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  Winston Churchill - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Churchill later returned to Oldham and used the publicity he had gained to stand again for the seat in the 1900 general election when he was narrowly elected for the seat.
Churchill was a staunch advocate of foreign intervention, declaring that Bolshevism must be "strangled in its cradle." He secured from a divided and loosely organized Cabinet an intensification and prolongation of the British involvement beyond the wishes of any major group in Parliament or the nation--and in the face of the bitter hostility of labour.
Churchill College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1960 as the national and commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /winston_churchill.htm   (6970 words)

  
 Winston Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Churchill advocated the pre-emptive occupation of the neutral Norwegian iron-ore port of Narvik and the iron mines in Kiruna, Sweden, early in the War.
Churchill was the last (and one of the most influential) exponents of "Whig history" – the belief of the 18th- and 19th-century Whigs that the British people had a unique greatness and an imperial destiny, and that all British history should be seen as progress towards fulfilling that destiny.
Churchill's histories of the two world wars are, of course, far from being conventional historical works, since the author was a central participant in both stories and took full advantage of that fact in writing his books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Churchill   (8764 words)

  
 Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, British statesman, soldier, and author. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth ...
Churchill was elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1900, but he subsequently switched to the Liberal party and was appointed undersecretary for the colonies in the cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
Churchill was one of the truly great orators; his energy and his stubborn public refusal to make peace until Adolf Hitler was crushed were crucial in rallying and maintaining British resistance to Germany during the grim years from 1940 to 1942.
Churchill was undoubtedly one of the greatest public figures of the 20th cent.
www.bartleby.com /65/ch/ChurchlW.html   (782 words)

  
 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Churchill's collaboration with Admiral Lord Fisher to this end was historic: it produced the changeover to oil-fueled ships from coalburning vessels, the creation of a naval air service, and the first development of the tank.
Churchill was made to take the responsibility, and when a coalition government was formed in May 1915, the Conservatives made it a condition that he should be dropped as first lord of the admiralty.
Churchill's task was to inspire resistance at all costs, to organize the defense of the island, and to make it the bastion for an eventual return to the continent of Europe, whose liberation from Nazi tyranny he never doubted.
www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_churchill.html   (3310 words)

  
 TIME 100: Winston Churchill
And Churchill differed from Roosevelt — while both were war leaders, Churchill was uniquely stirred by the challenge of war and found his fulfillment in leading the democracies to victory.
Churchill was born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the house built by the nation for Marlborough.
Even at 24, Churchill was steely: "I never felt the slightest nervousness," he wrote to his mother.
www.time.com /time/time100/leaders/profile/churchill.html   (306 words)

  
 "Sir Winston Churchill" by John Keegan
Churchill, the master British statesman, stood alone against fascism and renewed the world's faith in the superiority of democracy.
His ancestor John Churchill had been created first Duke of Marlborough in 1702 for his victories against Louis XIV early in the War of the Spanish Succession.
The Conservative Prime Minister appointed Churchill Chancellor of the Exchequer, but when he returned the country to the gold standard, it proved financially disastrous, and he further weakened his political position by opposing measures to grant India limited self-government.
www.rjgeib.com /thoughts/britain/winston-churchill.html   (1562 words)

  
 Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Churchill was one of the first people to grasp the military potential of aircraft and in 1912 he set up the Royal Naval Air Service.
Churchill continued to be criticized for meddling in military matters and tended to take too much notice of the views of his friends such as Frederick Lindemann rather than his military commanders.
Churchill and other militants in the cabinet were eager for a strike, knowing that they had built a national organization in the six months' grace won by the subsidy to the mining industry.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRchurchill.htm   (7454 words)

  
 Sir Winston Churchill [encyclopedia]
Winston Churchill is most notable for his parliamentary career, which spanned the reigns of six monarchs, from Queen Victoria to her great-great-granddaughter, Elizabeth II.
Churchill was knighted in 1953, the same year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Churchill died on January 24, 1965, and is buried in his birthplace of Oxfordshire.
artzia.com /History/Biography/Churchill   (1729 words)

  
 The Daily Camera: Buffzone News
Churchill's framed photograph was stolen last month, and although it has been returned, it hasn't made its way back up on the wall.
Ward Churchill had fiery words for his critics Thursday and said "there is no line" that political speech can't cross in the rules of academic freedom.
Professor Ward Churchill should not be ousted from the University of Colorado, and the controversy he has stirred has challenged his students intellectually, many people told a pair of legislators at a forum Thursday.
web.dailycamera.com /buffzone/churchill.html   (2628 words)

  
 Churchill | PBS
Winston Churchill is renowned as the legendary war leader, inspiring Britain in its finest hour.
During his childhood at Blenheim Palace, Churchill is reported to have stated that he would one day become Prime Minister and he duly achieved his aim aged 65.
However, the determination and doggedness which marked Churchill out from his peers was both a strength and a weakness.
www.pbs.org /churchill   (156 words)

  
 Churchill Economic Development Authority
Surrounded by high desert plains, it is a region full of green fields, fertile pastures and sparkling rivers and lakes.
Fallon, Churchill County is located 60 miles east of Reno and 70 miles east of the California border at the junction of U.S. Highway 50 and 95.
Churchill Economic Development Authority’s primary goal is to diversify and improve the local economy.
www.ceda-nv.org   (188 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Churchill: A Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments--at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s.
Roy Jenkin's "Churchill" is an exhaustive biographical picture of one of the most enigmatic and important figures of the 20th century.
There is the odd problem, my main disagreement is the quick dismissal of Churchills wife, she lived through nearly everything he did and yet upon his death there is no further mention of her life and welfare.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0333782909   (1375 words)

  
 Winston Churchill - Biography
Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953.
Churchill's literary career began with campaign reports: The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899), an account of the campaign in the Sudan and the Battle of Omdurman.
Churchill's history of the First World War appeared in four volumes under the title of The World Crisis (1923-29); his memoirs of the Second World War ran to six volumes (1948-1953/54).
www.nobel.se /literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html   (437 words)

  
 Index - Churchill chamber of Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Churchill and the surrounding area has a unique history and several national historic sites are in the area, including
Spring time finds Churchill to be a bird watchers delight and many species can be observed in their nesting plumage.
One of Churchill's most spectacular winter sights is the Aurora borealis or northern lights.
www.churchillmb.net /%7Ecccomm   (590 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Churchill: A Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
CHURCHILL'S PROVENANCE WAS aristocratic, indeed ducal, and some have seen this as the most important key to his whole career.
Churchill, it seems, the son of a Brit and an American can fit the times to a "T." If not for Churchill Britain and the Soviet Union would certainly have been overrun.
For Churchill during those years, the House of Commons was possibly everything from a lion's den or a circus to Mt. Everest but it certainly wasn't a safe harbor.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374123543?v=glance   (2866 words)

  
 Churchill 05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Ward Churchill was scheduled to speak at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York on February 3, 2005.
Churchill’s statement that these people deserved what happened to them, and calling them little Eichmanns, comparing them to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who implemented Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews and others, should be condemned by all.
The sorry part of this is Ward Churchill has fraudulently represented himself as an Indian, and a member of the American Indian Movement, a situation that has lifted him into the position of a lecturer on Indian activism.
www.aimovement.org /moipr/churchill05.html   (317 words)

  
 Churchill on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Formerly known as the Hamilton River, it was renamed (1965) in honor of Sir Winston Churchill.
Captured (1782) by the French under Jean La Pérouse, the fort was regained by the British and renamed Fort Churchill; its ruins are preserved in Fort Prince of Wales National Historic Park.
Churchill's war of words Max Hastings on how Churchill has won the battle of the historians too
www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/ChurchlR1iv.asp   (960 words)

  
 Welcome to Churchill College
Churchill College values its relationship with members of the College.
The Archives Centre is home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and to over 570 collections of personal papers and archives.
Churchill College is a premier location for conferences.
www.chu.cam.ac.uk   (214 words)

  
 Madeira Island: Winston Churchill : An Introduction to his stay on Madeira
In the vein of the grand visitors to Madeira we take a retrospective look at Winston Churchill, the man, the traveller, the writer, from the particular point of view of his relationship to and with Madeira.
Winston Churchill was born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, to Lord Randolph and Lady Churchill (Jennie Jerome).
In 1898 Churchill had his first book published and was to produce many more literary works, amongst others "Mr.
www.madeira-island.com /features/churchill   (393 words)

  
 churchills homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
I founded Churchill's in 1981 with the sole purpose of making the finest port.
The high quality of Churchill's Port found early praise from the leading wine writers including Robert Parker who wrote that “in less than one decade Churchill's has established an impeccable reputation for quality” (Wine Advocate).
In 1999, Churchill's acquired two renowned Grade A rated vineyards, Quinta da Gricha and Quinta do Rio, both perfectly located in the premium Cima Corgo region of the Douro.
www.churchills-port.com   (134 words)

  
 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust website
The Churchill Trust is an Australian Trust established in 1965, the year in which Sir Winston Churchill died.
The principal object of the Trust is to perpetuate and honour the memory of Sir Winston Churchill by the award of Traveling Fellowships known as Churchill Fellowships.
A Churchill Fellowship is the award of an opportunity, through provision of financial support, to enable Australian citizens from all walks of life to travel overseas to undertake an analysis, study or investigation of a project or issue that cannot be readily undertaken in Australia.
www.churchilltrust.com.au   (179 words)

  
 Welcome to the Churchill Northern Studies Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
June 03, 2005 – Churchill Rich yellow eyes gleaming in the bright afternoon sun, the snowy owl hopped from its cage, briefly alighting on a nearby rock.
Out of curiosity or perhaps in simple thanks, she hesitated for a few short moments – ample time for the forty or so gathered spectators to grab a quick picture.
Churchill is one of the best places on the planet to view the spectacular aurora borealis or Northern Lights.
www.churchillmb.net /~cnsc   (468 words)

  
 Sir Winston Churchill - The Churchill Centre
CONTACT US This is the Home Page of The Churchill Centre, Washington, D.C., and its allied organizations.  The Centre was founded in 1968 to foster leadership, statesmanship, vision and courage among democratic and freedom-loving peoples worldwide, through the thoughts, words, works and deeds of Winston Spencer Churchill.
  Winston Churchill made many memorable speeches in his lifetime and is frequently quoted, both seriously and in jest, to support a wide range of ideas.  Go to Quotes and Stories to find your favorite Churchill quotation.   And if you don't find it there, email us at info@winstonchurchill.org.
The  Fifth Churchill Lecture by Sir Martin Gilbert CBE, official biographer of Winston Churchill, will be held at The George Washington University, Washington, DC, on October 18, 2005 (admission is free).  Supporters of the Centre may also wish to attend a special "Evening with Sir Martin". 
www.winstonchurchill.org   (398 words)

  
 Fort Churchill
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon that it is to penetrate one's own being.
In late 1960 a fire largely destroyed the facilities at Fort Churchill.
When the United States decided to end its activities at Churchill by June 1970, the Canadian National Research Council took over operations to support the Canadian Upper Atmosphere Research Program.
www.astronautix.com /sites/forchill.htm   (7286 words)

  
 Winston Churchill and the Sinews of Peace Address
This speech may be regarded as the most important Churchill delivered as Leader of the Opposition (1945-1951).
It contains certain phrases "the special relationship," "the sinews of peace"-which at once entered into general use, and which have survived.
Churchill ad-libbed at times, so the words Churchill delivered will depart occasionally from the text he prepared.
www.hpol.org /churchill   (3807 words)

  
 Churchill, Manitoba, polar bears, business directory, travelogue, independent traveler information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
My Travel Planning Guide is in response to frequent questions about planning a trip to Churchill - how to get there, lodging, restaurants, polar bear watching, other activities, etc. Organized in planning sequence and including all service providers in Churchill, it should help give structure to your Churchill experience.
Churchill weather draws a lot of questions, so my Weather Guide presents weather summaries from Environment Canada.
The History page is the result of email from people who lived in Churchill during the 1950s and 1960s when the military base was most active.
www.creighton.edu /~hutchens/churchil.html   (576 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Churchill: A Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy.--Miles Taylor --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Roy Jenkin's "Churchill" is an exhaustive biographical picture of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 20th century.
Roy Jenkins presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330488058   (1387 words)

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