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Paris, Banks of the Seine
Paris, Banks of the Seine (Paris, rives de la Seine): UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1991 under criteria (i)(ii)(iv), covering Seine quays, bridges and islands between Pont de Sully and Pont d'Iéna; 538 ha, extended 2024.
Paris, je t'aime
Paris, je t'aime (2006) is a 120-minute anthology film of 18 five-minute love stories set in Paris neighborhoods, directed by 20 international filmmakers including the Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, and Alexander Payne, produced by Claudie Ossard and Emmanuel Benbihy from Tristan Carné's idea.
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Ontario: community in the County of Brant at the Nith–Grand river confluence, nicknamed Prettiest Little Town in Canada and Cobblestone Capital of Canada; founded by Hiram Capron, 1829, named for plaster of Paris gypsum.
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas: county seat of Lamar County in northeast Texas, founded 1844 by George W. Wright and named for Paris, France. Known for its 65-foot Eiffel Tower replica with a red cowboy hat; population about 25,000 with a manufacturing-heavy economy.
Paris, Texas (film)
Paris, Texas is Wim Wenders's 1984 Palme d'Or road movie, scripted by Sam Shepard, starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, and Dean Stockwell, photographed by Robby Müller with a Ry Cooder score, and restored in 4K in 2024.
Parisa Fitz-Henley
Parisa Fitz-Henley, born 1977 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Jamaican-American actress and former model known for Reva Connors in Marvel's Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Fiji in Midnight, Texas, and Meghan Markle in Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance.
Parisa Liljestrand
Parisa Liljestrand is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party who serves as Minister for Culture, leading policy on culture, media, democracy, and minorities, and sits in the Riksdag.
Parisa Rashidi
Parisa Rashidi is an AI-in-healthcare researcher and full professor at the University of Florida, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Parish
Parish: territorial unit of a Christian diocese under one priest and church (from Greek paroikia), also the civil local-government unit in England, Scotland, Quebec, and Louisiana's county-equivalents.
Parish church
A parish church, also called a parochial church, is the principal church of a territorial parish, served by a resident priest with cure of souls.
Parish Generating Station
Parish Generating Station, formally the W. A. Parish Electric Generating Station, is a coal- and gas-fired power plant in Thompsons, Texas, near Houston, owned by NRG Energy.
Parishes of Jamaica
Parishes of Jamaica: the island's 14 main local-government units, grouped into the historic counties Cornwall, Middlesex, and Surrey. Created from 1664, reduced to 14 in 1867; Portmore became the 15th parish under 2025 legislation.
Parisian (department store)
Parisian was a department store chain founded in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1877, known for upscale merchandise and generous service until Belk retired the name in 2007.
Parista
Parista (Hittite Parišta) is a Bronze Age land of western Anatolia known only from the Assuwa coalition list in the Annals of Tudhaliya I/II, ca. 1420–1400 BC.
Parita
Parita was a ruler of the Iron Age kingdom of Hamath in the Orontes valley of western Syria in the early 9th century BC, the father and predecessor of King Urḫilina.
Paritala Ravindra (పరిటాల రవీంద్ర)
Paritala Ravindra (పరిటాల రవీంద్ర), or Paritala Ravi, was a Telugu Desam Party MLA and minister from Penukonda, Anantapur, a central figure in Rayalaseema faction politics; he survived a 1997 car bombing, was assassinated 24 January 2005, and inspired the film Rakta Charitra.
Paritaprevir
Paritaprevir (ABT-450) is an HCV NS3/4A protease inhibitor boosted by ritonavir, used in the ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir regimens (Viekira Pak, Technivie) for HCV genotypes 1 and 4; no longer recommended in the US since 2023.
Parithabangal Gopi–Sudhakar
Parithabangal Gopi–Sudhakar (பரிதாபங்கள்) are a Tamil YouTube comedy duo, ex-Madras Central, with 6M+ subscribers, known for political satire, crowdfunded films like Oh God Beautiful, and controversies over Laddu Paavangal and Society Paavangal videos.
Paritosh Sen
Paritosh Sen (1918–2008) was an Indian modernist painter and founding member of the Calcutta Group, known for boldly lined, colorful paintings of everyday urban life and satirical caricatures.
Parity
Parity, in obstetrics, is the number of times a woman has given birth at a viable gestational age, counted per pregnancy: a twin birth adds one, not two.
Parity (mathematics)
Parity (mathematics), also called even and odd numbers, is the property of an integer of being even or odd, depending on whether it is divisible by 2.
Parity (physics)
Parity, or P-symmetry, is the physics operation that inverts all spatial coordinates through the origin; it is conserved by strong and electromagnetic interactions but violated by the weak interaction.
Parity bit
A parity bit, also called a check bit, is an extra binary digit appended to data so the count of 1s is even or odd, detecting single-bit errors.
Parity of a permutation
The parity of a permutation, also called its sign or signature, classifies a permutation as even or odd according to the number of transpositions in any decomposition.
Parity of zero
The parity of zero is the mathematical fact that zero is an even number: it is divisible by 2, and it sits between the odd numbers −1 and 1.
Parity operator
The parity operator, also called the inversion operator, is the quantum-mechanical operator that inverts space, sending every position r to -r. Its only eigenvalues are +1 and -1.
Parity problem in sieve theory
The parity problem in sieve theory is the limitation that classical sieve methods cannot distinguish integers with an odd number of prime factors from integers with an even number.
Parity violation
Parity violation is the failure of a physical process to behave the same as its mirror image, discovered in weak interactions like beta decay in 1957.
Parity-time synthetic photonic lattices
Parity-time synthetic photonic lattices are optical lattices with balanced gain and loss obeying parity-time symmetry, first realized in coupled fiber loops in 2012, showing unidirectional invisibility and exceptional points.
Parity-time-symmetric photonics
Parity-time-symmetric photonics is a branch of optics in which optical gain and loss are arranged so light obeys PT symmetry, enabling real spectra, exceptional points, and single-mode lasers.