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- United States House of Representatives (41197 bytes)
1: [[Image:house_large_seal.gif|framed|Seal of the House of Representatives]]
2: ...se is known as the [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker]].
4: ...ose of the House of Representatives (the "[[lower house]]")
6: The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing o...
9: ...], [[1789]] when it achieved a [[quorum]] for the first time. - Long house (1056 bytes)
1: ...nd [[anthropology]], a '''long house''' or '''longhouse''' is a type of long, narrow single room building...
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: ...is sometimes 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 '''White House''' is the official residence and principal workplace of the [[Pr...
6: ...sident's administration, as in, "Today, the White House announced a new health care initiative." The [[Un...
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)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
205: ...86]] — [[1890]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ... stand erect. Several of the buildings were never finished. F. Stolze has shown that in some cases eve...
12: ...o [[Artaxerxes II]] and [[Artaxerxes III]]. The unfinished one is perhaps that of [[Arses of Persia]],...
18: ... the rulers of the empire, a remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and th...
20: ... bears evident traces of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus after [[Cle...
25: ...ey met and plundering the residences; many of the houses belonged to the common people and were abundantl... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...ce of [[President of the United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run...
5: ...s generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He ...
7: ...] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the United States|presidential]...
15: ...dard [[Binomial nomenclature#Authorship in scientific names|botanical author abbreviation]] '''Frém.'...
18: ...tory of Cartographic Crime''. New York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled ...
10: ...l]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]] of the 17th century. But one of the...
14: ...kly from 1700 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply ...
24: ...sed the amount of food produced and supplied a sufficient amount of food for the workers working in th...
36: ...[[Encyclopedie]]'' explained foreign methods with finely engraved plates. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
12: ...orce and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.
14: ...'' turned the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as ...
16: ...n being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter ...
26: ... of peerages, increasing disconnect between the [[House of Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the att...
28: ... to all Protestant denominations outside of the official Church, as well as the continuing use of the ... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
5: ...010 Midterm elections, the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats...
12: ...roviding false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of cred...
20:
21: ...oston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
23: - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...:SixIonicOrders.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Architects' first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien Dav...
4: ...in mainland Greece in the [[5th century BC]]. The first of the great Ionic temples, though it stood fo...
10: ...iety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whitehall]] Palace, London, and when Beaux-Art...
14: ...ure survive earlier than that of Vitruvius, identification of such ''meaning'' in architectural elemen...
16: ...ly Ionic mode on the Athenian Acropolis is exemplified in the [[Erechtheum]]. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
42: Some consider the first entry of [[Christianity]] into China was the i...
46: The first [[Jesuit]] attempt to reach China was made in ...
50: ...s to China. The book ''[[The Small Woman]]'' and film ''[[Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'' tell the sto...
52: ...same time, there has been increasing tolerance of house churches since the late 1970s.
54: ...he gospel across China and the enlargement of the house church movement. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
7: ...Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), styled '''''HM The Queen''...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
9: ...gs had to marry their sisters in order to be qualified to rule. Following the deaths of her brothers s...
21: There are a number of unverifiable but famous stories about Cleopatra, of which ...
29: ...nd culture, Cleopatra is reputed to have been the first member of her family in their 300-year reign i...
35: ...; (Chapter XIII of E. R. Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
5: ... Lancaster]] and his wife [[Isabel de Beaumont]]. Finally she was great-great-granddaughter to [[Nuno ...
8: ...from his first wife [[Blanche of Lancaster]]. Her final set of grandparents were [[Afonso, Duke de Bra...
10: ... Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half sister of King [[Henry IV ...
16: ...us]]'s first voyage. In the same year she was the first woman to be featured on a U.S. postal stamp, a...
24: Isabella has been represented in film by actresses like [[Lola Flores]] and [[Sigourn... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
7: ..., alarmed at the possible extinction of his royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine d...
15: ...the moderate counsels of l'H?al to avoid siding definitely with either party, but her character and th...
17: ... statesmanship in particular as a career in which finesse, lying, and assassination were the most admi...
19: ...ore the assassination of Henry and the end of the House of Valois.
21: In her taste for art and her love of magnificence and luxury, Catherine was a true Medici; her... - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...er his death. However, in [[1643]] Parliament ratified her powers on his death. Their four-year-old so...
8: ...de Cond靝. In [[1651]], when her son Louis XIV officially came of age, her regency legally ended. How...
12: ...t and cunning woman and she is one of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]' novel, ''[[The Three... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ...e]], her ambitious mother would never allow the [[House of Guise]] any chance of controlling France. Inst...
12: ...d an icy reception. Determined to overcome her difficulties, Queen Marguerite master-minded a coup d'e...
18: ==Marguerite de Valois in fiction==
20: ...vel was famously adapted into a [[1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 movie)|La Reine Ma... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
6: {{House of Tudor}}
10: Mary I is sometimes confused with her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary...
13: ...d of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and his first wife, [[Catherine of Aragon]]. A [[stillbirth|...
15: ... the subject, but was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin.
17: ..., the Princess Mary was instead contracted to her first cousin, the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charles V... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
15: ... throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's fathe...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
10: ...he nobles for her unexpected fortune and remain a figurehead at best, and malleable at worst. In the h...
15: ...ehouse 1878.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Wedding at the House of Ice'' (1878).]]
17: ...ds, dressed as clowns, in a specially constructed house of ice, where the bride caught a cold and died wi...
19: ...nds of two other foreigners, who thoroughly identified themselves with Russia, [[Andrey Osterman]] and... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...nd [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarc...
5: ...herine became involved with other prominent court figures. She soon became popular with several powerf...
13: ...veral drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]]...
17: ...haps Great Britain, to counter the power of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]-[[Habsburg]] League. When it...
21: ...ndence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-T...
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