pyke in A Sentence

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    Outside Eastwatch Cotter Pyke's men discovered four blue-eyed corpses.

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    Ser Jaime Lannister, fabled hero of the Siege of Pyke.

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    How drunk were you when you charged through the breach on Pyke?

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    Alright. How drunk were you when you charged through the breach on Pyke?

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    A scientist named Geoffrey Pyke was the king of alternative ideas(as you will see in the Bonus Facts below).

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    One idea of Pyke's that did pan out was his idea on how to escape from a German prison camp.

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    Besides the ship's size, what was so different about Pyke's vessel was that it would be built of ice.

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    Yet another idea of Pyke's was to use pykrete to quickly construct buildings and protective barriers in a mobile war.

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    Pyke was able to sell Winston Churchill on his plan in 1942, including Churchill stating it should be given the highest priority.

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    Beside an Ice ship, Pyke once suggested using thousands of balloons with microphones and transmitters attached as a way of triangulating enemy positions.

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    Another of Pyke's genius ideas, this time after the war, was to get around the energy crisis by having trains not be propelled by conventional fuels, but by human power.

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    So he built a far grander, more opulent hotel that was open to Indians- the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, which today is considered one of the finest hotels in the world, whereas Pyke's has long since closed.

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    Pyke felt this was fine because while certain foods were in short supply, sugar was plentiful and a pound of sugar, converted to energy via the human digestive system, would produce more energy than from burning a pound of coal or oil, which there was a shortage of.

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    Another idea of Pyke's, this one to solve the problem of transporting equipment from ships to shore in the many places where a harbor wasn't available, was to create massive pipe systems from the ships that would be extended to shore and beyond as the soldiers advanced… literal supply lines.

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    Despite only a few of his ideas having some merit to them, with most being amazingly impractical, Pyke was kept around for a time simply because the Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten, felt that Pyke's steady stream of outlandish ideas was good for the other members of his staff to hear, to try to get them to think a bit more out of the box.

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