During the late summer of 1897, Winston Churchill, stationed in India, was allowed to join the Malakand Field Force in the Swat Valley (northwestern India) as a journalist, and he spent six weeks with the unit, sending correspondence to both the 'Daily Telegraph' and 'The Pioneer.' ...
"he said. "He'll sit there all day saying 'do this, do that,'and nothing will happen. "Truman was wrong about Ike. Dwight Eisenhower had led a fractious alliance-you didn't tell Winston Churchill what to do-in a massive, chaotic war. He...
Back in London, Chris Katan tips the top hat of a Winston Churchill bust to reveal a button that opens a doorway to MI6. There, Clay Aiken, doing a surprisingly great British accent, shows off pen-bombs and whatnot, just like Q in the James Bond universe. He gives these technologies ...
Summeris on the way and just like the beginning of the school year, we all have high hopes for what we will accomplish: instagram-worthy family vacations, the perfect healthy tan, a garden full of produce…etc. But let’s be honest, after about 36 hours with one or more schedule-less,...
One person who thought the book was a fraud was Winston Churchill; another was Ring Lardner. “I didn’t, and I don’t, believe Daisy Ashford in spite of Swinnerton’s testimony and that of other ‘witnesses.’” he once wrote. But Lardner did more than express his doubts about The ...
A pretty building both then and now known as “Church Cottage”, its carved wooden bargeboards are enough to hint at the 1830s Gothic revival design of what had been originally constructed to be the residence of the Master and Mistress of the the Sunday and National School, Stonnall. ...
” to “Winston Churchill.” The comparison is not only revealing insofar as Churchill was a flaming antisemite and Western chauvinist, but Chaplin, who played Jewish characters and was often derided by the right in antisemitic terms, was often thought to be Jewish himself and may have actually...
In the words of the immortal Winston Churchill, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” As for me, I intend to do my part to ensure that the Church doesn’t go back to sleep. I will continue to work ...
Burton also occasionally appeared on television, notably playing Winston Churchill in the TV movie The Gathering Storm (1974) and Richard Wagner in the miniseries Wagner, which first aired in the early 1980s and later was released as a movie. Burton meanwhile continued to receive critical acclaim...
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