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Old 04-26-2013, 06:40 AM   #1
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Finest Hour: Churchill to be on UK bank note
Exciting time for the Brits.

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Here's a choice not likely to be too controversial: officials say wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's portrait will be featured on a new 5-pound note.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King made the announced Friday at Chartwell, Churchill's former home, surrounded by members of the late leader's family.

King called Churchill "a truly great British leader, orator and writer."

The bank says the note is likely to be issued in 2016. It will be based on a famous portrait photographed by Yousuf Karsh in Ottawa in 1941.

The note will also bear Churchill's wartime declaration that he has "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

British bank notes celebrate a range of historical figures, and the central bank occasionally changes the designs.

Churchill will replace the 19th-century social reformer Elizabeth Fry.

Churchill, credited with strengthening British resolve during the darkest days of World War II, was prime minister from 1940 to 1945, and again between 1951 and 1955. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his works of history and biography and his "brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."
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Old 04-26-2013, 06:55 AM   #2
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Old 04-26-2013, 07:02 AM   #3
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Well how about that.

Americans should put Henry Wallace on one of their notes.
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Old 04-26-2013, 07:48 AM   #4
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Sucks for Elizabeth Fry fans...
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Old 04-26-2013, 07:51 AM   #6
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Would be funny if they did it with Thatcher...
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Old 04-26-2013, 08:03 AM   #7
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Would be funny if they did it with Thatcher...
It would have been a great April fools.....

I think I would have liked Churchill - Evidently he was totally mad - I always get on with mad people...
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The bank says the note is likely to be issued in 2016. It will be based on a famous portrait photographed by Yousuf Karsh in Ottawa in 1941.
It's probably Karsh's best known image. Apparently Churchill's scowl was caused by Karsh unexpectedly removing a cigar from his mouth.
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It's probably Karsh's best known image. Apparently Churchill's scowl was caused by Karsh unexpectedly removing a cigar from his mouth.
It is an amazing pic - Has anyone ever looked more 'British' with a capital 'B'?
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Old 04-26-2013, 08:45 AM   #10
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The sad thing is that even after Germany surrendered, Churchill knew that Britain had lost the war, he saw what was coming. the cold war, American world domination, the end of the British empire, the E.U. and the immigration disaster. he foresaw it all.
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I wonder why they chose the £5 note?
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