churchill

     

Sir Winston Leonar Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historical writer, and an artist.

Trivia about churchill

  • Roy Jenkins, a leader in the UK's Labour Party, wrote a bio of this great wartime Conservative leader
  • On February 9, 1941, he told FDR, "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
  • This PM had a swimming pool built at his home Chartwell, in Kent, where he spent the last 40 years of his life
  • When this P.M. visited the White House in 1941, he startled the staff by spending much of his time in the nude
  • The British A22 Mark IV tank carried a 75-millimeter gun & this prime minister's name
  • He died in 1965
  • In Len Deighton's "SS-GB", the Nazis have occupied England & sent this leader before a firing squad
  • A series of comebacks highlights his life, including election to a final stint as British PM at nearly 77 in 1951
  • While out of office in the 1930s, he knocked out a million-word biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough
  • He's seen here a decade before his most famous broadcasts
  • "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind & won't change the subject", said this wartime British P.M.
  • Politician & author of "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"
  • Despite sleeping elsewhere, during the Blitz this prime minister continued to work & take meals at No. 10
  • During the war this future British prime minister served as First Lord of the Admiralty
  • ...World War II ended in Europe
  • "Their Finest Hour", Volume II of his WWII history, is divided into 2 sections: "The Fall of France" & "Alone"
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a globe almost as big as he is in the FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY.) George Marshall gave FDR this globe to trace troop movements; he also gave an identical one to this man
  • The 91-year-old widow of this British P.M. was selling off his paintings to supplement her $26-a-week pension
  • In the P.M.'s chair he was sittin' during the 1940-41 Battle of Britain
  • Last name of brothers John & Henry, who leased out land to build the Kentucky Derby race track in the 1870s
  • World leader who died on January 24, 1965
  • Last name of John & Henry, who leased the land for a Louisville racetrack to their nephew
  • Future leader of the UK seen here on the right in the 1880s
  • In 1965 the Hamilton River, Labrador's longest, was renamed this after a late British prime minister
  • He won a Nobel Prize
  • 1940: "On Friday evening last I received from his majesty the mission to form a new administration"
  • This British prime minister hated Graham Sutherland's 1954 portrait of him so much that his wife destroyed it
  • He could've said, "I'm sure Clement will do a good job --for an Oxford man" after Attlee beat him to become prime minister
  • During WWII the Allied leaders known as the "Big Three" were Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt & him