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Winston
Winston ♂ Although there was an Old English personal name, Wynnstan, from wynn ‘joy’ + stān ‘stone’, which would have had this form if it had survived, the modern given name is a transferred use of the surname, a local name from Winston in Gloucestershire.... Read more |
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill 1871-1947, American novelist, b. St. Louis, grad. Annapolis, 1894. He wrote several popular historical novels including Richard Carvel (1899), The Crisis (1901), and The Crossing (1904). His later books, such as Coniston (1906), The Inside of the Cup (1913), and The... Read more |
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Sandhurst
Sandhurst village, Bracknell Forest, S central England. It is the site of the British army officer-training school, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The original Sandhurst school, the Royal Military College, merged with the Royal Military Academy, formerly at Woolwich, in the 1940s. Winston ... Read more |
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Churchill
Churchill 1 River, c.600 mi (970 km) long, issuing as the Ashuanipi River from Ashuanipi Lake, SW Labrador, N.L., Canada, and flowing in an arc north, then southeast through a series of lakes to Churchill Falls and McLean Canyon. It then runs NE past Goose Bay and through Melville Lake and... Read more |
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Caryl Churchill
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Moscow Conferences
Moscow Conferences meetings held between 1941 and 1947 at Moscow, USSR. At a conference in Sept.-Oct., 1941, American and British representatives laid the basis for lend-lease aid to the USSR in World War II. In Aug., 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and W. Averell Harriman,... Read more |
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Churchill Falls
Churchill Falls spectacular waterfalls of the upper Churchill River, 245 ft (75 m) high, SW Labrador, N.L., Canada; known as Grand Falls until renamed (1965) in honor of Sir Winston Churchill. The falls were first explored (1839) by John McLean, a trader of the Hudson Bay Company. Four miles (6.4... Read more |
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Blenheim palace
Blenheim palace (Oxon.). Home of the dukes of Marlborough and birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. Situated in Woodstock, close to Oxford, Blenheim palace was given to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, in gratitude for his victory in 1704 over the French at the battle of Blenheim during... Read more |
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Casablanca Conference
Casablanca Conference Jan. 14-24, 1943, World War II meeting of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Casablanca, French Morocco. A joint declaration pledged that the war would end only with the unconditional surrender of the Axis states. No... Read more |
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Oldham
Oldham city (1991 pop. 107,095) and metropolitan district, NW England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area. The city's industries include papermaking, tanning, food processing, and mail-order distribution. Oldham's town hall, art gallery, museum, and Alexandra Park are noteworthy. There is... Read more |
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