The Palace of the Parliament, initially known as the "House of the Republic," is the most spectacular Romanian project completed during Nicolae Ceauseșcu's dictatorship. Click for PDF and Google Slides worksheets.
Yoon survived the impeachment vote after his party walked out of the National Assembly,boycottingthe proceedings. As a result of theboycott, only 195 members of parliament voted for impeachment, falling short of the 200 votes required. Afterward, Han stated that the PPP sought to minimize confusi...
critical of his attempts to ally England with Spain. James in a fury tore the record of the offending Protestations from the House of Commons’ journal and dissolved the Parliament. The duke of Buckingham had begun inenmitywith Prince Charles, who became the heir when his brother Prince Henry...
In the spring of 1774, the British Parliament’s passage of the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts, including the closing of the port of Boston, provoked keen resentment in the colonies. The First Continental Congress, convened in response to the Acts by the colonial Committees of Correspondence, met...
Budapest: The metropolitan city is located along the Danube. The Hungarian parliament is in the commercial lower part of the city calledPest. Here you find the main business district, the museums and Heroes Square as well as the famous Fashion Street district with all the shopping malls. On ...
parliament is based on the British system of two houses. The lower house consists of representatives directly elected from Nepal’s 205 constituencies. Of the 60 members of the upper house, 10 are appointed by the king, 35 are elected by the lower house, and 15 are elected from Nepal’s ...
From 1929 to 1932 the party vastly increased its membership and voting strength; its vote in elections to the Reichstag (the German Parliament) increased from 800,000 votes in 1928 to about 14,000,000 votes in July 1932, and it thus emerged as the largest voting bloc in the Reichstag, ...
Secondly, people have died in the Houses of Parliament in the past – one such person was Sir John Cust, the then Speaker of the House who is said to have died of a result of not being able to leave the chair during the sitting to go to the loo. ...
The room was last used in 1880 when MP Charles Bradlaugh–a staunch atheist who’d won his seat in the House of Commons as a radical–refused to swear his allegiance to Queen Victoria on the bible. He was only held in the tower overnight but was denied his seat in Parliament for five...
As citizens head to the polls to elect a new European Parliament, observers are once again asking whether far-right anti-European parties will gain ground and unite to destroy the European Union from within. To be sure, skeptics of this doomsday scenario have always argued that the far right...