Picus
Americannoun
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City Councilwoman Joy Picus, says she had little interest in antiques until she met Bauer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
“One morning before a meeting, Gloria was speaking to a journalist and asked me, ‘Joy, what’s the Spanish word for ‘bridge’?” Picus said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
Unable to stop the man, Wilcox said he ran to the Joy Picus Child Development Center, a childcare center housed in a city facility named after the former San Fernando Valley councilwoman.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022
Flores served three terms before losing to paint-store owner Rudy Svorinich Jr. amid an anti-incumbent election season that also pushed out Councilwoman Joy Picus, who represented the west San Fernando Valley.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2021
The inference is that the humming-bird whose name enters into that of Huitzilopochtli, and whose feathers were worn on his heel, had been the totem of an Aztec kindred before Huitzilopochtli, like Picus, was anthropomorphised.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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