(Encyclopedia) Port Charlotte, uninc. town (1990 pop. 41,535), Charlotte co., SW Fla., on Charlotte Harbor (an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico) and the Peace and Myakka rivers. It is a planned…
(Encyclopedia) Corday, Charlotte (Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont)Corday, Charlottemärēˈ än shärlôtˈ kōrdāˈ därmôNˈ [key], 1768–93, assassin of Jean Paul Marat. Although of aristocratic…
(Encyclopedia) Sophia CharlotteSophia Charlottezōfēˈä shärlôtˈə [key], 1668–1705, first queen of Prussia, second wife of King Frederick I, daughter of Electress Sophia of Hanover, and sister of King…
(Encyclopedia) Yonge, Charlotte MaryYonge, Charlotte Maryyŭng [key], 1823–1901, English novelist. Her writing as well as her life was restricted by the rigid High Church tenets of her upbringing. In…
(Encyclopedia) Cushman, Charlotte SaundersCushman, Charlotte Saundersk&oobreve;shˈmən [key], 1816–76, one of the first outstanding American actresses, b. Boston. Cushman turned from opera to…
(Encyclopedia) Queen Charlotte Islands, archipelago of several large and many small islands, off the coast of W British Columbia, Canada. The main islands are Graham and Moresby. Masset on Graham…
(Encyclopedia) Charlotte, 1896–1985, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919–64). The second daughter of Duke William of Nassau-Weilburg and a Portuguese princess, Marie Anne of Braganza, she succeeded her…
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