Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was an United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Some believe Lindbergh tarnished his good name by his leadership in the movement to keep the US out of World War II.
	Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe Schulz was a 20th-century United States cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip.
	Charles Martin Hall Charles Martin Hall was an American inventor and engineer. He is best known for his discovery in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminium, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron.
	Charles Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce , was an United States polymath, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years, it is for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he is largely appreciated today.
	Charles Proteus Steinmetz Charles Proteus Steinmetz was an United States Mathematician and Electrical Engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers.
	Charles River The Charles River is a small, relatively short river in Massachusetts, United States that separates Boston, Massachusetts from Cambridge, Massachusetts and Charlestown, Massachusetts. It is fed by about 80 brooks and streams, and several major aquifers as it flows snakelike for 80 miles, starting at Echo Lake in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, through 58 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts before emptying into Boston Harbor.
	Charles Stewart Parnell Charles Stewart ParnellMost contemporaries pronounced his name as par-nell with the emphasis on the latter part of the name. He himself disapproved of this pronunciation, pronouncing his name par-nell, with the emphasis on the start of the name. was an Irish politician and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; William Ewart Gladstone described him as the most remarkable person he had ever met.
	Charles Taze Russell n's Watch Tower, June 1, 1916 page 170 * Nov 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1916 articles "Regarding the Death and Burial of, and Memorial Services for, Pastor Russell" * from Zion's Watch Tower obituary issue, December 1 1916 * Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, 1919 * 1923 Chicago: The Bible Students Book Store; Memoirs of the Life of Charles Taze Russell.
	Charles the Bald Charles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor and king of West Francia , was the youngest son of Emperor Louis the Pious, by his second wife Judith, daughter of Welf.
	Charles Wesley Charles Wesley was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Charles Wesley is chiefly remembered for the many hymns he wrote. Like his brother, he was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, where their father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where his brother had also studied, and formed the "Oxford Methodist" group among his fellow students in 1727 which his elder brother, John jointed in 1729 soon becoming its leader and m
	Charles Wilkes Charles Wilkes was an United States naval officer and List of explorers. He is particularly noted for his 1838–1842 United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 as well as for his role in the Trent Affair during the American Civil War.
	Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire, , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an England comedy film actor, becoming the most famous performer in the early to mid Hollywood, Los Angeles, California film era, and also a notable film director.
	Charlie Parker Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Early in his career Parker was dubbed Yardbird . It was later shortened to Bird and remained Parker's nickname for the rest of his life and inspiration for the titles of his works, such as "Yardbird Suite" and "Bird Feathers".
	Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Bront was an England novelist, the eldest of the three Bront sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature.
	Charlotte Corday Charlotte Corday, more fully Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, was the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
	Charmed Charmed is an United States television program that ran for eight seasons on The WB. It was produced by the late Aaron Spelling and is about three sisters who are the world's most powerful good witchcraft, known throughout the supernatural community as "The Charmed Ones" but known to everyone else as the Halliwells.
	Chart A chart or graph is a type of information graphic that represents Table number data and/or Graph of a function. Charts are often used to make it easier to understand large quantities of data and the relationship between different parts of the data.
	Charter school Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools that have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter school's charter.
	Chartism Chartism was a movement for society and political reform movement in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century. It gains its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement.
	Charybdis In Greek mythology, Charybdis or Kharybdis was a sea monster, daughter of Poseidon and Gaia , who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day and then belches them back out again. She takes form as a whirlpool and devours anything within range. She lies on one side of a narrow channel of water.
	Chassis A chassis consists of a framework which supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animal's skeleton; for example in the construction of a motor vehicle or of a firearm.
	Chastity Chastity, in many religion and culture contexts, is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. The term is most often associated with refraining from sexual intercourse, especially outside of marriage. Chastity is often taken to be synonymous with virginity or abstention from all sexual activity; however, some consider sexually active married couples to be chaste if they have relations only with each other.
	Chasuble The chasuble is the outermost liturgy vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist among Western-tradition Christian churches that use full vestments, primarily the Roman Catholicism, "high church" congregations in the Anglicanism, and by some clergy in the United Methodist Church.
	Château A chteau is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally and still most frequently in French language speaking regions. Where clarification is needed, a fortified chteau is called a chteau fort.
	Château-Thierry Chteau-Thierry is a commune in France of north-eastern France, about 56 miles east-northeast of Paris. It is a sous-prfecture of the Aisne dpartement in France, in the Picardie administrative rgion in France.
	Chattahoochee River *Carroll and Fulton County, Georgia *Douglas County, Georgia and Fulton *Cobb County, Georgia and Fulton *Fulton and Gwinnett County, Georgia *Forsyth County, Georgia and Gwinnett *City of Roswell, Georgia and City of Sandy Springs, Georgia
	Chatterer Chatterer is a Cenobite appearing in the movies Hellraiser and '. Like all cenobites, he is clad in black leather and is severely mutilated. His mouth is stretched open by six hook tipped wires exposing his namesake chattering teeth. His skin has been warped, burnt, and scarring covers his nose and eyes.
	Che Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna , commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentina Marxism, politician, and leader of Cuba and Proletarian internationalism guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled "rough" throughout Latin America, bringing him into direct contact with the poverty in which many people live.
	Cheaters Cheaters is a weekly syndicated reality television television program, where licensed private investigators spy on someone's mate who is suspected of cheating with another person. The show begins with a brief interview with the 'plaintiff' and a description of the suspect.
	Chechnya The Chechen Republic , or, informally, Chechnya , sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Nokhchiyn, is a Federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Bordering Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the republic of Dagestan to the northeast and east, Georgia to the south, and the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the west, it is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District.
	Check-in Check-in is the process of announcing your arrival at a hotel, airport or sea port. At an airport, check-in is normally handled by an airline or a aircraft ground handling working on behalf of an airline. Passengers usually hand over any checked baggage they do not wish to carry-on to the aircraft and receive a boarding card before they can proceed to board their flight.
	Checkerboard A checkerboard is a board on which English draughts is played. It is an 8×8 board and the 64 squares are of alternating dark and light color, often red and black. The term checkerboard is also used to denote any rectangular square-tiled board. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the mathematics abstraction of such a board.
	CheckerBoard CheckerBoard is a simple freeware Graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows, for playing checkers by Martin Fierz. It reads the Portable Draughts Notation standard for checkers games and is a GUI for checkers engines. Popular engines include Cake and KingsRow, which are the strongest checkers engines.
	Checkmate Checkmate is a situation in chess in which one player's king is under attack and there is no way to meet that threat; it is a check from which there is no escape. The king is never actually captured the game ends as soon as the king is checkmated. A player who is checkmated loses the game.
	Cheddar Cheddar is a village in the district of Sedgemoor in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the Mendip Hills 14.5 km northwest of Wells. The village has a population of 5,724 . It is famous for having given its name to Cheddar cheese which is one of the most popular kinds of cheese.
	Cheddar cheese Cheddar cheese is a pale yellow, sharp-tasting cheese originally made in the England village of Cheddar, in Somerset. It has been made since at least 1170: a pipe roll of Henry II of England from that year records the purchase of 10,420 Pound s at a History of the farthing per pound Making Cheddar Cheese refers to an additional step in the production of cheddar-style cheese where, after heating, the curd is cut into cubes to drain the whey, th
	Cheek The Cheeks are the fleshy area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear, the skin being suspended by the chin and the jaws, and forming the lateral wall of the human mouth, visibly touching the cheekbone below the eye. In the animal kingdom, markings on the cheek area, particularly immediately beneath the eye, can serve as important distinguishing features amongst different species.
	Cheerios Cheerios is a brand of breakfast cereal created in 1941 and marketed by the General Mills cereal company of Golden Valley, Minnesota, as the first oat-based, ready-to-eat cold cereal. In some other countries, it is sold by Cereal Partners Worldwide under the Nestl brand.
	Cheers Cheers was a long-running Television in the United States situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with CBS Paramount Television for NBC. Cheers was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles.
	Cheese Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cattles, goats, domestic sheep, and other mammals. The milk is curdled using some combination of rennet and Acid. Bacterium acidify the milk and play a role in defining the texture and flavor of most cheeses.
	Cheeseburger A cheeseburger is a hamburger which additionally contains a slice of cheese. The first cheeseburger was prepared sometime between 1924 and 1926 by a young chef named Lionel Sternberger in Pasadena, California. Other places have claimed the invention of the cheeseburger as part of their local legend.
	Cheesecake A cheesecake is a sweet, cheese-based dessert. Cheesecake is one of the most common desserts in the world and perhaps one of the oldest involving dairy other than milk. The first recorded mention of cheesecake was during the ancient Grecian Olympic games in the occidental world.
	Cheetah The Cheetah is an atypical member of the cat family that hunts by speed rather than by stealth or pack tactics. It is the fastest of all land animals and can reach speeds of up to 70 mph in short bursts up to 500 yards . The cheetah is well known for its amazing acceleration .
	Chef Chef is a term commonly used to refer to an individual who cooks professionally. Within a restaurant however, chef is often only used to refer to one person: the one in charge of everyone else in the kitchen. This is usually the executive chef. There are many kinds of kitchen organizations, with the titles and duties for each position varying depending on the particular restaurant.
	Cheiranthus Cheiranthus also know as wall-flowers, is a large genus from the family Brassicaceae. They are perennial plants grown for their colourful flowers.
	Chelation Chelation is the process of reversible binding of a ligand; the chelant, chelator, chelating agent, sequestering agent, or complexing agent; to a metal ion, forming a metal complex, the chelate.
	Chelicerata The Subphylum Chelicerata constitutes one of the major subdivisions of the Phylum Arthropoda, including the arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and related forms. These mainly predator arthropods outlasted the now extinct trilobites, the common marine arthropod of the Cambrian era.
	Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk is a Russian city just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on Miass River, at at to . It is the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast. Population: 1,077,174.
	Chelydra Chelydra is one of the two genera of the Chelydridae family of snapping turtles. The common snapping turtle is the representative species within Chelydra.
	Chemical bond A chemical bond is the physical phenomenon of chemical species being held together by attraction of atoms to each other through sharing, as well as exchanging, of electrons and is a phenomenon that is fully described by the laws of quantum electrodynamics. In general, strong chemical bonds are found in molecules, crystals or in solid metal and they organize the atoms in ordered structures.
	Chemical element A chemical element, often called simply an element, is a chemical substance that cannot be decomposed or transformed into other chemical substances by ordinary chemistry processes. All matter fundamentally consists of these elements and as of 2006, 118 unique elements have been discovered or artificially created.
	Chemical formula A chemical formula is a concise way of expressing information about the atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound. For molecular compounds, it identifies each constituent chemical element by its chemical symbol and indicates the number of atoms of each element found in each discrete molecule of that compound.
	Chemical industry The chemical industry refers to an industry involved in the production of chemicals. The industry includes petrochemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers, paints, and oleochemicals. Chemistry are used, including chemical reactions to form new substances, separations based on properties such as solubility or ionic charge, and distillations, in addition to transformations by heating and other methods.
	Chemical plant A Chemical plant is an industry Industrial process factory that manufactures chemicals, usually on a large scale. Petrochemical plants are usually located adacent to an oil refinery to Optimization transport costs for the feedstocks produced by the refinery.
	Chemical reaction A chemical reaction is a process that results in the interconversion of chemical substances . The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants. Chemical reactions are characterized by a chemical change, and they yield one or more Product which are, in general, different from the reactants.
	Chemical reactor In chemical engineering, chemical reactors are vessels designed to contain chemical reactions. The design of a chemical reactor deals with multiple aspects of chemical engineering. Chemical engineers design reactors to maximize net present value for the given reaction. Designers ensure that the reaction proceeds with the highest efficiency towards the desired output product, producing the highest yield of product while requiring the least amount of money to purchase and operate.
	Chemical substance A chemical substance is any material with a definite chemical composition, no matter where it comes from. Hill, J. W.; Petrucci, R. H.; McCreary, T. W.; Perry, S. S. General Chemistry, 4th ed., p5, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2005. For example, a sample of Water has the same properties and the same ratio of hydrogen and oxygen whether the sample is isolated from a river or made in a laboratory.
	Chemical warfare The Battle of Barnet, which took place on April 14, 1471, was a decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, near the town of Barnet, 10 miles north of London.
	Chemise The chemise, also called a smock or shift, is a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect clothing from sweat and body oils. Chemise is the French language term. Italians called it a "camicia". The English called the same shirt a "smock" and the Irish called it a "line".
	Chemist A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. In the British Isles and some Commonwealth countries, chemist may also refer to a dispensing chemist, a pharmacist, or a general retailer of chemicals . Chemists study the composition of matter and its small-scale properties such as density and acidity instead of large-scale properties like size and shape.
	Chemistry Chemistry is the science of matter at the atomic to molecular scale, dealing primarily with collections of atoms . Chemistry deals with the composition and statistical properties of such structures, as well as their transformations and interactions to become materials encountered in everyday life.
	Chemnitz Chemnitz is a city in Saxony, Germany. It is located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains. The city has a population of 248,021, and an area of 220.8 square kilometres. A Chemnitz University of Technology with about 10,000 students is the center of scientific life.
	Chemotaxis Chemotaxis is a kind of taxis, in which bodily cells, bacterium, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment. This is important for bacteria to find food by swimming towards the highest concentration of food molecules, or to flee from poisons .
	Chenin Blanc Chenin Blanc is a widely grown wine grape variety, also known as Steen in South Africa, Pineau de la Loire in the Loire region of France. It is used to make white wines in a number of styles with or without some residual sugar. It is the favored grape of the Anjou region of France and, although naturally a hard, acidic grape slow to mature, is made into fine sweet wines that age well for at least ten years in the bottle.
	Chennai Chennai , Indian renaming controversy Madras , is the capital of the states and territories of India of Tamil Nadu and is India's List of most populous metropolitan areas in India metropolitan city. It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal.
	Chenopodiaceae Chenopodiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. This family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but not by the APG II system, of 2003. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has placed these plants in family Amaranthaceae. Some fourteen hundred species were accepted in this family.
	Chenopodium Chenopodium is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants, known generically as the Goosefoots. It contains several plants of minor to moderate importance as food crops, both leaf vegetables and pseudo-cereals, including Quinoa, Kañiwa, Fat Hen, Good King Henry, and Epazote.
	Chenopodium album Chenopodium album, is a fast-growing, upright, weedy annual plant species of goosefoot, very common in temperate regions, growing almost everywhere in soils rich in nitrogen, especially on wasteland. Its pollen can contribute to hayfever-like allergies.
	Chenopodium capitatum Strawberry Blite (Chenopodium capitatum, Blitum capitatum) is an edible annual plant, also known as Blite Chenopodium, Strawberry Spinach, Indian Paint, and Indian Ink. It is native to most of North America including the United States and Canada, including the state of Alaska.
	Chenopodium vulvaria Stinking Goosefoot, or Notchweed, is a foul-smelling plant or weed. The plant is a member of the genus Chenopodium, the goosefoots.