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	Thomas Adams (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Adams (1730 - August, 1788) was a politician and businessman from Virginia.
		Adams was born in New Kent County, Virginia in 1730.
		Adams was chosen as a delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779, and signed the Articles of Confederation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Adams_(politician) (207 words)

	Samuel Adams - LoveToKnow 1911
		Samuel Adams first came into wider prominence at the beginning of the Stamp Act episode, in 1764, when as author of Boston's instructions to its representatives in the general court of Massachusetts he urged strenuous opposition to taxation by act of parliament.
		As James Otis's vigour and influence declined, Adams took a more and more prominent place in the revolutionary councils; and, contrary to the opinion of Otis and Benjamin Franklin, he declared that colonial representation in parliament was out of the question and advised against any form of compromise.
		In 1788, Samuel Adams was a member of the Massachusetts convention to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Samuel_Adams (664 words)

	American President
		A fervent patriot and brilliant intellectual, Adams served as a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress between 1774 and 1777, as a diplomat in Europe from 1778 to 1788, and as vice president during the Washington administration.
		Adams was portrayed as a monarchist and an Anglophile who was secretly bent on establishing a family dynasty by having his son succeed him as President.
		At one point, Adams was accused of plotting to have his son marry one of the daughters of King George III and thus establish a dynasty to unite Britain and the United States.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/johnadams/biography/printable.html (6534 words)

	Thomas Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Adams (politician) (1730-1788), a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress
		Thomas Adams (musician) (1785-1858), English organist and composer
		Thomas Adams (architect) (1871-1940), a pioneer of urban planning
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Adams (142 words)

	John Adams Encyclopedia Article @ abolished.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adams often found his inborn contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career, for example, during his term as president when he lost control of his own cabinet and his Federalist party.
		Adams defense of the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre of 1770 was a masterpiece of politics and legal defense.
		On June 7, 1776, Adams seconded the resolution introduced by Richard Henry Lee that "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of these resolutions before the Congress until their adoption on July 2, 1776.
	www.abolished.org /encyclopedia/John_Adams (5183 words)

	Samuel Adams \| American Patriot & Politician
		Adams was a cousin of John Adams who became the second President of the United States.
		Adams was a vocal opponent of several laws passed by the British Parliament to raise revenue in the American Colonies.
		Adams served Massachusetts again at the Second Continental Congress where he was an advocate for independence and confederation for the American Colonies.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/95sep/adams.html (845 words)

	:: www.PresidentialRhetoric.com :: The Presidency of John Adams
		Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735.
		Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity.
		Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe.
	www.presidentialrhetoric.com /presidents/adams.html (584 words)

	John Adams \| Interviews, Articles & Essays
		Adams is not the only composer who has combined a classical education with a pop sensibility, but he is the one who has made the synthesis stick.
		Adams goes into a smaller room, where sheets of music paper are scattered around an electronic keyboard and a computer terminal.
		Adams, who conducts about fifteen weeks a year, led the New World Symphony in "Shaker Loops" and "Grand Pianola Music." It was intersting to see how briskly his sound world coame to life once the musicians had solved a limited number of technical problems.
	www.earbox.com /inter011.html (5532 words)

	University of Cincinnati News: Sam Adams Biography by Alexander
		Adams also unwaveringly strove to protect people's basic rights and emphasized the importance of virtue, liberty, a sense of duty and education in fashioning a republican society, Alexander writes.
		Many historians have portrayed Adams as an extremist and a dictator who manipulated the colonial "mob" and distorted the facts to bring out a revolution, but Alexander argues that although Adams was a skilled propagandist and politician, he did not control the masses.
		Samuel Adams was appalled when Hancock insisted upon a military escort to accompany his carriage to Boston, after leaving Congress in the summer of 1778 in the midst of manpower problems created by the war.
	www.uc.edu /news/samadams.htm (1116 words)

	Conway County,For the Original Arkansas Genealogy Project
		P. Adams, a farmer and stock-dealer, was born in Lee County, Ark., in 1844, being the son of Henry and Nancy (Rolledge) Adams.
		Adams was married to Miss Mary Upton, of Lee County, in 1866, and by her became the father of two children (both deceased).
		Thomas Foster had three brothers in the Confederate army, one of whom was killed at Shiloh, one died from the wounds received at Gettysburg, and one while serving in the Indian Territory.
	www.couchgenweb.com /arkansas/lee/biog-lee.htm (22506 words)

	The American Revolution (John Adams) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as "X, Y, and Z." The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called "the X. fever," increased in intensity by Adams's exhortations.
		Adams was a complex figure; warm-hearted, sometimes vituperative, an unsystematic thinker and writer and thinker with remarkable insights.
		Adams refusal to accept the somewhat facile conventions of Jeffersonian liberalism made him an anachronism but his skepticism about American exceptionalism proved prescient.
	theamericanrevolution.org /ipeople/jadams.asp (993 words)

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		As a member of the first Republican House of Delegates of Virginia, in 1776, he introduced a bill embodying a system of education provid- ing free elementary schools for all children in the State for a term of three years, high schools for advanced scholars and all to be crowned with a State University.
		Adams said to White, that it would be better that the President should rent a common house there, to live in; that Correspondence 19 no President would live in the one now building.
		Adams' speech to Congress in May is deemed such a national affront, that no explanation on other topics can be entered on till that, as a preliminary, is wiped away by humiliating disavowals or acknowledgments.
	www.constitution.org /tj/jeff10.txt (17673 words)

	Wood County, Ohio 1895 History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Adams was a native of Wigtonshire, Scotland, born April 25, 1812, and his wife was born in the same place, December 23, 1819.
		Thomas J. Adams, the subject of this sketch, was reared upon his father's farm, his educational advantages being only such as could be obtained in the district schools of his locality.
		Adams was born Mar 3, 1858, in Wyandot county, the daughter of Randolph and Theresa (Caughey) Finch, the former a native of New York and the latter of Ohio.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Wood/WoodBio975.htm (22111 words)

	First Generation
		Adams died a few years ago, but her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren meet every year on her birthday, and this meeting was at Oakdale, the pleasant home of Mr.
		Adams died at her home near Kibbee, and her death takes from her community a good woman, one loved and esteemed by a large circle of friends, and from the saddened home its dearest loved one and truest friend.
		Adams was a valuable citizen, possessing a spirit of enterprise and progress, having represented Montgomery County in the general assembly during the term of 1892-03.
	members.tripod.com /adams_genealogy/pen.html (14588 words)

	John Adams - dKosopedia
		John Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735, and was a Harvard educated lawyer.
		The Adams Administration oversaw the infamous "X,Y and Z" foreign affair (relating to international politics and bribery) and the passing of the 'Alien and Sedition Acts'.
		Adams retired to his farm in Quincy, where he penned his elaborate letters to Thomas Jefferson.
	dkosopedia.com /wiki/John_Adams (509 words)

	Ethnobotanical Leaflets
		Thomas Adams agreed to experiment with the latex, so Santa Anna returned to Mexico in March 1867 to arrange the shipment of two tons of chicle to New York.
		Adams decided to mix the Mayan use of chicle with the chewing gum (wax) concept of the day to produce a new industry.
		The gum machinery that Adams patented is used to purify, clean, dry powder, reheat, and compound the chicle with flavoring materials.
	www.siu.edu /~ebl/leaflets/zapota.htm (1280 words)

	Articles of Confederation, Constitution Day Materials, Pocket Constitution Book, US Constitution, Bill of Rights
		Titus Hosmer (1736-1780)—Titus Hosmer’s grandfather, Colonel Thomas Titus, of Hawkhurst, England, was a member of Oliver Cromwell’s army and settled in Boston, Massachusetts in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
		Samuel Adams (1722-1803)—Samuel Adams was known as the “Firebrand of the Revolution” for his role as an agitator between the colonists and the British prior to the outbreak of hostilities in April 1775.
		Thomas Adams (1730-1788)—Thomas Adams was a legislator and businessman from Kent County, Virginia.
	www.constitutionfacts.com /articles_confed/Art_Signers.htm (4545 words)

	Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
		Together with a familiar and inoffensive way propounded for the future discovery of summes at interest, that so they may be charged with their equal share of publick taxes and burthens, the long defect whereof hath exceedingly fomented usury, embased land, and much decay'd the better half of the kingdom.
		The Quenes Maiestie perceauing, that not withstandyng the notorious offence of Thomas Cobham, committed on the seas, against certayne subiectes of her good brother the Kynge of Spayne...
		By Thomas Gataker Bachelar of Diuinitie and pastor of Rotherhith.
	www.lib.umich.edu /tcp/eebo/New_Text/New_Texts_March2004_full.html (15180 words)

	Wood County, Ohio 1895 History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adam Amos, his father, was born in Bavaria, Germany, on the 27th of September, 1825, and when quite small was brought by his parents to the United States, and they became one of the pioneer families of Wood county, locating first in Section 1, Portage township, in 1838.
		Thomas Smith was quite small when he accompanied his parents to this county, where, during his youth, he experienced all the trials and difficulties of pioneer life.
		Thomas Yates was a native of West Virginia, was the son of poor parents, and had to rely on his own efforts for a start in life.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Wood/WoodBio847.htm (22287 words)

	Thomas Adams, Signer of the Articles of Confederation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Adams is regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
		Thomas Adams was a Protestant Christian (as were 98% of the signers of the Articles of Confederation).
		Additional research is needed about his religious life, as we have not yet identified his denominational affiliation or gathered information about the nature and extent of his religiosity.
	www.adherents.com /people/pa/Thomas_Adams.html (185 words)

	Appendix 1 ~ Biographical Notes
		Adams, Thomas, born 10 May 1811 at Leicester, Leicestshire.
		Adams, Thomas, born 19 June 1849, the first son of Thomas Adams and Kudnarto.
		Adams, Tim, born 11 October 1852, the second son of Thomas Adams and Kudnarto.
	kudnarto.tripod.com /ch22.htm (8143 words)

	Adams Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adams is the name of a number of places, as well as a common surname.
		Many of the Ansel Adams photos are in fl and white which may seem simple but there is quite a bit more to the work than you would think.
		Ansel Adams photographs manage to capture depth and texture that make two dimensions appear to be three dimensional.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Adams (837 words)

	snarkout: january 2004
		In 1516, Sir Thomas More introduced a new land to his English readership, an obscure corner of the New World: Utopia.
		He soon added sassafras and licorice flavorings, creating Black Jack, and Adams, later the American Chicle Company, was on its way.
		Competitors sprang up, many of which (including the maker of Chiclets) were purchased by Adams; William Wrigley founded his eponymous company in 1891; Walter Diemer of the Fleer Chewing Gum company invented Dubble Bubble, the first bubble gum, in 1928.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2004_01.php (2002 words)

	Jaded Writings: My 2004 Tribute to the Dead - Page 2
		Through the lens of Edward Thomas Adams' camera, the world existed in stark contrasts -- fl and white, young and old, life and death.
		Adams shot pictures of presidents, dictators, religious figures and soldiers, but he was best known for a photograph taken in Saigon on Feb. 1, 1968.
		Adams died on Sept. 19 from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease.
	www.jadedwritings.com /columns/archives/000848.html (3772 words)

	'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for April 29 - MSNBC Transcripts - MSNBC.com
		Thomas Adams and his mother, Rachel, joining us now from their hometown of Tulsa. And I guess congratulations are in order here. Thomas, how‘d you do this? I‘m assuming it had something to do with the Internet.
		THOMAS ADAMS: Well, it‘s—he‘s not evil or dark or mean-looking, and neither are the other “Loony Tunes.” But Warner Bros. is trying to turn them into that.
		Adams, as a parent, have you always thought that the original “Loony Tunes” and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam were good entertainment for kids? There was a controversy about that when I was a kid, but did you think this was good stuff and should be left alone?
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7710812 (4691 words)

	Oregon Magazine
		One of these, Thomas Adams, became ill and was left in Peoria to recuperate.
		With the party was Thomas Adams, the Calapooya boy who had fallen ill in Peoria and whose stories of Oregon inspired the formation of the Peoria Party.
		Thomas J. Farnham returned to the eastern United States, where his journal of his western adventure was published and widely circulated in both America and Britain.
	oregonmag.com /OrHistArticle.htm (4116 words)

	WHMC-Columbia--Military--COLLECTION DESCRIPTIONS
		The papers of Thomas Lilbourne Anderson, lawyer, politician, and U.S. Congressman who practiced law in St. Charles and Palmyra, Missouri contain an autobiography and three letters written to Anderson in the 1860s, one describing the Battle of Springfield in 1863.
		Papers of Thomas Swain Barclay, a member of the American Red Cross during World War I, and member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University of Missouri.
		Papers of a St. Louis lawyer and politician, attorney general of Missouri, Republican candidate for governor in 1936, commander of the Missouri Department of the American Legion, and president of the Missouri Bar Association.
	www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/desc-military.html (13562 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		U.S. Meeting with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze on 24 September, U.S. State Department official Thomas Adams said Washington will reduce aid to Georgia in 2004 from this year's level of $100 million, Georgian media and zerkalo.az reported on 25 and 26 September, respectively.
		Adams pointed out that of the 27 countries to which the U.S. State Department provides aid, Georgia has the lowest level of development.
		In addition, Georgia is plagued by endemic corruption, and economic reforms are not being implemented.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/09/2-TCA/tca-260903.asp (1923 words)

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