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John Couch Adams. Adams was born at Lidcot, a farm at Laneast, [1] near Launceston, Cornwall, the eldest of seven children.His parents were Thomas Adams (1788–1859), a poor tenant farmer, and his wife, Tabitha Knill Grylls (1796–1866).
Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work focuses on how leading figures at Los Alamos dealt with the great stress and anxiety of preparing for the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test).
The John Adams Project was established by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to ... CIA photos controversy
John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun were later elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans, and while Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, Lincoln ran on a combined National Union Party ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican.
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams's first opera, it was inspired by U.S. president Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China. The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris. When ...
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War.
John Edward Walsh, Jr. (born December 26, 1945) is an American television presenter, criminologist, victims' rights activist, and the host/creator [1] of America's Most Wanted. He is known for his anti-crime activism, with which he became involved following the murder of his son, Adam , in 1981; in 2008, deceased serial killer Ottis Toole was ...
John Adams withdrew from politics, while John Hancock and James Otis appeared to become more moderate. ... Samuel Adams is a controversial figure in American history ...