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September 30

A Sex guide, which was it?

Long back I did come across an excellent book on the subject. Tragically don't recall it's author or even title. Maybe it was by someones called "The Diagram Group", and the a person name as "Masters" was on the cover as coauthour or reviewer (or one of 'em). And one astounding fact that it told the reader was that the Eskimos let have their guests have their wives along with shelter. Can someone please recall and tell which book it was ?125.62.116.205 (talk) 08:18, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Masters and Johnson? --47.138.161.183 (talk) 08:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

FYI, The Straight Dope has a fairly detailed overview of the whole Eskimo thing here. I don't recall that M&J reported anything about Eskimo or Inuit sex. Matt Deres (talk) 15:43, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Thomas_Adams_(politician)

The article doesn't mention is Thomas Adams was related to John and Samuel or not.42.113.33.10 (talk) 14:13, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Thomas is a very common name. Adams is also a very common name. It is possible that this guy just has the name Adams, but really has no kinship to John or Samuel Adams. Or he may be a relative so distant that he's not considered a relative anymore. A similar note, many Greeks were called Aristotle, but they were separate individuals. 50.4.236.254 (talk) 16:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

[Edit Conflict] He's not mentioned in the article Adams political family (Thomas Adams was of course a close contemporary of John Adams, being only 5 years older). Moreover, John Adams (and relatives) stemmed from the family of Henry Adams of Braintree, Essex (in England), whose own article makes no mention of Thomas; neither does that of Henry's brother Jeremy Adams, who also emigrated from Essex to the location of what became Braintree, Massachusetts.

Samuel Adams, 8 years older than Thomas and described as a second cousin of John Adams' son John Quincy Adams, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, as was his father Samuel Adams Sr.. This makes close connections with Thomas Adams, born in Virginia, less rather than more likely.

Since Adams is a fairly common family name, which doesn't originate from a particular place, but from a forbear's personal name, there's no reason to suppose any family connection between Thomas and John or Samuel. Of course, genealogy being what it is, any two people in 15–16th-century England will almost certainly have some distant connection in the past, but that would be outside the scope of what we normally consider "related" in this context. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.217.210.199 (talk) 16:53, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

First recorded surname Adams was in Cheshire in 1281, according to this page. Alansplodge (talk) 21:52, 1 October 2017 (UTC)