“Bombard New York. I know no place that would be more improved by it. The chief population is Jew, and the rest is German Jew.”
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Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's minister (ambassador) to the United Kingdom. The posting influenced the younger man through the experience of wartime diplomacy and absorption in English culture, espe…
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culture · American historian (1838–1918) · journalist · novelist · historian of Modern Age · historian · writer · mathematician · secretary · editor · art historian · university teacher · also Henry Adams, Frances Snow Compton, Henry B. Adams, Henry Brooks Adams, Adams
Born 16 February 1838 · Died 27 March 1918 · Q458390
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2026· 4 entries
“the reason of his superiority lay in his name, which was Cohen, and his mind which was Cohen also”
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“the dark races are gaining on us”
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“I detest [the Jews], and everything connected with them, and I live only and solely with the hope of seeing their demise, with all their accursed Judaism. I want to see all the lenders at interest taken out and executed.”
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 23,618 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published “<i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software” in Journal of Applied Crystallography — cited 20,234 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 13,100 times.
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1927· 1 entry
And the Hay-Adams Hotel was built on the site
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1919· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1919).
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1918· 9 entries
Died 1918-03-27.
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Adams died in Washington, D
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“I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. It”
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (ang.)”
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (ang.)”
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“I disagree with my brother Charles and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. These facts have nothing to do with the case and should not have been allowed to interfere with just penalties. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.”
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“Original: «Words are slipeery.”
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“A friend in power is a lost friend. (ang.)”
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“Opis: w liście do przyjaciela.”
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1913· 1 entry
At the request of Ralph Adams Cram, an important American architect, and published with support of the American Institute of Architects
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1912· 1 entry
Adams suffered a stroke, perhaps brought on by news of the sinking of the Titanic, for which he had purchased tickets to return to the U
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1910· 1 entry
Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a "theory of history" based on the second law of thermodynamics and the pri
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1907· 1 entry
In a small private edition for selected friends
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1904· 1 entry
Adams privately published a copy of his "Mont Saint Michel and Chartres", a pastiche of history, travel, and poetry that celebrated the unity of medieval society, especially as represented in the great cathedrals of Fran
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1894· 1 entry
Adams was elected president of the American Historical Association
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1892· 1 entry
Awarded Legum Doctor presented by Case Western Reserve University (1892).
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1884· 3 entries
One year before Clover's suicide, Henry Adams wrote to Lizzie, "I shall dedicate my next poem to you
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Adams was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society
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“I shall dedicate my next poem to you. I shall have you carved over the arch of my stone doorway. I shall publish your volume of extracts with your portrait on the title page. None of these methods can fully express the extent to which I am yours.”
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1883· 1 entry
When she and her husband departed for Europe
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1880· 1 entry
And immediately became popular in literary circles in England and Europe as well as in America
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1878· 1 entry
United the reluctant 20-year-old beauty with a 44-year-old widower with six children
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1877· 1 entry
His wife and he moved to Washington, DC, where their home on Lafayette Square, across from the White House, again became a dazzling and witty center of social life
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1872· 2 entries
Adams married Clover Hooper in Beverly, Massachusetts
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Was nominated for vice president by the Democratic faction that refused to support the nomination of Horace Greeley
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1870· 1 entry
Adams was appointed professor of medieval history at Harvard, a position he held until his early retirement in 1877 at 39
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1868· 1 entry
Adams returned to the United States and settled in Washington, DC, where he began working as a journalist
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1865· 1 entry
The brevet of brigadier general in the regular army
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1861· 1 entry
Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Francis Adams Sr
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1858· 1 entry
Embarked on a grand tour of Europe, during which he also attended lectures in civil law at the University of Berlin
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1838· 2 entries
Into one of the country's most prominent families
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Born 1838-02-16.
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