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  • 21Picket Lake, Minnesota — Picket Lake is an unorganized territory located in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was zero. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the unorganized territory has a total area of… …

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  • 22Picket and Clanger Wood — (gbmapping|ST975543) is a 66.4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1989.ource* [http://www.english nature.org.uk/citation/citation photo/1001598.pdf English Nature citation sheet for the site]… …

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  • 23Picket — (Feldmeßk.), so v.w. Kettennägel …

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  • 24Picket Fences — es una serie de televisión norteamericana transmitida desde 1992 hasta 1996 en la cadena CBS. Creado por David E. Kelley, el programa fue protagonizado por Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Holly Marie Combs, Justin Shenkarow, Adam Wylie,… …

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  • 25picket fence — picket .fence n AmE a fence made up of a line of strong pointed sticks that are fixed in the ground …

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  • 26picket — (n.) 1680s, pointed stake (for defense against cavalry, etc.), from Fr. piquet, from piquer to pierce (see PIKE (Cf. pike) (n.2)). Sense of troops posted to watch for enemy first recorded 1761; that of striking workers stationed to prevent others …

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  • 27picket — The verb has inflected forms picketed, picketing …

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  • 28picket fence — ☆ picket fence n. a fence made of upright pales or stakes …

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  • 29picket line — n. a line or cordon of people serving as pickets …

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  • 30Picket Fences — This article is about the television series. For the fence variety, see Picket fence. For the radio/telephony term, see Picket fencing. Picket Fences Format Drama Created by David E. Kelley …

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