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unusual facts about Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough



15 Cheyne Walk

It was used as the home of Churchill's friend Sir Desmond Morton, played by Jim Broadbent.

Armando Colaco

Switching his base from Dempo to Churchill in the 90s, Armando had announced his arrival as a seasoned coach with three Goa Football League titles and an NFL runner-up trophy with Churchill Brothers and also a foray into the AFC Cup.

Australian federal election, 1940

The Coalition's advertisements asked Australians to "Cast Your Vote for Unity and an All-in War Effort / Back the Government that's Backing Churchill", with a large picture of the British Prime Minister.

Berton Churchill

In 1925, Churchill helped found the Masquers club that led to him and five other actors creating the Screen Actors Guild in 1933.

Canadian Government Ship Stanley

In 1927 a scientific expedition based on the Stanley and a commercial vessel was tasked to determine the safe navigation season for vessels using the new port facilities at Churchill, Manitoba, the only port on the Arctic Ocean connected to the North American Railroad Grid.

Castleblayney

He became Baron of Monaghan and later, the first Lord Blayney. She had already granted him appropriated Augustinian church land (or 'termon') at Muckno Friary on the northeastern side of the lake in the Churchill area (Mullandoy) in 1606/7.

Church of St John the Baptist, Churchill

The Church of St John the Baptist in Churchill, Somerset, England, was largely built around 1360 and is a Grade I listed building.

Churchill, Victoria

The town was named in honour of former British leader Sir Winston Churchill.

During 2009, the town's retail precinct was refurbished, with the Richies IGA supermarket expanded, and a new mall constructed, containing a new Woolworths supermarket, KFC outlet and other shops.

Delores Churchill

Delores E. Churchill is a Native American artist of Haida descent.

Desert Hills

Desert Mountains, a mountain range in Lyon and Churchill Counties, Nevada

Dominic Salvatore Gentile

Winston Churchill called Gentile and his wingman, Captain John T. Godfrey, Damon and Pythias, after the legendary characters from Greek mythology.

Dominic Sutherland

In 2003 he directed "Churchill - Secrets of Leadership" before working as a director on the 2005 documentary series Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', for which he shared the Grierson Award for Best Historical Programme.

Don Gilet

In 2010, he appeared as Abanazar in the Churchill Theatre Bromley's Christmas pantomime Aladdin alongside Melinda Messenger.

Down Street tube station

In Billy Connolly's World Tour Of England, Ireland And Wales, Billy takes a tour of the Down Street station, explaining the heritage and showcasing the various rooms Winston Churchill and his war cabinet are believed to have once occupied.

Eric Nave

Much of his 1991 book co-authored with James Rusbridger reflects Rusbridger’s views rather than his own, particularly the claim that Churchill concealed warnings about Pearl Harbor from Roosevelt in order to get America in the war.

Gilchrist Document

The papers of the British ambassador Sir Andrew Gilchrist are held in the Churchill Archive at Churchill College, Cambridge University.

Glyn Angell

He also provided the voice of the young Winston Churchill in the BBC-produced documentaries In the Footsteps of Churchill among a variety of televisual credits throughout radio and television.

Goffs School

Goffs School consists of six houses, each named after an influential person from history: Brontë, Churchill, Columbus, Curie, Mandela and Monet.

Griffiths Stadium

Griffiths Stadium also hosted the 2004 and 2005 Mitchell Bowl games, the 1998 and 1989 Churchill Bowls, as well as numerous Hardy Trophy games.

GURPS Wild Cards

Data and characters are drawn from Wild Cards volumes I-V, including a history of the Wild Cards world, the Wild Card virus, over 50 super-characters, variant historical characters (e.g., Castro, Churchill, Gandhi, Franco, et al.), a description of Jokertown, the major Wild Card organizations, and the various aliens (the Takisians, the Swam, the Network group).

Hadley Junior High School

Named for former school superintendent, William M. Hadley, the school is the main middle school that feeds into Glenbard West High School and is the only middle school in District 41, which is made up of Hadley and four elementary schools: Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln, Churchill, and Forest Glen.

Halcrow

Halcrow railway station, a flag stop in Halcrow, Manitoba, Canada, on Via Rail's Winnipeg–Churchill line

Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women

Those listed as contributors to the study included Frank A. Beach, Irving Bieber, Wainright Churchill, Albert Ellis, Paul Gebhard, Evelyn Hooker, Laud Humphreys, Judd Marmor, Wardell Pomeroy, Edward Sagarin, Robert Stoller, Clarence Tripp, and Colin J. Williams.

Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill

The Churchill, its décor, facilities and in-house outlets reference Sir Winston Churchill and the local area's history.

The hotel's Churchill Bar & Terrace reopened in November 2012 after being closed for refurbishment, the re-launch attended by Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s son.

Imperial War Cabinet

Stanley Bruce, Australia's High Commissioner to London, was delegated by his government sit in on meetings of Churchill's War Cabinet.

Ion Calvocoressi

He was instrumental in the erection of a statue of Churchill by Oscar Nemon in the town in 1965.

John Strange Spencer-Churchill

He was born at Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, where his father was secretary to his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, who had been appointed Viceroy of Ireland in 1876.

Lander County, Nevada

Created in 1861, Lander County sprang forth as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River, along the old pony express line; taking a considerable portion of Churchill and Humboldt counties with it.

Libertas Schulze-Boysen

The full name of her niece, Rosita, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1943), is Dagmar Rosita Astrid Libertas.

Little Ratra

Its first resident was Lord Randolph Churchill who was appointed his Private Secretary by the then Lord Lieutenant, his father John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.

Manitoba Highway 6

If plans to make a highway in Nunavut connecting from Churchill, and Arviat, Nunavut to Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut go through, then the first ever major road connection to Nunavut will be made.

My Early Life

The book was published after the Conservative Party lost the 1929 election and consequently Churchill ceased to be a member of the government.

Radio 1212

This plan fell apart when Churchill's Conservative Party lost to the Labour Party in the postwar British General Election on July 5, 1945.

Rosita Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

She was born as Countess Rosita in Madrid, Spain, the younger daughter of Count Carl Douglas (1908-1961), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (1910-2001), maternal granddaughter of Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld, by his wife Augusta, countess Sandels.

Ryan Anstey

In 2010 Anstey was a member of the Churchill Arms team that captured the Canadian National Challenge Cup at the BMO National Championships hosted in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Sarsden Halt railway station

The name is interesting since the location is more than a mile from the hamlet of Sarsden and much closer to the village of Churchill.

Sheffield Bach Choir

However, the choir also performs farther afield, participating in the Sixth Churchill Memorial Concert at Blenheim Palace in May 1971, performing in York Minster in June 1972 and at the Leeds Music Festival in 1981.

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet

When Churchill resigned and Eden became Prime Minister in April 1955, Rumbold remained for a few months as PPS to the new Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan, accompanying him to San Francisco in June 1955 for talks between the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia in preparation for the Geneva Summit in the following month.

Tampa Bay Downs

In 2007, Hall of Fame trainer Carl Nafzger brought his 3-year-old Street Sense to Oldsmar for the Tampa Bay Derby, and the colt's victory was a springboard to his win in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill

Lord Churchill married Lady Verena Maud Lowther, daughter of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, at Cottesmore, Rutland, on 1 January 1887.

Ward Churchill academic misconduct investigation

The Ward Churchill academic misconduct investigation concerned charges of plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification against Churchill at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where Churchill was a professor at the time.

We shall fight on the beaches

However, Churchill himself had attended a speech given by Georges Clemenceau in Paris in June 1918, in which Clemenceau had used similar diction ("I will fight the Germans in front of Paris, I will fight in Paris, and I will fight behind Paris").

Western Desert Campaign

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, paraphrasing Churchill, quipped "Never has so much been surrendered by so many to so few."

Winston Churchill as historian

His better-known historical works include: Marlborough: His Life and Times, The World Crisis (a history of World War I), The Second World War, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

World Radio Missionary Fellowship, Inc.

At the time of the WRMF's incorporation, corporation officers were Adam Welty as treasurer, Ruth Churchill, secretary, and Lance Latham and his wife, Virginia along with Howard Jones and Reuben Larson serving on the board of directors.

Zach Churchill

On July 24, 2012, Churchill caused a controversy when he posted on Twitter that former NDP leader Jack Layton would be disgusted the way the provincial NDP are operating in Nova Scotia and described Premier Darrell Dexter as making Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "look like a saint".


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