• The Flying Pickets is a British a cappella vocal group which had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 on the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of...
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  • This is the discography of the British a cappella vocal group the Flying Pickets. The group had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart...
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  • cappella group The Flying Pickets from their album The Original Flying Pickets: Volume 1. Notable jazz musician Frank Bennett covered the song by fusing elements...
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  • 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike (category 1972 in the United Kingdom)
    faced aggressive intimidation on the way to work. The strike was characterised by the miners sending flying pickets to other industrial sites to persuade...
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    1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike (category CS1: long volume value)
    between flying pickets and police characterised the year-long strike, which ended in a decisive victory for the Conservative government and allowed the closure...
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  • USOS Seaview (redirect from Flying Sub)
    -long flying submersible, aptly called the "Flying Sub" or "FS-1", implying that there were several more back at the base, which would have to be the case...
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    Doolittle Raid (category Airstrikes conducted by the United States)
    low-level and night flying, low-altitude bombing, and over-water navigation, operating primarily out of Eglin Auxiliary Field #1, a more secluded site...
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    Paul Williams (songwriter) (category Best Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters)
    performed the theme to the McLean Stevenson sitcom The McLean Stevenson Show in 1976. Williams composed, and sang "Flying Dreams" for the animated film The Secret...
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    United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude...
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  • Amelia (film) (category Template film date with 1 release date)
    circumnavigate the globe. Moving in vignettes from her early years when Earhart was captivated by an aircraft flying overhead on the Kansas prairie where...
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  • American Airlines (category 1934 establishments in the United States)
    Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2018. "American Air signs deal to contract out some flying to SkyWest". The Associated...
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    Raoul Lufbery (category American World War I flying aces)
    and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army Air Service...
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    "Easy Star's Thrillah 2012". Discogs. Retrieved 23 September 2013. "Flying Pickets - The Warning". Discogs. "Chill N' Michael (Tribute To Michael Jackson)"...
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  • Commission Welcome". Archived from the original on 10 December 2003. Retrieved 10 December 2003. Country Life, Volume 192, Issues 50–53 (1998), p. 56 Ebert...
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    referred to as the Super Connie. The L-1049 was Lockheed's response to the successful Douglas DC-6 airliner, first flying in 1950. The aircraft was produced...
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    Shigeru Fukudome, was flying in an accompanying plane and carrying the Z Plan documents, and also crashed. Fukudome survived, but the Z Plan briefcase did...
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    Richard Stephen Ritchie (category Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States))
    flying in Southeast Asia. At 09:42, forewarned 19 minutes earlier by the EC-121 "Disco" over Laos and then by "Red Crown", the US Navy radar picket ship...
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    [1969]: San Francisco gay-rads picket San Francisco Examiner over "queers and fairies" story. Purple ink dumped on pickets who ink handprints on building...
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    Battle of Dranesville (category Battles of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War)
    cavalry pickets, which were quickly driven off by the Union force. Ord then began to lead his command west, down the Leesburg Pike. At around 1 p.m. Stuart...
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    Ninfa's (redirect from The Original Ninfa's)
    Ninfa's. Travolta had a private corner at the Westheimer Ninfa's location while he filmed Urban Cowboy, and while flying in his private aircraft he often stopped...
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    Chinese forces in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The first American Volunteer Group (the "Flying Tigers") began operations as part of the Republic of China...
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  • leader in Yorkshire where the largest group of miners were concentrated, whose use of mobile flying pickets had secured the union's victory. They credited...
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    The over-the-rails workforce did not join them. Local public opinion at first favored the strikers. After episodes of violence by striking pickets, the...
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  • Masters of War (category The Flying Pickets songs)
    Issue 20, February 1963 Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades, p. 739 The Bootleg Series Volume 9—The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964. bobdylan.com. October 17...
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    their employer. Activists may form "flying squad" groups for strikes or other actions, a form of picketing, to disrupt the workplace or another aspect of capitalist...
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    Charles B. DeBellevue (category Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States))
    flying in Southeast Asia. At 0942, forewarned 19 minutes earlier by the EC-121 "Disco" over Laos and then by "Red Crown", the U.S. Navy radar picket ship...
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    reconnaissance, using four-engine H8K "Emily" flying boats to scout Pearl Harbor prior to the battle and detect whether the American carriers were present, part...
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    was sent on 1 May, in the belief that the British invasion was imminent or landings had already taken place. Only a section of Grupo 6 (flying IAI Dagger...
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  • were deployed to the border areas, replacing the pickets routinely held by the paramilitary Border Security Force. The border pickets were held in at least...
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    Alicia Previn (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    as General Public, The Communards, Barry Blue/Julian Littman Productions, and The Flying Pickets. She also leads her own band in the UK and released "Shatterproof"...
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