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The roster of magazine gag cartoonists includes Charles Addams, Charles Barsotti and Chon Day.
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The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.
As named by Charles Addams, the Addams Family characters include Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, Pubert Addams and Thing.
Charles Addams was first inspired by his home town of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.
Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in the The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6, 1932.
Originally none of the members of the Addams family had names, but when the 1960s television show was in development, Charles Addams was asked to provide names for each of the characters.
Of the names which Charles Addams suggested for the family, " Gomez " was the only one that was not " ghoulish " ( in the manner of Morticia or Fester ).
Originally conceived by Charles Addams for the character eventually named Pugsley in the 1960s television series, the name was rejected back then due to fears that 1960s network censors would not allow it because of its similarity to the words " pubic " and " puberty ".
Another member of the family is " Thing " and, as created by Charles Addams, he was a shy creature mostly seen in the background of Addams's drawings ; however, the television series suggested it was a disembodied hand named " Thing ", and was Gomez's friend since childhood.
While developing the series, Charles Addams was asked what, exactly, was the " thing "?
For images of The Thing as drawn by Charles Addams, refer particularly to pages 182 – 191 of The Addams Family: An Evilution.
The two Addams Family movies in 1991 and 1993, along with the second animated television series in 1992, resurrected the mansion's original exterior design from the Charles Addams cartoons.
The movie Addams Family Values had the mansion appearing exactly as it did in Charles Addams's drawing of the family, about to dump boiling oil on a group of carollers from the roof ( a gag that was acted out in the opening sequence of the previous film ).
Charles Samuel " Chaz " Addams ( January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988 ) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters.

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Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.
It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle ( originally named Place de l ' Étoile ), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.
The mountain was the setting for a children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar, told originally by Prince Charles to his younger brothers, Andrew and Edward, and published in 1980 with royalties accruing to The Prince's Trust.
Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".
The " competing browsers hypothesis " was originally suggested by Charles Darwin and only challenged recently.
Though originally from Massachusetts, Charles Adams also fought for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, earning the rank of brigadier-general.
In its 1930 report the League admonished the Liberian government for ‘ systematically and for years fostering and encouraging a policy of gross intimidation and suppression ’, “ in order to suppress the native, prevent him from realizing his powers and limitations and prevent him from asserting himself in any way whatever, for the benefit of the dominant and colonizing race, although originally the same African stock as themselves ” ( see also Presidency Charles King 1920-1930 ).
" " Sha " is a transliteration of the Japanese pronunciation, although Mr. Tomino later publicly confirmed at Anime Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name Charles Aznavour, a popular French-language singer.
For example, the anglicized name " Charles Simonyi " in Hungarian was originally " Simonyi Charles " ( Simonyi Károly in Hungarian ).
Hunold, who originally resisted acknowledging Charles as overlord, soon had little choice.
Hexley's name was a mistake: it was originally supposed to be named after Thomas Henry Huxley, a 19th century English biologist who was a well-known champion of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ( nicknamed " Darwin's bulldog ").
Linnaeus originally included all the species in one genus, Geranium, but they were later separated into two genera by Charles L ’ Héritier in 1789.
In 1670, Charleston was originally named Charles Towne.
Charles Laughton was originally cast in the role of Mr. Micawber, and was authentically made-up with a bald cap, since Dickens describes the character as hairless.
Pfizer is named after German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart ( originally from Ludwigsburg, Germany ) who launched a fine chemicals business, Charles Pfizer and Company, from a building at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bartlett Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1849.
These plans backfired when Charles attempted to secure Necker's dismissal on 11 July without Breteuil's knowledge, much earlier than they had originally intended.
Charles de l ' Ecluse, who first described and sketched C. indica indicates this origin, and states that it was given the name of indica, not because the plant is from India, in Asia, but because this species was originally transported from America: " Quia ex America primum delata sit "; and at that time, one described the tropical areas of that part of the globe as the Western Indies.
This site was originally indicated by Professor Donaldson and was discovered definitively by Mr. Charles Newton, after which an expedition was sent by the British government.
The black actor Charles Gilpin was originally cast in the title role, but he was fired after the studio decided his " portrayal was too aggressive.
This article is originally based on material from Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
Charles IV, originally named Václav, came to the French court in 1323, aged seven, where he was taken under the patronage of the French king.

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-- The board of regents of Paris Junior College has named Dr. Clarence Charles Clark of Hays, Kan. as the school's new president.
Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).
A Beardian School ( named after Charles A.
The first European-American settler, Tenney Peabody, arrived in 1833 along with his brother-in-law Charles Blanchard, and a young man named Clark Dowling.
In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.
Emperor Joseph I, acting on behalf of his younger brother King ’ Charles III ’, absent in Spain, claimed that reconquered Brabant and Flanders should be put under immediate possession of a governor named by himself.
The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
Charles ' wife Georgiana died in Worcester on 1 September 1827, the same year as his father, their second son ( also named Charles ) and their newborn son Alexander.
* α CVn ( Asterion, Cor Caroli ) is the constellation's brightest star, named by Sir Charles Scarborough in memory of King Charles I, the deposed king of Britain.
Lyell's father, also named Charles, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute: it was he who first exposed his son to the study of nature.
John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.
The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle.
While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.
During a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor.
It deals with a man named Charles Boatman, who mysteriously returns to Vietnam, where he had been a soldier earlier in his life, and his children, Ada and Jon, who also go to Vietnam to search for him.
His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.
The condition is named after Charles Foix and Théophile Alajouanine
" Amber " was named by discoverers Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg after their friend Harris Bernstein, whose last name means " amber " in German.
It was named for Charles Rogers Fenwick, one of George Mason's founders.
The VFL / AFL's award for the fairest and best player in a season is named after Charles Brownlow, a Geelong and VFL administrator who died in early 1924.
Hoover's reputation, experience, and popularity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator Charles Curtis named as his running mate.
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