of Tennessee.

The events of the American Revolution are portrayed through the perspectives of multiple characters, including Sentry Hugh White of the British army, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, George Washington, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, Captain James Hall, Abigail Adams, Paul Revere, Dr. Joseph Warren, and Major John Pitcairn.

On 27 July 2005, Michael McDowell expressed his belief that Adams, McGuinness, and Ferris had recently ( i. e., within the previous few days ) left the IRA army council.

Thompson has noted how the growth in size of the Spanish army in the 16th – 17th centuries contributed rather to the economic collapse of Spain and to the weakness of the central government against regional rebellions while Simon Adams has put in question if there was any growth at all in the first half of the 17th century.

Alexander Hamilton and the extreme Federalists attacked Adams for his persistence for peace with France, his opposition to building an army, and his failure to enforce the Alien & Sedition Acts.

Adams was born in Malta the son of Andrew Leith Adams F. R. S., F. G. S., an army surgeon, who became afterwards well known as a scientist, a fellow of the Royal Society, and an author of natural history books set in different parts of the British empire.

Under John Adams they fought the " Quasi War " ( an undeclared naval war ) with France in 1798 – 99 and built a strong army and navy.

After his trial, Preston retired from the army and reportedly settled in Ireland, though Adams recalled seeing him in London in the 1780s.