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House of the Dragon season 3
House of the Dragon season 3, the eight-episode third season of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel based on Fire & Blood, premiered June 21, 2026 on HBO Max, opening with the Battle of the Gullet under showrunner Ryan Condal.
House of the High Priest
The House of the High Priest, also called the Maison du Grand-Prêtre, is a Late Bronze Age building at Ugarit, Syria, where the Baal Cycle was found.
House of the Hotel
House of the Hotel (Casa dell'Albergo), largest Roman domus at Herculaneum, Insula III; Augustan period, only private bath suite in the city, peristyle pomarium garden; name from Bonucci's mistaken inn identification.
House of the Sea
Haus des Meeres (House of the Sea), Aqua Terra Zoo: Vienna public aquarium and zoo inside a WWII flak tower in Esterhazypark; opened 7 June 1958 as Austria's first saltwater aquarium, over 10,000 animals on 11 floors, owned by its nonprofit operator since 2015.
House of the Tiles
House of the Tiles (Oikia ton Keramon): Early Helladic II corridor house at Lerna, Argolid, Greece, c. 25x12 m, two-storey, fired clay and schist tile roof, 143 clay sealings in Room XI, destroyed by fire c. 2200 BCE, excavated by Caskey 1952-1957.
House of the Virgin Mary
The House of the Virgin Mary, also called Meryemana, is a small stone chapel near Ephesus, Turkey, venerated by Christians and Muslims as where Mary lived her last years.
House of Torture
House of Torture (ハウス・オブ・トーチャー) is a heel stable in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, formed September 4, 2021 by EVIL, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, and Dick Togo as a Bullet Club sub-group, known for interference-based cheating and expelled from Bullet Club in May 2025.
House of Traps (冲霄楼)
House of Traps (冲霄楼, Chong xiao lou) is a 1982 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and Ni Kuang, adapted from Three Heroes and Five Gallants; the last Venom Mob film, released 9 January 1982.
House of Trastámara
The House of Trastámara (Casa de Trastámara) is a royal dynasty that reigned in Castile from 1369, in Aragon from 1412, and in Naples from 1458.
House of Tudor
House of Tudor: Welsh-origin English royal dynasty ruling 1485-1603 through Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I; founded at Bosworth 1485, ended with Elizabeth's death and James VI/I's Stuart accession.
House of Usher
House of Usher, aka The Fall of the House of Usher, is Roger Corman's 1960 AIP horror film starring Vincent Price, the first of his eight Poe adaptations, shot in 15 days for $270,000 and grossing $2 million.
House of Valois
House of Valois (Maison de Valois), Capetian cadet branch ruling France 1328–1589 from Philip VI to Henry III; Orléans and Angoulême branches; Salic law, Hundred Years' War, Valois Burgundy.
House of Vasa
The House of Vasa was a Swedish royal dynasty founded by Gustav Vasa, whose Polish branch ruled the Commonwealth through the elected kings Sigismund III, Władysław IV, and John II Casimir.
House of Villains
House of Villains is an American reality competition series, hosted by Joel McHale, premiering October 12, 2023 on E! and moving to Peacock for season 3 (2026), where reality TV villains compete for $200,000 and the title America's Ultimate Supervillain.
House of Villains season 1
House of Villains season 1 (2023): E! reality competition hosted by Joel McHale in which ten reality TV villains, including Omarosa, Jonny Fairplay, and Tiffany Pollard, competed for $200,000 and the America's Ultimate Supervillain title; Tanisha Thomas won.
House of Villains season 2
House of Villains season 2 (2024) is the second season of the E!/Peacock reality competition hosted by Joel McHale, in which ten reality TV villains including Tiffany Pollard and Safaree competed for $200,000; Safaree Samuels won.
House of Villains season 3
House of Villains season 3 (2026): third season of the Joel McHale-hosted reality competition, moved exclusively to Peacock, premiering February 26, 2026. Eleven reality villains competed for $200,000; Drita D'Avanzo won a 7-1 jury vote over Christine Quinn and Kate Chastain.
House of Wax (1953 film)
House of Wax (1953 film) is a Warner Bros. horror film starring Vincent Price as a sculptor. It was notable as a major-studio color 3-D feature.
House of Wax (2005 film)
House of Wax is a 2005 slasher horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in which college friends find a wax museum displaying the wax-covered bodies of its victims.
House of Welf
House of Welf (Welfen), medieval and modern European princely dynasty, namesake of the Guelphs; dukes of Bavaria, Saxony, and Brunswick-Lüneburg, only Welf emperor Otto IV, and British royal house of Hanover from 1714.
House of Wessex
House of Wessex (Cerdicing dynasty), West Saxon royal family from Cerdic (r. 519-534) through Alfred the Great (871-899) to Edward the Confessor (1042-1066); survived the Vikings, unified England, interrupted by Cnut 1016-1042.
House of Wettin
House of Wettin, German dynasty from the castle of Wettin on the Saale; ruled Saxony, Thuringia, and Poland (1697–1763); split 1485 into Ernestine and Albertine lines; ancestors of Belgian, British, Portuguese, and Bulgarian royalty.
House of Windsor
House of Windsor: British royal house adopted 17 July 1917 by George V, replacing Saxe-Coburg-Gotha amid World War I anti-German feeling; Mountbatten-Windsor is the surname of some descendants since 1960.
House of Wisdom (بيت الحكمة)
The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma, بيت الحكمة) was the Abbasid caliphal library of Baghdad, at its peak under al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833) and destroyed in the 1258 Mongol sack; scholars dispute its role as a translation academy.
House of Wittelsbach
House of Wittelsbach, German dynasty from castle Wittelsbach near Aichach; ruled Bavaria 1180–1918 and the Palatinate, held the imperial crown twice (Louis IV, Charles VII) and thrones from Sweden to Greece.
House of X and Powers of X
House of X and Powers of X (HoX/PoX) are two intertwined 2019 Marvel six-issue miniseries by Jonathan Hickman, with Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva, that relaunched the X-Men around the mutant nation Krakoa and Moira MacTaggert's reincarnation retcon, launching Dawn of X.
House of Xtravaganza
House of Xtravaganza (formerly Extravaganza), a New York ballroom house founded in 1982 by Hector Valle and Angie Xtravaganza as the first all-Latinx house, featured in Paris Is Burning and tied to Madonna's Vogue.
House of Yi
House of Yi (Jeonju Yi clan, 이씨 조선), the family that ruled Korea as the Joseon dynasty 1392–1910 and the Korean Empire; incorporated into Japanese nobility as the Yi Wang-ga in 1910; descendants now private citizens.
House of York
The House of York was a cadet branch of the Plantagenets whose kings Edward IV and Richard III ruled England from 1461 to 1485, its emblem the white rose.
House on Eden
House on Eden (2025) is a found footage horror film and feature debut of TikTok creators Kris Collins (KallMeKris) and Celina Myers (CelinaSpookyBoo), released by RLJE Films/Shudder July 25, 2025; $446.8K box office, 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.