Winston Churchill was voted out of office before World War II ended. Germany had already surrendered, but not Japan.
The Parliament in place during World War II was the longest continuously sitting British Parliament. Elected in the General Election, November 14, 1935, it was dissolved in the spring of 1945 for the General Election held on July 5, 1945. There were three different prime ministers during the life of the 1935 Parliament: Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill.
Neville and Austen Chamberlain are one of two pairs of English half-brothers in which the less famous half-brother won a Nobel Prize.
[Obligatory puzzle: Identify the other such pair.]
As British Foreign Secretary, Austen Chamberlain negotiated the Locarno Pact in 1925 between France and Germany. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux starred opposite each other in "Tyger, Tyger,"a two-part 1964 episode of Dr. Kildare and in the 1965 movie adaption of Betty Smith’s Joy in the Morning.
NBA great Wilt Chamberlain was the first NBA player to score more than 30,000 cumulative points over his career, and of course he was (is!) the first and only player to score 100 points in a single game.
Wilt Chamberlain’s VW Beetle ad, or They said it couldn’t be done. It couldn’t
LOL a great ad!
The Kansas state motto is “Ad Astra per Aspera” (Latin: “To the Stars through Difficulties”)
The earliest use of the term “superstar” has been credited to Frank Patrick in reference to the great hockey players on his Vancouver Millionaires teams of the 1910s-1920s, specifically Cyclone Taylor.
Although Hurricane Patricia of 2015 had, by far, the highest recorded wind speeds of any cyclone, Typhoon Tip (Warling) of 1979 had slightly lower barometric pressure and is considered the most intense tropical cyclone ever. Since Patricia had winds 40% faster than the threshold for Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, there has been some talk of adding a “Category 6.”
In her 2008 mystery Death of a Rug Lord, author Tamar Myers has a gay couple, both named Robert, who own an antique store. When one of their mothers decides to help out in the store, the other objects. Not because the woman, whose name is Sandra, is a bad worker. Just the opposite. He calls her “A regular typhoon. Hurricane Sandy.”
Reading this book in November of 2014 really gave m pause.
Lord & Taylor is headquartered in New York City, and is the oldest luxury department store in North America. Samuel Lord and George Washington Taylor founded the store in 1826 on Catherine Street in Manhattan selling hosiery, misses’ wear, and cashmere shawls. The Fifth Avenue store became a New York City Landmark in December 2007
Aires Libres, an outdooor art and music event that originated in Marseilles in 2005, is now celebrated annually in Montreal, which closes off St. Catherine Street, the main business street, for the summer months.
Buenos Aires is sometimes called “the Paris of South America,” and in fact part of its street plan was inspired by the Historical Axis or “Voie Triomphale” on the Right Bank of Paris.
The British Cabinet briefly considered bombing Buenos Aires during the 1982 Falklands War, but quickly decided against it, wanting to limit military operations, to the extent feasible, to the Falklands Islands and the waters around them.
The Falkland Islands are east of South America’s Patagonian coast. The name Patagonia comes from the word patagón used by Magellan in 1520 to describe the native people that his expedition thought to be giants. It is now believed that the people he called the Patagons were Tehuelches, who tended to be taller than Europeans of the time.
Among the travellers and naturalists who have written about Patagonia are Charles Darwin, Lady Florence Dixie, Gerald Durrell and Bruce Chatwin.
Climber Yvon Chouinard (“shin-ARD”), born in 1938, is also a surfer, kayaker, falconer, fly fisherman, and a businessman. In his youth in the 1950s and 60s Chouinard was one of the leading climbers of the ‘Golden Age of Yosemite Climbing’. In 1957 he bought a forge and started making his own climbing equipment, which became popular and led him to creating his company, Chouinard Equipment. Ltd.
By 1970, Chouinard Equipment had become the largest supplier of climbing hardware in the US. Chouinard carabiners were basic issue equipment for US Marine recon and ANGLICO units for the US Marine Corps. I still have my Chouinard carabiners to this day, from the early 1980s with 3D ANGLICO, Long Beach Naval Station.
Yvon Chouinard is most known for founding the clothing and gear company, Patagonia. Patagonia, is known for its environmental focus in the USA.
Julienne Chouinard was a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada in the 1970s-1980s. Although a skilled lawyer, unfortunately his writing style was not very effective and his decisions, while sound, have not had a major impact.
Chouinard was a Rhodes Scholar from Quebec, as was his good friend, Jean Beetz, who was also appointed to the Court in the early 1970s. Justice Beetz said that one of the happiest days of his career was when his old friend Chouinard joined him on the Court.