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16 matches to Park
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Civil Rights Movement. 1950-91. US movement to obtain rights for blacks. 1955 Parks. 1963 March on Washington. King speech. 1991 Civil Rights Act.
Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.
Garnerin, A-J. 1769-1823. French. First parachutist. Landed in Monceau park, Paris, 1797.
Nore Mutiny. 1797. British North Sea fleet protest conditions. Parker hung.
Park, Mungo. 1771-1806. Scottish explorer of Niger.
Park Chung Hee. 1917-79. South Korean president. 1963-79 by 1961 coup. Economic growth.
Parker, Charlie. 1920-55. US Jazz saxophonist. Father of Bebop.
Parker, Dorothy. 1893-1967. US witty urban writer. A Star is Born. Death and Taxes 1931.
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.
Phoenix Park Murders. 1882. British Secretary and Undersecretary of Ireland killed by terrorists.
Stanislaw I. 1677-1766. Polish king 1704-9, 1733-5. 1733 return sparked War of Polish Succession.
Tarquinius Sextus. Rape of Lucrece 510BC sparks revolt, end of Tarquin dynasty. Roman Republic begins.
Turing, Alan. 1912-54. English mathematician, logician. Early computer theorist. Morphogenesis. Collosus. Bletchley Park.
Vigeland, Gustav. 1869-1943. Norwegian sculptor depicting man’s struggle for life. Frogner Parken.