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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: ...ementation was set for [[March 4]], [[1789]]. The House began work on [[April 1]], [[1789]] when it achie... - 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 workpl...
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)
205: ...86]] — [[1890]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
92: ...y servants, and old furnitures around in the main house, so as to put up an appearance of piety and fruga...
94: ... the Emperor, he mounted spending on the Imperial Household, building new palaces and obtaining exotic di...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...t his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ct...
18: ...m the sceptre passed to a new branch of the royal house, that Persepolis became the capital of Persia pro...
25: ...ey met and plundering the residences; many of the houses belonged to the common people and were abundantl...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
18: ...tory of Cartographic Crime''. New York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
34: ...f Arts, Manufactures and Commerce]] or, more commonly, [[Society of Arts]] published an illustrated vo...
65: ...g needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.
83: ... the scientific reasons for the improvement were only discovered later. His family followed in his foo...
96: ...e, which was built within a stone or brick engine-house but after then various patterns of portable (ie r... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the ...
5: ...hurch]]. The term was used by the group itself mainly in the sixteenth century, though it seems to hav...
24: ...eak of the [[English Civil War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the rel...
26: ... of peerages, increasing disconnect between the [[House of Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the att...
44: *Education and enlightenment for the masses - 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...
29: ...arriage following Obergefell v. Hodges, the White House is lit up in the colors of the rainbow pride flag
50: ...United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate.
61: ... that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution.
62: - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ... of the great Ionic temples, though it stood for only a decade before an earthquake levelled it, was t...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s norma...
10: ...tect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Ro...
14: ...k his hints, to interpret the Ionic Order as matronly in comparison to the Doric Order, though not as ...
16: The [[Parthenon]], although it conforms mainly to the Doric order, also has some Ionic elements... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
7: Secondly, unlike other countries, Chinese belief systems allow ...
46: ... of [[Shangchuan]], without having reached the mainland. In [[1582]], Jesuits once again initiated mis...
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.
56: ... difficulties in obtaining accurate statistics on house churches. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), styled '''''HM The Queen''...
27: ... at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the royal family to actually s...
35: ...ow) in all. Though the [[Royal House]] is named [[House of Windsor|Windsor]], it was decreed via a [[1960...
60: ...ral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] in [[Norfolk, England|Norfolk]].
66: .... This is one reason why it is considered highly unlikely that she will ever [[abdicate]]. Like her mo... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...ll these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
21: ...this, when she ordered the second course — only a cup of strong vinegar. She then removed one of...
35: ...; (Chapter XIII of E. R. Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...: ''Isabel'', ''Ysabel'' or ''Isabela'' — only ''Isabel'' is used in modern Spanish) ([[April 2...
10: ... Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half sister of King [[Henry IV ... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ...ne was sent to a convent to be educated; she was only fourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marse...
7: ..., alarmed at the possible extinction of his royal house, would listen to such a proposal. But Catherine d...
19: ...ore the assassination of Henry and the end of the House of Valois. - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...ouis XIII of France]] (1601-1643), part of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon Dynasty]]. They would have two... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ...e]], her ambitious mother would never allow the [[House of Guise]] any chance of controlling France. Inst...
12: ...sband lived a scandalous life in [[Pau]]. Both openly kept lovers and quarrelled frequently. After an ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
6: {{House of Tudor}}
13: ...w Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], sometimes leadin...
15: ...ation was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�Vives]...
21: ...all [[Europe]], furthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although s...
26: ...'s funeral. In turn, Henry agreed to grant her a household, and the Lady Mary was permitted to reside in... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
12: She was born at [[Linlithgow Palace]], West Lothian, [[Scotland]], on [[...
14: ...tionable. Females and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ... throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's fathe...
36: This seemed to Marie to be the only sensible solution to her troubles. In February [... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
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...
30: ...age of 47 of [[kidney disease]]. [[Ivan VI]] was only a one year old baby at the time and his mother, ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...therine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
13: ...erine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[Peter the Great]], Catherine scorned force a...
17: ...haps Great Britain, to counter the power of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]-[[Habsburg]] League. When it...
25: ...e of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. The Russian navy, command...
33: Catherine subscribed to [[the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher...
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