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`` 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.

Adams and later
Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.
Chapman mentored Adams, but they later had a falling out and did not speak for several years.
At one time, the script for " Out of the Trees ", written by Chapman and Adams in 1975 ( and later extensively rewritten by Chapman with Bernard McKenna ), was online.
" This contention overshadowed Adams ' term and greatly contributed to Adams ' loss to Jackson four years later, in the 1828 election.
Though he later described his presidency as the unhappiest time of his life, scholars rate John Quincy Adams in the second quartile in the majority of historical presidential rankings.
Adams later arranged this piece for string orchestra.
On November 30, 1860, Agassiz's daughter Pauline was married to Quincy Adams Shaw ( 1825 – 1908 ), a wealthy Boston merchant and later benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
* 1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion ( later renamed the White House ).
It was recommended to James Adams by Brian ' Bungle ' Evans, and later by Ewart Asker.
In later years, the ranks of Harrington's admirers included American revolutionary and founder John Adams.
The group comprised five members, who each later adopted nicknames initially ascribed to them: Melanie Chisholm (" Sporty Spice "), Emma Bunton (" Baby Spice "), Melanie Brown (" Scary Spice "), Victoria Beckham ( née Adams ) (" Posh Spice "), and Geri Halliwell (" Ginger Spice ").
This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as Richard Adams ' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into the fictional world, rather than cajoling or attempting to convince them of its reality.
When Adams later appointed Clay his Secretary of State, many — particularly Jackson and his supporters — accused the pair of making a " Corrupt Bargain ".
Because the committee left no minutes, there is some uncertainty about how the drafting process proceeded — accounts written many years later by Jefferson and Adams, although frequently cited, are contradictory and not entirely reliable.
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.
In 1969, writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Neal Adams rejuvenated the comic book and gave regular roles to two recently introduced characters: Havok / Alex Summers ( who had been introduced by Roy Thomas before Adams began work on the comic ) and Lorna Dane, later called Polaris ( created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko ).
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.
** U. S. President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion ( later renamed the White House ).
Under Adams, Sinn Féin changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards Oireachtas Éireann, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly.
The electoral effects of this strategy were shown later by the election of Adams and McGuinness to the House of Commons.
For his actions, Adams would later become a National Hero.
The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).
This process did not yet lead to formal party organization, but later, the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and then the Whig Party.

Adams and key
Adams was key to ensuring that the money was instead used to build the Smithsonian Institution.
Adams predicted the likelihood of the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, and was a key opponent of the Mexican – American War for this reason.
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.
In 1978, Gerry Adams became joint vice-president of Sinn Féin and a key figure in directing a challenge to the Sinn Féin leadership of President Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and joint vice-president Dáithí Ó Conaill.
Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, who had replaced Haughey and who had played a key role in the Hume / Adams dialogue through his Special Advisor Martin Mansergh, regarded the ceasefire as permanent.
Among the more key transactions was a deal with the New Jersey Devils, in which Sundstrom was traded away in exchange for winger Greg Adams and goaltender Kirk McLean.
Soon after Adams ' arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and built for him Japan's first Western-style ships.
Ithaca Free Clinic, bringing to life key aspects of Adams ' vision.
The American School's key elements were promoted by John Q. Adams and his National Republican Party, Henry Clay and the Whig Party, and Abraham Lincoln through the early Republican Party which embraced, implemented, and maintained this economic system.
Utilizing extensive archival research, and broad consultation, including 27 original interviews with key industry players involved with the AFI since the 1950s ( including Dr George Miller, Phillip Adams and Barry Jones ), the book makes a major contribution to Australian screen history through the testimony of those who were there, observers and historians, who offer readers an understanding of Australian film history from a never before told AFI ‘ insiders ’ perspective.
The documentary featured interviews from several of the key figures in World Class, including Kevin, Mercer, Grant, Hart, Adams, Skandor Akbar, Marc Lowrance, David Manning and Johnny Mantell.
Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became a " constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters "; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain ( Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink, while it was Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him / them to his attention ); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " first enthusiastic fan "; Ken Campbell, Fortean playwright ; John Michell ; Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues ; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database ; Canadian " Mr. X "; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson.
Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as the key Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry during the 1970s.
Adams played a key role in the South Australian Film Corporation, which was created in 1972 and became a model for similar bodies in other Australian states, and in the establishment of the Australia Council and the Australian Film Development Corporation, later known as the Australian Film Commission.
Rush enjoyed a cultivated childhood ; during his life he was a statesman, diplomat, widely-praised orator and key figure in two Administrations ( James Madison and John Quincy Adams ), and carved a distinguished career in public affairs in his own right.
McPherson ( 1972 ) argues that three-quarters of ex-abolitionists favored Grant, although such antislavery Republicans as Charles Francis Adams, Carl Schurz, and Charles Sumner were key supporters of Greeley.
Adams signed with the Toronto Blue Jays on January 7,, and was a key contributor to their bullpen.
A key factor in the correction of these anchoring errors is the chromosomal passenger complex, which includes the kinase protein Aurora B, its target and activating subunit INCENP and two other subunits, Survivin and Borealin / Dasra B ( reviewed by Adams and collaborators in 2001 ).
Adams ' political supporters were key players in the development of the Whig Party, and that party soon absorbed the Anti-masonic movement in New York, giving Weed a new home in a more mainstream and larger political organization.
It is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams ' " minimalist " period.
Amos Adams Lawrence ( July 31, 1814 – August 22, 1886 ), the son of famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence, was a key figure in the United States abolition movement in the years leading up to the Civil War, and instrumental in the establishment of the University of Kansas and Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
The book explores the history of the Federalist party, discusses the relationships among key players, among them Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, and analyzes the administrations of George Washington and John Adams.
The Alva B. Adams tunnel is the key component of the largest transmountain water diversion in the state of Colorado — the Colorado-Big Thompson Project ( C-BT ).

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