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Park (other)
A park is an area of land with a recreational or other specific purpose. Park or Parks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Park (Reading ward), an electoral ward of the Borough of Reading, Berkshire, England * Park (Sefton ward), an electoral ward of the Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England * Park (Tunbridge Wells), a local government ward in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England * Park (Wolverhampton ward), an electoral ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands, England * Park, County Londonderry, a village in Northern Ireland * Park, Lewis, an area of land in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland * Park, Merthyr Tydfil, a community and electoral ward in Wales * Park, a List of townlands in County Antrim, townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland * The Parks, a parkland area and cricket venue in Oxford, England United States * Park, Indiana * Park, Kansas * Park, Kentucky * Park, Texas * Park, Washington * Parks, Arizona, a census-designated place * Parks, Louisiana, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. National parks and country parks are green spaces used for recreation in the countryside. State parks and provincial parks are administered by sub-national government states and agencies. Parks may consist of grassy areas, rocks, soil and trees, but may also contain buildings and other artifacts such as monuments, fountains or playground structures. Many parks have fields for playing sports such as baseball and football, and paved areas for games such as basketball. Many parks have trails for walking, biking and other activities. Some parks are built adjacent to bodies of water or watercourses and may comprise a beach or boat dock area. Urban parks often have benches for sitting and may contain picnic tables and barbecue grills. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks, Missouri
Parks is an extinct town in Butler County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of ... classifies it as a populated place. A post office called Park was established in 1911, and closed in 1915. The community was named after John and Barnes Park, businessmen in the local lumber industry. References Ghost towns in Missouri Former populated places in Butler County, Missouri {{ButlerCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi Park
Chi Park, M.D. is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama '' House''. Portrayed by Los Angeles born actress and comedian Charlyne Yi, she joins Dr. Greg House's team of diagnosticians in the department of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey based on Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Chi Park joins the diagnostic team in Season 8 A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and pol ... after she hits her supervisor in the neurology department when he gropes her during a procedure. Dr. Park is introduced in the episode "Transplant", in which she joins Dr. House on a case. Dr. Chi Park has been described as a "diminutive brainiac with often hilarious anger issues". Park was born in the United States and is of Korean and Filipino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Laurie
James Park Dawson Laurie (1846 – 2 December 1928), generally known as "Park Laurie", was a pastoralist and politician in the colony of South Australia. History Laurie was born at Kangatong station, near Warrnambool, Victoria, the third son of the (Presbyterian) Rev. Alexander Laurie (c. 1817 – 5 February 1854). The Rev. Laurie, of Covington, Lanarkshire, and his wife Janet Laurie, née Nicol, (c. 1822 – 25 July 1903) had been sent out to Portland, Victoria to establish a church there in 1841. In 1842 he founded a Presbyterian school, run by J. S. Stewart. In 1848 Rev. Laurie left the church and founded the ''Portland Herald'', of which he was sole proprietor and editor, making a few enemies in the process. ''The Portland Herald and Belfast and Warrnambool Advocate'' (to give its full name) folded in 1855. Sons Andrew and Park were educated in Portland and later learnt much of the art of printing. The widowed Janet Laurie and her four sons moved to Gambierton (now Mount Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks (surname)
Parks is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Parks (1920-1982), British surgeon * Alan Parks (writer) (born 1963), Scottish crime writer * Alex Parks (born 1984), English singer-songwriter * Bernard C. Parks (born 1943), American politician, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department * Bert Parks (1914–1992), American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer * Billy Parks (1948–2009), American football player * Bobby Parks (1961–2013), American basketball player, member of the Philippine Basketball Association Hall of Fame * Bobby Ray Parks Jr. (born 1993), American basketball player, son of the above * Bobby Parks (cricketer) (born 1959), English former cricketer * Carson Parks (1936–2005), American songwriter, music publisher, musician and singer * Clifton T. Parks (1895-1976), American lawyer and politician * Cord Parks (born 1986), American football player in the Canadian Football League * Dan Parks (born 1978), Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park (English Surname)
Park is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charlotte Park (1918–2010), American painter * Craig Park (born 1986), South African cricketer * Daphne Park (1921–2010), British spy * Harry Jonathan Park (1868–1927), American businessman and politician * James Park (other), multiple people * John Park (other), multiple people * John Mungo-Park (1918–1941), Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War * Keith Park (1892–1975), New Zealand air force commander * Maria Hester Park (1760–1813), Born as ''Maria Hester Reynolds'', British composer, pianist, and singer * Michael Park (actor) (born 1968), American actor * Mungo Park (explorer) (1771–1806), Scottish explorer * Mungo Park (golfer) (1836–1904), Scottish golfer * Nick Park (born 1958), English animator and director * Nigel Park (1921–1942), New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War * Ray Park (born 1974), Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park (Korean Surname)
Park or Bak (, ), is the third-most-common surname in Korea, traditionally traced back to 1st century King Hyeokgeose Park () and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. ''Park'' or '' Bak'' is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun ''Bak'' (), meaning " gourd". As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 4,192,074 people with the name in South Korea, or roughly 8.4% of the population. Founding legend All the Park clans in Korea trace their ancestry back to the first king of Silla, Hyeokgeose. According to a legend, the leaders of the six clans of the Jinhan confederacy were gathering on a hilltop to choose a king, when they looked down and saw lightning strike at the foot of the Yangsan mountain and a white horse bow at the same place. When they went there to check, they found a red egg, which hatched a baby boy. They bathed the boy in the nearby stream and he was emitting bright light and the sun and the moon rose at the same time, indicating the div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Abbey
Park Abbey ( nl, Abdij van Park; also Parc Abbey) is a Premonstratensian abbey in Belgium, at Heverlee just south of Leuven, in Flemish Brabant. The '' Annales Parchenses'' were written here in the 12th century. History The abbey was founded in 1129 by Duke Godfrey, surnamed "Barbatus" ("the Bearded"), who possessed an immense park near Leuven and had invited the Premonstratensians to take possession of a small church he had built there. Walter, abbot of St Martin's, Laon, brought a colony of his canons and acted as their superior for nearly three years, until the canons, now in sufficient number, elected Simon, another canon of Laon, as their abbot. The canons performed the general work of the ministry in the district of Leuven, in opposition to the heretic Tanchelm. In 1137 the abbot was able to found Ninove Abbey. Godfrey made the Abbot of the Park and his successors his archchaplains. Simon died on 30 March 1142 and was succeeded by Philip, whose correspondence with Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park, Yazd
Park ( fa, پرك; also known as Fark) is a village in Jolgeh Rural District, in the Central District of Behabad County, Yazd Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 120, in 33 families. References Populated places in Behabad County {{Behabad-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
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Park is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sępopol, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. References Park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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There are approximately 1,162 townlands in County Laois, Ireland.; . A plain version of this list showing townland names only is also available for easy alphabetical navigation and convenient overview. Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county. Names marked in bold typeface are towns and villages, and the word ''Town'' appears for those entries in the Acres column. References {{reflist List Laois Laois Townlands A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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