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Picardy Picardy (; Picard and french: Picardie, , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France. Hi ...
, a region of France * Picard language, a language of France * Jean-Luc Picard, a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' franchise


Places

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Picard, California Picard is a former settlement in Siskiyou County, California. It was at an elevation of 1300 m; all that remains is the cemetery. Famous people * Frank C. High, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is t ...
, USA *
Picard, Quebec Picard is an unorganized territory in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality. The territory consists of two non-contiguous areas. See also * West Branch Little Black River (Quebec–Maine) The ...
, Canada * Picard (crater), a lunar impact crater in Mare Crisium


People

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Picard (name) Picard is a surname meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France. People with the surname Picard * Alexandre R. Picard (1985–), French Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman * Alexandre Picard (ice hoc ...
, a French surname (includes a list of people with this name) *
Picards The Taborites ( cs, Táborité, cs, singular Táborita), known by their enemies as the Picards, were a faction within the Hussite movement in the medieval Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Although most of the Taborites were of rural origin, they ...
, a religious sect in the fifteenth century


Star Trek

*The family of Jean-Luc Picard, see List of Star Trek characters (N–S); **'' Star Trek: Picard'', a television series focusing on the character of Picard


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Picard (satellite) PICARD is a satellite dedicated to the simultaneous measurement of the absolute total and spectral solar irradiance, the diameter and solar shape, and to the Sun's interior probing by the helioseismology method. These measurements obtained thr ...
, an orbiting solar observatory built by CNES *
Picard (grape) Merlot is a dark blue–colored wine grape variety, that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. The name ''Merlot'' is thought to be a diminutive of ''merle'', the French name for the blackbird, probably a reference to the c ...
, an alternative name for several wine grape varieties *''
TSS Duke of Cumberland ''TSS Duke of Cumberland'' was a passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1909 to 1923. and also as ''Picard'' by Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace from 1927 to 1936. History She ...
'' or ''Picard'', a steamship that operated between Tilbury and Dunkirk from 1927 to 1936 *
Picard Surgelés Picard Surgelés is a French food company specializing in the manufacture and retail distribution of frozen products. It began as Les Glacières de Fontainebleau in 1906. Picard Surgelés has almost 900 retail stores in France. In 2014, French con ...
, French retailer of frozen foods


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Berger Picard The Berger Picard (, ) or Picardy Shepherd, is a French herding dog originating in Picardy. These dogs nearly became extinct after both World War I and World War II and remain a rare breed. Appearance The Berger Picard is a medium-sized ...
, French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds *
Les Fatals Picards Les Fatals Picards is a French rock/punk band, founded in 1996. The Fatals Picards (meaning "the fatal enfrom Picardy") are best known to general audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song " L'Am ...
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MusicBrainz Picard MusicBrainz Picard is a free and open-source software application for identifying, tagging, and organising digital audio recordings. It was developed by the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit company that also operates the MusicBrainz databa ...
, a cross platform tagger for MusicBrainz database *
Picard group In mathematics, the Picard group of a ringed space ''X'', denoted by Pic(''X''), is the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves (or line bundles) on ''X'', with the group operation being tensor product. This construction is a global ve ...
, a mathematical object describing the self-isomorphisms of a ringed space *
Picard horn A Picard horn, also called the Picard topology or Picard model, is one of the oldest known hyperbolic 3-manifolds, first described by Émile Picard in 1884. The manifold is the quotient of the upper half-plane model of hyperbolic 3-space by the pro ...
, a cone shaped formation that represents the 'shape' of the universe according to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe *
Piccard Piccard is a French surname, a variant form of Picard (name), Picard. Notable people with this name ;Members of the Swiss Piccard family: * Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), physicist, balloonist, hydronaut * Bertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychia ...
, surname *
Piccardo Piccardo is an Italian surname, a version of Picard, meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France. It is found primarily in Liguria. Piccardo family The Piccardo family is an ancient Italian family, from Ligur ...
, surname *
Pickard (disambiguation) Pickard is a surname, an Anglicised version of Picard, originally meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France. Notable people with the surname include: * Al Pickard (1895–1975), Canadian ice hockey admini ...
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