Europe was originally created by three forces: Catholicism, the military threat of Islam and the military ambition of Charles the Great.
Mr Wilson reckoned that as well as shaking up the hotel industry he had invented franchising, but Ray Kroc of McDonald's and Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken put in claims (and Charles the Great may have started it around 800 when he granted land rights to his supporters).
Scientist Alfred Russel Wallace, who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin, corresponded with the great and good of 19th Century society.
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The number of firms that sell competing products in my hometown have dropped off considerably, thanks to Charles Darwin and the last Great Recession.
Over a coffee few years ago I opened the morning paper and was struck by a vividly illustrated article announcing Charles Moore's discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Undeterred, at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, when the Palatine territories were partly restored to the heir, Charles Louis, the new Elector Palatine set about rebuilding the great library, which once again gained an international reputation for its depth and breadth.
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Despite being almost totally outplayed, Wigan did occasionally string a move together that ensured the United defence was not completely redundant, and Charles N'Zogbia missed a great chance to reduce the deficit when Won-Hee Cho's pass set him free in the box only for the winger to drift his shot wide, while Hugo Rodallega headed straight at Tomasz Kuszczak from six yards out.
This noble cause was enough to attract to the board of directors the likes of Charles Mathias , the former senator from Maryland, and Michael Nobel , great-grand-nephew of Alfred.
The group keeps alive the legacy of the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus, and for this special concert, it revisited music recorded 50 years ago.
This noble cause was enough to attract to the board of directors the likes of Charles Mathias, the former senator from Maryland, and Michael Nobel, a great-grand-nephew of Alfred.
This year's London Film Festival will close with the European premiere of new Charles Dickens adaptation Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell.
One of the great thinkers of our time is Charles Krauthammer.
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The case has aroused great interest in Uganda, partly because the journalists - who include the newspaper editor Charles Onyango-Obbo - are very well known, and partly because of widespread shock at the photograph.
The move to the one-lap sprint has been planned by her coach Aston Moore and approved by Great Britain's head coach Charles van Commenee, the man who infamously criticised Sotherton for settling for bronze in Athens.
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Just as Abraham-Louis Breguet was a founding father of mechanical watchmaking, his great-great grandson, Louis-Charles Breguet, achieved similar fame in the aviation field.
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"It tells me of the great humility of the man, the great sense of duty, but also the great awareness that we are here to do a job, " said Bishop Charles Scicluna, who worked with Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI, inside the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Long before Florida and Kotkin wrote their first papers, though, Charles Tiebout had an answer for them both: Variety is a great thing, and people will sort themselves into the environments and opportunties that are best for them.
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