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2 unusual facts about Pickett


Paul O. Husting

Husting was killed in a duck hunting accident on Rush Lake near Pickett, Wisconsin while rising in a row boat after telling his brother Gustave to fire.

Pickett's Mill Battlefield Site

The battle took place on May 27, 1864, as the Union Army tried to advance on Atlanta two days after the Battle of New Hope Church.


2001 White House shooting

In July 2001, Pickett, then 48 years old, was sentenced to 3 years at the Federal Medical Center, Rochester, followed by 3 years of probation.

28th Virginia Infantry

After fighting at First Manassas, the unit was assigned to General Pickett's, Garnett's, and Hunton's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.

Alexander Webb

Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), Major General in the American Civil War, defended the famous "Copse of Trees" during Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863

Arnie Ginsburg

This was the case for such records as "Roses are Red" by Bobby Vinton and "The Monster Mash" by Bobby (Boris) Pickett ("Monsters Mash," 1962, 50).

Charles E. Pickett

In 1908, Pickett was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 3rd congressional district the Sixty-first Congress.

Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Jackson son of Dempsey Carroll and Mary Orea "Molly" (Pickett) Jackson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, where his father was a wealthy tobacco farmer and slaveholder.

Donald McGavran

The most direct influence, however, was J. Waskom Pickett, of whom McGavran was fond of saying; “I lit my candle at Pickett’s fire”.

Dudley Willis Rockwell

Dud was the son of Ruth Gowdy Rockwell and Stanley Pickett Rockwell, inventor of the Rockwell scale.

Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier

Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (March 25, 1896 - January 3, 1984) was an American author best known for her 1942 first novel, the best seller Drivin' Woman, which was promoted as a novel in the vein of Gone with the Wind.

Found Footage Festival

In 2004, Pickett and Prueher quit their day jobs to focus on production of their first feature documentary, Dirty Country.

Georg Kajanus

Deciding to form a group, tentatively named KP Packet, Kajanus and Pickett enlisted drummer and percussionist Grant Serpell (Affinity), and keyboard player and guitarist Henry Marsh (Gringo).

Kajanus and Phil Pickett, who been acquainted for some time, collaborated on an album, Hi Ho Silver! (1972), as Kajanus/Pickett.

J. Waskom Pickett

In 1910, E. Stanley Jones asked Pickett to assume leadership of an English-speaking Methodist congregation Jones had founded in India.

Jay Pickett

In 1997, Pickett originated the role of Frank Scanlon, a dedicated paramedic and substitute teacher and the complicated older brother of Joe Scanlon, on the ABC Daytime drama Port Charles.

John Coleman Pickett

On September 23, 1949, Pickett was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit created by 63 Stat.

Michael Kearns

Two revivals of James Carroll Pickett’s Dream Man (with American actor Jimmy Shaw) were directed by Kearns: at Madrid’s DT Espacio Escenico as part of the Festival Version Original (2005) and the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (2007).

Norman J. Hall

Norman Jonathan Hall (1837 – May 26, 1867) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War, perhaps most noted for his defense of his sector of the Union line against Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.

Pig War

Captain George Pickett, later of Pickett's Charge fame, was in charge of the initial American landing force.

Robert Pickett

Bob Pickett (Robert A. Pickett, 1932–2010), head coach of the University of Massachusetts Amherst football team

Bobby Pickett (Robert George Pickett, 1938–2007), American singer also known Bobby "Boris" Pickett

Ryan Pickett

Through his foundation, Pickett hosted his first Celebrity Golf Classic in 2013 at the Barona Creek Golf Course in Lakeside, California, just outside San Diego.

Ted Pickett

Pickett was Walter Lindrum's opponent in a series of charity exhibition matches held around Tasmania.

The Exciting Wilson Pickett

Pickett later redid the song "Land of a Thousand Dances", originally a hit in 1963 for New Orleans-based composer Chris Kenner, for the soundtrack of The Great Outdoors, a 1988 film starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.

Toronto streetcar system

The group was led by professor Andrew Biemiller and transit advocate Steve Munro, and had the support of city councillors William Kilbourn and Paul Pickett, and urban advocate Jane Jacobs.

Vevay Park, Illinois

Grant Pickett, who operated a pumping station for the railroad, renamed the town after his former home of Vevay, Indiana.

WDNC

In 1992, WDNC and its FM sister station, by now known as WDCG "G-105", relocated to Park Forty Plaza, just off Interstate 40 along NC Highway 55 in southeastern Durham, as the newspaper abandoned their downtown building for a new facility at 2828 Pickett Road in southwestern Durham.

White Hart Lane

The first, revealed in 2001, was to relocate to the 43,000-seat stadium at Pickett's Lock which was being planned for the 2005 World Athletics Championships as the centerpiece of London's bid to host the games; however the games were awarded to Helsinki, Finland, instead.


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