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* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.

By that time, Julius had become a voracious reader, particularly fond of Horatio Alger.

Horatio Alger gone mad on drugs in Las Vegas.

* 1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author ( d. 1899 )

* January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American Unitarian minister and author ( d. 1899 )

Horatio Alger, Jr. was born in the New England coastal town of Chelsea, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1832, to Horatio Alger, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Olive Augusta Fenno.

Since 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has bestowed an annual award on " outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity " and scholarships " to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance ".

During the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, " the Horatio Alger plot was viewed from the perspective of the Progressive movement as a staunch defense of laissez-faire capitalism, yet at the same time criticizing the cutthroat business techniques and offering hope to a suffering young generation during the Great Depression ".

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 ".

In the years following the book's publication, responses to the tale were published by W. M. Swepstone ( Christmas Shadows, 1850 ), Horatio Alger ( Job Warner's Christmas, 1863 ), Louisa May Alcott ( A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882 ), and others who followed Scrooge's life as a reformed man – or some who thought Dickens had gotten it wrong and needed to be corrected.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

* Horatio Alger, author

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* 2007 Horatio Alger Award for overcoming adversity to achieve success through the American free enterprise system from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc.

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 ).

English-language novels which feature class passing include The Talented Mr. Ripley, Anne of Green Gables, and the Horatio Alger novels.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. ( May 27, 1911January 13, 1978 ), served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.

Louis-Joseph Papineau, along with John Molson Jr., the son of John Molson, and Horatio Gates, served as the first Vice-Presidents of the Montreal Mechanics ' Institute.

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* Lillo Brancato, Jr. as Private Donnie Benitez ( Horatio ), a soldier from The Bronx, who was originally part of a street gang.

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* Horatio Alger, Jr. ( 1832 – 1899 ), American author

In 1809, a statue of Horatio Nelson by Richard Westmacott Jr. was erected by public subscription.

The secondary dedication named Howard Hughes, James Moody, Marcello Truzzi, Adrian ‐ Claude Frazier, Marilyn Monroe, Wesley Mather, William Lindsay Gresham, Hugo Zacchini, Jayne Mansfield, Frederick Goerner, C. Huntley, Nathanael West, Horatio Alger, Jr., Robert E. Howard, George Orwell, H. P. Lovecraft, Tuesday Weld, H. G. Wells, Sister Marie Koven, Harry Houdini, Togare ( LaVey's pet lion ), and the Nine Unknown Men from The Nine Unknown.

File: HNB-tombstone. jpg | Grave marker for Horatio Nelson Ball and father, Joseph Ball, Jr., Grandville Cemetery, MI, USA.

A small group of officers, led probably by Major John Armstrong, Jr., aide to Major General Horatio Gates, attempted to forestall Washington's intervention, viewing him as too moderate ; they would have forcibly installed Gates in his place as Commander-in-Chief.

He served as a Presidential Elector for the Horatio Seymour / Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Democratic ticket in the 1868 election.

* Horatio Alger, Jr. ( 1832 – 1899 ), American author

Lincoln was brusquely ordered to take cover by an officer, possibly Horatio Wright, although other probably apocryphal stories claim that it was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Private John A. Bedient of the 150th Ohio Infantry, the fort commander, other privates of the Ohio National Guard, and Elizabeth Thomas.

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Boat Trip is a 2002 romantic comedy directed by Mort Nathan and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Horatio Sanz, Vivica A.

Jerry ( Cuba Gooding Jr .) and Nick ( Horatio Sanz ) are two best buddies whose love lives have hit rock bottom.

One example of an enterprising Gurage is one Tekke, whom Nathaniel T. Kenney described as " an Ethiopian Horatio Alger, Jr .":

* Rough and Ready ( Alger novel ), a 19th-century novel by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Benjamin Tasker, Jr. was appointed by Provincial Governor of Maryland, Horatio Sharpe as Commissioner, to secure the assistance of The Six Nations, having been voted £ 500 by the Maryland General Assembly for this purpose.

The Convention reconvened on February 18, 1868, and Horatio Jenkins, Jr. was elected President.

Horatio Seymour received the Democratic presidential nomination, which Johnson silently endorsed.

* 1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.

Besides the two for the Roman Pontiffs already mentioned, there is one for Alfieri, another for Emo, a Venetian admiral, and a small model of a cenotaph for Horatio Nelson, besides a great variety of monumental relieves such as the Stele Tadini in the Chapel of the Accademia Tadini in Lovere.

Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson.

This squadron, consisting of three ships of the line and three frigates, was entrusted to Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson.

Da Super Fan sketch has not been brought back by SNL, with the exception of a single appearance by Horatio Sanz as a Super Fan for the Cubs on Weekend Update in 2003.

* The Commodore, a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester

* 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat ( d. 1757 )

Just shy of 39, the youngest Admiral in the Royal Navy ( except for Royal family members ) since Horatio Nelson.

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

The 1906 Iowa game was refereed by one of the top football officials in the country, West Point's Lt. Horatio B.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, ( later 1st Earl of St Vincent ) and Horatio Nelson ( later 1st Viscount Nelson ) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.

The Orwells spent some time in the North East, near Carlton, County Durham, dealing with matters in the adoption of a boy whom they named Richard Horatio Blair.

A third sentinel, Marcellus, enters with Horatio, Hamlet's best friend.

The sentinels inform Horatio that they have seen a ghost that looks like the dead King Hamlet.