john adams

Welcome to the 'john adams' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'john adams'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “john adams”

• Did Thanksgiving do in John Adams?

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 615
  Adams apparently was convinced the reason he couldnt get re-elected was becaue he declared a national day of thanksgiving on behalf of, gasp, Presbyterians. J.L. Bell recounts the whole story. read more
  1 day ago

• Airdate: John Adams

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  SBS will screen the acclaimed HBO miniseries John Adams next month. The series on the second US President stars Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson and Rufus Sewell. It has already screened on Pay Television but now it gets its first Free to Air broadcast in Australia. The lavish 7 part drama had garnered a ...
  1 day ago

• NYCBALLET OPENING NIGHT: NEW MARTINS’ NAIVE & SENTIMENTAL MUSIC A SUCCESS!

  
  Swan Lake Samba Girl — Authority: 131
  New York City Ballet officially opened its 2009-10 winter season last night, with a performance and black tie gala dinner. The performance included Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH (above photo of that ballet — dancers are Ana Sophia Scheller, Gonzalo Garcia, and Joaquin De Luz — by Paul Kolnik, taken from ...
  2 days ago

• Nixon in Colorado: Wheres Sellars?

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  “On that summer day of our first meeting in 1983 Peter … wasted little time in proposing that we collaborate on making an opera,” John Adams writes of Peter Sellars in his memoir, “Hallelujah Junction.” “He even knew what to call it: ‘ Nixon in China .’” The poet Alice Goodman recounts in her notes ...
  3 days ago

• St. Lawrence Quartet gives local premiere of John Adams’ String Quartet

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 135
  CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW SLIDE SHOW REVIEW: The St. Lawrence String Quartet offers blisterting late Beethoven and a new work by John Adams. The Orange County Register , Nov. 23, 2009. SEE SLIDE SHOW The St. Lawrence String Quartet made a meal out of a heavy duty program Sunday afternoon in Samueli Theater. It was ...
  4 days ago

• Early Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations

  
  American Creation — Authority: 498
  A Textbook Example of Christian Neutrality With Thanksgiving just around the corner I thought that this might be an appropriate way to embrace the theme of the season. As we all know, Thanksgiving has become an extremely important event in American culture. For the religious and non-religious alike, Thanksgiving ...
  4 days ago

• Operation: Learn About The Signers, Benjamin Rush

  
  The Mike Slater Show — Authority: 131
  Part I of said Operation, Benjamin Rush: Ye men of sense and virtue—Ye advocates for American Liberty, rouse up and espouse the cause of humanity and general liberty.  Bear a testimony against a vice which degrades human nature and dissolves the universal ties of benevolence which should connect all the ...
  4 days ago

• Tweets for November 22nd

  
  New Trommetter Times — Authority: 133
  Taxpayer money , your money and mine, is what gives government whores their power. Time to stop Pelosi & Reid. # 2010 (via @ PolitixGal ) # TJ just looked down at his open fly and said, “How did that hole get there?!” # Patient trapped in a 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along… ...
  4 days ago

• Music review: Terry Riley launches West Coast, Left Coast Festival

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  “IF THERE IS NO SEDUCTION, THERE IS NO MUSIC.” The capitalized sentiment leapt off the page in Terry Riley’s program note for “Eureka!” the late-night opening event for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s West Coast, Left Coast festival Saturday night. And thus -- after more than two hours of regimented ...
  5 days ago

• Mob Mentality and Marching to Your Own Drummer

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 478
  I found an exceptionally insightful article by Kiplinger.com’s Bob Frick titled “Don’t Trust the Crowd if you Value the Truth.”What’s scary about the herd mentality is how insidiously it gets you to see things differently. In fact, a recent experiment showed that we may actually be hard-wired to believe ...
  6 days ago

• Quotes, Pics, and Clips VI

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 124
  I’m resurrecting an installment I used to do, a bite-sized anthology of things I had recently seen or been thinking about in the various areas that interest me.  Here are the first five parts of this series: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.ARTSLike him or not, it’s fun watching Jackson Pollock [...]
  6 days ago

• Career politicians are useless

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 514
  "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress" - John Adams
  6 days ago

• Terry Riley coming to Big Ears in 2010

  
  Crib Notes — Authority: 139
  One of the true monsters of minimalism will serve as BIG EARS 2010 Artist in Residence
  1 week ago

• Awesome Article on why Obama should not have bowed

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  From Article Some of the presidents critics are giving him a hard time, and its true that this president seems never to have studied much American history. Not bowing to foreign potentates was what 1776 was all about. His predecessors learned with no difficulty that the essence of America is that all men stand equal ...
  1 week ago

• John Adams HBO Miniseries (Blu-ray) for $24.99 or $27.48 Shipped

  
  Uberi.com — Authority: 168
  John Adams HBO Miniseries (Blu-ray) for $24.99.  Order online for in-store pickup at Best Buy to lock in the price, ensure availability, and save on shipping.  Otherwise, shipping is $2.49, which comes to a total of $27.48 shipped.  Here is a screenshot for your reference.  The box set has 3 Blu-ray DVDs with a ...
  1 week ago

• Mr. Adams Goes to Washington

  
  History Blog — Authority: 123
  November 17, 1800 the United States Congress and then president John Adams move the United States government from the comfort of Philadelphia to the hardly finished and rather rough quarters in Washington D.C. Adams would become the first American president to live in the White House. John Adams was the vice ...
  1 week ago

• The two human natures

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Immediately following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iraqi government collapsed and Baghdad was engulfed by widespread looting and violence. Medical equipment was stolen from major hospitals and many of the worlds oldest cultural artifacts--housed at Iraqs National Museum--were stolen or destroyed. ...
  1 week ago

• Imbecile Chris M(atthews)SNBC Attacks Rep. Judy Biggert for not having His Misunderstanding History

  
  . . . With Both Hands — Authority: 137
  Talking to alleged Turkish Spy and celebrated nitwit Jan Shakowsky is a walk in the park for the Forty Watt Power of Chris Matthews blond brain. Trying to add a counter point of view was too much and it tasked Matthews beyond his own oafish abilities to be develop declarative sentences - he was stuck on Interrogatory ...
  1 week ago

• John Adams Blu-ray $24.99

  
  GamerHotline — Authority: 562
  John Adams Blu-ray $24.99 Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hopper takes the helm for this epic, seven-part miniseries produced by Playtone’s Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and presenting American history as seen from the perspective of fiercely independent founding father John Adams (Paul Giamatti). Based on ...
  1 week ago

• A Proper Bow

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 432
  Having attacked Obama for having bowed to the Emperor of Japan, in fairness I offer this historic bow, delivered by one of the founders, John Adams, as ambassador to the King George III of England, and, until very recently (at the time) King of the American colonies as well: For those among my patriotic friends on ...
  1 week ago

Comments about john adams