* The Boston Beer Company, under its " Samuel Adams " label, brews a seasonal Chocolate Bock, and has been brewing Double Bock since 1988.

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

Adams originally paid for his tickets ( one for himself, and one for his drum ), but recently the Indians have paid for his seats in honor of the contributions he has made to the ballpark atmosphere.

During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

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

Dilbert has occasionally been criticized for alleged " insensitivity " and off-color jokes, as documented by Adams in The Joy of Work.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

To demonstrate what can be achieved with the most mundane objects if planned correctly and imaginatively, Adams has worked with companies to develop “ dream ” products for Dilbert and company.

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards.

Adams has spoken positively about the change, saying, " This makes cartooning a competitive sport.

Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.

My Father Knew Charles Ives ( 2003 ): Adams writes, " My Father Knew Charles Ives is musical autobiography, an homage and encomium to a composer whose influence on me has been huge.

The music of John Adams is usually categorized as minimalist or post-minimalist although in interview he has categorised himself in typically witty fashion as a ' post-style ' composer.

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.

Norman Adams has been the designer of the Kentucky Derby Logo since 2002.

Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.

In 1997, at the invitation of Logitech CEO Pierluigi Zappacosta, Adams, wearing a wig and false mustache, successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as " so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever.

In recent years, Adams has had two notable health problems.

Adams has received recognition for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1997 for his work on Dilbert.

Adams has coined or popularized several words and phrases over the years, such as:

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 April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

Historians have often included Adams among the leading conservatives of his day.

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.

Conversely, though every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams can be definitely assigned membership in an Anglican or Unitarian body, the significance of these affiliations is often downplayed as unrepresentative of their true beliefs.

W. Paul Adams observes that republic is most often used in the United States as a synonym for state or government, but with more positive connotations than either of those terms.

Adams writes in a satirical, often sarcastic way about the social and mental landscape of white-collar workers in modern corporations and other large enterprises.

A few days after the election, Adams named Clay his Secretary of State, a position which at that time often led to the presidency.

Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams are all visible from Clark County, and cold winter winds through the Columbia River Gorge often bring freezing rain and a coating of glaze ice or clear ice known locally as a " silver thaw ," especially in southeastern areas of the county closest to the gorge.

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.

Internally, members of the priesthood do not use The Reverend as a style, but are generally known as " brother " or " sister " or by their specific priesthood office (" deacon ", " teacher " or " priest " are often appended after the person's name, instead of, for example, " Deacon John Adams " or " Deacon Adams ", and generally only in written form ; in contrast, elders, bishops, evangelists, apostles, etc.

This is known as the Adams forward bend test and is often performed on school students.

In fact, Howe fought so often in his rookie season that coach Jack Adams told him, " I know you can fight.

Written by scripter Morrie Ryskind, produced and directed by George Stevens ( Alice Adams ), it is too often a moving picture which does not move.

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.

On more than one occasion, Adams has been forced to retract or modify an answer when confronted by " the Teeming Millions " ( Adams's term for his readers ), often claiming overwork and staff shortages.

In his illustrations, Cecil Adams is often depicted as a large turkey wearing a mortar board.

In early 2006 Adams performed a solo tour of the United Kingdom, often accompanied by Brad Pemberton ( drummer for The Cardinals ) and on the final date in London by Carina Round, who performed harmony vocals on ' Come Pick Me Up ' from his first solo album-' Heartbreaker '.

" Adams, whose knowledge is as incomplete as the next person, got around this by using the aforementioned " simplest explanation " for each concept raised in the book because, while " in this complicated world the simplest explanation is usually dead wrong ", a more simple explanation often sounds more right and more convincing than anything complicated.

It appears that Adams did not regard the question as " trivial ", as is often alleged, but he failed to complete a response.

* Career U. S. Air Force pilot Duane Adams often related that he had witnessed two occurrences of a bright light which paced his aircraft for about half an hour and then rapidly ascended into the sky.

As a result, his writings are commonly discussed in books and journals, and he is often quoted in books by nature photographers such as Ansel Adams.