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Abigail Adams Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams 1744-1818, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams , b. Weymouth, Mass. She was born Abigail Smith. A lively, intelligent woman, she was the chief figure in the social life of her husband's administration and one of the most distinguished and... Read more
Braintree Braintree
Braintree town (1990 pop. 33,836), E Mass., a suburb of Boston; inc. 1640. Metal, rubber, and paper are among its manufactures. Braintree included Quincy (birthplace of John Adams and John Quincy Adams ) until 1792 and Randolph until 1793. John Hancock and Gen. Sylvanus Thayer ,... Read more
Quincy Quincy
Quincy 1 City (1990 pop. 39,681), seat of Adams co., W Ill., on a bluff above the Mississippi; inc. 1839. It is a trade, industrial (steel parts), and distribution center in a grain and livestock area. The city and county were named for John Quincy Adams . Quincy has a good harbor and was an... Read more
John Adams (composer) John Adams (composer)
John Adams (John Coolidge Adams), 1947-, American composer, b. Worcester, Mass. A clarinetist, he studied composition at Harvard (B.A. 1969, M.A. 1971). Often regarded as the most outstanding, technically adept, and influential composer of his generation, Adams has written in numerous genres,... Read more
Days Without End Days Without End
Days Without End (1934), a modern miracle play by Eugene O'Neill. [Henry Miller Theatre, 57 perf.] John Loving is two men simultaneously: John ( Earle Larimore), his generous, idealistic half, and Loving ( Stanley Ridges), his baser self. Embittered at life, he has abandoned religion and made a... Read more
Herbert Baxter Adams Herbert Baxter Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams 1850-1901, American historian, b. Shutesbury, near Amherst, Mass. In 1876, the year he received his doctorate at Heidelberg, he became one of the original faculty of Johns Hopkins Univ. There, in 1880, he began his famous seminar in history, where a large proportion of the next... Read more
John White (artist) John White (artist)
John White fl. 1585-93, artist, cartographer, and Virginia pioneer, b. probably in England. In 1585 he was commissioned to go with the expedition to Roanoke Island to depict life in the New World. His paintings provide some of the earliest and most valuable source materials on the natural history... Read more
John Drew John Drew
John Drew 1827-62, American actor, b. Dublin. After establishing a reputation as a comedian in the 1840s, he devoted his energies to the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, where he maintained a famous stock company, with his wife as co-star. His wife, Louisa Lane Drew, 1820-97, b. London, came to... Read more
John Quincy Adams Ward John Quincy Adams Ward
John Quincy Adams Ward 1830-1910, American sculptor, b. Urbana, Ohio. He was trained under H. K. Brown, whom he assisted in the execution of the equestrian statue of George Washington in New York City. His Indian Hunter (1864) was the first of many works for Central Park, New York City. His... Read more
St. Johns College St. Johns College
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE St. John's College, with campus sites in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the most enduring example of the Great Books program of study in American liberal education. The four-year program at St. John's is aimed at producing "liberally educated human beings"... Read more

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