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Simon Parsons (born 3 May 1969) is a British sprint canoer, who competed in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 500 m event.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Parsons</span> American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

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Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art academies in protest of limited creative autonomy, Parsons is one of the oldest schools of art and design in New York.

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