Originally Posted by Guy Fawkes

He died in 55 if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Guy Fawkes

He died in 55 if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Guy Fawkes

He died in 55 if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Diuretic

1965 I was living in London when he died and I remember the funeral being broadcast on tv and my mother still has press cuttings. January I think it was, anyway I'm pretty sure it was northern hemisphere winter.

Originally Posted by heikstheo

Died in 1955? I'm not so sure. If I correctly remember that article in the World Book Encyclopedia that my Dad bought when I was a child, Churchill served as PM 1940-1945 and again 1951-1955 but then later was voted honorary American citizenship in 1963 and died in 1964(?).

Originally Posted by OneThunder

totalitarianism (tōtăl"itâr'ēunizum) [key], a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. A totalitarian government seeks to control not only all economic and political matters but the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population, erasing the distinction between state and society. The citizen's duty to the state becomes the primary concern of the community, and the goal of the state is the replacement of existing society with a perfect society.

Originally Posted by Diuretic

I've still got an encyclopaedia my father bought when I was about 9 or 10. I can remember tracts of it, I used to love reading it for pleasure.

Sorry, thread drift.

Originally Posted by Talo76

That's because you can't argument facts, you just fall back on meaningless dogmatic crap.