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Houses: Encyclopedia - House

A house in its most general sense is a human-built dwelling with enclosing walls, a floor, and a roof. It provides shelter against precipitation, wind, heat, cold and intruding humans and animals. When occupied as a routine dwelling for humans, a house is called a home (though animals may often live in the house as well, both domestic pets and "unauthorised" animals such as mice living in the walls). People may be away from home most of the day for work and recreation, b ...

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Houses: Encyclopedia II - House - Types of house There are three basic house types: houses standing on their own (detached houses) houses attached to one other house (semi-detached houses) houses attached to two other houses, possibly in a row (terraced (GB) or rowhouse (USA) houses). In Britain terraced or semi-detached houses are the most common type of accommodation, with 27% of all British people living in a terraced house and 32% in semi-detached houses (2002). In the USA in 2000, 61.4% of people lived in detached houses and 5.6% in se ...

The House of York was a dynasty of English kings. The House was involved in the Wars of the Roses, an intermittent civil war which affected England and Wales during the 15th century. Its name derives of the fact that its claimants to the throne were all descended from Richard, Duke of York, and its symbol was a white rose. The opponents of the House of York were the House of Lancaster. The rivalry between York and Lancaster, in the form of the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, has cont ...

Houses: Encyclopedia - Boarding house

A boarding house is a house (often a family home) in which holiday-makers or lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. Years ago the boarders would typically share washing, breakfast and dining facilities; in recent years it has become common for each room to have its own washing and toilet facilities. Such boarding houses were often found in English seaside towns (for holi ...

Houses: Encyclopedia - Black house

For the novel by the same name, see Black House. The black house is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Highland Scotland, the Hebrides and Ireland. It was generally built with double wall dry-stone walls packed with earth and wooden rafters covered with a turf roof, although reed thatch was occasionally used as the roofing material. The floor was generally flagstones or packed earth and there was a central hearth for the fire. There was no chimney for the smoke to escape though ...

Houses: Encyclopedia - Call of the house

A call of the house is a motion which can be adopted by a deliberative assembly that has the authority to compel the attendance of its members in the absence of a quorum. The effect of the adoption of this motion is that the president of the assembly makes out arrest warrants which authorize the sergeant-at-arms to arrest any or all absent members and bring them to the meeting hall so that a quorum may be present. This motion is usually seen in houses of legislatures, such as the United States House of Representatives, sin

Houses: Encyclopedia - Country house

In Britain and Ireland, the term country house generally refers to a large house which was built on an agricultural estate as the private residence of the landowner. The vast majority of country houses in Britain and Ireland were built before 1914. Country house - Defining the country house. Subject to qualifications which are discussed below, a country house will once have been the centrepiece of an agricultural estate large enough to provide the landowner with sufficient income to be accepted as a member ...

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Country house - Life in the country house

Houses: Encyclopedia - Bush House

Bush House is a building between Aldwych and The Strand in London. It is primarily home to the BBC's World Service department, which occupies 4 of the 5 wings. The fifth, south-west wing, is used by HM Revenue & Customs. The different sections of the building were completed and opened over a period of 13 years: 1923 - Centre Block 1928 - North-West wing 1929 - North-East wing 1930 - South ...

Houses: Encyclopedia - Boarding House

Boarding House is a short story by James Joyce. The story deals with three protagonists: Mr. Doran, Polly and her mother. It is about the affair of the Catholic wine-merchant and Polly. The initiator of the affair is not the man as one would suppose, but Polly who is intended to marry him because he is wealthy and has a good reputation. The narrator changes between the three protagonists and he or she is always a third-person narrator so you can have a better notion of the characters. The author James Joyce uses the technique that he

Houses: Encyclopedia - Bell housing

The bell housing is part of the transmission system on a petrol or diesel powered vehicle. It is bolted to the engine block and contains the flywheel, the torque converter or clutch of the transmission. The starter motor is usually mounted here engaging with a ring gear on the flywheel. On the opposite end to the engine is usually bolted the gearbox. The above is the normal arrangement for an in line transmission system for a conventional rear wheel drive or all wheel drive vehicle. The arrangement for a transverse mounted engine and ...

Houses: Encyclopedia - Upper house

An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. Upper house - Common characteristics. An upper house is usually distinct from the lower house in at least one of a number of ways. Upper houses are frequently: Given less power than the lower house, with special reservations. Composed of members selected in a manner other than by popular election, such as peers or nobles. Used to represent the states of a federation. ...

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Houses: Encyclopedia - House astrology

Most western astrological systems divide the astrological chart (or natal chart) into a number (usually twelve) houses, which depend on the time and place of birth (or initiation) rather than on the date. The houses are divisions of the sky ( including that part of it hidden to us by the Earth beneath our feet) and are usually numbered from the position of the eastern horizon at the time of the observation. There are a range of approaches to calculating these divisions and a wide variety of o ...

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House astrology - House systems

Houses: Encyclopedia - Birla House

Birla House, the palatial house of the Indian business tycoons, Birlas, located a couple of kilometres from the Connaught Place, one of the CBDs of New Delhiis now a well-known tourist attraction in the greenest area of Delhi. This is the place where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life. He was assassinated here. The museum in the building houses a number of articles associated with him, and reflects his life and death. Birla House - External link. Birla House ...

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Houses: Encyclopedia - Ambient house

Ambient house, a mix between house music and ambient music is a music style that describes itself as dreamy, chill out and quiet music. Ambient house usually has no beats but can have an underlying rhythm. Pioneering work was done in the 1970s and 1980s by people like Brian Eno and Klaus Schulze. In the end of the 1980s, when house music was born, people like Mix Master Morris, Dr. Alex Paterson and Pete Namlook filled the chill out rooms of house parti ...

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Ambient house - Key albums

Houses: Encyclopedia - Virginia House of Delegates

The Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years. The House is presided over by the Speaker of the House, who is elected from among the House membership by the Delegates. The Speaker is almost always a member of the majority party and, as Speaker, becomes the most powerful member of the House. The House shares legislative power with the Senate of Virginia, the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The House of Delegates is the modern-day succ ...

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Houses: Encyclopedia - Apsley House

Apsley House, also known as Number 1, London, was the London residence of the First Duke of Wellington and stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing south towards the busy traffic circulation system. It was originally built in red brick by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778 for lord chancellor Baron Apsley who later became the 2nd Earl Bathurst, and who and gave the house its name. The house was given the popular nickname of Number 1, London, since it was the first house passed ...

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Apsley House - Reference

Houses: Encyclopedia - Acid house

Acid house is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. It began in the mid-1980s, when producers of house music discovered that they could create interesting sounds with the Roland TB-303 analogue bass synthesizer by tweaking the resonance and frequency cut-off dials as they played. Acid house music became a central part of the early rave scene in the U.K., and the yellow smiley became its emblem. Acid house - Etymology. There are co ...

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Houses: The Fallen: Encyclopedia - Houses in Demon: The Fallen

In the role-playing game Demon: The Fallen, houses are groups of fallen angels. Unlike factions in Demon: The Fallen, houses resemble the demons' "families". They remain in the same houses throughout their existence. The houses of the demons were twisted and perverted from the houses they once belonged to as angels. Houses in Demon: The Fallen - Defilers. The Defilers, or Lammasu, were given dominion over the seas, and were meant to inspire humanity through the longings of both r ...

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Houses: Encyclopedia - Cork Opera House

Cork Opera House is a theatre and opera house in Cork in the Republic of Ireland. It was originally built in 1855, although its existence has not been continuous; having survived the burning of much of Cork by British forces in reprisal for an ambush of a military convoy in 1920 by Irish rebels, the Opera House nevertheless was burned down in its centenary year by a combination of old wiring and wooden materials. Although Cork had until then boasted the presence of a proper theatre in some form for over 250 years, it wasn't until ...

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