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Charles Van Doren is the contestant famous for his fraudulent appearances on the 1950s TV quiz show Twenty-One. Van Doren was a professor of English at Columbia University when he appeared on Twenty-One in 1956 and 1957. He won over $100,000, going on such a winning streak that he became a national symbol of brains and grace under pressure. However, in 1959 Van Doren admitted to a House of Representatives committee that he had been "involved, deeply involved, in a deception." Show producers had provided him with answers and had coached him on how to act to milk maximum drama out of his appearances. Though Van Doren said he had told himself he was helping to inspire youngsters, his reputation was ruined, and his name became synonymous with the quiz show scandals of the 1950s.
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Charles V's reign introduced the first documented use of the styles of His Majesty or His Imperial Majesty. Because of his far-reaching territories he was described as ruling an Empire "in which the sun does not set".
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Charles treated his lands like a set of family possessions, given this one to a son, that to a sister, another to a daughter or brother. The far-flung clan was only united in his own person. He kept in touch with weekly correspondence.
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This part of Charles Lucier's papers consists primarily of incoming correspondence with friends, relatives, archaeologists and anthropologists, and Alaska natives. The correspondents are arranged aphabetically. Prominent correspondents include James VanStone, Helge Larsen, Fred A. Milan, Jorgen Meldgaard, the Nagozruk family, Bernadette Mullenix (cousin), Robert Mayokok, and Ivar Skarland.
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Charles was accepted as sovereign, even though the Spanish felt uneasy with the Imperial style. Spanish monarchs until then had been bound by the laws; the monarchy was a contract with the people. With Charles it would become more absolute, even though until his mother's death in 1555 Charles did not hold the full kingship of the country.
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This portrait by an unknown artist of the thirty-year-old emperor Charles V (1500-1558) was based on a portrait by Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen. Vermeyen was commissioned to paint Charles V's portrait by Margaret of Austria
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