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  Charles Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elected to the British House of Commons in the Labour landslide of 1997, Clarke served less than a year on the back benches before joining the government as a junior education minister in July 1998.
During the 2005 UK Presidency of the European Union, Clarke pressed other member states to pass a directive to require communications data to be stored for law enforcement purposes.
Clarke speaks Cuban Spanish (a legacy of his student links with Cuba), French, and German.
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 Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name.
Clarke was born in Minehead in Somerset, England, and as a boy enjoyed stargazing and enthusiastically read old American science-fiction magazines (pulp magazines, many of which made their way to England as ballast in ships).
Clarke's influence on the directing of 2001: A Space Odyssey is also felt in one of the most memorable scenes in the movie when astronaut Bowman shuts down HAL by removing modules from service one by one.
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 The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
Arthur C. Clarke is the son of an English farming family, born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England on December 16, 1917.
Clarke's work, which led to the global satellite systems in use today, brought him numerous honors including the 1982 Marconi International Fellowship, a gold medal of the Franklin Institute, the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, the Lindbergh Award and a Fellowship of King's College, London.
Clarke's World of strange Powers in 1984 has been screened in many countries and he has contributed to other TV series about space, such as Walter Cronkite's Universe series in 1981.
www.clarkefoundation.org /acc/biography.php   (777 words)

  
 CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Clarke became a music publisher in partnership with Alfred Novello, and married in 1828 his partners sister, Mary Victoria (1809-1898), the eldest daughter of Vincent Novello.
In the year after her marriage Mrs Cowden Clarke began her valuable Shakespeare concordance, which was eventually issued in eighteen monthly parts (1844-1845), and in volume form in 1845 as The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare, being a Verbal Index to all the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet.
Charles Clarke died on the I3th of March 1877 at Genoa, and his wife survived him until the 12th of January 1898.
www.1911ency.org /C/CL/CLARKE_CHARLES_COWDEN.htm   (439 words)

  
 Charles Clarke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles continued to expand his farming and cattle operation, but after the birth of Sue Ann on June 24, 1973, Cheryl Kay on August 15, 1975, and Carol Jean on November 11, 1977, he jokingly refers to his Girls' Ranch.
Charles is presently on the Mingona Township Board and the Agricultural Extension Council.
Charles serving as a deacon and he and Hannah together helping to sponso youth groups and activities, Hannah teaching SS classes, being VBS director, and each of the children being active in SS and their respective youth groups.
www.ku.edu /kansas/medicine/chosen/bch_clarke.html   (417 words)

  
 Clarke, Charles Baron - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Clarke, Charles Baron
Clarke was born in Hampshire and graduated from King's College School, London.
Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke, Austin
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Clarke,+Charles+Baron   (264 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Charles Clarke
Charles Clarke took over one of the high offices of state when he replaced David Blunkett as home secretary in December 2004.
Mr Clarke already had a background in the upper echelons of Labour, having served as chief of staff to Neil Kinnock throughout his years as Labour leader.
Mr Clarke was tipped for office from the moment he was elected, despite a few off-message wobbles.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2122861.stm   (286 words)

  
 Clarke, James Frederic - M.D.
Charles Clarke was a graduate of the medical school of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Clarke was for one term mayor of Fairfield, during which time he labored for the construction of a sewer system and other city improvements.
The cause of Dr. Clarke’s dismissal being brought to the attention of General Fitzhugh Lee, the corps commander, he was soon reinstated to his position as chief physician in the division hospital.
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 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | 'Hundreds' may pose terror threat, says Clarke
Charles Clarke said today that hundreds of terror suspects were being closely watched in Britain and there was "no doubt" that the London bombers had links with foreign terrorists.
Mr Clarke was answering questions from the home affairs select committee of cross-party MPs about the July 7 suicide bombings in London, which killed 52 innocent victims, and the attempted attacks of July 21.
Mr Clarke was asked whether he stood by the prime minister's statement earlier this year that hundreds of people were plotting attacks in the country.
politics.guardian.co.uk /terrorism/story/0,15935,1569002,00.html   (477 words)

  
 Tim Worstall: Fuck Him
Charles Clarke should be hung from the nearest lamp pole, assuming we can find one to bear the weight of the fat fucker, the assembled political parties forced to watch as he tap dances on air and happy children gambol at his feet.
Charles Clarke continue his assualt on justice, human rights, and liberty:Spending on compensation paid to those wrongly convicted of crimes in England and Wales is to be cut by £5m a year, Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said.
In the famous case of Sally Clark, the failure was her defence Counsel, whose Rolls Royce mind failed to challenge Meadows stupid statistical inferences and ignored the (written) question raised by the jury about blood tests.
timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2006/04/fuck_him.html   (2423 words)

  
 Chicken Yoghurt: Love letters straight from Charles Clarke
Charles is clearly desperate and distraught because in the next paragraph he repeats himself: Tories, bastards.
Charles Clarke has just let us know which is the correct party to vote for as an anti-New Labour protest vote.
The letter from CLarke seems at best crass - but essentially he is correct on the electoral maths - at the last election the Lib dems secured 9.1% of the vote here (and their percentage of their vote actually fell by 0.5%).
chickyog.blogspot.com /2005/04/love-letters-straight-from-charles.html   (2058 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Edward Smith on Charles Clarke, Pen and Ink Warrior
Clarke's diary provides a tantalizing look at gender relations also, not only in what it records, but in the fact that both husband and wife contributed to "his" diary and read it aloud to one another.
Charles Clarke was a nineteenth-century English immigrant from Lincoln.
Charles Clarke was unusual in championing Catholics at a time when this was a far from popular position to take.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61631087958531   (1678 words)

  
 Charles Clarke Consulting
Charles Clarke Consulting has conducted corporate training seminars for decades, specializing in sales training and closing strategies.
It was in 1968 that Charles wrote his first paper on the Bulls, Owls, Lambs and Tigers concept, as part of his Masters degree in Sociology and Psychology at the University of Hawaii.
Now Charles is making his concepts available to salespeople in selected industries outside of real estate and they are seeing the same magnitude of results in their closing ratios and improvements to their bottom line.
www.personalityselling.com /corporate_history.php   (313 words)

  
 Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's fiction is credited with combining flawlessly accurate technical details with such philosophically expansive themes as "spiritual" rebirth and the search for man's place in the universe.
Arthur Charles Clarke was born December 16, 1917 in the English coastal town of Minehead, in Somerset.
So influential was this work that Clarke is credited as the inventor of the first communications satellite, a scientific development which earned him the gold medal of the Franklin Institute, the Lindbergh Award, Marconi Award, the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, and Fellowship of King's College, London.
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 Charles Clarke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles Clarke gained extensive experience of local government in the London Borough of Hackney where he was chair of the housing committee and vice chair of economic development between 1980 and 1986.
From 1992 to 1997 Mr Clarke was chief executive of Quality Public Affairs, a public affairs management consultancy, before his election as a Member of Parliament.
Mr Clarke was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Skills in October 2002 and became Home Secretary in December 2004.
www.pm.gov.uk /output/Page1397.asp   (233 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Profile: Charles Clarke
Although he has only been an MP since 1997, Charles Clarke has been close to the heart of power in the Labour Party since the 1980s.
The son of a senior servant, Mr Clarke was privately educated at Highgate School before going on to Cambridge where he studied maths and economics.
Mr Clarke - who is married with two sons - was tipped for office from the moment he was elected as MP for Norwich South in 1997, despite a few off-message wobbles.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4100037.stm   (553 words)

  
 Arthur C. Clarke Quotes Part 1
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is among the giants of contemporary science fiction authors, and also a leading science writer.
As a child Clarke was a precocious tinkerer with gadgets, once constructing a light-beam sound transmitter.
From 1948-50 Clarke was Assistant Physics Editor at the Institution of Electrical Engineers and chaired the British Interplanetary Society 1946-47 and 1950-53.
www.testermanscifi.org /ClarkeQuotesPart1.html   (938 words)

  
 Charles Valentine CLARKE :: Clarke Family Tree
Charles perished in the Titanic disaster of 1912.
Charles was born February 14th (hence the middle name) 1883 in Cosham, Hants.
Charles was lost in the sinking of the Titanic and his wife returned to England soon after.
www.clarkeology.com /79   (1072 words)

  
 Rachel from north London: This is an insult
Clarke, in his speech to the assembled clergy, made much of the fact that he had spoken to the PM ''only yesterday'' and the PM was at the time considering the problem of an angry Sedgefield constituent about the closure of a school.
Clarke remarked upon this system of top executives still being MPs and responsible to their constituents, how unusual this was compared to most Parliamentary systems.
In fairness to Charles Clarke (and those are words you won't here me say very often) he may not have been personally responsible for fixing the format: New Labour has surrounded itself with a thick layer of acolytes whose job it is to stop reality filtering through...
rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com /2006/03/this-is-insult.html   (5121 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Charles Clarke
The son of Permanent Secretary Sir Richard Clarke, Charles Clarke attended Highgate School, London, where he was Head Boy.
In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society to acknowledge its contribution to education and in memory of his father.
Following the resignation of David Blunkett on 15 December, 2004, Clarke took over at the Home Office as Home Secretary, one of the most senior positions in the Cabinet.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Charles_Clarke   (512 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Partisan Clarke by Charles Krauthammer - Mar 26, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Clarke's answer is unbelievable; ``Well, I'm not prepared to call it a mistake.
Clarke says he pushed very hard for such critical anti-al Qaeda measures as aid to and cooperation with Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan's Northern Alliance.
Clarke is clearly an angry man, angry that Condoleezza Rice demoted him, angry that he was denied a coveted bureaucratic job by the Bush administration.
www.townhall.com /columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20040326.shtml   (792 words)

  
 arthur charles clarke ... at MSN Shopping
Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works.
Arthur C. Clarke is one of the greatest science fiction...
From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis...
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 Alibris: Arthur Charles Clarke
Like much of Clarke's most famous works ("The Sentinel", "2001", and "Childhood's End"), this book charts the course of humankind against the backdrop of a universe that is often beyond the realms of understanding, by focusing on the individual's interaction with the technological in seeking a sense of belonging.
Clark presents his visionary tale ofthe only man born in 10 million years who desperately wants to find what liesbeyond the City.
by Charles R. Pellegrino, PH.D. Here is the first book to treat Atlantis seriously--by piecing together the archaeological findings and the compelling scientific, historical, and literary evidence that the buried civilization at Thera (near Crete) is in fact the Atlantis of legend.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Arthur_Charles_Clarke   (858 words)

  
 Europhobia: I despise Charles Clarke
Charles Clarke (paraphrased): "From what we can tell some, if not all, of the 7th and 21st July bombers may have been descended from people who were not British nationals and may occasionally have spoken to some foreigners.
Charles Clarke (not paraphrased): "There is no doubt of a series of international relationships that were engaged in.
We're going to try and avoid any outright lies so we can maintain plausible deniability and claim that we were misrepresented when the shit comes crashing down, but in the meantime we're going to rely on implication and nose-tapping as if we know more than we do.
europhobia.blogspot.com /2005/09/i-despise-charles-clarke.html   (536 words)

  
 NuLabour: Charles Clarke Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The excuse which Charles Clarke has given for not already having led the ratification of the COE convention is, according to the BBC:
Home Secretary Charles Clarke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government had not signed the treaty yet because it was not sufficiently comprehensive.
An elaborate account by the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, of the tough measures the Government is allegedly imposing on young offenders was a sham, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
www.spy.org.uk /nulabour/charles_clarke   (2002 words)

  
 CNN.com - Prince slammed as 'old-fashioned' - Nov 18, 2004
Clarke said he believed that it was important that children were encouraged in their ambitions.
Clarke initially said he did not want to "tangle" with the prince during his appearance on BBC Radio 4's "Today" program.
Clarke acknowledged there needed to be a "frank assessment" of people's capabilities but said that it was wrong that the aspirations of large groups should simply be dismissed.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/11/18/prince.education   (647 words)

  
 Clarke, Charles Cowden. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He was a close friend of Keats, who was a pupil of Clarke’s father.
Clarke’s lectures on Shakespeare were published as Shakespeare Characters (1863).
He and his wife, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden Clarke, 1809–98, wrote Recollections of Writers (1878), and she compiled The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1844–45).
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