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unusual facts about Picket



16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

In the Battle of Crampton's Gap it was in the van and lost heavily; was held in reserve at Antietam; at Fredericksburg was posted on picket duty, and after the battle went into winter quarters near Falmouth.

All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight

"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" was a poem first published as "The Picket Guard" by Ethel Lynn Beers in Harper's Weekly, November 30, 1861, attributed only to "E.B."

Annual Reminder

Activist Craig Rodwell conceived of the event following an April 17, 1965 picket at the White House by members of the New York City and Washington, D.C. chapters of the Mattachine Society, Philadelphia's Janus Society and the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis.

Battle of Germantown

The western wing of the camp, under the command of the Hessian general Wilhelm von Knyphausen, had a picket of two jaeger battalions at its left flank on the high ground above the mouth of the Wissahickon.

Caryl Rivers

In 1979 Rivers and historian Howard Zinn were among a group of Boston University faculty members who defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.

Chundur Massacre

A 50 strong police picket headed by Tenali Rural Circle Inspector was posted in the village since then.

Drew Smith

On three occasions since being elected Drew Smith has refused to cross picket lines to attend debates at Holyrood when parliamentary staff have been on strike, most recently on 20 March 2013 when he spoke at a rally of Public and Commercial Services Union members in Glasgow's St Enoch Square instead.

House at 20 Center Street

The front picket fence was added since 1982, and it became 20 Center Street at the end of the 20th century when many streets in the county were renumbered for 9-1-1 service.

Joe Wickham

Both Radio Éireann and the Army Band made themselves unavailable, but this did not deter a crowd of 21,400 supporters arriving at Dalymount Park and passing the picket of Legion of Mary members who carried anti-Communist placards.

Lizzie Woods

She became active in politics at a very young age, attending early morning picket lines at her local pit Abernant, during the miners strike.

Louis T. Wright

His efforts related to Civil Rights began in college when he missed three weeks of school to join picket lines protesting The Birth of a Nation.

Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail

At this point the story must shift to the Agent in the picket ship, who calls himself "Mr. Carroll", a Lewis Carroll reference as one of the planets of the Warden system is named "Momrath" with a moon named "Boojum" from Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".

Philippine Greens

Among the more high profile actions led by the Philippine Greens include demonstrations against mining, a picket against Bill Gates, whom they called a "cyberlord", and a 30-day hunger strike against genetically engineered Bt corn.

Picket fence

For example, the director David Lynch uses ironic images of the picket fence in his 1986 film Blue Velvet.

Robert Clayton Maffett

On August 26, 1864, while on picket line in Halltown, West Virginia, Lt. Col. Maffett and about 100 men of the 15th South Carolina were captured by Philip H. Sheridan's Federal cavalry.

Siege of Suffolk

Maj. Gen. George Pickett's Confederate division probed Foster's and Dodge's fronts driving in the Union picket lines.

St. Clair Augustine Mulholland

In this campaign he was given the command of the picket line by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock and covered the retreat of the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock River.

TCA Ground

The TCA Ground is a picturesque ground with a village feel and white picket boundary which could easily belong in the English countryside, except for the typical Australian Eucalypt bushland which hugs the boundary line.

UCLA College of Letters and Science

Bill Clinton canceled in 2008 for not wanting to cross a picket line.

Ward Hill, Staten Island

One of the white picket-fenced houses on Edgar Terrace is the scene for Madonna's video Papa Don't Preach with Danny Aiello.


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