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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: ... on [[April 1]], [[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 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: ... [[1800]]. Over an extremely slow 8 years of construction, $232,371.83 was spent. With inflation, this...
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...te !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
205: ...86]] — [[1890]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers)
215: * http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm - History of China (45919 bytes)
14: ...riod Sima Qian relates that a system of inherited rulership was established during the [[Xia Dynasty]]...
28: ... the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun their rule under a semi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power...
36: ...s soon as the Qin reign ended, the Qin imperial structure collapsed. The [[Qin Dynasty]] is well know...
44: ...n the midst of land acquisitions, invasions and struggles of [[consort clan]]s and [[eunuch]]s. The [[...
63: ...Northern Dynasties]], a sequence of local regimes ruling over regions north of [[Yangtze River|Yangtze... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ...here the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur (Kyrus).
4: ...kht-jamshid.jpg|thumb|380px|After 2500 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far ...
6: ...n the mason's rubbish has not been removed. These ruins, for which the name ''Kizil minare'' or ''Chih...
8: ...from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to...
12: ... his lifetime. Hence the kings buried at ''Nakshi Rustam'' are probably, besides Darius, [[Xerxes I]],... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ... first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was b...
18: ...tory of Cartographic Crime''. New York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ould be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless reg...
9: ...pecies (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and benefi...
27: ...in Khios. It is believed that this is where he recruited some of his sailors.
46: ....99 meters or 6,082.66 feet at the equator). The true circumference of the earth is about 40,000 km (2...
52: ...had united the largest kingdoms of Spain and were ruling them together. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
53: ... makers of clocks and watches, and scientific instrument makers to enable them to batch-produce small ...
59: ...es for cannon boring made and worked by the [[Verbruggans]]. He later worked for [[Joseph Bramah]] on ...
74: ...ingswood coalfield near Bristol, still have adits running to this day, [[as of 2005]], almost a centur...
81: ...y iron goods were [[Sweden]] and [[Russia]], with Russia being able to command increasingly high price...
83: ...ed in his footsteps, and iron became a major construction material. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
10: ...ns of kings and popes. They all argued for a restructuring and "purifying" of church practice through...
14: ...ut all were outspoken in their criticism of the structure and liturgy that the monarchy required. Att...
16: ...ce of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter became the backbo...
24: ...the [[Charles_I_of_England#Personal_Rule|Personal Rule]] were a major factor in the outbreak of the [[...
26: ... of peerages, increasing disconnect between the [[House of Lords]] and the people, rebellion over the att... - 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...
21: ... line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokh...
23:
25: ...ting against widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States...
26: ...ing protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the St. Louis area Causing riot. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ... the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, ''Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris...
5: ...aft everts gracefully at the base to meet the [[torus]] (enriched with interlaced guilloche) it stands...
8: ...column surface between each hollow; Greek fluting runs out to a knife edge that was easily scarred.
10: ...ace, London, and when Beaux-Arts architect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina co...
14: ...ical architecture survive earlier than that of Vitruvius, identification of such ''meaning'' in archit... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
11: ...unjust imperial dynasty that had lapsed into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate of Heaven]] and b...
28: ...nding of which can be likened to recognising the true nature of the universe.
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''...
9: ... of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current...
15: Elizabeth was born at 21 Bruton Street in [[Mayfair]], [[London]] on [[21 Apri...
20: ...]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury...
35: ...ow) in all. Though the [[Royal House]] is named [[House of Windsor|Windsor]], it was decreed via a [[1960... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...] and hence the last [[Hellenistic Greece|Greek]] ruler of Egypt. Her father was [[Ptolemy XII of Egyp...
6: ...rs were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
9: ...eaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]&ndas...
11: ...eopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as new co-ruler.
17: ..., one of the [[second triumvirate|triumvirs]] who ruled Rome in the power vacuum following Caesar's de... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...V]] as co-ruler. She was also the ''de-facto'' co-ruler of her husband's dominions. This monarch is kn...
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...
17: ... and joined the Catholic party. Having failed to crush the Protestant rebellion by arms, she resumed, ...
19: ...ore the assassination of Henry and the end of the House of Valois.
21: ...love of magnificence and luxury, Catherine was a true Medici; her banquets at the Royal [[Chateau Font... - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...is XIV of France. Anne assumed the regency but entrusted the government to the prime minister, [[Jules... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ...e]], her ambitious mother would never allow the [[House of Guise]] any chance of controlling France. Inst...
10: ...Massacre|a massacre]] of such brutality that even Russia's [[Ivan the Terrible]] condemned it. - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
6: {{House of Tudor}}
8: '''Mary I''' ([[18 February]] [[1516]] – [[17 November]] [[1558]]) w...
13: ...[[Greenwich, London|Greenwich]] on Monday [[18 February]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on t...
21: ...[Europe]], furthermore, regarded her as the only true heir and daughter of Henry VIII, although she wa...
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)}}
7: ...tter known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]]...
15: ... throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the death of Mary's fathe...
17: ...bert I of Scotland|Robert I, the Bruce]]). James truly believed that Mary marked the end of the Stewar...
26: ... and the palms of her hands. When the chill air struck her, she began to cry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] b... - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
1: ...M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess of Courland]]
3: ...[Courland]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
7: ...w western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Bestuzhev-Ryumin|Peter Bestuzhev...
10: ...and soon she established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards...
15: ...ehouse 1878.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Wedding at the House of Ice'' (1878).]] - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...ne the Great''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on...
5: ...y 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine's supporter...
11: ...ion, granting the government greater control over rural areas because of the peasant revolt. This proc...
13: ...eat instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free E...
17: ...haps Great Britain, to counter the power of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]-[[Habsburg]] League. When it...
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