House

Bloomberg, having designed in-house computerized financial systems for Salomon, used his $10 million partnership buyout to start Innovative Market Systems (IMS).

The broken laser pointer was an item laying around Omidyar's house, that he thought he would use to test out the site.

So when you have a spare moment, why not see what weird and wonderful things you can find for sale on this virtual auction house.

They're cute, they're furry and they're one of the most popular house pets in the Western world.

Regular house cats are generally called a "clowder of cats".

While he lived in the White House he kept a number of pet cats, most famously Dixie and Tabby.

On 26th January 2015, a drone crashed onto the White House lawn and the pilot faced charges which were later dropped due to it being an accident.

It's far more likely that you the car-buyer or house-buyer will have to borrow money from a bank (or a friend) in order to buy that house or car.

It was eventually named badminton after the Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England.

Normally, a house rests on about 10 wooden poles, but the bigger buildings sit on thousands of them.

Back when the city was being rapidly built up, the powers that be realized that, due to the premium value of house frontage on the canals and streets, they should tax house size on the width of the front, or façade.

The smallest house façade in the entire world is in Amsterdam at Het Singel 7.

It is only 3.5 feet wide and is barely wider than the house's front door!

Many of the houses have smaller windows at their top, which gives the optical illusion of the house being taller - which acted as a status symbol of wealth back in the day.

These hooks were fitted to the tops of houses so that large and bulky items could be winched into the house's upper floors rather than carrying them up the narrow, steep and winding stairways!