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4 unusual facts about Picard


Crazy Leo

Urlichich and co-driver Dave Shindle won the event after setting the fastest times on all but the last stage against more experienced Peter Thomson and Andrew Comrie-Picard.

Dominique-France Loeb-Picard

At Monaco's royal palace, she met and began her courtship with HM King Fuad II, whom she married on 16 April 1976 in Monaco.

Picard, Dominica

The Ross University School of Medicine, part of DeVry University, is located in Picard and has over 1,000 students mainly from the United States and Canada.

Piccardo

Piccardo is an Italian surname, a version of Picard, meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.


178008 Picard

The asteroid (178008) Picard was discovered by Bernard Christophe in Saint-Sulpice on 30 August 2006.

Bernard de Balliol

Bernard II de Balliol, (d. c. 1190), Anglo-Picard baron who led the capture of William the Lion, King of the Scots, in 1174

Bernard I de Balliol (d. 1154 x 1162), Anglo-Picard baron who supposedly founded Barnard Castle

Bernard I de Balliol

Bernard I de Balliol (died 1154 x 1162), the second known ruling Balliol of his line, was a twelfth-century Anglo-Picard baron based for much of his time in the north of England, as well as at Bailleul-en-Vimeu close to Abbeville in northern France.

Brouwer fixed-point theorem

The theorem was first studied in view of work on differential equations by the French mathematicians around Poincaré and Picard.

Cecil J. Picard

Picard was succeeded in the state Senate by Democrat Gerald Theunissen of Jennings, who defeated the Republican state party chairman Mike Francis of Crowley.

French Flanders

The traditional language of Lilloise Flanders (part of Romance Flanders), is Picard (and its dialects, such as Ch'ti or Rouchi).

Geordi La Forge

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown (which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film), Geordi (now a commander) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

Henry Picard

When Picard left the sought-after pro's position at Hershey Country Club in the early 1940s, he recommended Hogan as his replacement and Hogan got the job.

James Picard

Along with fellow volunteers, Picard was commended by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in a ceremony.

Jean Picard

Picard also travelled to Tycho Brahe's Danish observatory, Uraniborg, in order to assess its position accurately so that Tycho's readings could be compared to others.

John M. Picard

Picard is married to Tara Riley Picard (a General Manager of Avionics at Sikorsky Aircraft.)

Josse Lieferinxe

Josse Lieferinxe was documented as a "Picard" in the regions of Avignon and Marseille at the end of the fifteenth and in the early sixteenth centuries.

Montel's theorem

For example, the first version of Montel's theorem stated above is the analog of Liouville's theorem, while the second version corresponds to Picard's theorem.

Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id

He was born in Cairo, the grandson of King Farouk of Egypt and Queen Narriman, and the elder son of Fuad II (last King of Egypt) by his former wife, Fadila (née Dominique-France Loeb-Picard).

Paul Picard

After starting as an actor, Picard was the director of daytime programming for ABC.

Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

The letter is addressed to an otherwise unknown Picard countryman named Sygerus (Sigerus, Ysaerus) of Foucaucourt, possibly a friend and neighbor of the author; Foucaucourt borders on the home area of Peregrinus around Maricourt, in the present-day department of the Somme, near Péronne.

Picard language

Picard, although primarily a spoken language, does also have a body of written literature: poetry, songs ("P'tit quinquin" for example), comic books etc.

Picardy

"P'tit quinquin", a Picard song, is a symbol of the local culture (and of that of Artois).

Pierre Gros

Among his best known works are his collaborative volume, with Mario Torelli, Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo romano (Laterza, 1988) and his two-volume treatise on Roman architecture, L'architectue Romaine Du début du IIIème siècle avant J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire vol. 1 Les monuments publics; vol. 2 2. maisons, palais, villas et tombeaux (Picard, 1996–2001).

Q-in-Law

Although he toys with Picard while asking to be allowed to attend the wedding festivities, he promises to behave himself.

Samaritan Snare

During the trip, the relationship between the two grows, Picard shares a bit of his past, and directs Crusher to some classic books (including William James).

Siward Barn

Earl Cospatric apparently fled to Scotland and in the beginning of 1069 King William appointed the Picard Robert de Comines as the new earl of Northumbria.

Suddenly Human

Fortunately, the dagger is deflected by Picard's sternum, and the resulting wounds are relatively minor.

Supersingular K3 surface

Then Tetsuji Shioda showed that the elliptic modular surface of level 4 (the universal generalized elliptic curve E(4) → X(4)) in characteristic 3 mod 4 is a K3 surface with Picard number 22, as is the Kummer surface of the product of two supersingular elliptic curves in odd characteristic.

The Big Goodbye

While taking a break from preparations, a computer malfunction traps Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner), and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) in a 1940s-style gangster holodeck program with Captain Picard playing the role of detective Dixon Hill.

Uncertain Glory

During World War II, Jean Picard (Errol Flynn) is a convicted killer being led to the guillotine; he escapes during an air raid.


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