This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

He crossed the tracks to Delaware House, where ladies in gay dresses and men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

He escaped custody and fled to the United States, where he successfully defeated legal attempts by the British authorities to have him extradited to face charges arising from the attack and the burning of the Valley House.

Alcott and his family moved back to Concord after 1857, where he and his family lived in the Orchard House until 1877.

He was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served a total of five terms.

House Rock had numerous bullet hole-like marks where micrometeroids from space had impacted the rock.

Although Ayckbourn continued to move where his career took him, he settled in Scarborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by Stephen Joseph.

" Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli " was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded.

Fuller attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and after that began studying at Harvard University, where he was affiliated with Adams House.

Another Gate House tradition that no longer occurs is the " stirring the chicken ," a dinner and keg party where house members cook chicken fajitas for hundreds of guests.

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

White House historians assert that U. S. President Andrew Jackson held an open house party where a 1, 400 lb ( 635 kg ) block of Cheddar cheese was served as " refreshment ".

Led by Harold Nelson, some 1000 demonstrators marched to Government House at Liberty Square in Darwin where they burnt an effigy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.

Indicate location-Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty to identify New York, the London Eye or Big Ben to identify London, the Sydney Opera House to identify Sydney, the Eiffel Tower to identify Paris, or the Las Vegas Strip to identify Las Vegas.

" Definitions such as that offered by the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics take this path, where euthanasia is defined as " a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering.

This interview was conducted at Hatfield House, where she had returned to live in October 1555.

At age seven, Douglass was separated from his grandmother and moved to the Wye House plantation, where Aaron Anthony worked as overseer.

Protestant missionaries campaigning against it tried to gain support from humanitarian and women's rights groups in London, where the issue was raised in the House of Commons, and in Kenya itself a person's stance toward FGM became a test of loyalty, either to the Christian churches or to the Kikuyu Central Association.

In 1916, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he had a reputation as a fiery and devoted reformer.

The Huis van Alijn ( House of the Alijn family ) was originally a beguinage and is now a museum for folk art where theatre and puppet shows for children are presented.

As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.

The Mill House in Highcliffe, where Gardner was supposedly initiated into the Craft.

-- Acting hastily under White House pressure, the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C. Weaver as the nation's federal housing chief.

King, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Son House and Robert Johnson.

Left to Right: Montagu House, Bloomsbury | Montagu House, Townley Gallery and Robert Smirke ( architect ) | Sir Robert Smirke's west wing under construction ( July 1828 )

In 1701 Defoe, flanked by a guard of sixteen gentlemen of quality, presented the Legion's Memorial to the Speaker of the House of Commons, later his employer, Robert Harley.

He hoped to be appointed to the Custom House in Philadelphia with help from President Tyler's son Robert, an acquaintance of Poe's friend Frederick Thomas.

* 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U. S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

James is supposed to have remarked in Scots that " it cam wi a lass, it will gang wi a lass " – referring to the House of Stewart which began with Walter Stewart's marriage to the daughter of Robert the Bruce.

Robert Stigell's Väinämöinen ( 1888 ) decorating the Vanha Ylioppilastalo ( Old Student House ) in Helsinki holds humankind's first kantele made of the giant pike ( fish ) | pike's jawbone as told in Kalevala.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

In a 1993 letter to University of Texas economics professor and former House Banking Committee investigator Robert Auerbach, Friedman wrote:

Subsequently, the Lancaster House talks were held and Robert Mugabe was elected leader of an independent Zimbabwe at the inaugural 1980 election.

* 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.

Following the 1919 Nickle Resolution, however, it was against non-binding policy for the sovereign to grant such honorific titles to Canadians ; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir Robert Borden, who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the House of Commons.

The new governor, Robert Dinwiddie, had imposed a fee for the certification of land patents, which the House of Burgesses strongly objected to.

Robert and Virginia Heinlein in a 1952 Popular Mechanics article, titled " A House to Make Life Easy ".

Robert spent four years at a local day school before being sent to Stubbington House School, Hampshire, a cramming establishment preparing candidates for the entrance examinations to the naval training ship at Dartmouth.

Some of the blues artists who most prominently used the slide include gospel singer Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Robert Johnson as well as Casey Bill Weldon of the Memphis Jug Band.

Afterword by Robert Alter, Random House, 1995, ISBN 978-0-520-21330-2.

House was the primary influence on Muddy Waters and also an important influence on Robert Johnson.

They were awestruck to hear it was Son House, whom they knew as " the man who taught Robert Johnson ".