* The Boston Beer Company, under its " Samuel Adams " label, brews a seasonal Chocolate Bock, and has been brewing Double Bock since 1988.

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

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.

During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.

Dilbert has occasionally been criticized for alleged " insensitivity " and off-color jokes, as documented by Adams in The Joy of Work.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

To demonstrate what can be achieved with the most mundane objects if planned correctly and imaginatively, Adams has worked with companies to develop “ dream ” products for Dilbert and company.

In addition to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards won by Adams, the Dilbert strip has received a variety of other awards.

Adams has spoken positively about the change, saying, " This makes cartooning a competitive sport.

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.

My Father Knew Charles Ives ( 2003 ): Adams writes, " My Father Knew Charles Ives is musical autobiography, an homage and encomium to a composer whose influence on me has been huge.

The music of John Adams is usually categorized as minimalist or post-minimalist although in interview he has categorised himself in typically witty fashion as a ' post-style ' composer.

Adams professes his love of other genres other than classical music ; his parents were jazz musicians, and he has also listened to rock music, albeit only passively.

Norman Adams has been the designer of the Kentucky Derby Logo since 2002.

Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.

In 1997, at the invitation of Logitech CEO Pierluigi Zappacosta, Adams, wearing a wig and false mustache, successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as " so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever.

In recent years, Adams has had two notable health problems.

Adams has often commented on political matters.

Adams has received recognition for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1997 for his work on Dilbert.

US President John Adams once wrote to his son, " Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good Latin ... His language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model.

Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.

Neoism was coined in 1914 by the American satirist Franklin P. Adams as a parody of modern arts.

* aptronym: a name appropriate to its owner's occupation or physical properties, such as " Goldsmith " or " Longman " ( compare with " charactonym ") — coined by Franklin P. Adams

It was further developed by Frederick Adams Woods ( who coined the term historiometry ) in the beginning of the 20th century.

* Puddle thinking is a satirical illustration of the " life is fine-tuned to the Universe " argument above coined by Douglas Adams to satirize the Fine-tuned Universe argument for supernatural creationism.

According to former Neighbours co-star Matthew Werkmeister ( Zeke ), some of Stingray's more individual expressions such as " hufter " and " Belgium " ( as an expression of dismay or irritation ) were coined by Ben himself ( although the use of ' Belgium ' as a curse word was pioneered by Douglas Adams in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy ).

The word " Cuyuna " was coined by Adams ' wife, who combined the first three letters of Cuyler's name with " Una ", the name of their dog.

This first hour after your crash is what Dr. R. Adams Cowley of the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore coined " the golden hour.

A related term, to refer to a name peculiarly suited to its owner, is aptronym, said to have been coined by the US newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams.

" Cow-orker " was a pre-existing word from Usenet that Adams popularized through his newsletter.

Cultural contributions include the works of Ansel Adams, George Lucas, and Clint Eastwood, as well as beatniks, the Summer of Love, winemaking, and the open, casual workplace first popularized in the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and now widely in use around the world.

* aptronym ( 2003 ; popularized by Franklin Pierce Adams )

Historian James Truslow Adams popularized the phrase " American Dream " in his 1931 book Epic of America:

" He popularized diplomatic history with his entertaining textbooks and lectures, the presentation style of which followed Ephraim D. Adams.

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

Chapman mentored Adams, but they later had a falling out and did not speak for several years.

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

In March 1995, Major refused to answer the phone calls of United States President Bill Clinton for several days because of his anger at Clinton's decision to invite Gerry Adams to the White House for St Patrick's Day.

Scott Raymond Adams ( born June 8, 1957 ) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.

He pardoned several people imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed in John Adams ' term.

In the election of 1796, for instance, Federalist John Adams came in first, but because the Federalist electors divided their second vote amongst several Vice Presidential candidates, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson came second.

On 14 March 1984 in central Belfast, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt when several Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) gunmen fired about 20 shots into the car in which he was travelling.

Adams and the National Reading Panel advocate for a comprehensive reading program that includes several different sub-skills, based on scientific research.

The Salmon of Doubt was published posthumously, containing, alongside numerous articles written by Adams, several chapters belonging to a new storyline for a third " Dirk Gently " novel.

As a result, Adams later stated that he was not entirely happy with the book, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author Neil Gaiman described as " patronising and unfair ".

After several lawyers with Loyalist leanings refused to defend Preston, he sent a request to John Adams, pleading for him to work on the case.

Wenger stuck by Adams following his confessions about his drink problem, and the improvements in the regime probably extended Adams's career by several years.

Malvern is home to several manufacturing companies including Acme Brick, Weyerhaeuser, Borden Chemical, Adams Face Veneer Company Inc, Leggett & Platt Precision, and Pactiv Corporation, and is the home of Grapette International, a manufacturer of Grapette soda.

* John Adams, ( 1772 – 1863 ), born in Canterbury, noted educator and organizer of several hundred Sunday schools.

Adams, an engineer, served on the body for several terms before he resigned to relocate to Houston, Texas.

Bay Township's central village, Horton Bay, was featured in several of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories including " The End of Something ".

Petoskey and the surrounding area are notable for being the setting of several of the Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway, who spent his childhood summers on nearby Walloon Lake, as well as being the place where for Calliope, the protagonist of Jeffrey Eugenides ' Middlesex, events take a severe and lasting turn.

After it served for several years as the territorial capital, the territory built a new capital, named Washington, six miles ( 10 km ) to the east and also in Adams County.

Hopkins, an investigator for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, who spied on activities of residents, wrote that the FBI was in Adams County in force " because of the alleged burning of several churches in that area as well as several bombings and the whipping of several Negroes ; also, because of the murder of two Negroes from Meadville whose bodies were recovered from the Mississippi river while the murders of three civil rights workers from Philadelphia was being investigated by Federal, State and local officials.

Initially established around 1878 by W. J. Adams as Limitville, it was nicknamed " Tanglefoot " because several of its first businesses were saloons.

Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.