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Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto

Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto (Loreto Bay National Park) is a 206,580-hectare marine national park in the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur, Mexico, decreed 1996, a UNESCO World Heritage component, Ramsar site 1358, protecting five islands and 30 marine mammal species.

Parque Nacional del Pantanal Matogrosense

Parque Nacional del Pantanal Matogrosense, known in Portuguese as Parque Nacional do Pantanal Matogrossense, is a national park in Mato Grosso, Brazil, created in 1981.

Parque Zoológico Nacional de Cuba

Parque Zoológico Nacional de Cuba, the National Zoological Park of Cuba, is a large state-run zoo in Boyeros on the outskirts of Havana, inaugurated in 1984.

Parquest Capital

Parquest Capital is a French private equity firm founded in 2002 as ING Parcom's French franchise and independent since 2014, investing in mid-market buyouts with €600 million under management.

Parquet

Parquet is wood flooring of short strips or blocks fitted into decorative geometric patterns such as herringbone, chevron, and basketweave, first used at the Palace of Versailles in 1684.

Parquet Courts

Parquet Courts is a Brooklyn, New York indie rock band founded by Andrew Savage and Austin Brown, who met in Denton, Texas; known for Light Up Gold, the Parkay Quarts alias, and Rough Trade albums through Sympathy for Life (2021).

Parramatta

Parramatta, Sydney's second CBD in Western Sydney, NSW, Australia; founded 1788 as Rose Hill, Australia's second European settlement. Known for Old Government House World Heritage listing, $30.97 billion economy, Metro West and light rail projects.

Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels, Sydney NRL rugby league club founded 1947, blue and gold, home CommBank Stadium. Four premierships (1981-83, 1986), five minor premierships, 2016 salary cap sanctions.

Parramatta Light Rail

The Parramatta Light Rail, also called the Westmead and Carlingford Line, is a light rail line in Sydney, Australia, running 12 kilometers from Westmead to Carlingford via the Parramatta CBD, opened in December 2024.

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Parricidal succession of Ajatashatru

The parricidal succession of Ajatashatru (अजातशत्रु का राज्यारोहण) was Prince Ajatashatru's seizure of the throne of Magadha, deposing his father, King Bimbisara, who died in prison about 494 BC.

Parricide

Parricide is the killing of a parent by their child, also covering murder of close relatives. About 2-5 percent of homicides; sons kill fathers, daughters mothers; mental illness common; Roman poena cullei; Japan abolished its statute in 1995.

Parris Goebel

Parris Goebel, also known as Parri$, is a New Zealand choreographer and director from South Auckland who founded the Palace Dance Studio and Royal Family crew, choreographed Justin Bieber's "Sorry", Rihanna's 2023 Super Bowl show, and Lady Gaga's 2025 Coachella set, and won a 2022 Emmy for Savage X Fenty.

Parrodunum

Parrodunum: Roman fort and vicus at Burgheim, Bavaria, on the Danube frontier of Raetia; listed in the Notitia Dignitatum as garrison of the First Herculian Cohort; also known as Kastell Burgheim, with a debated Stätteberg identification.

Parrot

Parrots (Psittaciformes, including macaws, cockatoos, and lorikeets) are over 350 species of zygodactyl, curved-beaked birds of Gondwanan Cretaceous origin, noted for lifelong vocal learning, seed-dispersing ecology, heavy CITES-regulated trade, and high extinction risk.

Parrot Anafi

The Parrot Anafi is a folding consumer camera drone by French company Parrot, sold from 2018, known for 4K HDR video, lossless zoom, and a camera that tilts straight up.

Parrot AR.Drone

The Parrot AR.Drone is a consumer quadrotor drone made by the French company Parrot, controlled over Wi-Fi from an iPhone or iPad and released in 2010, credited with starting the consumer quadcopter craze.

Parrot Sequoia

Parrot Sequoia is a multispectral camera for drones made by the French company Parrot, released in March 2016 at 3,200 euros for precision-agriculture crop monitoring.

Parrot tulip

Parrot tulip, Parrot Group, Division 10 of garden tulips: single cup-shaped flowers with laciniate, curled, twisted, often striped tepals, opening mid to late spring; stable virus-free mutations celebrated since the early 17th century.

Parrotfish

Parrotfish, also called pollyfish, are tropical marine reef fish named for their beak-like fused teeth; grazing algae and dead coral, they do most bioerosion on reefs.

Parry Channel

Parry Channel is the deep east-west waterway of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the northern Northwest Passage route through M'Clure Strait, Viscount Melville Sound, Barrow Strait, and Lancaster Sound, named for explorer William Edward Parry.

Parry–Romberg syndrome

Parry–Romberg syndrome, or progressive hemifacial atrophy, is a rare autoimmune neurocutaneous disorder causing progressive unilateral facial tissue atrophy, with neurologic involvement (seizures, migraine) and overlap with linear scleroderma en coup de sabre.