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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.
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 breaking
Uninjured in the initial shaking, the four-year-old Ansel Adams was tossed face-first into a garden wall during an aftershock three hours later, breaking his nose.
Subsequently, the new company was called " Atlantic Records Group " with Elektra breaking off into a subsidiary which became dormant until the label was revived in 2009 ( though longtime time Elektra artists such as Tracy Chapman, Björk, and Yolanda Adams continued to have releases on the label while newer signees such as Jason Mraz and Jet were transferred to Atlantic ).
The vice president with the most tie breaking votes is John Adams with 29.
Adams accused Spain of breaking Pinckney's Treaty by failing to control the Seminoles.
With Gordy and Von Erich outside the ring, Taylor sucker-punched Adams, then piledrived Adams twice in the ring with the second one legitimately breaking Adams left hand.
Stanley Adams, Roche's World Product Manager in Basel, contacted the European Economic Community in 1973 with evidence that Roche had been breaking antitrust laws, engaging in price fixing and market sharing for vitamins with its competitors.
* John Quincy Adams, a Senator ( 1803 – 1808 ) ( later President and Representative ) from Massachusetts, for breaking away from the Federalist Party.
After breaking up in 1996 and briefly reforming in 2003, Saint Vitus reunited again in 2008 with the band's " classic " line-up, featuring Weinrich, Chandler, Adams and Acosta, and embarked on a successful tour.
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.
He won the UWF Tag Team Championship with " Gentleman " Chris Adams in early 1987, before breaking up their " Dream Team " to begin a heated rivalry.
As Adams reaches to embrace Gladys, she accidentally or intentionally spills a full glass of champagne down the back of Adams neck, breaking the spell.

Adams and new
Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
He contacted Adams, Howsam, and Winter ( as well as Winter's business partner, Bill Boyer ) to gauge their interest in starting a new league.
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.
Maguire rejected Adams ' supporters, supported the IRA Executive members opposed to the change, and named the new organisers the Continuity Army Council.
During Adams ' lifetime, technological innovations and new means of communication spread messages of religious revival, social reform, and party politics.
Disowned by the Federalists and not fully accepted by the Republicans, Adams used his Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard as a new base.
" Adams ' Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory ( 1810 ) looks at the fate of ancient oratory, the necessity of liberty for it to flourish, and its importance as a unifying element for a new nation of diverse cultures and beliefs.
A longtime opponent of slavery, Adams used his new role in Congress to fight it.
Adams predicted that if the South formed a new nation, it would be torn apart by an extremely violent slave insurrection.
" The Tao of John Quincy Adams: Or, The New Institutionalism and the new American republic " Common-Place v. 9 # 1 ( Oct 2008 ) online
Adams, under Monroe's supervision, wrote the instructions for the ministers ( ambassadors ) to these new countries.
Monroe and Adams realized that American recognition would not protect the new countries against military intervention to restore Spain's power.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Adams started to add a new character to his music, something he called " the Trickster.
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.
But by 1995, Adams was lured to move his team from Houston to a new stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Since this new stadium was not ready until the 1999 season, Adams decided to move his team to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997 after playing before small Houston crowds in 1996.
With the Quasi-War underway, the Federalists under John Adams started rebuilding the military, levied new taxes, and enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts.
" This toughened the tone that the French government adopted with the new Adams Administration.
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 ).
In response, on May 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and Richard Henry Lee, calling on colonies without a " government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs " to adopt new governments.
In New York at this time the faction supporting President John Quincy Adams, called " Adams men ," or the " Anti-Jackson " faction, were a very feeble organization, and shrewd political leaders at once determined to utilize the strong anti-Masonic feeling in creating a new and vigorous party to oppose the rising Jacksonian Democracy.
The Republicans felt that the Adams foreign policy was too favorable toward Britain ; feared that the new army called up for the Quasi-War would oppress the people ; opposed new taxes to pay for war ; and attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as violations of states ' rights and the Constitution.

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