Encyclopedia

Park ranger A park ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving parkland, forests (then called a forest ranger), wilderness areas and other natural resources. Some countries use the term park warden to describe this occupation.
Park Range (Colorado) The Park Range (elevation approximately 12,000 ft) is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Colorado in the United States. The range forms a relatively isolated part of the continental divide, extending north-to-south for approximately 40 miles (64 km) along the boundary between Jackson (east) and Routt counties.
Park Ridge High School Park Ridge High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school with an integrated two-year middle school, established in 1808, and located in the borough of Park Ridge in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Park Ridge Public Schools. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education.
Park Road Post Park Road Post is a 110,000 square foot motion picture post production facility, located in Miramar, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington. Formally The New Zealand Film Unit, the new facility was renamed Park Road Post upon completion in 2005.
Park Row (BMT station) Park Row was a major elevated railway terminal constructed over the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge, across from New York City Hall in Manhattan that served as the terminal for BMT services operating over the Brooklyn Bridge from the BMT Fulton Street Line, BMT Myrtle Avenue Line and their feeders. Until the opening of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge to elevated train traffic in 1913, it was the only Manhattan station available for elevated trains from Brooklyn.
Park Row (Manhattan) Park Row is a street located in Lower Manhattan; during the late 1800s, it was nicknamed Newspaper Row as most of New York City's newspapers located on the street to be close to the action at New York City Hall.
Park Royal Park Royal is an industrial part of northwest London, partly within the London Borough of Ealing (W5) and mostly within the London Borough of Brent (NW10). The name of the area derives from the short-lived showgrounds opened in 1903 by the Royal Agricultural Society as a permanent exhibition site for the society's annual show.
Park Royal & Twyford Abbey tube station Park Royal is an industrial part of northwest London, partly within the London Borough of Ealing (W5) and mostly within the London Borough of Brent (NW10). The name of the area derives from the short-lived showgrounds opened in 1903 by the Royal Agricultural Society as a permanent exhibition site for the society's annual show.
Park Rynie, KwaZulu-Natal Park Rynie is a small resort town on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was established in 1857 and named after Renetta (Rynie) Hoffman, wife of one of the two landlords who developed the area.
Park system A park system, also known as an open space system, is a network of open spaces which are connected by public walkways, bridleways or cycleways. In modern landscape practice, the park system concept is being overtaken by the idea of planning greenways which run through urban and rural areas.
Park Seed Company Park Seed Company is a privately held mail-order gardening company based in Greenwood, South Carolina. As the name implies, Park Seed specializes in garden seeds, offering more than 1,100 varieties of flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, plus a large selection of bulbs, live plants, and gardening accessories.
Park Seed Company Gardens The national headquarters for Park Seed Company and Wayside Gardens is located in Greenwood, South Carolina. The headquarters complex is surrounded by nine acres of gardens that are maintained by the Park Seed Company for many purposes.
Park Seung Park Seung (born February 16, 1936) is the current Governor of the Bank of Korea; his four-year term will end in March 2006. He kept South Korean interest rates at historic lows but was blamed for contributing to a real-estate market that saw spiraling prices and controversial accusations of speculation.
Park Shin-yang Park Shin-yang (born November 1, 1968) is a Korean actor who became famous as a cast member in the well-loved Korean television series, Lovers In Paris, joined by Kim Jung Eun and Lee Dong-gun. Park Shin-yang portrays Han Ki Joo, President of GD Motors.
Park Si-Hun Si-Hun Park (born December 16, 1965) in was a South Korean boxer, who won the Light Middleweight Gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Park won a very controversial bout to Roy Jones Jr, a loss that still haunts Jones to this day.
Park Slope, Brooklyn Park Slope is a neighborhood in the western section of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. It is known for its vibrant cultural community and is considered one of Brooklyn's major cultural centers.
Park Stakes The Park Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres) at Doncaster Racecourse during the St Leger meeting in September.
Park taven cinderhill The Park Tavern pub in Cinderhill remains in 2006 the only pub on the Cinderhill part of Nuthall Road on the boundary between the city and the county of Nottingham. The other two pubs in this part of Nuthall Road were the Red Lion, which was closed down due to a mixture of illegal drug dealing, constant trouble and a lack of interest in someone to take over the tenancy.
Park Theatre (Manhattan) The Park Theatre was a playhouse in New York City, located at 21, 23, and 25 Park Row, about 200 feet east of Ann Street and backing Theatre Alley. The location, at the north end of the city, overlooked the park that would soon house City Hall.
Park Tower (Chicago) Park Tower located at 800 Michigan Avenue in Chicago () is a skyscraper completed in 2000. At 844 feet (257 m) tall with 70 floors — 67 floors for practical use, it is the tenth tallest building in Chicago, the thirty-second tallest in the United States, and the eighty-third tallest in the world by architectural detail.
Park Towers, Sandy Springs-Atlanta Park Towers is a condominium and apartment high rise development in Sandy Springs, Georgia, just a few miles north of Atlanta, GA. The development consists of three unique buildings--Park Towers I, Park Towers II, and Park Towers III (AKA: Park Towers Place).
Park Tudor School Park Tudor School is a co-educational, independent private school for grades Pre-K through 12 in the Meridian Hills neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Park Tudor was formed in 1970 when Tudor Hall (founded in 1902 as an all girls' school) merged with Park School (founded in 1914 as an all boys' school, formerly known as the Brooks Preparatory School).
Park View Primary School Park View Primary School is a primary school located at 60, Pasir Ris Drive 1, Singapore, officially opened by Mr Charles Chong, MP for Pasir Ris GRC, in 1999. It recently celebrated its 10th anniversary on the 1st July 2006.
Park Village Park Village is an inner city area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is situated in the north-east of the city on the A460 Cannock Road, which at that point is the border between the city council's Bushbury South and Low Hill and Heath Town wards.
Park ward, Wolverhampton Park ward is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands. It is located to the west of the city centre, and covers parts of the suburbs Bradmore, Compton, Finchfield, Merridale, Newbridge and Whitmore Reans.
Park West Park West is the name of a music venue in Chicago, Illinois, located at the corner of Armitage Avenue and Clark Street. The theater was originally named Lane Court when it opened in the 1920s, when it mostly showed movies to a capacity of 1000.
Park West, Dublin Park West is the name of a large business park in Dublin. Located just inside the M50 motorway in West Dublin, the award-winning development comprises several million square metres of residential, office & retail space.
Park Wood, Rainham Park Wood, Rainham, Medway, Kent is an area to the south of the town of Rainham. It was built mainly during the 1960s and 70s and at the time of its construction was the largest private housing estate in Europe.
Park Yeong-gyu Park Yeong-gyu (Born October 28, 1953) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in Attack the Gas Station, in which he plays the owner of the titular gas station, and Lightereul Kyeora, in which he plays a corrupt politician.
Park Young Seok Park, Young-Seok(박영석, 朴英碩, November 2 1963 - ) is the first person in the world to complete a true Adventure Grand Slam. That is to say, he has climbed the world's 14 Eight-thousanders, 8 summits, and visited both poles.
Park-Extension Park-Extension (Parc-Extension in French) is a neighborhood in the city of Montreal, Quebec. The neighborhood is located in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough, reaching a population of 29,000 (2001) and an area of 1,6 km².
Park-McCullough Historic House The Park-McCullough Historic House is one of the finest and best-preserved Victorian mansions in New England. It is a thirty-five room mansion, set on 200 acres (80 hectares) of grounds, and located off Route 67A in North Bennington, Vermont, USA.
Park, Outer Hebrides Park, (Scottish Gaelic: Am Pairc) also known as South Lochs, is a huge area of land connected to the rest of Lewis only by a narrow neck between Loch Seaforth and Loch Erisort. This had a wall - the Garadh an Tighearna (Laird's Duke) - built across it by Lord Seaforth in the early 17th century, the outline of which you can now still see.
Parkash Singh Major Parkash Singh (31 March 1913- 23 March 1991) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Parkdale—High Park Parkdale—High Park is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Parke Godwin Parke Godwin (28 January 1929 - ) is an American writer known for his lyrical yet precise prose style and sardonic humor. He is also known for his novels of legendary figures placed in realistic historical settings; his retelling of the Arthur legend (Firelord in 1980, Beloved Exile in 1984, and The Last Rainbow in 1985) is set in the 5th century during the collapse of the Roman empire, and his reinterpretation of Robin Hood (Sherwood, 1991, and Robin and the King, 1993) takes place during the Norman conquest and features kings William the Conqueror and William Rufus as major characters.
Parke's Castle Rising three storeys tall, in an idyllic setting on the banks of Lough Gill, in County Leitrim in the Irish Republic, Parke’s Castle is a plantation era castle. In 1610 Robert Parke completed his fortified manor house on the site of an earlier fifteenth-century O'Rourke (Uí Ruairc) castle.
Parken Sport & Entertainment Parken Sport & Entertainment A/S (or PS&E for short) is a Danish company listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. PS&E is a leading arranger of sport and entertainment events in Denmark and the Øresunds region.
Parkend, Gloucestershire Parkend is a village in the Royal Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire which has a history dating back to the early 1800s. At one time it was a busy industrial village which also had many coal mines, an Ironworks and a Tinplate Works.
Parker Baronets There have been seven Parker Baronetcies created, of which two are still extant. All were created in the Baronetage of England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, depending on the date of creation (before and after 1707 and 1801).
Parker Bohn III Parker Bohn III (born July 13, 1963 in Jackson, New Jersey) is a left-handed American professional bowler and has been a member of the Professional Bowlers Association since 1984. He has 30 career PBA titles, ranking fifth in all-time number of titles, and has earned over $2-million on tour.
Parker Brothers Parker Brothers is a toy and game manufacturer and brand. The company has published more than 1800 games; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo (known as Clue in North America), Risk, Trivial Pursuit and Probe.
Parker Burrell Parker Burrell (born February 6, 1937 in Winnipegosis, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, representing the nortern riding of Swan River for the Progressive Conservative Party.
Parker Dam Parker Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam which spans the Colorado river, at a point 155 miles (250 km) downstream of Hoover Dam. It is 320 feet (98 meters) high, 235 feet (72 meters) of which are below the riverbed, making it the deepest, although not the highest, dam in the world.
Parker Fennelly Parker Fennelly (October 22, 1891–January 22, 1988) is an American actor. Fennelly was born in Northeast Harbor, Maine, and went on to appear in over ten films, one commercial series, and hundreds of radio episodes, and also made slightly more than a score of guest appearances.
Parker Field Parker Field is a 2,500 seat baseball stadium located in Yakima, Washington. It hosted the Yakima Bears and various other professional baseball teams in the area prior to Yakima County Stadium opening in 1993.
Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin Corporation (originally Parker Appliance Company) , of Cleveland, Ohio, is a manufacturer of motion and control technologies. The company has been publicly traded on the NYSE since December 9, 1964.
Parker House roll A Parker House roll is a shape of bread roll made by flattening the center of a ball of dough with a rolling pin so that it becomes an oval shape and then folding the oval in half. They are made with milk and are generally quite buttery, soft, and slightly sweet.
Parker Johnstone Parker Johnstone (born March 27, 1961) is a former race car driver and motorsports announcer from Redmond, Oregon. An accomplished musician, he was the principal trumpet of the International Youth Orchestra, touring Europe, playing with Herbert Von Karian and the Berlin Philharmonic, and famed pianist Van Cliburn.
Parker Library, Corpus Christi College The Parker Library is the rare books and manuscripts library for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; it is known throughout the world due to the invaluable collection over 600 manuscripts, particularly medieval texts, the core of which were bequeathed to the College in 1574 by Archibishop Matthew Parker.
Parker MacDonald Parker MacDonald (born June 14, 1933 in Sydney, Nova Scotia) was a professional ice hockey left winger who played for a number of NHL teams in his 18 year career. He later coached the Minnesota North Stars and the Los Angeles Kings.
Parker Morris Committee The Parker Morris Committee drew up the influential 1961 report on public housing in the United Kingdom entitled Homes for today and tomorrow. The report concluded that the quality of social housing needed to be improved to match the rise in living standards, and made a number of recommendations.
Parker on the Web Parker on the Web is a project run by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Library and Stanford University Libraries. The main goal of the project is to digitise all of the medieval manuscripts in the Parker Library and to put images of the manuscripts on the internet.
Parker Pennington Parker Pennington (born September 13, 1984) is an American figure skater. He was the 2001 US Junior National Champion, the 1998 US Novice National Champion, the 1997 US Intermediate National Champion, and the 1996 US Juvenile National Champion.
Parker Road Station Parker Road Station is a DART light rail station located in Plano, Texas (USA) in Collin County at the intersection of Park Boulevard and Archerwood Street near Central Expressway. It opened 9 December 2002 and is the northern terminus of the .
Parker spiral The Parker spiral is the shape of the Sun's extended magnetic field as it extends through the solar system. Unlike the familiar shape of the field from a bar magnet, the Sun's extended field is twisted into an arithmetic spiral by the influence of the solar wind and magnetohydrodynamics.
Parker v. South Eastern Railway Company Parker v South Eastern Railway (1877) 2 CPD 416 is a famous English contract law case on exclusion clauses where the court held that an individual cannot escape a contractual term by failing to read the contract but that a party wanting to rely on an exclusion clause must take reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the customer.
Parker Vacumatic The Parker Vacumatic fountain pen was launched in 1933, displacing the Duofold as Parker's top-of-the-line product. The pen was originally named the Golden Arrow, a reference to the new arrow clip which would go on to become a Parker trademark, appearing in some form on almost all of Parker’s subsequent pens.
Parker's Car Guides Parker's started as a car price guide in 1972 and is the longest-running price guide available to the public. It has expanded over the years to now offer reviews, technical data and marketplace intelligence as well as accurate pricing.
Parker's Cove, Nova Scotia Parker's Cove, Nova Scotia is a seaside hamlet, located directly on the Bay of Fundy, was originally settled by immigrants from the United Kingdom in the mid 1700's. The names of the original 13 families - including Robinson, Guest, Halliday, Oliver, Gilliat, Hudson & Clayton - can be seen on a granite monument overlooking the scenic Annapolis Basin, as well as on the mailboxes along the Shore Road today.
Parker's Piece Parker's Piece is a perfectly flat and very roughly square green common located near the centre of Cambridge, England. The two main walking and cycling paths across it run diagonally, and the single lamp-post at the junction is commonly known as Reality Checkpoint, a name understood by generations of students to denote the point where the main concentration of city centre colleges ends and "real life", in the shape of the town proper, begins .
Parker-Sochacki method The Parker-Sochacki method is a new algorithm for solving systems of differential equations, which has been developed by J. Edgar Parker and James Sochacki, of the James Madison University Mathematics Department.
Parkerizing Parkerizing (also called phosphating and phosphatizing) is a method of protecting a steel surface from corrosion and increasing its resistance to wear through the application of an electrochemical conversion coating. Parkerizing is usually considered to be an improved zinc or manganese phosphating process, and not to be an improved iron phosphating process, although some use the term parkerizing as a generic term for applying phosphating (or phosphatizing) coatings that does include the iron phosphating process.
Parkersburg High School Parkersburg High School (PHS) is a secondary school located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, that serves grades ten through twelve and is part of the Wood County School District. Its partner in education is DuPont.
Parkes Institute The Parkes Institute is a research centre for the study of Jewish and non-Jewish relations, based at the University of Southampton in England. It includes an extensive archive of books, journals, official documents and other resources donated by James Parkes, a Christian theologian who sought to challenge the damage done by antisemitism.
Parkesburg (Amtrak station) Parkesburg Station is an Amtrak rail station located between Lancaster and Philadelphia at West First Street and South Culvert Street in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. It is served by most Amtrak Keystone Service trains.
Parkfairfax, Virginia Parkfairfax is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, located in the northwestern part of the city near the boundary with the Arlington County. Nearby thoroughfares are Interstate 395 (Shirley Highway), State Route 402 (Quaker Lane), and West Glebe Road.
Parkfield earthquake Parkfield earthquake is a name given to various large earthquakes that occurred in the vicinity of the town of Parkfield, California. The San Andreas Fault runs through this town, and six successive magnitude 6 earthquakes occurred on the fault at unusually regular intervals, between 21 and 24 years apart (with an average of every 22 years), between 1857 and 1966.
Parkgate & Aldwarke railway station Parkgate and Aldwarke railway station, was a railway station situated in Parkgate, (South Yorkshire), England on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway company's line between Rotherham Road and Kilnhurst Central. The station, opened in July 1873, was originally known as "Aldwarke", taking its name from that of a local gentleman's residence which it served along with 8 or 9 servants cottages and a small farmstead.
Parkhead Viaduct Parkhead Viaduct is a viaduct located in Dudley, West Midlands, England. The original viaduct was a wooden structure erected in 1850 to carry the new Stourbridge to Walsall railway over Parkhead Locks near to the southern mouth of the Dudley Tunnel.
Parkhurst (crater) Parkhurst is a heavily degraded lunar crater to the northeast of the Mare Australe on the far side of the Moon. To the north-northeast of Parkhurst is Scaliger crater and to the southwest lies the dark-floored Gernsback crater.
Parkhurst apprentices The Parkhurst apprentices were juvenile prisoners from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, sentenced to "transportation beyond the seas" and transported to Australia and New Zealand between 1842 and 1852. Either before leaving EnglandGill (2004), page 1: "Once in the colony, they were pardoned on two conditions...
Parkchester (IRT Pelham Line) Parkchester (formerly Parkchester–East 177th Street) is an elevated station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the train at all times, it is located in the Bronx at the intersection of the Cross-Bronx Expressway and Westchester Avenue, atop Hugh J.
Parkia speciosa Parkia speciosa (petai, twisted cluster bean, yongchaak or stink bean), is a plant of the genus Parkia in the family Fabaceae. It bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds which have a rather peculiar smell.
Parkin-Wesley College Parkin-Wesley College, South Australia, is a Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) Theological College for the education and training of both lay people and those for specified ministries including the diaconate and youth worker. It is a constituent college of the Adelaide College of Divinity and is located at Brooklyn Park, South Australia and contributes to theological education at The Flinders University of South Australia.
Parking and Transportation at UC Irvine As a result of its location and student composition, the majority of undergraduates at the University of California, Irvine, are commuters. The issue of parking and transportation on campus has, therefore, been a significant issue for UCI administrators, who have tried to accommodate campus growth through a number of parking and transportation programs.
Parking attendant A parking attendant is a member of a traffic control department or agency who issues tickets for parking violations. In America, they are sometimes known as meter maids, a gender specific term for female attendants.
Parking Generation Parking Generation refers to a document prepared by the Institute of Transportation Engineers that summarizes a collection of parking demand data observations made all over the world by land use type. Parking Generation provides statistics on the average peak parking demand, when the peak demand occurs, range, coefficent of variation and standard deviation data.
Parking lot Parking lot is the American English/Canadian term that refers to a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles. Usually, the term refers to a dedicated area that has been provided with a durable or semi-durable surface.
Parking meter A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time. Parking meters can be used by municipalities as a tool for enforcing their integrated on-street parking policy, usually related to their traffic and mobility management policies.
Parking pawl A parking pawl is a device fitted to a car's automatic transmission that locks up the transmission. It is engaged when the shift selector is placed in the Park position, which is always the first position (topmost on a column shift, frontmost on a floor shift) in all cars sold in the United States since 1965 (when the order was standardised by the SAE) and in most other vehicles worldwide.
Parkinson Cowan The Parkinson Cowan, produced by Parkinson Cowan Society, is a third-generation stove, oven, and grill set. Its distribution began around October 1997; however research and development for this project began as early as 1990.
Parkinson plus syndrome Parkinson-plus syndromes are a group of diseases featuring the classical features of Parkinson's disease (tremor; rigidity; akinesia/bradykinesia; postural instability) with additional features that distinguish them from simple idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's All Time Greatest Entertainers Parkinson's All Time Greatest Entertainers was an ITV Television program broadcasted on 4 January 2007. It was hosted by Michael Parkinson who gave a list of 10 of his personal favourite entertainers he has interviwed on his television show Parkinson.
Parkinsonia aculeata Parkinsonia aculeata is a tree from the family Fabaceae; common names include Mexican Palo Verde, Parkinsonia, Jerusalem thorn, or Jellybean tree. It is native to the southwestern United States (western Texas, southern Arizona), Mexico, the Caribbean, South America south to northern Argentina, and the Galapagos Islands.
Parkinsonia florida Parkinsonia florida (Blue Palo Verde; syn. Cercidium floridum) is a species of palo verde native to the southwestern United States (southeastern California, southern Arizona) and northwestern Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California).
Parkinsonia microphylla Parkinsonia microphylla (Yellow Palo Verde or Foothill Palo Verde; syn. Cercidium microphyllum) is a species of palo verde native to the southwestern United States (southeastern California, southern Arizona) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora, Baja California).
Parkland Region, Manitoba Parkland is the name given to a region in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located in the western part of the province, lying between Lake Manitoba/Lake Winnipegosis and the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border.
Parkour Parkour (, often abbreviated PK) is a physical discipline of French origin in which the participant — called a traceur () — attempts to pass in obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible. The obstacles can be anything in the environment, so parkour is often practiced in urban areas because of many suitable public structures, such as buildings, rails, and walls.
Parks and Recreation (Albany, Oregon) The Albany, Oregon Parks and Recreation department is responsible for maintaining the local city parks as well as scheduling recurring, yearly, events. One goal of the City of Albany is to have resident access to parks with no more than a two mile transit distance.
Parks Canada Parks Canada (now also known as the Parks Canada Agency) is a Canadian government agency that is mandated to protect and present nationally significant examples of Canada's natural and cultural heritage and foster public understanding, appreciation and enjoyment in ways that ensure their ecological and commemorative integrity for present and future generations. Parks Canada manages 42 national parks, two National Marine Conservation Areas and 155 National Historic Sites.
Parks Community Centre The Parks Community Centre provides social, educational and recreational services offered through its Arts and Functions complex, Sports and Fitness centre, Library and Community Development facilities. The community centre is located at 2-46 Cowan St, Angle Park
Parks in Sydney Sydney is well endowed with open spaces, and has many natural areas, and open spaces, even within the city centre. These include the Chinese Garden of Friendship and Hyde Park (which is named after London's Hyde Park).
Parks in the city of Windsor, Ontario Windsor's Department of Parks and Recreation maintains 3,000 acres (12 km²) of green space, 180 parks, 40 miles (64 km) of trails, 22 miles (35 km) of sidewalk, 60 parking lots, vacant lands, natural areas and forest cover within the City of Windsor, as well as the Bike Trails, Bike Lanes, and Bike-Friendly Streets.
Parks of Chicago From sandy beaches to woodland bike paths, Chicago holds the distinction of having more parkland than any other city in the United States. Over 220 parks and facilities cover more than 7,300 acres (30 km²) of land throughout the city, all managed by the Chicago Park District.
Parks of KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal province contains a wide variety of ecosystems that have been preserved as parks. A significant fraction of the land and marine territory of the province is conserved under the control of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, a semi-governmental agency.
Parkside Avenue (BMT Brighton Line) Parkside Avenue is a station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the train at all times, it is located at Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Parksosaurus Parksosaurus ("William Parks's lizard") was a genus of hypsilophodont ornithopod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. It is based on most of a partially articulated skeleton and partial skull.
Parkstad Limburg Parkstad Limburg is a collaboration between 7 cities (Heerlen, Kerkrade, Landgraaf, Brunssum, Simpelveld, Voerendaal and Onderbanken). They work together to make the facilities, wealth, wellbeing and social coherency for the citizens better.
Parkstadion Parkstadion is a multi-use stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, that is no longer used to host any major events. It was the home ground of football club FC Schalke 04 until May 2001, before the newly built and adjacent Veltins-Arena opened in July of the same year.

Information are taken from Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia, to which contribute many volunteers from around the whole world. Texts are available under the following conditions GNU Free Documentation License.