NEW YORK CITY, the historic TRINITY CHURCH ⛪ at WALL STREET, USA
SUBSCRIBE: - Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York City. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the State of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations,[15] New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.
New York City comprises 5 boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. At its core is Manhattan, a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers. Its iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park. Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
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Cemetery Seek: New York edition!
Across the pond we fly to view the cemeteries of Trinity church & St Paul's chapel.
Gravestones date back to the 1700's inside the hustle & bustle of the New York sky scrapers.
Tour of St. Paul's Chapel NYC
I film this nearly two years ago so sorry about the poor quality. I shot it with my iPod touch at the time. I wanted to see the WTC but it was still under construction. I found out about this chapel and wanted to know more because I had never heard about it.
Russia
My visit to Russia begins along the Baltic Sea in Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Center of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Next I continue on to Moscow, Russia's capital and most populous city. Here I visit historic Red Square and the Kremlin. The Video concludes with my visit to the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergii in Zagorsk.
VIDEO CONTENTS:
0:00:24 Peter and Paul Fortress
0:08:05 Moscow Square/House of Soviets
0:08:37 Victory Square
0:10:05 Imperial Reception at Catherine Palace
0:43:07 St. Petersburg at Night
0:43:59 Moscow Triumphal Gate
0:44:23 Holiday Inn Moscow Gate
0:45:18 Narva Triumphal Gate
0:45:55 Peterhof
0:46:01 Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral
0:46:25 Peterhof Grand Palace
0:46:41 The Grand Cascade - Samson Fountain
0:53:05 Lower Garden
0:54:49 The Adam Fountain
0:54:58 Gulf of Finland
0:55:19 French Formal Garden
0:56:06 Panterre Garden - Roman Fountains
0:57:44 Dragon Cascade on Chessboard Hill
0:58:00 Orangery Fountain
0:58:42 The East Chapel
0:59:12 Upper Garden
0:59:40 Dostoyevsky Area of St. Petersburg
1:00:41 Troika Restaurant
1:02:09 St. Isaac's Cathedral
1:02:30 St. Isaac's Square
1:03:23 Cathedral Interior
1:07:34 The Admiralty Building
1:08:17 Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
1:08:54 Church Interior
1:11:29 Walk Around Colorful Exterior
1:15:23 Russian Folklore Show
1:19:41 Ship Yard Area of St. Petersburg
1:20:30 Annunciation Bridge
1:21:58 Rostral Columns
1:24:29 Senate Square
1:24:57 The Palace Embankment
1:26:01 Neva River
1:30:09 Hermitage Museum (Winter Palace)
1:31:24 Small Throne Room
1:32:08 St. George's Hall
1:32:35 Pavilion Hall
1:33:45 Works by Rembrandt
1:35:14 Works by Leonardo da Vinci
1:35:30 Works by Raphael
1:36:07 Crouching Boy by Michelangelo
1:36:27 Skylight Rooms
1:38:48 Palace Square/Alexander Column
1:40:47 Boat Cruise on Moika & Neva Rivers
1:42:48 The Green Bridge/Nevsky Prospect
1:44:16 Pevchesky Bridge
1:45:41 The Winter Canal
1:47:57 Enter Neva River
1:48:13 Peter and Paul Fortress
1:49:30 Trinity Bridge
1:51:05 Return to Moika River
1:56:22 Anichkov Bridge over Fontanka River
1:56:51 Armenian Lunch Stop
1:57:21 Yusupov Palace
2:04:57 Nevsky Prospect
2:05:38 Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral
2:07:04 Church of St. Catherine
2:07:44 Grand Hotel Europe
2:08:41 Gostiny Dvor (Oldest Department Store)
2:10:28 Catherine's Garden
2:11:30 Monument to Catherine the Great
2:12:17 Alexandrinsky Theatre
2:14:32 Swan Lake Ballet
2:18:00 Moscow Station
2:18:26 High Speed Sapsan Train to Moscow
2:22:43 Arrive at Moscow's Leningradsky Station
2:23:05 Drive to Red Square
2:26:30 Red Square
2:27:47 GUM Department Store
2:28:49 Moscow Metro Stations (Subway)
2:38:47 Radisson Blu Belorusskaya Hotel
2:39:45 Drive back to Red Square
2:41:05 State Duma Building
2:41:39 Bolshoi Theatre
2:42:43 KGB Headquarters
2:43:22 Moscow River
2:43:38 The Kremlin
2:47:49 Cathedral of Jesus Christ the Saviour
2:48:30 Pashkov House
2:49:56 Manege Square
2:50:27 World Clock Fountain
2:51:25 State Historical Museum
2:52:06 Resurrection Gate
2:52:20 Red Square
2:52:31 Kazan Cathedral
2:52:51 State Historical Museum
2:53:20 GUM Department Store
2:54:17 St. Basil's Cathedral
2:55:27 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
2:56:31 The Kremlin
2:57:03 Trinity Tower
2:57:31 The Arsenal
2:57:50 State Kremlin Palace
2:58:02 Senate Building
2:58:17 Church of the Twelve Apostles
2:58:33 Tsar Cannon
2:59:16 Tsar Bell
2:59:45 Cathedral Square
3:00:23 Cathedral of the Archangel
3:00:42 Ivan the Great Bell Tower
3:01:02 Assumption Cathedral
3:01:39 Church of the Deposition of the Robe
3:01:46 Cathedral of the Annunciation
3:02:05 Grand Kremlin Palace
3:02:14 The Armoury Chamber
3:02:20 Drive through Moscow
3:03:28 Gorky Park
3:04:32 Gardens Ring
3:06:18 Old Arbat Street
3:08:11 Novodevichy Cemetery
3:10:44 Grave of Boris Yeltsin
3:11:01 Grave of Raisa Gorbachev
3:11:47 Grave of Nikita Khrushchev
3:12:49 Novodevichy Convent
3:14:09 The Russian White House
3:15:11 Triumphal Arch of Moscow
3:15:36 War Memorial at the Poklonnaia Gora
3:17:18 Olympic Stadium
3:17:46 Zagorsk (Sergiyev Posad)
3:18:34 Trinity Monastery of St. Sergii
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Video of the Gravesite of Charles W. Fairbanks
Video of the grave of former Vice-President of the United States Charles Fairbanks. Fairbanks served under Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 - 1909. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.
West Brompton Cemetery Snow - Narrated by Wut in Thai
West Brompton Cemetery Snow - Narrated by Wut in Thai
Burial Site of Sgt. Alvin C. York Pall Mall, Tennessee
This is the burial site of Sgt. Alvin C. York and his wife-Gracie located in Pall Mall, Tennessee. The grave site is located in the Wolf River Cemetery in the Valley of the Three Wolves. Sgt. York was the most decorated soldier of WW-I and a Congressional Metal of Honor recipient.
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Funeral held for mother, children shot to death last weekend
A mother and her two children who were shot to death last weekend are laid to rest Friday.
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Holy Trinity Cathedral is the first Greek Orthodox church in the Americas!
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At the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the French and Spanish populations of New Orleans were predominantly Roman Catholic. However, there were Orthodox Christians of different ethnicities living in New Orleans also. Documentation attests to the presence of Greeks in New Orleans from the mid 1700s. Early 19th century city directories list early Orthodox Christian immigrants who owned coffee shops, fish stores, liquor stores and fruit stands. Other Orthodox settlers worked in the seafood industry in St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes. Documentation attests to Greek seamen enlisting in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Cotton and sugar merchants, real estate developers as well as insurance brokers were part of the Greek community in the 1800s.
Greeks as well as other ethnic groups of the Eastern Orthodox faith--Russian, Syrian, Lebanese, Slavs, Austrians--probably solemnized their marriages, deaths and baptisms in the Roman Catholic St. Louis Cathedral. This all changed with the Louisiana Purchase when inhabitants acquired the constitutional right to establish their own religions.
Holy Trinity oral history informs us that in the early 1860s, Mr. Nicholas Benachi, a businessman and Consul of the Royal Government of Greece, spearheaded an effort to secure a site for the construction of an Orthodox Church, which was unsuccessful. In 1864, Mr. Benachi offered his personal home at 2257 Bayou Road for worship services. In 1865, a priest from Greece, Father Agapius Honcharenko, visited New York where he held services in the Episcopal Trinity Chapel. He was invited by Benachi to come to New Orleans which he did in April 1865. A news report states that he baptized approximately 30 individuals. Father Honcharenko left us in June but his visit probably spurred the movement for the creation of a church. Later in 1865 the formal organization of Eastern Orthodox to raise funds for the purpose of building a church was created.
The first Greek Orthodox Church of the Americas and a small cottage for the priest were built in 1866 as confirmed by news reports and the sale document of the property. In 1867, Mr. Benachi sold 1222 N. Dorgenois Street in Treme to the Orthodox Community for $1,200. The individuals who provided leadership and assisted with generous donations were Nicholas Benachi of Chios, Constantine Kililis from Turkey, Michael Draskovich from Herzogovina, Nicholas Kavour of Syros and Demetrios and John Botassi whose origins were in Spetses. Oral history from the descendants of the 18th century Greeks in New Orleans tell us that their ancestors also financially supported the little Greek Church. Archimandrite Stefanos Andreadis, from Samos but serving in Syros, had been recommended by Kavour to the Holy Synod of Greece. Archimandrite Andreadis was the first priest in this first Greek Orthodox Church, The Eastern Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, his appointment made by the Church of Greece.
Later additions to the complex included a parish house, a small library and a nearby mausoleum. In 1901, a charter was granted by the State of Louisiana to the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, later rechartered in 1920 as the Hellenic Orthodox Church.
The original Holy Trinity church was torn down in 1950 and replaced with the brick church which now stands on 1222 N. Dorgenois purchased by the Episcopal Church in 1976. Holy Trinity moved to 1200 Robert E. Lee Boulevard. We have a membership of approximately 350 families. We host the Greek Festival every Memorial Day weekend which is one of the most popular of New Orleans festivals.
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Huguenots | Wikipedia audio article
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Huguenots (; French: Les huguenots [yɡ(ə)no]) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.
The term has its origin in early 16th century France. It was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. Huguenots were French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism, while the populations of Alsace, Moselle and Montbéliard were mainly German Lutherans. In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand claimed that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community included as much as 10% of the French population, but it declined to 7–8% by around 1600 and even further after the return of heavy persecution in 1685 with Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau.
Huguenot numbers peaked near an estimated two million by 1562, concentrated mainly in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The Huguenots were led by Jeanne d'Albret, her son, the future Henry IV (who would later convert to Catholicism to become king) and the princes of Condé. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy.
Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s prompted the abolition of their political and military privileges. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), ultimately ending any legal recognition of Protestantism in France and forcing the Huguenots to either convert or flee in a wave of violent dragonnades. Louis XIV laid claim that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 800,000 to 900,000 adherents down to just 1,000 to 1,500; although he overexaggerated the reduction, the dragonnades certainly were devastating for the French Protestant community. Nevertheless, the remaining Huguenots faced continued persecution under Louis XV. At the time of Louis XV's death in 1774, Calvinism had been nearly eliminated from France. Persecution of Protestants officially ended with the Edict of Versailles, signed by Louis XVI in 1787. Two years later, with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, Protestants gained equal rights as citizens.The bulk of Huguenot émigrés relocated to Protestant states such as England and Wales, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Dutch Republic, the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, the Duchy of Prussia, as well as majority Catholic but Protestant-controlled Ireland. They also fled to the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa, the Dutch East Indies, the Caribbean, New Netherland and several of the English colonies in North America. A few families also went to Orthodox Russia and Catholic Quebec.
By now, most Huguenots have been assimilated into various societies and cultures, but remnant communities of Camisards in the Cévennes, most Reformed members of the United Protestant Church of France, French members of the largely German Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine and the Huguenot diaspora in England and Australia all still retain their beliefs and Huguenot designation.
Michael Faraday | Wikipedia audio article
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Michael Faraday FRS (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was a British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Faraday also established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena. He similarly discovered the principles of electromagnetic induction and diamagnetism, and the laws of electrolysis. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology.
As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers, and popularised terminology such as anode, cathode, electrode and ion. Faraday ultimately became the first and foremost Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, a lifetime position.
Faraday was an excellent experimentalist who conveyed his ideas in clear and simple language; his mathematical abilities, however, did not extend as far as trigonometry and were limited to the simplest algebra. James Clerk Maxwell took the work of Faraday and others and summarized it in a set of equations which is accepted as the basis of all modern theories of electromagnetic phenomena. On Faraday's uses of lines of force, Maxwell wrote that they show Faraday to have been in reality a mathematician of a very high order – one from whom the mathematicians of the future may derive valuable and fertile methods. The SI unit of capacitance is named in his honour: the farad.
Albert Einstein kept a picture of Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. Physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time.
Keynote Speaker - Scott Wolter- 2014 Texas GIS Forum
Forensic GeologistScott Wolter was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Texas GIS Forum on Thursday, October 23rd.
Short Bio:
Wolter is the host of History’s H2 network’s hit show, America Unearthed, that follows him on his quest to uncover the truth behind historic artifacts and sites found throughout North America.
Scott is the author of several books including his 2013 title, Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: The Mysteries of the Hooked X and The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America. Together these books cover the story of his continuing research and resulting discoveries made over the last 12 years, beginning with his ongoing quest to uncover the mysteries of the controversial Kensington Rune Stone he studied in 2001. The Kensington stone is a medieval document carved in rock which Scott proposed is a land claim placed in Minnesota in 1362 by a group of Templar knights.
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The Ancient City of Tyre
This symposium explores on the ancient city of Tyre, founded in 2750 B.C. by the Phoenicians, who created an alphabet and the first democracy in the world with a parliament and senate elected directly by the citizens. Tyre is the legendary birthplace of Europa, the daughter of the King of Tyre, the namesake of Europe. The city and the civilization was left in ruins by Alexander the Great who went to war against the Tyreans.
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Timeline of the presidency of John F. Kennedy | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of the presidency of John F. Kennedy
00:02:34 1 1960
00:02:44 1.1 January – June
00:03:55 1.2 July – December
00:07:08 2 1961
00:07:18 2.1 January – April
00:13:30 2.2 May – August
00:16:03 2.3 September – December
00:16:56 3 1962
00:17:06 3.1 January – April
00:18:29 3.2 May – August
00:19:37 3.3 September – December
00:21:47 4 1963
00:21:57 4.1 January – April
00:23:44 4.2 June – August
00:26:06 4.3 September – November
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The presidency of John F. Kennedy began on January 20, 1961, when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, and ended on November 22, 1963, upon his assassination and death, a span of 2 years, 306 days. A Democrat, he took office following the 1960 presidential election, in which he narrowly defeated Richard Nixon. He was succeeded by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, who served out the remaining 1 year, 59 days of Kennedy's term, and was elected to the presidency in his own right in 1964. This timeline begins on January 2, 1960, the date when then U.S. Senator Kennedy announced his intention to run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, and concludes on November 25, 1963, when the president was buried.
Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic as well as the first person born in the 20th century to be elected president. Additionally, he is the youngest individual ever elected to the office. He was also the eighth (and most recent) president to die in office and the fourth one to be assassinated.
His time in office was marked by Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and Cuba. In Cuba, a failed attempt was made in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. In October 1962, the Kennedy administration learned that Soviet ballistic missiles had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of unease, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, is seen by many historians as the closest the human race has ever come to nuclear war between nuclear-armed belligerents. Ultimately, the United States and the Soviet Union came to an agreement to end the crisis, and the Soviets withdrew the missiles. To contain Communist expansion in Asia, Kennedy increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower; a further escalation of the American role in the Vietnam War would take place after Kennedy's death.
In domestic politics, Kennedy made bold proposals in his New Frontier agenda, but few were passed by Congress. He presided over a growing economy that experienced low inflation and a drop in unemployment rates. Kennedy took steps to support the Civil Rights Movement, helping to pass the Twenty-fourth Amendment, which abolished poll taxes. He also established the Peace Corps and intensified the Space Race. Two major pieces of Kennedy's domestic agenda, a civil rights bill and a tax cut, were enacted within a year of his death.
John James Audubon | Wikipedia audio article
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John James Audubon
00:00:36 1 Early life
00:04:18 2 Immigration to the United States
00:08:09 3 Marriage and family
00:09:00 4 Starting out in business
00:14:19 5 Citizenship and debt
00:15:34 6 Early ornithological career
00:19:29 7 iThe Birds of America/i
00:24:26 8 Later career
00:28:21 9 Death
00:29:36 10 Art and methods
00:31:38 11 Legacy
00:33:39 11.1 Audubon in fiction and poetry
00:34:29 11.2 Places named in his honor
00:37:39 12 Works
00:37:48 12.1 Posthumous collections
00:39:00 13 See also
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John James Audubon (born Jean Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.
SAAM Symposia - Augustus Saint-Gaudens Centennial
This symposium will reexamined the influence and importance of one of America’s greatest sculptors, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907).
Quincy in Focus: 2019 Year in Review
The countdown of the top 25 stories featured on Quincy in Focus in 2019.
Winston Churchill | Wikipedia audio article
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a prominent member of the Liberal Party.
Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to an aristocratic family. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected an MP in 1900, initially as a Conservative, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty, championing prison reform and workers' social security. During the First World War, he oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign; after it proved a disaster, he resigned from government and served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front. In 1917 he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government, returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
Out of office during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in calling for British rearmament to counter the growing threat from Nazi Germany. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's resignation in 1940, Churchill replaced him. Churchill oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort, resulting in victory in 1945. His wartime leadership has been widely praised; however, several of his decisions have proved controversial. After the Conservatives' defeat in the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an iron curtain of Soviet influence in Europe and promoted European unity. He was elected prime minister in the 1951 election. His second term was preoccupied with foreign affairs, including the Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Korean War and a UK-backed Iranian coup. Domestically his government emphasised house-building and developed an atomic bomb. In declining health, Churchill resigned as prime minister in 1955, although he remained an MP until 1964. Upon his death in 1965, he was given a state funeral.
Widely considered one of the 20th century's most significant figures, Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending liberal democracy from the spread of fascism. Also praised as a social reformer and writer, among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature. In more recent years however, his imperialist views and comments on race, as well as his sanctioning of human rights abuses in the suppression of anti-imperialist movements seeking independence from the British Empire, have generated considerable controversy.