* 2001 — Joseph Costello ( Douglas Adams was originally scheduled to speak but died two days before the ceremony )

Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of brigadier-general.

Van Buren had originally hoped to block Adams ' victory by denying him the state of New York ( the state was divided between Van Buren supporters who would vote for William H. Crawford and Adams men ).

# John Adams – Unitarian, originally Congregationalist

It was also the first theme song in Star Trek history not originally written for the show it was used ; it was originally the theme song to the movie Patch Adams ( where it was sung by Rod Stewart and originally entitled " Faith of the Heart ").

* Fear and Fantasy in post 9 / 11 America interview with Phillip Adams on ABC Radio National originally broadcast 14 April 2008.

Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.

This article is originally based on material from Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940

Monroe was originally the Adams County seat but was moved to Decatur, Indiana after flooding problems in the town.

* Adams Shore was originally developed as a summer resort location and is now a year-round residential area.

Fisher Fountain was originally a temporary exhibit at the 1932 Adams County Fair, called the Electric Fountain.

Limestone Township was originally known as Adams Township in honor of United States President John Adams until April 14, 1835 when the name as changed to what was deemed to be a more appropriate title.

Founded around 1736, it was the first township in the area, and it originally included the entirety of modern York and Adams counties.

The bridge, which is the only floating bridge east of the Mississippi River, was originally built in 1820 by Luther Adams and his neighbors.

Adams Lutheran Church, ELCA, was formed by Norwegian immigrants from the Valdres and Hadeland areas of Norway and was originally served by clergy of the Church of Norway, but later it became a member of the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

Adams Holland opines it would have been originally the name of a small bridge connecting the Tiber Island ( on which she supposes the first shrine of Janus stood ) with the right bank of the river.

The story was originally outlined by Adams as Doctor Who and the Krikketmen to be a Tom Baker Doctor Who television six-part story, but was rejected by the BBC.

Stratemeyer originally developed and wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries written under the Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene pseudonyms respectively ( and were later written by his daughter, Harriet Adams, and other authors ).

Adams enacted a part of his agenda and paid off much of the national debt.

" Among the performers who paid tribute to Simon were Stevie Wonder, Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, Dianne Reeves, Marc Anthony, Yolanda Adams, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

On December 11, 2004, Earth, Wind & Fire were honored at the first annual Grammy Jam held at Los Angeles's Wiltern Theater, where several artists such as Stevie Wonder, Yolanda Adams, Sheila E., Miri Ben-Ari, George Duke, Kanye West, and Randy Jackson paid tribute to the band in the form of performances.

The XYZ Affair originated with a report distributed by Adams where alleged French agents were identified by the letters X, Y, and Z who informed the delegation a bribe must be paid before the diplomats could meet with the foreign minister, and the resulting scandal increased popular support in the country for a war with France.

In 2003, BookCrossing was criticized by Jessica Adams, author of several " chick lit " novels, who claimed that books were being " devalued " by the website as BookCrossing could lead to lower sales of books and, therefore, the reduction in royalties being paid to authors.

With the help of James C. A. Smith and a sympathetic white storekeeper named Samuel Smith ( no relation ), Brown devised a plan to have himself shipped to a free state by Adams Express Co. Brown paid $ 86 ( out of his savings of $ 166 ) to Smith, who contacted Philadelphia abolitionist James Miller McKim, who agreed to receive the box.

Adams ' earliest reported paid acting job in Los Angeles was a stage role at the Las Palmas Theater in a comedy called Mr. Big Shot.

Although he was paid about $ 60 a week, Adams had to pay $ 175 for membership in Actors Equity.

... brash struggling young actor whose main scheme to further his career was to hitch his wagon to a star, the first being James Dean, about whose friendship he was noisily boastful ... this made it easy for Parker to suggest that Nick be invited to join Elvis ' growing entourage of paid companions, and for Nick to accept ... following Adams ' hiring, there appeared a newspaper item stating that Nick and Parker were writing a book on Elvis together.

Adams also showed a fake contract to Detroit reporters, claiming Lindsay was being paid $ 25, 000 per year, when he was being paid $ 13, 000.

* When U. S. President John Adams, accused his rival Thomas Jefferson of planning to burn all Bibles and legalize prostitution if elected president in 1800, Jefferson surreptitiously paid a surrogate to counterattack.

The accusations arise from emails obtained by the BBC, and an interview with Lee Gibling, the operator of a hacking website, who claims he was paid up to £ 60, 000 per year by Ray Adams, NDS head of security.

In Massachusetts, in November 1772, Samuel Adams and Dr. Joseph Warren formed a committee in response to the Gaspée Affair and in relation to the recent British decision to have the salaries of the royal governor and judges be paid by the Crown rather than the colonial assembly, which removed the colony of its means of controlling public officials.

Under the date of December 24, 1833, Adams records in his diary that James Blair " had knocked down and very severely beaten Duff Green, editor of the Telegraph ..." Blair paid " three hundred dollars fine for beating and breaking the bones " of Green.

Tributes and were paid by President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and Labour Party TDs Ruairi Quinn and Michael D. Higgins.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

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.

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.

In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.

Hunt, who felt a regional rivalry would be critical for the success of the new league, convinced Adams to join and found his team in Houston.

* 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 ".

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

Garfield ’ s Jim Davis, for example, switched with Blondie ’ s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams ( Dilbert ) traded strips with Bil Keane ( The Family Circus ).

Suggested starting points for the Bronze Age of comics include Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan No. 1 ( October 1970 ), Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams ' Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 76 ( April 1970 ), or Stan Lee and Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 ( May 1971 ; the non-Comics Code issue ).

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

Media analyst Norman Solomon and cartoonist Tom Tomorrow claim that while Adams ' caricatures of corporate culture seem to project empathy for white-collar workers, the satire ultimately plays into the hands of upper corporate management itself.

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

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.

" In particular, a series of strips in which Dogbert worked as a talk radio host drew criticism from conservatives for his supposed attack on Rush Limbaugh ( which Adams denied in Seven Years of Highly Defective People ).

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.

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 ).

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.

Scott Adams said it might be the first confirmed case of an employee being fired for posting a Dilbert cartoon.

Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.