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6 unusual facts about Alger


Brian Scott

One of his early career highlights came at the 360 Nationals at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Washington, when he competed against an elite field of dirt racers and brought home an impressive second place finish.

Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger

At the entrance of the nave there are small organs offered by the parish of Boufarik opposite which is a mosaic dating from 324, from the first Roman basilica of Castellum Tingitanum (Chlef).

Fencing in Namibia

She was the only fencer to compete for Namibia on the 2011 Junior and Cadet African Championships held in Alger, Algeria where she won Bronze in Cadet Women's Epee, she is currently Namibia's most successful fencer.

Racing Universitaire d'Alger

Goals by Willie Thomson and Joe Tulip (the Northumbrian was one of the first Englishmen to play in the Scottish League) saw Queens book a place in the invitational tournament final with a 2–1 victory against them.

In the final Queens faced a Racing de Santander side who had just finished 4th in Spain's La Liga notching home and away double victories against both Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona.

R.U.A. had already won both the North African Champions Cup and the North African Cup in the 30s (R.U.A. would win each twice by the decade's end).


Alger Theater

The Alger Theater is a theatre located at 16451 East Warren Avenue in the MorningSide neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan.

Algis Budrys

He also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier." He also used the pen name "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with Jerome Bixby.

Boualem Bouferma

Boualem Bouferma (born September 29, 1976 in Douéra, Alger, Algeria) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing as a forward for RC Kouba in the Algerian Championnat National 2.

Douglas Century

The New York Times Book Review saw the book as the embodiment of "hip-hop's Horatio Alger" myth: “Ice-T, in short, is someone hip-hop might have invented if he hadn’t invented himself," reviewer Baz Dreisinger wrote. "A goes-down-easy mélange of memoir, self-help, and amateur criminology. Ultimately, Ice showcases an eminently reasonable, positively likeable guy, the gangsta rapper even a parent could love.”

Flippomusic

Guest artists include Larry Gray (cello), Neal Alger (guitar), Hamid Drake (percussion), Mike Levin (Bb and bass clarinet and flute) and Katherine Hughes (violin).

Hossam Ould Zmirli

Hossam Ould Zmirli (born November 7, 1984 in Hussein Dey (Alger), Algeria) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing as a defender for USM Alger in the Algerian league.

Ian Alger

Ian Ewart Alger (June 20, 1926 – February 21, 2009) was an innovative psychotherapist who was an early adopter of using videotape as a tool in therapy.

Islam Adel Aït Ali Yahia

Islam Adel Aït Ali Yahia (born April 13, 1987 in Kouba (Alger), Algeria) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing as a midfielder for USM Alger in the Algerian league.

Jean Sénac

Visages d'Algérie, Ecrits sur l'art, texts collected by Hamid Nacer-Khodja, preface by Guy Dugas, writings notably of Mohamed Aksouh, Abdallah Benanteur, Baya, Sauveur Galliéro, Mohammed Khadda, Jean de Maisonseul, Maria Manton, Denis Martinez, Louis Nallard, Paris, Paris-Méditerranée / Alger, EDIF 2000, 2002.

John Bartholomew Gough

Gough or Alger, perhaps both, were the source for Theodor Fontane's ballad John Maynard which remains to this day popular in German speaking countries.

JS El Biar

Jeunesse Sportive d'El Biar, referred to commonly as JS El Biar or JSEB for short, is an Algerian football club based in the El Biar district of Alger, Algeria.

Lake Samish

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.

Norrie Haywood

Home side Racing Universitaire d'Alger (R.U.A. for whom Nobel Prize winning author-philosopher Albert Camus had played in goals for its junior team) had already won both the North African Champions Cup and the North African Cup in the 30s (R.U.A. would win each twice by the decade's end).

Ragged Dick

Ragged Dick and Alger's Silas Snobden's Office Boy inspired the 1982 musical comedy Shine!.

Alger had been serving as a Unitarian minister in Brewster, Massachusetts for about a year and a half when a church committee charged him with pederasty.

Ragged Dick and Alger's Silas Snobden's Office Boy inspired the musical comedy Shine! in 1982.

Saadi Yacef

After the Algerian War, Yacef helped produce Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers (1966), based on Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger.


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