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Adams and predicted
Adams also predicted the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, but said that if the South became independent there would be a series of bloody slave revolts.
Adams predicted that if the South formed a new nation, it would be torn apart by an extremely violent slave insurrection.
If the two nations went to war, Adams predicted the president of the United States would use his war powers to abolish slavery.
In these private meetings, Jefferson attacked Adams, predicted that he would only serve one term, and encouraged France to invade England.
In a now-famous letter written to his wife on the following day, John Adams predicted that July 2 would become a great American holiday.
* September 23 Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d ' Arrest as predicted by the British astronomer John Couch Adams and the French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.
Calculations by both John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier predicted the general position of the planet, and Le Verrier's calculations are what led Johann Gottfried Galle to the discovery of Neptune.
Not concluding that Newton's law of universal gravitation was flawed, however, astronomers John Couch Adams as well as Urbain Le Verrier independently predicted a new planet, calculated its weight and orbit through Newton's theory, and so was discovered the planet Neptune where predicted.
* John Couch Adams ( 1819 1892 ), Cornish mathematician and astronomer who predicted the existence of Neptune
Adams had predicted the location of such a planet as early as 1844, based on irregularities in the orbit of Uranus.
It is named after John Couch Adams, who predicted the position of Neptune independently of Le Verrier.

Adams and dissolution
On Monday 26 March 2007, the date of the British Government deadline for devolution or dissolution, Paisley led a DUP delegation to a meeting with a Sinn Féin delegation led by Gerry Adams, which agreed on a DUP proposal that the executive would be established on 8 May.
Wheeler goes on, " Mr. Gilmer, page 983, introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That in presenting to the consideration of this House a petition for the dissolution of the Union, the member from Massachusetts ( Mr. Adams ) has justly incurred the censure of this House.
According to Ian F. Jones, Tim Clinton, and George Ohlschlager, ” Jay Adams brought a biblical revolution to Christian and pastoral counseling in the 1970s, challenging a field that was racing toward rancor, even dissolution by its fascination with all manner of anti-Christian psycho-babble .” David Powlison has noted that Adams has written " abundant resources for the development of counseling " and has led to the establishment of various institutions based on his views.

Adams and over
Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.
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.
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.
Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the renamed franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons.
Adams used the events that had unfolded in Florida to negotiate the Florida Treaty with Spain in 1819 that turned Florida over to the U. S. and resolved border issues regarding the Louisiana Purchase.
Although any move to censure Adams over the slavery petition was ultimately abandoned, the House did address the issue of petitions from enslaved persons.
Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.
Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.
* 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.
* 1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
* Adams, Michael C. C. " Robert E. Lee and Perspective over Time ," Civil War History v. 49 # 1 ( 2003 ) pp 64 70
Adams has coined or popularized several words and phrases over the years, such as:
Predictably, Adams and Jefferson clashed over issues such as states ' rights and foreign policy.
* April 21 John Adams takes office as the first Vice-President of the United States and begins presiding over the United States Senate.
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.
In a prelude to the presidential election, the Jacksonians bolstered their numbers in Congress in the 1826 Congressional elections ; Jackson ally Andrew Stevenson was chosen as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives over Adams ally Speaker John W. Taylor.
Adams stated that this was his personal " absolutely perfect " piece of music, and that he listened to it " over and over ; drove my wife completely insane " while writing Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
" Ebert believed the film was an improvement over Smith's previous effort Mallrats and he added that Adams was a discovery.
Governor Adams-The perseverance demonstrated by Billy Adams in founding his teachers college also characterized those who took over the task of making Adams State more than a dream.
The film ends with a funeral ceremony for Captain Adams being held on the deck of the Missouri, showing the Captain's casket with a flag draped over it and Ryback saluting in his formal dress uniform with full decorations.
And John Adams ' Nixon in China ( 1985-7 ) features a surreal version of Madam Mao's Red Detachment of Women to extraordinary effect, illuminating the ascendence of human values over the disillusionment of high politics in the meeting.

Adams and slavery
Animated by his growing revulsion against slavery, Adams became a leading opponent of the Slave Power.
A longtime opponent of slavery, Adams used his new role in Congress to fight it.
Adams took advantage of his right to defend himself in front of the members to deliver days of prepared and impromptu remarks against slavery and in favor of abolition.
As others continued to attack him and call for his censure, Adams continued to debate the issues of slavery and the evils of slaveholding.
During the censure debate, Adams said that he took delight in the fact that southerners would forever remember him as " the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed ".
Adams became a leading opponent of slave power and articulated a theory whereby the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Russell Kirk, however, sees Adams as a flawed conservative who was imprudent in opposing slavery.
Remini notes that Adams thought the end of slavery would come by either civil war or the consent of the slave South, but definitely not through the work of abolitionists.
Adams vilified slavery as a terrible evil and preached total abolition, while Calhoun countered that the right to own slaves had to be protected from interference from the federal government to keep the nation alive.
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.
In the House Adams became a champion of free speech, demanding that petitions against slavery be heard despite a " gag rule " that said they could not be heard.
Adams made the argument because the U. S. had prohibited the international slave trade, although it allowed internal slavery.
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 ).
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.
Along with her husband, Adams believed that slavery was evil and a threat to the American democratic experiment.
The last, a Native American from the Mosquito tribe in Central America, John Jullian, is believed to have been sold into slavery to John Adams, Sr., the father of U. S. President John Adams and grandfather of U. S. President John Quincy Adams.
Led by John Quincy Adams, the slavery debate remained on the national stage until late 1844 when Congress lifted all restrictions on processing the petitions.
Revisionist historians such as Thomas DiLorenzo and Charles Adams argue that the Southern secession and the ensuing conflict was much more of a fiscal quarrel than a war over slavery.

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