aggressive Comanche leader who mounted an unsuccessful war against white invaders in southeast Texas (1874-75); he later became the main spokesman and peacetime leader of the Indians in that area, ...
American Unitarian theologian, pastor, scholar, and social reformer who was active in the antislavery movement. Theologically, he repudiated much traditional Christian dogma, putting in its place an intuitive knowledge of ...
city, seat (1800) of Wood county, western West Virginia, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Ohio (there bridged to Belpre, Ohio) and Little Kanawha rivers. Settled about 1785 ...
town, east-central New South Wales, Australia, in the Lachlan River valley. Originally known as Bushman's, it was founded in 1862 as a reef- and alluvial-gold centre. It was renamed for ...
journalist, broadcaster, and widely anthologized poet whose style and great confidence in the future of Africa owe much to the Senegalese poet David Diop.
a dominant political figure in Australia during the second half of the 19th century, often called the father of Australian federation. He served five terms as premier of New South ...
British historian, author, and formulator of "Parkinson's Law," the satiric dictum that "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." A relatively obscure academic prior to the enunciation ...
a chronic neurologic disorder characterized by a progressive loss of motor function resulting from the degeneration of neurons in the area of the brain that controls voluntary movement.
American historian noted for his classic seven-volume history of France and England in North America, covering the colonial period from the beginnings to 1763.
African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized ...
American playwright who in 2002 became the first black woman playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Topdog/Underdog, 2001). She received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2001.
the supreme court under the ancien regime in France. It developed out of the Curia Regis (King's Court), in which the early kings of the Capetian dynasty (987-1328) periodically convened ...
best-known member of a famous German family of masons. His works exemplify the tendency toward profuse ornamentation and technical ostentation that are characteristic of late Gothic architecture.
the original legislative assembly of England, Scotland, or Ireland and successively of Great Britain and the United Kingdom; legislatures in some countries that were once British colonies are also known ...
act passed Aug. 10, 1911, in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. The act was proposed by a Liberal ...
Puritan manifesto, published in 1572 and written by the London clergymen John Field and Thomas Wilcox, that demanded that Queen Elizabeth I restore the "purity" of New Testament worship in ...
in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the seat of the bicameral Parliament, including the House of Commons and the House of Lords. It is located on ...
massive group of performers that greatly influenced black music in the 1970s. The original members were George Clinton (b. July 22, 1941, Kannapolis, N.C., U.S., ), Raymond Davis (b. March ...
the generally accepted rules, precedents, and practices commonly employed in the governance of deliberative assemblies. Such rules are intended to maintain decorum, to ascertain the will of the majority, to ...
city, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., a southern suburb of Cleveland. Settled by New Englanders in 1816, it was known as Greenbriar until 1826, when it became the township of ...
city, capital of Parma province, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, on the Parma River, northwest of Bologna. Founded by the Romans along the Via Aemilia in 183 BC, ...
the northern Italian cities of Parma and Piacenza, with their dependent territories, detached from the Papal States by Pope Paul III in 1545 and made a hereditary duchy for his ...
largest genus of foliose (leafy) lichens, which includes among its members the species commonly known as crottle and skull lichen. Crottle, the largest foliose lichen, resembles crumpled leather and sometimes ...
Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy who founded Eleaticism, one of the leading pre-Socratic schools of Greek thought. His general teaching has been diligently reconstructed from the few surviving ...
hard, sharp cow's-milk cheese used primarily in grated form. The original Parmigiano-Reggiano is produced within a strictly delineated region in Italy that includes the towns of Parma, Modena, and Mantua ...
painter who was one of the first artists to develop the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style that became a formative influence on the post-High Renaissance generation.
port city, northwestern Piaui state, northeastern Brazil. It is located on the Igaracu River, an outlet of the Parnaiba River, 9 miles (14 km) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean. Founded ...
river, northeastern Brazil, rising in the Serra da Tabatinga and flowing north-northeastward for 1,056 mi (1,700 km) to empty into the Atlantic Ocean, forming a delta at its mouth. In ...
member of a group of 19th-century French poets headed by Leconte de Lisle, who stressed restraint, objectivity, technical perfection, and precise description as a reaction against the emotionalism and verbal ...
any member of the insect subfamily Parnassiinae of the cosmopolitan family Papilionidae (order Lepidoptera). The parnassian (Parnassius), also known as apollo, found in mountainous alpine regions in Asia, Europe, and ...
mountain barren limestone spur of the Pindus Mountains, central Greece, running northwest-southeast on the borders of the nomoi (departments) of Phocis, Fthiotis, and Boeotia. Rising to a maximum elevation of ...
Irish nationalist, member of the British Parliament (1875-91), and the leader of the struggle for Irish Home Rule in the late 19th century. In 1889-90 he was ruined by proof ...
Irish poet, essayist, and friend of Alexander Pope, who relied on Parnell's scholarship in his translation of the Iliad. Parnell's poetry, written in heroic couplets, was esteemed by Pope for ...
one of three nomadic or seminomadic tribes in the confederacy of the Dahae living east of the Caspian Sea; its members founded the Parthian empire. After the death of Alexander ...
city, Estonia, at the mouth of the Parnu River on Parnu Bay of the Gulf of Riga. First mentioned in 1251 as a member of the Hanseatic League, Parnu was ...
town, western Bhutan, in the Himalayas on the Paro River. Centred on Fort Paro, a large rectangular building with a seven-story tower, it was the main cultural, commercial, and political ...
education offered institutionally by a religious group. In the United States, parochial education refers to the schooling obtained in elementary and secondary schools that are maintained by Roman Catholic parishes, ...
(Greek paroidia, "a song sung alongside another"), in literature, a form of satirical criticism or comic mockery that imitates the style and manner of a particular writer or school of ...
in music, originally the creative reworking of several voice parts of a preexistent composition to form a new composition, frequently a mass; in modern musical usage, parody usually refers to ...
form of supervised conditional liberty from prison granted prior to the expiration of the sentence. As a form of correctional treatment, parole is designed to enhance the protection of the ...
one of the most important Latin American poets of his time, the originator of so-called antipoetry (poetry that opposes traditional poetic techniques or styles).
city within the Sydney metropolitan area, New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the 15-mile- (24-kilometre-) long Parramatta River (which enters Port Jackson harbour). The second European settlement in Australia, ...
one of the Sea Islands on the Atlantic coast, in Port Royal Sound, just south of Port Royal Island, in Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. Spanish Franciscans and Jesuits ...
term applied to a large group of gaudy, raucous birds of the family Psittacidae. Parrot also is used in reference to any member of a larger bird group, order Psittaciformes, ...
any of about 80 species of fishes of the family Scaridae (order Perciformes) found on tropical reefs. Parrot fishes are elongated, usually rather blunt-headed and deep-bodied, and often very brightly ...
any of 14 species of the songbird family Panuridae (order Passeriformes) that have a deep and compressed bill like a parrot's. They occur in brushy grasslands of central and eastern ...
town, seat of Parry Sound district, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, at the mouth of the Seguin River, 120 miles ...
unit for expressing distances to stars and galaxies, used by professional astronomers. It represents the distance at which the radius of the Earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second ...
member of a group of followers in India of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster. The Parsis, whose name means "Persians," are descended from Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to India to avoid ...
township, Morris county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. The township extends eastward from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the Passaic River swamps, 23 miles (37 km) west of New ...
(species Petroselinum crispum), hardy biennial herb of the family Apiaceae, or Umbelliferae, native to Mediterranean lands. Parsley leaves were used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as a flavouring and ...
(species Pastinaca sativa), member of the parsley family (Apiaceae), cultivated since ancient times for its large, tapering, fleshy white root, which is edible and has a distinctive flavour. The root ...
dispute involving Anglican clergy in colonial Virginia, arising (1755, 1758) when laws commuted clerical salaries, previously paid in tobacco, to currency at the rate of twopence a pound when tobacco ...
simple, sturdy rectangular table having straight lines, overall flush surfaces, and square legs that form the four corners of the top and whose diameter is identical with the thickness of ...
American sociologist and anthropologist whose studies of the Pueblo and other Native American peoples of the southwestern United States remain standard references.
American media executive who became chief executive officer (CEO) of AOL Time Warner (now Time Warner) in 2002. He stepped into the position when it was evident that Internet company ...
Jesuit who, with Cardinal William Allen, organized Roman Catholic resistance in England to the Protestant regime of Queen Elizabeth I. He favoured armed intervention by the continental Catholic powers as ...
