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  JOHN CHARLES - International Football Hall of Fame
John Charles is considered by many to have been the greatest all-round footballer ever to come from Britain.
Charles was born in Swansea on December 27, 1931, and joined the local groundstaff at the Vetch Field.
Charles was 6ft 2ins and weighed nearly 14 stone and in the 1952-53 season the club decided to experiment with him as the spearhead of their attack.
www.ifhof.com /hof/charles.asp   (1288 words)

  
 BBC - Leeds Sport - John Charles
John Charles was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 2003 BBC's Sports Award in the region.
John was born in Swansea but made his league debut for Leeds United at the age of 16 in December 1947.
The news of John Charles death greatly saddened me, but at the same time I was comforted by the fact that, to my surprise, the news was given to me by my 19 year old son.
www.bbc.co.uk /leeds/sport/john_charles_obit.shtml   (941 words)

  
 John Charles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Charles, CBE (27 December 1931 21 February 2004) was a Welsh football player.
John Charles was born in Swansea and joined Leeds United at the age of 17, for whom he scored 150 goals in eight years, including 42 goals in the 1953-54 season.
Charles became an Inaugural Inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Charles   (622 words)

  
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Acknowledged as the greatest ever British all-rounder, for he was equally adapt at centre-half and centre-forward, Charles managed to break the Leeds United club scoring record with 42 goals in a season at a time when he was appearing at centre-half in internationals for Wales.
In 1956 Charles helped Leeds finally gain promotion to the old First Division, winning the Second Division Championship, and it gave the brilliant Welshman the chance to test himself amongst the best centre-halves in the country, and for once people could compart him with the best strikers too.
John Charles helped Wales make it through to the 1958 World Cup quarter-finals, where they lost 1-0 to Brazil, a game in which he sadly took no part through injury.
silverfox.infopop.cc /charles.htm   (889 words)

  
 John Charles - exclusively from Key Artist Group
John Charles has been performing all around the United States, Canada and Europe for most of his professional life and has established himself as one of the most sought after entertainers in the corporate market
John Charles’ popularity in the convention market is a result of his uncanny ability to identify with and relate to any group, no matter how large or small.
John opens his show with a quick introduction and a song, then immediately begins to build a rapport with his audience.
www.johncharles.com   (242 words)

  
 leedsfans.org.uk: Leeds United Player Profile: John Charles
John Charles is generally recognised as the greatest player ever to appear for Leeds United - and is frequently mentioned in the top ten players ever to play the game.
John Charles was signed by Major Frank Buckley, made his league debut at the age of 16, and at 18 years and 71 days became the youngest ever player to win a Welsh International cap - a record he held until Ryan Giggs made his international debut in 1992.
John was one of the friendliest people I could ever meet and when asked if we could have a photo taken, he was all too happy to allow this.
www.leedsfans.org.uk /leeds/players/66.html   (6392 words)

  
 The Definitive History of Leeds United - Players - John Charles - An appreciation
John put our wee man in his pocket for 89 minutes, then in the 90th Cecil got a chance and scored.
But immense as he was at the back, Charles was even more impressive as a forward, still supreme in the air, but now also displaying a rare touch, delicacy and ball control for such a big man, boasting a powerful shot and becoming the scourge of defenders wherever he went.
If you tried to challenge John in the air, he'd always jump a fraction of a second earlier, and he seemed to be able to hang in the air.
www.mightyleeds.co.uk /players/charlesapp.htm   (1368 words)

  
 CNN.com - Leeds pays tribute to John Charles - Mar. 1, 2004
Former Welsh international John Charles, known as the "Gentle Giant", was honored by British soccer's biggest names at a memorial service at Leeds United's stadium.
Charles was a star of the Juventus team of the late 1950s and '60s.
"John's reputation as a footballer goes without saying, but to the people who knew him he was a kind man, a nice fellow, easy to talk to and you never heard him complaining of anything," Gray said.
www.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/football/03/01/charles.memorial.ap/index.html   (415 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | John Charles dies
Charles, who played as a striker or centre-half, also starred for Italian giants Juventus and was never booked or sent off in his career.
Charles joined Leeds when he was only 17, scoring more than 150 goals in eight years, including 42 in the 1953-4 season.
Awarded the CBE in 2001, Charles, who also had spells with Roma and Cardiff, played in the last Wales team to qualify for the World Cup, starring in the 1958 Finals.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/3488975.stm   (352 words)

  
 Knight John Charles Petition
John Charles was a supremely talented footballer who graced the field for Wales, Cardiff City, Leeds United, Juventus, AS Roma and Swansea.
We believe that John Charles should be knighted and call upon Her Majesty and Her Government to confer one upon him.
The Knight John Charles Petition to The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP was created by Football fans everywhere and written by Matthew Knowles.
www.petitiononline.com /jckbe/petition.html   (286 words)

  
 John Keats
John was rapidly becoming dependant on the help of his friends, people like Leigh Hunt (who'd gotten married and settled down some) and Charles Brown.
John was not allowed to write poetry and only given the dullest books to read, as emotional excitement was considered very bad for consumptive patients.
John was definitely in a state; he stopped opening letters, even from his beloved Frances, after a month or so.
www.incompetech.com /authors/keats   (1525 words)

  
 John Jacob Niles : The Gambling Songs
John Charles Thomas had attended my father's Carnegie Hall recital in the 1930's and thought this would be a good source of material.
John Charles Thomas immediately appropriated the song for himself, changing the text and the rhythm of the music to suit him.
The changes that John Charles Thomas made were the changes of words and of rhythmic structure of the songs.
www.john-jacob-niles.com /John_Jacob_Niles_Gambling_Songs.htm   (2451 words)

  
 Charles Wesley
Charles accompanied John on the mission to the new colony of Georgia in 1735.
Charles was recovering from a recurrence of illness in the home of some Moravians in Little Britain, not far from St, Paul's Cathedral.
Charles Wesley stood at Whitefields side when he preached to an enormous crowd at Blackheath, and asked, "What has Satan gained by turning him out of the churches?" In May, Charles Wesley joined his brother in following Whitefield's example when he preached to large crowds in the Essex villages.
www.igracemusic.com /hymnbook/authors/charles_wesley.html   (2231 words)

  
 John & Charles' Excellent Adventure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
However, as always, it ran long and we were sweating the schedule because Charles had promised to spend some time with Kieu, doublechecking the computers and networking that she was planning to install in her new 2nd store for her booming jewelry business.
Charles was way out of it, but it turned out later to be exacerbated by the onset of a bad cold.
Charles & I found the "happy shiny jazz lite" in our terminal to be intolerable, so we're sitting at the gate with Nancy & Sara (and a welcome AC outlet).
blog.robinsontwins.org   (4669 words)

  
 John Charles Fremont
John C. Fremont was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1813, the son of Charles Fremont, a French emigre, and Ann Beverly Whiting of Virginia.
Fremont spent his boyhood in Charleston and was educated in the Scientific Department of the College of Charleston before his expulsion in 1831, three months short of graduation.
Fremont's grandest achievement was in exploring the West and making it known through his lively, readable reports (prepared with the help of his wife) and his maps (drawn with the assistance of Charles Preuss).
historytogo.utah.gov /people/johncharlesfremont.html   (518 words)

  
 John Charles, 72; was soccer player - The Boston Globe
WAKEFIELD, England -- John Charles, a member of the 1958 Wales World Cup team, died yesterday, a hospital spokesman said.
Charles, who was one of the most popular players in Italian soccer in the late 1950s and early 1960s, became ill last month and had surgery to remove a blood clot on his leg.
Charles scored 93 goals in 155 matches for Juventus, helping the squad clinch three league titles and two Italian Cups during his five-year stint from 1957-62.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/02/22/john_charles_72_was_soccer_player   (163 words)

  
 John Charles Haley ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Charles John Watson, Interior of a Cathedral, Venice, 1900
John Kay, John Kay, Drawn and Engraved by Himself, pl. 1 in the book, A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877), vol.
John Faber the Younger, Portrait of Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset, 1733
wwar.com /masters/h/haley-john_charles.html   (795 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Charles: The Gentle Giant
John Charles was a footballing hero to many and was the first British player to be signed by a foreign club, joining Juventus of Italy in 1957 for a then record fee of £65,000.
Charles had tremendous speed, great presence and was a formidable header of the ball.
Charles enjoyed the Italian lifestyle despite the rigid regimentation and rigorous training schedules of the time.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/726000.stm   (550 words)

  
 BBC News | WALES | Campaign to knight John Charles
Charles was one of Wales's most versatile and successful footballers, playing for Cardiff, Leeds, Juventus and Wales.
Leeds football fanzine writer Matt Knowles is now mounting a Knight John Charles Campaign, in recognition of the player's distinguished record.
Charles was considered to be one of Britain's best all-round footballers, comfortable on the ball in defence or as a centre forward.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/1023917.stm   (257 words)

  
 John Charles / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru
The impassive good looks and broad chest captured by photographers 50 years ago invariably portray John Charles as something of a matinee idol.
Unusually for a British footballer, Charles is best known for the five years he spent playing abroad.
The same week Billy Wright was asked who was the greatest centre-forward he had faced, and he too answered “John Charles".
www.100welshheroes.com /en/biography/johncharles   (387 words)

  
 The Wesleys: John, Charles, Susanna (Free Historical Art Too)
John Wesley's Last Letter (on Slavery to William Wilberforce).
John Wesley and Religious Bigotry by J. Wakeley.
The Cross and Flame is a registered trademark and the use is supervised by the General Council on Finance and Administration of The United Methodist Church.
gbgm-umc.org /umhistory/wesley   (324 words)

  
 Welsh football news - John Charles
John Charles known to us "older generation" as the gentle giant of football and his record goes before him and must be considered as our best "true Welsh" player of all time.
When John Charles was stood acknowledging the crowd, wiping away tears from the centre of a giant Wales crest in the centre circle, everyone could see the greatness of the man, passionate, proud, humble, he WAS Welsh football - our best ever.
John chases forty yards after it picks it up and carries it back and gently tosses it to the Cardiff free kick taker.
www.dragonsoccer.co.uk /johncharlestribute001.htm   (1215 words)

  
 : : John Charles Designs : :
John Charles Designs is a family owned and operated company headquartered in Southern California.
Our mission is to provide furniture that is designed to anticipate the potential of years ahead, as well as reflect the time-tested elements of the years past.
John Charles Designs’ furniture is designed to recognize, to nurture and to celebrate personal identity.
www.johncharlesdesigns.com   (115 words)

  
 John Charles Caron - VincentWiki
John Charles Caron, born on 31 December 1730, entered the Congregation on 9 October 1750 and made his vows on 10 October 1752.
But when, in 1927, the Superior General, François Verdier, asked the Congregation of Rites to approve the Proper for our martyrs, the opinion of Coste, who noted that the two confreres at that time were pastors in Collégien and Genevrières, respectively, prevailed.
The Congregation, on 15 October 2005, granted that the memorial, in addition to Louis Joseph François, John Henry Gruyer and Peter René Rogue would include John Charles Caron and Nicholas Colin and would be entitled: “Memorial of Blessed Louis Joseph François and Companions, Martyrs”.
www.famvin.org /wiki/John_Charles_Caron   (726 words)

  
 Chris Baldwin - Charles Barkley: John Mellencamp right, "Conservative means discriminatory"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When John Mellencamp let loose with a rip on the Bush administration in the middle of an celebrity golf tournament event concert, sending ex Vice President Dan Quayle marching for the exit, he may have shot a few shockwaves through the American Century Championship.
It's President Nixon, John Dean is a treacherous rat, Charles Barkley is a dim bulb at best, and the Boston Globe is a liberal rag whose editors wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit them.
In the real world, Charles Barkley, John Elway, or Joe Montana are not automatically qualified to write a political newsletter just because they all qualify for the Hall of Fame.
www.travelgolf.com /blogs/chris.baldwin/2006/07/17/charles_barkley_john_mellencamp_right_co   (3589 words)

  
 The Evangelical Bishop: The J. C. Ryle Book Shelf
On May 10, 1816, John Charles Ryle was born to John And Susanna Ryle of Macclesfield, Cheshire County, England.
In 1841 Bishop Charles Sumner of Winchester ordained J. C Ryle as a minister in the Anglican Church, (Church of England).
The eleven in the original volume were: George Whitefield, John Wesley, William Grimshaw, William Romaine, Daniel Rowlands, John Berridge, Henry Venn, Samuel Walker, James Hervey, A. Toplady, and John Fletcher.
www.geocities.com /johncharlesryle/index.html   (1359 words)

  
 John Charles Fremont - People of Georgia
ohn Charles Fremont was born in Savannah, Georgia on January 31, 1813.
When gold was discovered in California, Fremont's land was suddenly worth a fortune, and he soon became a very wealthy man. In 1850 John Fremont became one of the first two senators from California.
John Fremont died in New York state in 1890, having lived a life full of immense successes and unimaginable setbacks, a life of exploration, adventure, and discovery.
www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ga_jcf.htm   (735 words)

  
 Biography: John and Charles Wesley, renewers of the Church (3 Mar 1791)
John, present with a group of Moravians who were reading Martin Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans, received a strong emotional awareness of the love of Christ displayed in freely forgiving his sins and granting him eternal life.
Of the two, John was the more powerful preacher, and averaged 8000 miles of travel a year, mostly on horseback.
Sola Scriptura was never a displacement of, or substitute for, classical learning: and this was natural enough in view of the fact that he had mastered the baseline curriculum of his Oxford education and had come to cherish the classical tradition as the font of Western civilization.
elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/03/03.html   (1214 words)

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