• Arms and the Covenant is a 1938 non-fiction book written by Winston Churchill. It was later published in the United States as While England Slept; a Survey...
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  • Ritchie's The Covenant (or simply The Covenant) is a 2023 American action drama film co-written, produced and directed by Guy Ritchie. The film stars...
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  • 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville...
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    1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and a life peer in her own right. While she was legally the daughter of...
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    Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the primacy...
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    Peace for our time (category History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom)
    concerning the Munich Agreement and the subsequent Anglo-German Declaration. The phrase echoed Benjamin Disraeli, who, upon returning from the Congress...
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    Second English Civil War (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    whom signed the National Covenant pledging to preserve the kirk by force of arms. Known as Covenanters, their victory in the Bishops' Wars confirmed their...
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    examined the buildup of German power. Kennedy's book examines the failures of the British government to take steps to prevent World War II and its initial...
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    St Martin's Church, Bladon (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    amount of natural light in the nave. The parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials date from 1545 and are kept at the Bodleian library in Oxford...
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    Hitler and the Nazi regime if Germany went to war with Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland. It was led by Generalmajor Hans Oster, deputy head of the Abwehr...
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  • launched his "Arms and the Covenant" movement. In the period before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Churchill was prepared to accept the League's view...
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    Randolph Churchill (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    (1967; co-authored with his own son, Winston S. Churchill) Arms and The Covenant, released in the US as While England Slept (1938; speeches October 1928 to...
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    1817 – March 3, 1891) was an American financier in Brooklyn, New York, and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill. Leonard Jerome was born in Pompey...
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  • Hossbach Memorandum (category History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom)
    Britain and France, closed the gap in the arms race in which, Hitler noted, Germany was already falling behind. A striking change noted in the Hossbach...
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    billion rounds of small-arms ammunition, and 3 million rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition. That could then arm about half of the Wehrmacht. Czechoslovak...
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    1935 Czechoslovak parliamentary election (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
    1935. The result was a victory for the newly established Sudeten German Party, which won 44 seats in the Chamber and 23 in the Senate. Funded by the German...
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  • support to the King. The first public meeting of the Arms and the Covenant Movement was on 3 December. Churchill was a major speaker and later wrote...
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    The Churchill War Rooms is a museum in London and one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum. The museum comprises the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic...
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    non-fiction works include Arms and the Covenant (1938), The World Crisis (1923–1931), The Second World War (1948–1953), and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples...
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    Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died...
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  • January 1920 the Czechoslovak army, breaking prior agreements with Poland, crossed the demarcation line and by force of arms occupied the Trans-Olza region...
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  • "The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2019. The Finest Hours at IMDb v t e v t e v t e...
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    resolve the current crisis. The meeting ended with the presentation to Burgess of a signed copy of Churchill's book Arms and the Covenant, but the broadcast...
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    Winston Churchill as writer (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    a soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the variant of his full name 'Winston S. Churchill'. After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's...
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  • a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and went on to play him in several other productions. The series focuses on the decade from 1929 to 1939 during which...
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    Norway Debate (category Debates in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom)
    motion. The vote was won by the government but by a drastically reduced majority. That led on 10 May to Chamberlain resigning as prime minister and the replacement...
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    This enables the chairs to be put close together, which is often more sociable, while at the same time, the arms prevent undue crowding and elbowing" —Churchill's...
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  • Terminological inexactitude (category Politics of the United Kingdom)
    Churchill first used the phrase following the 1906 election. Speaking in the House of Commons on 22 February 1906 as Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office...
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    in Czechoslovakia with the explicit official aim of breaking the country up and joining it to the Third Reich. By June 1938, the party had over 1.3 million...
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    Nevile Henderson (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    Neville 1999, p. 146. A World At Arms by Gerhard Weinberg, p. 43. Jukic, Ilija (1974). The Fall of Yugoslavia. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
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