This particular site. The original statehouse built in the 1690s when the capital moved from st. Mary to a. That building remained the primary statehouse until the 17 the sixth when in 1769 legislation was passed to build this state house, the third on the present site. Construction began in 1772 and completed in 1779. The current statehouse twels the two previous statehouses stand on highest point in the city. Which would have afforded a commanding view of the harbor and theed surrounding hand escape in the 17th and 18th centuries this would have been the tallest building in town. It is still the tallette. The statehouse was built in the midof a war which complicate the let efforts to build and conduct government. The first general of the of the sem bring was 1779. Every making this it the the oldest statehouse in continued use. Were standing in the Northeast Corner of the bill i believeding. This is a space while in primary use by the Maryland Senate its National Significance and wha
Which is the Second Largest Group in the senate that was sort of trying to find a way out of triggering article one five they were backdoor negotiations with the authorities. Idea. For snap election was a way of getting out of this article one five five even if it had been triggered that it would be immediately suspended now none of that happened. He was also pushing to have sort of a gradual implementation of the measures government here plans to. Catalonia but then things went very very quickly specially with the ration of independence coming out of barcelona where you did get a feeling that all of a sudden all these parties who were in a sense the Prime Minister in the first place but hard in their. The rally is stronger behind this Prime Minister and the new you got this vote two hundred sixteen votes out of a chamber of two hundred sixty six people so certainly an overwhelming crushing majority for the Prime Minister to go ahead with his plan and hosier is speaking that carlos pur
Parliament is put into lockdown after a Terror Attack outside westminster. It seems that a Police Officer has been stabbed. That the alleged assailant was shot by armed police. As mps are held in the chamber for their own safety, the Scottish Parliament also suspends its sitting. The fact that our Sister Parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate. On a shocking and dramatic day, the first mps knew of the attack was this statement from the deputy speaker, lindsay hoyle. Order i am now going to suspend the sitting of the house. This house is now suspended, but please wait here. Outside the chamber, it was slowly becoming clear what had happened. At around 2 45pm, pedestrians and police had been mown down as the attackers car was driven across Westminster Bridge and crashed into railings. A man then tried to get into parliament and stabbed an armed Police Officer who was protecting one of the entrances. The officer was killed. Police later said the attacker
We had a woman at the top of the democratic ticket for the first time. We had a billionaire at the top of the republican ticket who had a discourse of strong populism. Also in this campaign we saw differences from campaigns in the near past in that sex and race entered into the discourse in new and different ways. Sexism and racism in particular were overtly discussed by candidates in ways that were perpetrated by candidates in ways we had not seen in previous campaigns. Thats not to say previous campaigns did not have sexism and racism, but rarely did we hear those comments coming from the candidates themselves. In part, due to the campaign and how gender and race played into the campaign, we expect gender and race to play large roles in the 45th president ial administration. We already see, for example in terms of policy, donald trump promising to make an executive order to build a wall along the u. S. Mexican border. We also saw responses from Civil Society with regard to gender and
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