The House of Cards trilogy was ranked 84th in the British Film Institute list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.

The antihero of House of Cards is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart played by Ian Richardson.

The screenplay of the BBC's dramatisation of House of Cards differed from the book and hence allowed future series.

House of Cards draws heavily from Shakespeare's Macbeth and Richard III, both of which examine issues of power, ambition and corruption.

House of Cards will be remade into an original series in the United States.

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The video for the song " House of Cards " by Radiohead was believed to be the first use of real-time 3D laser scanning to record a music video.

* 1993 – House of Cards with Tommy Lee Jones, filmed on location.

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The area is the home of Francis Urquhart in Michael Dobbs's 1989 novel, House of Cards.

Other programs presented on the series include The Six Wives of Henry VIII ; Elizabeth R ; I, Claudius ; Upstairs, Downstairs ; The Duchess of Duke Street ; The Citadel ; The Jewel in the Crown ; House of Cards ; Traffik ; and Jeeves and Wooster.

As the disease worsened and the medication greatly altered Turner's looks, along with excess alcohol consumption that Turner said she used to kill her physical pain, her once promising film career as a leading lady took a nose dive and Turner was seen in fewer and fewer blockbusters — though Turner also blamed her age, stating that " when I was forty the roles started slowing down, I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers ..." She appeared in the low-budget House of Cards, experienced moderate success with John Waters's black comedy Serial Mom, and had supporting roles in A Simple Wish, The Real Blonde, and Sofia Coppola's acclaimed The Virgin Suicides.

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This was used in the film House of Cards starring Tommy Lee Jones.

Saga's next three albums, 1999's Full Circle, 2001's House of Cards and Marathon released in 2003 have all been popular with the band's longtime and loyal fanbase.

House of Cards, in particular enjoyed renewed interest.

His writing career began in 1989 with the publication of House of Cards, the first in what would become a trilogy of political thrillers with Francis Urquhart as the central character.

House of Cards was followed by To Play the King in 1992 and The Final Cut in 1994.

* House of Cards ( 1989 )

* Simon Hoggart ( editor ), House of Cards: A Selection of Modern Political Humour ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-241-12451-4

It was also used as Caractacus Potts ' workshop in the 1968 film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and seen in The New Avengers ( TV series ) episode, The House of Cards.

The House communications subcommittee is expected to report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

Sam Rayburn is one of the greatest American public figures in the history of our country and I consider that I have been singly honored in the privilege of knowing Sam Rayburn and sharing with him the rights and obligations of a Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

But it soon became clear that the search for eighteenth-century furniture ( which Mrs. Kennedy feels is the proper period for the White House ) must be pursued in places other than government storage rooms.

The American Institute of Interior Designers is redecorating the White House library.

One of the offices slated for reconstruction is the aged Court of Claims, diagonally across the street from the White House.

The Department's constant fight with the House for money is a polite minuet compared with its periodic bloody engagements with the Senate.

Rep. Mac Barber of Commerce is asking the House in a privilege resolution to `` endorse increased federal support for public education, provided that such funds be received and expended '' as state funds.

A House committee which heard his local option proposal is expected to give it a favorable report, although the resolution faces hard sledding later.

The White House is taking extraordinary steps to check the rapid growth of juvenile delinquency in the United States.

In the House, the Southern-Republican coalition is expected to make another major stand in opposition to the Administration's housing bill, while more jockeying is expected in an attempt to advance the aid-to-education bill.