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/ˈtʃɑɹəɫz, ˈtʃɑɹɫz/
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- French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
- son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
- King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
- a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
- King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
- King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
- as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
- the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
How To Use Charles In A Sentence
- Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
- Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank) — A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights » MTV Movies Blog
- More than one modern historian has enjoyed wrestling with the question: was Charles the Bald really bald?
- Upon the death of Charles, the third viscount without issue in 1739, the title of baronet devolved to Charles, elder son of Dr. William Graham, some time Dean of Carlisle, fourth son of Sir George, the second baronet; but it was not, we believe, for some years claimed, nor is any account of this family inserted in the baronetages of 1741 or 1773.
- Cultural theorist Charles Mudede has written extensively on pop music, specifically hiphop.
- Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Anonymity is the mutant's first defense against the world's hostility.
- By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
- The wellingtonia in Orchard Close is thought to be 360 years old and part of an extended avenue planted to mark the route taken by the defeated King Charles after the Battle of Edgehill.
- People who have pledged their lives to fighting Islamic extremism, when asked about Charles Johnson now, unsheathe a word they do not throw around lightly ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Comparing Left and Right Blogospheres
- Mr. Weber is not a moralist and does not claim that, by preferring Tchaikovsky to, say, the current-day atonalist Charles Wuorinen, we are philistines or reactionaries. That Melody Sounds Familiar
