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.

Development on WarGames began in 1979, when writers Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker developed an idea for a script called The Genius, about " a dying scientist and the only person in the world who understands him – a rebellious kid who's too smart for his own good.

General Beringer was based on James V. Hartinger, the then-commander-in-chief of NORAD who Parkes and Lasker met while visiting the base, and who, like Beringer, favored keeping humans in the decision loop.

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.

Alexander Parkes and Spill listed camphor during their earlier experiments, calling the resultant mix " xylonite ", but it was the Hyatt brothers who recognized the value of camphor and its use as a plasticizer for cellulose nitrate.

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.

* Michael Parkes, a fantasy artist and former resident of Canalou who was born in Sikeston.

Samuel Parkes who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade was born in Wigginton and baptised at St. Editha's on 24 December 1815.

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

Stanhope Lodge ( Decimus Burton, 1824 – 25 ) at Stanhope Gate, demolished to widen Park Lane, was the home of Samuel Parkes who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Harford handed in his resignation on 25 October and was replaced temporarily by coach Tony Parkes, who took charge until the end of the season and guided Rovers to 14th in the final table before Roy Hodgson was appointed as permanent manager.

Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG ( 27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896 ) was a statesman and politician who is considered the Father of the Australian Federation.

An important piece of legislation carried through was the Public Schools Act 1866, introduced by Parkes, of which an essential part was that no man or woman would be allowed to act as a teacher who had not been properly trained in teaching.

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.

One policeman stationed there during the early 1860s was Samuel Parkes, who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War.

Sir Harry Smith Parkes ( Traditional Chinese: 巴夏禮 ; Simplified Chinese: 巴夏礼, 1828 – 1885 ) was a 19th century British diplomat who worked mainly in China and Japan.

In June 1841 Parkes sailed for China to take up his residence at the house of his cousin, Mary Wanstall Gützlaff ( née Newell ), who was the wife of the missionary and explorer Karl Friedrich Gützlaff.

* Gerard Parkes as Doc, the owner of an Irish pub who has Tourette syndrome.

Following the incident Blackburn's interim manager Tony Parkes described Sutton as " a boy who is sometimes a bit dizzy ... a bit silly ", stating " It was against the spirit of the game and he should not have done it ".

Rootes relied upon a team led by two young designers, Tim Fry and Mike Parkes who were given an almost free hand to come up with a small car that would fit well into the Rootes car programme.

One of the last Inspectors of those constables was Samuel Parkes who won the Victoria Cross in the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854.

In 1909, dermatologist Frederick Parkes Weber wrote an article about von Recklinghausen disease ( now known as neurofibromatosis type I ) in the British Journal of Dermatology.

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

Parkes was now in his 77th year and his political career had practically ended.

Samuel Parkes ( c. 1759 – 1825 ) was a British manufacturing chemist, now remembered for his Chemical Catechism.

The seat is currently a safe Nationals seat, but was a much more marginal seat when it included the Labor-voting mining towns of Broken Hill and Cobar which have now been transferred to Farrer and Parkes.

Parkes is a former chairman and now life president of the charity Cruse Bereavement Care.

By the 1890s there was a public school on Parkes Road ( now Edensor Road ), a post office ( opened in 1888 ), and a growing community, with an unusual number of Italians, who had arrived in the 1880s after the failure of the Marquis de Rays's expedition to New Ireland.

Michael Parkes ( born in 1944 in Sikeston, Missouri ) is an American-born artist living in Spain who is best known for work in the areas of fantasy art and magic realism.

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

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.

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

David Lightman was modeled on David Scott Lewis, a hacking enthusiast Parkes and Lasker met.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

* Taylor Parkes, journalist and broadcaster, was born in West Bromwich but grew up in Kidderminster.

In the Australian movie The Dish, the theme was mistaken for the national anthem of the US by a local band upon the visit of the US Ambassador to Parkes, NSW, to commemorate the 1969 moon landing.

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

" 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 main version that was filmed in Canada features an inventor named Doc ( played by Gerry Parkes ) and his dog Sprocket.

The result was Renkioi Hospital, a civilian facility which under the management of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes had a death rate less than 1 / 10th that of Scutari.

Later in 1862, Parkes showcased Parkesine at the Great Exhibition in London, where he was awarded a bronze medal for his efforts.

Initially the judge found in Spill's favour, but ultimately it was judged that neither party held an exclusive claim and the true inventor of celluloid / xylonite was Alexander Parkes, due to his mention of camphor in his earlier experiments and patents.

In 1887, Barton was appointed to the Legislative Council at the instigation of Sir Henry Parkes.

Edmund Barton was an early supporter of federation, which became a serious political agenda after Henry Parkes ' Tenterfield Oration, and was a delegate to the March 1891 National Australasian Convention.