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

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).

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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, 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, 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

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

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.

Charley Parkhurst was an American stagecoach driver who became famous as an expert horse handler in California during and after the state’s Gold Rush. Parkhurst was known among friends as a tough character who indulged in whiskey drinking, tobacco chewing, gambling, and cursing. Upon Parkhurst’s

Charley Parkhurst was an American stagecoach driver who became famous as an expert horse handler in California during and after the state’s Gold Rush. Parkhurst was known among friends as a tough character who indulged in whiskey drinking, tobacco chewing, gambling, and cursing. Upon Parkhurst’s

Helen Parkhurst was an American educator, author, and lecturer who devised the Dalton Laboratory Plan and founded the Dalton School. Parkhurst graduated from the River Falls Normal School of Wisconsin State College (1907), did graduate work at Columbia University, and studied at the universities of

Parkinson disease: Risk factors: …encodes a protein known as parkin, have been associated with early-onset (before age 40) Parkinson disease and with some cases of late-onset (after age 50) Parkinson disease. Mutations in several other genes have been linked to noninherited forms of the disease.

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 spaces per 1,000 square…

automobile: Brakes: 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 in the form of a…

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 British physician James Parkinson in his “Essay on the

dementia with Lewy bodies: …Lewy bodies is related to Parkinson disease dementia (PDD), in that both are associated with the accumulation of so-called Lewy bodies—abnormal deposits of a protein known as alpha-synuclein—in the brain. Lewy bodies are named for German physician Friedrich Heinrich Lewy, who first described them (1912), in the context of Parkinson…

C. Northcote Parkinson: …issued in book form in Parkinson’s Law; or, The Pursuit of Progress (1958). Apart from the books that made him famous, Parkinson wrote numerous historical works, including the critically acclaimed The Evolution of Political Thought (1958).

C. Northcote Parkinson was a 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 of his “law,” which first appeared in an essay in the London

C. Northcote Parkinson was a 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 of his “law,” which first appeared in an essay in the London

parkinsonism: …1817 by the British physician James Parkinson in his “Essay on the Shaking Palsy.” Various types of the disorder are recognized, but the disease described by Parkinson, called Parkinson disease, is the most common form. Parkinson disease is also called primary parkinsonism, paralysis agitans, or idiopathic parkinsonism, meaning the disease…

parkinsonism: Parkinsonism-plus disease, or multiple-system degenerations, includes diseases in which the main features of parkinsonism are accompanied by other symptoms. Parkinsonism may appear in patients with other neurological disorders such as Huntington disease, Alzheimer disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

palo verde: Mexican palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata) occurs in southwestern Arizona and from Texas to Florida.

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. Parkinsonism was first described in 1817 by the British physician James Parkinson in his

Paul Giamatti: …the voice of a snail; Parkland, a drama about the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy; 12 Years a Slave, in which he played a slave trader; and Saving Mr. Banks, in which he appeared as the driver of Mary Poppins (1934) author P.L. Travers. In 2014 he played the…

At 2:21 pm on February 14, 2018, a former student entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and began firing an AR-15-style assault rifle. When the shooting stopped some six minutes later, 17 people lay dead or dying. Another 17 were injured in what is the deadliest mass

Great Plains: Plant and animal life: …and known as the “Parklands” is found, where the grasslands gradually give way to forest; and north of 54° N latitude coniferous forests dominate the vegetation.

Damon Albarn: …critical and commercial breakthrough with Parklife (1994), a winning collection of pop songs in that vein. By the mid-1990s Blur was a chief exemplar, along with fellow melodic-rock revivalists Oasis, of what was called Britpop, and a frenzied media-fueled rivalry emerged between the two bands. Partially in response, Albarn and…

Francis Parkman was an 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. Parkman was the son of Francis Parkman, a leading Unitarian minister of Boston. As a boy, he met many of his

parkour, the practice of traversing obstacles in a man-made or natural environment through the use of running, vaulting, jumping, climbing, rolling, and other movements in order to travel from one point to another in the quickest and most efficient way possible without the use of equipment. The

Parks and Recreation, American television sitcom that aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network from 2009 to 2015 and followed the antics of a group of government employees in a hapless Midwestern town. The show was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who had also worked

Miss America: …the debut of longtime host Bert Parks and the familiar theme song “There She Is, Miss America.” Throughout the first four decades of the competition, contestants increasingly represented states instead of cities, and in 1964 the representation of cities was discontinued altogether.

Gordon Parks was an American author, photographer, and film director who documented African American life. The youngest of 15 children born into a tenant farming family, Parks grew up in poverty and attended a segregated middle school before enrolling at an integrated high school. Although he

Gordon Parks was an American author, photographer, and film director who documented African American life. The youngest of 15 children born into a tenant farming family, Parks grew up in poverty and attended a segregated middle school before enrolling at an integrated high school. Although he

blaxploitation movies: …of drug kingpin Priest in Gordon Parks, Jr.’s highly successful Super Fly (1972)—came under scrutiny for depicting Priest as a cool, sophisticated, stylish man who was popular with women, lived in plush comfort, drove the latest-model car, and wore his cocaine spoon as a fashion accessory. Ebony writer B.J. Mason…

Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Born to parents James McCauley, a skilled stonemason

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog). Parks, who was writing stories at age five, had a peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a military officer. She attended Mount Holyoke College, South

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog). Parks, who was writing stories at age five, had a peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a military officer. She attended Mount Holyoke College, South

Brian Wilson: Solo career: …product of a collaboration with Van Dyke Parks, featuring lyrics by Parks and vocals by Wilson. Imagination (1998) includes songs cowritten with Carole Bayer Sager, Jimmy Buffett, and J.D. Souther.

drag racing: …it gained greater respectability after Wally Parks helped organize the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) in 1938. World War II brought a temporary hiatus to activities but gave California “hot rodders” the opportunity to proselytize fellow servicemen, and these new converts returned home with hot rod “fever.”

expressway, major arterial divided highway that features two or more traffic lanes in each direction, with opposing traffic separated by a median strip; elimination of grade crossings; controlled entries and exits; and advanced designs eliminating steep grades, sharp curves, and other hazards and

singing: Mid-19th century departure from bel canto style: …singers, and also the still-later parlando singers, who effected a union of speech and singing, made a conscious use of resonation in this way and differed from the bel canto singers in that they exercised less control over physical mechanisms.

folk music: Singing styles: …folk music, which he named parlando-rubato and tempo giusto. Parlando-rubato, stressing the words, departs frequently from strict metric and rhythmic patterns and is often highly ornamented, while tempo giusto follows metric patterns and maintains an even tempo. Both singing styles can be heard in many parts of Europe and in…

Parlement, the supreme court under the ancien régime 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 their principal vassals and prelates to deliberate with them on feudal and political matters. It also

The Parlement of Foules, a 699-line poem in rhyme royal by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in 1380–90. Composed in the tradition of French romances (while at the same time questioning the merits of that tradition), this poem has been called one of the best occasional verses in the English language. Often

rapporteur: … and was adopted by the Parlement of Paris in the late 13th century. Originally rapporteurs were not members of the court, but by 1336 they were given full rights to participate in the decision-making process as judges.

the Fronde: …off the first phase, the Fronde of the Parlement. The Parlement sought to put a constitutional limit on the monarchy by establishing its power to discuss and modify royal decrees. From June 30 to July 12 an assembly of courts made a list of 27 articles for reform, including abolition…

France: Parlements of France: In 1752 a Jansenist parlementaire, Louis-Adrien Le Paige, developed the idea that the various parlements should be thought of as the “classes” or parts of a larger and single “Parlement de France.”

Petr Parléř was the 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. At the age of 23 Parléř was called by King Charles IV of Bohemia to Prague to

Samuel Griswold Goodrich was an American publisher and author of children’s books under the pseudonym of Peter Parley. Largely self-educated, Goodrich became a bookseller and publisher at Hartford and later in Boston. There, beginning in 1828, he published for 15 years an illustrated annual, the

India: Union government: …are the two houses of parliament—the lower house, or Lok Sabha (House of the People), and the upper house, or Rajya Sabha (Council of States). The president of India is also considered part of parliament. At the apex of the judicial branch is the Supreme Court, whose decisions are binding…

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 as parliaments. The British Parliament, often referred to as the “Mother of

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 majority in the House of Commons. Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, in his 1909 “People’s

House of Lords: Under the 1949 act, all other public bills (except bills to extend the maximum duration of Parliament) not receiving the approval of the House of Lords become law provided that they are passed by two successive parliamentary sessions and that a period of one year has elapsed…

Quebec: The contemporary city: …Quebec’s National Assembly, the imposing Parliament Building (the architecture of which was influenced by the Louvre Museum in Paris). Its facade is adorned with more than two dozen bronze statues of men and women who played pivotal roles in the province’s history. North and west of the Parliament Building, Upper…

Victoria: The contemporary city: …the Inner Harbour (including the Parliament Buildings [1897]), but its main orientation is to the Juan de Fuca Strait, on its south. The area includes some of the oldest dwellings in the city and Beacon Hill Park. Northeast of James Bay and east of downtown is the prominent Rockland neighbourhood,…

Parliament Buildings, structures in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that house the Canadian Parliament (the Senate and House of Commons). The buildings, which are designed in a Gothic Revival style, officially opened on June 6, 1866, about a year before Canada’s Confederation. On February 3, 1916, a fire

Stormont: The Parliament Buildings (1928–32) was built in the Greek classical style and has four main floors. Since 1998 it has been home to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Parliament Hill attack, shooting that took place at Parliament and the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on October 22, 2014. The attack, carried out by former Canadian petroleum worker Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, left one person dead and raised questions about parliamentary security

Edinburgh: The Old Town: 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 Knox, the most celebrated figure of the Scottish Reformation, was buried; thus, Knox has no marked grave or tombstone, save for a…

Parliament of India: …known as Sansad Bhavan, or Parliament House.

John Day: …Elizabethan dramatist whose verse allegory The Parliament of Bees shows unusual ingenuity and delicacy of imagination.

Parliament of Canada, the Crown, the Senate, and the House of Commons of Canada, which, according to the British North America Act (Constitution Act) of 1867, are the institutions that together create Canadian laws. When Parliament is referred to in some formal usages, all three institutions are

Admonition to Parliament, 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 the Church of England and eliminate the remaining Roman Catholic elements and

Houses of Parliament, 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 the left bank of the River Thames in the borough of Westminster, London. A royal palace was said to have

Parliament-Funkadelic, massive group of performers that greatly influenced the sound and style of funk music in the 1970s. The original members were George Clinton, Raymond Davis, Calvin Simon, Fuzzy Haskins, and Grady Thomas. Later members included Michael Hampton, Bernie Worrell, Billy Bass

Council of Europe: The Parliamentary Assembly, which meets four times a year, is a deliberative body consisting of representatives from national parliaments. The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe is a consultative body that represents local and regional (subnational) governments within the council. The Secretariat, with a…

ombudsman, legislative commissioner for investigating citizens’ complaints of bureaucratic abuse. The office originated in Sweden in 1809–10 and has been copied in various forms in Scandinavia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel and in certain states in the United States and

parliamentary system, democratic form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties) with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor. Executive functions are exercised by members of the parliament

diplomacy: The League of Nations and the revival of conference diplomacy: The League introduced parliamentary diplomacy in a two-chamber body, acknowledging the equality of states in its lower house and the supremacy of great powers in its upper one. As neither chamber had much power, however, the sovereignty of members was not infringed. The League of Nations sponsored conferences—especially…

Harold Joseph Laski: …Essay in Interpretation (1936), and Parliamentary Government in England: A Commentary (1938), Laski argued that the economic difficulties of capitalism might lead to the destruction of political democracy. He came to view socialism as the only available and possible alternative to the rising menace of fascism in both Germany and…

Labour Party: Policy and structure: …role in party affairs; the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), comprising Labour members of Parliament; and a variety of small socialist groups such as the Fabian Society. Delegates from these organizations meet in an annual conference, where they are given formal authority in policy-making matters. The Labour Party’s various ancillary bodies…

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 preserve the rights of the minority, and to facilitate the orderly

John Almon: In 1774 he began The Parliamentary Register, a monthly record of proceedings (continued until 1813). His printed attacks on William Pitt in the 1780s finally brought his imprisonment for 14 months (1792–93), and he was forced to live the rest of his life on bail.

parliamentary system, democratic form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties) with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor. Executive functions are exercised by members of the parliament

abutilon: Another species, sometimes known as redvein flowering maple (A. pictum), is a handsome variegated-leaf shrub reaching a height of 4.5 metres (15 feet) and is grown as a houseplant. The trailing abutilon (A. megapotamicum), often grown as a hanging plant, is noted for its nodding, yellowish orange, closed flowers.

abutilon, (genus Abutilon), genus of over 100 species of herbaceous plants and partly woody shrubs of the mallow family (Malvaceae) native to tropical and warm temperate areas. It includes several species used as houseplants and in gardens for their white to deep orange, usually nodding,

palm: Trunks and stems: …of regular branching (in Allagoptera, Chamaedorea, Hyphaene, Nannorrhops, Nypa, Vonitra) appear to involve equal or subequal division at the apex that results in a forking habit. The two newly formed branches may continue equally, or one may be overtopped by the other (Nannorrhops). When thickening occurs, as in the royal…

Parma, 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 Parma, named for the Italian city. A small section seceded to form Parma Heights in 1911, and in 1924 the