John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

Parkes also worked with Nine Inch Nails on the album With Teeth by providing additional programming on " All The Love In The World " and remixing the single " The Hand That Feeds.

" She also appeared in Mysterious Mr. Parkes, which was a French-language version of Slightly Scarlet for the European market, although it was also screened in the United States.

The library also contains 4, 500 volumes of Claude Montefiore's library on Theology and Judaism, the Ford Parliamentary Papers, Frank Perkins ' collection of books on agriculture, Sir Samual Gurney-Dixons's Dante collection and the James Parkes Library of Jewish / non-Jewish relations.

Receivers were also designed at Jodrell Bank for the Parkes Telescope in Australia.

Parkes also believed in immigration, and his well-known powers as an orator led to his being sent to England with W. B. Dalley as commissioners of emigration at a salary of £ 1000 a year each in May 1861.

Parkes also initiated the introduction of nurses from England trained by Florence Nightingale.

When the convention met on 2 March 1891 Parkes was appointed president " not only as the Premier of the colony where the convention sat, but also as the immediate author of the present movement ".

He is also commemorated in Canley, Coventry by the naming of a road ( Sir Henry Parkes Road ) and a primary school ( Sir Henry Parkes Primary School ).

Canley railway station also commemorates the link with Sir Henry Parkes with Australian-themed decor.

The building was originally known as " Parkes ' Chapel " in honour of Mistress Dorothy Parkes who bequeathed the money for the church and also for a local school.

Apart from the radio telescope scenes, the majority of the movie was actually filmed in the small town of Forbes 33 km south of Parkes because of its old historic buildings, and also in Old Parliament House in Canberra, and Crawford Studios in Melbourne.

Some stations from Dubbo and Orange also transmit into Parkes and the surrounding region.

It may have also been named after the transport ship of the same name that transported many immigrants – including Sir Henry Parkes – to Australia, though the transport ship was probably also named after the Duke's mansion as it was built soon after his death and was likely named in his honour.

The CDSCC also uses the Parkes radio telescope in central New South Wales at busy times to receive data from spacecraft.

Richard Parkes Bonington ( 25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828 ) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France.

The late 18th century and the early 19th century characterized by the Romantic movement in British art includes Joseph Wright of Derby, James Ward, Samuel Palmer, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Martin and was perhaps the most radical period in British art, also producing William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ), John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) and J. M. W.

Driving a Ferrari, Mairesse and Parkes also eclipsed the previous Le Mans record, covering 2, 758. 66 miles.

* In 1850 he developed and patented the Parkes process for economically desilvering lead, also patenting refinements to the process in 1851 and 1852.

However much Parkes may have been to blame for his early encouragement of the aspirations of his colleague, there appears to be no truth in the suggestion then made that he had, by appointing Martin, found means of getting rid of a formidable political opponent.

A viewing of the paintings of John Constable and the watercolour sketches and art of Richard Parkes Bonnington prompted Delacroix to make extensive, freely painted changes to the sky and distant landscape.

VC winners were a popular subject for postcards and cigarette cards, but none showing Parkes is accurate, e. g. a John Player & Sons cigarette card from their 1914 series ‘ Victoria Cross ’ ( card no. 5 ) shows him winning his VC still mounted on his horse.

1980: Phil Parkes, the former Wolverhampton Wanderers ‘ keeper, became the Sting ’ s number 1, moving to Chicago from the Vancouver Whitecaps where he had played for the past three seasons and established himself as the NASL ’ s top glovesman.

In the 1860s and 1870s, there was a fairly coherent " liberal " tendency, led first by Charles Cowper and then by Henry Parkes.

Over two meetings — the first with Cooper, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, the second with Cooper alone — Mendes pitched himself to the studio.

Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.

The first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, by Alexander Parkes, who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his firm went bankrupt due to scale-up costs.

S. Parkes Cadman, one of the first ministers to use radio, beginning in 1923

One of the first ministers to use radio extensively was S. Parkes Cadman, beginning in 1923.

Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.

During his first fortnight in Sydney, Parkes looked vainly for work.

Parkes, meanwhile, began writing for the Atlas and the People's Advocate ; but it was not until 1848 that he first began to speak out in public on important issues of community concern.

A council of education was formed, and for the first four years after the passing of the act Parkes filled the office of president.

The acting-governor had sent for William Forster before parliament met, but he was unable to form a ministry, and in May 1872 Parkes formed his first ministry which was to last for nearly three years.

It seems clear that Parkes at first encouraged his Attorney-General, E. Butler, to believe that he would be appointed Chief Justice of New South Wales.

A wood engraving of Sir Henry Parkes moving the first resolution at the federation conference in Melbourne, 1 March 1890

Parkes convened the 1890 Federation Conference of February 1890 and may be considered the first real step towards Federation.

While the last ten years of his life were his most influential politically, Parkes faced immense personal turmoil following the death of his first wife, Clarinda Varney.

Parkes had left directions that his funeral should be as simple as possible, but though a state funeral was declined, a very large number of people attended when he was placed by the side of his first wife at Faulconbridge, in the grounds of his former home in the Blue Mountains.

Julia Lynch survived Parkes, together with five daughters and one son of the first marriage, and five sons and one daughter by the second.

The school was previously known as The Sydney High School, due to its position as the first High School in New South Wales to be created under Premier Henry Parkes ' system of public education in the early 1880s.

The first man-made commercial plastic was invented in Britain in 1861 by Alexander Parkes.

Knowing that Centaurus A was composite, Bracewell used the 6. 7-minute beam of the Parkes Observatory 64 m radiotelescope at 10 cm to determine the separate declinations of the components and in so doing was the first to observe strong polarisation in an extragalactic source ( 1962 ), a discovery of fundamental significance for the structure and role of astrophysical magnetic fields.

The treaty, the first European treaty with Siam, was signed in Bangkok on 18 April and Parkes travelled to England with the treaty for ratification.

He was elected a fellow to the Royal Society after his return from Brazil on 14 December 1820, and married his first wife Mary Parkes in 1823, with whom he had four sons ( William John, George Frederick, Henry Gabriel and Edwin Newcombe ) and a daughter ( Mary Frederica ).

The Dish is a 2000 Australian film that tells a somewhat fictionalized story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of man's first steps on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.