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Charles and was
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.
He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.
Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed out into the dingy corridor.
So Charles was dead.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.
Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.
One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.
In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.
So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.
The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.
Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.
The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.
Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.
Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

Charles and succeeded
Charles X had succeeded Louis XVIII in 1824, but in 1827 his party suffered a major electoral setback and by 1830 the opposition liberal party became the majority.
Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.
Charles II, having no direct heir, was succeeded by his great-nephew Philip V, a French prince, in 1700.
When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.
The Austrian branch went extinct in the male person in 1740 with the death of Charles VI and in the female person in 1780 with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa and was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II.
Louis was succeeded in turn by a younger brother, Charles X, who reigned from 1824 to 1830.
In 1685 Charles II was succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, James II and VII.
On Pott's resignation of the office of surgeon of St Bartholomew's, Sir Charles Blicke, who was assistant-surgeon, succeeded him, and Abernethy was elected assistant-surgeon in 1787.
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.
The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened and succeeded in preventing Charles Taylor from capturing Monrovia.
Accompanying the young King on his campaign, he entered Rome along with him, and endeavoured to instigate the convocation of a council to inquire into the conduct of the pontiff with a view to his deposition ; but Pope Alexander, having gained a friend in Charles VIII's minister Guillaume Briçonnet by offering him the position of cardinal, succeeded in defeating the machinations of his enemy.
Failing to raise funds for the project in San Francisco, he succeeded in signing up four Sacramento merchants — the " Big Four ": Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.
After his death, he was succeeded by Charles White, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the brother-in-law of Edmund O. Hovey, a professor at the college.
Hollingworth Magniac, who succeeded his brother Charles Magniac after the latter's death in Paris was in search for competent partners to join his firm as he was intent on leaving Asia.
* February 5 – Upon his death, King Charles XIII of Sweden ( Charles II of Norway ) is succeeded on both thrones by his adoptive son Charles XIV / III John, starting the Royal House of Bernadotte.
* December 14 – King Charles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV.
* December 5 – Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ; he is succeeded by Charles Haughey.
* May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France.
* Pepin the Short ( 714 – 768 ), king of the Franks since 751, dies ; he is succeeded by his sons Carloman ( eastern Franks ) and Charles, aka Charlemagne ( western Franks ).
* September 16 – Charles V of France is succeeded by his twelve year old son, Charles VI.

Charles and Swedish
He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.
* Alexandra Charles ( born 1946 ), Swedish " nightclub queen "
* 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused.
In late January or early February 1706 he was forced to flee from the invading troops of the Swedish King Charles XII.
Subsequently the Stockholm manuscript was translated into Swedish and Latin by Johan Peringskiöld ( by order of Charles XI ) and published in 1697 at Stockholm under the title Heimskringla, which is the first known use of the name.
* 1654 – Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
* 1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist ( d. 1778 )
* 1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
In the power vacuum that arose following Christopher's death ( 1448 ), Sweden elected Charles VIII king with the intent to reestablish the union under a Swedish crown.
In late 1944, Philby was chosen to replace Cowgill as head of Section. Charles Arnold-Baker, an officer of German birth ( born Wolfgang von Blumenthal ) working or Richard Gatty in Belgium and later transferred to the Norwegian Swedish border, voiced suspicions of Philby but was ignored.
His determined Prussian wife showed a strong dislike for this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa still resented his loss of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus ' father Charles IX.
* 1700 – Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8, 500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
* 1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.
A Swedish army under Charles XII arrived in Saxony, where he had just finished chastising the Elector Augustus II and forced him to renounce his claims to the Polish throne.
* January 30 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist ( d. 1778 )
* September 29 – The Swedish king Eric XIV is deposed by his half-brothers John and Charles.
* March 7 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist ( b. 1720 )
* June 6 – Charles X Gustav succeeds his cousin Christina on the Swedish throne.
In the Battle of Poltava on June 27, 1709 ( Old Style ), or July 8 ( New Style ), tsar Peter the First, commanding 34, 000 troops, defeated a Swedish army of 17, 000 troops led by Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld ( who had received the command of the army after the wounding of the Swedish king Charles XII on June 17 ).

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