* 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.

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 often commented on political matters.

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.

Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel Watership Down, where it is spoken by fictional rabbit characters.

The advertisements use the slogan " Nobunny knows Easter better than him ", spoken by TV personality Mason Adams.

During the TV series Get Smart ( season 3 ) episode " Die Spy ", several lines of the song are spoken as interplay between Don Adams and Stu Gilliam.

In order to provide proper timing of spoken lines on-set, Douglas Adams himself spoke the lines of Eddie the Computer and Deep Thought, until they were redubbed by David Tate and Valentine Dyall respectively.

However, a number of novelists, playwrights, and academics, including Fay Weldon, Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley, spoke positively of the work.

`` You're about as dumb as they come, Adams.

Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

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.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

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.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

Although Adams was finally found innocent after years of being processed by the legal system, the judge in the habeas corpus hearing officially stated that, " much could be said about those videotape interviews, but nothing that would have any bearing on the matter before this court.

The Reverend Jonathan Adams, one of the church's clergy, defended his taste in comedy, saying that it did not mock Jesus, and that it raised important issues about the hypocrisy and stupidity that can affect religion.

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.

* Answers to Your Questions, a 2007 Adams blog post addressing multiple questions and subjects about his daily life

However, in 1854, J C Adams caused the question to be re-opened by finding an error in Laplace's computations: it turned out that only about half of the Moon's apparent acceleration could be accounted for on Laplace's basis by the change in the Earth's orbital eccentricity.

Adams illustrates his theory by telling a fictitious story about Jack, a lover of art, visiting Chartres cathedral.

Because the committee left no minutes, there is some uncertainty about how the drafting process proceeded — accounts written many years later by Jefferson and Adams, although frequently cited, are contradictory and not entirely reliable.

On 14 March 1984 in central Belfast, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt when several Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) gunmen fired about 20 shots into the car in which he was travelling.

Even after the election of Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh / South Tyrone, a part of the mass mobilization associated with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in the H blocks of the Maze prison ( known as Long Kesh by Republicans ), Adams was cautious about the level of political involvement by Sinn Féin.

As part of this requirement, the ED asked Dr. Marilyn J. Adams to produce a report on the role of phonics instruction in beginning reading, which resulted in her 1994 book Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print.

When the county was formed, a dispute arose about naming it after Andrew Jackson or John Adams ; the conflict was ended by choosing the name Orleans.

It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt ( from which the collection gets its title, a reference to the Irish myth of the Salmon of Knowledge ).

In So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, Arthur Dent purchases a computer for the purpose of star mapping ; Adams makes only one disparaging comment about this decision.

Sam Adams, critic for the Philadelphia City Paper, wrote, " The codes of the time prevented Lewis from being explicit about the extent to which their fast-blooming romance is fueled by their mutual love of weaponry ( Arthur Penn would rip off the covers in Bonnie and Clyde, which owes Gun Crazy a substantial debt ), but when Cummins ' six-gun dangles provocatively as she gasses up their jalopy, it's clear what really fills their collective tank.

Wenger stuck by Adams following his confessions about his drink problem, and the improvements in the regime probably extended Adams's career by several years.

Adams later ended up selling self-manufactured fake " giant man tracks " to tourists sometime during the 1930s, sparking a debate about whether or not humans existed along side dinosaurs.