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2 unusual facts about Charles Francis


Charles Francis

Charles Cooper Francis (1884–1956), cathedral organist, who served at Peterborough Cathedral

Charles Robert Francis (1875–1946), U.S. Marine private who received the Medal of Honor



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Charles Francis Horne

Charles Francis Horne (born January 12, 1870 in Jersey City, New Jersey - died September 13, 1942 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American author of books.

Charles Margai

Charles Francis Kondo Margai was born on August 19, 1945 in the coastal town of Bonthe, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone.

Gravitationally aligned orbits

From observations of the motions of over 20 000 local stars (within 300 parsecs), and using numerical simulation, Charles Francis and Erik Anderson have shown that, contrary to conventional wisdom, stars tend to move along a spiral arm during the inward part of their orbits, leaving the arm shortly after pericentre crossing the other arm on the outward part of the orbit and rejoining the original arm shortly before apocentre.

John Cowper Powys

Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset, for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper.