Sir Winston Churchill, one of Europe’s most recognisable political figures, was famous for his rousing speeches and war-time strength; what most people don’t know is how he concealed his ill-health from the world by taking recuperating holidays in Madeira.

In post-war 1950, returning to the island after many years, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill chose to stay at Reid`s Palace Hotel, the most famous luxury hotel in Madeira. The idea was to get away from England to recover from a sustained period of illness. Churchill had visited Madeira previously several times, not for holidays in Madeira as such, but as a brief stop off to gather his composure on the way to report on events around the world when he was a news correspondent.

Prior to his Madeira holidays in January 1950, Winston Churchill had telegraphed the British Consul in Madeira, to make inquiries about Madeira’s luxury hotels and ask about paintable scenes to practice his art, but the primary reason was to ensure that his trip was kept secret.

Like his war-time American counterpart, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was important for Churchill to control publicity regarding his ill-health. It was known in confidential circles that in recent months Churchill had been bed-bound with a bad case of the flu. With elections potentially on the horizon, Sir Winston wanted to embody his usual image of stoicism and strength, so aimed to conceal his illness from the public. But the news of his holidays in Madeira leaked, and when Churchill’s liner arrived at the harbour in Funchal, he was greeted by crowds of English residents and Madeiran locals shouting “the man who saved the world!” He retreated immediately to his hotel.

The suite in which Churchill stayed at Reid`s Palace Hotel is now named after him. Reid’s Palace is a classical, luxury hotel in Madeira’s capital Funchal, the kind of high-class place where you can picture Sir Winston enjoying his cigar in comfort. He used the hotel as a base from which to venture out and paint the scenery.

Sir Winston was impressed with the look of Camâra de Lobos in particular, where he painted various scenes of the village during his holidays in Madeira. The locals were enamoured by him, too. Churchill was jovial to the islanders. He often responded cheerfully to salutations with his traditional V-symbol, and to this day, the bars in the area display his photographs, and some establishments carry his name. Some of the oil canvases he painted here during his Madeira holidays now hang on the walls of his room at the hotel.

Winston Churchill had his holidays in Madeira cut short when a date for the next election was announced in England, but by the time of his homecoming he was in better shape. He recovered from his illness and returned to run another successful campaign, winning the election in 1951. Sir Winston’s rare retreat for reasons of convalescence shows that even our heroes need to get away from it all from time to time.

This story seems to speak to the eight most common virtues that researchers in California recently found in people they studied in search of happiness. The researchers found that those who share these eight virtues have been found to be those who tend to live the longest, report best health in their age and income groups. These life winners report a more complete sense of a life well lived and that their good life assures them a good death and afterlife.

These eight virtues are usually shared by people who are also active in their community, report a belief in a faith, and believe their good deeds and lives will have them welcomed into Heaven or Nirvana or a Happy Hunting Ground.

These virtues are to count your blessings, do acts of kindness, savor the joys of life, thank a mentor, learn to forgive, stay close to family and friends, take care of your body, and develop strategies to cope with stress and hardship. You can almost count them off in this story.

In this case the name of the good man was a poor Scottish farmer name Fleming. One day while working in his field, he heard a scream for help coming from the bog next to his farm. Fleming dropped his tools and ran to the bog. Here he saw a frightened boy, already sunk to his waist in the swampy black bog. Fleming waded in and grabbed the lad and dragged him to the firm ground, helped him to clean off, and saw him on his way as his family was visiting nearby.

The very next day a grand carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s small hut. An expensively dressed gentleman stepped out. He shook hands and said he was the father of the lad that the farmer saved. He wanted to pay Fleming, who thanked him but refused. The reward was all in the good deed. And although their life was simple, it was good. At that moment the son of the farmer, about the same age as the young rich lad, appeared at the door.

The gentleman asked if that was the son of the farmer, who proudly confirmed that it was. And the gentleman proposed a deal that the farmer did agree to. And that was to take the lad and pay for the finest education that his own son would enjoy. The farmer agreed and young Fleming did become a famed physician.

Fleming later moved to Canada, and there with the help of others discovered Penicillin, which has been a boon to humanity in curing diseases. Previously incurable diseases were now being cured thanks to Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman was Lord Randolph Churchill. His son’s name became Sir Winston Churchill, who became seriously ill with pneumonia later in life, and again a Fleming saved his life, this time by Penicillin. Two great families, two small and great deeds that display how a wave effect of good or ill can create other waves later elsewhere. And we applaud these fine examples of humanity at it’s best here.

Revisionist historians, sniveling academics and the unlearned, supported by left wing liberals and socialists, all detest a man like Winston Churchill. The current political ideology of our times, the rampant left wing-ism of the media, government controlled education and propaganda, and historical rewriting where stone age civilizations are the apex of mankind’s spiritual development, where all wars fought for freedom and security throughout the ages are viewed as crimes, where criminals are treated better than victims, and where the threat and poverty of fascist Islam is blamed on ‘root causes’, the Jews, or poor American and British foreign policy, has little room for straight talk, statesmen or politicians who don’t care much about polls.

So if Churchill were around today what would he say about Islam and the threat faced by civilization? Would he be allowed to say anything at all ? Probably not. His political advisers would cry that he was not sensitive and ‘nuanced’ enough to speak on the ‘great religion’ of Islam. If Churchill did speak and say the obvious, how many organizations which support Islam would file a lawsuit ? How many newspapers and journals would label him a racist ? I would guess dozens of groups would sue Churchill, and all the mainstream media would label him a racist [even though Islam does not constitute a race but a political ideology]. If you declaim against any of the great causes of our time; Gays, Islam, Self-esteem, Relativity, the United Nations, the rise of China, etc. you are of course just a racist.

So what would Churchill say about Islam ? Well most likely he would say the exact same thing that he wrote in the River War, a book he had published in 1899, on the British reconquest of the Sudan, culminating in the 1898 battle of Omdurman where British troops completely annihilated a Dervish-Sudanese army three times its size. Out of 30.000 Islamic-Dervish soldiers over half were killed. The British lost less than 50 men with 400 wounded. Churchill saw action as part of the Lancer calvary and the use by the British of modern arms and technologies on stone age warriors, left a profound impact on the 24 year old man. Technology, discipline and firepower would always overwhelm a vicious and zealous foe.

Even at this young age Churchill, having survived a battle with Islamic fanatics saw plainly Islamic society for what it was, and what it signified. Yet Omdurman was just the beginning of Churchill’s acquaintance with fanatical Islam. Churchill had significant experience with Islam throughout his career responsible at various times before World War II for Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, the construction of the Anglo-Persian oil company, and he was quite familiar through travel with Islamic locales ranging from East Africa to North West Africa to Palestine and Turkey. He possessed in fact much practical first hand knowledge of Islam.

But Churchill’s initial reaction was his most accurate and descriptive. After the Sudanese wars he published his 2-volume book, The River War, and in it he recounts the re-subjugation by small British forces of a massive land area. His depiction of Islam is a timeless classic, as relevant today as it was 106 years ago:

‘How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world….

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.’

Nice Churchillian flair in describing indelibly the main effects of a political ideology which masquerades as a religion and expands through war, violence and coercion. It was self evident to men like Samuel Adams, de Tocqueville, C.S. Lewis, Churchill and others, that Islam as a political movement was anti-civilizational. The basic tenets of the Koran and Hadiths stand for nothing more than the establishment of a world-wide caliphate ruled by the dictums of 7th century Arab paganism and indeed ‘no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.’ Islam is not peaceful, it is not spiritual, and it is not modern. It is the pagan evocation of fascism.

But don’t tell anyone. In our world nothing matters, nothing is black and white, and all is grey. In today’s world a man like Churchill would never be elected. Gone are the days of the statesmen. Churchill would never have become Britain’s leader during World War II, if today’s media, and our politically naïve, sensitive and largely corrupt set of political systems were in operation in 1940. What then would have happened to civilization ? Would the Russians with their orientalism have saved the West ?

There is no room for people like Churchill in today’s obsessively feminine culture, focused on self-esteem, relativity and crass ignorance of history, progress and the inheritance of Western civilization. It remains to be seen if we have enough intelligence and motive force to defend the brilliance and power of the West. Without leadership it will be a difficult chore but recognizing the fascist challenge embedded in Islam should inform our foreign and domestic policies.

Sir Winston Churchill

Born November 30, 1874

Died January 24, 1965

Prime Minister of England when it really counted, Sir Winston led the Brits to victory over the evil Nazi Empire in World War II — no easy task, especially when many thought the British would wave their white hankies, grab a pint, and call it quits.

Churchill gained fame as a reporter during the Boer Wars and World War I, attracting a large audience with his top-notch writing, and serving in nine British regiments. Using the publicity from his high-profile exploits, Winston won a seat in the general election of 1900, the first victory in a political career that would last sixty-two years.

Churchill lost elections as a Liberal free trader and Independent anti-Socialist and won under the Conservative label of “Constitutionalist.” The public gave him more lives than a cat, and he proved his political mettle time and time again with leadership, patriotism, and fresh ideas.

On one issue, Churchill never wavered: the growing threat of an aggressive Germany. Opponents accused him of warmongering, for promoting disarmament, but his instincts were dead-on. In 1940, at the age sixty-six, Churchill was finally appointed prime minister. He forged a fierce union during World War II by teaming with Franklin D. Roosevelt and unlikely ally Joseph Stalin to fight the Nazi war machine.

Churchill’s public broadcasts and fiery oratory kept spirits high during the Blitz bombings, and his popularity allowed him to survive several confidence votes in Parliament.

You’d think Churchill’s position as prime minister would be safe after leading his country to victory, but noooo. The masses loved him as a war leader, but failed to see him as leader of the party; two months after VE-day, Churchill and his Conservative cause was out the door.

Bouncing back as usual, he got the top spot in 1951 and remained prime minister until 1955, when strokes forced him from office. In 1953 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, along with being knighted by the queen. He died in London in January 1965, and anyone who was anyone came to the great statesman’s funeral.

Michael Stusser: Sir, you’re in your . . .

Winston Churchill: Jammies! PJs! Bloody well right. Man’s got to be comfortable — and in my right hand is a fine glass of bubbly. Care to join?

MS: Champagne? No sir, it’s not even . . .

WC: It’s cocktail hour somewhere, my dear man.

MS: Would you say you had a drinking problem?

WC: All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than it has taken out of me. Truth be told, I watered my whiskey — just wanted the Ruskies to think I could drink them under the table.

MS: And your interest in cigars. Where did that start?

WC: Havana, 1895. Went down there to see some live military action and got hooked on Cubans! We pretty much lived on cigars and oranges — bee’s knees!

MS: Think you were addicted?

WC: I had my oxygen mask outfitted so I could smoke while air-borne. If that’s not addiction, I don’t know what is. Now let’s begin this blasted tête-à-tête, shall we? What say I talk and you listen?

MS: Go right ahead, sir.

[Churchill works furiously, scribbling notes onto a pad.]

WC: One moment, son, I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks. There we are. And let’s begin.

MS: Maybe you can talk a bit about your upbringing.

WC: Happy to. My father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a politician as well. Fancy it’s in our blood. Royal blood, I might add — my pops was a descendant of John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough, and he had some successful wars indeed, taking it to Louis XIV of France. Aces!

MS: Right. Um, not to be indelicate, but it’s been speculated that Lord Churchill was not actually your . . .

WC: We did not have the sort of relationship that father and son might want, and for reasons I cannot explain. In terms of who did what to whom in the boudoir, I will not be going there.

MS: Your mother?

WC: The lovely Jennie Jerome, from New York City. Lady Randolph. Her pappy was filthy rich, though we earned our own loot. They put me up in boarding schools — it’s how we did it back then, and even though my mum rarely visited, I worshiped her, really did. Thing is, I was quite the underachiever in school. Lazy, total lack of effort, not my cup of tea. Took me three blooming tries to pass the entrance exam to the Royal Military Academy.

MS: Well, you made up for that, sir.

WC: Damn right. I was a helluva writer as well, did you know that?

MS: Yes, you wrote —

WC: Penned dispatches from Cuba, India, and campaigns in the Nile. Could have avoided politics altogether, and made a good go of it living by the pen. But I got the fever, in 1900, I did. Maybe it was because my father was such a prominent politico, but I felt I had to run for Parliament, and eventually won a spot with his old slogan, “Tory Democracy.” Got a nice ring to it.

MS: Probably helped that you were loaded.

WC: Loaded? As in drunk on a bender?

MS: No, loaded, as in rich.

WC: You’ve got the wrong man, I’m afraid. Though I may have had an aristocratic birth, I didn’t inherit a pot to piss in. My mum spent whatever loot there may have been. In fact, the reason I wrote my historical pieces was because I needed the coin. The writing allowed me to be my own man as a politician.

MS: Were you always a great speaker?

WC: Heavens, no. I worked at it. Had a speech defect that held me back a bit.

MS: You’re kidding.

WC: Not at all; had a bit of a lisp. I was fine for set speeches — good as they get — but in the impromptu, I had to be careful. Practiced like the dickens.

MS: I’ve heard about a conversation you had with Nancy Astor about women’s rights that turned nasty. Was it true?

WC: Oh, Lady Astor was a beauty. She was visiting Blenheim Palace and we disagreed a bit on things, to the point where she told me that if she were my wife, she’d put poison in my coffee. And I told her that if she were my wife, I’d drink it!

[ Laughter]

WC: She went on to become the first female MP in the House of Commons, by the way. Fancy that!

MS: You were often accused of crossing party lines for political gain.

WC: And both sides of the aisle hated me with equal vigor. What really mattered was my popularity with the regular blokes.

MS: Back in 1920, you had a bit of trouble in Iraq.

WC: Doesn’t everybody? I really thought we could just pound away at them from the air, but the uncivilized bastards are impossible to get at.

MS: What was the best decision you ever made?

WC: Marrying Clementine Hozier. No question about it — after taking on the ball-and-chain, I was a winner no matter what happened. We went on for fifty-seven years. Here’s to beating the average. Cheers!

MS: What about your best political decision?

WC: So many to choose from — but probably putting [friend and industrialist and newspaper baron] Lord Beaverbrook in charge of air-craft production in 1940. He was a fabulous businessman, and that allowed us to gear up in a hurry, don’t you know, with both engineering and production.

MS: It helped that you had the best pilots in the world.

WC: Righto — when I said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” well, the “few” were the Allied fighter pilots, god bless ’em.

MS: When did you first start worrying about the Germans?

WC: Oh dear, early, early in the game. Back in 1911, if I’ve got my years right, the Germans sent a gunboat to Agadir [a Moroccan port to which France had claims] and I knew then that if push came to shove, we’d have to be at France’s side. I started getting the navy ready, lickity-split, then got the cabinet to shell out the largest naval expenditure in British history.

MS: Not to sound morose, but you were kind of made for World War II.

WC: I was ready, of that there’s no doubt. I’m old school when it comes down to values and what we Brits stand for. One of the last believers in Whig history.

MS: Forgive me if I’m not up on obscure English history.

WC: It’s the belief that we British have a unique greatness — imperial destiny! This wasn’t a time to sit back and have a spot of tea; we needed action, Jackson! And I thrived on the conflict, loved a challenge, daresay even a crisis. Tests the soul, challenges the ol’ noggin. September 3, 1939, the day England declared war on Germany, Neville Chamberlain put me in my old naval post and the word went out to the fleet: “Winston is back.” Back, baby!

MS: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”

WC: My first speech as prime minister [1940].

MS: Pretty inspiring.

WC: That was the idea. We were about to take on the enemy full force — needed balls the size of battleships.

MS: Before the Battle of Britain.

WC: Spot-on. That’s when I said, “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” Bracing ourselves for our finest hour, and, as it turned out, it truly was.

MS: The turning point?

WC: Our bravery throughout. But it helped to be fighting an uneducated, maniacal tyrant.

MS: Hitler?

WC: Daft dolt forgot about winter! Went into Russia in 1941 and simply forgot that it got blooming cold as the queen’s bum on a sleigh ride over there — freezing temps, snow. Ha! I never made a blunder half as bad!

MS: When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [December 7, 1941], you immediately went to Washington, D.C.

WC: Everything was changed that day. Roosevelt and I pooled all we had for the common good — military and economic resources, even combined chiefs of staff and command. We were in it together, and not a minute too late.

MS: Describe your relationship with FDR.

WC: Asked her to marry me, she turned me down flat.

MS: No, that was actress Ethel Barrymore. I asked about Franklin D. Roosevelt.

WC: Oh! Righto! Well we were mates, but, more importantly, we understood what our countries needed. I remember after he was re-elected in 1940, we started our joint effort.

MS: “Give us the tools, we’ll finish the job.”

WC: And this was before Pearl Harbor, remember, that we had a lend-lease program going. I’d give him a ringie-dingie on the ol’ tellie and he’d lend — not give us, mind you — military supplies and such. Key being, ’course, that we didn’t have to send him a million pounds every bloody time we needed ammo.

MS: Were there disagreements?

WC: Stalin was the problem, all right? Today every one knows he was a mass murderer, but I tell you I had a feeling. FDR thought he could handle him — thought he could keep him from taking Poland or the Czech Republic. I was way ahead of everybody on that one.

MS: Modest, too.

WC: Ultimately, I called FDR the greatest American friend we’d ever known. But Stalin I could never relate to. Too many awkward pauses. Bloody bonkers.

MS: V-day musta been incredible, huh?

WC: As I rode around London I was proud, but I also had foreboding feeling in my belly.

MS: About having to rebuild?

WC: No, about the Soviets with Stalin at the helm.

MS: You’re like a broken record with that . . .

WC: He was an aggressive Ruskie if ever there was one, and I warned anyone who’d listen that the Communists were bad news.

MS: Right. The iron curtain speech. Did anyone listen?

WC: Not so much.

MS: You weren’t treated so well after World War II. In fact, it’s been said that the great man who led the nation at war was not the man to lead it in peace.

WC: Bollocks! The Labour Party coined that little slogan and it worked like a charm. In my not-so-humble opinion, the reason we lost was due to the Conservative Party’s record ten years prior, with nitwits Baldwin and Chamberlain, and I never had a bloody chance.

MS: Were you bored after the war?

WC: Bored and brimming with ideas, chappie. My ideas on the European Common Market were ahead of their time, and much needed. It’s not always easy being a visionary, my boy.

MS: What vision do you have for the world today?

WC: Same vision I had: We need a world government, my friend, a League of Nations. One that is made up of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace and preventing war. With it, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share. That, and we need to prevent the Iron Curtain from taking over the entire world.

MS: Uh, the Cold War’s over. The Soviet Union kind of went bankrupt and faded away.

WC: Really? Well thank goodness for that. Too much vodka and missiles, not enough chow on the table, eh? Knew it!

MS: Sir, this has been a most interesting interview.

WC: Remember that all the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

MS: Well said, sir. I’m afraid we’ve run out of —

WC: A few closing words are in order. First, I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

MS: Well you oughta —

WC: And lastly, remember, many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government — except all those others that have been tried from time to time. Let’s move this into the parlor room, shall we? I’ll tell you about my escape in South Africa, keep the chin wag going a spot longer.

MS: Thanks for your time, sir. I think I need a nap.

Copyright © Michael A. Stusser, 2007

The above is an excerpt from the book The Dead Guy Interviews

by Michael A. Stusser

Published by Penguin; September 2007;$14.00US/$16.50CAN; 978-0-14-311227-3

Copyright © Michael A. Stusser, 2007

Author

Michael A. Stusser is a Seattle-based writer and game inventor. His “Accidental Parent” column (ParentMap magazine) recently won the prestigious Gold Award from the Parenting Publications of America. Stusser is a contributing writer for mental_floss and Seattle Magazine, and his work is frequently published by Law & Politics, Yoga International Magazine, and Go World Travel Magazine.

Stusser is also the cocreator of The Doonesbury Game with Garry Trudeau (winner for “Best Party Game of the Year,” GAMES magazine, 1994); EARTHALERT, The Active Environmental Game; and Hear Me Out.

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Here borrows the old word transition: The time like shuttle, in China’s male mind’s three big-ticket items, turned the refrigerator, the color television, the washer in an instant, turned the wristwatch, the computer, the motorcycle, turned the foreign-style house, the automobile and the small honey. Wristwatch or man’s decorations? Now everywhere has, the computer has, the calculator has, on the vehicle plate has ……Everywhere is the liquid crystal and indicator’s time. But the wristwatch take man’s decorations not obsolete, just like a famous saying, the time cannot be obsolete, obsolete is only we.

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All too often the great writing of the past has been overlooked and under-studied. As many of the great works have not been accurately translated, we here present for you some findings from the writings of Suetonius, (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus),who in his ‘Lives of the Caesars’ revealed a great amount of information that we might find in today’s gossip columns. We learn of his preferences for certain sexual positions and also his diet for keeping his libido strong…

Cesar in Rome

Many people think of Caesar as only the great general and military leader. However, he leaned all he knew of the army while being out on campaigns.

In Rome he was from the noble families and lived a life of leisure, sport, and an on-going pursuit of philosophy. Part of everyday life was to go to the baths for conversation, relaxation, food and drink, and more often than not sex.

To the noble Roman, sex with his wife would be to have children, no more. All other sexual activities would be with slaves or educated prostitutes.

We learn from Suetonius that Caesar was fond of long private sessions of sex in the heated room (a sort of Roman sauna). There we learned he would order young girls to perform fellacio (a sexual practice frowned upon in Roman custom) and a great position they called “the way of the cat”.

Sex performed “In the Way of the Cat”

One can imagine the hot room, strong scents of herbs and the smell of pine logs burning to create the heat for the bath house. There would be Caesar, cloaked only in a simple cloth, and a girl or slave brought to him in the room.

He would sit on the marble slab table that made up the center piece of every Roman Hot Room, and the girl would, on her knees, perform a long and slow fellacio. Then, at the correct moment, the girl stands, turns her back to Cesar, and slowly sits down upon his member. As she does this, and fully penetrated, she bends over, putting her head lower to her knees. The man is very passive in this position and the woman is expected to do all the movement. The movement is a very fast staccato rising and falling on the man’s member. It is almost mechanical. The climax is profound and usually simultaneous for each partner.

Caesar on Campaign

We learn that Cesar was very concentrated and focused during his military careers. His days were full of study of the great military commanders from the past (including Alexander), and the rigors of exercise and training. Still there was time for some sexual exploits. Suetonius implies that Cesar would take a slave girl (or one captured from the areas that the army had invaded) and had her brought to his tent. There he would take her in the manner of the Roman Stallion.

Manner of the Roman Stallion

We can imagine we are in the great general’s tent. There are some solid, yet simple Roman chairs, and Caesar would position the girl to hold a chair’s arms from front, and to put her knees on the chair’s seat. Her legs would be slightly open, and exposing her whole vagina and anal area to the approaching Cesar.

He would take her from behind, standing over her, and thrust with great passion, while the girl was holding on to the chair arms. The great Caesar would be holding the girl by the waist and pulling her towards him with each thrust. Then, before the final moment, he would tell the girl to straighten her back, so she was kneeling on the chair instead of crouching, and at this position, he would terminate in a bout of mixed exhaustion and ecstasy.

Such was a few of the insights gained from the biographer of the first and most illustrious Caesar.
Up until his death, his libido and unquenchable sexual appetite was legendary and he was perhaps one of the first to incorporate powerful natural libido enhancers from the East in his diet.

He eat a healthy diet ( the traditional Greek Diet ) and Buddhist monks visited the Roman empire and he received many gifts and some of them were, known libido enhancers we are familiar with, like Ginseng and Horny Goat Weed – but also the lesser known but equally potent, Schizandra Berry, Cistanche Bark and Cnidium.

Schizandra Berry, Cistanche Bark and Cnidium act as sexual tonics and today, there sold as new to the West but Caesar valued there potency thousands of years ago and his sexual prowess is a testament to there power.

From the European Heritage Library
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This essay offers the complete history of the Turkic Muslim Tatar people, often called the Scourge of Europe because of their Jihad against local Slavic peoples (as it is historically interpreted by the Slavs), followed by the history of their expulsion and massacre by the returning Slavs of the Russian Empire. Also included below are my personal ethnic and social observations of the Crimea from my vacation. Click the link at the top and bottom for the images that go with this article.

The region of the Crimea (today the southern tip of Ukraine) has acted for nearly a millennium as the buffer zone between the west and north (the Slavic Christian world), and the east and south (the Islamic Turkic world). This geographic volatility has caused the region of modern Ukraine and the Crimea to change hands between various Turkic (Tatar) armies and those of growing European empires. The endless ethnic conflict between the Turks and the Slavs (which continues today), as well as the war between the the Slavs’ colonial conquest and the retaliatory Islamic Jihad, are all epitomized in the Crimea and the Eurasian steppes. The collision between the two cultures, and the rapid expansion of the Russians at the expanse of the Muslim Turks can be described as a cause of Islamic uprising and conflict, and the aggression of Central Asian peoples when it occurred. Admittedly, though, the destruction of Russian principalities by the Mongols and the Turks, and the subsequent subjugation of much of Slavonia by the Islamic Golden Horde for centuries thereafter, preceded the brutal expansion and colonization of the Russians. The Russian side cannot pass all blame to the Muslims for their aggression then and now, just as the Muslim side cannot shroud the Turks’ continental holy war as a response to Christian cruelty.

Before the Mongol invasion of the 13th century, Central Asia west of Mongolia was populated by Sunni Muslim Turkic peoples collectively and derogatorily called “Tatars” (though today the Tatars themselves have embraced this heritage) who settled in modern Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the eastern Volga, and southern Siberia. The Tatar Turks were famed for their efforts to raid civilian Christian caravans, though this is probably exaggerated and biased; nonetheless, the Tatars were famed for their corporal will, Islamic piety, and equestrian prowess. The Tatars were disunited tribal confederations who spoke a language in the Turkish family (today called Tatar), and adhered to the Turkish culture and Islamic faith. The Mongol scourge conquered the many Turkic tribes in Central Asia along with the Russian Slavs to the west as part of history’s most massive contiguous empire. Instead of simply looting his subjects, he exploited the equestrian skills of the Turkic peoples by creating vassalized nation-states throughout Central Asia to fuel their need for military regiments. The use of Turkic Muslims by the Mongol invaders is visible today as a legacy, as the ethnic distribution of Central Asia consists of large Turkic and Mongol populations together. All are linguistically and culturally Turkic because of this heritage. These Turkic Tatars settled in these formerly-Russian lands of modern Ukraine and the Volga (especially at the capital of Kazan in today’s Tatarstan of central Russia), having secured a new Turkic empire after the victorious assault against the Christian Slavs. The Russian states had been obliterated, their land replaced by Islamic authority in the east, with Russian states as far north as Novgorod forced to pay annual tribute as vassal states. With the quick collapse of the Mongol Empire into a huge variety of successor states in China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Iran, and central Russia, the Tatar Muslims were divided into a number of “hordes” such as the Blue and White Hordes — all united under the banner of Sunni Islam. Though many Central Asian Mongol-borne states were Turkish- and Muslim-populated, their leaders tended to be animist/pagan Mongol as descendants from Chinggis Khan. Batu Khan led the Blue Horde, and Urda Khan the White. The population was ethnic Turkic Tatar Muslim. The broken Russian Christian Slavs were busy rallying against invading crusading knights of the German Empire, and gradually worked to coalesce together in the face of Mongol and Muslim hegemony, though it would not be until the 16th century that the Slavs began to create a unified Russian empire as a world superpower free of Islamic fighters stretching from the Urals to the Crimea.

By 1300, the warring Turkic Muslim hordes and their Mongol leaders had coalesced into a unified state of Central Asian Turks, merging the Blue and White Hordes into the Golden Horde first under Berkei Khan. The Golden Horde was only one of several Turkic Muslim states that followed the expansion of the Mongols. The new superpower — whose leaders remained ethnic Mongol Shamanist or Buddhist and their population ethnic Turkish Muslims — quickly annexed excluded Turkic states, engaged in an expansive Jihad against Christian Russian states, against the Byzantine Greeks, against eastern Poland, and against Lithuania and Hungary. By 1400, the Golden Horde stretched from eastern Poland to East Turkestan (western Mongolia), and from Siberia to northern Turkmenistan. By the reign of sultan Uzbeg Khan, whose reign ushered in the Golden Horde’s golden age, the non-Turkic leaders of the post-Mongol states had formally adopted Sunni Islam as the compulsory religion of all their citizens. The role of the ethnic Mongol elite gradually collapsed, and the Tatar Muslim population more and more gained authority. The Golden Horde’s conquest of Ruthenians (Ukrainians) and Slavs of modern Russia tightened the wedge between Christian Europe and Turkic Muslims of the east. The application of religious conviction and zeal to conquest as a Jihad was natural for the time, just as European conquests were rife with Christian rhetoric. The Turks of modern Turkey had already entered Anatolia (where Turkey today lies) to the south, where their Jihad expelled the Greek Byzantine settlers in the wake of their mighty horseback armies. The advanced military tactics of the powerful Golden Horde caused millions to suffer death under the blade of their Jihad, making the Golden Horde one of the wealthiest, advanced, and powerful states in Eurasia. Its wealth made the Golden Horde’s territory highly attractive to Muslim scholars and merchants from across the Muslim world. The Christian Slavs, expelled from Ukraine (Ruthenia) and the Volga, were far too weak following the Mongol conquest to offer uniform resistance to re-establish their Slavic native statehood. The gorge of violence cannot be solely placed upon the Muslim conquerers; both cultures brutally warred against each other and their respective religions. In this history, however, it was the Muslims whose Jihad brought much of Slavonia to its knees, long before the Russians began to exploit and conquer the remaining Muslim states in Central Asia.

The Golden Horde suffered a gradual decline towards its end, and its mortal blow was not dealt by revolting Christians nor a uniform Christian crusade, but rather ironically by a Mongol Muslim general to the south. The ethnic Mongol (Uzbek) Muslim Timur-i-Leng of the Timurid Empire (centered in Uzbek Samarqand and Shi’ia Iran) worked to expand one of the world’s greatest empires by slaughtering the Horde’s largest armies and burning the Tatar capital. Timur’s (also called Tamerlane and Temur) empire stretched from the Crimea to the gates of Muslim Delhi in India. Timur is often described as a Tatar despite being an ethnic Mongol due to his adherence to Turkic and Persian culture. In his brutal Jihad for world conquest in which he never lost a single major battle, Timur crushed the Ottoman empire, the Delhi sultanate, the Mongol hordes of Central Asia, Mongol-ruled Iran, Iraq, Georgia, and finally the Golden Horde, becoming one of history’s greatest (yet least known) conquerers since Alexander the Great. Timur claimed to use the Golden Horde’s perceived decadence against Islam and treachery as a pretense for conquering the Golden Horde, then ruled by the emir Toktamysh. The Horde, like Timur’s empire, would barely survive past their respective leaders’ deaths. Within 100 years, the Golden Horde and surrounding Turkic Muslim “khanates” (Mongol successor states) further shattered in pieces. One of these breakaway states was that of the Crimean Emirate (or Khanate) to the south of the Russian/Ukrainian Slavs centered along the Crimean peninsula. Other broken successor states of the Golden Horde were centered in Kazan (Tatarstan) of modern central Russia, Kazakh and Uzbek tribes, and the emirate of Astrakhan to the southern marches of the Caucasus. The Muslim leaders would retain leadership in Crimea (modern southern Ukraine) for centuries to follow.

The collapse of the Islamic Tatar empire in civil war allowed the Slavic Ruthenians (Ukrainians), Lithuanians, Poles, and Russians to expand and dominate, causing a golden age in all of the Slavic world. Muskowy (Moscow) Russian kings Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible expanded Moscow to include nearly a dozen warring ethnic-Russian states (especially Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, and Yaroslavl) in the new Russian Empire. Crowning himself emperor of the Third Rome, as the second Rome had been obliterated by the Islamic conquest at Constantinople, Ivan the Terrible conquered Tatar Astrakhan and Kazan (modern Tatarstan in Russia), foreshadowing a permanent decline of Islam and the triumph of Orthodox Slavs in what would soon become “Russia”. The Muslims were expelled from Slavic lands, and Islam was largely banned. The new Russian state, which included Ukrainians (but not the Tatar Islamic Crimea to the south) soon stretched from the Arctic to the southern Volga. The hegemony wrought by Islam was quickly replaced by the hegemony of the Christian Slavs, whose colonial conquest eventually annexed what by modern populations would include more than 60,000,000 Muslims — nearly all of the Muslims of Central Asia, the Crimea, and the Caucasus. An ironic reversal of the social history of Eurasia. The brutality of the Islamic warriors is no different than the massive colonial conquests of the Russian Christians, who soon created the largest nation on earth, a geographic wonder that remains to this day.

The post-Golden Horde emirate of the pre-Slavic Crimea of modern Ukraine functioned thereafter as an independent Islamic Tatar state too crippled to levy significant damage to the towering behemoth that was the new Russia. The wealthy trade of the Black Sea coast allowed this large but relatively passive Islamic state to thrive. The population became known as Crimean Tatars to distinguish from ethnic Turkic Tatars elsewhere in Central Asia. The Crimea, previously inhabited by Slavic Russians and Ruthenians (Ukrainians) before the Mongol conquest, were now instead Turkic Muslim after the conquest and expulsion of Slavs by the Golden Horde. The emirate of the Tatars also was able to thrive due to frequent and stable trade alliances with the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the Turkmen hordes, the Noghai, and other Tatar states based upon common stock and Sunni Muslim faith. But the expansive efforts of the European superpowers and colonial kingdoms marked the end of Tatar power in the pre-Slavic Crimea. The Genoese Catholic Italians colonized Kaffa, modern Yalta, and Azow in the middle 15th century. The Russians had conquered nearly all of Siberia, the Volga, and the Ukrainian steppe, effectively cutting off the sociopolitical link of the Crimean Tatars to their Muslim allies expelled by the Russians. A Christian (Genoese) presence in Turkic Tatar Crimea infuriated their Turkish Ottoman brothers, who promptly invaded the Crimea to save the righteous from the infidels invading from the north. The Crimean Tatars and their emirate became vassals of the Ottomans by the end of the 15th century.

Turkish support of their Tatar brethren allowed the Tatar Crimean state to survive, and independence of the Crimea from the Christian Russians was retained until the late 18th century. The brilliant military and political genius of the Swedish czarina of Russia, Katherina the Great, as well as the increasing decline of the Ottomans allowed the Russian superpower (the world’s largest empire) to annex the Tatar Crimea from the Ottomans and the Crimean Emirate in 1783. Cut off from Turkish aid and now ruled by the Russians, the Islamic heritage and faith of the Tatars was quickly banned, their mosques burnt (among them some of the oldest in Central Asia), and millions of Tatars all across southern Russia slaughtered or expelled. Tens of thousands of those who survived fled their homes to the Ottoman Empire as what are today referred to as “Mujahiruna” (Muslim expatriats displaced by non-Muslim conquest). Their traditions were marginalized, their women’s veils and headscarves banned, Islam forbidden, their language outlawed, and treated as second-class citizens based upon their non-Russian race as Turks (forever the enemy of the Slavs, as seen above). Nonetheless, thousands of Tatars remained in Russian political land and in the Crimea for several centuries until today. The Crimea and its northern frontiers, previously ethnic Slav and then replaced entirely by Turkic Tatar, was once again almost entirely Slavic Ukrainian and Russian. Russia would expand to conquer the Uzbek, Kazakh, and other Mongol Muslim tribes in Central Asia by the 1900 under the Alexandrian reign. Because of Russia’s history of extensive conquest of Mongol and Muslim peoples across Central and Northern Asia, Russia has since had a unique ethnographic distribution of Mongols, Turks, Iranians, and all the religions they express.

The Crimea remained a region populated by Russians, Ukranians, and Tatar Turks until the Communist revolution, when the ethnopolitical situation became even more complicated. The overthrow of the Russian Empire by the Bolsheviks forced Russia out of the war. A result of the Brest-Litovsk Pact (through which Russia escaped the war) effectively cemented the declaration of independence of non-Slavic Estonia, Latvia, Finland, as well as Slavic Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania. The fact that some ethnic groups or nations achieved independence, but others did not, incited the Islamic cultures under Russian rule to seek independence, including the Azerbaijani Shi’ia Turks and the Tatars of southern Russia and the Crimea. The appointment of Premier Joseph Stalin as absolute leader of the Soviet Union spelled the reversal of their independence hopes. The invading Axis powers (Germany, Finland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.) were surprised to find a faithful ally in the Tatars, many of whom joined the German SS (Schutzstaffel) and volunteer legions by the thousands. Many Tatars applied Islamic Jihad as a way to liberate Muslims from the harsh rule of the atheistic Communists. The Muslim Tatars hoped to gain independence via their aid to the Fascists, and the leaders of both sides found a natural bond between the Muslims and the National Socialists due to a mutual hatred for Jews, Communists, as well as the common rejection of Allied secularism and atheism. After the war and the ascension of the Soviet Union to world geographic supremacy, Joseph Stalin expelled virtually every single Muslim, Tatar, and Turk to Kazakhstan — along with the Volga Germans — for their collective treacherous anti-Soviet support for the enemy Fascists. The Tatars, once again, were expelled from their homelands in the Eurasian steppes and in the now-Slavic Crimea. Tens of thousands of others were either executed or sent to gulags for mass forced labor in Uzbek camps or in Siberia in southern Russia. Retaliatory reprisals or Jihad by the expelled Muslims was impossible against an enemy so powerful as Stalin’s Soviet Union, the largest empire on earth.

After the death of Stalin in 1953 and the gradual liberalization of the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev (and especially the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union), the Muslim Turks, Tatars, and Mongol (Uzbeks, Kazakhs, etc.) cultures were allowed to return to what remained of the Soviet Union. Crimean Tatars returned to the Crimea of the Ukrainian SSR, and Volga Germans fled the Kazakh SSR to West or East Germany based upon ethnic grounds. Such remains today: the now-Slavic Crimea of independent Ukraine is almost entirely Slavic with a tiny minority of Tatars. Officially, only .5% of Ukraine is of the Turkic Tatar race (Source: CIA World Factbook). A variety of social and historical factors make the Tatars of the Crimea even less reminiscent of their staunch Islamic roots. Firstly, the Tatars live in a Christian Slavic country with no almost independent politics. They are a minority in a white European nation, and fear that the use of traditional Islamic beliefs or clothing like veils and robes will make them target for discrimination. Secondly, a long history of Russian brutality and Communist atheism have caused many of the Tatar Turks still today under non-independent Russian statehood to lose their Islamic faith. Thirdly, many Tatars in the Crimea view it such that social (not ethnic) integration will offer access to economic opportunities that are already so rare during the hardships following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Indeed, the Crimea has acted as a geographic buffer state between the Islamic east and the Christian Slavic west for nearly 900 year of ethnopolitical history. Still today, despite the largely ceremonial creation of “autonomous” ethnic republics for Russia’s different ethnic groups and religions, the Tatars lack their own in the Crimea. This ethnosocial hardship and decline in faith of the Crimean Tatars does not apply to the ultraconservative Tatar Muslims in southern Russia and the Caucasus like the Chechnyans, whose Jihad continues to this day. So too, the independence of the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Azerbaijanis allows a great degree of piety and Islamic revival often in the form of Jihad and fundamentalism in these Central Asian Islamic cultures. To read about the Muslims of Chechnya and the Caucasus, their Jihad then and now, and the Russian conquest thereof, read our other article.

Below are my ethnic & social observations of the Crimea from my vacation to Yalta on the Crimean coastline. A vacation to the Crimea of modern Ukraine today would encourage a tourist or resident to think that no Muslim army or nation ever set foot here. The Christian Slavs — both during the Orthodox Russian Empire and the atheistic Soviet Union of Stalin — have truly erased all evidence of the Islamic and Tatar heritage of the region. Ukraine and the Crimea are among the world’s most racially homogeneous regions on earth (the population being almost 100% Slavic). The Slavic culture is nearly universal. The mosques have been replaced by radiant and conservative Orthodox cathedrals. The Tatar Turkish language has been replaced by Ukrainian Cyrillic (but the former is now legal). The tiny ethnic Tatar population that remains seldom engages in ethnic conflict with the locals due to the fact that they both have no chance at armed succession due to their decimated size as well as the fact that Gorbachev’s liberalization of the Soviet policy already gave them relative autonomy. Almost no headscarves or Islamic gear can be seen. Nonetheless, having enjoyed nearly a decade of post-Soviet stability, many Tatars are working to return to their non-Slavic Islamic roots as well as calls for independence like the Azerbaijani and Turkmen (now-free ex-Soviet Turkic states). Ukraine and the Crimea are no collapsed and dilapidated ex-Soviet states as one would expect; Ukraine is a growing and upright economy whose cities have almost no trash, no graffiti outside of Kiev, and few trash cans (indicating social responsibility). It is among the most beautiful countries in the world, with massive parks and nature areas to preserve the lush forests and coastlines. The growing job market causes Ukraine to have a small immigrant population of Dravidian and Indo-Aryan laborers from India, as well as Asians from Korea and especially Muslim Central Asia due to its proximity. There is a small ethnic Gypsy population that, like in Bulgaria and Romania, is brutally hated for their universal theft, dire poverty, and crime as a whole. Very little English is spoken due to the fact that few tourists are expected at this point. The language barrier allows swindling salesmen to fraudulently sell false products like leathers, “designer clothing”, and caviars that actually contain poisons that can result even in death.

Tatar culture can be seen in the economic business sense. The huqqah/hookah waterpipe through which fruit-flavored tobacco (shisha) is smoked is a relic of Muslim Arabic and especially Turkish culture. The popularity of huqqah bars (seen below) in Ukraine is indicative that the Turkic Muslim Tatars are having a degree of economic influence in their former Crimea. Many of the businesses are owned by Turks, though some are owned by Ukrainians. Tatars are trying to build mosques in Ukraine, indicating a return to their Islamic roots, though almost none exists at this stage. The history of the Islamic conflict and their Jihad with the Slavs can be seen in one of Yalta’s greatest palaces, whose backside has a cut half-dome with minarets to resemble a mosque (a picture shown below) to commemorate its beautiful style as well as the brief period of Russian peace during the period with the fundamentalist theocracy of Safavid Shi’ia Iran.

The issue of alcohol is a problem in Ukraine as well. Alcohol of all forms is forbidden in al-Qur’an without exception. When the Christian Slavs defeated the Jihad, this policy was reversed, as is apparent to the modern relatively liberal Tatars of today (though many of whom drink beer as well). The importance of alcohol now in contrast to its illegality in the Islamic past is a great indicator of the ethnic history of the Crimea from Islamic Turkish rule to Christian Slavic. In Ukraine, alcoholism is a common and serious problem. Dozens of children as young as perhaps 13 can be seen at the crack of dawn with beer in hand, despite the fact that alcohol can only be served to Ukrainians at age 18 under the guise that an adult is present (and they aren’t). Alcoholism is so common in Ukraine that many local leaders of the Ukrainian SS ordered the burning and closure of nearly half of all Ukrainian vinyards, distilleries, and breweries to alleviate excessive alcohol consumption. The state-owned vineyards offers Ukraine’s most popular wine for internal shipping as well as export. Massive vineyards all throughout the nation can be visited for wine tasting; Ukraine specializes in quite strong ports, dessert drinks, and other brandy-like spirits ranging from 15% to 30%. Indeed, a great cultural and religious reversal is present in the alcohol-free culture of the Muslim past and the over-indulgent one of the Slavic-dominated present.

The issue of corruption in Ukraine is as intense as any post-Soviet country. The Russian and Ukrainian mafia own a variety of “philanthropic” businesses like sanitaria, hospitals, social and health clubs, and hospitals that are solely for political power and economic income. Many local restaurants and businesses are actually illegal gambling sites or mafia fronts. The mass wealth of the mafia in comparison to the economically-struggling Ukrainian majority allows the mafia to control a great deal of politics and the police. There are soldiers everywhere in Ukraine even in restaurants, causing many to link them to mafia control efforts. Gambling and casinos are banned in much of Ukraine to prevent corruption. Drivers in Ukraine are quite reckless generally, with many claiming that this is the result of the ability for the wealthy to bribe police desperate for the extra Hryvnia (Ukrainian dollar). The recent 2004 Orange Revolution that ushered in the poisoned Victor Yushchenko into the presidency was Ukraine’s answer to drastically reform and annihilate police corruption and the mafia. The poisoning of Yushchenko was believed to be the work of the same Russian or Ukrainian mafia, or even the KGB some claim. The nationalization of many businesses to the state — reminiscent of their hated Soviet oppressors of the past — is a positive way for the government to prevent the corruption of privatized mafias. Most Ukrainians attribute economic crime and corruption to the native Slavic Ukrainians, whilst social crime, theft, and youth gang activity rest disproportionately with the Turkic Tatar minority. Many Ukrainians attribute the corruption to the Russians themselves, and thus an almost universal hatred for Stalin and Lenin exists here, despite the long history of support for the Soviet Union. All monuments and statues to Lenin and Stalin have been torn down with few exceptions. In Yalta, there exists a monument to Lenin seen below that is to be demolished with haste. Communist parties are opposed greatly due to being deemed affiliates of the corrupt mafias, though socialism remains strong with a very strong (not liberal or left at all) government. Some of the locals, some buildings, and a lot of what little graffiti exists in Ukraine includes Swastikas (Hakenkreuze) out of sympathy for the fact that Russian atheistic Communism, Russian political control, and Jewish domination of the economy and the government (as they almost universally acted as leaders of Communist movements all over Europe) were all quelled by the invading Germans and Romanians. This labeling of current Jewish dominance is dubious due to the fact that more than 1.5 million Jews died here at the hands of the Ukrainians and Germans alike; the rest fled to the United States and Israel. The Ukrainian hatred for the Fascist invaders to the west as well as the corrupt atheists to the east cause Ukrainians to bind themselves to their independent heritage as Orthodox Ukrainian socialists and nothing else. Ukraine’s position on the Black Sea (thus their mass abundance in natural gas and rich oil reserves) causes Russia to use its superior technology in Ukraine to exploit their rich resources, again accelerating Ukrainian claims of Russian corruption and imperialism.

The endless ethnic, social, and religious conflict between European Christian cultures and the Jihad of Islamic ones is epitomized in the region of the Crimea, where Christendom was destroyed by the blade of the proud Mujahidin, who successively were destroyed by the Slavs once again. Indeed, the Christian Slavs are just as guilty as the Mujahidin Islamic fighters of violent warfare. Nonetheless, the dormant ethnic and religious incompatibility of the cultures of Europe and those of the Prophet Muhammad is becoming more and more aware as the two worlds come into collision with each other.

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Sir Winston Churchill was one of the most prominent politicians of the 20th century in the United Kingdom. He was surely the most famous Prime Minister of the 20th century. His personality compounded talented author, outstanding speaker, artist, and a great leader that managed to escape Britain’s defeat and even be among the winning nations at the end of World War Two.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on the 30th of November, 1874 in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire in the family of Lord Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome. Winston’s father was a famous Tory politician, descendent of John Churchill (1st duke of Marlborough, the hero of the wars against French Louis XIV). Winston’s mother was the daughter of a prominent American financier Leonard W. Jerome.

Churchill was a very poor student at school that later resulted his father to make young Winston to join the military. Here again he did not show great results and passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military College only from the third try. However, he took studying at college seriously and graduated 20th in class out of 130. After graduating from college Winston Churchill joined the 4th Hussars and ended up in Cuba reporting on Cuban independence war from Spain. A couple of months later Churchill returned back home from Cuba and left for India along with his division. In India he for the first time he experienced being a soldier and a journalist at the same time.

The future prime minister decided to finish his career in the military and go into politics. For the living he wanted to write articles for different newspapers and magazines. The tradition to lose for the first time did not fail for Churchill when he tried to be elected as a Conservative at Oldham. Instead of a Conservative at Oldham Winston found himself in South Africa reporting on the South African War for British newspaper The Morning Post. Not being lucky was sort of a story of Churchill’s life, this time he was captured by Boers as a prisoner in military prison in South Africa. However, he managed to escape from the prison which later made him nearly a hero when he went back home.

After coming back from Africa he decided to run for the Parliament again in 1900. This time he achieved his goal. Being a member of the Parliament Churchill experienced difficulties with public speaking as he had a speech defect (that he actually never lost). It was a big challenge for him but it did not break him up and he never left oratory art.

In 1904 due to some disagreements with his party members over trade tariffs Churchill had to join the Liberals. In the new spot he quickly gained popularity for his brave debates with those who argued with him. In 1908 Churchill became the president of the Board of Trade. That same year Winston Churchill married (the first and the last time) Clementine Hozier.

At the Board of Trade, Churchill became a leader in the movement of Liberalism away from laissez-faire toward social reform. He finished up the law that set an eight hour working day for miners. He also initiated the bill that would set the minimum wages for different types of workers. In 1908 Churchill forced the rejection of the budget of 1909 by the House of Lords (which really was sensational) due to high level of taxation. Very shortly Churchill became a president of the Budget League. Tories were really furious about Churchill’s great progress and his permanent terrific speeches. In 1910 Churchill became a Home Secretary. On this position he faced everlasting strikes of workers. In 1911 he was appointed to the First Lord of the Admiralty. The very same year after German’s provocative sending a gunboat to Morocco, which was France colony, was persuaded by French to help them out if Germany attacks them in the future. Same year, Churchill sort of smelling the gunpowder of the upcoming enormous conflict decided to expand the British navy. As 1914 approached Churchill assured that the Royal Fleet was ready for the war was not a surprise for him at all. In 1915 Churchill failed the Dardanelles campaign that was greatly blamed for. In late 1915 Churchill resigned from the government and went to the Front. Being even a lieutenant colonel in the army he could not use his full capacity in the military. In 1916 he decided to Parliament as a private member. One year later Churchill had the office of Minister of Munitions where developed the use of tanks. In 1919 his next job was to be the Secretary of War. Everyone was greatly surprised when Churchill tremendously decreased the military budget. What was even more surprising is that Churchill as a zealous anti-Bolshevik made allies with Russia. In 1922 Churchill had his appendicitis attacks that greatly damaged his health and due to that failed the elections and eventually was left with nothing. He once said about that period of time “without an office, without a seat, without a party, and even without an appendix.” Even then Winston Churchill was not broken. He returned to painting and writing. That is when The World Crisis was written. In 1923 Churchill got back to what he could not live without – politics. Couple of years later he received a position of Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was not very strong in finance that actually led to a number of incidents during the time at this position. The major trouble was a general strike that took place in 1926. In 1929 the government fell.

The second time for Churchill happened the period when he was out of politics. However, he found it rather relieving. Now it was perfect time to write again what he actually did. This time his work was Marlborough: His Life and Times that was about his ancestor. Main point of the book was to defend his antecedent against the criticism of some historians. Meantime a threat from a fascist Germany was getting greater. His intuition did not fail this time either. However, his warnings were ignored this time as well. In early 1939 Churchill and his group created a truly national coalition and the country had actually accepted him as a main spokesperson.

All Churchill’s experience at his numerous positions seemed to be some kind of rehearsal for something greater. This “greater” was the Second World War. Churchill was the person to be in charge of Britain actions during the largest military campaign in the human history.

Great Britain declared war on Nazi Germany on September 3, 1939. On the same day Churchill was appointed back to his old position First Lord of Admiralty. The President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the office at that time, congratulated Churchill with his position on September 11 to which Winston the head of the British fleet immediately replied. That is when their famous correspondence had started.

As Germany was invading more countries Chamberlain who was the Prime Minister of England at that time resigned from the office. Chamberlain really wanted Lord Halifax to be his successor but Halifax made up some excuses and rejected the proposition. It was obvious that this position was waiting for Churchill. Winston Churchill was ready to direct the nation.

Now Churchill focused on the real handling the war. He used Parliament as the tool to convince the public and comfort it. For the first time Prime Minister Churchill spoke to the House of Commons on May 13. That is when one of his famous quotes “I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears and sweat” was recorded. He accomplished what he promised y completely dedicating himself to the nation the war was over. Churchill did not really care who was an ally as long as they helped and shared his goals and ideas. One of the most important allies that Britain gained during the Second World War was the United States. It was Churchill’s principle idea to get the United States to help Britain. One of the most important events for Churchill and probably for Great Britain in the entire 20th century was the Battle of Britain. Now, Churchill was at fighter headquarters having everything that was going on in his personal control and at the same time trying to cheer up the nation. That was the time when the entire nation completely accepted him as a leader.

Another important strategic point for Churchill was when Hitler started to attack the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Churchill did not reject what he previously saying about communism, nevertheless, he promised support to the Soviet people. His plan to create an alliance between Great Britain, United States, and the Soviet Union seemed to work out. However, it only became true in May 1942 when the Anglo-Soviet pact of mutual assistance was negotiated. The day that changed the whole perception of the war by Churchill was December 7, 1941 when Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Then Churchill and Roosevelt totally agreed that it was time to launch the strategic alliance.

After the war was over Churchill had to get back to politics. This time the nation viewed him as a war leader but not the party leader. It resulted a great defeat at the elections. This time seats of Churchill’s party in the Parliament were reduced to 213 out of 640.

Churchill was really shocked by such an outcome; he did not predict it this time. Even in this situation Winston Churchill found his place. He got a role of the leader of parliamentary opposition. Churchill now devoted himself to foreign relations. For the next couple of years Churchill was a peacetime Prime Minister. Meantime he was writing his The Second World War that he finished in 1953. Talking about 1953, it was a very important year for Winston Churchill. It was the year of coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Churchill received two greatest awards: the Order of the Garter and the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, it was a difficult year for Churchill in terms of health. On April 5, 1955 Churchill resigned from the office.

On April 9, 1963 Winston Churchill received the unique honorary U.S. citizenship from the U.S. Congress. He died in London on January 24, 1965 and buried in Bladon churchyard in Oxfordshire.

Churchill is known in the world’s history as one of the greatest politicians and orators. He had so many positions in the governing body of England that not many politicians can even think of. He was a leader that left a significant mark not only in the British history but the also in the world’s. Sir Winston Churchill was a man of so many talents that people can only admire him and read his famous quotes.

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Vietnam is a country that is situated in the Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China and Laos and Cambodia. Where it was once a country ravaged by war, now, Vietnam has opened its doors to tourists that it is now fast becoming a go-to place in Asia, and here are ten places that one should visit and see in Vietnam.

1.) Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

This mausoleum is located in Hanoi, and this is where the great Ho Chi Minh is entombed. It is very strict here, so one should follow the rules of no talking or loud noises and no photo taking once inside the mausoleum. If you want to visit the mausoleum, do not go there in short pants as you will not be allowed to enter.

2.) Ho Chi Minh Museum

If you found the solemnity in the mausoleum too stifling, then the museum can take some of that feeling away. Here, you will get to see photos and old letters during the time of Ho Chi Minh. Just do not mind some of the gruesome pictures of the war though.

3.) Ho Chi Minh’s Vestige

After the museum, you can visit Ho Chi Minh’s vestige. This is where the great man lived and worked. You will also get to see here the houses where he lived in, which are always kept clean as the day he died.

4.) One-Pillar Pagoda

This is a short walk from the mausoleum and the museum of Ho Chi Minh. It is also one of the must-see destinations in Vietnam. Watch out though as the grounds can be crowded with a lot of tourists at one time.

5.) Hoan Kiem Lake

This is a relaxing place to be if you want a quiet time alone. In this park, you can have a leisurely stroll with your loved one. You can also visit the Ngoc Son Temple in this park, which is a good source for Vietnamese history and culture, among which is the story of the giant turtle that is said to inhabit the lake.

6.) Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre

This is a nice way to spend the day with your family. The theatre tells of Vietnamese history and legends through the use of wooden figures representing men and women and the ever-present dragons. The story is told through music and the puppets dancing.

7.) Floating Markets of Can Tho

For a completely unique experience, you should visit the floating markets of Can Tho. You can also take a tour of the area by renting a boat. Some of the floating markets are Cai Rang (sells wholesales mainly), Phong Dien (for retails), Phung Hiep and Tra On.

8.) Ho Xuan Huong

If you want to go boat riding, then you should visit Ho Xuan Huong, which is also called Xuan Huong Lake. This is located in Dalat and is a favorite among tourists who want to get some peace and quite. This is also a favorite spot of honeymooners as they stroll hand in hand along the banks of the lake.

9.) Thung Lung Tinh Yeu

This place is called the Valley of Love and is also popular among honeymooners. This is a wonderful place if you enjoy canyoning. If you have canyoning in mind, then this is the place for you as they have canyoning operators as well who will guide you on your trip.

10.) Ho Chi Minh City

This was popularly known as Saigon. Here, you will get to see a lot of fascinating places such as the Reunification Palace of the Independence Palace. There is also the War Remnants Museum as well as the Museum of Vietnamese History if you want to know more about the history and culture of Vietnam.

In March 2004, the last of the old-fashioned mercenaries, Simon Mann, launched Operation Malabo to gain control of nearly 1.1 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Guinea. Operation Malabo, an old-fashioned coup, collapsed and, last week, in a deal dubbed Mann-for-Oil, Mr. Mann was facing the prospect of spending thirty years in Black Beach, a notorious prison in Equatorial Guinea.

Government sources in Harare, Zimbabwe—where the coup plotters were arrested as their plane destined for Equatorial Guinea made a fuel stop—are quick to deny claims that Robert Mugabe effectively sold Mr. Mann in return for cheap oil. “Simon Mann organized the coup, he must pay for it,” an aide to President Mugabe asserted earlier today. “We have been buying our oil from Equatorial Guinea, with or without the coup.”

Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s smallest nations tucked between Cameroon and Gabon in western Africa, produces 420,000 barrels of oil daily. Few outside the oil industry are aware that Equatorial Guinea is the third largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa, after Nigeria and Angola. The substantial development of the petrochemical complex in the Gulf of Guinea indicates that Equatorial Guinea could double its oil exports within five years; daily domestic consumption in the poverty-stricken nation is barely 1,100 barrels!!

Over lunch in a private London club in late-2003, Mark Thatcher, one of Simon Mann’s key financiers, explained why Equatorial Guinea was the highly preferred target for regime change. “The facts speak for themselves,” said Mr. Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “A desperately poor country run by a despot, lots of oil in the sea, and only 28,000 km in size—just ripe for a perfect coup.”

Without doubt, had Simon Mann and his dogs of war landed in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea’s capital city, a coup could have been perfected in short order. Unconfirmed reports claim that the CIA, MI6 and colonial-era ruler Spain had provided Mr. Mann with their silent consent, given that a pro-western post-coup regime would allow western multinationals to exercise a powerful influence over the oil reserves of the entire region. “West Africa is expected to be one of the fastest-growing sources of oil and gas for the American markets,” US Vice President Dick Cheney observed in a 2004 study. In order to secure West Africa’s oil (and, potentially, gas) Vice President Cheney advocates the establishment of US naval bases in one or more strategic locations.

Was Operation Malabo designed to be a critical first response to the grand expansionist plans of oil-hungry vultures from China, Russia and India? After all, the US Energy Information Administration estimates that the Gulf of Guinea could be producing 10% of the world’s oil by 2020. Moreover, Equatorial Guinea’s island of Bioko—with Malabo at its northern tip—is right in the heart of the Gulf.

Finally, on a simple cost-reward ratio, Operation Malabo was a classic no-brainer. “Look what a million bucks will do,” one of Mr. Mann’s colleagues had boasted, somewhat ironically, since—in hindsight—nobody came out of the exercise looking particularly good. Operation Malabo’s budget was, in fact, a million bucks: US$250,000 for arms and equipment, US$350,000 in out-of-pockets and US$400,000 in salaries and bonuses. And for a million bucks, the entire oil riches of Equatorial Guinea, if not the Gulf of Guinea, were to be placed at the mercy of Simon Mann’s financial backers.

For the record, Equatorial Guinea remains a microcosm of the third world’s energy-driven economies; even today, conditions are ripe for a successful coup, or an internal uprising. The overwhelming majority of the population (525,000) still lives on less than one dollar a day. There is hardly any drinking water or electricity. Sewage runs through the streets of Malabo. There is no public transport. Political protestors are routinely tortured at Black Beach. And, yes, the bulk of the revenues from oil sales are diverted into secret foreign accounts controlled by President Teodoro Obiang and his extended family. [Simon Mann is currently appealing his extradition.]