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Algernon Papadopoulos, a schoolboy (a nerd) in the video game, Bully made by Rockstar Games; Algernon Wasp, a character in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 made by Rockstar Games; Dr. Algernon C. Edwards, a surgeon in the Cinemax television series The Knick; Algernon, the name of Detective Jake Peralta's desk mouse in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
It was written c. 1660 by the English soldier-statesman Algernon Sidney, who was an opponent of Charles II and who was later executed for treason. The motto was first adopted in 1775 by the Massachusetts General Court (the official name of the state legislature) and applied to the temporary seal of Massachusetts.
The source is attributed to the letter written by a father of an English soldier and politician Algernon Sidney: "It is said that the University of Copenhagen brought their album unto you, desiring you to write something therein; and that you did scribere in albo these words: ' Manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate ...
Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, which he later expanded into a novel and adapted for film and other media. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. [ 2 ]
Algernon may refer to: Algernon (name), a given name (includes a list of people and characters with the name) Algernon Township, Custer County, Nebraska; See also
The Garden of Proserpine represents a sense of harmony, calm, and oblivion that only truly exists in this realm of nothingness. It is said to symbolize "the brief total pause of passion and thought after tempestuous pleasures when the spirit, without fear or hope of good things or evil, hungers and thirsts only after the perfect sleep".
Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dolores", subtitled "Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs", is a poem by A. C. Swinburne first published in his 1866 Poems and Ballads. The poem ...
Charlie and Algernon is a musical with a book and lyrics by David Rogers and music by Charles Strouse. It is based on the 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes . It received its premiere on December 21, 1978, at The Citadel Theater, in Edmonton , Canada.