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American Friends Service Committee

(Encyclopedia)American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), organization est. 1917 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) that provides social services and information to the public in an attempt to promote int...

Lords, House of

(Encyclopedia)Lords, House of: see Parliament. ...

Commons, House of

(Encyclopedia)Commons, House of: see Parliament. ...

House of Commons

(Encyclopedia)House of Commons: see Parliament. ...

House of Lords

(Encyclopedia)House of Lords: see Parliament.

Rye House Plot

(Encyclopedia)Rye House Plot, 1683, conspiracy to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James, duke of York (later James II), as they passed by Rumbold's Rye House in Hertfordshire on the road from Newm...

Representatives, House of

(Encyclopedia)Representatives, House of: see Congress of the United States. ...

House of Representatives

(Encyclopedia)House of Representatives: see Congress of the United States. ...

half-timber house

(Encyclopedia)half-timber house, type of construction of the Middle Ages in N Europe, used chiefly for dwellings. Some French examples date from the 12th cent., and by the 13th cent. the building method had reached...

Hanover, house of

(Encyclopedia)Hanover, house of, ruling dynasty of Hanover (see Hanover, province), which was descended from the Guelphs and which in 1714 acceded to the British throne in the person of George I. George was the gra...