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(Encyclopedia) Hallé, Sir Charles hălˈē [key], 1819–95, German-English conductor and pianist, originally named Karl Halle. In 1857 he founded the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England He conducted many music...

(Encyclopedia) Armagnacs and Burgundians, opposing factions that fought to control France in the early 15th cent. The rivalry for power between Louis d'Orléans, brother of the recurrently insane King Charles VI, an...

(Encyclopedia) Nordhoff, Charles Bernard: see under Nordhoff, Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Charles Edward Stuart: see Stuart, Charles Edward. ...

(Encyclopedia) Coster, Charles de: see De Coster, Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Viana, Charles of: see Charles of Viana. ...

(Encyclopedia) Buhl, André Charles: see Boulle, André Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Gaulle, Charles de: see de Gaulle, Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Lilburne, John, 1614?–1657, English political leader and pamphleteer of the Levelers. He was tried before the court of the Star Chamber as early as 1638 for printing and distributing antiepiscopal w...

(Encyclopedia) White, Charles (Charles Wilbert White, Jr.), 1918–79, American figurative painter, printmaker, and teacher, b. Chicago, studied School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A left-leaning activist whose ...