Charles Taylor, in his 2007 book A Secular Age, showed the historical role of deism, leading to what he calls an exclusive humanism.

Regional conflicts in the 1990s and 2000-2001 attacks along the southern border by rebels acting as proxies for Liberia's Charles Taylor had important effects on the security forces.

The film generated mostly critical reviews, with Charles Taylor of Salon. com writing that the film had failed to provide Dunst with as good a role as she had either in Dick or in The Virgin Suicides.

In the late 1980s, Charles Taylor assembled rebels from Gio and Mano tribes in Ivory Coast into a militia, invaded Nimba County in 1989, and by 1990 a full-blown tribal war was taking place.

( See also: First Liberian Civil War and Charles Taylor )

November 1990, ECOWAS agreed with some principal Liberian players but without Charles Taylor, on an Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) under President Dr. Amos Sawyer.

August 1995, factions signed an agreement largely brokered by Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian President ; Charles Taylor agreed.

September ’ 95, Kpormakpor ’ s Council of State is succeeded by one under civilian Wilton G. S. Sankawulo and with the factional heads Charles Taylor, Alhaji Kromah and George Boley in it.

( See also: First Liberian Civil War, Charles Taylor and Second Liberian Civil War )

Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council in March 2001 ( Resolution 1343 ) concluded that Liberia and Charles Taylor played roles in the civil war in Sierra Leone, and therefore:

They staged silent nonviolence protests and forced a meeting with President Charles Taylor and extracted a promise from him to attend peace talks in Ghana.

On March 7, 2003, the war tribunal Special Court for Sierra Leone ( SCSL ) decided to summon Charles Taylor and charge him with war crimes and crimes against humanity, but they kept this decision and this charge secret until June that year.

Under international pressure, President Sirleaf requested in March 2006 that Nigeria extradite Charles Taylor, who was then brought before an international tribunal in Sierra Leone to face charges of crimes against humanity, arising from events during the Sierra Leone civil war ( his trial was later transferred to The Hague for security purposes ).

The president of the last of these, Charles Taylor, was forced to step down in 2003, and the United Nations installed a transitional government.

On 24 December 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire.

The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened and succeeded in preventing Charles Taylor from capturing Monrovia.

After considerable progress in negotiations conducted by the United States, United Nations, Organization of African Unity, and the Economic Community of West African States, disarmament and demobilization of warring factions were hastily carried out and special elections were held on 19 July 1997 with Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Party emerging victorious.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

Due to intense pressure from the international community and the United States, Charles Taylor resigned his office on August 11, 2003.

The resignation and exile of Charles Taylor in 2003 brought changes in diplomatic ties between the United States and Liberia.

Gaddafi also trained and supported Charles Taylor, who was indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict in Sierra Leone.

* Charles Taylor ( philosopher )

* 2012 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

* 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.