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  White House Summary
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America.
The White House is a white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president's administration.
The White House was built after Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States on July 16, 1790.
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 White Cross Resources & Information - black and white cross
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of 14k white gold childrens cross two lines or bars intersecting large white gold cross each other at a 90° angle, dividing one or two of the lines in half.
It is not known when the first david white mini-laser cross level cross image was made; after circles, crosses are one of the first symbols drawn by children of all cultures.
The cross dave white cross country coach doesn't have to be at this particular angle to qualify as a saltire; the symbol X can also be considered a St. Andrew's Cross.
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 House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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).
A house generally has at least one entrance, usually in the form of a door or a portal, and may have any number of windows or none at all.
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).
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 House :: Web Articles ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
House in its most general sense is a human-built dwelling with enclosing walls, a floor, and a roof.
Cheese House, Horton, NorthamptonshireIn 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).
A business may be housed in a storefront, or a family may be housed in an apartment or a house.
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 BUILDING A HOUSE
In Britain 27% of the population lives in terraced houses and 32% in semi-detached houses (as of 2002).
A (Face house) is built in one or more facess; though it occurs most commonly as a fort or playhouse for children, this design sometimes serves as a house for adults.
Archaeologists have a particular interest in house shape: they see the transition over time from round huts to rectangular houses as a significant advance in optimising the use of space, and associate it with the growth of the idea of a personal area.
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 White House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States.
Ellipse and White House, early 20th century It is one of the few government buildings in Washington that is wheelchair-accessible, modifications having been made during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was confined to a wheelchair as a result of polio.
As with much of the White House at the time, the West Wing was substantially remodeled and expanded for President Theodore Roosevelt by the New York architects McKim, Mead and White and contained a new cabinet room, with a small, square office next door that served as the President's office.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/White House
It is located on Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is used as a metonym for a U.S. president's administration.
Although the White House grounds have had many gardeners through their history, the general design, still largely used as master plan today, was designed in 1935 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
The White House remained accessible in other ways as well; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “General” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.
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 House - White Wolf - A Wikia wiki
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
House, one of the Sebettu, or seven Celestial Houses of Fallen from Demon: The Fallen?
House, one of the eleven families of decendents of the Scarlet Empress from Exalted?
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 Christmas tree - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
These lights are usually white, but often are green, red, red/green, blue/white, blue, or multicoloured, and sometimes with a small controller to fade colours back and forth.
Images of the royal family with their Christmas tree at Osborne House were illustrated in English magazines, initially as a woodcut in the Illustrated London News of December 1848, and copied in the United States at Christmas 1850 (illustration, left).
National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. The United States' National Christmas Tree is lit each year south of the White House in Washington, D.C. Today, the lighting of the National Tree is part of what has become a major holiday event at the White House.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 4,000 universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
For admissions into the system, a fl male is, on average, 8-10 times more likely than a white male to be sent to prison for drug offenses, and, in the state with the largest discrepancy, Illinois, 57 times more likely [7].
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 White (people) - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
White nationalists in the United States often have a definition of "Whiteness" that is much more limited than the official government definition.
In the US, White consciousness was first encouraged to help maintain a caste system and control of labor; then when expansion of the in-group became politically desirable in the early 20th century as a result of mass politics, the definition of White was widened to include Southern and Eastern Europeans.
The broad usage of "White" is sometimes criticized by those who argue that it de-ethnicizes various groups, although the same charge is not leveled at the question of ethnic diversity within fls.
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 Houses :: Portraits from Photos : Gourt
The word "house" may also apply to a building provided to shelter animals, especially within a zoo.
The house often provides a permanent residence for a family or for a similar social unit.
People may leave their house most of the day for work and recreation, but typically return 'home", to their house, at least for sleeping.
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 United States - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation) The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, or the States — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America.
The Congress is a bicameral lawmaking institution composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The House has 435 members called representatives or congressmen and congresswomen, whom are elected by the people of a congressional district to represent that district for a term of two years.
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 White House (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White House, the official residence of the President of the United States;
White House, Suffolk, a neighbourhood of Ipswich, England
White House (song), recorded by Eric Burdon and the Animals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_House_(disambiguation)   (181 words)

  
 office space dc
President, the term "White House" is often used as a synonym for the president's administration.
North side of the White HouseThis is the official entrance of the White House.
James Hoban, an Irishman, was awarded the honor and construction began with the laying of the cornerstone on November 10, 1792.
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 United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The House of Representatives has 435 members, each representing a congressional district for a two-year term.
House seats are apportioned among the states according to population every tenth year.
Following the 2006 mid-term elections, the Democratic Party holds a majority of seats in both the House and Senate for the first time since 1994, except for a Democratic plurality in the Senate in 2001–02.
www.tocatch.info /en/United_States.htm   (5224 words)

  
 John Dean Summary
There's no one else in the White House that has any knowledge of what's going on there at all." Dean attempted to involve the Central Intelligence Agency in the cover-up and was involved in pay-offs to the Watergate burglars for their silence.
As White House Counsel he became deeply involved in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover up, even referred to as "master manipulator of the cover up" by the FBI.
Armed with newspaper articles indicating the White House had possession of FBI Watergate files the committee chairman, Sam Ervin, questioned Gray as to what he knew about the White House obtaining the files.
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 directopedia : Directory : Recreation : Pets : Cats
Blue-eyed cats with white fur have a higher genetic incidence of deafness.
Completely white cats (not due to albinism, but white because of the dominant epistatic white (W) gene) with two blue eyes have a forty percent probability of being born deaf.
Many people believe that deaf white cats should not be used for breeding as it is not ethical to propagate such a disability, and instead deaf cats should be spayed or neutered to avoid passing the trait to their offspring.
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 White House
The house is a white-painted, neoclassical mansion constructed of Aquia sandstone.
It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is used as a metonym for a president's administration.
The property is owned by the National Park Service and is part of "President's Park." The White House switchboard can be reached at 202-456-1414.
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 sociology - John F. Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Kennedys brought a new life and vigor to the atmosphere of the White House.
They believed that the White House should be a place to celebrate American history, culture, and achievement and invited artists, writers, scientists, poets, musicians, actors, Nobel Prize winners and athletes to visit.
The White House also seemed like a more fun, youthful place, because of the Kennedys' two young children, Caroline and John Jr.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/John_F._Kennedy   (3688 words)

  
 Ruis de Mendoza Ibáñez: Implicatures
While disambiguation and reference assignment are familiar linguistic phenomena, the notion of enrichment is entirely new.
Thus, for example (2), it is not possible to say that since the beaches were crowded it follows that speaker B did not enjoy his holidays, simply because we may have a situation in which the speaker does love crowded beaches.
It is evident that this implication is an implicature since it may not be derived solely on the basis of what is said and that the truistic expression "some distance" is to be developed before this implicature may be derived.
cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Ruiz_98.html   (4652 words)

  
 Lojban Reference Grammar: Chapter 12
Now, the White House counts as a “gerku zdani” if there is any relationship (r) at all between the White House and Spot.
As we have seen, no less than five elements are involved in the definition of “gerku zdani”: the house, the house dweller, the dog, the dog breed (everywhere a dog goes in Lojban, a dog breed follows), and the relationship between the house and the dog.
The relationship “dog chases cat owned by daughter of person living in house” is too distant, and too incidental, to be likely to need expression as a single short word; the relationship “dog lives in house” is not.
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 Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, 2nd Edition - $46.39   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It's also clear that these important stakeholders of your system, such as neighbors and zoning officials, are not users (homeowners), and it seems equally obvious that their perspectives on what makes a quality home may differ from the homeowner's opinion.
The requirements of a house might be described, at least in part, with a set of blueprints and a list of specifications; similarly, a software system can be described with models and diagrams.
But just as the blueprints for a house are intended as a communication and negotiation mechanism between laypeople and engineers-and lawyers and inspectors and nosy neighbors-so the technical diagrams associated with a software system can also be created in such a way that "ordinary" people can understand them.
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 Top20UnitedStates.com - Your Top20 Guide to United States!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Congress is a bicameral law- making institution composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which both meet in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC.
The House has 435 members, called representatives or congressmen/congresswomen, are elected by the people of a congressional district to represent that district for a term of two years.
On the same day as House elections, roughly one third of the Senate seats are contested, one each from roughly two thirds of the states on a rotational basis.
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 José Ruiz de Mendoza, Semantic Underdetermination
So far, the procedures of disambiguation, fixation of reference and the two forms of enrichment (saturation and strengthening) which we have discussed seem to add to the initial assumption schema.
In the former, the White House (the source of the metonymy) stands for some of the officials working there (the target), so the target is a subdomain of the source.
Now, it is evident that the 'White House' -- 'White House officials' mapping is communicatively different from the 'Hamlet' -- 'actor performing Hamlet's role' one, since in the former the target is a rather vague domain, while in the latter clear (but cognitively more economical) identification of the target is the main aim.
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 Inform Platypus Tips
With these object definitions, the player can refer to "key", "key lime", "house", "house key", and "white", and the game will pick the object that you would expect for each.
I suggest that you not do this; you'll only end up annoying players who, for example, type >X WHITE knowing that the game should be able to tell that they mean the white house.
For our purposes it will suffice to note that it is called with an argument that is a code for the circumstance in which it is called, which is equal to 2 when it is trying to pick an object to disambiguate to.
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 house - OneLook Dictionary Search
Example: "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"
Phrases that include house: full house, white house, charnel house, house of lords, public house, more...
Words similar to house: mansion, family, firm, home, housed, houseful, household, houseless, houselessness, housing, menage, sign, theater, theatre, business firm, planetary house, put up, sign of the zodiac, more...
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 White House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is used as a metonym for a U.S. president's administration.
The original residence is in the center, two colonnades - one on the east and the west designed by Jefferson now serve to connect to the later East and West Wings.
The White House includes: 6 stories and 55,000 ft² (5,100 m²) of floor space, 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms [3], 412 doors, 147 windows, 8 fireplaces, 8 staircases, 3 elevators, 5 full-time chefs, 5,000 visitors a day, a tennis court, bowling alley, movie theater, jogging track, swimming pool, and putting green.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_House   (3677 words)

  
 United States - Gurupedia
The various legislators are in turn chosen primarily by the popular votes in the 50 states.
Members of Congress are elected for terms of two years in the House of Representatives and six years in the Senate.
This tripartite system is duplicated, with variations, (such as elected governors instead of a president) at the state level.
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