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Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams 1848-1927, American historian, b. Quincy, Mass.; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86). His theory that civilization rose and fell according to the growth and decline of commerce was first developed in The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895). Adams applied it to his own... Read more |
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Adam Kadmon
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James Adam
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Adam Yauch
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Algonquin round table
ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE was a group of journalists, playwrights, actors, and writers who gathered daily at a special table in the Rose Room at the Algonquin Hotel on West Forty-fourth Street in New York City from 1919 to about 1929. Their witticisms and jokes appeared in... Read more |
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Eve
Eve [Heb.,=life], in the Bible, the first woman, wife of Adam and the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth. Fashioned from Adam's rib, she was beguiled by the serpent into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Eve then tempted Adam to eat, whereupon they were banished from the Garden of... Read more |
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Adam Sandler
SANDLER, Adam 1966(?)– PERSONAL Full name, Adam Richard Sandler; born September 9, 1966 (some sources cite 1964), Brooklyn, New York, NY; raised in Manchester, NH; son of Stanl... Read more |
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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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Charles Adams Platt
Charles Adams Platt 1861-1933, American architect, landscape architect, painter, and etcher, b. New York City. He studied etching with Stephen Parrish and painting, in Paris, under Boulanger and Lefebvre. He won distinction in both fields before travels in Italy turned his interests toward... Read more |
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Edwin Adams
Adams, Edwin (1834–77), actor. Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he made his debut in Boston in 1853 in The Hunchback, then worked in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, serving some of his apprenticeship under Joseph Jefferson and E. A. Sothern. Adams's first important New York appearance... Read more |
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