And the The story goes that, one early morning in 1867 on a small farm near the Orange River in

southern Africa, a man named Willem Shalk Jacobs was trying to fix a clogged water pipe on his property.

Willem couldn't get to the object that was clogging the pipe though.

So he asked his son, 15 old Erasmus Jacobs to go outside

and find a sturdy stick that he could use in the water pipe. So following his

father's request Erasmus went outside and he started walking along the bank of the Orange River looking for a stick for his dad.

When all of a sudden, as he was looking in the shallow water as he walked, he saw something in the water,

blink at him, as he put it.

Erasmus then reached down and he picked up the stone in the water that he saw blink at him.

He put it in his pocket and he brought it home.

That stone that 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs picked up that morning ended up being what would become known as the Eureka diamond, a rough diamond weighing in at 21.25 carrots.

This was the very first diamond ever discovered in South Africa.

Little did Erasmus know in that moment that what he had just discovered would one day lead

to extreme wealth, but also bloody, bloody wars. And that wealth and those also Bloody Wars.

Bloody Wars.

And that wealth and those wars would also lead to a young journalist traveling to South Africa 32 years later in

1899 to cover one of these bloody wars and that this journalist

trip to report on the war would one day lead to his imprisonment, his brave escape,

and ultimately to his one day becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That young journalist was Winston Churchill. Last episode, we explored the early yearnings of Winston Churchill for glory in war.

While he had been just a mediocre student, of Winston Churchill for glory in war.

While he had been just a mediocre student in school as a boy, finding the conventional

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