"Picnickers" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
People who go on a picnic.
The name "Pickwick" is derived from a pollard willow, specifically the willow tree associated with the Hatfield local landmark, "Dick Whittington's Cat's Pollard Willow". The name has a few different implications. Literary:<em> Most notably, it refers to Charles Dickens' novel "The Pickwick Papers", a series of episodic tales and novels centered around the Old Sowerby family, but ultimately, it follows the misadventures of Samuel Pickwick (a banker and the founder of The Pickwick Club) and his friends.Geographic:</em> Pickwick is also the name of a quay along the Grand Union Canal at Hemel Hempstead, England.<em> Additionally, the railway station "Hemel Hempstead", is located near to the aforementioned Pickwick Quay.Lastly, in physics:</em> The Pickwick threshold is a limit of aircraft charges to ability.
A measure of radioactivity. One picocurie (pCi) is the amount of radioactive material that decays at a rate of 2.22 nuclear transformations per second.