information see Template Infobox writer doc name DouglasAdams image Douglasadams portrait cropped.jpg ... of Hitchhiker s see talk page for details Douglas Noel Adams 11 March 1952 11 May 2001 was an English ... DouglasAdams in Cambridge , England . ref name ODNB Webb 2005b ref The following year ... of boys have passed through the school but DouglasAdams really stood out from the crowd literally ... times cite news title Terry Jones remembers DouglasAdams, the last of the Pythons newspaper The Times ... to spell . ref cite book author Adams, Douglas editor Geoffrey Perkins ed. , Additional Material ... s series. ref cite book author Adams, Douglas. editor Dirk Maggs , dramatisations and editor title ... episode of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by DouglasAdams is affectionately dedicated to its ... on the radio programme It Makes Me Laugh on 19 July 1981. Dirk Gently series File DouglasAdams San Francisco.jpg thumb DouglasAdams in March 2000 In between Adams s first trip to Madagascar ... DouglasAdams was a friend of Gary Brooker , the lead singer, pianist and songwriter of the progressive ... came from. DouglasAdams Procol Harum at The Barbican ref cite web url http www.procolharum.com dadams.htm title Text of one of DouglasAdams s introductions of Procol Harum in concert accessdate 2006 08 21 last Adams first Douglas date 1996 02 08 ref Computer games and projects Douglas ... Jones wrote the accompanying book, entitled DouglasAdams s Starship Titanic , since Adams was too ... Dave title Interview DouglasAdams journal American Atheist year 1998 1999 volume 37 issue 1 url http www.atheists.org Interview 3A DouglasAdams accessdate 2009 08 16 archiveurl http www.webcitation.org ..., Save the Rhino has held an annual DouglasAdams Memorial Lecture around the time of his birthday ... site 1190 default.aspx title The Ninth DouglasAdams Memorial Lecture publisher Save the Rhino International ... Rhinoceros. ref cite book author Adams, Douglas and Mark Carwardine title Last Chance to See edition ... more details
DouglasAdams was an English writer and dramatist. DouglasAdams or Doug Adams may also refer to Douglas Q. Adams , Indo Europeanist professor of English Doug Adams baseball born 1943 , MLB player Doug Adams music journalist , music journalist and author Doug Adams television producer , American television producer Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa hndis Adams, Douglas uk ... more details
unreferenced date September 2009 Infobox Book name Hitchhiker A Biography of DouglasAdams title orig translator image Image HitchhikerBookCover.jpg 150px image caption Cover of Hitchhiker A Biography of DouglasAdams author M.J. Simpson illustrator cover artist country USA language English language English series genre Biography publisher Justin, Charles and Company release date 2003 media type Hardcover isbn 1932112170 dewey 823 .914 B 22 congress PR6051.D3352 Z87 2003 oclc 53044893 pages 382 preceded by followed by Hitchhiker is a biography of comedy science fiction writer and creator of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy , DouglasAdams , who lived from 11 March 1952 to 11 May 2001. It is written by M. J. Simpson . bio book stub HitchhikerBooks Category Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Category 2003 books Category Biographies about writers ... more details
About the Indo Europeanist the humorist DouglasAdamsDouglas Quentin Adams is a professor of English language English at the University of Idaho and an Indo European languages Indo European comparativist. Adams studied at the University of Chicago , taking his PhD in 1972. He is an expert on Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclop dia Britannica . He has also co authored two works on Indo European culture and languages with J. P. Mallory of the Royal Irish Academy . He is a Linguistics Editor at the Journal of Indo European Studies , which Mallory founded. ref name jies cite web url http www.jies.org title Journal of Indo European Studies accessdate 2009 05 28 ref At the University of Idaho, Adams teaches courses on linguistics , and grammar and semantics for the English as a Second Language program. ref name uiInterview cite web url http www.uiargonaut.com content view 2209 89 title The University of Idaho Argonaut UI professor goes international format work accessdate name uiInterview ref Works cite book author Adams, Douglas Adam, Douglas Q. title Essential modern Greek grammar publisher Dover Publications location New York year 1987 pages isbn 0 486 25133 0 oclc doi accessdate name modernGreekGrammar cite book author Adams, Douglas title Tocharian historical ... author Hamp, Eric P. Adams, Douglas title Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp publisher Institute for the Study ... cite book author Adams, Douglas title A dictionary of Tocharian B url http books.google.com ... webpage at the University of Idaho English Department Persondata NAME Adams, Douglas Q. ALTERNATIVE ... DEFAULTSORT Adams, Douglas Q. Category American linguists Category Living people Category University ... stub de Douglas Quentin Adams fa ru , uk ... European Culture last Mallory first J. P. first2 D. Q. last2 Adams year 1997 publisher ... first J. P. last2 Adams first2 D. Q. year 2006 publisher Oxford University Press location ... more details
DouglasAdams at the BBC is a three CD set released by BBC Audio in 2004 ISBN 0 563 49404 2 . By using extracts from many radio and TV productions, the three discs cover DouglasAdams s association with BBC Radio and TV from 1974 to 2001, and also include tributes to Adams that were transmitted between 2001 and 2003. Subjects are covered in an A Z format thus becoming an A Z of DouglasAdams . Linking narration on all three discs is provided by Simon Jones actor Simon Jones . Several of the sketches, many of which are included for the first time since their original transmissions, had been discussed in biographies of Adams e.g. Don t Panic by Neil Gaiman and Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb author Nick Webb . In addition, the complete script for The Lost Hitchhiker Sketch appears in the 25th anniversary edition of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy The Original Radio Scripts . Disc one covers subjects A to G, disc two covers subjects H to P, and disc three covers subjects Q to Z. Subjects A Animals The Aye Aye Lemur and the Amazonian Manatee , with excerpts from the radio series version of Last Chance to See B The Burkiss Way , including sketches by Adams C Computer Games including the 1985 computer game adaptation of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy computer game The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy and Starship Titanic D Dirk Gently E Endangered Species F Footlights Revue G Graham Chapman H The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Future , Adams s final radio documentary series for BBC Radio 4 I The Internet J Keeping up with the Joneses an extract from Adams s radio tribute to Peter ... Plus , written by Adams. L continued Light Entertainment, including an extract from Black Cinderella ... from this 1970s radio series written by Adams. P Publishing and Performing Q Quiz Shows R The Rodrigues ... transmissions began. The earliest material on the set is from August 1974 with material Adams had ... to Adams from August and September 2001 and March 2003. Category Audiobooks Category Radio documentaries ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Douglas Township, Adams County settlement type Township United States Township nickname motto Images image skyline imagesize image caption image flag image seal Maps image map Map highlighting Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa.svg mapsize map caption image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location coordinates display inline,title coordinates region US IA subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name USA subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 flag Iowa subdivision type2 List of counties in Iowa County subdivision name2 Adams County, Iowa Adams government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 90.22 area land km2 90.04 area water km2 0.18 unit pref Imperial area total sq mi 34.83 area land sq mi 34.76 area water sq mi 0.07 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total 178 population density km2 2 population density sq mi 5.1 General information timezone utc offset timezone DST utc offset DST elevation footnotes GR 3 elevation m 329 elevation ft 1079 latd 41 latm 01 lats 52 latNS N longd 094 longm 52 longs 03 longEW W Area postal codes & others postal code type postal code area code blank name Federal Information Processing ... footnotes Douglas Township is one of twelve Township United States townships in Adams County, Iowa Adams County , Iowa , United States USA . As of the United States Census, 2000 2000 census , its population was 178. Geography Douglas Township covers an area of convert 34.83 sqmi km2 and contains ... localgov iowa.html US Counties.com http www.city data.com township DouglasAdams IA.html City Data.com Adams County, Iowa Category Townships in Adams County, Iowa Iowa geo stub es Municipio de Douglas condado de Adams, Iowa ja pl Gmina Douglas hrabstwo Adams ... more details
Infobox Book name DouglasAdams s Guide to The Hitch Hiker s Guide to the Galaxy title orig translator image Image GuideToHitchhikersGuide.jpg 150px image caption Box cover of DouglasAdams s Guide to The Hitch Hiker s Guide to the Galaxy author DouglasAdams and Debbie Barham illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy documentary genre Comedy novel Comedy , Science fiction novel Science fiction publisher BBC release date 1998 media type Audio cassette two tapes isbn 0 563 55236 0 oclc 60404787 preceded by followed by DouglasAdams s Guide to The Hitch Hiker s Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC Radio production sold as an audio book on two cassette tapes. The programme was first broadcast in 1998, marking the 20th anniversary of the The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases first radio programme in the Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy series . Tape one The first tape runs 55 minutes and is narrated by Peter Jones actor Peter Jones , who narrated the original radio series. It features comments by many of the people involved, telling how the series was created and how it developed. The participants are DouglasAdams , Simon Brett producer of the very first programme , Simon Jones actor Simon Jones Arthur Dent , Geoffrey McGivern Ford Prefect character Ford Prefect , Paddy Kingsland ... was written by Debbie Barham . Tape two The second tape runs 50 minutes and consists of DouglasAdams being interviewed by Iain Johnstone . Many topics are touched upon, often with surprising connections between them. Some of the topics discussed by DouglasAdams are University of Cambridge ... Dent really DouglasAdams, Simon Jones actor Simon Jones , light switches, Richard Dawkins ... Polly born when DouglasAdams was, you guessed it, 42 . Availability The product is no longer available ... Category Books by DouglasAdams Category Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Category ... more details
wiktionarypar AdamsAdams may refer to TOC right Adams surname Places The Moon Adams lunar crater New Zealand Adams River, New Zealand Philippines Adams, Ilocos Norte United States Adams, California Adams, California, former name of Corte Madera, California Adams, Decatur County, Indiana Adams, Morgan County, Indiana Adams, Massachusetts Adams, Minnesota Adams, North Dakota Adams, Nebraska Adams town , New York Adams village , New York Adams, Oklahoma Adams, Oregon Adams, Tennessee Adams, Wisconsin , city in Adams County Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin , town Adams, Green County, Wisconsin , town Adams, Jackson County, Wisconsin , town Transportation Vehicles Adams 1903 automobile , a British early 20th century automobile Adams automobile , a British early 20th century automobile 1905 14 Adams Farwell , a US American automobile of the 19th and early 20th century 1889 1912 Adams constructor , a former racing car constructor Vessels Adams brig , early 19th century ship USS Adams USS Adams , several ships Other uses Adams retailer , a children s clothes retailer Adams Grammar School , Newport, Shropshire, England Adams House disambiguation , a reference to any of several historic houses Adams Park , a football stadium in Buckinghamshire, England MSC.Adams , engineering software Adams, a jockstrap Brands brand of jockstrap Adams Musical Instruments Cadbury Adams , confectionery company acquired by Cadbury from Pfizer in 2003 See also lookfrom intitle Adam disambiguation Adams County disambiguation Adams Township disambiguation Mount Adams disambiguation Adamsburg, Pennsylvania Adamsdale disambiguation Adamstown disambiguation Adamsville disambiguation Addams disambiguation disambig Category Place name disambiguation pages bg ca Adams cs Adams de Adams es Adams fr Adams ko it Adams he ka lv Adamss hu Adams egy rtelm s t lap nl Adams ja no Adams pl Adams pt Adams ro Adams ru sk Adams fi Adams t smennyssivu sv Adams tr Adams uk vo Adams ... more details
wiktionarypar DouglasDouglas may refer to TOC right People Douglas given name Douglas surname Clan Douglas , a Scottish kindred Earl of Douglas , or any holder of the title Marquess of Douglas , or any holder of the title Duke of Douglas , or any holder of the title Lord Douglas disambiguation , for holders of various titles Places Australia Douglas, Queensland Canada Douglas, New Brunswick Douglas, Ontario , a community in Admaston Bromley township England River Douglas Lancashire Falkland Islands Douglas, Falkland Islands Ireland Douglas, Cork Isle of Man Douglas, Isle of Man , the capital of the dependency, and seat of the House of Keys New Zealand Douglas, Taranaki Douglas, Canterbury Northern Ireland Douglas, County Antrim , a List of townlands in County Antrim townland in County Antrim South Africa Douglas, Northern Cape Scotland Castle Douglas , Dumfries and Galloway Douglas, South Lanarkshire Douglas Castle , South Lanarkshire Douglas Water , Lanarkshire Glen Douglas , Argyll and Bute United States Douglas, Alabama Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Arizona Douglas, Georgia Douglas, Chicago , Illinois Douglas, Indiana Douglas, Massachusetts Douglas, Michigan Douglas, Nebraska Douglas, North Dakota Douglas, Oklahoma Douglas, Wisconsin , a town Douglas Center, Wisconsin , an unincorporated community Douglas, Wyoming Businesses Douglas Aircraft Company Various List of aircraft C D Douglas Aircraft Corporation Douglas built aircraft Douglas AG , European retail company Douglas motorcycles , British motorcycle manufacturer Hospitals Douglas Mental Health University Institute , a mental institution in Montreal, Quebec Fiction Donald and Douglas , engines from Thomas the Tank Engine ... s 1 Saturday Morning Douglas play Douglas play , an 18th century tragedy by John Home Douglas film Douglas film , a 1970 Norwegian film directed by P l Bang Hansen Plants The Douglas Iris , a wildflower The Douglas fir , the common name for a type of coniferous tree Sports The Douglas GAA , a Gaelic ... more details
Cleanup date October 2009 Infobox scientist name Alexander Sandy Shafto Douglas image image size caption ... Shafto Douglas CBE 21 May 1921 29 April 2010 was a Great Britain British professor of computer science ... url http books.google.com books?id E4 pXc IEtsC&pg PA538&dq Alexander Sandy Douglas Noughts and Crosses&ei ... and Crosses game , http www.pong story.com Pong Story . ref Douglas died in sleep on April 29, 2010, from pneumonia . ref name obituary cite journal title Obituary. Alexander Sandy Shafto Douglas ... bxq054 ref Biography Early life Douglas was born on May 21, 1921 in London . At age eight, his family ... In the winter of 1938 39, Douglas and his future wife Andrey Parker made a snowman in the grounds of the Natural History Museum . Douglas and his wife would go on to have two children and at least two grandsons. During the London Blitz Blitz , in 1940 41, Douglas s Home Guard United Kingdom Home .... Cambridge Douglas attended the University of Cambridge in 1950. In 1952, while working towards earning ..., 1948 . This gave Douglas the perfect opportunity to prove his findings by programming the code for a simple ... Elected as a Prize Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge , Douglas spends a year at the University ... Chapel on Woodhouse Lane. Douglas set up the Computer Laboratory of the University of Leeds , and it was there that he ... Party to explore the creation of a national system for handling university admissions. Douglas was appointed ... President 1971 1972 . A. S. Douglas CBE Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications ... Council for Computer Communication. London School of Economics A S Douglas, CBE MA PhD Cantab BSc EstMan ... Douglas covering topics in Atomic Physics, Crystallography, Solution of Differential Equations, Computer ... and Transportation Industries, and in the Printing Industry. Douglas, Alexander Shafto May 18 ... an Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 27 April 1972, by Alexander Shafto Douglas Publisher London ... Journal, October 1970 Computers in the Seventies , Alexander Sandy Douglas. Computer Networks, Volume ... more details
question and answer column, The Straight Dope DouglasAdams 1952 2001 , British comic radio dramatist ... Adams 1868 1951 , US astronomer Douglas Q. Adams , Indo European comparativist Edward Dean Adams ...Infobox family name name Adams image imagesize caption pronunciation meaning Son of Adam region England ... ?link Adams&q node 2 Celtic Surname Maps origins ref ref name origin1 Adams is a common ... name origin1 Citation title Last name Adams work Surname Database publisher Name Origin Research url http www.surnamedb.com Surname Adams accessdate 31 August 2011 archivedate 12 August 2010 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20100812052731 http www.surnamedb.com Surname Adams quote This interesting surname is a patronymic of Adam.... ref People with the surname Adams Politics and law Abigail Adams 1744 1818 , U.S. First Lady Brock Adams 1927 2004 , U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Washington Campbell W. Adams 1852 1930 , NY State Engineer and Surveyor 1894 1898 Charles Francis Adams, Sr. 1807 1886 , U.S. congressman, ambassador Dick Adams politician born 1951 , Australian politician Gabriel Adams 1790 1864 , Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Gerry Adams born 1948 , Irish Republican politician, President of Sinn F in Henry Cullen Adams 1850 1906 , U.S. Representative from Wisconsin Irene Adams, Baroness Adams of Craigielea born 1947 , Scottish politician John Adams 1735 1826 , second U.S. President John Adams major general , Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment John Adams New York , US Congressman from New York John Quincy Adams 1767 1848 , sixth U.S. President Judith Adams born 1943 , Australian Senator Philip Adams 1915 2001 , British diplomat Platt Adams politician 1792 1887 , New York politician Robert Adams, Jr. 1849 1906 , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Robert H. Adams 1792 1830 , U.S. Senator from Mississippi Samuel Adams 1722 1803 , American revolutionary Samuel Adams governor 1805 1850 , Governor of Arkansas Thomas Adams politician 1730 1788 ... more details
Douglas Township may refer to the following townships in the United States TOC right Illinois Douglas Township, Clark County, Illinois Douglas Township, Effingham County, Illinois Douglas Township, Iroquois County, Illinois Iowa main List of Iowa townships Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa Douglas Township, Appanoose County, Iowa Douglas Township, Audubon County, Iowa Douglas Township, Boone County, Iowa Douglas Township, Bremer County, Iowa Douglas Township, Clay County, Iowa Douglas Township, Harrison County, Iowa Douglas Township, Ida County, Iowa Douglas Township, Madison County, Iowa Douglas Township, Mitchell County, Iowa Douglas Township, Montgomery County, Iowa Douglas Township, Page County, Iowa Douglas Township, Polk County, Iowa Douglas Township, Sac County, Iowa Douglas Township, Shelby County, Iowa Douglas Township, Union County, Iowa Douglas Township, Webster County, Iowa Kansas main List of Kansas townships Douglas Township, Jackson County, Kansas Douglas Township, Stafford County, Kansas Minnesota Douglas Township, Dakota County, Minnesota Nebraska Douglas Township, Saunders County, Nebraska North Dakota main List of North Dakota townships Douglas Township, McLean County, North Dakota See also Douglass Township disambiguation Geodis Category Township name disambiguation pages de Douglas Township ... more details
North Adams can refer to several places in the United States North Adams, Massachusetts North Adams, Michigan disambig de North Adams it North Adams nl North Adams pl North Adams pt North Adams vo North Adams ... more details
Dick Adams is the name of Dick Adams politician born 1951 , Australian politician Dick Adams baseball born 1920 , former MLB player Dick Adams football player , CFL player See also Rick Adams disambiguation Richard Adams disambiguation Dick disambiguation Adams disambiguation hndis name Adams, Dick DEFAULTSORT Adams, Dick ... more details
Christine Adams may refer to Christine Adams actress , English actress Christine Adams athlete , German athlete born 1974 hndis Adams, Christine de Christine Adams ... more details
J. Adams may refer to Jeff Adams , Canadian Paralympian Jeffrey Adams mathematician John Adams disambiguation J. Adams aircraft constructor disambig ... more details
Colin Adams is the name of Colin Adams executive , British TV executive Colin Adams mathematician born 1956 , mathematician and author Hndis name Adams, Colin DEFAULTSORT Adams, Colin ... more details
Adams is the name of the following places in the U.S. state of Indiana Adams railroad junction , Adams Township, Allen County, Indiana Adams, Decatur County, Indiana Adams, Morgan County, Indiana geodis ... more details
Adams Glacier may refer to Adams Glacier Mount Adams , Washington, United States Adams Glacier Wilkes Land , Antarctica Adams Glacier Victoria Land , Antarctica Disambig ... more details
Adams County is the name of twelve counties in the United States Adams County, Colorado Adams County, Idaho Adams County, Illinois Adams County, Indiana Adams County, Iowa Adams County, Mississippi Adams County, Nebraska Adams County, North Dakota Adams County, Ohio Adams County, Pennsylvania Adams County, Washington Adams County, Wisconsin geodis uscounty ca Comtat d Adams cs Adams County cy Swydd Adams de Adams County es Condado de Adams fr Comt d Adams it Contea di Adams nl Adams County ja no Adams County nds Adams County pl Hrabstwo Adams pt Condado de Adams ro Comitatul Adams ru fi Adamsin piirikunta sv Adams County vi Qu n Adams zh ... more details
Infobox Company company name Adams Cable Service company logo Image Digital cable msg.png 210px company type Private company slogan Never a Dull Moment foundation 1949 location Carbondale, Pennsylvania Carbondale , Pennsylvania key people DouglasAdams, President & CEO br Wendy Hartman, General Manager industry Telecommunications , Entertainment products Cable television , Internet Service Provider , VoIP homepage http www.adamscable.com Adams Cable is a local cable television and Internet provider that serves northeast Pennsylvania along with rural Broome, Chenango and Delaware counties in New York . Current products available are analog and digital cable television, HD TV HD television programming, echoes.net Broadband Internet service, and digital phone service. Current Systems Waymart, Pennsylvania covers east Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Lackawanna County, PA and western Wayne County, Pennsylvania Wayne County, PA . New Milford, Pennsylvania covers eastern and northern Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Susquehanna County, PA and northern Wayne County, PA. Windsor, New York covers rural Broome County, New York Broome and Chenango County, New York Chenango counties in New York. Also covers the town of Deposit, NY. References references External links http www.adamscable.com Adams Cable CATV USA Category Cable television companies of the United States Category Companies established in 1949 Category Companies based in Pennsylvania telecom company stub ... more details
Herbert Adams may refer to Herbert Baxter Adams 1850 1901 , American educator and historian Herbert Adams carmaker Herbert Adams , maker of the Adams Farwell automobile Herbert Adams novelist 1874 1952 , English writer Herb Adams politician , Maine politician Herbert Adams sculptor 1858 1945 , American sculptor Herb Adams born 1928 , baseball player hndis name Adams, Herbert DEFAULTSORT Adams, Herbert de Herbert Adams ... more details
Nancy Adams may refer to Nancy Adams, former wife of Bud Adams , owner of Tennessee Titans Nancy Adams botanist 1926 2007 , botanist from New Zealand hndis Adams, Nancy es Nancy Adams ... more details
Brooke Adams may refer to Brooke Adams actress born 1949 , American actress Brooke Adams model born 1984 , American professional model, dancer and wrestler hndis name Adams, Brooke DEFAULTSORT Adams, Brooke fr Brooke Adams it Brooke Adams nl Brooke Adams ... more details
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