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    Cannons was the focus of the first Duke's artistic patronage – patronage which led to his nickname "The Apollo of the Arts". Brydges filled Cannons with...
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    The Cannon House Office Building, often called the "Old House Office Building", completed in 1908, is the oldest office building of the United States...
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  • depiction of cannons appeared in Song dynasty China as early as the 12th century; however, solid archaeological and documentary evidence of cannons do not appear...
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  • The history of cannons spans several hundred years from the 12th century to modern times. The cannon first appeared in China sometime during the 12th...
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  • active between 1999 and 2003 Cannons (band), a Los Angeles indie pop band Cannons (album), a 2007 album by Phil Wickham "Cannon", a 1995 single by American...
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    to the House rules. The Cannon House Office Building, the oldest congressional office building, was named for him in 1962. Joseph Gurney Cannon was born...
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    Great Britain. The 1st Duke built an exceptionally grand country house called Cannons in Little Stanmore, Middlesex that, though it was parodied in his...
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    the Cannon house. Information about Cannon and Johnson has been confusing, with fact and fiction mixed; Johnson has been described as Cannon's husband or...
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  • The Newton Cannon House is a property in College Grove, Tennessee, that was the home of Newton Cannon, a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Tennessee. The...
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    Smith-Cannon House, also known as the B.O.V.B. (Big Old Victorian Barn), is a historic home located at Timmonsville, Florence County, South Carolina. It...
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  • Burton Cannon House, also known as Windsor, is a historic home located at Cokesbury, Somerset County, Maryland. It is a 1+1⁄2-story frame dwelling, four...
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    Jamaal Bowman (category African-American members of the United States House of Representatives)
    House Democratic Caucus. On October 26, 2023, Bowman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for willfully setting off a false fire alarm in the Cannon House...
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    composed the first version of Acis and Galatea while he was living at Cannons (the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos) during 1717–1718. It was...
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  • Chicago in the 1920s during a previous life. In the following months, the Cannons continued hypnosis, and the patient claimed and detailed a further four...
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  • Gurney Cannon, who also served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives during four congresses and after whom the Cannon House Office...
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  • Gurney Cannon (1836–1926), U.S. Representative from Illinois and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; nicknamed "Uncle Joe" Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945)...
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    (HSOB, completed 1982) The three House office buildings are along Independence Avenue south of the Capitol: Cannon House Office Building (CHOB, completed...
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    produce high-strength steel cannons. Having established a factory in St. Petersburg, he began producing lighter cannons, which were installed with breeched...
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    armament in later fighters. Most other Spitfires had only two cannons because the outboard cannon tended to freeze at high altitudes. These were complemented...
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    architects Carrère and Hastings, who designed the Russell Senate and Cannon House office buildings earlier that year. In 1958, the next major expansion...
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    E. W. Cannon House and Store is a historic home and general store located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. The main house was built about...
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    the late 18th. Between 1713 and 1724, the 1st Duke of Chandos built Cannons house in Little Stanmore. Shortly after, in 1729 Andrew Drummond, the founder...
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    for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos at this church and the nearby Cannons House. Laguerre was also a director of Godfrey Kneller's London Academy of...
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  • Loose Cannons (Italian: Mine vaganti) is a 2010 Italian comedy film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Özpetek also wrote the script with the help of Ivan Cotroneo...
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    demolition sale of Cannons was held in 1747, which dispersed furnishings and structural elements, with the result that elements of Cannons survive in several...
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  • Mayflower, along with a saker and several smaller cannons. They later installed these in the fortified meeting-house that Myles Standish built to defend the town...
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    Witley Court (category Country houses in Worcestershire)
    paintings and furnishings acquired at the auction of the contents of Cannons House. Once reconstructed, the Church interior included painted panels by...
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    Nicholas Scott Cannon (born October 8, 1980) is an American comedian, television host, actor, and rapper. In television, he began as a teenager on All...
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    to 19th centuries Twenty-inch (508 mm) Rodman and Dahlgren smoothbore cannons were cast in 1864 during the American Civil War[citation needed][clarification...
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    Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, filmmaker and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden...
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