It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.

It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

The first houses were built in the spring of 1631.

* The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, submitted at first along with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, then separately, and rejected in either form by many publishing houses, published posthumously in 1857

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

Dartmouth College was among the first institutions of higher education to desegregate fraternity houses in the 1950s, and was involved in the movement to create coeducational Greek houses in the 1970s.

The First National Exhibitors ' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first run cinema chains in the United States of America, eventually controlling over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them so-called " first run " houses ( as opposed to the " second run " neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their first run boxoffice receipts dwindled ).

As this amounted mostly to cinema houses, the first Soviet films consisted of recycled films of the Russian Empire and its imports, to the extent that these were not determined to be offensive to the new Soviet ideology.

By 8500-7500 BC the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) culture developed out of the earlier local tradition of Natufian in Southern Palestine, dwelling in round houses, and building the first defensive site at Jericho ( guarding a valuable fresh water spring ).

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

The first brick settlements formed around 900, but it was not until 1305 that the first official mention of Hilversum (" Hilfersheem " from " Hilvertshem " meaning " houses between the hills ") is found.

As part of their struggle against Hellenistic civilization, the Pharisees established what may have been the world's first national male ( religious ) education and literacy program, based around meeting houses.

But the first man to invent a house, according to IP advocates, would have a right to prevent others from building houses on their own land, with their own logs, or to charge them a fee if they do build houses.

However, the first real evidence of civilization is from the Neolithic or 5th millennium BC when houses began to appear.

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.

However, these houses were for the first time made of mudbrick.

The verb " pasàch " () is first mentioned in the Torah account of the Exodus from Egypt (), and there is some debate about its exact meaning: the commonly held assumption that it means " He passed over ", in reference to God " passing over " the houses of the Hebrews during the final of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, stems from the translation provided in the Septuagint ( παρελευσεται in, and εσκεπασεν in ).

Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Codes Centre and the National Museum of Computing.

The site also houses the National Codes Centre.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

The museum houses the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

He directed Précontinent, about the experiments of diving in saturation ( long-duration immersion, houses under the sea ), and was admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the Glass House by Philip Johnson, located near New York City and also now owned by the National Trust.

North of the memorial is the Journal Record Building, which now houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum, an affiliate of the National Park Service.

It houses the Academy of Fine Arts with artists of the School of Parma, the Palatine Library, the National Gallery, the Archaeological Museum, the Bodoni Museum and the Farnese Theatre.

The National Trust owns thirty-six public houses of historic interest including the George Inn, Southwark, London and The Crown Liquor Saloon, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Rock Bridge houses around fifty-five clubs and organizations, including, but not limited to, Intramural Table Tennis League, Chess Club, Global Issues Club, Dumbledore's Army, the Zombie Defense League, Guitar Club, Bible Club, National Honors Society, Student Environmental Coalition, MSU-Muslim Students Union, Future Lawyers of America, Astronomy Club, National Art Honors Society, Weight Lifting Club, and the language Honors Societies.

The Assembly convened in the building of the old Federal Assembly of FRY, which now houses the National Assembly of Serbia.

Between 1848 and 1918, numerous institutions ( including theatres and publishing houses, as well as political, financial and cultural organisations ) were founded in the so-called Slovene National Awakening.

The Old West End is a historic neighborhood of Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and other Edwardian style houses recognized by the National Register of Historic Places.

Tirana is home to five well-preserved traditional houses ( museum-houses ), 56 cultural monuments, eight public libraries, and the National Library of Albania ( Biblioteka Kombëtare ).

** National Foreign Affairs Training Center ( which houses the Foreign Service Institute )

The Capitol also houses the National Statuary Hall Collection, comprising two statues donated by each of the fifty states to honor persons notable in their histories.

Besides, the Congress of France-the name given to the body created when both houses of the French Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate, meet-gathers in the Château de Versailles to vote on revisions to the Constitution.

The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.

Bucharest also houses the General Inspectorates of the Gendarmerie and the National Police.

Currently the largest building in Europe and the second-largest in the world, the Palace houses the Romanian Parliament ( the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate ), as well as the National Museum of Contemporary Art.

The palace of the National Bank of Romania houses the national numismatic collection.