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2 unusual facts about Algernon


Algernon

United States v. Algernon Blair, Inc, a 1973 American lawsuit regarding its breach of contract with a subcontractor

Flowers for Algernon, a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes


Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover

Peckover was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Algernon Peckover, of Bank House, Wisbech, by Priscilla Alexander, daughter of Dykes Alexander, a banker, of Ipswich, Suffolk.

Algernon Sydney Sullivan

Algernon Sydney Sullivan was born at Madison, Indiana April 5, 1826, son of Jeremiah and Charlotte Rudesel (Cutler) Sullivan.

Boys of the City

Jack Edwards was originally slated to return as "Algernon Wilkes", but immediately declined after being offered a part

George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley

Margaret Warren (1847–1921), married Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 2nd Baronet (aka Emile Algernon Arthur Keppel Cowell-Stepney) (1834–1909), of Llanelli, in 1875.

Jobsworth

An example of the phrase which gave rise to the term occurs in the 1965 Beatles movie Help!, when the assistant scientist character Algernon (played by Roy Kinnear) exclaims "Well it's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's like this, he's out to rule the world...if he can get a government grant."

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Algernon Stitch lived in a "superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor" in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938).

O'Fallon Park

On the north, it is bordered by Interstate 70; on the southwest, by W. Florissant Ave. The southeastern border follows E. Harris Ave., Algernon St.

Palmer-Tomkinson

James Palmer-Tomkinson (born James Algernon Tomkinson) (1915–1952), a British alpine skier

Sydney Stanhope, 6th Earl of Harrington

Sydney Seymore Hyde Stanhope at Ashburnham House in Westminster, London, Stanhope was the second son of Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington and Elizabeth Williams Green, and only became heir to his father's peerage following the premature death of his brother Algernon Russell Gayleard Stanhope (1838-1847).

William Keatinge

His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 25 February 1918, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Gaetano de Lai, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Giuseppe Palica and Bishop Charles Algernon Stanley.

Workers in the Dawn

In a letter to his brother Algernon after publication, Gissing described the work as an "attack upon certain features of our present religious and social life which to me appear highly condemnable", particularly the "criminal negligence of governments".


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