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Charles M. Wheatley

He is noted for identifying several new fossilized species, some of which bear his name, and for his connection to the Port Kennedy Bone Cave, which contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America.


3524 Schulz

3524 Schulz was named after Charles M. Schulz, the popular cartoonist who created 'The Peanuts'.

A Gerald Walker Christmas EP

The album is inspired by Charles M. Schulz's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and contains two traditional Christmas songs and three original songs.

Abraham J. Twerski

He has written over sixty books on Judaism and self-help topics, including several books with Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strips used to illustrate human interaction and behavior.

Alberta general election, 1913

The Socialist Party vote would collapse and lose their only seat as Charles M. O'Brien went down to defeat at the hands of a Conservative.

Arthur Roy Mitchell

The museum displays some 250 of his major works, which are similar in theme to the better known western artists Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Charles Floyd

Charles M. Floyd (1861–1923), U.S. merchant, manufacturer, and politician

Charles Hollister

Charles M. Hollister, an American football coach and college athletics administrator.

Charles Inglis

Charles M. Inglis (1870-1954), naturalist and curator of the Darjeeling museum in India

Charles Loring

Charles M. Loring (1833–1922), American businessperson, miller, father of Minneapolis park system

Charles M. Borchers

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge

This was never as apparent as in March, 1999, when cement acoustical tiles under nearby Fall River Government Center closed the highway for a week at the end of the bridge, causing traffic nightmares for the entire region.

Planning began in the early 1950s for a new bridge to ease the congestion of the nearby Slade's Ferry and Brightman Street Bridges, as well as to carry the proposed Cape Cod Expressway over the Taunton River.

Charles M. Brown

Charles M. Brown (1903–1995) was a long-time U.S. politician in Atlanta, sometimes called Charlie Brown after the Peanuts character, Charlie Brown.

Charles M. Falco

In 2008, Falco gave the US National Art Education Association's 'Ziegfeld Lecture', awarded for his role in this discovery, and for its importance for art education.

In 2000, Falco began collaborating with the British-American artist David Hockney, resulting in their discovery of scientific evidence in paintings made as early as c.1430 that demonstrated portions of them were created with the aid of optical projections.

Charles M. Harris

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Charles M. Huber

Huber was born in 1956 as the son of a Senegalese father, who was a diplomat, and as the nephew of the former president of Senegal and philosopher Léopold Sédar Senghor, and a German mother in Munich.

Since 2009 Charles M. Huber is a representative of the international council of the association Austrian Service Abroad, which is also attended by others like Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, György Dalos, Alberto Dines, Gabriela von Habsburg, Beate Klarsfeld, Branko Lustig, Erika Rosenberg and Ben Segenreich.

Charles M. Kurtz

His papers are on file at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Charles M. La Follette

Fictional character Charles W. La Follette, based on Charles M. La Follette, plays a key role in the latter books of Harry Turtledoves alternate history the Southern Victory Series.

He served as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives during the 1940s and took part in the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.

Charles M. Maud

On 1 May 1918, he scored his first aerial victory when he destroyed an opposing Albatros D.III southwest of Conegliano.

Charles M. O'Brien

O'Brien was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election for the Socialist Party of Alberta.

O'Brien served in office for one term and was defeated in the 1913 Alberta general election by Robert Campbell from the Conservative Party.

Charles M. Palmer

He would be business manager of the company from 1895 to 1899 and would be president of the Boston Record for Hearst for several years.

Charles M. Relyea

He studied art under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and under Frank Vincent DuMond at the Art Students League in New York City before completing his training in Paris.

Charles M. Schwab House

It was constructed for steel magnate Charles M. Schwab and was the grandest and most ambitious house ever built on the island of Manhattan.

Charles M. Shelley

Shelley presented his credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress, but the election was contested by James Q. Smith and the seat declared vacant July 20, 1882.

He presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1883, to January 9, 1885, when he was succeeded by George H. Craig, who contested the election.

Charles M. Thomson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the 64th Congress in 1915.

Charles M. White

Charles M. White was born in June 1891 in Oakland, Maryland, to Charles Franklin and Estella Virginia (Jarboe) White.

Doctor Pong

Originally designed to be model of Snoopy's dog house with Pong built into the side of it, when Charles Schulz declined Atari the use of Snoopy the model was changed to a generic doghouse with a puppy looking over the top.

First-mover advantage

Founded by Charles M. Stack, it is considered to be the very first online bookstore known to date.

Hilltop Park

In a game "sometime in 1909" according to photographer Charles M. Conlon (some sources claim an alternate date, July 23, 1910), Conlon snapped a photo of Cobb sliding into third base, stealing the base and spilling Highlanders' third baseman Jimmy Austin.

Hollin Hills

While planning the community, architect Charles M. Goodman and landscape architect Dan Kiley designed each home with lots no smaller than one-third of an acre.

It has approximately 450 houses conceived and built by the visionary builder Robert C. Davenport, and designed by D.C.-based architect Charles M. Goodman (who also designed the Washington National Airport) and landscape architect Dan Kiley.

It's Christmastime Again, Gerald Walker

This is Gerald Walker's second Christmas-themed album mirrored after the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

Leon F. Wheatley

He was born on February 20, 1872, in West Franklin, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, the son of William Wheatley.

Mafalda

Mafalda has occasionally been pointed out as being influenced by Charles Schulz's Peanuts, most notably by Umberto Eco in 1968, who contrasted the two characters.

Mario Miranda

Miranda's big break came in 1974, when, at the invitation of the United States Information Services, he travelled to America, which enabled him to promote his art and interact with other cartoonists in the United States and also got a chance to work with Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts) and met Herblock, the editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post.

Martinsdale, Montana

Martinsdale was the home of the poet Grace Stone Coates, author of Black Cherries, Mead & Mangel-Wurzel, and Portulacas in the Wheat. It was also the home of Charles M. Bair, one of the largest and most successful sheep ranchers in the United States, and the former Bair family home is now a museum.

Mount Rubidoux

In 1906 Frank Miller, owner of the Mission Inn, along with Henry E. Huntington and Charles M. Loring, formed the Huntington Park Association and purchased the property with the intent to build a road to the summit and develop the mountain as a park to benefit the city of Riverside.

Saint Paul Public Schools

Notable graduates of St. Paul Public Schools include former U.S. Supreme Court justices Harry Blackmun and Warren Burger, civil rights leader Roy Wilkins, creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip Charles M. Schulz, and many others from various professions and among notable achievements.

Seton Hall University College of Education and Human Services

Some of the renowned guest scholars include, but are not limited to: Alan November, Thomas Sergiovanni, Dennis Sparks, Charles M. Achilles, and Steve Adubato.

Settling Accounts: Return Engagement

A shaken Charlie La Follette is sworn in as President of a nation fighting for its survival.

Sid W. Richardson

He began ranching in the 1930s and developed a love of Western art, particularly that of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Sultan Choudhury

From 1998 to 2003 Choudhury was Director of brokerage operations at Charles Schwab Europe.


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