John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

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.

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.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, who would be the face of the franchise the next 36 years as either coach or general manager.

It was also the last season as head coach for Adams, who stepped down after the season to concentrate on his duties as general manager.

Adams told Morris that he had been framed, and that David Harris, who was present at the time of the murder and was the principal witness for the prosecution, had in fact killed Wood.

Aside from the fact that Adams was suing the very man who got him off of death row and out of prison all together, was the fact that Morris himself made absolutely no money on the movie.

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

Jim Yoakum had it removed, to the disappointment of co-writer Adams, who had made no objections to it being there.

Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values.

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

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.

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.

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.

Adams ' youngest son, Charles Francis Adams ( who named his own son John Quincy ), also pursued a career in diplomacy and politics.

Russell Kirk, however, sees Adams as a flawed conservative who was imprudent in opposing slavery.

Adams repeatedly spoke out against the " Slave Power ", that is the organized political power of the slave owners who dominated all the southern states and their representation in Congress.

In June 2003, Polgár finished tied for third with Boris Gelfand, in the Enghien-les-Bains International Tournament in France, scoring 5½ – 3½, behind Evgeny Bareev who won the tournament and GM Michael Adams.

Although it is Monroe's most famous contribution to history, the speech was written by Adams, who designed the doctrine in cooperation with Britain.

His death came 55 years after the U. S. Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and 5 years after the death of two other Founding Fathers who became Presidents: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

`` 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.

Increasing friction after the premature death of Heins in 1907 ultimately led the Trustees to dismiss the surviving architect, Christopher Grant LaFarge, and hire the noted Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram to design the nave and " Gothicize " what LaFarge had already built.

The post office was established February 8, 1908, but was changed to Rhame in June 1908, since Petrel was already in use for a railroad station in neighboring Adams County.

Adams died suddenly on May 11, 2001, although the company's fate had already been sealed by that time.

Strange Adventures # 207 ( Dec. 1967 ): One of Adams ' earliest DC Comics covers, and his first for his signature character Deadman, already shows a mature style and a design innovation for the time.

On 17 December 1825 Adams was married to Teio, or ' Mary ', Teio had already borne Adams ' only son, George Adams in 1804.

After Tony Adams ' retirement in 2002, Vieira ( already vice-captain ) became club captain, since which his disciplinary problems cooled significantly.

Get Smart had been written for Tom Poston, to be piloted on CBS ; when CBS turned it down, the show was picked up by NBC, which cast Adams in the role because he was already under contract.

A February 1763 entry in the diary of John Adams of Braintree, Massachusetts, is one of the earliest appearances of Caucas, already with its modern connotations of a " smoke-filled room " where candidates for public election are pre-selected in private:

They were accompanied by Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had already selected Patrick Devlin as judge for Adams ' trial and then later phoned Devlin while the jury was considering its verdict, to recommend that Adams be given bail before a second trial for another count of murder.

The Nelson Mandela concert had already lined up appearances by many of Amnesty's most prominent supporters in the music community – including Sting, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Jackson Browne, Steven van Zandt, Midge Ure, Simple Minds, Youssou N ’ Dour, Joan Armatrading – all of whom declined to partake in the new Amnesty show taking place at short notice just one week later.

Britain had already recognized Confederate belligerency, but Adams was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality and preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

Adams ' early endeavors were already beginning to pay dividends at the British Championship of 1987, where he gained his final IM norm and took the best junior prize.

Palmerston emphasized that seizing the Confederates would be “ highly inexpedient in every way could view it ” and a few more Confederates in Britain would not “ produce any change in policy already adopted .” Palmerston questioned the presence of Adger in British waters, and Adams assured Palmerston that he had read Marchand ’ s orders ( Marchand had visited Adams while in Great Britain ) which limited him to seizing Mason and Slidell from a Confederate ship.

Adams was unaware that Seward had already sent him a letter indicating Wilkes had acted without orders and was unable to provide Russell any information that might defuse the situation.

Patrick asked Douglas Adams to write the show but Douglas had already agreed to write a TV series of his own radio show The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Referencing theorist Fredric Jameson's framework, film critic Linda Williams refers to documentaries that seek only to reveal the past as supporting the notion of an “ intensified nostalgia for a past that is already lost .” Conversely, " The Thin Blue Line " suggests Adams ' innocence by clouding a previously established history.

Such talented players ( in addition to the ones already named ) as Lee Konitz, Conte Candoli, Sal Salvador, Stan Levey, Frank Rosolino, Richie Kamuca, Zoot Sims, Sam Noto, Bill Perkins, Charlie Mariano, Mel Lewis, Pete Candoli, Lucky Thompson, Carl Fontana, Pepper Adams, and Jack Sheldon made strong contributions.

Since Adams insisted that his contract not be a standard-work-for-hire agreement, Marvel eventually chose Brent Anderson as the illustrator — despite the fact that Adams had already penciled some preliminary pages.

Landing in a remote area of Georgia, he finds an international group of top-flight scientists already present – including an old flame, Dr. Ruth Adams.