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Charles Taylor (cropped)
Charles Taylor most often refers to: *Charles Taylor (Liberian politician) (born 1948), warlord and president of Liberia *Charles Taylor (philosopher) (born 1931), Canadian philosopher and social theorist Charles, Charlie, or Chuck Taylor may also refer to: Journalists *Charles H. Taylor (publisher) (1846–1921), American newspaper publisher and politician *Charles P. B. Taylor (1935–1997), Canadian journalist, author, and horsebreeder *Chuck Taylor (journalist, born 1957), American journalist *Chuck Taylor (music journalist) (born 1962), American music journalist Military personnel *Charles Taylor (cavalryman) (1840–1899), American cavalryman during the American Indian Wars *Charles Taylor (Liberian politician) (born 1948), warlord and president of Liberia *Charles Carroll Taylor (1917–1945), American naval pilot, leader of ill-fated Flight 19 *Charles Chatworthy Wood Taylor (1792–1856), painter, engineer, mariner, and military officer *Charles Frederick Taylor (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Taylor (Liberian Politician)
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War and growing international pressure. Born in Arthington, Montserrado County, Liberia, Taylor earned a degree at Bentley College in the United States before returning to Liberia to work in the government of Samuel Doe. After being removed for embezzlement and imprisoned by President Doe, Taylor escaped prison in 1989. He eventually arrived in Libya, where he was trained as a guerrilla fighter. He returned to Liberia in 1989 as the head of a Libyan-backed rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, to overthrow the Doe government, initiating the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996). Following Doe's execution, Taylor gained control of a large portion of the country and became one of the most prominent warlords ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Taylor (MP For Totnes)
Charles Taylor ( – 1766), of Maridge, near Totnes, Devon, was an English barrister and politician. He was the eldest son of attorney Charles Taylor of Ugborough and Totnes, Devon, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He entered the Middle Temple in 1710 to study law and was called to the bar in 1717, becoming a bencher in 1749. He was appointed a deputy remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer from 1729 to his death and was deputy recorder of Totnes from 1728 to 1736. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1722. He was a Member of the Parliament of Great Britain for Totnes Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-southwest of Torquay and ab ... from 1747 to 1754. He died in 1766. He had married Ann Pearse in 1725 and had four sons. References 1690s births 1766 deaths Alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles F
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vincent Taylor
Charles Vincent Taylor (8 February 1885 – 22 February 1946) was an American biologist and a professor at Stanford University. He contributed to studies on protozoa, innovating micro-manipulation and dissection techniques for their study. Taylor was born near Whitesville, Missouri, to Christina Bashor and Isaac Newton Taylor. On his father's side they traced their ancestry to an Isaac Taylor from County Antrim, Ireland who came to Virginia around 1740. His mother came from a family of German descent. He studied at Mount Morris College, Illinois and after receiving an AB in 1911 he became a principal of a school at Valley City, North Dakota. He joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1914 and studied mouse reproduction in 1914 under Joseph A. Long and then studied the neuromotor structure of the ciliate ''Euplotes'' using microscopic dissection studies under the supervision of Charles A. Kofoid in 1917. He then became an instructor at the zoology before joining Johns Hop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles V
Charles V may refer to: Kings and Emperors * Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) * Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain * Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise Others * Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690) * Charles Egon V, Prince of Fürstenberg (1891–1973) * Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Molina (1788–1855), first Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain (as Charles V) See also * Karl V. (opera) * Carlos V (chocolate bar) * King Charles (other) * Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''* ... {{hndis, Charles 05 eo:Karolo (regantoj)#Karolo la 5-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Richard Taylor
Charles Richard Taylor (September 8, 1939September 10, 1995) was an American biologist whose career focused on animal physiology. After conducting work in east Africa, Taylor became the Charles P. Lyman professor of biology at Harvard University and was named first director the University'Concord Field Station Taylor was elected to the American National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Early life C. Richard (Dick) Taylor was born in Tempe, Arizona in 1939 to Rosalind and Norman Taylor, a Methodist minister. Richard was the third of four sons. In 1941 the family moved to Los Angeles, where Taylor attended public high schools and then admitted to Occidental College. Taylor completed his bachelor's degree in biology in 1960. Shortly thereafter he published his first paper in the journal ''Nature'' with biologist Jack W. Hudson, on blood uric acid buildup in flying birds. Taylor began his graduate studies at Harvard University in 1960, obtaining his masters in 1962 and PhD in 1963. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Taylor (physicist)
Charles Alfred Taylor (1922–2002) was a British physicist, known for his work in crystallography and his efforts to promote science to young audiences. Early life and education Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922. He began his degree at Queen Mary College (a constituent college of the University of London), but the college was subsequently evacuated to Cambridge during World War II. He graduated in 1943 and after working for the Admiralty during the war, worked as a lecturer and then a reader after completing his PhD. Career Taylor's first work was for the Admiralty, designing radar countermeasures, work that eventually took him to Harvard University in the United States until the end of the war. He then studied for a PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and continued there from 1948 until 1965. He worked for a long time with Henry Lipson on the development of optical diffraction analogue methods. He was awarded a DSc in 1960. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Taylor (Hebraist)
Charles Taylor (1840–1908) was an English Christian Hebraist. Life Taylor was born on 27 May 1840 in London. He was educated at King's College School, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864. He became Master of St John's in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of '' Coheleth''; in 1877 ''Sayings of the Jewish Fathers'', an elaborate edition of the ''Pirḳe Abot'' (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts. Taylor discovered the Jewish source of the ''Didache'' in his ''Teaching of the Twelve Apostles'', 1886, and published also an ''Essay on the Theology of the Didache'', 1889. Taylor took a great interest in Solomon Schechter's work on Cairo Geniza, and the ''genizah'' fragments presented to the University of Cambridge are known as the Taylor-Schechter Collection. He was joint editor with Schechter of ''The Wisdom of Ben Sira'', 1899. He published separately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wiley Taylor
Charles Wiley Taylor (January 11, 1786 – December 5, 1865) was an American physician and politician. He was born on January 11, 1786, in Norwalk, Connecticut, the youngest son of the farmers Ahijah and Isabella (Wiley) Taylor. He graduated from Yale College in 1807. He studied medicine, soon after graduation, with David Eichmond of Saugatuck village (now in Westport, Connecticut) and then for a while practiced in his native town. About 1811, he removed to Florida, Orange County, New York, where he also practiced medicine and taught school, William H. Seward William Henry Seward (; May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator. A determined opp ... being one of his pupils. After three or four years, his health becoming impaired, he returned to Westport, where he spent the rest of his life, mainly in agricultural pursuit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simeon Taylor
Charles Simeon Taylor (October 13, 1851 – June 19, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician Born in the town of Geneva, Walworth County, Wisconsin, Taylor went to University of Wisconsin and then graduated from Whitewater Normal School (now University of Wisconsin–Whitewater) in 1875. He then received his law degree from University of Wisconsin Law School in 1876. He then practiced law in Barron, Wisconsin, and was appointed district attorney of Barron County, Wisconsin, in 1876. Taylor was the president of the Barron Woolen Mills Company. Taylor served on the Barron Common Council, the Barron County Board of Supervisors, and the Barron City Power and Light Commission. Taylor was a member of the Republican Party. In 1885 and 1887, Taylor served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and then served in the Wisconsin State Senate The Wisconsin Senate is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Together with the Wisconsin State Assembly they constitute the le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles McArther Emmanuel
Charles McArther Emmanuel (born February 12, 1978), also known as Chuckie Taylor, is an American-Liberian former soldier and war criminal. He is the son of Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia.Ex-prisoner: Taylor's son laughed at torture ." '' CNN''. September 30, 2008. Raised by his mother in the U.S. until he was 16, Taylor Jr. traveled to in 1994 to live with his father. During his father's presidency, he became the commander of the infamously violent [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Keith Taylor
Charles Keith Taylor (born 23 June 1931) was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada for Churchill of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Biography Early life Keith Taylor was born at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population .... Career He was first elected at the Churchill riding in the 1972 general election. He served his term in the 29th Parliament, but did not campaign for a second term in that office in the 1974 election. Electoral history External links * CBC News - Canada Votes 2006: Churchill 1931 births Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Politicians from Portage la Prairie Lawye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
