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Adams firmly contended that the historian must never underrate the impact of the geographical environment on history.

Adams and once
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.
US President John Adams once wrote to his son, " Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good Latin ... His language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model.
Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.
In New York at this time the faction supporting President John Quincy Adams, called " Adams men ," or the " Anti-Jackson " faction, were a very feeble organization, and shrewd political leaders at once determined to utilize the strong anti-Masonic feeling in creating a new and vigorous party to oppose the rising Jacksonian Democracy.
Adams, once a political visionary and now a man blind to the needs of his country, not only held fast to his notion of defending the monarchy but also made additional attempts to form similarly flawed Federation-like entities after that union's demise.
Barrow, a fervent reformer and once a member of the Barbados Labour Party, had left the party to form his own Democratic Labour Party, as the liberal alternative to the conservative BLP government under Adams.
It was once part of New England Interstate Route 8, which led from North Adams to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Route 8 was once part of the New England interstate system, as the Stratford-Waterbury-North Adams Route.
Following this, Adams joined The Patty Duke Syndrome and once played in a bar in Jacksonville.
Love Is Hell included a cover of Oasis ' " Wonderwall ", which Adams had previously performed live, and about which Noel Gallagher once said, " I never got my head round this song until I went to Ryan Adams play and he did an amazing cover of it.
Other notable roles include Julie Gardiner Adams in Penny Serenade ( 1941 ) ( once again opposite Grant ), Anna Leonowens in Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ), Lavinia Day in Life with Father ( 1947 ), and Martha Hanson in I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).
As Adams worked on the opera, he came to see Nixon, whom he had once intensely disliked, as an " interesting character ", a complicated individual who sometimes showed emotion in public.
It is a group of people who, according to Dilbert author Scott Adams, will form the new ruling elite once Dogbert conquers the Earth.
His uncle, songwriter Larry Kusik (" A Time For Us " from Romeo and Juliet ; " Speak Softly Love " from The Godfather ) took note of his lengthening hair and musical commitment, and asked him to sing on a song he'd recently penned with Ritchie Adams, once of the Fireflies (" You Were Mine ").
Adams also feuded with Tatum and Hyatt, with Sunshine once again managing Chris.
After the final home football game the Spartan Marching Band circles the statue once before heading home to Adams Field.
She only played the role of Ishka once — finding the prosthetics involved to be uncomfortable Martin declined to return, and Cecily Adams was hired to play Ishka in all future appearances.
He was not a Mormon, and Adams herself once wrote of her father as having been a " gentile ".
Adams was released soon after but arrested again more than once before eventually fleeing to Britain, where he wrote a book about the affair, Roche Versus Adams ( London, 1984, ISBN 0-224-02180-X ).
He joined up once again with Micky Adams, who had been his manager whilst he was at Leicester.

Adams and such
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.
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 ''.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??
Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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.
* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".
Some, such as Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, include an email address in each strip.
Maguire's stature was such that a delegation from Gerry Adams sought his support in 1986, but was rejected.
In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.
Encyclopedia Brown inspired many other crack-the-mystery-yourself mystery stories for younger readers, such as " Einstein " Anderson, and Hawkeye Collins & Amy Adams.
It contains scripts Chapman wrote with Douglas Adams and others, such as " Our show for Ringo Starr, a. k. a. Goodnight Vienna ".
Adams acquired an education at institutions such as Leiden University.
By 1809 the Federalist party had almost completely disappeared, and its former members ( such as John Quincy Adams, Madison's ambassador to Russia ) had joined Madison's Democratic-Republican party.
While Adams employs minimalist techniques, such as repeating patterns, he is not a strict follower of the movement.
The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism ( Schoenberg and Berg ), Neoclassicism ( Stravinsky ), and Minimalism ( Philip Glass and John Adams ).
They were followed by composers such as Philip Glass, Mark Adamo, John Corigliano, Robert Moran, John Coolidge Adams, and Jake Heggie.
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.
Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.
Philosophers and politicians advocating for republics, such as Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Adams, and Madison, relied heavily on these sources.
Adams has coined or popularized several words and phrases over the years, such as:
The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

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