Retropolis A 400-pound gavel? The story of a symbol of congressional power and its heavy-handed abusers. After Nancy Pelosi was elected House speaker Thursday, she was given a wooden mallet with a ...

And the speaker had a third, crab-mallet gavel she used, minting it as a new historic object to mark the passage of the legislation. But that second, ...

Ribbing of lieutenant governor continues with gavel gifts including ‘Thor’s hammer ... Between his efforts to fix his homemade gavel — crafted from a black walnut tree on his ranch — and ...

Throughout American history, speakers of the House have pounded their gavels so hard in search of order that they wind up smashing the gavel itself into smithereens. Thursday, January 3, 2019 ...

More Than You Want to Know About Pelosi's Gavel. By Heather Horn. March 23, 2010. Share. Save. This article is from the archive of our partner .

The Messenger called it “the gavel slam heard round the internet.” The Gateway Pundit summed it up: “ Bowtie-Wearing Rep. Patrick McHenry Slam Down the Gavel Like Thor’s Hammer.” Read Next ...

As we said up top, even the etymology's foggy. The use of gavel to refer to the hammer can't be traced beyond the early-19th-century U.S.; in medieval England the word was used for certain kinds of ...

A mystery of Virginia history has found its way home. The silver-plated wooden mallet may have been created more than 100 years ago or less than 10, but the inscriptions hint at connections to ...

The photograph is of a mallet my father made 100 years ago from a branch of a Beech tree and I am still using it today. I am the fourth generation of masons, with a son who works for me.

Minutes after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was removed as leader, NC Congressman Patrick McHenry made “the gavel slam heard round the internet.” ‘Like Thor’s hammer.’ ...