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  • Thumbnail for Great Pyramid of Giza
    King's Chamber. Above the roof of the King's Chamber are five compartments, named (from lowest upwards) "Davison's Chamber", "Wellington's Chamber", "Nelson's...
    139 KB (16,640 words) - 13:24, 5 June 2024
  • Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one...
    32 KB (2,147 words) - 23:42, 4 June 2024
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    A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is...
    32 KB (3,167 words) - 01:56, 25 February 2024
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    the sixteenth century, and the Lords used the Painted Chamber and, from 1801, the White Chamber. The palace underwent significant alterations from the...
    121 KB (13,218 words) - 12:39, 27 May 2024
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    Hogwarts (redirect from Chamber of Secrets)
    first-year students initially arrive at the castle, they wait in a small chamber off the entrance hall until the older students have taken their seats,...
    56 KB (7,278 words) - 19:14, 4 June 2024
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    Staten-Generaal [ˈtʋeːdə ˈkaːmər dər ˈstaːtə(ŋ) ˌɣeːnəˈraːl] , literally "Second Chamber of the States General", or simply Tweede Kamer) is the lower house of the...
    29 KB (1,838 words) - 15:17, 9 May 2024
  • Bicameralism (redirect from Second Chamber)
    was effectively an Upper Chamber and a Lower Chamber, with the knights and burgesses sitting in the latter. This Upper Chamber became known as the House...
    83 KB (5,596 words) - 07:43, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for United Nations Security Council
    Council generally meets in a designated chamber in the United Nations Conference Building in New York City. The chamber was designed by the Norwegian architect...
    106 KB (10,717 words) - 16:07, 4 June 2024
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    Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber...
    102 KB (11,297 words) - 23:37, 30 May 2024
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    Zealand Legislative Council Chamber of Peers (France) Chamber of Most Worthy Peers (Portugal) Chamber of Peers (Spain) Chamber of Princes (British India)...
    129 KB (15,705 words) - 10:45, 2 June 2024
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    Court chamber from 1860 until 1935. This room was originally the lower half of the Old Senate Chamber from 1800 to 1806. After division of the chamber in...
    94 KB (9,522 words) - 02:29, 31 May 2024
  • Upper house (redirect from First chamber)
    upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. The house formally designated as the upper house...
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  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the 1998 novel of...
    92 KB (6,800 words) - 22:46, 3 June 2024
  • Lower house (redirect from Second chamber)
    A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where second chamber is the upper house. Although formally styled as "below" the upper house...
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  • Thumbnail for Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
    The Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei deputati) is the lower house of the bicameral Italian Parliament, the upper house being the Senate of the...
    88 KB (1,176 words) - 03:42, 1 May 2024
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    A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the...
    19 KB (1,969 words) - 11:05, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hollywood Walk of Fame
    characters, and others. The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who hold the trademark rights, and maintained by the self-financing...
    105 KB (10,161 words) - 17:06, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
    The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados, pronounced [ˈkamaɾa ðe ðipuˈtaðos]) is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, the bicameral...
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  • Thumbnail for Diving chamber
    A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than...
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    Sulfuric acid (redirect from Chamber acid)
    concentrations are: "Chamber acid" and "tower acid" were the two concentrations of sulfuric acid produced by the lead chamber process, chamber acid being the...
    65 KB (7,197 words) - 08:02, 1 June 2024
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