Hart-Davis's work in broadcasting began in 1977 when he joined Yorkshire Television ( YTV ) as a researcher, working on material for Magnus Pyke, David Bellamy, Miriam Stoppard as well as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.

The next governor, Isaac Pyke ( 1731 – 1738 ), had a tyrannical reputation but successfully extended tree plantations, improved fortifications and transformed the garrison and militia into a reliable force for the first time.

The first continuous round of the Munros was completed by Hamish Brown in 1974, whilst the current holder of the record for the fastest continuous round is Stephen Pyke who completed his 2010 round in just under 40 days.

There is a part for narrator on pre-recorded video which was played in the original production by Magnus Pyke and in the London production by the noted astronomer and TV personality Sir Patrick Moore.

Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier.

The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke who worked for Combined Operations.

Pyke conceived the idea of Habbakuk while in the US organising the production of M29 Weasels for Project Plough, a scheme to assemble an elite unit for winter operations in Norway, Romania, and the Italian Alps.

Pyke realized that the answer was ice, which could be manufactured for only 1 % of the energy needed to make an equivalent mass of steel.

Pyke was not the first to suggest a floating mid-ocean stopping point for aircraft, nor even the first to suggest that such a floating island could be made of ice: German scientist Dr. Gerke of Waldenberg proposed the idea and carried out some preliminary experiments in Lake Zurich in 1930.

Pyke was excluded from the planning for Habbakuk in an effort to secure American participation, a decision which Bernal supported.

It is said that, in an effort to cope with the problem of blood donation outstripping local storage for blood transfusion, Pyke suggested using the excess human blood to make black pudding.

Although Pyke was known for bringing science to a lay audience, in The Science Myth ( and similar writings, such as Slaves Unaware?

Pyke professes that there are alternative systems to that of the Western industrialized nations which could retain many of the benefits of science and technology, allow a reasonable standard of living, but still make room for the " good life ", many aspects of which were enjoyed by pre-industrial societies.

Musical guests who have appeared on Sunrise include Fergie, Paulini, the Young Divas, Pink, Sam Sparro, The Veronicas, The Wiggles, Hinder, Take That, Keith Urban, Joss Stone, Eskimo Joe, Sneaky Sound System, Thirsty Merc, Missy Higgins, Josh Groban, Girls Aloud, Human Nature, Grinspoon, Avril Lavigne, Patrizio Buanne, Small Mercies, Zac Efron, Tamara Dowhaluk, Mark Dawson, Wilhediva Slater, The Androids, Michael Bublé, Maroon 5, Crowded house, Silverchair, Paul Kelly, Colbie Caillat, Gym Class Heroes, Editors, Jose Gonzalez, Josh Pyke, Daddy Cool, Something for Kate, The Whitlams with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Cat Empire, Rogue Traders, Kelly Clarkson, The Last Goodnight, Ben Lee, Anthony Callea, Delta Goodrem, David Campbell, Kate Miller-Heidke, Tina Arena, Hi-5, Mika, Operator Please, Newton Faulkner, Kelly Rowland, Guy Sebastian, Simple Plan, Ian Moss, The Pussycat Dolls, Ozzy Osbourne, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Usher Raymond, Alexandra Burke, Amy Meredith, Ne-Yo, The Choirboys, Florence + the Machine, Michael Paynter, Katy Perry, Little Red, Cody Simpson, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Sophie-Ellis Bextor, Susan Boyle and Reece Mastin, Direction among many others.

The village was used for the fictional town of Pyke in the second season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones.

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

In the second match, Swans ruckman Mike Pyke had a Goal of the Year contender disallowed as replays showed it had hit the post.

* Jean Medawar and Pyke, David, 2000.

His record was broken by Stephen Pyke of Stone, Staffordshire, in 2010 who completed the round in 39 days, 9 hours.

Akkerman's " House of the King " ( from the Focus Plays Focus album ) was the title theme of Don't Ask Me, a science-based British TV show of the 1970s that made household names of Dr. Magnus Pyke and Professor David Bellamy.

Andrew Pepper's " The Last Days of Newgate " ( 2006 ) describes a fictitious Bow Street Runner, Pyke, who tries to prove his innocence in a murder trial.

* June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher ( d. 1884 )

Among the prominent British personalities he portrayed were Eddie Waring, the famously impossible to understand rugby league commentator ; Brian Clough, the controversial football manager ; Robin Day, the then top political interviewer on the BBC ; Magnus Pyke, the eccentric TV science presenter ; Alf Garnett, the star from Till Death Us Do Part ; the fictional American detective Columbo ; Frank Spencer, the comic creation of sitcom actor Michael Crawford ; and Wilson's Conservative Party rival Ted Heath.

Geoffrey Pyke managed to convince Lord Mountbatten of the worth of his project ( actually prior to the invention of pykrete ) some time around 1942, and trials were made in two locations in Alberta in Canada.

Pyke learned from a report by Herman Mark and his assistant that ice made from water mixed with wood fibres formed a strong solid mass — much stronger than pure water ice.

Geoffrey Pyke was an old friend of J. D.

Pyke worked at Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ), alongside Bernal, and was regarded as a genius by Mountbatten.

From New York, Pyke sent the proposal he had composed on Habbakuk via diplomatic bag to COHQ with a label forbidding anyone apart from Mountbatten from opening the package.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

The Borgia family originally came from the Kingdom of Valencia, and rose to prominence during the mid-15th century ; Cesare's great-uncle Alonso Borgia ( 1378 – 1458 ), bishop of Valencia, was elected Pope Callixtus III in 1455.

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

One such family, the Flavians, or gens Flavia, rose from relative obscurity to prominence in just four generations, acquiring wealth and status under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

This policy undermined senatorial power, as more reliable equestrian commanders rose to prominence.

Other niche programs such as The Lawrence Welk Show ( which targeted older audiences ) and Soul Train ( a black-oriented program ) also rose to prominence in syndication during the era.

The Vijayanagara Empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts by the southern powers to ward off Islamic invasions by the end of the 13th century.

He rose to prominence through his service in the First World War, receiving numerous honours and decorations, and continued his military career through various British campaigns across Europe and Asia.

" One such man, a warrior called Dingiswayo ( the Troubled One ) of the Mtetwa rose to prominence.

In the late 1940s, they quickly rose to national prominence, first with their popular nightclub act, next as stars of their own radio program.

He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence as a diplomat in France, when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Nehru quickly rose to prominence under the mentorship of Gandhi.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Notably, the Phalange, a Maronite militia, rose to prominence around this time, led by members of the Gemayel family.

After the Khitans left Mongolia the Shiwei Mongols rose to prominence, when from the 1130s there were reciprocally hostile relations between the successive khans of the Khamag Mongol confederation ( Khaidu, Khabul Khan and Ambaghai Khan ) and the emperors of the Jin dynasty.

While the republican government had been restored, Munich subsequently became a hotbed of extremist politics, among which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism rose to prominence.

The rich musical possibilities in the poetry of the late 16th and early 17th centuries provided an attractive basis for the madrigal, which quickly rose to prominence as the pre-eminent musical form in Italian musical culture, as discussed by Tim Carter:

The family rose to prominence in the late 1st century CE.

She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate ( 1969 – 1989 ).

Reconstructionism rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

The New Left in Japan began simultaneously with the British and American movements and rose to prominence in the country by occupying college campuses for several years in the 1960s.

In the first decades of the 19th century, three Oromo monarchies, Enarya, Goma and Guma, rose to prominence.

However, the rise of grasses in the Miocene ( about 20 Mya ) saw a major change: the even-toed ungulates with their more complex stomachs were better able to adapt to a coarse, low-nutrition diet, and soon rose to prominence.

After lumber baron William B. Cox purchased the team in 1943, the Phillies began a rapid rise to prominence in the National League, as the team rose out of the standings cellar for the first time in five years.

Commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star assignments in October 1998 by then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.