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| | Inside the Oval Office |
 | | Over the years, the White House Military Office has adapted to the evolving role of the President in American society, providing the highest quality service to meet the requirements of the Commander-in-Chief. | | | Go to "Ask the White House" -- an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to White House officials or read previous discussions. | | | President Bush on Thursday said, "Welcome, everybody, to the White House. |
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: House of the Seven Gables - Full Summary and Analysis |
| | He muses about the House of the Seven Gables, which he envisions as an elderly man of stern countenance. | | | Upon his death, the house passed to his nephew, the cousin of the man convicted of murder. | | | The House of the Seven Gables is, as Hawthorne explains in his preface, a romance, which he defines as "a legend prolonging itself" and connecting a bygone time with the present. |
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| | Isle of Man - Factfile - Government |
| | The Isle of Man has no voting rights in the English parliament and the Lord Bishop's seat in the House of Lords is a courtesy seat only. | | | The Tynwald Court is the term used to describe the Isle of Man's Parliament, made up of the Legislative Council or Upper House and the House of Keys or Lower House. | | | The Legislative Council is made up of eight members elected by the House of Keys plus the Lord Bishop and the Attorney General. |
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| | 1792 - Strange Secrets Of The White House |
| | But it is interesting that James Hoban, a Mason, chose the Leinster House, the birthplace of Irish Freemasonry, as the model for the USA's executive mansion. | | | The man who built the Leinster House was James Fitzgerald, the 20th Earl of Kildare. | | | The White House, then known as "the President's House," was the first public building to be erected in Washington. |
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| | vfear11.txt |
| | The latest tenants of the Manor House had, however, with characteristic energy, set this right, and the drawbridge was not only capable of being raised, but actually was raised every evening and lowered every morning. | | | In age he may have been about fifty, with a strong-jawed, rugged face, a grizzling moustache, peculiarly keen gray eyes, and a wiry, vigorous figure which had lost nothing of the strength and activity of youth. | | | Douglas had given him the impression that some danger was hanging over his head, and he had always looked upon his sudden departure from California, and also his renting a house in so quiet a place in England, as being connected with this peril. |
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| | #50 Jesus vs. Beelzebub: Overpowering the Strong Man (Luke 11:14-28) -- JesusWalk |
| | This is a curious parable if we were to allegorize it by making the demonized man correspond to the "house" that is guarded by its owner, the prince of demons. | | | "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. | | | [21] "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. |
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| | Vikings - Isle of Man - Leif Eriksson |
| | At 12, Leif was considered a man and traveled back to his father's house. | | | The government consists of an elected president; a Legislative Council, or upper house; and a popularly elected House of Keys, or lower house. | | | The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom but rather is a crown possession (since 1828) that is self-governing in its internal affairs under the supervision of the British Home Office. |
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| | HERMANN HESSE |
| | Hesse's parents met when Johannes Hesse, then a Pietist missionary in Malabar, India had to return to Europe due to ill-health and settled in Calw to assist Hermann Gundert at the Calw Publishing House of the Basel Missionary Society. | | | Hesse, somewhat removed from the "war psychosis", appealed to his fellow man to return to spiritual values and the virtues of "justice, moderation, decency, and love". | | | Hesse was born on July 2, 1877, in the town of Calw at the Northern edge of the Black Forest. |
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| | Isle of Man - Factfile - Government |
| | The Isle of Man has no voting rights in the English parliament and the Lord Bishop's seat in the House of Lords is a courtesy seat only. | | | The Tynwald Court is the term used to describe the Isle of Man's Parliament, made up of the Legislative Council or Upper House and the House of Keys or Lower House. | | | Matters of common concern to the UK and the Isle of Man such as external relations and defence are the responsibility of the UK Home Secretary Jack Straw and the Home Office Minister Lord Bassam of Brighton. |
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| | Sir Maurice Oldfield |
| | Many in SIS and at Stormont considered the Prime Minister's behavior to be a betrayal of a man who had forsaken the short-lived pleasures of his retirement in order to serve her. | | | One of Oldfield's colleagues from Stormont says the story about the pub is wrong, and that the former SIS chief was questioned about an incident which had happened well before he arrived in Northern Ireland. | | | Oldfield, a bachelor, lived in a flat above his offices in Stormont House, which adjoins the castle which was once home to the devolved Northern Ireland government. |
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| | Isle of Man - Factfile - Government |
| | The Isle of Man has no voting rights in the English parliament and the Lord Bishop's seat in the House of Lords is a courtesy seat only. | | | The Tynwald Court is the term used to describe the Isle of Man's Parliament, made up of the Legislative Council or Upper House and the House of Keys or Lower House. | | | Matters of common concern to the UK and the Isle of Man such as external relations and defence are the responsibility of the UK Home Secretary Jack Straw and the Home Office Minister Lord Bassam of Brighton. |
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| | The house that Jinnah built |
| | THIS volume appeared just about the time the Government of India decided to allow the Indian Council of Cultural Relations to occupy the magnificent Jinnah House at Mount Pleasant Road in Mumbai. | | | Less famous was Jinnah's house at 10 Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi where the Ambassador of the Netherlands now resides. | | | Jinnah was then in Quetta, a dying man. He breathed his last on his arrival at Karachi on September 11, 1948. |
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| | The Nepal Digest: The Nepal Digest - September 13, 1995 (30 Bha |
| | The Supreme court had ruled Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikary's recommendation to dissolve the lower house of parliament and hold elections was unconstitutional. | | | a no-confidence motion tabled by the main opposition the nepali congress (nc) against prime minister man mohan adhikari of the communist minority government was approved with 107 for and 88 against at the special session of the nepali 205-seat lower house here this afternoon. | | | The man to succeed Adhikari as prime minister is 49-year-old Sher Bahadur Deuba. |
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| | At the meeting of the House of Representatives on July 4, leader of the main opposition Man Mohan Adhikari raised the questions that the royal address was silent about resolving the problem of 2 million tenant farmers and the situation of peace and security was very critical. | | | The 8th session of the House of Representatives, besides electing the NC MP Ramchandra Paudel and the RPP MP Ramvilas Yadav as speaker and deputy speaker respectively, formally granted vote of confidence to the newly formed cabinet under the leadership of premier Man Mohan Adhikari. | | | The adjournment proposal presented by Man Mohan Adhikari, the leader of the main opposition, CPN (UML), on April 4 was rejected by 102 votes against 71. |
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| | News 7th May 2004 OneinFour.org |
| | The man who has been on hunger strike outside Leinster House for 22 days has given up his protest and is taking his case back to the High Court. | | | Mr Gogarty protested and the Ceann Comhairle ordered him to leave the House when he refused to resume his seat. | | | Mr Sweeney was earlier taken into Leinster House in a wheelchair by the Dublin South West Fianna Fáil TD Charlie O'Connor for talks. |
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| | Isle of Man - Government |
| | The Isle of Man is an internally self-governing dependent territory of the British Crown. | | | Tynwald is bicameral and consists of the House of Keys (which is elected by universal suffrage) and the Legislative Council (whose members are primarily elected by members of the House of Keys). | | | As a Crown Dependency, the Isle of Man is independent in all matters except foreign affairs and defence which are the responsibility of the UK Government and for which the Isle of Man pays an annual contribution. |
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| | Some violent cons getting house arrest - The Clarion-Ledger |
| | When a judge sentences someone to house arrest, Epps said his department isn't going to interfere with the process although the inmate may not be eligible by law for the program. | | | In the case of a Scott County man sentenced Feb. 24 in Leake County for sexual battery and furnishing an inmate with contraband, Circuit Judge Vernon Cotten sentenced James K. Chisolm, 40, to three years in MDOC with two suspended on each of the counts. | | | Bolivar County Circuit Judge Albert B. Smith III placed Roach on house arrest after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter last July. |
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| | Isle Of Man Policy Holder Protection |
| | The Upper House, the Legislative Council, is made up of ten people and includes the President of Tynwald, the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, and HM Attorney General. | | | Queen Elizabeth II, Lord of Man, is the Head of State and her personal representative on the Island is His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor. | | | Companies that are based in the Isle Of Man and who are governed by the Insurance Act 1986. |
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| | Presidential advisor: Edward M. House |
| | House had gone to Cornell to be with his friend, an early indication of a capacity for self-effacement, for attachment to the nearest great man at hand who could take him behind the scenes. | | | It was not merely because representatives of foreign governments found Colonel House easy to see when they could not gain access to President Wilson that kept a throng running to his quarters in the Crillon; it was because there they found the line of least resistance. | | | The simple heart of Colonel House did not save him, either as a diplomat or as a friend. |
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| | Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia |
| | The man responsible for building the house was Governor Sir John Wentworth, formerly governor of New Hampshire. | | | By the time the cornerstone was laid for Government House in 1800, the British had been in command of the region on and off for 150 years and Halifax had been the colony’s capital for almost half a century. | | | The interior design of the house was adapted so that it could be both a residence for the governor, his family and servants, as well as being able to accommodate state functions. |
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| | Jurisdictions - Isle of Man |
| | The Isle of Man is not a Member of the European Union, but enjoys a special associate status by virtue of Protocol 3 of the Treaty of Accession of the United Kingdom to the Treaty of Rome. | | | The Legislative Council consists of eight Members, elected by the lower house, the House of Keys, and the Bishop and Attorney General, neither of whom has voting rights. | | | HM Queen Elizabeth II holds the title Lord of Man, and is ultimately responsible for the government of the Island, and all legislation passed by Tynwald has to have Royal Assent before being enacted. |
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| | Mark Twain in Sacramento Union - #12 |
| | The Nobles are able, educated, fine-looking man, who do not talk often, but when they do they generally say something - a remark which will not apply to all their white associates in the same house. | | | At 11 A.M. His Royal Highness the President called the House to order. | | | The handful of Nobles and Ministers, being backed by the King and acting as his mouth pieces, outweigh the common multitude on the other side of the House, and carry things pretty much their own way. |
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| | Colonel House served the President in many different roles - as friend, adviser, scout, observer, secret agent, political manipulator, negotiator, and sifter of information and opinion. | | | Colonel House, too, had a certain initial American suspicion of Europe, but he was a much more sociable man than Wilson, and he was at once more trustful of, and more sensitive to, the upper officialized opinion. | | | House proposed to buy the assent of the Allies to a conference to end the war by offering to enter the war on the side of the Allies if Germany refused the conference or insisted upon a victorious peace. |
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| | Heimskringla: Harald Harfager's Saga |
| | King Harald's sons, Halfdan the Black and Sigrod, who had been before in the house of his father Earl Hakon, continued to be brought up in his house. | | | Eirik, Harald's son, was fostered in the house of the herse Thorer, son of Hroald, in the Fjord district. | | | After King Harald had experienced the cunning of the Fin woman, he was so angry that he drove from him the sons he had with her, and would not suffer them before his eyes. |
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| | Legislative Council (Isle of Man) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Formerly, the Lieutenant Governor presided over the Legislative Council and over Tynwald Court (a joint session of the Council and the House of Keys). | | | Isle of Man is the upper Branch of | | | House of Keys votes by secret ballot to elect the MLCs, who must be twenty-one years old and a resident for three years, to four year terms; four members are chosen at a time so that the Council has a rotating membership. |
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| | Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia |
| | This is the house that Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the man who painstakingly founded a brand new nation in 1947 called Pakistan, built barely 11 years earlier, when he returned from London to Bombay (as Mumbai was known then) to take charge of the Muslim League. | | | Indeed, when Vajpayee visited Pakistan in his earlier reincarnation as foreign minister in 1978, he had pointed out that the Jinnah house would be "returned" once the British consul-general evacuated the property (that happened in 1982). | | | In 1981, foreign minister P V Narasimha Rao of the Congress also told the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of parliament, that India had promised to do right by Pakistan, and so the Jinnah house would go back to the Pakistani people. |
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| | K. LEROY IRVIS |
| | ou have elected not a black man to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, but, more importantly, you have elected a man who happens to be black, and that is the direction that this country must continue to go. | | | Eight years later, he became the first Speaker of African-American heritage in the nation. | | | Speaker Irvis was a profound believer in the "American Dream." In 1975, he told fellow Pennsylvanians that "We need to rekindle our love of liberty and our confidence on our political system. |
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