`` 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.

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.

`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??

Alexis Korner gave one of his last radio interviews to BBC Midlands on the Record Collectors Show with Mike Adams and the Late Chris Savory.

DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia.

Adams originally paid for his tickets ( one for himself, and one for his drum ), but recently the Indians have paid for his seats in honor of the contributions he has made to the ballpark atmosphere.

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.

" In September of the same year, Griffith mocked Adams by mimicking his Pippy the Ziphead creation with a strip showing stiff, Dilbert-like creations in an office setting and one of the characters saying, " I sense a joke was delivered.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.

The Lindsay deal was one of several questionable trades made by Adams in the late 1950s.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is named for a fictional galactic encyclopedia that one of the main characters works for.

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.

Paul Nagel argues that his political acumen was not any less developed than others were in his day, and notes that Henry Clay, one of the era's most astute politicians, was a principal advisor to Adams and supporter throughout his presidency.

Adams is regarded as one of the greatest diplomats in American history, and during his tenure as Secretary of State, he was the chief designer of the Monroe Doctrine.

Adams in fact spent many nights at the Observatory, with celebrated national astronomer and oceanographer, Matthew Fontaine Maury, watching and charting the stars, which had always been one of Adams ' avocations.

In addition, each Adams served only one term as president.

Adams wrote, " in almost all cultures other than the European classical one, the real meaning of the music is in between the notes.

The Reverend Jonathan Adams, one of the church's clergy, defended his taste in comedy, saying that it did not mock Jesus, and that it raised important issues about the hypocrisy and stupidity that can affect religion.

The South African Paul Adams, known for his unusual bowling action, is perhaps one of the best-known left-arm wrist spinners.

* 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

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.

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.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

Scott Adams said it might be the first confirmed case of an employee being fired for posting a Dilbert cartoon.

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.

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.

Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the renamed franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons.

In contrast, their first six full-time coaches – Art Duncan, Adams, Ivan, Jimmy Skinner and Abel – covered a 42 – year period.

Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Adams first won national recognition when he published a series of widely read articles supporting Washington's decision to keep America out of the growing hostilities surrounding the French Revolution.

Washington called Adams " the most valuable of America's officials abroad ," and Nagel believes that it was at this time that Adams first came to terms with a lifetime of public service.

President James Madison appointed Adams as the first ever United States Minister to Russia in 1809 ( though Francis Dana and William Short had previously been nominated to the post, neither presented his credentials at Saint Petersburg ).

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.

In his first annual message to Congress, Adams presented an ambitious program for modernization that included roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives.

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 ).

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.