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4 unusual facts about Picnic


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"Stone Soul Picnic", by Laura Nyro (released in 1968), was a major hit for the group The 5th Dimension.

The Office Picnic (1972) is a dark comedy set in an Australian Public Service office.

Picnic, Lightning

The title poem is a reference to Humbert Humbert's mundane description of his mother's death as described by him in the second chapter of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Picnic, Lightning is a collection of poetry by Billy Collins, published in 1998.


A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Dorothea is scheduled to join Bodey and Buddy for their weekly Sunday picnic in Creve Coeur Park, a short trolley car ride away, but she delays her departure, certain Mr. Ellis is going to call.

A Painted House

A visiting carnival, the annual town picnic, and Luke's introduction to television - to see a live broadcast of a World Series game - are additional bits of local color scattered throughout the tale.

Anson S. Marshall

On the fourth of July, 1874, Marshall, his wife and son were setting up a picnic lunch at Penacook Lake in West Concord when his wife heard the sound of bullets over their heads.

Antonio Tobias Mendez

He also created bronze sculptures of the six Baltimore Orioles greats whose uniform numbers were retired by the ballclub, which are located in the picnic area behind the bullpens beyond left-center field at Camden Yards.

Bush's Pasture Park

Today the park contains trails, picnic areas, playgrounds, tennis courts, natural groves of old Oregon White Oak trees, cherry and apple orchards, and a rose garden with over 2,000 roses.

Catherine MacPhail

On her website, as a child she asks "Do you know what an eejit is? Someone who is one sandwich short of a picnic … whose lift doesn’t go … well, you know what I mean. Eejit is a wonderful Scottish/Irish word that seemed to sum me up perfectly when I was growing up." (Eejit is a Scottish/Irish word for someone idiotic or simple.)

Chalco Hills Recreation Area

Several soccer fields and one baseball field, along with two playgrounds adjacent to picnic areas are easily reached from nearby parking areas.

Clifton Beach, Karachi

Other beaches close to the city include Sandspit, Hawke's Bay, and Paradise Point (a sandstone rock promontory with a natural arch), sonehra point, french beach, cape Mount, Manora Beach, but Clifton Beach is the most popular picnic destination in Karachi.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra

In the summer the orchestra performs a series of outdoor pops programs, "Picnic with the Pops", on the lawn of Chemical Abstracts Service.

Danish Dance Theatre

Besides touring and several stationary performances in Copenhagen, the company is also famous for two annual open air events: “Copenhagen Summer Dance”, which takes place in the Copenhagen Police Headquarters and runs for one week in August and the picnic-performances “Spring Dance at Carlsberg”, which takes place during the two first weekends of June.

Epworth League

In the 1934 W. C. Fields movie It's a Gift, when Amelia Bissonette tells her husband Harold that his Uncle Bean has died, she says, "It seemed he was getting better, but he attended the Epworth League picnic, and he choked to death eating an orange."

Faxi

Faxi can be found around twelve kilometres from Geysir and Gullfoss, and eight kilometres from Skalholt, away from the main road on a gravel track which includes a picnic area and a small car park.

Funky Bones

In the book The Fault in Our Stars, the sculpture is the location of a romantic picnic, having been picked by one of the characters as being the most Dutch place in Indianapolis.

Gene Summers

That same year, he formed the rockabilly band The Rebels and performed on Joe Bill's Country Picnic on KRLD-TV where they were spotted by songwriter Jed Tarver.

Glenmorgan, Ooty

Glenmorgan is used as a picnic spot by tourists and offers panoramic views of the Mudumalai National Park, Mysore, the Moyar valley and the power house at Singara.

Greater Western Sydney

The Western Sydney Parklands, a major urban parkland stretching through many local government areas in Western Sydney, also contains many attractions such as picnic areas and lookouts, Calmsley Hill Farm, Blacktown Olympic Park, Eastern Creek Raceway, and, most notably, the Nurragingy reserve (features picnic areas and a Chinese garden).

Hazelwood, County Sligo

The wood is situated on the shores of Lough Gill, which contains Yeats's Lake Isle of Innisfree, and is popular among tourists and locals for its scenic walks, which is dotted with sculptures; swans, mallards and gulls who congregate at the picnic area, and for the fishing on Lough Gill.

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Prison life on Devil's Island is no picnic so fellow prisoners Le Bras (Jim Brown) and Davert (Christopher George) go AWOL.

Jarama

El Jarama is a 1955 novel by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio about a group of middle-class youngsters from Madrid meeting for a picnic by the river on a summer day.

John Rogers Thomas

In addition to song writing, Thomas composed three larger works; The Picnic (1869), a children's operetta with a libretto by George Cooper; The Lady in the Mask (1870), an operetta with a libretto by George Cooper; and Diamond Cut Diamond (1876), a parlor opera in one act.

Kangaroo Point

Kangaroo Point Cliffs - cliffs popular for rock climbing, abseiling and a pleasant picnic ground alongside the Brisbane River.

Killarney Heights, New South Wales

The picnic grounds were given the name 'Killarney' after Killarney in Ireland.

In the early part of the 20th century, a picnic ground was developed around the edges of Middle Harbour, on the site where Mosman Rowing Club now stands.

Konstfack

A & E Design, Katja Pettersson, Front (arty designers), Veryday (formerly Ergonomidesign), No Picnic, Propeller, Transformator Design.

Kukrail Reserve Forest

Kukrail Reserve Forest is located in Indranagar adjacent to Shivpuri colony on picnic spot road.

Makedonika Tembi

The Makedonika Tembi, located between Mount Cholomon and the Kerdylia mountains, lies just outside of the major city of Thessaloniki, is a popular tourist spot during autumn, when the leaves change colour, and summer, when lots of people picnic there.

Massacre Canyon

The monument is located in a small park area with picnic tables and a visitor center that features exhibits about early pioneers, the tribal customs of the Sioux and the Pawnee people and a gift shop.

New Fancy

It includes a picnic area, and a viewing site, in particular for goshawks.

Norwood, North Carolina

Celebrations throughout the year include Arbor Day in April, Picnic in the Park in October and the annual Christmas parade the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving.

Pinky Picnic

Pinky Picnic is the second part of the first episode of the first series of Jungle Junction.

Rangamati Hill District

Cruising on the Kaptai Lake is an enjoyable way of observing the landscape as many great picnic spots, natural landmarks and historic monuments are accessible only by motorboats.The Rangamati Parjatan offers such tours to the tourists, taking them to great sights, locations of cultural and historical significance while explaining the diversity that exists in this district.

Roger Poidatz

During the return voyage, he revised and finished his first novel, L'honorable partie de campagne (1924, translated into English by Leonard Cline as "The Honorable Picnic"), a stylised travelogue account of his experiences and observations in Japan.

Scorpion aerobatic team

Originally formed in 1999 in 49th combat helicopters regiment in Pruszcz Gdański, the team made its début in 1999 at an air picnic in Pruszcz Gdański, and later performed in 1999 Radom Air Show.

Scottish Festival Orchestra

A Grand Summer Picnic Prom in the grounds of Raemoir House with Scottish tenor, Nicky Spence.

Sky Mangel

During a picnic with Harold and Kerry, Sky is bitten by a Redback spider.

Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro

Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro is the second retrospective album by Bronx-born musician Laura Nyro and the most comprehensive overview of her work to date.

Street's Disciple

The latter (originally titled "Coon's Picnic") contained attacks directed toward multiple black celebrities including: O.J. Simpson and NBA superstar Kobe Bryant.

Summer Catalog

Andy talks about writing a song called "Life is a Picnic," Andy makes a reference to NFL quarterback Peyton Manning.

Telicatessen

The track "Sniper Picnic" was featured on the soundtrack of Activision game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

Thanks, I'll Eat It Here

The album was released just before the death of Lowell George in 1979 and has cover art by Neon Park (a feature of almost all Little Feat albums) containing several pop-/cult references including a picnic scene, mirroring Édouard Manet's "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe", which shows Bob Dylan, Fidel Castro and Marlene Dietrich as Der Blaue Engel with an open copy of Howl beside them.

The Mississauga Blob

The Mississauga Blob was the name given to a flaming object—later identified as a frisbee—that fell on a back-yard picnic table in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at about 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, 1979.

The Virginia Pumpkin Festival

They also added such events as the teddy bear picnic and with live performances from a wide range of acts, such as the music like Shane MacGowan, Sharon Shannon and Mundy entertained crowds in the Pumpkin Marquee.

Tiny Maxwell

However he instead ran head-on into a truck, that was taking a group of Boy Scouts home from a picnic.

Tuart forest

Other attractions in the area include the National Trust heritage property Wonnerup House, walk tracks, possum spotlight trail, bird hide, historic lime pits and picnic areas.

Western Australian Athletics Stadium

A Lenny Kravitz concert scheduled for 28 March 2012 was cancelled and an "80's Dance Picnic Party" featuring Ali Campbell and Billy Ocean scheduled for 21 January 2012 relocated to the neighboring Challenge Stadium, which was also to be the first concert event at the stadium.

Yarramundi Reach

The park on the peninsula has a picnic area and toilets, and access is provided off the nearby Tuggeranong Parkway.


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