• Parji language

    Dravidian languages: Central Dravidian languages: Parji, spoken in the Bastar district of Madhya Pradesh, has borrowed extensively from Halbi, a dialect of Hindi. Parji is geographically contiguous to Ollari and Gadaba, which are spoken in the Koraput district of Orissa and the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, respectively. Ollari and…

  • park

    park, large area of ground set aside for recreation. The earliest parks were those of the Persian kings, who dedicated many square miles to the sport of hunting; by natural progression such reserves became artificially shaped by the creation of riding paths and shelters until the decorative

  • Park Chung-Hee (president of South Korea)

    Park Chung-Hee was a South Korean general and politician, president of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from 1963 to his death. Widely regarded as the most influential South Korean leader of the 20th century, Park’s legacy remains deeply polarizing. His 18-year rule is closely associated with

  • Park City (Utah, United States)

    Park City, 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 of Salt Lake City, the small city enjoyed several booms during the 19th and early 20th centuries but faltered during

  • Park Forest (Illinois, United States)

    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 after World War II, Park Forest attracted widespread interest because its planners assumed responsibility

  • Park Geun-Hye (president of South Korea)

    Park Geun-Hye is a South Korean politician who served as president of South Korea (2013–17) and leader of the conservative Saenuri (“New Frontier”) Party. She was the first female president of South Korea. Park Geun-Hye had long been in the spotlight of Korean society as the daughter of Park

  • Park In-Bee (South Korean golfer)

    Park In-Bee is a South Korean golfer who in 2013 became the second player to win the first three major tournaments of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) season: the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Championship (later called the Women’s PGA Championship), and the U.S. Women’s Open.

  • Park Jae-Sang (South Korean singer and rapper)

    PSY is a South Korean singer and rapper. Originally known in his country as a controversial and satirical hip-hop artist, he achieved international fame in 2012 with the music video to his humorous pop song “Gangnam Style,” which became the first video to have more than one billion views on

  • Park Myeong-Hoon (South Korean actor)

    Parasite: Premise and plot: …that her husband, Geun-Se (Park Myeong-Hoon), has been living there for several years, unbeknownst to the Parks. This discovery plunges the Kims into conflict and threatens not only their scheme but their lives. Meanwhile, the Parks return home early from their trip, further complicating matters. The film’s climax comes…

  • Park Range (mountains, Colorado-Wyoming, United States)

    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 within Medicine Bow, Pike, Arapaho, Routt, and White River national forests and includes the

  • park ranger (park management)

    ranger: …1916 a force of national-park rangers whose functions were protection and conservation of forests and wildlife, enforcement of park regulations (for which they have police power), and assistance to visitors. Similar functions with respect to the national forests were assigned to the rangers of the Forest Service, established in…

  • Park Ridge (Illinois, United States)

    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 Potawatomi Indians and used by French explorers as a portage. The site was settled in the early 1830s. In 1853

  • Park So-Dam (South Korean actress)

    20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Film and Visual Arts): Park So-Dam (30): ” Park So-Dam, a native of South Korea, was attending high school when she chanced to see a stage production of Grease. She instantly resolved to become an actor, and, on graduating, she enrolled in Korea National University of Arts. She appeared in…

  • Park Street Church (church, Boston, Massachusetts, United States)

    spire: …the exquisitely light spire of Park Street Church, Boston (1819), by Peter Banner.

  • Park, David (American painter)

    California: The arts: …has produced such painters as David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn. Los Angeles has been more successful as a marketplace for art, with a thriving colony of galleries along La Cienega Boulevard. Carmel, Big Sur, Ojai, and Sausalito have harbored communities of practitioners of diverse arts.

  • Park, Keith (New Zealand military officer)

    Trafford Leigh-Mallory: …the Number 11 Group commander, Keith Park (in charge of defending southern England), and with the head of Fighter Command, Hugh Dowding. In defending Britain against German air attacks, these two commanders stressed the timely, well-directed use of individual fighter squadrons to intercept German planes, whereas Leigh-Mallory advocated the use…

  • Park, Maud Wood (American suffragist)

    Maud Wood Park was an 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 attended St. Agnes School in Albany, New York, and after graduating in 1887 she taught

  • Park, Mungo (Scottish explorer)

    Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of the Niger. Educated as a surgeon at the University of Edinburgh, Park was appointed a medical officer in 1792 on a vessel engaged in the East Indies trade. His subsequent studies of the plant and animal life of Sumatra won for him the backing of the African

  • park, national

    national park, an area set aside by a national government for the preservation of the natural environment. A national park may be set aside for purposes of public recreation and enjoyment or because of its historical or scientific interest. Most of the landscapes and their accompanying plants and

  • Park, Nicholas Wulstan (British animator, writer, producer, and director)

    Nick Park is a British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit. Park demonstrated an early ability to draw, and by age 13 he was animating his cartoon creation Walter the Rat with his mother’s standard 8-mm movie camera. When he was 15, one of

  • Park, Nick (British animator, writer, producer, and director)

    Nick Park is a British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit. Park demonstrated an early ability to draw, and by age 13 he was animating his cartoon creation Walter the Rat with his mother’s standard 8-mm movie camera. When he was 15, one of

  • Park, Orlando (American entomologist)

    Orlando Park was a 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 nests. Several years after acquiring his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Park joined

  • Park, Randall (American actor)

    Ali Wong: Early life and education: Wong befriended actor Randall Park, who was also in the Asian American studies department, and she joined Lapu, the Coyote That Cares Theatre Company, which Park cofounded. During her college years, she spent time studying abroad in Hanoi to learn the Vietnamese language and to gain insight into…

  • Park, Robert E. (American sociologist)

    Robert E. Park was an 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 what came to be known as the “Chicago school” of sociology, he initiated a great deal of

  • Park, Robert Ezra (American sociologist)

    Robert E. Park was an 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 what came to be known as the “Chicago school” of sociology, he initiated a great deal of

  • Park, Thomas (American animal ecologist)

    Thomas Park was a U.S. animal ecologist known for his experiments with beetles in analyzing population dynamics. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1932, Park taught at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and at the University of Chicago. He wrote, with others, Principles of

  • Park, Willie, Sr. (Scottish golfer)

    British Open: History: Willie Park, Sr., won the inaugural tournament and was presented with the Challenge Belt, a silver-buckled leather belt that each champion was to keep until the following Open. The tournament was opened to amateurs in 1861. In 1863 a purse of £10—which was to be…

  • Park51 (community center, New York City, New York, United States)

    Feisal Abdul Rauf: …community centre, to be called Park51, would house a Muslim prayer area, athletic facilities, a day-care centre, and a memorial to the September 11 attacks that would serve as a nondenominational space for prayer and meditation. Abdul Rauf emphasized that the centre would be open to non-Muslims as well as…

  • parka (clothing)

    parka, hip-length, hooded jacket traditionally made of caribou, seal, or other fur, worn as an outer garment by Arctic peoples. The modern parka is often adapted for such sports as skiing. It is usually made of synthetic, water-repellent material, often filled with batting or goose or duck down for

  • Parker (film by Hackford [2013])

    Jennifer Lopez: Marriage to Marc Anthony and American Idol: In the thrillers Parker (2013) and The Boy Next Door (2015), she played, respectively, a divorced businesswoman who takes part in a heist and a woman who is drawn into a romance with a teenager who then begins stalking her. Lopez also provided voices for the animated films…

  • Parker Bowles, Camilla (queen of the United Kingdom)

    Camilla, queen of the United Kingdom is the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2023– ), wife of Charles III. While her affair with Charles during his marriage (1981–96) to Princess Diana caused controversy, Camilla eventually gained public acceptance. She is known

  • Parker Brothers (American company)

    Monopoly: …engineer, sold the concept to Parker Brothers in 1935. Before then, homemade versions of a similar game had circulated in many parts of the United States. Most were based on the Landlord’s Game, a board game designed and patented by Lizzie G. Magie in 1904. She revised and renewed the…

  • Parker Dam (dam, Arizona-California, United States)

    Colorado River: Economic development: …construction began downstream on the Parker Dam. From Lake Havasu, the reservoir impounded by the dam, water is transported some 250 miles across California to supply a portion of the water needs for Los Angeles and most of the water supply for San Diego. Davis, Imperial, Laguna, and Morelos dams…

  • Parker Foundation (American philanthropic organization)

    Sean Parker: In 2015 Parker cofounded the Parker Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on initiatives in the life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement. The following year it provided the funding for the creation of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

  • Parker Ranch (ranch, Hawaii, United States)

    Waimea: …is the headquarters for the Parker Ranch (established about 1815), one of the largest Hereford cattle ranches in the United States and famous for its Hawaiian paniolos, who trace their roots to Mexican cowboys taken to the island in the 1830s. The ranch covers about 175,000 acres (70,000 hectares) and…

  • Parker Spitzer (American television program)

    Eliot Spitzer: …Parker) the nightly talk show Parker Spitzer on CNN. In February 2011 Parker left the program, which was subsequently retitled In the Arena. It struggled in the ratings, and in July Spitzer stepped down as host after CNN announced that the show would be canceled. He later hosted Viewpoint with…

  • Parker v. Davis (law case)

    Legal Tender Cases: Lee and Parker v. Davis, the Court reversed its Hepburn v. Griswold decision by a five-to-four majority, asserting that the Legal Tender Act represented a justifiable use of federal power at a time of national emergency.

  • Parker, Alan (British director, writer, and producer)

    Alan Parker was a British director, writer, and producer who worked in a wide range of genres; his notable films included Midnight Express (1978) and Fame (1980). After he worked as an advertising copywriter and as a director of television commercials, Parker formed a production company with Alan

  • Parker, Alton B (United States jurist)

    Alton B. Parker was an American jurist and Democratic presidential nominee in 1904, defeated by the incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt. Having practiced law in Kingston, N.Y., Parker was elected surrogate of Ulster county in 1877 and reelected six years later. He also was active in state Democratic

  • Parker, Alton Brooks (United States jurist)

    Alton B. Parker was an American jurist and Democratic presidential nominee in 1904, defeated by the incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt. Having practiced law in Kingston, N.Y., Parker was elected surrogate of Ulster county in 1877 and reelected six years later. He also was active in state Democratic

  • Parker, Annise (American politician)

    Annise Parker is an American politician who served as mayor of Houston (2010–16). At the time of her election, Houston, then America’s fourth largest city, became the country’s largest city to elect an openly gay mayor. Parker lived in Houston until age 15, when her father’s work with the Red Cross

  • Parker, Bill (American comic-book writer)

    Captain Marvel: Shazam! and the litigious origins of Captain Marvel: Writer Bill Parker and artist C.C. Beck created the superhero for Fawcett Comics in an effort to capitalize on the blockbuster success of DC Comics’ Superman, who had debuted the previous year. Fawcett’s Captain Marvel was a young boy named Billy Batson, who upon speaking the…

  • Parker, Bonnie (American criminal)

    Bonnie and Clyde: …1930–32, he teamed up with Bonnie Parker, and the two began a crime spree that lasted 21 months. Often working with confederates—including Barrow’s brother Buck and Buck’s wife, Blanche, as well as Ray Hamilton and W.D. Jones—Bonnie and Clyde, as they were popularly known, robbed gas stations, restaurants, and small-town…

  • Parker, Candace (American basketball player)

    Candace Parker is a former professional basketball player who was one of the superstars of the WNBA in the early 21st century. In 2008 the 6-foot 4-inch (1.93-metre) forward-center was named league Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Rookie of the Year, becoming the first player in WNBA history to

  • Parker, Candace Nicole (American basketball player)

    Candace Parker is a former professional basketball player who was one of the superstars of the WNBA in the early 21st century. In 2008 the 6-foot 4-inch (1.93-metre) forward-center was named league Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Rookie of the Year, becoming the first player in WNBA history to

  • Parker, Cecil (actor)

    Swiss Family Robinson: …different ship, Captain Moreland (Cecil Parker) and his grandson. The two oldest Robinson boys manage to free the grandson, whom they soon discover is actually a girl (Janet Munro). The family is later attacked by the pirates and about to be overrun when Captain Moreland, who had been able…

  • Parker, Charles Christopher, Jr. (American musician)

    Charlie Parker was an American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was 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 Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman—he was one of the

  • Parker, Charlie (American musician)

    Charlie Parker was an American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was 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 Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman—he was one of the

  • Parker, Claire (French animator)

    Alexandre Alexeïeff: …(later his wife), the animator Claire Parker (1910–81).

  • Parker, Colonel Tom (American promoter)

    Colonel Tom Parker was a Dutch-born carnival barker, entertainment promoter, and talent agent who became the manager of American rock-and-roll pioneer Elvis Presley in 1955, when the young singer was on the brink of achieving unprecedented stardom. He remained Presley’s manager until the rocker’s

  • Parker, Dorothy (American author)

    Dorothy Parker was an American short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and critic known for her witty—and often acerbic—remarks. She was one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal literary group. Dorothy Rothschild was educated at Miss Dana’s School in Morristown, New Jersey, and

  • Parker, Ely S. (United States government official)

    Ulysses S. Grant: Grant’s presidency: Notably, Grant named Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian who had served with him as a staff officer, commissioner of Indian affairs, and Grant’s wife persuaded him to appoint Hamilton Fish secretary of state. Strong-willed and forthright, Julia Grant also later claimed credit for helping to persuade her…

  • Parker, Eugene (American astrophysicist)

    plasma: Regions of the Sun: 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 supersonic and to escape the Sun’s pull. The solution was much like the description of a rocket nozzle in which…

  • Parker, Francis (American educator)

    Francis Parker was a founder of progressive elementary education in the United States and organizer of the first parent-teacher group at Chicago. At age 16 he began to teach and five years later became school principal at Carrollton, Ill. (1859). He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Union Army

  • Parker, Geoffrey A. (British biologist)

    animal behaviour: Adaptive design: …stercoraria) by British evolutionary biologist Geoffrey A. Parker. Shortly after cow excrement is deposited in a meadow, it is invaded by female dung flies that come to lay their eggs on the dung and by males seeking to mate with the females. Competition among the males for females is fierce.…

  • Parker, George (English writer)

    lacquerwork: Europe: John Stalker and George Parker’s Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing (London, 1688) was the first text with pattern illustrations. The English term japanning was inspired by the superiority of Japanese lacquer, which Stalker found “…in fineness of Black, and neatness of draught…more beautiful, more rich, or Majestick” than…

  • Parker, Graham (British musician)

    new wave: …pub rock veterans Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, and Elvis Costello; Squeeze and XTC, whose songs were sophisticated and infectious; ska revivalists such as Madness and the Specials; genre-hopping Joe Jackson; synthesizer bands such as Human

  • Parker, Horatio (American composer)

    Horatio Parker was a composer, conductor, and teacher, and a prominent member of the turn-of-the-century Boston school of American composers. Parker studied in Boston and Munich. Returning to New York, he taught at the National Conservatory of Music, then directed by Antonin Dvořák. In 1894 he

  • Parker, Isaac C. (American jurist)

    Fort Smith: Judge Isaac C. Parker, known as a “hanging judge,” successfully carried out the difficult task of enforcing federal law in the area from 1875 to 1896. Fort Smith National Historic Site (established 1960) preserves the sites of the two forts and Judge Parker’s restored courtroom.

  • Parker, James Stewart (Irish playwright)

    Stewart Parker was an Irish playwright whose innovative plays captured the human dimension of the religious conflict in Northern Ireland. Born into a working-class Protestant family, Parker won a scholarship to Queen’s University, Belfast (B.A., 1963; M.A., 1965), where he studied poetic drama. He

  • Parker, James Thomas (American football player)

    Jim Parker was an American professional gridiron football player who, during his 11-year career with the Baltimore Colts, established himself as one of the finest offensive linemen in National Football League (NFL) history. Parker played collegiate football at the Ohio State University under

  • Parker, Jim (American football player)

    Jim Parker was an American professional gridiron football player who, during his 11-year career with the Baltimore Colts, established himself as one of the finest offensive linemen in National Football League (NFL) history. Parker played collegiate football at the Ohio State University under

  • Parker, John (American businessman and seaman)

    Waimea: In 1812 John Parker, a sailor, 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 for the Parker Ranch (established about 1815), one of the largest…

  • Parker, John J. (American jurist)

    African Americans: African American life during the Great Depression and the New Deal: Herbert Hoover nominated John J. Parker, a man of pronounced anti-Black views, to the U.S. Supreme Court. The NAACP successfully opposed the nomination. In the 1932 presidential race African Americans overwhelmingly supported the successful Democratic candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • Parker, Kathleen (American journalist)

    Eliot Spitzer: …year he began cohosting (with Kathleen Parker) the nightly talk show Parker Spitzer on CNN. In February 2011 Parker left the program, which was subsequently retitled In the Arena. It struggled in the ratings, and in July Spitzer stepped down as host after CNN announced that the show would be…

  • Parker, Louis Napoleon (British dramatist)

    pageant: Parker. Parker’s insistence on accurate retellings of history, use of natural settings with little or no artificial scenery, and reliance on amateur actors served to repopularize the pageant as historical drama. Max Reinhardt also made notable contributions to modern pageant drama with his efforts to…

  • Parker, Maceo (American musician)

    James Brown: …Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, and Maceo Parker) have played an important role in creating the core vocabulary and grammar of funk music.

  • Parker, Mary-Louise (American actress)

    Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress of stage, screen, and television who is noted for bringing integrity and depth to her performances. Parker grew up in South Carolina and studied acting at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In 1975 she had a small part in the soap opera Ryan’s Hope, but

  • Parker, Matthew (archbishop of Canterbury)

    Matthew Parker was an 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. Parker studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and was

  • Parker, Mount (mountain, Hong Kong, China)

    Hong Kong: Relief: …1,810 feet (552 meters), and Mount Parker in the east, which reaches a height of about 1,742 feet (531 meters).

  • Parker, Patricia (American critic and scholar)

    William Shakespeare: Deconstruction: Patricia Parker’s Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context (1996), for example, offers many brilliant demonstrations of this, one of which is her study of the word preposterous, a word she finds throughout the plays. It means literally behind for before, back for front, second…

  • Parker, Quanah (Native American leader)

    Quanah Parker was a Comanche leader who, as the last chief of the Kwahadi (Quahadi) band, mounted an unsuccessful war against white expansion in northwestern Texas (1874–75). He later became the main spokesman and peacetime leader of the Native Americans in the region, a role he performed for 30

  • Parker, Randolph Severn, III (American screenwriter, actor, and producer)

    Trey Parker is an American screenwriter, actor, and producer, best known as the cocreator, with Matt Stone, of the subversive animated comedy series South Park (1997– ) and the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon (2011). Parker grew up in small-town Colorado. While in high school, he and

  • Parker, Robert L. (British geologist)

    plate tectonics: Determination of plate thickness: McKenzie and Robert L. Parker of Britain and W. Jason Morgan of the United States resolved these issues. McKenzie and Parker showed with a geometric analysis that, if the moving slabs of crust were thick enough to be regarded as rigid and thus to remain undeformed, their…

  • Parker, Robert LeRoy (American outlaw)

    Butch Cassidy was an American outlaw and foremost member of the Wild Bunch, a collection of bank and train robbers who ranged through the western United States in the 1880s and ’90s. Robert Parker took his alias from Mike Cassidy, an older outlaw from whom he learned cattle rustling and gunslinging

  • Parker, Sarah Jessica (American actress)

    Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the television series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and the reboot, And Just Like That… (2021−25). She also played the character in two films (2008 an 2010). Parker’s other notable credits

  • Parker, Sean (American entrepreneur)

    Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the file-sharing service Napster in 1999 and was the first president (2004–05) of the social networking site Facebook. Parker was interested in computers from an early age; his father, an oceanographer for the U.S. government, first taught him

  • Parker, Sir Gilbert, Baronet (British author)

    Sir Gilbert Parker, Baronet was a British novelist of popular adventure and historical romances. His most widely known work was The Seats of the Mighty (1896), a novel of the 17th-century conquest of Quebec. From 1885 to 1889 Parker traveled widely in Australia and the South Seas, after which he

  • Parker, Sir Horatio Gilbert, Baronet (British author)

    Sir Gilbert Parker, Baronet was a British novelist of popular adventure and historical romances. His most widely known work was The Seats of the Mighty (1896), a novel of the 17th-century conquest of Quebec. From 1885 to 1889 Parker traveled widely in Australia and the South Seas, after which he

  • Parker, Sir Hyde (British admiral)

    Horatio Nelson: Blockade of Naples and battle of Copenhagen: …command to the elderly admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who was to command an expedition to the Baltic. Shortly before sailing, Nelson heard that Emma had borne him a daughter named Horatia.

  • Parker, Sir Peter (British businessman)

    The Mirror: …the paper was bought by Sir Peter Parker, a former British Railways chairman. Acquired in 1999 by Trinity Mirror PLC, The Mirror continues to be one of the leading mass-circulation papers in Britain.

  • Parker, Stewart (Irish playwright)

    Stewart Parker was an Irish playwright whose innovative plays captured the human dimension of the religious conflict in Northern Ireland. Born into a working-class Protestant family, Parker won a scholarship to Queen’s University, Belfast (B.A., 1963; M.A., 1965), where he studied poetic drama. He

  • Parker, Theodore (American theologian)

    Theodore Parker was an 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 God derived from man’s experience of nature and

  • Parker, Tony (French basketball player)

    Gregg Popovich: San Antonio Spurs: …international players, French point guard Tony Parker and Argentine shooting guard Manu Ginobili, who, along with Duncan, were the linchpins for the Spurs as they beat the Detroit Pistons 4–3 to win the NBA championship in 2005 and swept the Cleveland Cavaliers 4–0 in the best-of-seven series championship in 2007.

  • Parker, Trey (American screenwriter, actor, and producer)

    Trey Parker is an American screenwriter, actor, and producer, best known as the cocreator, with Matt Stone, of the subversive animated comedy series South Park (1997– ) and the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon (2011). Parker grew up in small-town Colorado. While in high school, he and

  • Parkers, The (American television show)

    Mo’Nique: The Parkers and Precious: …Nikki Parker on the sitcom The Parkers (1999–2004), in which she played an ebullient single mother. Film roles soon followed, though the movies were of varying quality, ranging from Baby Boy (2001), about life in inner-city Los Angeles, to Soul Plane (2004), a widely reviled parody of Airplane! (1980) that…

  • Parkersburg (city, West Virginia, United States)

    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 as Neal’s Station on a land tract originally purchased by Alexander Parker of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it

  • Parkes (New South Wales, Australia)

    Parkes, town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in the Lachlan River valley. The town was founded in 1862 as a reef- and alluvial-gold centre, originally called Bushman’s for a prominent local mine owner. It was renamed for Sir Henry Parkes, a state premier, in 1873, and was

  • Parkes process (chemistry)

    Alexander Parkes: This procedure, commonly called the Parkes process (patented in 1850), involves adding zinc to lead and melting the two together. When stirred, the molten zinc reacts and forms compounds with any silver and gold present in the lead. These zinc compounds are lighter than the lead and, on cooling, form…

  • Parkes Radio Telescope (telescope, Parkes, New South Wales, Australia)

    extraterrestrial intelligence: Radio searches: …out with the 64-metre (210-foot) telescope near Parkes, New South Wales. Such sky surveys are generally less sensitive than targeted searches of individual stars, but they are able to “piggyback” onto telescopes that are already engaged in making conventional astronomical observations, thus securing a large amount of search time. In…

  • Parkes zinc-desilvering process (chemistry)

    Alexander Parkes: This procedure, commonly called the Parkes process (patented in 1850), involves adding zinc to lead and melting the two together. When stirred, the molten zinc reacts and forms compounds with any silver and gold present in the lead. These zinc compounds are lighter than the lead and, on cooling, form…

  • Parkes, Alexander (British chemist)

    Alexander Parkes was a British chemist and inventor noted for his development of various industrial processes and materials. Much of Parkes’s work was related to metallurgy. He was one of the first to propose introducing small amounts of phosphorus into metal alloys to enhance their strength. One

  • Parkes, Francis Ernest Kobina (Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet)

    Frank Kobina Parkes was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet whose style and great confidence in the future of Africa owe much to the Senegalese poet David Diop. Parkes was educated in Accra, Ghana, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. He worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and editor and in 1955

  • Parkes, Frank Kobina (Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet)

    Frank Kobina Parkes was a Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster, and poet whose style and great confidence in the future of Africa owe much to the Senegalese poet David Diop. Parkes was educated in Accra, Ghana, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. He worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and editor and in 1955

  • Parkes, Harry (British consul)

    China: The anti-foreign movement and the second Opium War (Arrow War): The British consul Harry Parkes sent a fleet to fight its way up to Guangzhou. French forces joined the venture on the plea that a French missionary had been officially executed in Guangxi. The British government sent an expedition under Lord Elgin as plenipotentiary. The Russians and the…

  • Parkes, Sir Henry (Australian politician)

    Sir Henry Parkes was 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 Wales between 1872 and 1891. Parkes became politically prominent in 1849 as a spokesman for ending

  • Parkesine (material)

    celluloid: …plastic material that he called Parkesine. Parkesine plastics were made by dissolving nitrocellulose (a flammable nitric ester of cotton or wood cellulose) in solvents such as alcohol or wood naphtha and mixing in plasticizers such as vegetable oil or camphor (a waxy substance originally derived from the oils of the…

  • Parkhead (stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)

    Celtic: …moved to its longtime home, Celtic Park (also known as Parkhead), in 1892. Renovated in 1995, the stadium now accommodates more than 60,000 spectators. Celtic began playing in white shirts with green collars, and the club’s famous uniform of a green-and-white striped shirt with white shorts debuted in 1903.

  • Parkhurst, Charley (American stagecoach driver)

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