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- (from the article "Finland") By the Treaty of Paris (1947), made with the Allied Powers after World War II, Finland was permitted to maintain an army of 34,400 individuals, an air force of 3,000 individuals and 60 combat aircraft, and a navy of 4,500 ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Austria") ...(southern Tirol; now part of the Italian Trentino-Alto Adige region) and the problem of association with the European Economic Community (EEC; later renamed the European Community). During the Paris Peace Conference of 1946, an agreement had been signed guaranteeing the ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (1898), treaty concluding the Spanish-American War. It was signed by representatives of Spain and the United States in Paris on Dec. 10, 1898 (see primary source document: Treaty of Paris). [7 Related Articles]
- Paris, Treaty of
- (1856), treaty signed on March 30, 1856, in Paris that ended the Crimean War. The treaty was signed between Russia on one side and France, Great Britain, Sardinia-Piedmont, and Turkey on the other. Because the western European powers had fought ... [9 Related Articles]
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Bourbon, House of") ...of Vienna: having assigned Parma to Napoleon's estranged consort Marie-Louise for her lifetime, the Congress had to find some alternative compensation for the still-dispossessed Bourbons. The Treaty of Paris of 1817, however, prescribed that on Marie-Louise's death Parma should revert ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Ionian Islands") ...rule was quickly ended by a Russo-Turkish force (1798-99). Reclaimed by France in 1807 and made an integral part of the French empire under Napoleon, the islands were placed by the Treaty of Paris (1815) under the exclusive protection of ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Germany") ...early in 1814, after the allies had launched their invasion of France. In the course of the spring, the capture of Paris, the restoration of the Bourbons, and the conclusion of peace in the first Treaty of Paris (May 30) ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Paris, Treaty of") (1783), treaty between Great Britain and the United States concluding the American Revolution. See Paris, Peace of.for more general content related to this topicParis, Peace of
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal") ...frontier. Mazarin completed this settlement by arbitrating the "northern peace" (the treaties of Oliva and of Copenhagen on May 3 and May 27, 1660) and by returning Lorraine to its duke (Treaty of Paris, Feb. 28, 1661). Thus, at his ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...proved impossible, and this was one of the causes for the outbreak of the French war in 1337. Another was the long-standing friction over Gascony, chronic since 1294 and stemming ultimately from the Treaty of Paris of 1259. By establishing ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "Charles III") ...eldest son of Charles II the Bad. Unlike his father, he pursued a consistent policy of peace both with Castile (which in gratitude restored certain districts to Navarre) and with France. By the treaty of Paris (1404) Charles not only ...
- Paris, Treaty of
- (from the article "France") ...do homage to Philip V's brother and successor, Charles IV, an old issue relating to French rights in Saint-Sardos (in Agenais) flamed into a war that once again went in favour of the French. By the Treaty of Paris (March ...
- Paris-Match
- weekly pictorial magazine published in France since 1949 as successor to L'Illustration (1843-1944), which was discredited during World War II. A popular pictorial-news and current-events magazine aimed at the middle class, it features picture stories on public affairs, profiles and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Parise, Goffredo
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...the Snow]). By contrast, there were humorous recollections of provincial life under fascism-for example, Mario Tobino's Bandiera nera (1950; "Black Flag") and Goffredo Parise's Prete bello (1954; "The Handsome Priest"; Eng. trans. The Priest Among the Pigeons). In contrast to ...
- parish
- (from the article "Louisiana") Local self-government in Louisiana followed the Virginia system of county government. The parish (county), the municipality, and the special district are the units of local government. There are 64 parishes, with land areas that vary from roughly 180 square miles ...
- parish
- in some Christian church polities, a geographic unit served by a pastor or priest. It is a subdivision of a diocese. [5 Related Articles]
- parish
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...government, each with its own responsibilities, whereas other areas have only a single tier or two tiers. Throughout England, parish and town councils form the lowest tier of local government. (Parishes are civil subdivisions, usually centred on a village or ...
- parish library
- (from the article "library") There were, of course, other developments. In England there were established a number of parish libraries, attached to churches and chiefly intended for the use of the clergy (one of the earliest, at Grantham in Lincolnshire, was set up as ...
- Parish, Sister
- (DOROTHY MAY KINNICUTT), U.S. interior designer (b. July 15, 1910, Morristown, N.J.--d. Sept. 8, 1994, Dark Harbor, Maine), created ageless atmospheres that appealed to both women and men and dictated style on both sides of the Atlantic with her traditional ...
- parishad
- (from the article "India") ...functioned with the assistance of a council of elders probably selected from the Kshatriya families. The most important institution was the sovereign general assembly, or parishad, to the meetings of which members were summoned by kettledrum. Precise ...
- Parisien, Le
- morning daily newspaper published in Paris, one of the largest and most influential in France. Formerly called Le Parisien Libere ("The Free Parisian"), it was established in Paris in 1944 as an organ of the French underground ...
- Parisii
- (from the article "Paris") ...now the city of Paris dates from about 7600 BC. By the end of the 3rd century BC, a settlement had been built on the Ile de la Cite; it was inhabited by a Gallic tribe known as the Parisii. ...
- parison
- (from the article "plastic") ...containers for products previously marketed in glass is due in no small part to the development of blow molding. In this technique, illustrated in Figure 4, a thermoplastic hollow tube, the parison, is formed by injection molding or extrusion. In ...
- paritta
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...are intended to protect against various kinds of danger and to exorcise evil influences. In the Theravada tradition, these rituals are closely associated with texts called parittas, many of which are attributed directly to the Buddha. In ...
- parity
- in economics, equality in price, rate of exchange, purchasing power, or wages. [4 Related Articles]
- parity
- in physics, property important in the quantum-mechanical description of a physical system. In most cases it relates to the symmetry of the wave function representing a system of fundamental particles. A parity transformation replaces such a system with a type ... [10 Related Articles]
- parity
- (from the article "perfect number") ...is prime; therefore, 7 × 4 = 28 ("the sum multiplied into the last") is a perfect number. Euclid's formula forces any perfect number obtained from it to be even, and in the 18th century the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler showed that any even ...
- Parity Amendment
- (from the article "Bell Trade Act") ...at a rate of 2:1, and provided for free trade between the two countries for 8 years, to be followed by gradual application of tariffs for the next 20 years. Many Filipinos objected to the so-called Parity Amendment, which required ...
- parity check
- (from the article "information theory") A common type of error-detecting code is the parity code, which adds one bit to a block of bits so that the ones in the block always add up to either an odd or even number. For example, an odd ...
- parity, conservation of
- (from the article "parity") Until 1956 it was assumed that, when an isolated system of fundamental particles interacts, the overall parity remains the same or is conserved. This conservation of parity implied that, for fundamental physical interactions, it is impossible to distinguish right from ...
- parivincular ligament
- (from the article "bivalve") ...groups of bivalves. Middorsally an elastic ligament creates the opening thrust that operates against the closing action of the adductor muscles. The ligament typically develops either externally (parivincular) or internally (alivincular) but comprises outer lamellar, and inner fibrous, layers secreted ...
- Parizeau, Jacques
- (from the article "Parti Quebecois") The Parti Quebecois won 77 out of 125 seats in the 1994 provincial election and formed a government under its leader, Jacques Parizeau. In 1995 the party held another referendum seeking popular approval to negotiate Quebec's secession from Canada; again ...
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Park Chung Hee
- South Korean general and politician, president of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from 1963 to his death. His 18-year rule brought about enormous economic expansion at the cost of civil liberties and political freedom. [7 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Park Kun Hye
- (from the article "Korea, Republic of") ...Korean military) and individuals around him, including presidential hopefuls from his own party. The leading presidential candidate was former Seoul mayor Lee Myung Bak. His closest competitor was Park Kun Hye, the daughter of former president Park Chung Hee. Park ...
- 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 ...
- park ranger
- (from the article "ranger") In the National Park Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior established in 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 ...
- 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. ...
- Park Street Church
- (from the article "spire") ...an attic, a simple, slim, white spire, as in the Old South Meeting House, Boston (1729). This trend toward slender and attenuated proportions reached its climax in the exquisitely light spire of Park Street Church, Boston (1819), by Peter Banner.
- Park Tae Hwan
- (from the article "Swimming") ...fellow American Ryan Lochte upset him in the 200-m backstroke (an event Peirsol had not lost in more than six years) and claimed a new world record along with the gold medal in 1 min 54.32 sec. Park Tae Hwan, ...
- Park, Keith
- (from the article "Leigh-Mallory, Trafford") ...1940-April 1941) was to defend England's Midlands against German air attacks. A debate over tactics during the battle brought Leigh-Mallory into conflict with the Number 11 Group commander, Keith Park (in charge of defending southern England), and with the head ...
- Park, Maud Wood
- 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, Michael
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...of Finland in the Rally of Japan with three races left, two of which he won. Loeb would have wrapped up the title in Wales one race earlier had it not been for a crash in which co-driver Michael Park ...
- Park, Mungo
- Scottish explorer of the Niger. [4 Related Articles]
- Park, Nick
- British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit. [3 Related Articles]
- Park, Orlando
- 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.
- Park, Robert E.
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Park, Thomas
- U.S. animal ecologist known for his experiments with beetles in analyzing population dynamics.
- parka
- hip-length, hooded jacket traditionally made of caribou, seal, or other fur, worn as an outer garment by Arctic peoples. [1 Related Articles]
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