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John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. [1] [2] Apart from opera, his oeuvre includes ...
Johnny Adams. Laten John Adams Jr. (January 5, 1932 – September 14, 1998), [1] was an American blues, jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary" for the multi-octave range of his singing voice, his swooping vocal mannerisms and falsetto. His biggest hits were his versions of "Release Me" and "Reconsider Me" in the late 1960s.
Johnson C. Smith University, BA. Boston University School of Theology, MA. Occupation. Pastor. Years active. 1956-2005. John Hurst Adams (November 27, 1927 - January 10, 2018) was an American civil rights activist and Bishop in African Methodist Episcopal Church. He also served as a college president.
USS John Adams (SSBN-620), a Lafayette -class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States (1797–1801), and his son John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829).
t. e. The inauguration of John Adams as the second president of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1797, in the House of Representatives Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The inauguration marked the commencement of the only four-year term of John Adams as president and of Thomas Jefferson as vice president.
John Adams, 1st Baron Adams. Baron Adams in July 1949. John Jackson Adams, 1st Baron Adams, OBE, JP (12 October 1890 – 23 August 1960) was a British politician and public servant. The son of Thomas Adams and Mary Bowness, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Adams on 16 February 1949, the first Cumberland -born man to be so honoured since 1797.
ISBN. 978-1-4165-7588-7 (paperback) 0684813637 (hardcover) OCLC. 191069913. Preceded by. Truman. Followed by. 1776. John Adams is a 2001 biography of the Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams, written by the popular American historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
John Adams, known as Jack Adams (4 July 1767 – 5 March 1829), was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams, but he used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the American whaling ship Topaz .