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Parker| Seat of La Paz County and headquarters of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, western-central Arizona, on the Colorado River and Californian border, 210 km/130 mi northwest of Phoenix; population (1990) 2,900. The town is a tourist base for a popular riverside recreational area extending to the Parker Dam and Lake Havasu, 24 km/15 mi to the northeast. The reservation extends over 108,930 ha/269,000 ac; population (1990) 7,900. Established in 1865, it is inhabited by Mojave, Chemehuevi, and other American Indian peoples from Arizona and California. |
| During World War II Poston, situated 19 km/12 mi to the southwest, was the site of the largest single internment camp for Americans of Japanese ancestry; it held up to 18,000 people at a time. |
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Adderley, ‘Cannonball’
bebop
Benchley, Robert Charles
Copenhagen, Battle of
Dankworth, John Philip William
Davis, Miles
Gillespie, Dizzy
Parker of Waddington, Hubert Lister Parker
Parker, Alan
Parker, Bonnie
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Parker, Hyde
Parker, Isaac Charles
Parker, Louis
Parker, Robert Alan Ridley
Parker, Stewart
Parker, Theodore
Parker, Tom
Rollins, Sonny
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| The first intimation that Wilson had that the schedule was actually to be put into practical operation was when his employer, one Monday evening, requested him to buy a medium-sized bunch of the best red roses and deliver them personally, with a note, to Miss Marguerite Parker at the stage-door of the Duke of Cornwall's Theatre. Vincent put into his hands, untrammelled by orders, a division of his fleet, and Sir Hyde Parker gave him two more ships at Copenhagen than he had asked for. By the way, Jo, I think that little Parker is really getting desperate about Amy. |