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Picket (Fr. piquet, a pointed stake or peg, from piquer, 'to point or pierce'), is thought to have originated in the French Army around 1690, from the circumstance that an infantry company on outpost duty dispersed its musketeers to watch, with a small group of pikemen called piquet remaining in reserve. [2]
Born in 1969, Piket earned his international master title in 1986 and his grandmaster title in 1989. He won the Dutch Chess Championship in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994. He won the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting in 1994 and shared first at the Tilburg chess tournament with Boris Gelfand in 1996.
Besides high school, students can choose among 47 programmes of vocational and pre-professional high school (Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan or SMK), divided in the following fields: technology and engineering, health, arts, craft and tourism, information and communication technologies, agro-business and agro-technology, business management.
Roberta Piket (born 1965) is an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and arranger. [1] Life and career. Piket was born in Queens, New York, [2] in 1965. [1]
Reinforced Regional Task Force (Swedish: Förstärkt Regional Insatsstyrka), [1] prior to 2015 officially known as Piketen (or Piketenheten) [note 1] is a regional special operations asset of the Swedish Police Authority, similar to SWAT type units in the United States.