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* Atlas, Illinois, an unincorporated community in western Pike County, Illinois, USA
In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.
* Pike County Ballads and Other Poems ( 1871 )
* Kinderhook, Illinois, a village in Pike County
* Kinderhook Township, Pike County, Illinois
* Montezuma Township, Pike County, Illinois
The last fully authenticated record of a wild bird was near Sargents, Pike County, Ohio, on March 22, 1900, when the bird was killed by a boy with a BB gun.
* Pike County ( disambiguation )
* Sunfish Township, Pike County, Ohio
* Pike County ( northeast )
Adams County was formed in 1825 out of Pike County.
Other area towns are Pike Road to the southeast, Millbrook to the north ( Elmore County ), and Wetumpka to the northeast ( Elmore County ).
* Pike County ( south )
* Pike County ( northeast )
* Pike County ( southeast )
Homer Earl Capehart ( June 6, 1897 – September 3, 1979 ), American business innovator and politician, was born in Algiers, Indiana, in Pike County.
Category: People from Pike County, Indiana
Category: Geography of Pike County, Illinois
These include Pike County, Illinois and Pike County, Missouri, Vermilion County, Illinois and Vermillion County, Indiana, Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana ; Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island ; Kent County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware ; and Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana.

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The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.
To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.
If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.
It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.
After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.
Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy.
Albert Pike ( December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891 ) was an attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason.
Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Pike died in Washington, D. C., aged 81, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery ( against his wishes — he had left instructions for his body to be cremated ).
When the Mexican-American War started, Pike joined the cavalry and was commissioned as a troop commander, serving in the Battle of Buena Vista.
At the beginning of the war, Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to the Native Americans.
Pike was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 22, 1861, and given a command in the Indian Territory.

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Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.
* 1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains ( it is later named Pikes Peak ).
* November 15 – Pike expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains ( later named Pikes Peak in his honor ).
Note that in the era of the film's release, there was a man named Bishop Pike, an Episcopal bishop who very publicly opposed the Vietnam War and was featured in mass media as such.
Pike County was named for General Zebulon Pike.
Wheaton developed from Leesborough ( named in 1826 ), a business district which popped near the junction of three major roads: The first is Brookeville Pike ( also known as the " Washington-Brookeville Pike " and later as the " Union Turnpike ", now MD Route 97, Georgia Ave ) a north / south toll thoroughfare running from Washington, DC to Brookeville, Maryland and eventually to Baltimore, Maryland.
Its county seat is Waverly and is named for explorer Zebulon Pike.
Pike County was organized on February 1, 1815, from portions of Scioto, Ross, and Adams Counties, and was named in honor of Zebulon Pike, the explorer and soldier who had recently been killed in the War of 1812.
First released as a public beta under the name Pike in March 2000 , the software came to be released in synch with Manila version numbering: the initial release of 2001 was named Radio UserLand 7. 0  and its only major upgrade in 2002 Radio UserLand 8. 0 . The software is no longer considered to be under active development .
The county was organized December 4, 1818, and named for explorer Zebulon M. Pike.
Pike County is named for explorer Zebulon Pike.
The county was named for General Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pikes Peak.
It was formed from Gibson and Perry counties, and was named for Zebulon Pike, famous for his Pike Expedition of 1806-1807, exploring the southwest portion of the Louisiana Purchase.
Pike County is Arkansas's 25th county, formed on November 1, 1833, and named for Lieutenant Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pikes Peak.

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