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(Encyclopedia) Ponzi, Charles or Carlo, 1882–1949), Italian-American swindler. He came to the United States from his native Italy in 1903, then went in 1907 to Canada, where he was convicted of check forgery. In 1...

(Encyclopedia) Burney, Charles, 1726–1814, English music historian, composer, and organist. His General History of Music (1776–89; 2d ed. 1935) was one of the first important music histories in English. He wrote...

(Encyclopedia) Norris, Charles Gilman: see Norris, Frank. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge: see Carroll, Lewis. ...

(Encyclopedia) Jeanneret, Charles Édouard: see Le Corbusier. ...

(Encyclopedia) Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke grĕvˈĭl [key], 1794–1865, English diarist. As clerk of the Council in Ordinary (1821–59), he was closely associated with Wellington, Palmerston, and other poli...

(Encyclopedia) Browne, Charles Farrar: see Ward, Artemus. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth dĭlk [key], 1843–1911, British statesman. A radical leader in the Liberal party, he helped pass the parliamentary Reform Acts of 1884–85 as well as laws giving the mu...

(Encyclopedia) Hodge, Charles, 1797–1878, American Calvinist theologian, b. Philadelphia. He was associated with Princeton Theological Seminary, where, after graduation, he taught first Oriental and biblical liter...

(Encyclopedia) Van Doren, Charles: see under Van Doren, Mark. ...