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Adam Kadmon
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James Adam
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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John Adams Howell
John Adams Howell 1840-1918, American naval officer and inventor, b. Bath, N.Y., grad. Annapolis, 1858. He served as a lieutenant throughout the Civil War, fighting under Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay (1864). In the Spanish-American War he commanded a squadron of the North Atlantic Fleet and was... Read more |
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams 1767-1848, 6th President of the United States (1825-29), b. Quincy (then in Braintree), Mass.; son of John Adams and Abigail Adams and father of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). He accompanied his father on missions to Europe, gaining broad knowledge from study and... Read more |
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John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams 1819-92, English astronomer, grad. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1843. By mathematical calculation based on irregularities in the motion of Uranus, he predicted the position of the then unknown planet Neptune. Because of delay in England in making a telescopic search for the... Read more |
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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 |
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Adams, John (Coolidge)
Adams, John (Coolidge) (b Worcester, Mass., 1947). Amer. composer, conductor, and clarinettist. Head, comp. dept., S. Francisco Cons... |
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Men (And Women) Of Letters ; Treasure-Trove Of Correspondence From The Famous...
...collection are Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland...Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams and Woodrow Wilson...election to the presidency. Coolidge, known for his brevity...truly yours, Calvin Coolidge." Albert Einstein... |
 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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John Calvin Coolidge.(Saturday)(The Rainbow Page)(U.S. Presidents)
...WAKE UP! Vice president Coolidge was on vacation at his father...m. on Aug. 3, 1923, Coolidge was sworn into office by his father, John Coolidge, who was a justice of the...Nelson, Douglas Kelly, Ben Adams and Mike McLane. 1995 Flying... |
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PRESIDENTIAL WIT: EVEN COOLIDGE AND NIXON HAD A FUNNY LINE OR TWO.(Opinion)
...persuaded not to hang John C. Calhoun as a traitor...Eisenhower C. Calvin Coolidge. 8. ``If you had...A. James Monroe B. John Quincy Adams C. John F. Kennedy. 11...short speeches. 7. Coolidge, advising his successor... |
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Let's Lift a Cold One to Calvin Coolidge
...signing of the Declaration of Independence? Read on: - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826-the...five presidents to die on Independence Day. - Calvin Coolidge was the only president born on the holiday (1872... |
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ALTON AUGUSTUS ADAMS: ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN MUSICIANS OF THE U. S. VIRGIN...
...until World War II. Adams was the first black...officer in the navy. "5 Adams, as a composer, wrote...for President Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 band tour. "Adams greatly admired Sousa...Floyd states that John Philip Sousa, whom... |
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A Massachusetts Yankee in the Court of Charleston: Jasper Adams, College...
...include U.S. presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, William Howard Taft, and Calvin Coolidge, and Vice-President Richard Cheney. John Adams erected a monument in Henry ... |
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BEATING BIG-MOVIE HEAT
...Sundance Film Festival cred. John Cameron Mitchell's adaptation...to open Aug. 3 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, "Hedwig...cast - including Jane Adams, Parker Posey, and Gwyneth...it opens June 22 at the Coolidge. Adams ("Happiness") also... |
 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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IN OTHER WORDS.(Pasatiempo)
...Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 340 pages Artists...serious. It has plenty of personal information about John Coolidge Adams -- born in 1947, raised in New England, and long... |
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Lush landscapes, majestic motifs, shifting strings
...this moment, strange to say, two composers named John Adams writing significant contemporary classical music. John Coolidge Adams is much better known, as the composer of operas such... |
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An Accessible NSO
...included Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," John Coolidge Adams's recent essay "Slonimsky's Earbox" and Mozart...the music -- a lump-in-the-throat experience. Adams's work, a unique tribute to the famous Russian... |
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