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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (November 30, 1874, to January 24, 1965) was a British politician, military officer, and writer who served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. In 1900, Churchill became a member of Parliament in the Conservative Party for Oldham, a town in Manchester.  Unconvinced that the Conservative Party was committed to social justice, Churchill switched to the Liberal Party in 1904 After becoming prime minister in 1940, Churchill helped lead a successful Allied strategy with the U.S. and Soviet Union during World War II to defeat the Axis powers and craft post-war peace. On January 15, 1965, Churchill suffered a severe stroke that left him gravely ill. He died at his London home nine days later, on January 24, 1965, at age 90.  

Because White British people are the largest ethnic group in the UK, other ethnicities are sometimes referred to as 'ethnic minorities'. As well as Black, Asian, Mixed/Multiple and other more specific categories of ethnicity, the ethnic minorities in the UK include members of White minorities, such as those from either an Irish or a Gypsy background. Terms such as ethnic minority, BME (Black and minority ethnic) and BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) are often used interchangeably. In line with the  ONS style guide  , we use the term ethnic minorities rather than BME or BAME.

Contemporary society is characterised by at least three fundamental directions: ·          increasing human interconnection  through a network of relationships that is progressively covering the whole planet; ·          the pace and depth of the evolution of human ways of life  determined by technological innovation represent an absolute novelty in human history; ·          the scale of  anthropological and ecological transformation  due to the interaction between  evolutionary factors  (social, cultural, economic, and technological) has no historical precedent. Improvement of life conditions The overall improvement in life conditions and the role of technologies now available have contributed to increase  gross domestic product  per capita by one and a half times in less than half a century (1960–2005) Life...

Elizabeth II.      Elizabeth II was born on April 1926, she is the eldest daughter of the Dukes of York (King Jorge VI). She became heiress of the throne when his uncle Edward VIII abdicated, and in his place, Elizabeth’s father ascended to the throne as Duke of York, who only had two daughters (Elizabeth and Margarita) with his wife Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Scottish Count.              In 1945, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service of Women as second subaltern (second lieutenant) honorary.       The celebration of her coronation was in 1953, and it was the first one to be televised.  She got married the Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (known as Philip of Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburg) in 1947 in Westminster Abbey. They had four children: Charles (heir to the throne), Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.      She is since 2007 the l...

TONY BLAIR Tony Blair was born on May 6, 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1994, he became the youngest leader of the Labour Party. In 1997, he was sworn in as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He stepped down as prime minister and left his position as leader of the Labour Party in 2007. Tony Blair remained active in public affairs, serving as quartet representative to the Middle East and a representative of the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia to prepare Palestine for statehood. In 2011, Blair was presented with the Liberty Medal by former president Bill Clinton. The following year, the Kaula Lumpur War Crimes Commission held a mock tribunal finding Blair and Bush guilty of crimes against peace and humanity for their 2003 involvement in the Iraq War. MARGARET THATCHER Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom  from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservati...

The aftermath of the civil war (USA). Lincoln’s murder    Abraham Lincoln , the 16thPresident of the United States, was assassinated  by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth  on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.  He was shot in the head.     T he assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate  cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government;  beyond Lincoln's death, the plot failed. Abolition of slavery By the end of the American Revolution, slavery had proven unprofitable in the North and was dying out.  Most Northerners did not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery. The Underground Railroad was organized to help slaves escape north to freedom. The outbreak of the Civil War forever changed the fut...

TRANSPORTATION Railroads were of supreme importance to increased trade throughout the United States. By the start of the Civil War, railroads already linked the most important Midwestern cities with the Atlantic coast, fuelling the Midwest's industrial growth. Meanwhile, the great river and lake cities of the Midwest were thriving thanks to the reliable transportation afforded by the steamboat. The Cumberland Road, the first national road, was begun in 1811 and eventually became part of Interstate 40. ELECTRIFICATION The electrical network—would transform the nation even more rapidly than railroads had.  Thomas Edison was the one who really gave light to the American Industrial Revolution. Building on work done primarily by a British inventor, Edison patented the world's first practical incandescent light bulb in 1879. INDUSTRY    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which made the separation of cotton seeds from fiber much faster. ...