His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

After time spent in Palestine in 1882 – 83, General Charles George Gordon found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been the real location of Golgotha.

* 1804 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist ( d. 1886 )

In 1953, Charles Hard Townes and graduate students James P. Gordon and Herbert J. Zeiger produced the first microwave amplifier, a device operating on similar principles to the laser, but amplifying microwave radiation rather than infrared or visible radiation.

Work by Gordon Brownell, Charles Burnham and their associates at the Massachusetts General Hospital beginning in the 1950s contributed significantly to the development of PET technology and included the first demonstration of annihilation radiation for medical imaging.

His middle name, Gordon, was given to him in honour and memory of Charles George Gordon, a British army officer killed in Khartoum in 1885.

The interim governor-general of the Sudan, the British Major-General Charles George Gordon, and many of the fifty thousand inhabitants of Khartoum were massacred.

He raises and leads his own volunteer cavalry regiment ( nicknamed the Unauthorized Regiment ) in the Second Mexican War, fighting alongside George Armstrong Custer to repulse the Anglo-Canadian army led by Charles George Gordon.

The Kendall College presidents during 1907-1919 were: Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.

* January 26 – Charles " Chinese " Gordon, British general ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1833 )

* Charles C. Wilson as Joe Gordon

Of the current Dukes, four are male-line descendants of Charles in the illegitimate line: the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon, the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the Duke of Grafton and the Duke of St Alban's.

On March 1, 1974, a grand jury in Washington, D. C., indicted several former aides of President Nixon, who became known as the " Watergate Seven ": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.

Notable SOM architects include: Gordon Bunshaft, Natalie de Blois, Myron Goldsmith, Bruce Graham, Brigitte Peterhans, Gertrude Kerbis, Walter Netsch, Edward Charles Bassett, Adrian Smith, Larry Oltmanns, Fazlur Rahman Khan.

* 1899: Charles Gordon Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in the USA (" Apparatus for generating mechanical power ", Patent No. US635, 919 ).

* 1928 Charles G. Darwin and Walter Gordon solve the Dirac equation for a Coulomb potential

* 1953 Charles H. Townes, collaborating with J. P. Gordon, and H. J. Zeiger builds the first ammonia maser

The lettering on the Royal Festival Hall and the temporary Festival building on the South Bank was a bold, sloping slab serif letter form, determined by Gray and her colleagues, including Charles Hasler and Gordon Cullen, illustrated in Gray ’ s Lettering on Buildings ( 1960 ).

Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge is set amid the Gordon Riots, and A Tale of Two Cities in the French Revolution.

J. H. Allen, Richard Reader Harris, Lawrence Graeme Allan Roberts, ‎ Edward Faraday Odlum, William Gordon Mackendrick, William Henry Fasken, Charles Marston, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, F. F. Bosworth, Alexander James Ferris, William Bond, Frank Sandford, Samuel Thornton, David Davidson, Errol Manners and Charles Fox Parham.

Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Woolf, Al Boasberg and an uncredited Charles MacArthur would also contribute to the script.

* Charles Haddon Spurgeon, A Biography – By William Young Fullerton

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** Charles Fullerton, Lt Col USAF

The species was first described in the Catalog of North American Reptiles, by Spencer Fullerton Baird and Charles Frédéric Girard, in 1853 as Crotaphytus dorsalis it was reclassified two years later as Dipsosaurus dorsalis by Edward Hallowell.

The two brought together a roster of vintage horror-fantasy tales by E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles Dickens, Amelia B. Edwards, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Richard Middleton, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G.

* Charles Austin ( born 1967 ), American athlete

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

* Alexandra Charles ( born 1946 ), Swedish " nightclub queen "

Charles was born in Florence, Tuscany, where his father was then Grand Duke.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM ( born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a former West Indian international cricket player.

Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline ( Drake ) Holley.

Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, the son of Joanne Louise ( née Pickens ), a homemaker, and Charles Newton Campbell, an amateur actor and traveling billboard inspector.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

#**** Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Bonaparte ( born 1950 )

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

The only other male member of the family is the brother of Charles, Prince Jérôme, ( born 1957 ), unmarried.

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin ( née Hill, 1865 – 1928 ) and Charles Chaplin Sr. ( 1863 – 1901 ).

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

However after the obituary appeared, a nephew wrote to say that Charles Babbage was born one year earlier, in 1791.

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

Charles was born to a mixed race family in Liverpool: his Guyanese father was black, and his mother was white Irish.

In August 1997, Charles married his second wife, Jackie, with whom he has two daughters Anna-Jo ( born 1997 ) and Nellie ( born 2003 ).

Charles Baxter ( born May 13, 1947 ) is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Charles McCarry ( born 1930 Massachusetts, USA ) is an American writer primarily of spy fiction.