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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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Barb wins Horatio Alger Scholarship.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Without formal scientific training, and Horatio Alger-like, he became an outstanding scientist, member and president of the national Academy of Science, director of the Geological Survey, and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Horatio's idea of a ripping bedtime read ran to mathematical textbooks, history, and books on astronomy and navigation.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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These days family funerals and weddings and what not are done in the local Unitarian Church - the one where Horatio Alger preached before he made his fortune.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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In the Horatio Hornblower stories, the bomb vessel represented a specialization of the warship into a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purpose of bombarding stationary targets.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Our protagonist in this adventure - with a slight Horatio Alger slant - is an orphan lad, Abba, whom George had taken to live at his estate while he, George, was yet unmarried.
We're talking works by Henry James, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Horatio Alger, Louisa May Alcott, Aristotle and Jane Austen, just to name a few of the "A" authors.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Horatio Hornblower I covers the time period of the first four movies; Horatio Hornblower II covers the time period shown in The Mutiny and Retribution.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Forester's Horatio Hornblower books or the films, but A&E has been filming the books and they are up to the third: "Horatio Hornblower and the Hotspur.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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With a bag on each shoulder it worked out to about twenty- five bucks for four hours labor which, back then, was enough money to make me feel like a Horatio Alger character as I pedalled home on my bike at the end of each workday.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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He was presented the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Horatio Alger Award in 2001.
Zito’s story is really a Horatio Alger one in that he was born to a poor family in Sicily, came to this country and grew to be rich and famous.
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