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Adams and remains
Adams remains the President of Sinn Féin.
The Adams Power Plant Transformer House remains as a landmark of the original system.
Adams Hall, formerly part of the Tome Institute, became the Town Hall ; the only remains of the Tome Institute's former Washington Hall is the granite doorway which separates the Main Street from a parking lot today.
Adams later decided to resign from the force on compassionate grounds, whilst Farmer's fate remains unknown.
A parody of the popular western drama The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams — retitled Grizzly Abrams — depicted the burly wilderness hero as the owner of a wild tortoise which took weeks to lead police to the skeletal remains of its master, trapped beneath a fallen log.
The channel is the remains of the crater of an extinct volcano, and Adams Island and the southern part of the main island form the crater rim.
The album remains Adams ' best-selling album, certifying gold in the UK and going on to sell 364, 000 copies in the U. S. and 812, 000 worldwide.
Nick Adams ' remains were buried in Berwick, Pennsylvania.
Adams went to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, and took the family members directly to Braun ’ s remains, a spot high on a ridge west of the town, some 20 kilometres out.
The channel is the remains of the crater of an extinct volcano, Adams Island and the southern part of the main island form the crater rim.
Adams, famous for writing stories from animals ' point of view ( Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and Traveller ), here creates a story in which the animal, Shardik the Great Bear, is an antagonistic force that generates the entire plot and yet whose status remains ambiguous.
During his time on the Evening Mail, Adams wrote what remains his best known work, the poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon, a tribute to the Chicago Cubs double play combination of " Tinker to Evers to Chance ".
However, the main problem of access still remains, and until a new road is built, or the existing hillbottom road widened, speculation as to whether Wycombe Wanderers and Wasps will remain at Adams Park will continue to be rife.
Mrs. Bessie is an ardent Whig and a confidante of Samuel Adams, but she nonetheless remains loyal to her Tory employers.
Evidence of the change remains in the first issue, where the protagonist, Major Zanetti, is called " Major Adams " twice.
Wendy Kingston is currently on maternity leave with Amelia Adams presenting the bulletin while Deborah Knight remains presenting the bulletin on Fridays.
Wendy Kingston is currently on maternity leave with Amelia Adams presenting the bulletin while Deborah Knight remains presenting the bulletin on Fridays.

Adams and only
But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.
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.
When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).
Adams wrote, " There are laws of political as well as physical gravitation ; and if an apple severed by its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union which by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off its bosom.
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.
Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to be so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency.
Adams accepted that the Greek fight for independence from the Turks was only the beginning of a long conflict between Islam and the West.
Adams and his father were the only U. S. presidents to serve a single term during the first 48 years of the Presidency ( 1789 – 1837 ).
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.
In addition, each Adams served only one term as president.
There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
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.
For Adams, Machiavelli lacked only a clear understanding of the institutions necessary for good government.
* 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.
The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.
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.
In these private meetings, Jefferson attacked Adams, predicted that he would only serve one term, and encouraged France to invade England.
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 argues that Jack will only have skipped the less interesting bits of the cathedral if “ he had been less interested in seeing everything in the cathedral than in maximizing utility.
Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.
The United States ' only Federalist president was John Adams ; although George Washington was broadly sympathetic to the Federalist program, he remained an independent his entire presidency.
In this capacity, only four Vice Presidents have been able to announce their own election to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush.
Adams lived in the house only briefly before Thomas Jefferson moved into the " pleasant country residence " in 1801.

Adams and president
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.
United States president John Quincy Adams indicated he would approve of this but he left office before this could occur.
John Quincy Adams ( July 11, 1767February 23, 1848 ) was the sixth president of the United States ( 1825 – 1829 ).
When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son in 1797 as Minister to Prussia at Washington's urging.
Adams ' victory shocked Jackson, who had won the most electoral and popular votes and fully expected to be elected president.
When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.
During his term as president, however, Adams achieved little of long-term consequence in foreign affairs.
However, thanks to the successes of Adams ' diplomacy during his previous eight years as secretary of state, most of the foreign policy issues he would have faced had been resolved by the time he became president.
Adams did not attend the inauguration of his successor, Andrew Jackson, who had openly snubbed him by refusing to pay the traditional " courtesy call " to the outgoing president during the weeks before his own inauguration.
Adams sat for the earliest confirmed photograph still in existence of a U. S. president in 1843, although other sources contend that William Henry Harrison had posed even earlier for his portrait, in 1841.
They named their first son George Washington Adams ( 1801 – 1829 ) after the first president.
John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first father and son to each serve as president ( the others being George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush ).
Adams was the first president to have his photograph taken.
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.
If the two nations went to war, Adams predicted the president of the United States would use his war powers to abolish slavery.
* 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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.
Indeed, the faculty doubled and the graduate student body quintupled during the terms of Karl Taylor Compton, president of MIT between 1930 and 1948, James Rhyne Killian, president from 1948 to 1957, and Julius Adams Stratton, chancellor from 1952 to 1957, whose institution-building strategies shaped the expanding university.

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