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  Winston Churchill - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Winston's politician father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough; Winston's mother was Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome) of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of American millionaire Leonard Jerome.
Winston Churchill was an early supporter of the pan-Europeanism that eventually lead to the formation of the European Common market and later the European Union (for which one of the three main buildings of the European Parliament is named in his honour).
Churchill College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, was founded in 1960 as the national and commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill.
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 Encyclopedia: Sir Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 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.
Winston Churchill was an early supporter of the pan-Europeanism that eventually led to the formation of the European Common market and later the European Union (for which one of the three main buildings of the European Parliament is named in his honour).
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 Winston Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winston's politician father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough; Winston's mother was Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jennie Jerome), daughter of American millionaire Leonard Jerome.
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.
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 Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, British statesman, soldier, and author. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 not a financial innovator; he basically followed conventional advice from his colleagues.
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.
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 Winston Churchill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Churchill was a fierce critic of (British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)) Neville Chamberlain's (The act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demonds of)) appeasement of (German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)) Hitler.
Churchill was too ill to attend the (The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States) White House ceremony, so his son and grandson accepted the award for him.
Churchill also overcame a severe (A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds) stammer and (A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists) lisp, but some of his speeches were still marred with traces of them.
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 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.
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 About Us | Sir Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Churchill's outstanding service to his fellow man and his stalwart defense of reason and human dignity are principles in which we take great pride.
Sir Winston Churchill Secondary contributes to the intellectual, physical, aesthetic, moral and social development of its students by providing challenges and opportunities for them to gain the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to enrich their lives and society.
Sir Winston Churchill is a comprehensive school of approximately 2,000 students in Grade 8 - 12.
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 Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, the son of Randolph Churchill, a Conservative politician, was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30th November, 1874.
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.
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 Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born to Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome, on November 30, 1874 at Blenheim Palace.
Churchill led a detachment to Antwerp, but the campaign failed and Churchill was made out to be responsible, seemingly ending his political career.
Sir Winston Churchill had written nearly 30 books, plus the separate volumes, and helped to guide his nation through the two major world wars of the 20th century.
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 Sir Winston Churchill [encyclopedia]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 died on January 24, 1965, and is buried in his birthplace of Oxfordshire.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was one of the most prominent leaders of the 20th century, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Sir Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Winston Churchill, son of Lord Randolph Churchill, first came to public attention as a result of his escape from a prison in Pretoria during the Boer War.
Out of Parliament from 1922-24, Churchill returned as a Conservative representing Epping in 1924 and was made chancellor of the Exchequer (1924-29) under Baldwin.
Churchill became the voice of Britain during the war, his emotional speeches inspiring the nation to endure hardship and sacrifice.
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 Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a politician, radical, soldier, artist, and the twentieth century's most famous and celebrated PM.
Churchill was instinctively independent, willing to work with any side agreeing with his goals.
George VI asked Churchill to form a government in 1940 at the age of 65.
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 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.
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.
Churchill was born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the house built by the nation for Marlborough.
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 Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Winston, el león que salvó la democracia.(TT: Sir Winston, the lion who saved democracy.)(Reseña)
Des lettres de Churchill à son premier grand amour mises aux enchères
Churchill a reçu le Nobel de littérature par défaut, selon les archives
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 Calgary Board of Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Winston Churchill is a school of activity and excellence.
Students are encouraged to participate in many areas of the school, to excel in areas of strength and diligently work in all aspects of their experience at Sir Winston Churchill.
This web site is one example of the many opportunities students may engage in at Sir Winston Churchill and the level of excellence students may achieve.
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 Sir Winston Churchill Quotes - The Quotations Page
Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel.
Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p.
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 Sir Winston Churchill - biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Winston Churchill was the eldest son of the aristocrat Lord Randolph Churchill, born on 30th November 1874.
He is best known for his stubborness yet courageous leadership as Prime Minister for Great Britain when he led the British people from the brink of defeat during World War II.
In 1904 he joined the Liberal Party where he became the president of the Board of Trade.
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 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.
Lady Henrietta-Spencer Churchill, Sir Winston's cousin, will speak at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, on Wednesday evening, November 2, and sign her book, Blenheim and the Churchills.
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 Sir Winston Churchill Quotes - The Quotations Page
Sir Winston Churchill Quotes - The Quotations Page
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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 AllRefer.com - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, soldier, and author (British And Irish ...
AllRefer.com - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, soldier, and author (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, soldier, and author, British And Irish History, Biographies
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1874–1965, British statesman, soldier, and author; son of Lord Randolph Churchill.
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