#churchill
Celebrating a half hour before my birthday with a Davidoff Winston Churchill. #Davidoff #winstonchurchill #Churchill #smoke #cigar #cigars #birthday #cigarinn #nyc #ny #astoria #film #movie #documentary #mansmokecigar (at Cigar Inn)
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Love the reflection of the bed Sir Winston Churchill was born in from this beautiful drawing
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British bulldog in the ditch of an American thanks Greg #flash #walkin #british #bulldog #cigar #jack #churchill #ohhyes #traditionaltattoo #tattoo @sevendoorstattoo (at Seven Doors Tattoo)
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チャーチルの時代と現代を比較するとテクノロジーの進化によるインテリジェンスと軍事戦略は変わった。
しかし、不変の事実として、国家の命運を握るのは最終的にはひとつだとチャーチルは説いている。
「国家にとって信念の欠如は最悪の事態をもたらす」
「憎しみと復讐は、最も高価であり、その上無益で、自己破滅に導く贅沢だ。戦争で戦った勇敢な兵士たちによって築かれた平和という宝さえ失いかねない」
#nowar #standwithukraine #churchill #winstonchurchill #チャーチル150の言葉
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“THE LONGER YOU CAN LOOK BACK, THE FARTHER YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD…”
Winston Churchill, 1944
Love Peering into the Past for Inspiration…
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Following the stirring ceremony this morning that put the bust of a British statesman side-by-side with America’s founders, I just needed to make sure you all know that the U.S. has a National Churchill Museum. And it’s in Missouri.
To witness history:
Watch the Congressional dedication ceremony today HERE.
To encourage your inner Churchillian:
Go to Fulton, Missouri and support the National Churchill Museum. Sign up for their newsletter.
Subscribe to the Churchill Centre in Chicago to receive their stunning publications: http://www.winstonchurchill.org
Also, coming in 2014-15, there will be a National Churchill Library and Center at the George Washington University in D.C.
A Message from Charlie - Beluga Cams
Every year after the ice breaks up on the Hudson Bay, thousands of beluga whales migrate to the warmer waters of the Churchill River to feed, mate and rear their young.
We’re excited to say, on our newest Pearl of the Planet HD live cam, you can watch these curious creatures up close and in the wild. Thanks to our partners at Sea North Tours and Polar Bears International, the new Beluga Boat Cam provides views underwater and off the bow.
Join Neil, our trusty tour guide every day for a couple of hours as he finds the most amazing vantage points. The next voyage out is today from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT. And upcoming viewing times will be posted at the top of the comments.
Catch a great moment? Keep taking snapshots like these and sharing them for all to enjoy.
Never stop learning,
Charlie / explore.org
P.S. And keep your eye out for the polar bears who are now off the sea ice and waiting for the freeze again.
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Winston Churchill’s coat and ostrich-feather trimmed bicorn hat (bottom left), both forming the principal parts of his official uniform as a Privy Counsellor.
The goldwork on the coat is made up of shiny, reflective metal pieces, not just gold thread. This uniform is no longer worn by Privy Counsellors.
Churchill was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1907. It is a lifetime appointment, and he died in 1965.
Photograph taken at his country house, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
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Some very early design work/exploration I did for episode 6 of Super Science Friends over at Tinman Creative! It was pretty challenging, but fun.
Check out the full episode here!
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Chingford Heritage Mosaic (the bottom half).
In all there are twelve circular panels depicting landmarks, events and people connected to Chingford all made in monochrome ceramic with a glass geometric background representing the forest.
#churchill #winstonchurchill #queenvictoria #chingford #chingfordlibrary #chingfordassemblyhall #walthamforest #essex #northeastlondon (at Chingford Assembly Hall)
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I detest Boris Johnson. It’s partly because he’s a Tory and I’m not, and partly because he supported Brexit and I think that was a stupid idea, and also partly because he’s a Unionist and I support Scottish Independence. That gives me plenty of reasons to dislike the man, and his performance as Prime Minister gives me even more, but detest seems a bit strong. So why do I have such an abiding and…
Decades before he would take on the Nazis, Cadet Winston Churchill of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst launched his first foray into (politicall) battle as the (self-appointed) champion of sex workers, brandishing his wit against the “prudes” who demanded stricter regulation of prostitution.
It was the Naughty Nineties and Churchill, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and son of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, was caught up in the excitement of the popular reaction against Victorian Puritanism. The young soldier’s passion was the music hall and his favorite venue was the Empire, which featured a men’s bar alongside a promenade where dollymops and toffers strolled, advertising their services, showing off their wares and negotiating their fees.
When a crusader against prostitution with a name suited for a Monty Python sketch, Mrs. Ormiston Chant, succeeded in persuading local officials to separate the courtesans from their potential clients with a barricade, Churchill mustered his burgeoning skills as a political activist. He hocked his watch for funds to support a protest and on the evening of the third day of November, 1894, three weeks shy of his twentieth birthday, the cadet hopped onto a chair among the tipsy Empire clientele and declared, “I stand for Liberty!”
His first public speech triggered a lawless outburst which culminated in the destruction of the barricade. The sense he could motivate people with his words intoxicated Churchill. “It was I who led the rioters,” he wrote excitedly to his younger brother.
The victory was temporary. The London County Council sided with Mrs. Chant and the barrier keeping the vices of alcohol and prostitution separate reappeared. The Bishop of London chastised Churchill in The Times: “I never expected to see an heir of Marlborough greeted by a flourish of strumpets.”
Unapologetic, the heir of Marlborough wrote to his aunt, “It is hard to say whether one dislikes the prudes or the weak-minded creatures who listen to them most. Both to me are extremely detestable.”
Was Cadet Churchill a personal patron of the sex workers? Probably not, historians say. A music hall girl who spent the night with him reported, “Winston had done nothing but talk into the small hours on the subject of himself.”
In power, Churchill did not pursue formal decriminalization, but he continued to believe that using the legal system to oppose sex workers was, as he once told his father, “coercive and futile.” Prostitution flourished in London during the Second World War; even the streets of posh Mayfair were crowded with businesswomen offering succor to young soldiers. Cabaret star Florence Desmond sang what may have been a typical sales pitch:
I’ve got a cozy flat.
There’s a place for your hat.
I wear a pink chiffon negligee gown.
And do I know my stuff,
But if that’s not enough,
I’ve got the deepest shelter in town.
Churchill later recalled the Empire incident in his official biography. The old warrior said his speech had been “a serious constitutional argument upon the inherent rights of British subjects; upon the dangers of State interference with the social habits of law-abiding persons; and upon the many evil consequences which inevitably follow upon repression….”
(Additional sources: First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell; The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester; London in the Twentieth Century: A City and its People by Jerry White.)
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