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Alger and once
The reader may speculate what Cinderella achieved as Queen and what an Alger hero attained once his middle class status was stabilized and " t is this commonality that fixes Horatio Alger firmly in the ranks of modern adaptors of the Cinderella myth ".
Scharnhorst writes that Alger " exercised a certain discretion in discussing his probable homosexuality " and was known to have mentioned his sexuality only once after the Brewster incident.

Alger and only
He attended a children's church service at Five Points which led to " John Maynard ", a ballad about an actual shipwreck on Lake Erie that brought Alger not only the respect of the literati but a letter from Longfellow.
Two other Republicans mentioned for the senatorial nomination, Thad Hutcheson, who had sought Texas ' other Senate seat in a special election in 1957, and Bruce Alger, the only Republican congressman from Texas at the time, were both uninterested.
" Rimmer has stated that his greatest influences came from reading books, since this was the only real available entertainment in his developmental years, especially reading of his heroes such as Benjamin Franklin and the " Bound to Rise " heroes of Horatio Alger, as well as Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, and the unexpurgated Arabian Nights.
At this point, Alger disappeared from the historical record of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, only to have a number of stories about her relationship with Smith arise during the late nineteenth century.
Her intelligence work only ended with the war and in 1947 she came clean and testified at the second trial of Alger Hiss.
Although only two North African teams had ever won the title before 1981-Egypt's Ismaily in 1969, and Algeria's MC Alger in 1976-since then, North Africa's teams have dominated the championship, between them winning the title on no fewer than 22 out of the last 28 tournaments.
Image: RussellAlgersfoundGCircParkdetroit. jpg | Russell Alger Memorial Fountain is the only Daniel Chester French statue in Detroit.

Alger and 100
Alger published about 100 poems and odes, most written by 1875.

Alger and between
* 1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
* August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
Although he continued to write for boys, Alger explored subjects like violence and " openness in the relations between the sexes and generations "; Hoyt attributes this shift to the decline of Puritan ethics in America.
He observes that it is impossible to know whether Alger lived the life of a secret homosexual, " ut there are hints that the male companionship he describes as a refuge from the streets — the cozy domestic arrangements between Dick and Fosdick, for example — may also be an erotic relationship ".
The prothonotary warbler became known in the 1940s as the bird that, in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, established a connection between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
He was a journalist at the daily ' Alger républicain ' between 1949 and 1951, his first great reportages coming from Saudi Arabia and Sudan ( Khartoum ).
He resumed writing for ' Alger républicain ' but traveled frequently between 1963 and 1967 to Moscow, France and Germany.
H-13 is a county-designated highway in the Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that runs north – south for approximately between Nahma Junction in Delta County and the Munising area in Alger County.
The southern end was extended slightly to end at the M-76 freeway that opened between Alger and Standish ; that freeway was redesignated as part of I-75 in 1974.
* Washington's fastest dirt track, Skagit Speedway, between Alger and Mount Vernon
Visible to the West of Interstate 5 when travelling between Alger and Bellingham, Lake Samish is heavily used for recreation in the summer months by local residents.

Alger and 1866
Early in 1866, a church committee was formed to investigate sexual misconduct reports about Alger.
On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Alger for the award of the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from June 11, 1865, and the U. S. Senate confirmed the award on March 12, 1866.

Alger and 1896
Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, ( 3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990 ) was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II.
* Ralph Alger Bagnold ( 1896 – 1990 ) was born here.

Alger and ;
Alger initially wrote for adult magazines, including Harper's Monthly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ; a friendship with William Taylor Adams, a boys ' author, led him to write for the young.
In 1881, Alger informally adopted Charlie Davis, a street boy, and another, John Downie, in 1883 ; they lived in Alger's apartment.
" However ", he writes, " he true Americanization of this fairy tale occurs in its subversion of this claiming of nobility ; rather, the Alger hero achieves the American Dream in its nascent form, he gains a position of middle-class respectability that promises to lead wherever his motivation may take him ".
* Alger Hiss, attorney for the AAA and the Nye Committee ; he moved to the Department of State in 1936, where he became an increasingly prominent figure.
* Donald Hiss, brother to Alger Hiss ; employed at the Department of State.
The use of the term " gentleman " is a central concept in many books of American Literature: " Adrift in New York ," by Horatio Alger ; " Fraternity: A Romance of Inspiration ," by Anonymous, with a tipped in Letter from J. P. Morgan, ( 1836 ); " Gone with the Wind ," Margaret Mitchell ( 1936 ).
* La Chanson de l ' exil ; les voix natales ( 1939 – 1969 ), Rachid Mokhtari, Alger, Casbah Éditions, 2001
Most notably amongst them would be Hugh of St. Victor, Landolfo Colonna, and Alger of Liège ; both of whom often quoted or cited the Prologus of either his works.
Cox published a number of books including Mr. Peepers, a novel created by adapting several scripts from the television series ; My Life as a Small Boy, an idealized depiction of his childhood ; a parody and update of Horatio Alger in Ralph Makes Good, which was probably originally a screen treatment for an unmade film intended to star Cox ; and a children's book, The Tenth Life of Osiris Oakes.
* Les Ancêtres redoublent de férocité, préface à Tassadit Yacine, " Lounis Aït Menguellet chante …", textes berbères et français, Paris, La Découverte, 1989 ; Alger Bouchène / Awal, 1990 texte de Kateb Yacine, addressé à Tassadit Yacine le 29 septembre 1989, un mois avant sa mort.
He was supposedly a distant relation of Horatio Alger ; although Russell Alger lived his own " rags-to-riches " success tale, eventually becoming a financier, lumber baron, railroad owner, and government official in several high offices.
His son, Russell A. Alger, Jr., was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move to Michigan from Ohio ; he also built in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, " The Moorings ", which was donated in 1949 and became the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, honoring veterans of World War II.
But Kelloc and her husband Alger, a fisherman ( 331 ) and a merchant ( 455-62, 481-84 ), resolve to tell Cuheran that he is actually called Havelock and is the son of King Gunter of Denmark and Queen Alvive daughter of King Gaifer ; Kelloc and her brothers are in fact the children of Alvive by one of her retainers, Grim.
Some critics have become unhappy with perceived repetition ; one fan sarcastically described the series as " Horatio Alger meets sword and sorcery.
the Scott Foundry, Reading, Pennsylvania ; Cyrus Alger & Co., Boston, Massachusetts ; and the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York.
By the end of 1936 at least four mid-level State Department officials were delivering information to Soviet intelligence: Alger Hiss, assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Francis Sayre ; Julian Wadleigh, economist in the Trade Agreements Section ; Laurence Duggan, Latin American division ; and Noel Field, West European division.
She came to prominence by testifying in the second case of Alger Hiss in 1949 ; later, she published accounts about the underground.

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