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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 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: ...of the world including [[Asia]], [[Europe]] and [[North America]].
3: ...onal dwelling of the Indians of North America (or North American Indians ).
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: ... administration, as in, "Today, the White House announced a new health care initiative." The [[United ...
8: ...untry, have often been called the [[Western White House]].
12: ...ish Parliament]]. Construction was completed on [[November 1]], [[1800]]. Over an extremely slow 8 yea...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
135: | [[North Carolina]]
136: | [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... some 70 km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into...
6: ... be traced back to the [[13th century]], are now known as ''Takhti Jamshid'' ("the throne of Jamshid")...
12: ...a]], who reigned at the longest two years, or, if not his, then that of [[Darius III of Persia|Darius ...
14: Another small group of ruins in the same style is fou...
18: .... This accounts for the fact that the Greeks were not acquainted with the city until it was taken and ... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
5: ...ted with determining that the [[Great Basin]] had no outlet to the sea.
7: ...alifornia]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican Party nominated him as their first [[President of the Unit...
9: ... Frémont's removal from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a dif...
11: Frémont was appointed [[Governor]] of the [[Arizona Territory]] from [[1878]] to ...
13: Four [[U.S. states]] named counties in his honor: [[Fremont County, Colorado|Colorado]], [[Fremon... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labor to one dominated by indus...
3: ...]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development ...
5: ...developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
10: ...ncial market]]s and accumulation of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] are also cited as factors, as is t...
14: ...0 onwards, because there was a scientific and technological improvement, growth of supply of food beca... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
3: ==Terminology==
4: ...st]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ... members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
10: ...l]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believer...
20: ...alist translations and interpolated revolutionary notes. - 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...
20:
21: ...one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with polic...
26:
29: ...arriage following Obergefell v. Hodges, the White House is lit up in the colors of the rainbow pride flag - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
2: ...]] of [[classical architecture]], the other two canonic orders being the [[Doric order|Doric]] and the...
4: ...he southwestern coastland and islands of [[Asia Minor]] settled by Ionian Greeks, where an Ionian dial...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s normally stand on a base (''but see illustration, le...
9: ...|thumb|right|An archaic Greek Ionic capital, in ''Nordisk familjebok'', 1910]]
10: ...iety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whitehall]] Palace, London, and when Beaux-Art... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
5: ... of a sacred and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chine...
7: ...stian concepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessarily the case.
11: ...rt in performing elaborate annual rituals. He was not believed to be a [[deity]], but rather someone w...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam...
28: ...ing]] is attributed to [[Lao Zi]], who may or may not have been a real person. The philosophy is cent... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...of all of ancient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply '''Cleopatra''', all of her similarly...
9: ...he also had one younger sister whose name was Arsino뮠She was first briefly co-ruler with her father....
11: ...al claims of Ptolemy and Cleopatra. (It should be noted that Pompey had been married to Caesar's daugh...
19: ...llow triumvir [[Octavian]]. He and Cleopatra had another child, [[Ptolemy Philadelphus]]. At the [[Don...
21: ...tories about Cleopatra, of which one of the best known is that, at one of the lavish dinners she share... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...uler of her husband's dominions. This monarch is known by a variety of other names including ''Isabel ...
5: ...ares Pereira]], Count de Barcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcelos.
7: ...ghter of [[John I of Castile]] and his wife [[Eleanor of Aragon]], a sister of Kings [[John I of Arago...
10: ... Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half sister of King [[Henry IV ...
21: ...g to get Isabella declared as [[blessed]] and [[canonization|later saint]]. - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
5: ...aughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medici]], Duke of Urbino, and a French princess, [[Madeleine de la Tour d'...
7: ...ine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren before he died.
11: ...eft the kingdom for the campaign of Metz, she was nominated [[regent]], but with very limited powers. ...
15: ..., [[1560]]), Catherine became regent during the minority of her second son, [[Charles IX of France]], ...
17: ...to Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], but that did not come about. - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...e of Orl顮s]] born in [[1640]]. The marriage was not a happy one, filled with mistrust, and King Loui...
12: ...ne of the central figures in [[Alexandre Dumas]]' novel, ''[[The Three Musketeers]]''. - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ... Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confused with [[Marguerite_of_Navarre|the fam...
6: ...een of Navarre, opposed the marriage, many of her nobles supported it, and the marriage was arranged. ...
8: ...ed a hand on his sister's head, compelling her to nod in agreement.
10: ...laughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre|a massacre]] ...
14: ...ul and strong-minded Marguerite took many lovers, notably [[Joseph Boniface de La M?], [[Jacques de Ha... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
6: {{House of Tudor}}
8: ...senters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as '''Bloody Mary'''. Her religious policies, h...
13: ...at [[Ludlow Castle]] and many of the prerogatives normally only given to a [[Prince of Wales]], someti...
15: ... education was undoubtedly due to her mother, who not only consulted the Spanish scholar [[Juan Lu�V...
17: ...It was then suggested that the Princess Mary wed, not the Dauphin, but his father Francis I, who was e... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ...; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of th...
15: ... throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's fathe...
24: ...eeves, enveloped the infant, who could sit up but not walk. She was carried by Lord Livingston in sole... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...nnaioannovnarussia1693-2.jpg|thumb|H.I.M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duch...
3: '''Anna Ivanovna''' (In [[Russian language|Russian]]: А&#...
7: ...it. Anna continued ruling as Duchess of Courland (now western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the ...
10: ...er popularity with the imperial guards and lesser nobility.
15: ...ehouse 1878.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Wedding at the House of Ice'' (1878).]] - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...a]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[November 6]], [[1796]]. A cousin to [[Gustav III of ...
5: ...ox]] faith. The marriage was unsucessful - it was not consummated for 12 years due to Peter III's impo...
11: ...on, Catherine gave land in [[Ukraine]] to favored nobles and granted them serfs. She also encouraged t...
13: ...e censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...ague. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]]...
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