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Frank R. Adams

Adams wrote plays, musical comedies, and lyrics for popular songs, such as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now".


Algonquin Hotel

Some of the core members of the "Vicious Circle" included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood and Alexander Woollcott.

Alva B. Adams Tunnel

The tunnel was posthumously named for its chief advocate, US Senator Alva B. Adams.

Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church

Noted ARP ministers of today and the recent past include Dr. Kuykendall, Dr. Chap Lauderdale, Dr. Francis Young Pressly, Rev. C. Caldwell, Rev. Bob Elliott, Rev. Tim Phillips, Rev. Eddie Spencer, Rev. Mark Brown Grier, Rev. Kit Grier, Rev. William Evans, Jay E. Adams, Sinclair Ferguson, Derek Thomas, John R. de Witt, Mark Ross, David Henry Lauten, and Frank Reich.

Barbara G. Adams

Her final work was based upon vase fragments from a cemetery at Abydos.

Her activities as the pottery and objects expert for Michael A.Hoffman's re-established excavations of 1979-80 assisting at a cemetery of a predynastic elite group continuing with this until 1986.

Bernard Segal

In 1981, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review devoted a unique issue to Segal, with tributes from Supreme Court Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judges Arlin M. Adams and Louis H. Pollak and other legal luminaries.

Cabestana

Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864) : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)

Carol Adams

Carol J. Adams (born 1951), American vegan feminist theorist and author of books on eco-feminism

Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.

Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.

The Royal Australian Navy had three Charles F. Adams class units constructed to their own specifications (these ships were designated the Perth class).

Charles Scribner's Sons

The company launched St. Nicholas Magazine in 1873 with Mary Mapes Dodge as editor and Frank R. Stockton as assistant editor; it became well known as a children's magazine.

Clayton Lawrence Bissell

Between October and December 1925, he served as assistant defense counsel for Mitchell during his court martial, under the direction of lead counsel Congressman Frank R. Reid.

Comfort A. Adams

"Doc Adams", as he was commonly addressed by his colleagues and friends, received his Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from his alma mater, Case School of Applied Science, in 1925 after having been on the faculty at Harvard College and dean of their engineering school for almost 35 years.

David H. Adams

David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Dudley W. Adams

Dudley Whitney Adams (November 30, 1831, Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts – February 13, 1897, Tangerine, Florida) was a horticulturalist who led the granger movement.

Dudley became a teacher as a young man and, at age 21, traveled west and became one of the first settlers of Waukon,

Frank Day

Frank R. Day (1853–1899), entrepreneur and politician in Los Angeles and Monterey, California

Frank R. Crozier

Frank Rossiter Crozier (1883–1948) was a war records artist who is represented in the Australian War Memorial's art collection along with other Official War Artists such as H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton, George Lambert and Ivor Hele.

Frank R. Reid

Reid was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses).

Frank R. Stockton

Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

Frederick W. Adams

He was of the opinion that the superior tones of the Amati and Stradivarius instruments were due to their having been made of old and seasoned wood.

Gesundheit! Institute

Institute (German for 'Good health!') is a project founded by Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams in 1971, located outside of Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Gurdjieff Foundation

It was then led by Dr. William J. Welch until his death in 1999, after which it was led jointly by Paul Reynard, a painter and teacher of Gurdjieff Movements, and Frank R. Sinclair, author of Without Benefit of Clergy and Of the Life Aligned, until Reynard's death in 2005.

International Game Developers Association

The IGDA was founded in 1994 by Ernest W. Adams and was initially known as the Computer Game Developers Association (CGDA).

James W. Adams

James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.

Jimmie V. Adams

Upon completion of pilot training at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, Adams flew with the 437th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Oxnard Air Force Base, California, until January 1962.

Joan R. Challinor

In his article 'Henry Adams and the Making of America' (New York Times, September 11, 2005), Garry Wills says, "Joan Challinor...has written the most complete account of Louisa's life..." Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams was the wife of John Quincy Adams.

Katherine L. Adams

A highly regarded top executive and the most senior woman at Honeywell, she reports directly to its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, David M. Cote.

Margaret Q. Adams

She was even godmother to Judge Warren Biscailuz, son of Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz (sheriff from 1932 to 1958).

Neo-Tech

Neo-Tech, a philosophy being promoted by the above company.

Patrick J. Adams

In 2009, he signed for the male lead in the one hour drama The Dealership, starring opposite Tricia Helfer and William Devane.

Paul D. Adams

Following that assignment, he became commanding officer of the 143d Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, serving in the Mediterranean Theater and European Theater from January 1944 to January 1945.

Police Woman

Margaret Q. Adams, believed to be the first female U.S. deputy sheriff, 1912

Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod

Eventually, thanks to influence of newer people in the denomination such as Gordon Clark, discussions began with the Bible Presbyterian Church-Columbus Synod, which included members such as Francis Schaeffer and Jay E. Adams.

Sandra E. Adams

As a civilian, Adams is a director of Supply Chain for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems.

She graduated from the Joint Forces Staff College Advanced Joint Professional Military Education 10-month course in 2009.

Stanley Adams

Stanley T. Adams (1922–1999), American Army officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Korean War

Stanley T. Adams

As a civilian, Adams lived in Alaska and worked as an administrator for the Internal Revenue Service there.

Summers v. Adams

The fact that the plate idea was not initiated by any group or organization, but by the Lieutenant Governor André Bauer, allowed the court to quickly rule that the government's action did not have a secular purpose.

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).

Thom Pace

The program starred Dan Haggerty as James Capen Adams, whom the film and series both said had fled from false murder charges into the mountains and forest nearby.

Timothy Adams

Timothy D. Adams (born 1961), Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury 2005–2007

Timothy D. Adams

In 2013, Adams was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

W. Adams

W Adams was the first manager of Shrewsbury Town F.C. He managed the club for seven years, between 1 May 1905 and 31 May 1912, during which period the club moved from Copthorne barracks ground to the Gay Meadow site.

He was also manager during the then-record attendance for a Shrewsbury Town match of 5,000 against Wellington Town.


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