Claim(permalink)
The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning; in gratitude Churchill's father paid for Fleming's education.
Factors
veracity
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Date published
1999-08-09
Entities
MarsRegent StreetThis BoyPetri dishKingdom of EnglandNorth AfricaAntisepticTunisPenicillinCairoSore throatUniversity of CambridgeAlexander the GreatPhysicianNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineFranklin D. RooseveltMalariaJoseph StalinAntibioticPneumoniaMedicineWinston ChurchillPrime Minister of the United KingdomWorld War IIScotlandLondonBacteriologySecond Boer WarHouse of Commons of the United KingdomDigitalisEnglish Boy (song)MidsummerBrother TomBogJourneyEdKnightBiochemistryTehran ConferenceHarvard Medical SchoolMary ShelleyAnalog Science Fiction and FactRandolph Churchill
