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- United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
1: ...seal.gif|framed|Seal of the House of Representatives]]
2: ...peaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker]].
4: ...ose of the House of Representatives (the "[[lower house]]")
6: ...n, D.C.]], the national capital. The Senate convenes in the north wing of the same building.
9: ...ementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. The House began work on [[April 1]], [[1789]] when it achie... - Long house (1056 bytes)
1: ...f long, narrow single room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including [[Asia]],...
3: ...rican long house (in English: Native American longhouse) is a traditional dwelling of the Indians of Nort...
6: ...rtmoor longhouse]] and the [[Native American long house]]
8: ...ometimes placed in front of the house.The longhouses were combined to form a village. - White House (15373 bytes)
2: ...age:Washington_DC.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|White House]]
4: ...the United States|President]] of the [[United States]].
6: ... the [[National Park Service]] and is part of [[President's Park]].
8: ...untry, have often been called the [[Western White House]].
12: ...lled on the first and second floors of [[Leinster House]], a ducal palace in [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ir...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
69: ...[[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — [[1906]] (center)
95: | [[Minnesota]]
96: | [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...tself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significa...
14: ...f the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) t...
18: ... [[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...hey represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by [[Alexander of Macedon]] has been beyond...
8: ...y be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ctesias mentions further, with regard to a number of P...
12: ...III]] (Codomannus), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians."
14: ...r, a good hour's walk above ''Takhti Jamshid''. These formed a single building, which was still intact...
16: [[Image:proskynesis.jpg|thumb|300px|Darius the Great]] - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...President of the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a pl...
5: ...and from 1841 to [[1846]] he led exploration parties on the [[Oregon Trail]] and into the [[Sierra Nev...
7: ...see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[James Buchanan]].
9: ...[[West Virginia]]), but lost several battles and resigned his post.
13: ... [[Fremont County, Wyoming|Wyoming]]. Several cities are also named after him, such as [[Fremont, Cali... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...d that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...hout running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the...
5: ...s likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...]]. He never reached the present-day [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniv...
9: ...ficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ut [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-po...
5: ...[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
9: ==Causes==
10: ...on]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...itans''' were members of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [...
4: ...a particular church. The closest analogy in the present day to the meaning of "Puritan" in the 17th ce...
5: ...rs knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous ...
8: ... Geneva]] and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Germany]]. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth...
10: ...d, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believers]]. However, in church poli... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ...on: Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...ns of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
5: ... the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...der: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]...
2: ... [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]]. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky [[Tuscan order]] and the ri...
4: ... Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]].
6: ...ek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality...
8: ... of the column was exaggerated. Roman fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollo... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ...ts, including [[Taoism]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Chinese folk religion]].
5: ...ns, while others regard them as solely philosophies of life.
7: ...oncepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessarily the case.
9: ...ese have also believed in such practices as [[Chinese astrology|astrology]], [[Feng Shui]], and [[geom...
11: ..., but rather someone who mediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dyna... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[...
9: ...[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, afte...
11: ...]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...azine-cover-p'incess-lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover...
15: ...ark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ... name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
6: ...rother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her ...
9: ...e named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC]]).
11: ... a short war, Ptolemy XIII was killed and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as...
13: ...oy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead. - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...s. This monarch is known by a variety of other names including ''Isabel I of Castile'' and ''Isabel La...
5: ...Count de Barcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcelos.
8: ...by Inez Perez, and his wife Beatriz Pereira, countess da Barcellos.
10: ... Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half sister of King [[Henry IV ...
16: ...ear on a United States coin, an 1893 [[United States Commemorative Coin|commemorative]] quarter, celeb... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ...ourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother wa...
7: ..., alarmed at the possible extinction of his royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine d...
9: When her maternal aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County...
11: ...ver, soon grew weary of the domination of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. ...
13: ..., or even fewer centimetres (17, 15, or fewer inches). - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...France]]. During her relatively brief reign, [[Jules Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Mazarin]] served as Fra...
6: ...rusted the government to the prime minister, [[Jules Mazarin]], who was believed to be her lover.
8: ... niece, the Spanish Hapsburg princess [[Maria Theresa of Spain|Marie-Th鲨se of Austria]].
12: ... cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]' novel, ''[[The Three Musk... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
4: ...France|Fran篩s II]], [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...of Navarre, opposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, and the marriage was arranged. Jean...
8: ... be her husband, she did not answer; so King Charles IX, placed a hand on his sister's head, compellin...
10: ...on St Bartholomew's Day, Catherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousa...
12: ...and seized power over [[Agen]], one of her appenages. After several months of fortifying the city, the... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
6: {{House of Tudor}}
8: ..., however, were in many cases reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Ma...
13: ...se assertions that she was created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his ...
15: ...ives]] upon the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ...ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Ma...
12: ...tland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de G...
14: ...es could inherit only after extinction of male lines. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...vna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess of Courland]]
3: ...hess of [[Courland]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...death of her husband, but was reputed by her enemies to indulge in a love affair with [[Count Biron]] ...
10: ...sing her popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
13: ==Policies of her reign== - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...A cousin to [[Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enl...
4: == Life before becoming empress ==
5: ...er, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine...
7: == Internal policies ==
9: ...s. A legislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this doc...
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