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Parramatta Eagles Paramatta Eagles are an Australian football (soccer) club that plays in the New South Wales Premier League. The club should not be confused with Parramatta Power, which was a different club that played in the former National Soccer League.
Parramatta female factory Australia's first Female Factory, the Factory above the Gaol was located in what is now Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta, New South Wales. It was a simple log walled and thatched roof construction built in 1796 and used primarily as a place of confinement for convict re-offenders.
Parramatta ferry wharf, Sydney Parramatta Ferry Wharf is the commuter wharf serving the city of Parramatta in Sydney Australia. It serves the Parramatta route, which operates express between the next wharf downstream, Rydalmere and Circular Quay.
Parramatta Patriots The Parramatta Patriots were one of the eight foundation teams of the now defunct Australian Baseball League. They Disbanded after the 1990-91 season due to heavy financial losses to be replaced with the Sydney Blues in the following season.
Parramatta River ferry services, Sydney Parramatta River ferry services connect suburbs along the Parramatta River in Sydney with Circular Quay by commuter ferry. The services are provided by Sydney Ferries Corporation, an agency of the Government of New South Wales.
Parramatta Stadium Parramatta Stadium is a sports stadium situated in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. The stadium is used primarily as the home ground of Australian National Rugby League (NRL) club the Parramatta Eels but has also hosted numerous other sporting and cultural events since its opening in 1986 including the Sydney leg of Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour.
Parramatta Two Blues Parramatta Two Blues Rugby are a rugby union club based in the second CBD of Sydney, Parramatta. The club was originally formed in 1879 as Cumberland but changed their name to Parramatta when the District competition was implemented in 1900.
Parramatta, New South Wales Parramatta is a suburb in the City of Parramatta in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 25 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, approximately at the geographical centre of the Sydney urban area.
Parranda It is distinguished as parranda or aguinaldo of parranda a musical form pertaining to the coast zone of the states Aragua and Carabobo, in Venezuela, where the tambora (drum) becomes present as accompanying instrument and melody shows an important Afro-Venezuelan influence.
Parres Parres is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Caravia and Ribadesella, on the east by Cangas de Onís, on the west by Piloña and Colunga, and on the south by Amieva.
Parris Glendening Parris Nelson Glendening (born June 11, 1942), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 59th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1995 to 2003. He was also County Executive of Prince George's County, Maryland from 1982-1994.
Parrish Baker Parrish Baker (born 1968) is a notable Kansas City comics artist and cartoonist, best known for his series of minicomics called Sparrow's Fall, begun in 1996. He began drawing comics in 1995; his first comic, Calyx, was a science fiction comic based on earlier, unpublished science fiction novels and short stories.
Parroquia Parroquia (parish) is a Population entity typical in Galicia (Spain). It has origin in the Catholic Church division and it is very installed in the population's consciousness, but never derived in an official political division.
Parrot Parrots or Psittacines (pronounced is an order] (namely Psittaciformes) of birds that includes about 353 [[species. They are usually grouped into two families: the Cacatuidae (cockatoo), and the Psittacidae (true parrots).
Parrot (crater) Parrot is the remains of a lunar crater that has been almost completely worn away. It is attached to the southern rim of Albategnius crater, and is located among the rugged highlands among the south-central part of the visible Moon.
Parrot Cay Parrot Cay is a tiny island, part of Turks and Caicos Islands and is dominated by a large hotel beach resort, which over the years has seen many visits by celebrities such as Bruce Willis and Michael J Fox. It is located near Pine Cay, Seal Cay and South Caicos.
Parrot Jungle Island Parrot Jungle Island is an animal theme park in the city of Miami, Florida. It was originally Parrot Jungle until it moved from the village of Pinecrest to its present location on Watson Island in the city of Miami; the original is still open as Pinecrest Gardens.
Parrot Sketch Not Included - 20 Years of Monty Python Parrot Sketch Not Included - 20 Years of Python was a tribute special to the Monty Python comedy group in 1989. It was hosted by Python fan and famed actor Steve Martin, who introduced several sketches from the group's tv series as well as some sketches from their German specials, except for their most famous sketch The Dead Parrot Sketch, as the special's title dictates.
Parrot virtual machine Parrot is a register-based virtual machine being developed using the C programming language and intended to run dynamic languages efficiently. It uses just-in-time compilation for speed to reduce the interpretation overhead.
Parrotbill The parrotbills are a small family of Old World passerine birds, Paradoxornithidae (or Panuridae in some systems). They are related to the Old World babblers, but in general appearance and behaviour are more like the tits.
Parrotfish Parrotfish are mostly tropical, perciform marine fish of the family Scaridae. Abundant on shallow reefs of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, the parrotfish family contains ten genera and about 90 species.
Parrotheads Parrothead is a commonly used nickname for fans of Jimmy Buffett. The common stereotype is a person wearing a hawaiian shirt, flip-flops, board shorts, and drinking a margarita, however many fans are members of parrothead clubs.
Parrotia Parrotia persica (Persian Ironwood) is a deciduous tree in the family Hamamelidaceae, the sole species in the genus Parrotia but closely related to the genus Hamamelis (Witch-hazels). It is native to northern Iran, where it is endemic in the Alborz mountains.
Parrotlet Parrotlets are a species of the smallest, New World parrots, comprised of three genera. One of these genera: Forpus is growing in popularity within the world of aviculture, raising interest in the group as a whole.
Parry Pinyon The Parry Pinyon (Pinus quadrifolia) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to southernmost California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, from 33° 30' N south to 30° 30' N. It occurs at moderate altitudes from 1300-1800 m, rarely as low as 1200 m and as high as 2500 m.
Parry Shen Parry Shen (born June 26, 1973 in Queens, New York) is a Chinese American actor, best known as the lead actor in the 2002 movie Better Luck Tomorrow. Before going into acting he attended the University at Buffalo.
Parry Sound Colonization Railway The Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company was a local company formed in 1884, by citizens of Parry Sound with the intention of getting a railway line into their isolated community. Over the years they kept working on the scheme.
Parry Sound, Ontario Parry Sound (population 6,500) is a town in southern Ontario, Canada, located on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay). Parry Sound is located 160 km (100 miles) south of Sudbury and 225 km (145 miles) north of Toronto.
Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part, Ontario Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part is an unorganized area in central Ontario, Canada between Georgian Bay and Lake Nipissing in the District of Parry Sound. It is made up of geographic townships which have no governing bodies.
Parry Sound—Muskoka Parry Sound—Muskoka is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1949, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1981. For information on the provincial electoral district, see Parry Sound-Muskoka (Ontario).
Parry Wayne Humphreys Parry Wayne Humphreys was an American politician that represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1778, moved with his family to Kentucky in 1789, and later settled in Tennessee.
Parry-Romberg syndrome Parry-Romberg syndrome (sometimes called just Romberg syndrome) is a rare, incurable craniofacial disorder which is characterized by the slow atrophy of the subcutaneous (under the skin) muscle usually on half of the face (hemifacial atrophy). It has a higher prevalence in females and normally appears between the ages of 5 and 15.
Parry-Sullivan invariant In mathematics, the Parry-Sullivan invariant (or Parry-Sullivan number) is a numerical quantity of interest in the study of incidence matrices in graph theory, and of certain one-dimensional dynamical systems. It provides a partial classification of non-trivial irreducible incidence matrices.
Pars pro toto Pars pro toto is Latin for "(taking) a part for the whole"; it is a kind of synecdoche. When used in a context of language it means that something is named after a part of it (or after a limited characteristic, in itself not necessarily representative for the whole).
Parsa District Parsa district, a part of Narayani zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Birganj as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,353 sq km and has a population (2001) of 497,219.
Parsec (TI-99/4A computer game) Parsec is perhaps the best-remembered of all TI-99/4A computer games. It is a side-scrolling shooter, programmed by Jim Dramis (who also programmed the popular TI-99/4A games Car Wars and Munchman) and Paul Urbanus in 1982.
Parseierspitze Parseierspitze is, at 3,036 meters tall, the highest summit of the Northern Limestone Alps and the only one that exceeds the 3,000 meter mark. It is located in Tyrol, in the Lechtal Alps and is, because of its height, it is called "Queen of the Lechtal Alps".
Parser Grammar Engine The Parser Grammar Engine (originally Parrot Grammar Engine) or PGE is a compiler and runtime for a Perl 6 rules for the Parrot virtual machine. PGE uses these rules to convert a parsing expression grammar into Parrot bytecode.
Parseval's theorem In mathematics, Parseval's theorem usually refers to the result that the Fourier transform is unitary; loosely, that the sum (or integral) of the square of a function is equal to the sum (or integral) of the square of its transform. It originates from a 1799 theorem about series by Marc-Antoine Parseval, which was later applied to the Fourier series.
Parsha In Jewish services, a Parsha or Parshah or Parashah, פרשה, meaning "Portion" in Hebrew, is the weekly Torah reading text selection. It is also known as the Parshat HaShavuah ("Weekly Portion") or the Sidra.
Parsi A Parsi (), sometimes spelled Parsee, is a member of the close-knit Zoroastrian community based in the Indian subcontinent. Parsis are descended from Persian Zoroastrians who emigrated to the Indian subcontinent over 1,000 years ago to escape religious persecution after the Islamic conquest (Jhabvalla, 1973).
Parsifal Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the medieval (13th century) epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for The Holy Grail.
Parsifal bell Parsifal bell (German Parsifal Kiavier Instrument), a stringed instrument ingeniously constructed by Schweisgut, of Carlsruhe, from Dr Mottls design, as a substitute for the church bells in Richard Wagner's Parsifal. This instrument has been constructed somewhat on the principle of the grand piano; the massive frame is shaped like a billiard table.
Parsimony Parsimony is the taking of extreme care at arriving at a course of action; or unusual or excessive frugality, extreme economy or stinginess. The word derives from Middle English parcimony, from Latin parsimonia, from parsus, past participle of parcere: to spare.
Parsing expression grammar A parsing expression grammar, or PEG, is a type of analytic formal grammar that describes a formal language in terms of a set of rules for recognizing strings in the language. A parsing expression grammar essentially represents a recursive descent parser in a pure schematic form that only expresses syntax and is independent of the way an actual parser might be implemented or what it might be used for.
Parsippany High School Parsippany High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. The school serves approximately 975 students who live in the eastern half of Parsippany who are in grades 9-12.
Parsippany Hills High School Parsippany Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, United States The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grade as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. Built in 1969, the school serves 1,166 students who live in the western half of Parsippany.
Parsley Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a bright green, biennial herb that is very common in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. It is used for its leaf in much the same way as coriander (which is also known as Chinese parsley or cilantro), although it has a milder flavor.
Parsley Sidings Parsley Sidings was a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge and with actors Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender and who were starring in the television war sitcom Dad's Army at the time of broadcast, as well as Kenneth Connor of Carry On fame.
Parsnip River The Parsnip River is a 240 km long river in central British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally north-westward from the Parsnip Glacier in the Hart Ranges to Williston Lake, formed by the impounding of the waters of the Peace River by the W.
Parson A parson is a member of the Protestant clergy. Specifically, in the Anglican church traditions, a parson is the incumbent of a parochial benefice: a parish priest or a rector; in this sense a parson can be contrasted with a vicar.
Parson Abraham Adams Parson Abraham Adams is a country curate in Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews," with a head full of learning and a heart full of love to his fellows, but in absolute ignorance of the world, which in his simplicity he takes for what it professes to be.
Parson Capen House The Parson Capen House (circa 1683) is a First Period house located at 1 Howlett Street, Topsfield, Massachusetts. It was acquired by the Topsfield Historical Society in 1913, restored under the direction of George Francis Dow, and is now open daily in summers.
Parson Weems Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1756–May 23, 1825), generally known as Parson Weems, was an American printer and author known as the source for almost all of the half-truths about George Washington, "the Father of his Country," including the famous tale of the cherry tree. ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet.
Parson's Cause The Parson's Cause was an important legal and political dispute in the Colony of Virginia often viewed as an important event leading up to the American Revolution. The case arose with regard to the Virginia Two-Penny Act.
Parson's Pleasure Parson's Pleasure in the University Parks at Oxford, England, was a secluded area for male-only nude bathing on the River Cherwell. It is now closed, but was located next to the path on the way to Mesopotamia at the south-east corner of the Parks.
Parsons Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line) Parsons Boulevard is a station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Parsons Boulevard and Hillside Avenue in Queens, it is served by the train at all times, and by a few trains during rush hours.
Parsons code The Parsons code, formally named the Parsons Code for Melodic Contours, is a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion—the motion of the pitch up and down. Denys Parsons developed this system for his 1975 book, The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes.
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, often referred to simply as Parsons, was a British shipbuilding company based in Wallsend, North England, on the River Tyne. It was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with ÂŁ500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engine that Parsons had invented.
Parsons Table The Parsons table is a small, square table made in a simple, unadorned style with four, flush, square legs that are equal in thickness to the top. While the form is generally credited to Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, it may reflect the influence of Mies van der Rohe and the school of Modernism.
Parsons The New School for Design Parsons The New School for Design (abbreviated Parsons), located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, is a design school affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University. Parsons is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of thirty-six leading art schools in the United States.
Parsonsfield Seminary Parsonsfield Seminary, founded in 1832, was a well-known Free Will Baptist school in North Parsonsfield, Maine, in the United States. The first principal, Hosea Quimby, was active in many other Freewill Baptist organizations.
Parsurampura Parsurampura is a town in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan in India. It is located 43 km south east of Mandawa and has the distinction of having the best-preserved and oldest fresco paintings in the Shekhawati region.
Part 68 In telecommunication, part 68 is the section of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations governing (a) the direct connection of telecommunications equipment and customer premises wiring with the public switched telephone network and certain private line services, such as (1) foreign exchange lines at the customer premises end, (2) the station end of off-premises stations associated with PBX and Centrex services, (3) trunk-to-station tie lines at the trunk end only, and (4) switched service network station lines, i.e.
Part Chimp Part Chimp is a band from Camberwell in London that were formed by Tim Cedar, Jon Hamilton and Nick Pryor (who left the band after their first record) in 2000. Current line-up includes Iain Hinchliffe and Joe McLaughlin.
Part time Part time refers to the amount of time and effort spent by someone in employment (or another activity, such as volunteering) compared to a normal full-time job. A part-time job usually pays less than a full-time job, and has fewer working hours per week.
Part-of-speech tagging Part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or POST), also called grammatical tagging, is the process of marking up the words in a text as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definition, as well as its context —ie. relationship with adjacent and related words in a phrase, sentence, or paragraph.
Part-talkie A part-talkie film is a film made usually during the early sound era (anywhere from 1927 to 1930), which is partly a silent film and partly a talkie. The Jazz Singer (1927 film), starring Al Jolson, was the first part-talkie film.
Partagas (cigar brand) Partagás is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced in the Dominican Republic from Dominican, Mexican, and Cameroon tobacco for General Cigar.
Partap Sharma Partap Sharma born December 12, 1939 is an Indian playwright, novelist, author of books for children, commentator, actor and documentary film-maker. A gifted writer, Sharma covers a wide range of subjects and perspectives, and as a master craftsman delivers intricate ideas simply.
Partenope Partenope is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1730. It was Handel's first comic opera which broke away from the Opera Seria tradition and was rejected by the Royal Academy of Music because of its frivolous nature with relatively few extended arias and more recitative.
Parterre A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern. Parterres need not have any flowers at all.
Parterre box parterre box is an ezine devoted to opera, about which it cultivates a campy, critical, strongly opinionated attitude with explicit "gay" overtones. parterre box was founded by the New Yorker James Jorden in the mid 1990s during a period of under-employment as an opera director.
Partha Dasgupta Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, FBA, FRS, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. From 1991 to 1997, Dasgupta was chairman of the scientific board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and, from 1989 to 1992, professor of economics and philosophy, and director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University.
Partha Chatterjee Partha Chatterjee is an internationally renowned Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial scholar. He is the current director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and a Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City.
Parthasarathy Temple Parthasarathy Kovil is an 8th century Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna located at Triplicane, Chennai, India. It is one of the major Vaishnavite temples in South India and one of the 108 divyadesams, the holiest abodes of Lord Vishnu.
Parthenia (music) Parthenia or the Maydenhead of the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls was, as the title states, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in England. 'Virginals' was a generic word at the time that covered all plucked keyboard instruments – the harpsichord, muselaar, virginals, but most of the pieces are also suited for the clavichord and chamber organ.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia creeper or five-leaved ivy (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a woody vine native to eastern and central North America, in southeastern Canada, the eastern and central United States, eastern Mexico, and Guatemala, west as far as Manitoba, South Dakota, Utah and Texas.
Parthenocissus tricuspidata Parthenocissus tricuspidata (also known as Japanese creeper, Boston ivy, Grape ivy, or Japanese ivy) is a flowering plant in the grape family (Vitaceae) native to eastern Asia in Japan, Korea, and northern and eastern China.
Parthenogenesis Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθενος parthenos, "virgin", + γενεσις genesis, "birth") describes the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male. Parthenogenesis occurs naturally in some species, including lower plants (called agamospermy), invertebrates (e.
Parthenon The Parthenon (ancient Greek: Παρθενών) is a temple of Athena, built in the 5th century BC on the acropolis of Athens. It is the most famous surviving building of ancient Greece, and has been praised as the finest achievement of Greek architecture.
Parthenopaean Republic The Parthenopaean Republic (Italian: Repubblica Napoletana) formed a brief interlude in the history of the Kingdom of Naples, the result of activities of France in the aftermath of Jacobinism to "export revolution."
Parthenopeus In Greek mythology, Parthenopeus ("son of a pierced maidenhead", also Parthenopaeus) was one of the Seven Against Thebes and the son of Atalanta and Hippomenes, Melanion, Meleager, or Ares, or perhaps the son of Talaus. Promachus was his son.
Parthia ParthiaParthia derives from Latin Parthia, from Old Persian Parthava-, a dialectical variant of the stem Parsa-, from which Persia derives. Ashkanian appears to have come from the Sassanian chronicles, from which they entered in Ferdowsi's epic poem Shahnama.
Parthian language Parthian is a now-extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language that originated in Parthia (a region in north-east of modern Iran and the Greater Khorasan, including southern part of what is today known as Turkmanistan) and was the official language of the Parthian Empire under the Arsacid Dynasty (248 BC - 224 AD).
Parthian shot The Parthian shot was a military tactic employed by the ancient Parthians, inhabitants of present-day Iran. The Parthian archers, mounted on light horse, would feign retreat; then, while at a full gallop, turn their bodies back to fire on the pursuing enemy.
Parthiv Patel Parthiv Ajay Patel (born March 9, 1985 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat) is an Indian cricketer (wicketkeeper-batsman) and former member of the Indian national cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman and is of a very short stature at 160cm.
PartholĂłn In Irish mythology PartholĂłn was the leader of the second group of people to settle in Ireland, the first to arrive after the biblical Flood. They arrived in 2680 BC according to the chronology of the Annals of the Four Masters, 2061 BC according to SeathrĂşn CĂ©itinn's chronology, and the time of Abraham according to Irish synchronic historians.
Parti 51 Parti 51 was a minor political party in the Canadian province of Quebec in the late 1980s. The party proposed the separation of Quebec from Canada in order to seek admission to the United States as the 51st state of that union.
Parti acadien Le Parti Acadien was a political party in New Brunswick, Canada, in the 1970s and 1980s. The party was founded in 1972 by Acadians who were upset over poorer living conditions in predominantly francophone areas of the province versus those areas dominated by anglophones.
Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah or PBRS (United Sabah People's Party) is a minor political party based in Sabah, east Malaysia. It was formed by disaffected members of the Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) on 11 March 1994.
Parti canadien The Parti canadien (also Parti patriote) was a political party in what is now Quebec, Canada, that was founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members included François Blanchet, Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, John Neilson, Jean-Thomas Taschereau, James Stuart, Louis Bourdages, Denis-Benjamin Viger, Daniel Tracey, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Andrew Stuart, and Louis-Joseph Papineau.
Parti conscience universelle The Parti conscience universelle (English: "Universal Conscience Party") is a political party in Quebec, Canada, that was founded in 2005. Its platform is based on spirituality, but is not based on any specific religion.
Parti démocratie chrétienne du Québec The Parti démocratie chrétienne du Québec is a social conservative political party in Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 2000 by Roman Catholics associated with the Centre d’Information nationale Robert Rumilly.
Parti de la Démocratisation Économique The Parti de la Démocratisation Économique was a group of five candidates in Quebec, Canada, who unsuccessfully sought election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 25 June 1968 federal election. Together, they won 2,651 votes, or 1.
Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec The Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec (in English: Natural Law Party of Quebec) was the Quebec branch of the international Natural Law Party, the political arm of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. It never won a seat in the National Assembly.
Parti indépendantiste The Parti indépendantiste was a provincial party Québec, Canada, founded by Denis Monière in 1985. The party was established to promote the separation of Québec from Canada, and was founded by Monière and others who believed that the Parti Québécois was not taking a strong enough position in promoting the cause of Québec independence.
Parti Keadilan Rakyat The Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party in English, often known simply as Keadilan) is a Malaysian opposition party. As of 2005 it has over 170 registered divisions, 1,700 branches, and 200,000 members.
Parti libéral du Québec The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the Québec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. It has not been affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada since 1955.
Parti Negara Parti Negara (Malay for National Party) was a Malay-based political party which was formed by former leaders of the Independence of Malaya Party in 1953, and formally launched in February 1954. Its founder was Dato Sir Onn Jaafar, the first president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), after Onn lost an internal power struggle.

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