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Parker, Charlie. 1920-55. US Jazz saxophonist. Father of Bebop.
Parker, Matthew “Nosey”. 1504-75. Archbishop of Canterbury 1559-. 39 Articles.
Parks, Rosa. 1913-. US ‘mother’ of Civil Rights Movement. Arrested, 1955, for not relinquishing her seat to a white man. King.
Parlement. 12C-1792 French royal supreme courts in Paris, provinces.
Parliament. British Monarch, House of Lords and Commons. 1295 Model Parliament. 1688 Glorious Revolution. 1911 Parliament Act. Curia Regis. Name of legislatures of most former British colonies.
Parliament Act. 1911. House of Lords loses veto after opposing tax on wealthy. Commons term 5 yrs.
Parmenides. 5C BC. Eleatic philosopher. Everything is an illusion. Mind creates the illusion of matter and motion. All is appearance of singular eternal reality.
Parmentier, Antoine. 1737-1813. French agronomist, cultivated potatoes.
Parnassians. 1867-99. French detached anti-Romantic poetry school. Leconte de Lisle. Sully-Prudhomme. Verlaine. Gautier. Baudelaire.
Parnell, Charles. 1846-91. Irish nationalist. Founded Land League.
Páros. Greek island source of white marble. Parthenon.
Parr, Catherine. 1512-48. Sixth and last wife of Henry VIII.
Parry, Hubert. 1848-1918. Led English music revival.
Parry, William. 1790-1855. English arctic explorer. Failed to find NW Passage.
Parses. Parsis. Indian followers of Zoroastrianism from Persia 8C.
Parsons, Charles. 1854-1931. English inventor of multi-stage steam turbine, 1884.
Parson’s Cause. 1755,58 Salary dispute of Anglican ministers in Virginia based on inflation of tobacco prices.
Parthenon. 447-431BC. Marble Doric temple of Athena built by Phidias and Ictinus under Pericles on Athens Acropolis. Damaged by Venetians attacking Turks 1687.
Parthenopean Republic. 1799 Created by Napoleon at Naples. 1802 Nelson restores Bourbons 1806.
Partisans. Armed resistance in occupied territory. Yugoslav resistance under Tito, 1941-5.
Pascal, Blaise. 1623-62. French mathematician, Jansenist philosopher, physician. Calculator 1642.Barometer 1646. Syringe 1648. Hydraulics. Probability 1654. Pensées 1670.
Paschal II. -1118. Italian pope 1099-. Investiture Controversy.
Pasic, Nikola. 1845-1926. Serbian radical. First Yugoslav Prime Minister 1921-.