However Pike's season was heavily disrupted by injury and he was unable to add more than a handful of games to his career tally before announcing his retirement on 2 August 2005 with four matches remaining in the regular season.

* AFL article on Pike's preparation for 2005 season

Pike's system, which is part of a larger goal of scientific description of phonetics, is particularly interesting in its challenge against the descriptive method of the phoneticians who created alphabetic systems like the IPA.

Although initially victorious at the Battle of Pea Ridge ( Elkhorn Tavern ) in March, Pike's unit was defeated later in a counterattack, after falling into disarray.

The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.

The Pike's Peak Gold Rush ( later known as the Colorado Gold Rush ) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

The rush was exemplified by the slogan " Pike's Peak or Bust!

On the north side of Denver it is joined somewhat inconspicuously by Clear Creek, which descends from the mountains to the west in a canyon that was the cradle of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.

Pike's innovation was to turn away from an epistemological debate, and turn instead to a methodological solution.

Pike's men cross the Rio Grande and take refuge that night in a village where Angel was born, and where the Mexican Revolution has taken its toll.

Dave Stern's 2010 original series novel The Children of Kings was set aboard Pike's Enterprise.

Less than fifty years later, Pike's island 72 was selected by Captain Orrin Smith as a townsite on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Pike's Land was the first name given to a grant of by William Penn to Joseph Pike from County Cork, Ireland, in 1705.

It was eventually sold by Pike's descendants and in 1838 was split in two parts, East Pikeland and West Pikeland.

Unlike Pike's expedition, which was commissioned by the United States Army, the Smith party was a private commercial venture.

A theatre district had formed in the area by 1869, and soon West 23rd Street was the center of American theater, led by Pike's Opera House ( 1868, demolished 1960 ), on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue.

Matt Pike's birthday was celebrated on stage at the conclusion of the set, with cake.

After Pike's first expedition, Pike was almost immediately ordered by Wilkinson to mount a second expedition in 1806 to explore and map the Red River, evaluate natural resources, and establish friendly relations with Native Americans.

Pike was killed by flying rocks and other debris when the withdrawing British garrison blew up its ammunition magazine while Pike's troops approached Fort York.

Pike's group ascended a lesser summit nearby — likely Mount Miller, which was named for Theodore Miller, one of the soldiers who accompanied Pike.

Along the way, Pike's party was treated with respect and celebrated by the Mexican locals, and Pike made careful notes of the military strength and civilian population.

The Pike's official mascot was a giant Pike named " Tackle.

Bassist Dave Manzullo replaced Pike shortly thereafter due to Pike's health concerns, but was fired due to his erratic behavior.

More commonly called simply the " Manitou Incline ," the Mount Manitou Scenic Incline Railway -- actually a funicular up the side of a peak called Rocky Mountain located adjacent to Mount Manitou -- was operated by the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway until the Incline was closed by a rockslide in 1990.

Pike's book not only played a role in the ending of Reconstruction but was much used by historians well into the twentieth century.

In the same year, he joined Zebulon Pike's expedition which explored the upper Mississippi.

Upon his return to Washington, D. C. to report his findings, Nicollet was appointed to head the newly-formed Corps of Topographical Engineers and lead a War Department-funded expedition to map the area between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in order to correct the western maps affected by Pike's mistake.

Albert Pike's enjoyed the most popularity ; the Natchez ( Mississippi ) Courier published it on 30 May 1861 as " The War Song of Dixie ", followed by Werlein, who again credited Viereck for composition.

The eastern slopes are protected as part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the Pike's geological and biological features, which include some of England's best arctic-alpine and tall-herb vegetation.

The Unix world had the Andrew Project ( 1982 ) and Rob Pike's Blit terminal ( 1982 ).

The territory was organized in the wake of the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which had brought the first large concentration of white settlement to the region.

In his allocution of 1947, Pike's successor, Grand Commander John Henry Cowles, noted that some Masonic publications had used large extracts from the text, which practice he sought to curtail by adding the following words to the title page: ' Esoteric Book, for Scottish Rite use only ; to be Returned upon Withdrawal or Death of Recipient ' ( Transactions of the Supreme Council, 33 °, S. J.

More recently, high-quality crystals have been obtained from Pike's Peak, Colorado, where it is found associated with smoky quartz, orthoclase, and albite in a coarse granite or pegmatite.

The father is Robie Uniacke, a businessman 16 years Pike's senior, whom she has been dating since December 2009.

However, it no longer completes the journey to the top of Pike's Peak due to the fact that many of the water tanks along the line have been removed.

Even greater heights have been attributed to the species referenced in popular accounts such as Robert Pike's " Tall Trees, Tough Men ", but the accounts are unverifiable.

The U. S. Army Pike's Peak Research Laboratory has exposed sea-level-resident volunteers rapidly and directly to high altitude ; during 30 years of research involving about 300 volunteers ( and over 100 staff members ), only three have been evacuated with suspected HAPE.

Very angry at Woodruff, the governor used his personal influence to have the printing contract withdrawn from The Gazette and awarded to the lowest bidder, which, by a strange coincidence, happened to be Pike's Advocate.

South Park, directly west of Pike's Peak, is one of the highest basins ( nearly 10, 000 ft or 3, 000 m ), and gains its name from the scattered, park-like growth of large pine trees.

The Spanish authorities confiscated Pike's journals and they were not recovered by the United States from Mexico until the 1900s.

" It has yet to appear in more commonplace operating systems, although it strongly inspired Rob Pike's Acme system under Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

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In the late 19th century, the western part of 23rd Street was to American theater what Broadway is today, with the Opera House Palace and Pike's Opera House one block away and Proctor's Theater (" continuous daily vaudeville ") across the street from the Hotel Chelsea.

Pike's sister died to save her when the Betaverse broke through, her father died shortly thereafter from complications from the attack, and Pike's mother committed suicide shortly thereafter after losing her sanity, leaving Pike with a burning vengeance that dwells deep within her soul ( something only few people know about ).