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8 unusual facts about pike


Calixa Lavallée

He conducted major orchestral and operatic productions in important concert halls such as the Montréal Academy of Music in Montréal and directed at the Grand Opera House in New York.

Edward M. McCook

He joined the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1859 and represented the Pikes Peak region in the Kansas Territorial House of Representatives.

Oliverian Brook

The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village.

Pike, New Hampshire

The Pike telephone exchange covers the southern half of the town of Haverhill, including Haverhill village, and extends east to include the village of Glencliff in the town of Warren.

Pike's Opera House

The new management lowered the price of admission and catered to the popular tastes of New York's "west side": "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (in blackface) and Buffalo Bill were among the first season's attractions; theatrical productions were accompanied by "specialty acts".

Fisk extended the repertory to include more operettaOffenbach's La Périchole had already received its American premiere there, 4 January 1869— and plays, like Sardou's La Patrie, expressly translated for the theater.

Pike's Peak Gold Rush

The first decade of the boom was largely concentrated along the South Platte River at the base of the mountains, the canyon of Clear Creek in the mountains west of Golden City, at Breckenridge and in South Park at Como, Fairplay, and Alma.

The Red Hussar

The show also had a New York run, opening on 3 August 1890 at Palmer's Theatre until 11 October, with Tempest making her American debut, and then moving to the Grand Opera House.


2009 Cincinnati Bearcats football team

Isaiah Pead 9-76, Jacob Rogers 1-3, Jacob Ramsey 2-2, Zach Collaros 1-0, Tony Pike 4-(-11)

A. T. Hill

The site of the Pike flag incident was thought to be the Pawnee Indian Village Site near Republic, Kansas.

Albert Pike

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah (Andrews) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Andalusia, Pennsylvania

The Red Lion Inn was located here, at the Red Lion Bridge, along King's Highway (Bristol Pike), at the Poquessing Creek.

Anton Chaitkin

During the 1990s, Chaitkin helped to lead a campaign that called for the removal of the statue of Albert Pike from federal property in Judiciary Square, located in Washington, D.C. Chaitkin charged that Pike, a leader of the Scottish rite of Freemasonry and author of Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, was an important founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

Augustus Octavius Bacon

Although most of these efforts failed, in 1908 Bacon succeeded in having Brightwood Avenue (or Brookeville Pike) renamed Georgia Avenue.

Australian barracuda

The Australian barracuda, arrow barracuda, Australian sea pike, sea pike, snook, or shortfin barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae, is a barracuda of the genus Sphyraena, found between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in semiprotected areas.

Barrie Rickards

Barrie Rickards was one of the best-known and most successful pike anglers in Britain.

Browns Corner, West Virginia

It lies at the crossroads of Leetown Pike and Wiltshire Road between Leetown and Charles Town.

Bryan Station, Lexington, Kentucky

The neighborhood's boundaries are New Circle Road to the West, Old Paris Pike to the North, and Preakness Drive and Interstate 75 to the East.

Burtonsville, Maryland

The community itself grew around the intersection of Old Columbia Pike and the road to Sandy Spring.

Donald Pike

Pike dropped out of school and left home at age 14 to live in a boarding house while continuing to work as a farm laborer, then as a stock boy in a department store and, at one point, as a Western Union messenger boy.

Faith Brown

In 2008, she starred as the main character, The Voice (previously taking over Eve Karpf), alongside Simon Greenall and Olly Pike, in the CBBC show Trapped! (from 2010 Trapped: Ever After!).

Folck's Mill

It is historically significant for its association with the August 1, 1864, Civil War "Battle of Folck's Mill." In that battle, Union troops commanded by General Benjamin F. Kelley engaged General John McCausland’s Confederate forces as they advanced along the Baltimore Pike towards Cumberland after having burned the town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, two days previously.

Giant snakehead

In 2008, a specimen of C. micropeltes was reportedly caught by an angler while fishing for pike on the River Witham in Lincolnshire, England.

Henry Burling

He was born in Stratford, Essex, England on 1 May 1801 to Thomas Burling, a soap maker, and Joanna Pike.

Herbert Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton

Lost his eldest son Ronald Herbert Pike Pease on 15 September 1916 at the Somme in France, killed in action.

John Doby Kennedy

However, he fell painfully wounded in the first charge, struck in the instep and Achilles tendon while crossing a wooden fence along the Hagerstown Pike.

John Shastid House

A few of Pike County's other sites include the address restricted Naples Mound 8 and New Philadelphia Town Site as well as the Massie Variety Store in New Canton and the Lyman Scott House in Summer Hill.

Kentucky Route 1072

KY 1072 begins at an intersection with Megellan Road/Howe Road near a Fidelity office building near Fort Wright, heading northwest on two-lane undivided Highland Pike.

Liz Pike

The Cowlitz and Clark county commissioners had selected Pike, despite Vick being the first choice of the district's Precinct Committee Officers.

Liz Pike was born on January 7, 1960, and raised on a Brush Prairie, Washington dairy farm as one of 13 children.

Llandegfedd Reservoir

The reservoir supports several varieties of fish – rainbow trout, bream, roach, pike and perch.

Maryland Route 67

MD 67 begins at a trumpet interchange with US 340 (Jefferson Pike) in Weverton within the Potomac Water Gap near Harpers Ferry.

Massacre at Huế

Many later authors relied on Pike's account, e.g., Stanley Karnow in Vietnam, A History and Michael Maclear in The Ten Thousand Day War.

Muskellunge

The muskellunge is known by a wide variety of trivial names including Ohio muskellunge, Great Lakes muskellunge, barred muskellunge, Ohio River pike, Allegheny River pike, jack pike, unspotted muskellunge and the Wisconsin muskellunge.

Muskrat Lake

Obviously though this has the opposite reaction on fishing enthusiast who come year round to catch pike, walleye, pickerel, and lake trout.

Narberth, Pennsylvania

Along with the eponymous Bryn Mawr and Paoli Memorial hospitals, Lankenau Hospital, on Lancaster Pike (Route 30) in Wynnewood near the Overbrook border, has traditionally been affiliated with either Jefferson or Hahnemann (now Drexel) colleges of medicine and is always (with Bryn Mawr and Paoli) on the list of the nation's top community hospitals.

Natalie Pike

Pike released a single in 2006 with the other FHM High Street Honeys called I Touch Myself which reached no.1 in the box charts.

North Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania

The main route through the township and village is U.S. Route 40, also known as the National Road or "National Pike".

Northern pike

Young pike have been found dead from choking on a pike of a similar size, an observation referred to by the renowned English poet Ted Hughes in his famous poem 'Pike'.

Pennsylvania Route 72

In Manheim Township, PA 72 turns towards the northwest as Manheim Pike and leaves Fruitville Pike.

Pike Committee

The Pike Committee is the common name for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the period when it was chaired by Democratic Representative Otis G. Pike of New York.

Princeton Battlefield

The park is maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, and is located on Mercer Road (Princeton Pike), about 1.5 miles south of Princeton University and 3.8 miles north of Interstate 295/95.

Private Frank Pike

He lives in the shadow of his bossy and over-protective mother, Mavis Pike, who is in a relationship with Sergeant Arthur Wilson, referred to by Pike as "Uncle Arthur", who is hinted to be Pike's father.

Rakkestad

The river meanders its way along, mainly through farmland, providing excellent river fishing for pike, roach, and perch.

Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel

Pike and Walker listen to Hi Gang! which was a popular radio show during wartime, involving a line-up which included Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law.

Ryan Colucci

Along with Mike the Pike Productions, he is also attached to produce George R.R. Martin's The Skin Trade, the World Fantasy Award-Winning horror novella from the Dark Visions compilation book.

SEPTA Route 104

Route 104 initially was a streetcar line which operated parallel to the West Chester Pike (PA Route 3) and was operated by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (aka "Red Arrow Lines").

Smoky Hill River

With the onset of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858, an ancient Native American trail along the Smoky Hill River provided the shortest, fastest route west across Kansas, becoming known as the Smoky Hill Trail.

SPOJ

The solution to problems can be submitted in over 40 languages including C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, and F#, Ruby, Icon, Intercal, Pike.

Tennessee State Route 317

State Route 317 is also known as Bonny Oaks Drive, Old Lee Highway, Apison Pike, Wesleyan Road, and Weatherley Switch Road SE; it dead ends into State Route 60 in Bradley County.

Tennessee State Route 71

At this time, South Knox Blvd. ends at Sevierville Pike, although there are current plans to extend the road to meet U.S. Highway 441 (Chapman Highway) or Tennessee SR-168 (Governor John Sevier Highway).

U.S. Route 219 in Maryland

The federal highway intersects US 40 Alternate (National Pike) in the hamlet of High Point before crossing the Pennsylvania state line, where US 219 continues north toward Meyersdale.

Virginia State Route 127

Bloomery Pike continues west as WV 127, which passes through the historic community of Bloomery on its way to a junction with WV 29 at Forks of Cacapon.

WSWO-LP

The studios and transmitter are at Huber Towne Center located at the intersection of Brandt Pike (aka SR 201) and Chambersburg Rd.


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