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- (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 Brothers in 1935. Before then, homemade versions of a similar ...
- 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 miles across California to supply a portion of the water ...
- 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 for the Parker Ranch (established about 1815), one of the ...
- 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 v. Davis (May 1, 1871), the Court reversed its ...
- 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 crime spree that lasted 21 months. Often working with confederates-including ...
- 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 4-in) Candace Parker, scored 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 3 ...
- 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 Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman-he was one of the three ... [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 played the game from the age of nine and, ...
- 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, a Seneca Indian who had served with him as ...
- 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 supersonic and to escape the Sun's pull. The solution was ...
- 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 LP The Topography of the Lungs, with guitarist Derek Bailey ...
- 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 (b. Feb. 13, 1916--d. July 24, 1997).
- 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 George Parker's Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing (London, 1688) was ...
- 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 outlaws. Judge Isaac C. Parker, known as a "hanging judge," ...
- 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 played under legendary coach Woody Hayes at Ohio State ...
- 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 John Parker, a sailor, was granted a license by Kamehameha ...
- 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 of North Carolina for appointment to the U.S. Supreme ...
- 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's insistence on accurate retellings of history, use of natural ...
- 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 and technology, social issues, medicine, and religion (b. July 28, ...
- 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 rises to 1,810 feet, and Mount Parker in the east, ...
- 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 (1996), for example, offers many brilliant demonstrations of this, one ...
- 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, a role he performed for 30 years.
- 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 showed with a geometric analysis that, if the moving slabs ...
- 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 television viewers: sex, friends, and fashion. In 2001 Parker returned ... [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 to the elderly admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who was to ...
- 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 paper was bought by Sir Peter Parker, a former British ...
- 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 future supermodels by becoming the first model to make more ...
- 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 God derived from man's experience of nature and insight into ... [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 Fabricio Oberto)-swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in four straight games in ...
- 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 ...
- 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 Sir Henry Parkes, a state premier, in 1873, and was ...
- 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 the Parkes process, involves adding zinc to lead and melting ...
- 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 Bank in England. These filled-aperture radio telescopes are used for ...
- 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 sent a fleet to fight its way up to Guangzhou. ...
- 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 Wales between 1872 and 1891. [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 was Parkesine, developed by the British inventor Alexander Parkes. Parkesine, ...
- 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, but it has been found that a ratio of 5.5 ...
- 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 cars with automatic transmissions, an additional lock is usually provided ...
- 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 by the British physician James Parkinson in his [15 Related Articles]
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