Bundesrat. Upper house of Swiss, German, Austria Parliaments.

Bundestag. Lower House of German Parliament 1949-. Elects Chancellor.

Chambers, William. 1726-96. English Palladian architect. Somerset House 1776-86.

Chocolate. 1519 Cortes brings to Spain 1657 first Chocolate House. 1847 Fry: bars. 1875 Peter: Milk Chocolate.

Coffee. 16/17C to Europe. 1650 Oxford. First coffee house.

Congress, US. Senate and House of Representatives. Legislative branch of government.

Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.

Fire of London. 1666. Four days. 87 churches. 13,200 houses. 100,000 homeless. Rebuilt in 10 years. 1136 fire was previously known as Great Fire of London.

Five Hundred, Council of. 1795. Lower House of French Parliament.

Garnier, Charles. 1825-98. French architect. Paris Opera House 1860.

Gunpowder Plot. Nov 5, 1605. Conspiracy of Catholics against James I. Betrayed, the Houses of Parliament were not blown up. Guy Fawkes is burned in effigy each year. Catesby.

Haussman. Baron. 1809-91. Parisian town plan, 1852. Opera House. Bois de Boulogne.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. 1804-64. US author: Scarlet Letter 1850. House of Seven Gables 1851.

Hercules, Tower of. Roman lighthouse in Spain, still in use.

Hoban, James. 1762-1831. US architect. White House 1792.

Holyroodhouse. 1501 Edinburgh Palace.

Ibsen, Henrik. 1828-1906. Norwegian social and psychological dramatist. Peer Gynt 1867. Doll’s House 1879. Hedda Gabler 1890.

Invalides. 1670-7. Louis XIV built to house 4,000 invalid soldiers. Architect: Bruant, dome by Mansart. Tomb of Napoleon.

Jones, Inigo. 1573-1652. English architect who introduced Palladian style. Greenwich House 1616. Whitehall Banquet Hall 1619.

Kremlin. 1156 walled city. Moscow Imperial Palace to 1712. Now houses Russian government.

Kyi, Aung San Suu. 1945-. Burmese. Leader of nonviolent movement for human rights in Myanmar. House arrest 1989-95.

Lares. Roman gods of households and fields.

Le Corbusier. 1887-1965. Swiss Functionalist architecht, urbanist. -“A house is a machine to live in”.

Ledoux, Claude Nicolas. 1736-1806. French Neoclassical architect. Tollhouses.

Lloyd’s. English insurance society created in Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House 1688.

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