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.

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.

Parkes also appears in the watercolour ‘ The Queen distributing the first Victoria Crosses in Hyde Park, 26 June 1857 ’ by G H Thomas that is in the British royal collection.

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.

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The metal is primarily produced as a by-product of electrolytic copper refining, gold, nickel and zinc refining, and by application of the Parkes process on lead metal obtained from lead ores that contain small amounts of silver.

The Genius began its transformation into WarGames when Parkes and Lasker met Peter Schwartz from the Stanford Research Institute.

Ball initially rebuffed counsel from others that he change the script, feeling they were being puritanical ; the final impetus to alter the scene came from DreamWorks ' then-president Walter Parkes.

Parkes patented his discovery after realising a solid residue remained after evaporation of the solvent from photographic collodion.

In the 1860s, an American, John Wesley Hyatt, acquired Parkes ' patent and began experimenting with cellulose nitrate with the intention of manufacturing billiard balls, which until that time were made from ivory.

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

Ferrari kept Mike Parkes and Scarfiotti, but Parkes suffered career-ending injuries weeks later at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix and Scarfiotti temporarily retired from racing after witnessing his crash.

Kendall made another friend in Henry Parkes, who was editing The Empire from 1850 to 1857 and published a few of his youthful verses.

In September 1891, the Parkes ministry was defeated, the Dibbs government succeeded it, and Parkes retired from the leadership of the Free Trade Party.

* Jordan Parkes ,( born 1989 ), an English footballer, currently playing for Barnet, is from Leverstock Green.

They range in size from the Choco Vireo, Dwarf Vireo and Lesser Greenlet, all at around 10 centimeters and 8 grams, to the peppershrikes and shrike-vireos at up to 17 centimeters and 40 grams ( Forshaw & Parkes 1991 ).

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.

After his departure from the Customs Service, Parkes embarked on a varied career in the private sector.

Parkes could derive satisfaction from the fact that he had spoken ardently against transportation at the various public meetings that had been organised by its opponents, and he had further aided the anti-transportation cause by writing articles in the press.

In the meantime Robertson had retired from politics and Parkes, as leader of the opposition, formed a ministry and obtained a dissolution.

Hampton Villa, Balmain, New South Wales, where Parkes lived from 1888 to 1892

His eldest son, Varney Parkes, entered parliament and was postmaster-general in the Reid ministry from August 1898 to September 1899.

Subsequent observations made at Parkes by other observers with a 14-minute and wider beams at 21 cm and longer wavelengths, though not resolving the components, were compatible with the dependence expected from Faraday rotation if magnetic fields were the polarising agent.

Karl Gützlaff was appointed civil magistrate in Chusan ( Zhoushan ) following the British occupation of the island, and Parkes served as his clerk from September 1842 to August 1843.

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 ).

Wyndham was born in the village of Knowle in Warwickshire, England, the son of George Beynon Harris, a barrister, and Gertrude Parkes, the daughter of a Birmingham ironmaster.

Rupert Parkes ( born 1972, St Albans, England ), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ.

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.

A trip to England in 1825 included visits to Thomas Lawrence and Richard Parkes Bonington, and the colour and handling of English painting provided impetus for his only full-length portrait, the elegant Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter, ( 1826 – 30 ).

In particular, the graceful, lapidary and atmospheric genre paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington created an international fad for watercolor painting, especially in England and France, in the 1820s.

Parkes was born in Canley, Warwickshire ( now a suburb of Coventry ), England and christened in the nearby village of Stoneleigh.

Their duties were confined to diffusing information, and Parkes spoke at about 60 meetings at towns in the west and north of England and in Scotland.

Parkes had always been a free-trader and no doubt his convictions were strengthened when in England by contact with Cobden and other leading free traders.

Parkes decided to visit England at his own expense, and at a banquet given by the citizens just before sailing, he drew a picture of what he hoped to do in the coming to years.

Among the friends he made in England was Tennyson, and Lord Leigh, being aware that Parkes had been born at Stoneleigh, invited him to stay at Stoneleigh Abbey.

In 1896, shortly after his death, An Emigrant's Home Letters, a small collection of Parkes's letters to his family in England between 1838 and 1843, was published at Sydney, edited by his daughter, Annie T. Parkes.

The son of Harry Parkes, founder of the firm of Parkes, Otway & Co., ironmasters, he was born at Birchills Hall, in the parish of Bloxwich in Staffordshire, England.

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.

A collision with goalkeeper, Phil Parkes, in the last game of the season that broke two ribs, ruled him out of selection for England against Brazil in May 1981.

Witchfinder General formed in 1979 by Zeeb Parkes & Phil Cope in Stourbridge, England, as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement during the early 1980s.

Peacetime service with the 4th saw Parkes in Wales and Ireland as well as in England.

Mairesse and Mike Parkes of England finished second to Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien at the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans.

* England: The first organized movement for English feminism was the Langham Place Circle of the 1850s, including among others Barbara Bodichon ( née Leigh-Smith ) and Bessie Rayner Parkes.

Alexander Parkes ( 29 December 1813 – 29 June 1890 ) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England.

Cowper simplified the political situation by sending Parkes to England to recruit immigrants on £ 1, 000 per year.

Philip Benjamin Neil Frederick " Phil " Parkes ( born 8 August 1950, Sedgley, Staffordshire, England ) is a former football goalkeeper.

Parkes had great ability, and was unfortunate to only ever win one England cap.