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Churchill
Title: Churchill
Category: History
Details: Words: 3495 | Pages: 14.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Churchill
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, (1874-1965), British leader. English on his
father's side, American on his mother's, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
embodied and expressed the double vitality and the national qualities of both peoples. His
names testify to the richness of his historic inheritance: Winston, after the Royalist family
with whom the Churchills married before the English Civil War; Leonard, after his
remarkable grandfather, Leonard Jerome of New York; Spencer, the married name of a
daughter of …showed first 75 words of 3495 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3495 total…to a retrospective one-man show of his work. On April 9,1963, he
received, by special act of the U.S. Congress, the unprecedented honor of being made an
honorary American citizen. When he died in London on Jan. 24, 1965, at the age of 90,
he was acclaimed as a citizen of the world, and on January 30 he was given the funeral of
a hero. He was buried at Bladon,in the little churchyard near Blenheim Palace, his
birthplace.
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