picket

soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance
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picket

Summary

picket ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (389 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • picket's image is recorded as Winslow Homer - The Army of the Potomac--A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty - Google Art Project.jpg[2].
  • picket's subclass of is recorded as military unit[3].
  • picket's Commons category is recorded as Pickets (military)[4].
  • picket's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02qx2_g[5].
  • picket's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • picket's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • picket's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • picket's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[9].
  • picket's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[10].
  • picket's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1797807[11].

Why It Matters

picket ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (389 views/month).[1] picket has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] picket is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). picket. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/picket
MLA “picket.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/picket.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_picket_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{picket}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/picket}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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