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The House in the Middle was an American 1954 short documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted house ( the middle house ) is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterparts ( the right and left houses ).
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The Upper Houses, built in 1913, consist of four houses: North House, Middle House, Gate House, and South House.
The House of Hohenstaufen, also known as the Swabian dynasty or the Staufer, was a dynasty of German monarchs in the High Middle Ages, reigning from 1138 to 1254.
In January 2010, at a meeting of the Quartet on the Middle East, representatives from the European Union and Russia suggested reopening Orient House and other Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem as a way of bringing the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table.
The Upper Houses, built in 1913, consist of four houses: North House, Middle House, Gate House, and South House.
During the summer of 1968, The House of Lords in the Middle Ages was published after 20 years ' work.
Wide, quarter-sawn boards of oak have been prized since the Middle Ages for use in interior paneling of prestigious buildings such as the debating chamber of the House of Commons in London, and in the construction of fine furniture.
After shedding most of these shows, Fox filled its lineup with acclaimed dramas such as 24, The O. C., House and Bones, and comedies such as The Bernie Mac Show, Malcolm in the Middle, and Arrested Development.
Frederick II ( 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250 ), was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen.
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The House of Commons paid its tribute on 12 January 1987, with much reference made to the dead statesman's book, The Middle Way.
* White House Middle School
Its county seat is the Cape May Court House section in Middle Township.
There were two main Manor Houses in the area during the Middle Ages, Newbery Manor on the site of what is now Crayford Manor House, and Howbury Manor near Slade Green.
To be certain, the House of Nephthys was one of fifty individual, land-owning temples delineated for this portion of the Middle Egyptian district in Papyrus Wilbour.
During the Middle Ages, possession of Arras passed to a variety of feudal rulers and fiefs, including the County of Flanders, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and the French crown.
* Poquetanuck Village Historic District — Roughly along Main Street between Route 117 and Middle Road and along School House and Cider Mill Road ( added September 22, 1996 )
The registered historical places in Port Allen include: Aillet House, Allendale Plantation Historic District, Cohn High School, Monte Vista Plantation House, Poplar Grove Plantation House, Port Allen Middle School, Sandbar Plantation House, and the Smithfield Plantation House.
House and was
Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.
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 was the House pariah.
He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.
In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
He was, of course, in the House for a very long time.
And it was the House he loved.
Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.
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.
It was called Kent House.
But this situation of Kent House was more subtle.
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 ).
On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.
House and American
He made good, plain American common sense and the House usually recognized it and acted upon it.
Rich people went to Delaware House, Opera House, American House or Fowler House.
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.
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.
The American Institute of Interior Designers is redecorating the White House library.
-- President Kennedy today pushed aside other White House business to devote all his time and attention to working on the Berlin crisis address he will deliver tomorrow night to the American people over nationwide television and radio.
At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.
* Childs, Craig House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest.
* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )
* 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.
* 1943 – Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist ( The Free Spirits and The Eleventh House )
* 1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary
* 1955 – Jacob Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
* 1945 – Harriet Miers, American lawyer, 31st White House Counsel
* 1970 – Steve House, American mountaineer
* Battle of Appomattox Court House, a battle of the American Civil War
* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
" The Evolution of American Grand Strategy and the War on Terrorism: Clinton and Bush Perspectives " White House Studies, Vol.
The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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