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Charles

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Charles  (chärlz) Prince of Wales. Born 1948.
The eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the British throne. He was invested as Prince of Wales in 1969.
Charles, Jacques Alexandre César 1746-1823.
French physicist and inventor who formulated Charles's law (1787) and was the first to use hydrogen in balloons (1783).
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Noun1.CharlesCharles - King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
Charles IX
2.CharlesCharles - 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)
Charles VII
3.CharlesCharles - as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
Charles I, Charles II, Charles the Bald
4.Charles - King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
Charles II
5.Charles - son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
Charles Stuart, Charles I
6.Charles - the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
Prince Charles
7.CharlesCharles - French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Jacques Charles
8.CharlesCharles - king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
Carolus, Charlemagne, Charles the Great, Charles I
9.CharlesCharles - a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
Charles River
Bay State, Massachusetts, Old Colony, MA - a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
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I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Brandon Beeches, in the Thames valley, was the seat of Sir Charles Brandon, seventh baronet of that name.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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