USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy.She is named after Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.This ship is the 31st destroyer of her class. Winston S. Churchill was the 18th ship of this class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and construction began on 7 May 1998.

Winston Spencer-Churchill (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, was an English Conservative politician and a grandson of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.During the period of his prominence as a public figure, he was normally referred to as Winston Churchill MP, in order to distinguish him from his grandfather.

The early life of Winston Churchill covers the period from his birth on 30 November 1874 to 31 May 1904 when he formally crossed the floor of the House of Commons, defecting from the Conservative Party to sit as a member of the Liberal Party.. Churchill had mixed English and American parentage. He was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, as the elder …

In 20th century politics, Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was one of the world's most influential and significant figures. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led the country to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964.

Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the July 1945 general election, forcing him to step down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.For six years he served as the Leader of the Opposition.During these years he continued to influence world affairs. In 1946 he gave his "Iron Curtain" speech which spoke of the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union and the creation …

Sir Winston Churchill High School is a senior high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.It derives its name from Sir Winston Churchill, two-term prime minister of the United Kingdom.The high school is built in the Northwest community of Brentwood. The school offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme, various second languages, and numerous clubs and teams.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill [ˈwɪnstən ˈtʃɜrtʃɪl] (30. listopadu 1874 zámek Blenheim, Woodstock, Oxfordshire – 24. ledna 1965 Londýn) byl britský politik, státník, premiér Spojeného království v letech 1940–1945 a 1951–1955.Působil také jako žurnalista, spisovatel (Nobelova cena za literaturu 1953), historik, voják, malíř a zákonodárce.

Churchill is a 2017 British historical war-drama film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, which portrays Winston Churchill in June 1944 – especially in the hours leading up to D-Day.The film stars Brian Cox as the titular character, with Miranda Richardson and John Slattery in supporting roles.. The film was released on 2 June 2017.

On 24 January 1965, Sir Winston Churchill died. His state funeral on 30 January 1965 saw his coffin process up the River Thames on the MV Havengore before being transferred to Waterloo Station. A special train had been laid on to take the family to Handborough, seven miles north-west of Oxford.Handborough was the closest station to the parish church of Bladon where …

Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. Early life. Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri ...

The Winston Churchill Range is a mountain range in the central section of the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies located in Jasper National Park. The range was named after Sir Winston Churchill, former British prime minister.. The eastern boundary of the range begins on the western side of Sunwapta River from the Jasper and Banff boundary and extends north to …

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill.It is a history of the conquest of the Sudan between 1896 and 1899 by Anglo-Egyptian forces led by Lord Kitchener. He defeated the Sudanese Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had vowed to …

Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He is best known for his novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a cultural phenomenon after being adapted as a 1994 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks.After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, …

Jennie Jerome was married for the first time on 15 April 1874, aged 20, at the British Embassy in Paris, to Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Vane. The couple had met at a sailing regatta on the Isle of Wight in August 1873, having been introduced by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.