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Adams and made
In all fairness it must be admitted that Adams made no pretense at being an impartial historian.
For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.
In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.
While Hunt negotiated with Bidwills, similar offers were made by Bud Adams, Bob Howsam, and Max Winter.
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.
She made no secret of her dislike for Adams.
The Lindsay deal was one of several questionable trades made by Adams in the late 1950s.
Aside from the fact that Adams was suing the very man who got him off of death row and out of prison all together, was the fact that Morris himself made absolutely no money on the movie.
Jim Yoakum had it removed, to the disappointment of co-writer Adams, who had made no objections to it being there.
Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.
When his opponents realized what they had gotten themselves into, they tried to bury the censure and move on, but Adams made sure this did not happen and the censure continued to be debated.
Adams said slavery contradicted the principles of republicanism, while Calhoun said that slavery was essential to American democracy, for it made all white men equal.
Monroe made balanced Cabinet choices, naming a southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State.
In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.
Secretary of State Madison was ordered by President Jefferson to withhold the commissions made at the last minute by outgoing President Adams.
That same year, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, in the role of Nibs ( one of the Lost Boys ), appearing onstage with Maude Adams and earning a favorable mention from the powerful critic Alexander Woollcott.
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.
Adams argued that as in virtually all other posts to his blog, he had made extensive use of satire and sarcasm but that it seemed to have been lost on some readers.
Representative John Quincy Adams had made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire United States was introduced by Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( Republican, Ohio ).
Adams regarded his May 15 preamble effectively as an American declaration of independence, although a formal declaration would still have to be made.
This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on 19 October 1988, the reason given being to " starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend " after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness and Adams had been the focus of a row over an edition of After Dark, an intended Channel 4 discussion programme which was never made.
This was treated as an application for the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, an office of profit under the Crown, the traditional method of leaving Westminster as plain resignation is not possible, and granted as such even though Adams had not explicitly made the request.
Scott Adams has made references to Jefferies Tubes in his comic strip and animated television series Dilbert.

Adams and argument
Adams responded in the February 2, 1998 strip and in his book The Joy of Work, simply by restating Solomon's argument, apparently suggesting that it was absurd and required no rebuttal.
Jefferson's argument, Adams wrote in reply, " has entirely convinced me that
The principal argument for making the mountain a public reservation was to protect the Hoosic and Housatonic River watersheds from erosion due to recent trends of deforestation ( particularly noted on the Adams side ).
After a heated argument with his mother about his girlfriend and his sexual life, Adams runs away from home and moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home.
Embry and Toni Adams attempted to help Chris, and an argument ensued, which led Embry to shove Toni down to the floor.
After a lengthy argument, Adams and Parsons split, and Chris chose Savannah Jack as his new tag team partner.
* Puddle thinking is a satirical illustration of the " life is fine-tuned to the Universe " argument above coined by Douglas Adams to satirize the Fine-tuned Universe argument for supernatural creationism.
In the case of Adams v. Commissioner, the United States Tax Court rejected the argument of Priscilla M. Lippincott Adams, who was a devout Quaker.
For example, drawing on Coke's statement, James Otis, Jr. declared during the struggle over writs of assistance that it was the duty of the courts to ignore Acts of Parliament " against the constitution and against natural equity ", an argument and struggle that had a significant impact on John Adams.
The title arises from Moorcock's argument that the writing of Tolkien, Lewis, Adams and others has a similar purpose to the Winnie-the-Pooh writings of A.

Adams and because
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.
This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.
After spending some time with Jay discussing the treaty, Adams wrote home to his father, in support of the emerging treaty because he thought America should stay out of European affairs.
There was no need, however, because Adams ' compromise defused the issue.
When he was younger and the American Revolution was going on, his mother told her children what their father was doing, and what he was risking, and because of this Adams grew to greatly respect his father.
In March 1995, Major refused to answer the phone calls of United States President Bill Clinton for several days because of his anger at Clinton's decision to invite Gerry Adams to the White House for St Patrick's Day.
In the post Adams says that men treat women differently for the same reason that men treat children or the mentally handicapped differently — because it is an effective strategy.
Clay had endorsed Adams for the Presidency ; the endorsement carried additional weight because Clay was the Speaker of the House.
John Adams wrote the preamble, which stated that because King George had rejected reconciliation and was hiring foreign mercenaries to use against the colonies, " it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed ".
In the election of 1796, for instance, Federalist John Adams came in first, but because the Federalist electors divided their second vote amongst several Vice Presidential candidates, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson came second.
His discovery was significant because it led to the invitation for him to tell his story as a Barbary captive, which later was published as The Narrative of Robert Adams.
Justice Michael Adams determined that because ul-Haque was falsely led to believe that he was legally compelled to comply with the ASIO officers, the conduct of at least one of the investigating ASIO officers constituted false imprisonment and kidnap at common law, and therefore key evidence against ul-Haque was inadmissible.
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.
Adams primarily used large-format cameras despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.
After winning the award in 2003, John Adams expressed " ambivalence bordering on contempt " because " most of the country's greatest musical minds " have been ignored in favor of academic music.
By 1843 John Quincy Adams, a major supporter, had changed his mind and repudiated Manifest Destiny because it meant the expansion of slavery in Texas.
* Ix, the nickname of Ford Prefect from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, meaning " boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven " ( because he is in fact a " boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.
Adams responded that he was " a Freeman as much as any of the young Men and merely because his Face is Black, is he to be denied instruction?
On September 7, 2010 North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle.
The school district came into effect in the northern hemisphere fall 2008 ; at the time Saraland Elementary and Adams Middle were now a part of the city district, but high schoolers had to attend county schools because Saraland High School was not yet open.
On September 7, 2010 North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle.
Hopkins, an investigator for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, who spied on activities of residents, wrote that the FBI was in Adams County in force " because of the alleged burning of several churches in that area as well as several bombings and the whipping of several Negroes ; also, because of the murder of two Negroes from Meadville whose bodies were recovered from the Mississippi river while the murders of three civil rights workers from Philadelphia was being investigated by Federal, State and local officials.

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