Winston Churchill

Born: 30 November 1874 Blenheim Palace,Woodstock, England

Died: 24 January 1965  London, England

Biography: Lieutenant Colonel Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. If all four of the horse´s feet are on the ground, he died of natural causes. One foot raised means he died from wounds suffered in battle. Two legs raised means he died in action.

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