Charles
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Jacques Alexandre César 1746–1823, French physicist and inventor.
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Ray Ray Charles Robinson, 1930–2004, U.S. blues singer and pianist.
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Cape, a cape in E Virginia, N of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.
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a river in E Massachusetts, flowing between Boston and Cambridge into the Atlantic. 47 miles (75 km) long.
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a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “man.”
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Prince of Wales. born 1948, son of Elizabeth II; heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He married (1981) Lady Diana Spencer; they separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1996; their son, Prince William of Wales, was born in 1982 and their second son, Prince Henry, in 1984; married (2005) Camilla Parker Bowles
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Ray real name Ray Charles Robinson. 1930–2004, US singer, pianist, and songwriter, whose work spans jazz, blues, gospel, pop, and country music
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In 1886, Charles Martin Hall, a 22-year-old working in the woodshed behind his parents’ home in Oberlin, Ohio, had figured out how to mass produce it inexpensively using electric currents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Hamilton's presence - and the long-term contract held by team-mate Charles Leclerc - does raise questions about Ferrari's driver academy.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Volatility may create urgency in price without necessarily creating urgency in the decision,” says Alex Coffey, a senior trading strategist at Charles Schwab.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
King Charles III begins a delicate tour of the Caribbean Tuesday, overshadowed by calls to apologise and pay reparations for the slave trade, which he has called the "darkest days" of British history.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
In gratitude for his newfound happiness, Charles Livermore paid Kate’s travel expenses, including a new wardrobe.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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