Posts tagged ‘house’

Jaycee Dugard

September 7th, 2011

Authorities have said the couple drove the girl 168 miles south to their home in Antioch and held her prisoner there for the next 18 years, four months and 16 days. At first, she was locked in the shed, then confined to a series of tents she would come to share with the daughters fathered [...]

Uganda Gay

August 2nd, 2011

In January, gay activist David Kato was slain after a Ugandan newspaper, Rolling Stone, published names and photographs of gays under the headline “Hang them!” Uganda Gay The White House released a statement to The Advocate, stating that United States president Barack Obama “strongly opposes efforts, such as the draft law pending in Uganda, that [...]

Nixon

July 30th, 2011

Nixon first gained national attention in 1948 when his investigation, as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, (HUAC) broke the impasse of the Alger Hiss spy case. While many doubted Whittaker Chambers’ allegations that Hiss, a former State Department official, had been a Soviet spy, Nixon believed the allegations to be true. He [...]

Patrick Kennedy

March 29th, 2011

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) railed against the Washington press corps today on the House floor for paying more attention to the likes of scandal-ridden Eric Massa than the war in Afghanistan. Patrick Kennedy Edward Kennedy died on Aug. 25, 2009, at the Kennedy compound in Barnstable, Mass., after a 15-month battle with brain cancer. His [...]

Real Estate Law

March 19th, 2011

The size of an apartment or house can be described in square feet or meters. In the United States, this includes the area of "living space", excluding the garage and other non-living spaces. The "square meters" figure of a house in Europe may report the total area of the walls enclosing the home, thus including [...]

Ashley Turton

January 12th, 2011

What is going on with US????? YEA I MEAN US. We as a people are not thinking too straight and are not doing the right things. This should not have happened, but it did and I venture to see who is gonna man up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. This was written on the wall [...]

John Boehner

January 5th, 2011

He shepherded the bill through one of the most partisan House committees by forming an alliance with then-ranking Democrat Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), whom he invited to early meetings on the education overhaul with President Bush. But Boehner opposes extending No Child standards to high schools. John Boehner John Boehner Boehner's legislative successes earned him [...]

Amy Fisher

December 30th, 2010

As Mary Jo was talking, she noticed a car parked in front of her house with a young man sitting in the drivers seat. She asked who was in the car and the girl said that it was her boyfriend. Changing the subject, the girl told her she had proof of the affair and held [...]

Chinese Vase

November 15th, 2010

The sale far surpassed the expectations of the auctioneer, Bainbridge's, and the vase's owners, a brother and sister who had inherited it and arranged the house clearance on the death of their parents. Chinese Vase Chinese Vase by Neil MacGregor £18.00 A 18th-century Chinese vase sells for record-breaking $85M : High … A 18th-century Chinese [...]