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Ado's theorem In mathematics, Ado's theorem states that every finite-dimensional Lie algebra L over a field K of characteristic zero can be viewed as a Lie algebra of square matrices under the commutator bracket. More precisely, the theorem states that L has a linear representation ρ over K, on a finite-dimensional vector space V, that is a faithful representation, making L isomorphic to a subalgebra of the endomorphisms of V.
Adobada Adobada, literally Spanish for "marinated", is a dish common in Salvadoran cuisine similar to tacos. Adobada is generally pork marinated in a "red" chili sauce with vinegar and oregano, but can refer to different types of meat, and to marinates closer to Al pastor.
Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems. It can be used in film post-production, and in the creation of television commercials, as well as other pieces which require digital effects to be integrated with live video or film.
Adobe Audition Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio editor computer program from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view. Originally, Cool Edit was a shareware program with some crippleware features.
Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite 2 (CS2) in May, 2005. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Connect Adobe Connect is software used with Microsoft PowerPoint to create information and general presentations, online training materials, web conferencing, and learning modules. Supported by Adobe Flash multimedia interaction is available.
Adobe Contribute Adobe Contribute (formerly Macromedia Contribute), currently in its fourth version, is a software application for editing the content of a website. It is a desktop application allowing a wide variety of people within an organization to update web pages by reducing the amount of web design skills necessary for the process.
Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development tool, created by Macromedia (now Adobe Systems), which is currently in version 8. Initial versions of the application served as simple WYSIWYG HTML editors but more recent versions have incorporated notable support for many other web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting frameworks.
Adobe Flash Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash; originally FutureSplash Animator), or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies). The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (which acquired Macromedia in 2005), is a client application available in most common web browsers.
Adobe Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is a widely distributed multimedia and application player created and distributed by Macromedia (a division of Adobe Systems). Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, Adobe Flex or a number of other Macromedia and third party tools.
Adobe Flex Adobe Flex is an umbrella term for a group of technologies initially released in March of 2004 by Macromedia to support the development and deployment of rich Internet applications based on their proprietary Macromedia Flash platform.
Adobe Glyph List The Adobe Glyph List (AGL) is a mapping of 4,281 glyph names to one or more Unicode characters. Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for consumers of fonts (mainly software applications); it lists a variety of standard names that are given to glyphs that correspond to certain Unicode character sequences.
Adobe Jenson Adobe Jenson is a typeface drawn for Adobe Systems by type designer Robert Slimbach. Its roman styles are based on a Venetian oldstyle text face cut by Nicolas Jenson in 1470, and its italics are based on those by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi.
Adobe LiveMotion Adobe LiveMotion was a product created by Adobe Systems released in 2000 and perceived as a direct competitor to Macromedia Flash. It replaced the discontinued Adobe ImageStyler program, which Adobe had sold from 1998 to 2000.
Adobe PageMaker PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language.
Adobe Persuasion Adobe Persuasion (formerly Aldus Persuasion) was a presentation program developed for the Mac platform by Aldus Corporation. After it was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1994, when the two companies merged, a Microsoft Windows version was released.
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and, in addition to Adobe Acrobat, is one of the best-known pieces of software produced by Adobe Systems.
Adobe Photoshop Album Adobe Photoshop Album is a software application by Adobe Systems designed to import, organize and edit digital photos, and allows quick and easy searching and sharing of entire photo collections. It is often compared to Apple Computer's iPhoto and Google's Picasa.
Adobe Photoshop Elements Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop raster image editing product, sold at a fraction (roughly 1/6th) of the cost of the professional product or bundled with related hardware such as scanners and digital cameras.
Adobe Premiere Elements Adobe Premiere Elements is a video editing software application for non-linear video editing, published by Adobe Systems. It is a scaled-down version of the professional-level Adobe Premiere Pro, and is optionally bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Adobe RGB color space The Adobe RGB color space is an RGB color space developed by Adobe Systems in 1998. It was designed to encompass most of the colors achievable on CMYK color printers, but by using RGB primary colors on a device such as the computer display.
Adobe Shockwave Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the advent of Adobe Flash, called Macromedia Flash at that time. In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s.
Adobe Streamline Adobe Streamline is the name of a discontinued line tracing program made by Adobe Systems. Some feel it is no longer needed, as more powerful tracing capabilities can be found in Adobe Illustrator 9, CS and CS2.
Adobe Transient Witticisms Adobe Transient Witticisms is the name coined for an Easter egg appearing in several versions of Adobe Photoshop. The easter egg can be viewed by accessing the alternate splash screen (in Mac OS this involves holding down the "command" key while choosing "About Photoshop" in the application menu; in Windows, hold Ctrl) and then option-clicking in the white space immediately above the scrolling credits.
Adobe Type Adobe Systems’ division of typography is an innovator in font technology and design, Adobe was a forerunner in the development of PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font formats and OpenType technology, as well as being an established digital type foundry.
Adobe Version Cue Adobe Version Cue is a computer program sold by Adobe Systems, usually as a part of the suite of applications called Adobe Creative Suite. Version Cue is meant to enable users to easily track and manipulate file metadata, which is information about the history of computer files, such as the fact that one file is a new version of a related older file.
Adobo Adobo is the Spanish word for seasoning or marinade. The noun form is used to describe the actual marinade or seasoning mix, and the term used for a meat which has been marinated/seasoned with an adobo is referred to having been adobada.
Adolat Adolat (Uzbek: Justice) is a vigilante organization that first appeared in 1991 in the Uzbek city of Namangan. Adolat members, mostly Islamic, Uzbek youths, attacked anyone who violated the most extreme of Islamic law.
Adolescence Adolescence (Latin adolescentia, from adolescere, to grow up) is the period of psychological, social, and physical transition between childhood and adulthood (gender-specific, manhood or womanhood). In common usage in western, English language countries, "adolescent" and "teenager" may be considered synonyms (though it should be noted that the term 'teenager' is an artifact of the English counting system, not something that occurs in most languages), though the exact endpoints of each category don't always coincide depending on the definition of "adolescent" being used.
Adolescent medicine Adolescent medicine is a medical subspecialty that focuses on care of patients who are in the adolescent period of development. Patients have generally entered puberty, which typically begins between the ages of 9 to 11 for girls, and 11 to 13 for boys.
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, written by Don Chin and originally illustrated by Parsonavich and later by Sam Kieth, initially published by Eclipse Comics and later on by Parody Press, was the first unofficial spoof of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This puts it in the unusual class of "parody of a parody" as the TMNT started as parody of several of Frank Miller's martial arts related comics.
Adolescent sexuality in India In India there is growing evidence that adolescents are becoming more sexually active outside of marriage. It is feared that his will lead to to an increase in spread of HIV/AIDS among adolescents, increase the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, and give rise to conflict between contemporary social values.
Adolf Adolf, or Adolph, was a popular given name, especially in the German-speaking countries and in Scandinavia, but is rarely given today because of the association with Adolf Hitler. It derived from the Old High German Athalwolf, a composition of athal, or adal, meaning noble, and wolf, meaning wolf; in sequence, making Adolf another portmanteau.
Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a famous German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess. He had a long and distinguished chess career, at times considered the leading player in the world, and world famous for his sparkling play even today.
Adolf Østbye Adolf Østbye (February 1868-September 5 1907, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway) was a revue artist and barber who became the first Norwegian recording artist. The earliest playable Norwegian phonograph cylinder dates from 1889.
Adolf Bastian Adolf Bastian (1826-1905; see Bremen, German Confederation 26 June 1826 - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2 February 1905) was a 19th century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline.
Adolf Daens Adolf Daens (18 December 1839 – 14 June 1907) was a Belgian Flemish priest from Aalst. He created the Daensism movement from which originated in 1893 the Christene Volkspartij inspired by Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum.
Adolf Dymsza Adolf Dymsza born Adolf Bagiński on 7 April, 1900 in Warsaw, died 20 August , 1975 in Góra Kalwaria was a very popular and remarkable Polish comedy actor of both the pre-World War II and post-war eras. He starred in both theatre and film productions mainly before the World War II.
Adolf Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Adolf Engler Adolf Engler (1844 – 1930) was a German botanist, perhaps "The German Botanist". He is very important for his work on Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The natural plant families), edited with Karl A.
Adolf Eugen Fick Adolf Eugen Fick (born 3 September, 1829, in Kassel, Germany; died 21 August, 1901, in Blankenberghe, Flandern) was a German physiologist usually credited with the invention of contact lenses. He earned a 1851 doctorate at Marburg in medicine.
Adolf Fischhof Adolf Fischhof (Hungarian: Fischhof Adolf) (December 8, 1816, Alt-Ofen/Ă“buda, Hungary - March 23, 1893, Emmersdorf, near Klagenfurth, Carinthia) was a Hungarian-Austrian writer and politician of Jewish descent.
Adolf Furtwängler Adolf Furtwängler (June 30, 1853 - October 10, 1907) was a famous German archaeologist and art historian. He was the father of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and mathematician Philipp Furtwängler, and grandfather of the German archaeologist Andreas Furtwängler.
Adolf Grabowsky Adolf Grabowsky (August 31, 1880, Berlin - August 23, 1969, Arlesheim, Switzerland) was a German political scientist and author of several books about geopolitics and political theory, including "Democracy and Dictatorship" (1949).
Adolf HĂĽhnlein Adolf HĂĽhnlein (November 12 1881 Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany - June 18 1942, Munich) was a soldier and Nazi Party official. He was the KorpsfĂĽhrer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) from 1934 to his death in 1942.
Adolf Heusinger Adolf Heusinger (August 4, 1897 — November 30, 1982) was a German general during World War II and served as the first Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, the West German armed forces, after the war. He then served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee before retiring in 1964.
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Führer" (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
Adolf Hitler's inspection of the German Workers' Party Corporal Adolf Hitler was ordered in September, 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP), which had only 54 members at the time, including 6 core members. The use of the term "workers" attracted the attention of the German Army which was now involved in crushing Marxist uprisings.
Adolf Hitler's personal standard Adolf Hitler's personal standard was designed after Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg died on 2 Aug 1934. Adolf Hitler abolished the title "Reichspräsident" and in its place instituted the title of "Führer" which henceforth could only be used when referring to him personally.
Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs have been a matter of dispute, in part because of apparently inconsistent statements made by and attributed to him. The relationship between Nazism and religion was complex and shifting over the period of the party's existence and during its years in power.
Adolf Holl Adolf Holl (born 1930) is an Austrian Catholic writer and theologian of international reputation. He lives in Vienna, where he was Chaplain of the University of Vienna and a lecturer in its Department of Catholic Theology.
Adolf Hubert van Scherpenzeel-Thim Adolf Hubert van Scherpenzeel-Thim was the second Mayor of the tiny Moresnet from February 21, 1859 – May 30, 1859. The city-state was declared neutral and independent as part of an agreement by larger neighbors the Netherlands, Prussia and Belgium.
Adolf Hurwitz Adolf Hurwitz (26 March 1859- 18 November 1919), (IPA pronunciation: ) was a German mathematician, and was described by Jean-Pierre Serre as "one of the most important figures in mathematics in the second half of the nineteenth century"Always something good in Hurwitz, source unknown.
Adolf I of Berg Adolf I of Berg, count of Berg from 1077 until 1082, Vogt of Werden, Deutz, Berg and Gerresheim (died 1086), son of Adolf II of Lotharingia count of Keldachgau, Vogt of Deutz (born 1002, died 1041). He left one son:
Adolf II of Berg Adolf II of Berg-Hövel (Huvili), count of Berg, count in Auelgau and Siegburg, Vogt of Werden (died 1090/1106), son of Adolf I of Berg. He married in 1035 Adelheid von Laufen, a daughter of Heinrich II count von Laufen (died 1067) and Ida von Werl-Hövel (born 1030?
Adolf III Adolf III of Berg count of Berg from 1093 until 1132, and count of Hövel from 1090 until 1106, Vogt of Werden (born 1080, died 12 Oct 1152), son of Adolf II of Berg-Hövel , count of Berg, and Adelheid von Laufen.
Adolf IV Adolf IV of Berg count of Berg from 1132 until 1160 and of Altena (died after 1161), son of Adolf III of Berg count of Berg and Hövel. He married (1st) Adelheid von Arnsberg, a daughter of Heinrich count von Rietberg; then (2nd) Irmgard (?
Adolf Jellinek Adolf Jellinek (June 26, 1821 Drslavice near Uherské Hradiště, now Czech Republic - December 29, 1893 Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig, he became a preacher at the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna in 1856.
Adolf Lande Adolf Lande served for many years as secretary of the Permanent Central Narcotics Board and the Drug Supervisory Body (two international drug organs) and was the primary drafter of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. He also wrote the Commentary of both the Single Convention and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
Adolf Neubauer Adolf Neubauer (March 11, 1831–1907) was sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University. Born at Bittse, Hungary, he received a thorough education in rabbinical literature, and his earliest contributions were made to the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums and the Journal Asiatique (Dec.
Adolf Paul Adolf Paul (6 January 1863 in Bromö, Vänersee – 30 September 1943 in Berlin) was a German / Swedish / Finnish writer. He along with figures such as August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, and Stanisław Przybyszewski was one of the circle of artists who gathered at the tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel (the 'Black Piglet') in Berlin.
Adolf Pilar von Pilchau Adolf Konstantin Jakob Baron Pilar von Pilchau (23 May 1851 in Audru, Estonia – 17 June 1925 in Pärnu, Estonia) was a landlord of Audru and a Baltic German politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy (1918).
Adolf Reichwein Adolf Reichwein (born 3 October 1898 in Bad Ems; died 20 October 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed) was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD. He was also a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany.
Adolf Seilacher Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher (b. 24th February 1925) is a German palaeontologist who has made remarkable contributions to many areas of evolutionary and ecological palaeobiology in a career stretching over 60 years.
Adolf Schärf Adolf Schärf (April 20, 1890, Mikulov — February 28, 1965, Vienna) was from 1957 to his death the president of the Republic of Austria. As an educated lawyer, he had been the secretary of the social democratic president of the Nationalrat during the years of the first republic (1918-1934) and served on the Bundesrat 1933-1934.
Adolf Stern Adolf Stern (real name, Adolf Ernst) (1835-1907) was a German literary historian and poet, born in Leipzig. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena, and in 1868 was appointed professor of the history of literature in the Polytechnikum of Dresden.
Adolf Stoecker Adolf Stoecker (December 11, 1835 - February 2, 1909) was the court chaplain to Kaiser Wilhelm, a politician, and an antisemitic German theologian who founded one of the first antisemitic political parties in Germany, the Christian Social Party.
Adolf Tolkachev Adolf Tolkachev (born 1927, Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan; died 1986) was a Soviet Union electronics engineer who provided key documents to the CIA over the years between 1979 and 1985. Working at the Soviet radar design house Phazotron as one of the chief designers, Tolkachev gave the CIA complete information about such projects as the R-23, R-24, R-33, R-27, and R-60, S-300; fighter-interceptor aircraft radars used on the MiG-29, MiG-31, and Su-27; and other avionics.
Adolf von Baeyer Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen.
Adolf von Liebenberg Adolf von Liebenberg, or Ritter Adolf Liebenberg von/de Zsittin (September 15, 1851, Como, Lombardy - May 6, 1920, Vienna) was a Austrian resercher for the farm products (Getreidewissenschaft(ler), Agrarfachmann).
Adolf von Sonnenthal Adolf von Sonnenthal (December 21 1834-1909), Austrian actor, was born of Jewish parentage in Budapest. Though brought up in penury and apprenticed to a working tailor, he cultivated his talent for drama, and was fortunate in receiving the support of a co-religionist, the actor Bogumil Dawison, who trained him for the stage.
Adolf von Thadden Adolf von Thadden (July 7 1921–July 16 1996 in Bad Oeynhausen) was a leading far right German politician. Born into a leading Pomeranian landowning family, he was the brother of Elisabeth von Thadden, a prominent critic of the Nazis.
Adolf VI Adolf VI of Berg, count of Berg from 1189 until 1218 (born about 1185, killed in Damiette on 7 Aug 1218 during the Hungarian crusade against Egypt), son of Engelbert I of Berg, count of Berg (1150-1189) and Margaret of Geldern.
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (December 2 1949 – June 5 2005) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq.
Adolfo Alsina Adolfo Alsina (born January 4 1829 in Buenos Aires - died December 29 1877) was an Argentine lawyer and Unitarian politician, and one of the founders of the Partido Autonomista and the Partido Autonomista Nacional.
Adolfo Caminha Adolfo Ferreira Caminha, more commonly known as Adolfo Caminha, is an Brazilian writer, who was born in Aracati city, state of Ceará, on May 29 1867. He died in Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro, on January 1, 1897.
Adolfo Díaz Adolfo Díaz (1877–1964) was President of Nicaragua 1911-1917 and 1926-1929. Born in Costa Rica, in 1875, he worked as a secretary for the La Luz y Los Angeles Mining Company, an American company chartered in Delaware that owned the large gold mines around La Sinua in eastern Nicaragua.
Adolfo Farsari Adolfo Farsari (11 February 1841 – 7 February 1898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer.
Adolfo Horta Adolfo Horta (born March 10, 1957 in Camaguey) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) at age 22 at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he was beaten by East Germany's Rudi Fink on points (1-4).
Adolfo MĂĽller-Ury Adolfo MĂĽller-Ury (1862-1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter. He was born Felice Adolfo Muller on March 29, 1862 at Airolo, in the Ticino in Switzerland, into a prominent patrician family whose lineage included mercenaries, lawyers, hoteliers and businessmen.
Adolfo PĂ©rez Esquivel Adolfo PĂ©rez Esquivel (born November 26, 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. He is noted for leading protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas and for alleging that the Argentinan police are forming children into paramilitary squads, an operation he compares to the creation of Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth.
Adolfo Pedernera Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (November 18, 1918 - May 12, 1995), born in Avellaneda, Argentina, was a football (soccer) player and coach. He was involved with several teams such as Club Atlético Huracán, Club Atlético River Plate (known as "La Máquina" or "The Machine"), Club Atlético Atlanta, and Millonarios (known as "El Ballet Azul" or "The Blue Dance").
Adolfo Scilingo Adolfo Scilingo (b. 1947) is a former Argentine naval officer who is currently serving 30 years (the legally applied limit, although he was sentenced to 640 years) in a Spanish prison after being convicted on April 19, 2005 for crimes against humanity.
Adolfo Suárez Don Adolfo Suárez González, Duke of Suárez (in Spanish: Don Adolfo Suárez González, Duque de Suárez) (born September 25, 1932) was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. He studied Law at the Complutense University in Madrid and held several government posts during the late Francoist regime.
Adolfo Tapia Adolfo Tapia Ibarra better known as La Parka is a professional wrestler from Mexico most famous to American fans for his days as "The Chairman of WCW." He currently wrestles as LA Par-K since Triple A owns the rights for the La Parka gimmick.
Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti (13 February 1823, Florence – 18 September 1902) was an Italian entomologist specialising in Homoptera. He was Professor of Botany and Zoology in Florence associated with Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze where his collection remains (La Specola)
Adolfo Valencia Adolfo José Valencia Mosquera (born February 6, 1968 in Buenaventura, Colombia) is a soccer striker who has played all over the world. He was a major part of the Colombian national team during the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cups.
Adolfo ZaldĂ­var Miguel Adolfo ZaldĂ­var LarraĂ­n (born September 13 1943), is a former president of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile (Democracia Cristiana, PDC). He is married to MarĂ­a Alicia LarraĂ­n Shaux and has six children.
Adolfo's catfish Adolfo's catfish, Corydoras adolfoi, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Negro River basin in Brazil.
Adolph Alexander Weinman Adolph Alexander Weinman (December 11, 1870 – August 8, 1952) was an American sculptor, born in Karlsruhe, Germany. He arrived in the United States at age 10 after which he studied at Cooper Union and Art Students League and with sculptors Augustus St.
Adolph Beck case The Adolph Beck case was a notorious case of wrongful conviction by mistaken identity, brought about by unreliable methods of identification, erroneous – though probably sincere – eyewitness testimony, and the failure of the English legal system to seek out the truth in its rush to convict. As one of the most famous causes célèbres of its time, the case led to the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907.
Adolph Fischer Adolph Fischer (1858 or 1861 - November 11, 1887) was an anarchist and labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, along with Albert Parsons, August Spies, and George Engel. He, along with his brother Frederick Fischer, were coopers in Chicago by 1880.
Adolph Green Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday. Although many people thought they were, the pair were not married, but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decades-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits.
Adolph Herseth Adolph Sylvester (Bud) Herseth, (born July 25, 1921 in Lake Park, MN), was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest orchestral trumpeters of his generation.
Adolph I, Duke of Cleves Adolph I of Cleves was born on 2 August 1373 to Adolph III Comte de la Mark and Margaret of Julich. He married Marie of Burgundy daughter of John II of Burgundy and Margaret of Bavaria, they had the following issue:
Adolph Jentsch Adolph Jentsch was a famous German-born Namibian artist, born in Dresden, Germany in 1888, and died in Windhoek, Namibia (formerly South West Africa) in 1977. He studied at Dresden Staatsakademie fĂĽr Bildende Kunste for six years, and used a travel grant award to visit France, Italy, UK and The Netherlands.
Adolph Joffe Adolph Abramovich Joffe (Russian: Адольф Абрамович Иоффе, alternative transliterations Adolf Ioffe or, rarely, Yoffe, Chinese: 越飛) (October 10 1883 (Simferopol) – November 16 1927, Moscow) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat.
Adolph Marix Adolph Marix (April 24, 1848-1919), was an American officer in the United States Navy, who served in the Spanish-American War. The former executive officer of the battleship USS Maine, he served as recorder on the court of inquiry which investigated the ship's explosion in 1898.
Adolph Rupp Adolph Friedrich Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is the third winningest men's college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching, and set a remarkable standard of excellence.
Adolph StrĂĽmpell Adolph StrĂĽmpell (June 29, 1853 -- 1925); full name Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von StrĂĽmpell was a German neurologist and educator whose medical career was spent in several European cities, including Leipzig, Erlangen and Heidelberg.

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