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Last seen 20 August 1800 when she departed for the West Indies. Brig USS Pickering presumably sank with all hands in a gale in September 1800. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human subject for the surgery, and it touches on ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled. Īlgernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17). 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. Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media. ![]() ![]() This article investigates a religious ritual in Japan,that, rather than being a source of consolation, is anexpression of symbolic capital associated with elderstatus and, thus, gerontocratic power. Other religious traditions and otheraspects of salience of religious participation forolder people have been less thoroughly considered. 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