In reality it was a messy series of civil wars an on-again, off-again conflict pitting supporters of the ruling Lancastrian monarchy against backers of the house of York.
Richard, the last monarch of the House of York, grew up at Middleham Castle in the Yorkshire Dales and visited York several times during his short reign.
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The initial discovery of the remains provoked much debate in Britain as to what would happen with the body, if it were proven to be that of Richard III, with many calling for a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, and others backing a burial in York Minster, in keeping with the king's heritage as a member of the House of York.
Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage, although six other states have allowed civil unions that are marriages in all but name, and a law allowing full marriage rights passed through the lower house of New York's state legislature on June 19th.
There are a number of contenders, including at least eight members of New York's delegation in the House of Representatives, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Caroline Kennedy, and her cousin, Robert Kennedy Jr.
But House Democratic Leaders, including Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, have said they will only consider a so-called "clean" minimum wage with no amendments attached.
Max Baucus of Montana, Rep. Charles Rangel of New York and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, along with Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank.
This year in Washington's Union Station, the Center for Security Policy will honor the Congressman from the 3rd District of New York and chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Peter King, as its 2012 Keeper of the Flame.
At one of my first gigs out of college, at an auction house in New York City, the owner of the company never wanted to bring the female employees on work errands alone in his car, and thus brought the only male employee every time.
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You may be out of luck if you live where reception is poor, which includes my house in Seattle and much of New York since the World Trade Center antennas were destroyed.
"It's very exciting for the designers to do it because people do come and see their work, get to know them, " said Bunny Williams, an interior designer and chairwoman of this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House in New York City, considered one of the nation's oldest and most popular show homes.
At a March 19 hearing on election problems, Michigan Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, pressed New York Rep. Gerald Nadler, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, to hold a hearing on Acorn.
Spiritual health must be a feature of the NHS bill for England, the Archbishop of York has insisted during debate in the House of Lords.
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Four years ago, I accompanied another parliamentary committee (this time from the House of Lords) to New York to hear evidence from Murdoch and other proprietors for an inquiry on media ownership.
"The tradition of Congress of providing support for Americans in times of crisis, no matter where they live across this great country, lives on in today's vote in the House of Representatives, " New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, said in a joint statement.
It was able to obtain thousands of email addresses, including those apparently belonging to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and U.S. Air Force Col.
On Thursday, Chairman Peter King of New York will convene in his House Homeland Security Committee one of the most anticipated - and controversial - hearings in memory.
That is less than half of what New York State offered to house the plant at a site north of Albany.
In fact, as a practical matter, the only way they could dispose of a provision which was initiated by the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Pete King of New York, after the insidious Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) brought suit against several "John Does" and adopted by the House of Representatives by a vote of 304-121 would be to snuff it in a conference committee.
Two more Puerto Rican sons of New York, masters of a dance genre called house music, have remixed Bobo's jam session into an Afro-Latino sound they call Nuyorican Soul.
It's just a matter of time until Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York or House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says zombies should receive government benefits.
In May, he'll take his meticulous approach across the country, cooking a dinner at the James Beard House in New York as part of the Lucky Rice Festival, which celebrates Asian cuisine.
In the annual report of Freedom House, a New York-based lobby group, to be published on April 29th, the ex-communist countries show the biggest relative decline in media freedom in the world, chiefly because of a perceived politicisation of public broadcasting.
One Republican who survived a close race was Rep. Tom Reynolds of New York, the House Republican chair, according to CNN projections.
Jennings, a respected retailer, who in recent years ran Woolworth South Africa and previously held senior positions with Debenhams in London, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, Harrods and House of Fraser in England, Brown Thomas in Ireland and Holt Renfrew in Canada.
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York Cocoa House is owned and run by Sophie Jewett, who went to the University of York after growing up on the Isle of Wight in southern England.
Collector Robert White gave the National Archives and Records Administration three documents and a special Oval Office desk that JFK used for his back problems, according to Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's auction house in New York.
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The two archbishops of the church, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York, along with 24 other bishops, have seats in Parliament in the House of Lords.
Instead of serving afternoon tea, York Cocoa House serves afternoon chocolate, where all the items served have a predictable key ingredient.
The White House Press corps has not yet queried White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about the Times of New York article.
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