Abigail Smith Adams Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her death. Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail lacked formal education. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of great prestige in the Massachusetts colony; her ...

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Adam Gilchrist - Teams. Adam Gilchrist - International. Australia (current) Adam Gilchrist - Australian state. Western Warriors (current) New South Wales Blues ...

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In the religious writings of Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon is a phrase meaning "Primordial Man," or "Primal Man," comparable to the Anthropos of Gnosticism and Manichaeism. However, in Lurianic Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon acquired much more exalted status, equivalent to Purusha in the Upanishads, denoting the Manifest Absolute itself, while Adam Soul, the primeval Soul that contained all human souls, is described in different terms in this varian

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Adam Selene is the nom de guerre of the fictional character Mike, a self-aware computer system, in the science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966), by Robert A. Heinlein. Note that the last name is taken from Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, which is the location of the novel. Adam Selene is "killed" in the Battle in the Corridors when it becomes inconvenient for Mike to continue to pose as Adam Selene. Categories: Articles to be merged |

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Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμας (adamas), meaning "untameable". The word adamant is comparable to the word brimstone, an archaic word for sulphur. Since diamond is now used exclusively for the hardest gemstone, the increasingly archaic adamant–and its adjectival form adamantine–has a mostly poet ...

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Cecil Adams is the pen name of the author of The Straight Dope since 1973, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader, syndicated in thirty newspapers in the United States and Canada, and available online. Billed as the "World's Smartest Human Being", Adams responds to often unusual inquiries with humor (often directed against the questioner), and at times e ...

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The human larynx rests in a frame of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscles. At the front is the thyroid cartilage, creating the lump at the front of the neck, known as the laryngeal prominence or more commonly as the Adam's apple. The etymology of the term "Adam's apple" is unclear: Webster's 1913 dictionary states that the term "... is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit, (an ...

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The Apocalypse of Adam discovered in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi library is a Gnostic work written in Coptic. It has no necessary references to Christianity and it is accordingly debated whether it is a Christian Gnostic work or an example of Jewish Gnosticism. It proclaims one form of Sethian Gnosticism. Adam in his 700th year tells Seth how he learned a word of knowledge of the eternal God from Eve and that he and Eve were indeed more powerful than their supposed creator. But that knowledge was lost in the fall whe ...

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Adam Marsh (Adam de Marisco) (ca. 1200 – November 18, 1259), English Franciscan, scholar and theologian, was born about 1200 in the diocese of Bath, and educated at Oxford (Greyfriars) under the famous Grosseteste. Before 1226 Marsh received the benefice of Wearmouth from his uncle, Richard Marsh, bishop of Durham; but between that year and 1230 he entered the Franciscan order. About 1238 he became the lecturer of the Franciscan house at Oxford, and within a few years was regarded by the English province of that order as an intellectual and spiritual leader. Roger Bacon, his pupil, speaks highl ...

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Adam Spencer is an Australian mathematician, comedian, radio DJ and media personality. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search Raw Comedy in the mid 1990s. He began working at Triple J soon afterwards, on mid-dawn and drive shifts. From 1999 until 2004 he and Wil Anderson were co-hosts of Triple J's hugely popular Breakfast Show. Adam has also been a host of ABC science shows Quantum and FAQ, member of the Sleek Geeks tour along with Dr Karl, and performing hi ...

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The Adam-God theory (also called the Adam-God doctrine) was a teaching by Brigham Young, that Adam "is our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do." (1 J.D. 50-51). Some of Young's contemporaries interpreted the doctrine as stating that Adam was the God of this earth and the father of Jesus, and as so interpreted, the doctrine was unpopular and confusing even among some contemporary Latter-day Saint leaders such as Orson Pratt and Amasa M. Lyman, and by some of the Mormon p ...

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• Adam-God theory - No More Clarification by Young
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• Adam-God theory - Denounced as False Doctrine
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Adam Powell is the co-founder of Neopets. He and Donna Williams jointly launched the website in November 15, 1999, starting from an idea he had in 1997. Prior to founding Neopets, he also was involved in Shout! Advertising, a UK-based advertising company which operated the third largest click-through program on the Internet by mid-1999. He also founded Powlex in July 1999, which focused on web page design, and Netmagic in March 1997, which designed and sold online banner advertising. Mr. Powell currently focuses on the technical and programming aspects of the Neopets website. Adam's Neopets acco ...

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Adam Olearius (born Adam Oehlschlaeger) (1603-1671), German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. He became secretary to the ambassador sent by the duke of Holstein-Gottorp to the Shah of Persia, and published two books about the events and observations during his travels. Adam Olearius - Travels. He was born at Aschersleben, near Magdeburg. After studying at Leipzig he became librarian and court mathematician to Duke Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp, and in 1633 he was appointed secreta ...

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Adam Strange. Art by Pasqual Ferry. Adam Strange is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Showcase #17 (November-December 1958). Adam Strange - Synopsis. Adam Strange is an archeologist who was suddenly teleported an astronomical distance to the fictional planet Rann orbiting the nearest star to the Earth, Alpha Centauri, through a Rannian device called a Zeta Beam. Once there, he was called upon to stop a menace on the planet and was successful. Although he ...

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Carol J. Adams is an author writing about feminism and vegetarianism. She is best known for her first book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory She calls herself a "feminist vegetarian author." A vegan feminist and ecofeminist, she teaches at the Perkins School of Theology, Dallas. Her first book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory discusses how, especially in times of shortage, women often give men the meat that they perceive to be the "best" foo ...

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Adam's Peak, also known as Sri Pada, is a 2,243 metre (7,360 feet) tall conical mountain in central Sri Lanka. Adam's Peak - Geography. The mountain is located in the south of the Central Highlands, in Ratnapura district of Sabaragamuwa Province. It lies about 20km due northeast of the main district town of Ratnapura. Both the district name of Ratnapura, and an old name for the mountain, Ratnagiri, refer to the jewel mining industry of the region (ratna is Sanskrit for jewel). Th ...

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Adam Yauch, pronounced Yahwk, also known as MCA and Nathaniel Hornblower, is a founding member of hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys. Yauch was born August 5, 1964 into a wealthy family in Brooklyn, New York. Yauch learned to play the bass, and played his first show with the Beastie Boys—then still playing hardcore punk in the vein of Reagan Youth—on his 17th birthday, while still attending Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Yauch was 20, producer Rick Rubin had taken the Beastie Boys under his wing and they had released their ...

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Adam Ferrara is an American actor and comedian who played Detective Tommy Manetti on the television series The Job. He has performed on Comedy Central Presents and was nominated twice for the American Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-Up. Adam Ferrara - External link. Adam Ferrara at the Internet Movie Database Adam Ferrara's Official Site Includes tour dates and biography Categories: Actors and actresses appearing on Law &am ...

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Adam-ondi-Ahman is a historic site along the east bank of the Grand River in Daviess County, Missouri. The early settlement was commonly called Diahman by contemporaries and the town was later known as Cravensville. The site is 4.5 miles northeast of Gallatin, Missouri, and 25 miles north of the historic site of Far West. According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, Adam-ondi-Ahman is the location where Adam, believed to be the Ancient of Days referred to in the Book of Daniel

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