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** Although, ironically enough, he was one of some to openly congratulate [[Benito Mussolini]] on his policies (mainly because Mussolini was no threat to British supremacy, and even despite that he showed remorse for doing that later on).
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Mrs. Everest, his childhood governess, who, as with most good Victorian households, handled most of the actual child-rearing.
* [[Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With]]: An [[Urban Legends|Urban Legend]] attributed to Churchill deals with this. Supposedly some bureaucrat wrote a memo in which he tortured his sentences greatly in order to avoid ending them with a preposition. Churchill is said to have scrawled the following [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|apocryphal quote]] on the memo:
{{quote|"That is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."}}
* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: With the caveat that a streak of eccentricity is considered tolerable in this as long as it is done with style.
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* A playable leader in ''[[Civilization
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' gives him a [[Historical Villain Upgrade]], in which he was a member of [[The Knights Templar]] and actually helped ''masterminded'' World War II along with FDR and Hitler.
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