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Pickering, Ontario
Pickering, Ontario: a city of about 114,000 on the western edge of Durham Region, bordering Toronto and Lake Ontario, home to the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, historic hamlets, and a doubling population projected by 2031.
Picket 43
Picket 43 (പിക്കറ്റ് 43) is a 2015 Malayalam war drama by Major Ravi starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Javed Jaffrey as Indian and Pakistani soldiers who befriend each other at a remote Kashmir border post; a tribute to Major Mukund Varadarajan.
Picket Fences
Picket Fences is a 1992–1996 CBS drama series created by David E. Kelley, set in Rome, Wisconsin, starring Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker; it won 14 Emmys including Outstanding Drama Series in 1993 and 1994.
Picketing
Picketing, also called a picket line, is stationing protesters outside a workplace to publicize a labor dispute and discourage workers or customers from entering. Covers primary versus secondary picketing, US and UK legality, and the 2026 ICJ right-to-strike opinion.
Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge, also called Longstreet's Assault, was a failed Confederate infantry assault against the Union center on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
Pickfair
Pickfair was the Beverly Hills, California estate of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, a redesigned hunting lodge said to be the nation's second-most famous residence.
Pickit3D
Pickit3D, also known as Pickit, is a Belgian company founded in 2016 that sells plug-and-play 3D vision systems letting industrial robots detect and pick parts.
Pickle Rick
Pickle Rick is the third episode of Rick and Morty season 3 (August 6, 2017), written by Jessica Gao, in which Rick becomes a pickle to dodge family therapy; it won the show's first Emmy.
Pickleball
Pickleball, a paddle sport blending tennis, badminton, and table tennis, was invented in summer 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum; named for crew's "pickle boat," it grew to 24.3 million U.S. players by 2025.
Pickleball in the United States
Pickleball in the United States: paddle sport founded 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, by Pritchard, Bell, and McCallum; governed by USA Pickleball; 24.3 million players in 2025, the nation's fastest-growing sport.
Pickled cucumber
Pickled cucumbers, also known as pickles or pickled gherkins, are cucumbers preserved with vinegar or fermented in salt brine, first pickled in the Tigris Valley around 2030 BC.
Pickled egg
Pickled eggs are hard-cooked, peeled eggs preserved in vinegar brine with salt and spices, classified as acidified food (21 CFR 114). Safe only below pH 4.6; acid penetrates the yolk in 3–6 days; home versions require refrigeration.
Pickled herring
Pickled herring, or marinated herring (Swedish inlagd sill), is herring preserved in vinegar, salt, and sugar as a cold Northern European fish dish, a semipreserve kept at pH 4.5 or below, with variants such as Bismarck herring, rollmops, matjessill, and Hokkaido's rice-malt nishin zuke.
Pickling
Pickling is the preservation of food in vinegar or salt brine, producing sauerkraut, dill pickles, and torshi, one of the oldest preservation methods, dating to 2400 BC.
Pickling (metal)
Pickling is a metal surface treatment in which metal is immersed in acid, called pickle liquor, to remove oxide scale and rust; in steel production it prepares hot-rolled steel for cold rolling, galvanizing, or coating.
Pickman's Model
"Pickman's Model" (1926) is H. P. Lovecraft's short story of Boston painter Richard Upton Pickman, first printed in Weird Tales, October 1927; narrator Thurber's climax reveals the artist painted ghouls from life.
Pickme girl
Pickme girl (pick-me girl, pick-me) is derogatory internet slang for a woman seen as seeking male approval by putting down or distancing herself from other women; spread via #TweetLikeaPickMe on Black Twitter in 2016, viral on TikTok in the early 2020s, coordinate term pick-me boy.
Pickup (music technology)
A pickup, also known as a guitar pickup, is a transducer on a stringed instrument, most commonly the electric guitar, that converts string vibrations into an electrical signal sent to an amplifier.
Pickup artist
Pickup artists (PUAs) are self-styled seduction experts in a commercial online community selling techniques like negging and kino; tied to the manosphere, popularized by Mystery and Neil Strauss's 2005 The Game, and criticized as manipulative and misogynistic.
Pickup ions
Pickup ions are ions created when neutral atoms drifting into the heliosphere are ionized and picked up by the solar wind, seeding anomalous cosmic rays.
Pickup on South Street
Pickup on South Street (Le port de la drogue in France) is a 1953 Samuel Fuller film noir for Twentieth Century-Fox starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter, about a pickpocket who steals Communist spy microfilm; Ritter was Oscar-nominated and the film joined the National Film Registry in 2018.
Pickup truck
A pickup truck, or pickup, is a light-duty truck with an enclosed passenger cab and an open cargo bed at the rear, first sold factory-built by Ford in 1925.
Piclidenoson
Piclidenoson (CF101, IB-MECA) is Can-Fite BioPharma's oral A3 adenosine receptor agonist, molecular weight 510.29 Da, half-life about 9 hours, in Phase III development for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis and Phase 2 programs for Lowe syndrome and canine osteoarthritis.
Picloram
Picloram, sold under trade names including Tordon and Grazon, is a persistent systemic herbicide of the picolinic acid family that acts as a synthetic auxin to control broadleaf and woody plants.
Picnic
Picnic (French pique-nique): an outdoor excursion meal. Originated as an indoor French shared-cost meal, first printed 1649, English 1748; moved outdoors in the 19th century.
Picnic (1955 film)
Picnic (1955) is a Joshua Logan drama-romance starring William Holden and Kim Novak, adapted from William Inge's Pulitzer Prize play about a drifter disrupting a Kansas town on Labor Day; six Oscar nominations, two wins.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Peter Weir's Australian New Wave mystery adapted from Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel, follows schoolgirls who vanish at Hanging Rock on Valentine's Day 1900, a mystery the film never solves.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay's 1967 Australian Gothic novel (F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne), depicts the unsolved St Valentine's Day 1900 disappearance of three schoolgirls and a teacher; its omitted final chapter appeared in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV series)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018 Foxtel/FremantleMedia miniseries, also on Amazon Prime US and BBC UK): six-part Natalie Dormer adaptation of Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel about schoolgirls vanishing at Hanging Rock on Valentine's Day 1900, reframed through Mrs Appleyard.
Pico
Pico (Montanha do Pico) is a basaltic stratovolcano on Pico Island, Azores, Portugal's highest point at 2,351 m; last erupted 1720, with historical eruptions in 1562–64 and 1718.