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Among them are 28 British Prime Ministers, at least 30 international leaders, 55 Nobel Prize winners, and 120 Olympic medal winners.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of …

On 16 October 1953, Prime Minister Winston Churchill learned that he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill thought of the Peace Prize as ultimate acknowledgment of his life’s work. He had been a resolute peacemaker since the early 1900s.

Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901. The prize ceremonies take place annually. Each recipient (known as a “laureate”) receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award. In 2020, the Nobel Prize monetary award is 10,000,000 SEK, or US$1,145,000, or €968,000, or £880,000.

Ah, it all depends on which definition of “books written by Winston Churchill” you accept. With the understanding that you might come up with something completely different, here’s what I found: Winston Churchill wrote 33 books in 51 volumes. He also wrote 38 books comprising 58 volumes.

3,111,090 words

Churchill invented several words Like his hero, Shakespeare, Churchill was known to invent a word or two. For instance, he is credited with inventing the word ‘summit’ in 1950.

2500 speeches

Churchill’s wilderness years, when he was out of office in the 1930s, saw him in tears much more than before. Once war broke out, Churchill shed tears of happiness when he told his wife, Clementine, that he had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, the same job that he had had on the outbreak of the Great War.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas.

1940

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas …

Before World War Two started in 1939, he had warned about the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. He became British prime minister in 1940 after then-leader Neville Chamberlain resigned. Churchill’s refusal to surrender to Nazi Germany inspired the country. Churchill lost power after World War Two ended in 1945.

Lady Clementine Spencer-Churchill, the widow of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, died yesterday after a heart attack at her apartment in London. She was 92. She married a man who many came to regard as the greatest of his times, and theirs was a celebrated marriage.

Is Diana related to Winston Churchill? The short answer is yes. Their common ancestors include Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1675-1722) and his wife Anne Churchill: Diana’s 7x great-grandparents, and Winston’s 5x great-grandparents. So, the connection goes back way back.

She was 92 years old and had outlived her husband by almost 13 years, as well as three of her five children. She is buried with her husband and children (with the exception of Marigold who is interred in Kensal Green Cemetery in London) at St Martin’s Church, Bladon, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire.

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Lady Soames died at her home after a brief illness surrounded by members of her family on Saturday, 31 May at the age of ninety-one. Nicholas Soames, the eldest of her five children, stated: “she was a truly remarkable and extraordinary woman, who led a very distinguished life.

The Younger Daughters The Churchills never got over the death of little Marygold. Sarah (born in October 1914 in the first months of the First World War) and Marigold (born just after the end of the War, in November 1918) were Churchill’s younger daughters.

Marigold died from septicaemia during a holiday to Broadstairs with her French nanny. She had been unwell for six months and a cough appears to have developed first into a bacterial infection and then septicaemia.

Finding the depiction deeply unflattering, Churchill disliked the portrait intensely. After its public presentation, the painting was taken to his country home at Chartwell but not put on display.

While Lady Churchill was said to have remarked that it looked ‘really quite alarmingly like him’, and Churchill’s son, Randolph, thought it made his father look ‘disenchanted’, the sitter himself hated it at once. On seeing a photograph of it, he called it ‘malignant … filthy’.

Churchill is best remembered for successfully leading Britain through World War Two. He was famous for his inspiring speeches, and for his refusal to give in, even when things were going badly. Many people consider him the greatest Briton of all time and he’s almost certainly the most famous British prime minister.

Winston Churchill’s memorable speeches strengthened Britain’s resolve during the dark days of World War Two. He had long understood the power of words, writing at the age of 22: “Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He had to overcome ridicule and a speech impediment. …

Winston Churchill’s Way With Words Churchill wrote every word of every one of his speeches — he said he’d spend an hour working on a single minute of a speech. A new exhibit in New York celebrates the British prime minister’s extraordinary oratory.

Obama is the fourth President of the United States to have won the Nobel Peace Prize (after Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter, with Carter’s honor happening after leaving office).