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- city, Summit county, northern Utah, U.S. Founded in 1869 as a mining district in the valley between the Wasatch Range and the Uinta Plateau some 30 miles (48 km) southeast ... [1 Related Articles]
- Park Forest
- village, Cook and Will counties, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a residential suburb of Chicago, lying about 30 miles (50 km) south of the city. Developed as a planned community ...
- Park Kun Hye
- (from the article "Korea, Republic of") ...Korean military) and individuals around him, including presidential hopefuls from his own party. The leading presidential candidate was former Seoul mayor Lee Myung Bak. His closest competitor was Park Kun ...
- Park Range
- segment of the Rocky Mountains, extending south-southeastward for about 200 miles (320 km) from Carbon county, Wyo., to northwestern Park county, Colo., U.S. The range lies to a large extent ...
- park ranger
- (from the article "ranger") In the National Park Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior established in 1916 a force of national-park rangers whose functions were protection and conservation of forests and wildlife, enforcement ...
- Park Ridge
- city, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. A suburb of Chicago, it lies on the Des Plaines River, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of downtown. The area was first inhabited by ...
- Park Street Church
- (from the article "spire") ...an attic, a simple, slim, white spire, as in the Old South Meeting House, Boston (1729). This trend toward slender and attenuated proportions reached its climax in the exquisitely light ...
- Park Tae Hwan
- (from the article "Swimming") ...fellow American Ryan Lochte upset him in the 200-m backstroke (an event Peirsol had not lost in more than six years) and claimed a new world record along with the ...
- Park, Keith
- (from the article "Leigh-Mallory, Trafford") ...1940-April 1941) was to defend England's Midlands against German air attacks. A debate over tactics during the battle brought Leigh-Mallory into conflict with the Number 11 Group commander, Keith Park ...
- Park, Maud Wood
- American suffragist whose lobbying skills and grasp of legislative politics were successfully deployed on behalf of woman suffrage and welfare issues involving women and children.
- Park, Michael
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...of Finland in the Rally of Japan with three races left, two of which he won. Loeb would have wrapped up the title in Wales one race earlier had it ...
- Park, Mungo
- Scottish explorer of the Niger. [4 Related Articles]
- Park, Nick
- British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit. [3 Related Articles]
- Park, Orlando
- U.S. entomologist known chiefly for his work on the biology and taxonomy of insects comprising the family Pselaphidae, a group of small, short-winged, mold beetles that commonly live in ant ...
- Park, Robert E.
- American sociologist noted for his work on ethnic minority groups, particularly African Americans, and on human ecology, a term he is credited with coining. One of the leading figures in ... [5 Related Articles]
- Park, Thomas
- U.S. animal ecologist known for his experiments with beetles in analyzing population dynamics.
- parka
- hip-length, hooded jacket traditionally made of caribou, seal, or other fur, worn as an outer garment by Arctic peoples. [1 Related Articles]
- Parker Brothers
- (from the article "Monopoly") ...best-selling privately patented board game in history, gained popularity in the United States during the Great Depression when Charles B. Darrow, an unemployed heating engineer, sold the concept to Parker ...
- Parker Dam
- (from the article "Colorado River") Shortly after the completion of Hoover Dam, planning and construction began downstream on the Parker Dam. From Lake Havasu, the reservoir impounded by the dam, water is transported some 250 ...
- Parker Ranch
- (from the article "Waimea") ...was granted a license by Kamehameha to hunt the cattle, and he subsequently domesticated them and helped establish ranching as a major industry on the island. Waimea is the headquarters ...
- Parker v. Davis
- (from the article "Legal Tender Cases") ...justices to the Senate for confirmation. Justices Bradley and Strong were confirmed, and at the next session the court agreed to reconsider the greenback issue. In Knox v. Lee and ...
- Parker, Alton B
- American jurist and Democratic presidential nominee in 1904, defeated by the incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt.
- Parker, Bonnie
- (from the article "Bonnie and Clyde") Barrow had been a criminal long before he met Parker in January 1930. After 20 months in prison in 1930-32, he teamed up with Parker, and the two began a ...
- Parker, Candace
- (from the article "Basketball") ...have predicted would be in the championship game, Tennessee won its seventh national title by playing such superb defense that Rutgers never really had a chance. Tennessee's star, 1.93-m (6-ft ...
- Parker, Charlie
- American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker was the principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop, and-together with ... [9 Related Articles]
- Parker, Claire
- (from the article "Alexeieff, Alexandre") Russian-born French filmmaker who invented the pinscreen method of animation with his collaborator (later his wife), the animator Claire Parker (1910-81).
- Parker, Colonel Tom
- Dutch-born American show business promoter who was best known for managing the career of Elvis Presley (b. June 26, 1909--d. Jan. 21, 1997). [2 Related Articles]
- Parker, Dorothy
- American short-story writer and poet, known for her witty remarks. [2 Related Articles]
- Parker, Eddie
- American billiards player (b. June 2, 1931, Springfield, Mo.-d. Feb. 2, 2001, Brownsville, Texas), was a legendary pool player whose exploits reportedly inspired the critically acclaimed 1961 film The Hustler. ...
- Parker, Ely S.
- (from the article "Grant, Ulysses S.") ...4, 1869, politically inexperienced and, at age 46, the youngest man theretofore elected president. His appointments to office were uneven in quality but sometimes refreshing. Notably, Grant named Ely S. ...
- Parker, Eugene
- (from the article "plasma") In 1958 the American astrophysicist Eugene Parker showed that the equations describing the flow of plasma in the Sun's gravitational field had one solution that allowed the gas to become ...
- Parker, Evan
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...of Chicago, once again a quintet, projected vibrant new ensemble unity in its finest album of the present century, Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City-Live at Iridium. Saxophonist Evan Parker's obscure ...
- Parker, Francis
- a founder of progressive elementary education in the United States and organizer of the first parent-teacher group at Chicago. [3 Related Articles]
- Parker, Frank
- American tennis player who in the 1940s was U.S. singles champion twice, Wimbledon doubles champion--with Pancho Gonzales--once, and French singles champion twice; he spent 17 years in the top-10 ranks ...
- Parker, George
- (from the article "lacquerwork") ...ballot box of the Saddlers Company. Information on the lacquer process seems first to have been published by the Italian Jesuit Martin Martinius (Novus Atlas Sinensis, 1655). John Stalker and ...
- Parker, Horatio (William)
- composer, conductor, and teacher, prominent member of the turn-of-the-century Boston school of American composers.
- Parker, Isaac C.
- (from the article "Fort Smith") ...in the 1870s. The U.S. Federal District Court for Western Arkansas was located in Fort Smith and had jurisdiction over the Indian Territory, which also had become a refuge for ...
- Parker, James Thomas
- American football player (b. April 3, 1934, Macon, Ga.-d. July 18, 2005, Columbia, Md.), became in 1973 the first full-time offensive lineman inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ...
- Parker, John
- (from the article "Waimea") ...(royal taboo) on the killing of the cattle, and within two decades thousands of wild cattle roamed vast swaths of the area, destroying much of the local agriculture. In 1812 ...
- Parker, John J.
- (from the article "White, Walter") ...on discrimination in voting rights, White in 1930 almost single-handedly succeeded in influencing the U.S. Senate to reject by a 41-39 vote President Herbert Hoover's nomination of Judge John J. ...
- Parker, Louis Napoleon
- (from the article "pageant") The early 20th century saw a revival of a "pure" form of pageant (one that is first and foremost historical drama), most notably in the works of Louis N. Parker. ...
- Parker, Matthew
- Anglican archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75) who presided over the Elizabethan religious settlement in which the Church of England maintained a distinct identity apart from Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. [3 Related Articles]
- Parker, Maynard Michael
- American editor of Newsweek from 1982 who increased the magazine's readership by broadening the scope of its coverage from foreign events and politics to also include such topics as science ...
- Parker, Mount
- (from the article "Hong Kong") ...abrupt drop to about 650 feet at Devil's Peak. Victoria (Hong Kong) Harbour is well protected by mountains on Hong Kong Island that include Victoria Peak in the west, which ...
- Parker, Patricia
- (from the article "Shakespeare, William") The implications of deconstruction for Shakespeare criticism have to do with language and its protean flexibility of meanings. Patricia Parker's Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context ...
- Parker, Quanah
- aggressive Comanche leader who mounted an unsuccessful war against white invaders in northwest Texas (1874-75); he later became the main spokesman and peacetime leader of the Indians in the region, ...
- Parker, Robert L.
- (from the article "plate tectonics") Working independently but along very similar lines, Dan P. McKenzie and Robert L. Parker of Britain and W. Jason Morgan of the United States resolved these issues. McKenzie and Parker ...
- Parker, Sarah Jessica
- Although Sarah Jessica Parker struggled to define the rules of dating as Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, the American actress knew the secrets to a successful relationship with ... [2 Related Articles]
- Parker, Sir Gilbert, Baronet
- British novelist of popular adventure and historical romances whose most widely known work was The Seats of the Mighty (1896), a novel of the 17th-century conquest of Quebec.
- Parker, Sir Hyde
- (from the article "Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount") ...nation's hero, and his progress to London was triumphal. Nelson was promoted to vice admiral in January 1801. Emma was pregnant by him when he was appointed second in command ...
- Parker, Sir Peter
- (from the article "Mirror, The") ...Mirror faced union resistance to its plans to modernize production. In 1984 the paper was sold to Robert Maxwell, who held it until his death in 1991. In 1992 the ...
- Parker, Stewart
- Irish playwright whose innovative plays captured the human dimension of the religious conflict in Northern Ireland.
- Parker, Suzy
- American model and actress (b. Oct. 28, 1933, Long Island City, N.Y.-d. May 3, 2003, Montecito, Calif.), had a beauty and sophistication that led to her paving the way for ...
- Parker, Theodore
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Parker, Tony
- (from the article "Basketball") In June 2007 the San Antonio Spurs-featuring players from the U.S. Virgin Islands (Tim Duncan), France (Tony Parker), The Netherlands (Francisco Elson), Slovenia (Beno Udrih), and Argentina (Manu Ginobli and ...
- Parkersburg
- 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 ...
- Parkes
- 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 ...
- Parkes process
- (from the article "Parkes, Alexander") ...amounts of phosphorus into metal alloys to enhance their strength. One of his most significant inventions was a method of extracting silver from lead ore (1850). This procedure, commonly called ...
- Parkes Radio Telescope
- (from the article "Some important radio telescopes") ...Radioastronomie 100-metre- (330-foot-) diameter antenna near Effelsberg, Ger.; the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) 64-metre (210-foot) dish near Parkes; and the 76-metre (250-foot) Lovell Telescope at Jodrell ...
- Parkes, Alexander
- British chemist and inventor noted for his development of various industrial processes and materials. [2 Related Articles]
- Parkes, Frank Kobina
- journalist, broadcaster, and widely anthologized poet whose style and great confidence in the future of Africa owe much to the Senegalese poet David Diop.
- Parkes, Harry
- (from the article "China") ...police seized the Arrow, a Chinese-owned but British-registered ship flying a British flag, and charged its Chinese crew with piracy and smuggling. The British consul Harry Parkes ...
- Parkes, Sir Henry
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Parkesine
- (from the article "technology, history of") ...materials employed in these crafts as to new substances produced by chemical reactions and molded or pressed to take a permanent rigid shape. The first such material to be manufactured ...
- Parkhurst, Helen
- American educator, author, and lecturer who devised the Dalton Laboratory Plan and founded the Dalton School. [1 Related Articles]
- parking
- (from the article "shopping centre") Car-parking facilities are a major consideration in shopping-centre design. The size and scope of the centre, the type of tenant, and the economics of the area partially determine parking needs, ...
- parking brake
- (from the article "automobile") Parking brakes usually are of the mechanical type, applying force only to the rear brake shoes by means of a flexible cable connected to a hand lever or pedal. On ...
- Parkinson disease
- a degenerative neurological disorder that is characterized by the onset of tremor, muscle rigidity, slowness in movement (bradykinesia), and stooped posture (postural instability). The disease was first described in 1817 ... [15 Related Articles]
- Parkinson, C. Northcote
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Parkinson, James
- (from the article "parkinsonism") Parkinsonism was first described in 1817 by the British physician James Parkinson in his Essay on the Shaking Palsy. Various types of the disorder are recognized, but ...
- parkinson-plus disease
- (from the article "parkinsonism") ...disease. Genetic factors appear to be particularly important in primary parkinsonism, although in most cases, genetic variations are not believed to be the sole factors giving rise to the disease. ...
- parkinsonism
- a group of chronic neurological disorders characterized by progressive loss of motor function resulting from the degeneration of neurons in the area of the brain that controls voluntary movement. [1 Related Articles]
- Parklands
- (from the article "Great Plains") ...(primarily Ponderosa pine) dominate the mountain islands, such as the Black Hills. Between Edmonton, Alta., and Winnipeg, Man., a transition zone trending northwest-southeast and known as the "Parklands" is found, ...
- Parkman, Francis
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Parks, Gordon
- American author, photographer, and film director, who documented African American life. [1 Related Articles]
- Parks, Rosa
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Parks, Suzan-Lori
- American playwright who in 2002 became the first black woman playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Topdog/Underdog, 2001). [2 Related Articles]
- Parks, Wally
- (from the article "drag racing") Drag racing as an organized sport began in the 1930s on dry lake beds in southern California, and it gained greater respectability after Wally Parks helped organize the Southern California ...
- Parla, Alicia
- Cuban-born American dancer who in the early 1930s reigned as queen of the rumba, becoming an American and European sensation with her sensual dancing and attracting the attention of several ...
- parlando
- (from the article "singing") ...in the "mask," that is, the cavities of the head, though this resonation did not affect the radiative power of the voice but only its volume. These singers, and also ...
- parlando-rubato
- (from the article "folk music") ...European folk music, the Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok identified two primary singing styles in European folk music, which he named parlando-rubato and
- Parlement
- 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 ... [11 Related Articles]
- Parlement of Paris
- (from the article "rapporteur") The position originated in the ecclesiastical courts in the Middle Ages and was adopted by the Parlement of Paris in the late 13th century. Originally rapporteurs were not members of ...
- Parlement, Fronde of the
- (from the article "Fronde, the") The refusal of the Parlement of Paris to approve the government's revenue measures in the spring of 1648 set off the first phase, the Fronde of the Parlement. The Parlement ...
- parlementaire
- (from the article "France") ...had not met since 1614, the parlements now claimed to represent the Estates when those were not in session. In 1752 a Jansenist parlementaire, ...
- Parler, Petr
- 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. [3 Related Articles]
- parliament
- (from the article "Canada") Federal legislative authority is vested in the Parliament of Canada, which consists of the sovereign (governor-general), the House of Commons, and the Senate. Both the House of Commons, which has ...
- Parliament
- (from the article "Papua New Guinea") ...faced the prospect of no-confidence motions when the 18-month postelection grace period that had kept him immune from parliamentary challenges expired in February 2004. On January 21 he adjourned Parliament ...
- Parliament
- 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 ... [46 Related Articles]
- Parliament Act of 1911
- 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 ... [8 Related Articles]
- Parliament Act of 1949
- (from the article "Lords, House of") ...of Commons as money bills (involving taxation or expenditures) become law one month after being sent for consideration to the House of Lords, with or without the consent of that ...
- Parliament Buildings
- (from the article "Victoria") ...of Victoria (1963; formerly Victoria College, established in 1902), Royal Roads University (1995), the Royal British Columbia Museum (1886), and an astrophysical observatory. The Victorian-style Parliament Buildings (seat of the ...
- Parliament House
- (from the article "Edinburgh") Behind St. Giles, in Parliament Square, is Parliament House, built by the town council between 1632 and 1639. Parliament Square lies over the site of the medieval graveyard where John ...
- Parliament, Admonition to
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Parliament, Houses of
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Parliament-Funkadelic
- 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 ...
- Parliamentary Assembly
- (from the article "Europe, Council of") ...ministers of all council members. It decides the council's budget and its program of activities based on recommendations made to it by the Parliamentary Assembly and various expert committees. The ...
- parliamentary diplomacy
- (from the article "diplomacy") ...of the peace negotiations was the creation of the League of Nations as the first permanent major international organization, with a secretariat of international civil servants. The League introduced parliamentary ...
- Parliamentary Labour Party
- (from the article "Labour Party") ...responsible for recruiting and organizing members in each of the country's parliamentary constituencies; affiliated trade unions, which traditionally have had an important role in party affairs; the Parliamentary Labour Party ...
- parliamentary procedure
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- parlour palm
- (from the article "palm") ...procumbent, or trailing, at or below the surface of the soil and producing the crown at ground level, while others are high-climbing vines. Rare instances of regular branching (in Allagoptera, ...
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