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He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.
What is exposited by this observation is not the inherent prejudices of Englishmen but the Anglophobia of Brooks Adams.
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.
The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).
`` 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 ''??
* 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 ".
is: Douglas Adams
Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.
The comic strip's popular success is attributable to its workplace setting and themes, which are familiar to a large and appreciative audience ; Adams said that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office was " when the strip really started to take off.
Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).
* 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams.
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is named for a fictional galactic encyclopedia that one of the main characters works for.
The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is discussed in Douglas Adams ' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values.
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 to John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams ( née Smith ) in Braintree, Massachusetts, what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.
John Quincy Adams Birthplace is now part of Adams National Historical Park and open to the public.
The Quincy family name was pronounced, as is the name of the city in Massachusetts where Adams was born.
Though technically incorrect, this pronunciation is also commonly used for Adams ' middle name.
Adams House at Harvard College is named in honor of Adams and his father.

Adams and regarded
The historian Clinton Rossiter regarded Madison's performance as " a combination of learning, experience, purpose, and imagination that not even Adams or Jefferson could have equaled.
Adams regarded his May 15 preamble effectively as an American declaration of independence, although a formal declaration would still have to be made.
Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, who had replaced Haughey and who had played a key role in the Hume / Adams dialogue through his Special Advisor Martin Mansergh, regarded the ceasefire as permanent.
Still, Suspended was a highly regarded game ; science fiction writer Douglas Adams, an early fan of Infocom games, was particularly taken with it.
* 1797-Treaty of Tripoli ; treaty with Barbary state of Tripoli approved unanimously by Senate and signed into law by President John Adams on June 10 ; states U. S. is not regarded as Christian nation
Adams was chosen because he was the world number one in blitz ( rapid ) chess and is regarded as an extremely strong player in unfamiliar positions.
In these legends, St. Helens with its pre-1980 graceful appearance, was regarded as a beautiful maiden for whom Hood and Adams feuded.
Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is regarded as one of the most influential champions of Republicanism and an invested promoter of the American Revolution and its fight for independence.
" In his 19th-century translation of the Poetic Edda, Henry Adams Bellows comments that " some scholars have regarded as a solar myth, calling her the sun-goddess, and pointing out that her home in Fensalir (" the sea-halls ") symbolizes the daily setting of the sun beneath the ocean horizon.
Wheeler notes, " Mr. Adams and the people of New England generally regarded these views as the correct interpretation of the original compact which bound the people together.
The version by Robert M. Adams, for the Norton Critical Editions series, is also highly regarded ; it “ is more colloquial ; his edition includes an informative section on backgrounds and sources, and excerpts from critical studies ”; it is modernized compared to Moncrieff, but also contains many errors on detailed points.
The various Basque provinces generally regarded their fueros as tantamount to a constitution, a view that was accepted by some others, including President of the United States John Adams.
Paul Adams is widely regarded as one of the best recording engineers for acoustic music of his generation.
It is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams ' " minimalist " period.
Though the experimental apparatus was primitive compared with that later developed at Harvard University and the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D. C., Adams ' work was highly regarded by the newly founded Carnegie Institution, which supported him financially, and attempted to persuade him to move to the Institution.
Although he never intended to be a journalist, once in Australia Adams took to the work quickly and was very highly regarded by colleagues in Sydney and Brisbane for his work, particularly on the Brisbane Courier ( where he wrote editorial leaders ) and the Sydney Bulletin ( to which he contributed mostly verse and paragraphs ).

Adams and one
But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.
Alexis Korner gave one of his last radio interviews to BBC Midlands on the Record Collectors Show with Mike Adams and the Late Chris Savory.
DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia.
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.
Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, " cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke ... it's on the reader.
" In September of the same year, Griffith mocked Adams by mimicking his Pippy the Ziphead creation with a strip showing stiff, Dilbert-like creations in an office setting and one of the characters saying, " I sense a joke was delivered.
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.
Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.
The Lindsay deal was one of several questionable trades made by Adams in the late 1950s.
At one time, the script for " Out of the Trees ", written by Chapman and Adams in 1975 ( and later extensively rewritten by Chapman with Bernard McKenna ), was online.
Paul Nagel argues that his political acumen was not any less developed than others were in his day, and notes that Henry Clay, one of the era's most astute politicians, was a principal advisor to Adams and supporter throughout his presidency.
Adams in fact spent many nights at the Observatory, with celebrated national astronomer and oceanographer, Matthew Fontaine Maury, watching and charting the stars, which had always been one of Adams ' avocations.
In addition, each Adams served only one term as president.
Adams wrote, " in almost all cultures other than the European classical one, the real meaning of the music is in between the notes.
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.
The South African Paul Adams, known for his unusual bowling action, is perhaps one of the best-known left-arm wrist spinners.
* 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
Adams himself preferred Unitarian preachers, but he was opposed to Joseph Priestley's sympathies with the French Revolution, and would attend other churches if the only nearby Congregational / Unitarian one was composed of followers of Priestley.

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