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8 unusual facts about Parke


Bruce Roth

After receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1981, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester, then joined Parke-Davis of Warner-Lambert Company as a Medicinal Chemist in 1982.

Louis D. Belcher

In 1982, Belcher responded to Parke-Davis's threat to leave Ann Arbor for Canada and The Netherlands by offering substantial city property-tax abatements, keeping the company in town but stirring up anger among liberal voters and city councilmembers.

Norman Ramírez Rivera

As a professional, Ramírez worked in sales for 23 years, with Parke-Davis, Warner–Lambert, and Pfizer.

Parke's Castle

Rising three storeys tall, in an idyllic setting on the banks of Lough Gill, in County Leitrim, Ireland, Parke’s Castle is a plantation era castle.

It was in this tower house that Francisco de Cuellar, the shipwrecked Armada officer, was entertained by Brian O'Rourke.

The castle had extensive and sensitive restoration carried out at the end of the 20th century by the Office of Public Works.

Progesterone

An economical semisynthesis of progesterone from the plant steroid diosgenin isolated from yams was developed by Russell Marker in 1940 for the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company (see figure to the right).

Progestin-induced virilisation

In 1961, Ciba and Parke-Davis added the reported association of ethisterone and norethisterone with masculinization of external genitalia of the female fetus to the precautions section of their advertisements to physicians and physician prescribing information.


Charles D. Herron

He was the son of William Parke Herron (1843–1927), a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Eden, North Carolina

A year later, Farley's daughters Maria Farley and Rebecca Parke Farley sold their shares to Patrick Henry of Virginia, the man who delivered the "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech.

J. A. Britton

According to a Historic American Engineering Record record, Britton was born in 1839 near Rockville, Indiana, and built approximately 40 bridges in three Indiana counties: Parke, Putnam, and Vermillion.

Jeff Parke

Parke and Conway tested positive for androstatriendione (ATD) and boldenone metabolites, two banned performance enhancing substances, after taking an over the counter supplement they purchased at The Vitamin Shoppe.

Marshall Bridge

Marshall Covered Bridge, Rockville, Indiana, also known as Marshall Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Parke County, Indiana

Norman Parke

After going 14-2, Parke signed to face Anton Kuivanen at Fight Festival 29, in what would have been his first fight outside of Ireland and Britain.

Philip Thomas Godsal

In 1879 Godsal married Ellen Henrietta Parke who was daughter of Charles Joseph Parke of Henbury, Dorset, and grand daughter of Charles Parke, formerly H.B.M Commissioner to the kingdom of Mexico and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.

Robbie Buhl

Family holdings included Buhl Stamping, Buhl Aircraft manufacturing, development of vast real estate holdings (including the landmark Buhl Building in downtown Detroit), Parke Davis (now part of drug giant Pfizer), Copper and Brass Sales, Inc, (by marriage) and many other holdings.

Terry R. Parke

On November 7, 2006, Parke lost his reelection bid to Democrat Fred Crespo.

The Japanese Art Society of America

While the Society now addresses all aspects of Japanese art and culture, it traces its origins to a small group of ukiyo-e print collectors in and around New York City in 1973, at a time when Parke-Bernet Galleries (later to merge with Sotheby's) had begun to develop a market for Japanese art.

Thomas Heazle Parke

A bronze statue of Parke stands on Merrion Street in Dublin, outside the Natural History Museum.

Trent Parke

Parke's photographs are held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), the Australian National Maritime Museum (Sydney), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney) and the University of Sydney Union.

United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2004

The 2004 Vermont U.S. congressional election took place between incumbent Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of Burlington, VT, Gregory Tarl "Greg" Parke (R) of Rutland, VT, Larry Drown (D) of Northfield, VT and Jane Newton (LU) of Londonderry, VT.

Wilfred Parke

He was the grandson of Charles Joseph Parke of Henbury in Dorset a former High Sheriff of the county and was a great nephew of General William Parke as well as being great great grandson of the Reverend Charles Wickstead Ethelston who read the riot act at the Peterloo riots and signed the arrest for the speakers.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Following the War, Ford married Martha Parke Firestone, the granddaughter of Harvey Firestone and Idabelle Smith Firestone on June 21, 1947.

William James Parke Hume

Lieutenant Colonel William James Parke Hume, C.M.G. was born on 25 January 1866, in Batticaloa, Ceylon.


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