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Charles

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1. Charles - Noun

2. Charles - Proper noun

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king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)

a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)

the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)

son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)

King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)

as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)

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)

King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

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I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either. Mike Tyson

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. Thomas Babington Macaulay

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. Walter Scott

Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third (Treason, cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. Patrick Henry

'Lambe them, lads lambe them' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time. Walter Scott

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You". Eddie Izzard

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