The One Hundred - Fourteenth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government , composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives . It met in Washington , D.C. from January 3 , 2015 , to January 3 , 2017 , during the final two full years of Barack Obama 's presidency . The 2014 elections gave the Republicans control of the Senate ( and control of both houses of Congress ) for the first time since the 109th Congress . With 248 seats in the House of Representatives and 54 seats in the Senate , this Congress began with the largest Republican majority since the 71st Congress of 1929 -- 1931 .

The National Shrine of The Divine Mercy is a Roman Catholic shrine located in Stockbridge , Massachusetts .

SocialistThe Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( Russian : Правительство СССР , Pravitel'stvo SSSR ) was the main body of the executive branch of government in the Soviet Union . Its head of government was the officeholder generally known in the West as the Premier of the Soviet Union . However , Soviet Union was a one - party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , whose power was derived from the Constitution of the Soviet Union . The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was de facto the highest policy - making organ in the country and drafted government policy , with the Government being subordinate to the Party .

SeptemberSuper League ( currently known as the Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons ) is the top - level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern hemisphere . The league has twelve teams : eleven from England and one from France .

Belinda Giblin|Alison MulvaneyHome and Away is an Australian television soap opera . It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988 . The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1989 , by order of first appearance . They were all introduced by the show 's executive producer Des Monaghan . The 2nd season of Home and Away began airing on 23 January 1989 . The first introduction of the year was Rebecca Fisher in April . Emily Symons joined the cast as Marilyn Chambers in May . In June , the serial saw the birth of Duncan Stewart , the first child of Alf and Ailsa and Mat Stevenson took on the role of Adam Cameron a fortnight later . Mouche Phillips joined as Viv Newton in July and September saw the arrival of Dannii Minogue as Emma Jackson .

Francis Scott Key`` The Star - Spangled Banner '' is the national anthem of the United States of America . The lyrics come from `` Defence of Fort M'Henry '' , a poem written on September 14 , 1814 , by the 35 - year - old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 . Key was inspired by the large American flag , the Star - Spangled Banner , flying triumphantly above the fort during the American victory .

Yellowstone is an American drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson that premiered on June 20 , 2018 on Paramount Network . It stars Kevin Costner , Wes Bentley , Kelly Reilly , Luke Grimes , Cole Hauser and Gil Birmingham . The series follows the conflicts along the shared borders of a large cattle ranch , an Indian reservation , land developers and Yellowstone National Park . On July 24 , 2018 , it was announced that Paramount Network had renewed the series for a second season to air in 2019 .

American Civil War

This is a list of the current and former Philippine Presidents by previous Executive Experience before they became President of the Philippines . Executive experience is defined as having been something akin to where one is the top decision maker in a company , a regional constituency , a military unit , or something alike . Positions like Army General , Governor , Vice Governor , Mayor , Vice Mayor , Vice President of the Philippines , and Chief Executive Officer are included , though not limited to just that .

1928The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) is a descriptive dictionary of the English language , published by the Oxford University Press . It traces the historical development of the English language , providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers , as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world . The second edition came to 21,728 pages in 20 volumes , published in 1989 .

Tacoma , WashingtonThe Northern Pacific Railway ( reporting mark NP ) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States , from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest . It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly forty million acres ( 62,000 sq mi ; 160,000 km ) of land grants , which it used to raise money in Europe for construction .

`` If I Loved You '' is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel .

Imprisonment as a form of criminal punishment only became widespread in the United States just before the American Revolution , though penal incarceration efforts had been ongoing in England since as early as the 1500s , and prisons in the form of dungeons and various detention facilities had existed since long before then . Prison building efforts in the United States came in three major waves . The first began during the Jacksonian Era and led to widespread use of imprisonment and rehabilitative labor as the primary penalty for most crimes in nearly all states by the time of the American Civil War . The second began after the Civil War and gained momentum during the Progressive Era , bringing a number of new mechanisms -- such as parole , probation , and indeterminate sentencing -- into the mainstream of American penal practice . Finally , since the early 1970s , the United States has engaged in a historically unprecedented expansion of its imprisonment systems at both the federal and state level . Since 1973 , the number of incarcerated persons in the United States has increased five-fold , and in a given year 7,000,000 people were under the supervision or control of correctional services in the United States . These periods of prison construction and reform produced major changes in the structure of prison systems and their missions , the responsibilities of federal and state agencies for administering and supervising them , as well as the legal and political status of prisoners themselves .

Skin appendages ( or adnexa ) are skin - associated structures that serve a particular function including sensation , contractility , lubrication and heat loss . In humans , some of the more common skin appendages are hairs ( sensation , heat loss , filter for breathing , protection ) , arrector pilli ( smooth muscles that pull hairs straight ) , sebaceous glands ( secrete sebum onto hair follicle , which oils the hair ) , sweat glands ( can be sweat secreted with strong odour ( apocrine ) or with a faint odour ( eccrine ) ) and nails ( protection ) .

Mary BadhamMary Badham ( born October 7 , 1952 ) is an American actress , known for her portrayal of Jean Louise `` Scout '' Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962 ) , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . At the time , Badham ( aged 10 ) was the youngest actress ever nominated in this category .

Michael Gregory Mizanin ( born October 8 , 1980 ) is an American professional wrestler , actor and media personality currently signed to WWE , where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name The Miz .

The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid - shaped masonry structures located in Egypt .

Second messengers are intracellular signaling molecules released by the cell to trigger physiological changes such as proliferation , differentiation , migration , survival , and apoptosis . Secondary messengers are therefore one of the initiating components of intracellular signal transduction cascades . Examples of second messenger molecules include cyclic AMP , cyclic GMP , inositol trisphosphate , diacylglycerol , and calcium . The cell releases second messenger molecules in response to exposure to extracellular signaling molecules -- the first messengers . First messengers are extracellular factors , often hormones or neurotransmitters , such as epinephrine , growth hormone , and serotonin . Because peptide hormones and neurotransmitters typically are biochemically hydrophilic molecules , these first messengers may not physically cross the phospholipid bilayer to initiate changes within the cell directly -- unlike steroid hormones , which usually do . This functional limitation necessitates the cell to devise signal transduction mechanisms to transduce first messenger into second messengers , so that the extracellular signal may be propagated intracellularly . An important feature of the second messenger signaling system is that second messengers may be coupled downstream to multi-cyclic kinase cascades to greatly amplify the strength of the original first messenger signal . For example , RasGTP signals link with the Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase ( MAPK ) cascade to amplify the allosteric activation of proliferative transcription factors such as Myc and CREB .