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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)
14: ...e [[13th century BC]] and takes the form of inscriptions of divination records on the bones or shells ...
50: ...89. "South China under the Later Han Dynasty" (Chapter One from ''Generals of the South: the Foundatio...
51: ...Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, ...
55: ....'' Draft annotated English translation.[http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han...
56: ...'' Draft annotated English translation. [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...f Jamshid"). That they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by [[Alexander of Macedo...
8: ...akshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Darius Hystaspis]], concer...
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...
27: :(5) Promptly many torches were gathered. Female musicians w... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
18: ...tory of Cartographic Crime''. New York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th...
54: ... of lobbying at the Spanish court, where he was kept on a salary to prevent him from taking his ideas ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
30: ...called [[industrial espionage]], with modern concepts of automatic illegality.
36: ...gs. Foreign printed sources such as the ''[[Descriptions des Arts et Metiers]]'' and Diderot's ''[[Enc...
59: ... about the need for stability and precision he adapted to the development of machine tools, and in his...
79: ...y [[wood]] in the form of [[charcoal]], but consumption was starting to be constrained by lack of avai...
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: ...m for themselves, and the word was always a descriptor of a ''type'' of religious innovation, rather t...
8: ...yes of the Puritans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[M...
10: ...belief that all existing churches had become corrupted by practice, by contact with pagan civilization...
14: ...ure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Attempts by the [[bishop]]s of the Church of England to e...
26: ...f Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the attempt to introduce a [[Divine right of kings]] to Charl... - 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...
6: ...ords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt
9: ...Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakista...
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. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
8: ...n the shaft settled at 24. This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportion to the diame...
10: ...iety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whitehall]] Palace, London, and when Beaux-Art...
12: ...a [[frieze]] resting on it that may be richly sculptural, and a cornice bult up with dentils (like the... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
5: ...ometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chinese belief system a...
7: ...dhisattva]] and incorporating some Christian concepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessari...
9: ...anism]], and [[Taoism]]. Most Chinese have a conception of [[heaven]] and [[yin and yang]]. The Chines...
11: ...just imperial dynasty that had lapsed into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate of Heaven]] and be ...
18: ...luded ancestor worship and drew heavily upon concepts and beings within [[Chinese mythology]]. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), styled '''''HM The Queen''...
22: ===Heiress Presumptive===
23: ...d VIII]]'s abdication, she became [[heiress presumptive]] and was henceforth known as HRH The Princess...
35: ...ow) in all. Though the [[Royal House]] is named [[House of Windsor|Windsor]], it was decreed via a [[1960...
40: ...of Wales|HRH Prince Henry of Wales]] (born [[15 September]], [[1984]]) (known universally as 'Harry') - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...as probably Auletes's sister, [[Cleopatra V of Egypt|Cleopatra V Tryphaena]]. The name "Cleopatra" is ...
6: ... Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ruler of Egypt; she only co-ruled with her father, brother, brot...
9: ...her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC...
11: ...and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as new co-ruler.
13: ...iaison with Caesar produced a son whom they named Ptolemy Caesar (nicknamed [[Caesarion]], little Caes... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
10: ... Castile]] and [[Catherine Plantagenet]] of the [[House of Lancaster]], a half sister of King [[Henry IV ... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
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.
21: ... Fontainebleau]] in 1564 were famous for their sumptuousness. In architecture, especially, she was wel... - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: '''Anne of Austria''' ([[September 22]], [[1601]] - [[January 20]], [[1666]]) w...
6: ...ouis XIII of France]] (1601-1643), part of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon Dynasty]]. They would have two...
8: ...of age, her regency legally ended. However, she kept much power and influence over her son. In [[1659]... - 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's court in Navarre, but she received an icy reception. Determined to overcome her difficulties, Quee...
20: ...ge to Henri of Navarre. The novel was famously adapted into a [[1994]] [[French film]], ''[[La Reine M... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
6: {{House of Tudor}}
8: ...the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [...
13: ...ay [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on the following Wednesday with [[Thomas Wo...
19: ...male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted to have his marriage to her annulled. In [[153...
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)}}
15: ... throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's fathe...
17: ...eign over a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in F...
22: ...ots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of the Queen an...
26: ...ry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped... - 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...
19: Having a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving thos...
24: ...up all recently captured territories with the exception of [[Azov (city)|Azov]]. This war marks the be...
28: ...[[Ivan VI]], should succeed her. This was an attempt to secure the line of her father, [[Ivan V]], and... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the re...
9: ...gislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this document t...
17: ...haps Great Britain, to counter the power of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]-[[Habsburg]] League. When it...
21: ... [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottoman Empire's European hold...
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