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House of Many Colors
The House of Many Colors (Olynthus house F–ii 9) is a large, richly painted Greek house of the fourth century BC in the Villa Section of ancient Olynthus.
House of Medici
The House of Medici, or Medici family, was a Florentine banking and political dynasty whose bank, founded in 1397, was the largest of its time.
House of Mihran
The House of Mihran (مهران) was a Parthian noble house of the Sasanian empire, based at Ray and active from 224 to the Arab conquest.
House of Mist
House of Mist is a 1947 novel in English by the Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal, published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Company.
House of Montmorency
House of Montmorency (maison de Montmorency), medieval French noble family founded by Bouchard le Barbu at Montmorency near Paris; gave France six constables, twelve marshals, four admirals; constable Anne de Montmorency made duke-peer 1551; elder line ended 1632.
House of Mouse
House of Mouse (Disney's House of Mouse) is a 52-episode Walt Disney Television Animation series (ABC, 2001-2003; reruns to 2009) where Mickey emcees a nightclub uniting the Disney canon with shorts and musical numbers.
House of Munsö
House of Munsö, or Munsö dynasty: a putative medieval Swedish royal line named for the Munsö mound, said to descend from semi-legendary Björn Ironside; known mainly from later legendary sagas and treated as speculative.
House of Mușat
The House of Mușat (Dinastia Mușatină) was the ruling dynasty of the Principality of Moldavia, founded by Bogdan I around 1363 and producing rulers such as Stephen the Great until 1668.
House of Mystery
House of Mystery is a DC Comics horror and mystery anthology (1951-1983, 321 issues), later a Vertigo series (2008-2011) about five people trapped in a supernatural bar, hosted in its horror era by Cain the Caretaker.
House of Nassau
House of Nassau, German dynasty whose Walram and Otto branches produced the House of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands) and the Nassau-Weilburg grand dukes of Luxembourg; founded Orange-Nassau when René de Chalon's heir William of Nassau took Orange in 1544.
House of Night
House of Night: YA vampire fantasy series by P.C. and Kristin Cast, 12 novels 2007-2014 plus Other World spinoff, following Zoey Redbird at a Tulsa vampyre boarding school under Goddess Nyx; over 7 million copies sold by 2010.
House of Ninjas
House of Ninjas (忍びの家 House of Ninjas) is a 2024 Netflix Japanese action drama, 8 episodes, about the Tawara family, last shinobi descendants of Hattori Hanzō, created from a story by star Kento Kaku and directed by Dave Boyle.
House of Nobility (Sweden)
Riddarhuset (House of Nobility), Stockholm palace and organization of Sweden's introduced nobility: 657 living families, triennial assembly of nobles, 350-kronor capitation fee, closed to new families since ennoblement ended.
House of Norodom
The House of Norodom, or រាជវង្សនរោត្តម, is Cambodia's current royal house, descended from King Norodom, crowned in 1860, and restored to the throne by the 1993 constitution.
House of Oldenburg
House of Oldenburg (Haus Oldenburg, Oldenborg), European royal dynasty from the German county of Oldenburg; its Christian I became King of Denmark in 1448, and its branches reigned in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Greece, and Oldenburg, with the Glücksburg line on Denmark's throne since 1863.
House of Orange-Nassau
House of Orange-Nassau (Huis Oranje-Nassau), Dutch royal house formed when William the Silent inherited the principality of Orange in 1544. Founded by William I; reigned as stadtholders, kings, and queens; throne vested in William I's descendants.
House of Orléans
House of Orléans (maison d'Orléans): four Capetian princely branches, the last descending from Philippe I, brother of Louis XIV; gave Louis-Philippe I and the July Monarchy 1830–1848, spawned Orleanism, a major current of the French right, and today claims the French throne under Jean d'Orléans, Count of Paris.
House of Osman
The House of Osman (خاندان آل عثمان) is the dynasty founded by Osman I in northwestern Anatolia around 1300, whose descendants ruled the Ottoman Empire until exile in 1924.
House of Pain
House of Pain: American Irish-styled hip-hop trio (Everlast, Danny Boy, DJ Lethal) formed 1990 in Los Angeles, best known for the 1992 multi-platinum hit "Jump Around"; three 1990s Tommy Boy albums, 1996 breakup, later reunions.
House of Peers
The House of Peers (貴族院, Kizokuin) was the upper house of the Imperial Diet of Japan under the Meiji Constitution, created in 1889 as a check on the elected House of Representatives.
House of Peers Ordinance
The House of Peers Ordinance (貴族院令) was an 1889 Japanese imperial ordinance defining the composition of the House of Peers, the upper house of the Imperial Diet.
House of Plantagenet
House of Plantagenet, also house of Anjou or Angevin dynasty: royal house of England reigning 1154–1485 with 14 kings, descended from Geoffrey, count of Anjou, and Empress Matilda; surname adopted only in the mid-15th century.
House of Protection
House of Protection: Los Angeles duo of Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta, both ex-Fever 333, blending hardcore, electronic, rap and metal. Debut EP Galore (2024, Red Bull Records, prod. Jordan Fish); second EP Outrun You All (2025); single Fire.
House of Quality
The House of Quality is a product planning matrix and the basic design tool of quality function deployment, translating customer requirements into ranked engineering characteristics and targets.
House of Representatives (Indonesia)
Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR RI), Indonesia's House of Representatives: directly elected five-yearly national legislature with legislation, budget, and oversight functions under the 1945 Constitution, 13 commissions in 2024-2029.
House of Representatives (Libya)
Libya's House of Representatives (مجلس النواب) is the interim 200-seat legislature elected 25 June 2014, seated in Tobruk from 4 August 2014 under Speaker Aguila Saleh, now one of two rival parliaments alongside the High Council of State.
House of Representatives (Nepal)
House of Representatives (प्रतिनिधि सभा), Nepal's 275-member lower house: 165 FPTP seats and 110 proportional seats under the 2015 Constitution; RSP won 182 seats in the 2026 election.
House of Representatives (Netherlands)
House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer), 150-member directly elected lower chamber of the Dutch States-General. Proportional representation, no threshold, 19 districts, quota plus d'Hondt residual seats, elections every four years.
House of Representatives (Nigeria)
House of Representatives (Nigeria), the Green Chamber: lower chamber of the National Assembly with 360 members from federal constituencies; Speaker Tajudeen Abbas leads the 10th Assembly; powers cover lawmaking, budget, oversight.
House of Representatives (衆議院) (Japan)
House of Representatives (衆議院, Shūgiin), lower house of Japan's National Diet: 465 members (289 constituencies, 176 proportional representation), four-year terms subject to dissolution, legislative and budgetary precedence over the House of Councillors, 1994 electoral reform, and 2024 and 2026 election results.