`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

As different physically as the tall, angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams, the seven were striking individualists.

Brooks Adams was consistent in his admonishments to historians about the necessary tools or insights they needed to possess.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.

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.

Hunt's first meeting with Adams was held in March 1959.

It was enacted July 14, 1798, with an expiration date of March 3, 1801 ( the day before Adams ' presidential term was to end ).

Fuller attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and after that began studying at Harvard University, where he was affiliated with Adams House.

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 ).

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

The game was inspired by Richard Adams ' fantasy novel Watership Down, and the players were given the opportunity to take on the role of rabbits.

Maguire's stature was such that a delegation from Gerry Adams sought his support in 1986, but was rejected.

John Adams, who received the next highest vote total, was elected Vice President.

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.

John Quincy Adams was elected a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in April 1802.

The Massachusetts General Court elected Adams as a Federalist to the U. S. Senate soon after, and he served from March 4, 1803, until 1808, when he broke with the Federalist Party.

Clay's personal dislike for Jackson and the similarity of his American System to Adams ' position on tariffs and internal improvements caused him to throw his support to Adams, who was elected by the House on February 9, 1825, on the first ballot.

Adams ' victory shocked Jackson, who had won the most electoral and popular votes and fully expected to be elected president.

Clay's support proved to be the deciding factor in the House and Adams was elected President.

* 1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.

Instead, the House elected Adams on the first ballot with thirteen states, followed by Jackson with seven and Crawford with four.

Additionally, John Quincy Adams, elected President as a Democratic-Republican, later became a National Republican and then a Whig after he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1831.

* Shattered Union ( 2005 ): U. S. President David Jefferson Adams is elected in a sham election, and becomes the most unpopular president in U. S. history.

Adams, Danny Morrison, Martin McGuinness, Jim McAllister, and Owen Carron were elected as abstentionists.

The 1982 election was followed by the 1983 Westminster election, in which Sinn Féin's vote increased and Gerry Adams was elected, as an abstentionist, as MP for Belfast West.

Over time, Adams and others pointed to Republican electoral successes in the early and mid-1980s, when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and Dáil Éireann respectively, and they advocated that Sinn Féin become increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism.

The delegates which included George Washington, then a colonel of the Virginia volunteers, Patrick Henry, and John Adams, were elected by their respective colonial assemblies.

This was followed by the introduction of universal adult suffrage in 1951, with Adams elected the Premier of Barbados in 1958.

In this election, George Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams became the first vice-president.

John Adams was again elected vice-president as the runner-up, this time getting the vote of a majority of electors.

Although Adams won the presidency, Thomas Jefferson received more electoral votes than Pinckney and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral balloting.

The result was that too many Adams electors failed to cast their second vote for Pinckney, and so Adams was elected president while his opponent, Jefferson, was elected vice-president.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

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

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.

The Quincy family name was pronounced, as is the name of the city in Massachusetts where Adams was born.

Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.

The Federalist-controlled Massachusetts Legislature chose a replacement for Adams on June 3, 1808, several months early.

The library is located in the " Old House " at Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Tombs of Presidents John Adams ( left ) and John Quincy Adams ( right ) and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts | United First Parish Church

* The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society

John Coolidge Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947.

* 1722 – Samuel Adams, American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1803 )

Susan B. Anthony was born to Daniel Anthony ( 1794 – 1862 ) and Lucy Read ( 1793 – 1880 ) and raised in West Grove, Adams, Massachusetts.

Former United States President John Quincy Adams, who at the time represented Massachusetts in Congress, backed Michigan's claim.