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    Plateau and Eights Coast is based upon Byrd's exploration. Because of its remoteness, even by Antarctic standards, most of Marie Byrd Land (the portion east...
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    Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer...
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  • The Byrds (/bɜːrdz/) were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its...
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    Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United...
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  • Petri Hawkins-Byrd (born Petri Adonis Byrd; November 29, 1957), also known as Bailiff Byrd or simply Byrd, is an American court show bailiff, television...
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    Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia...
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    2006, Byrd starred in Alexandre Aja's remake of The Hills Have Eyes, based on Wes Craven's original 1977 cult classic film. Also in 2006, Byrd starred...
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    dedicated as Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field in 1927 in honor of aviator Richard E. Byrd, brother of then Gov. Harry F. Byrd. Charles Lindbergh attended...
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    The Byrd machine, or Byrd Organization, was a political machine of the Democratic Party led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd (1887–1966)...
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    Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia...
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  • Byrd's (officially Byrd's Food Stores) was a supermarket chain based in Burlington, North Carolina. It was a family owned and operated company by the Byrd...
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  • expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at Little America I, led an expedition to explore further inland...
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    Mount Takahe (category Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land)
    Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It is a...
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    Marlon Jerrard Byrd (born August 30, 1977) is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia...
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  • Maninder Singh Kalyan, professionally known as Byg Byrd is an Indo-Canadian record producer and record executive. He is also associated with Punjabi music...
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    establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The operation was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr., USN, Officer in Charge, Task...
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  • Antarctica, the radio transmitter which Byrd and two colleagues, Puckett and Joyce, used to stay in touch with their base fails. After some time without rescue...
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    William Byrd II (March 28, 1674 – August 26, 1744) was an American planter, lawyer, surveyor and writer. Born in the English colony of Virginia, Byrd was...
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    Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music...
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    William Byrd (/bɜːrd/; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a...
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  • Wyoming. In 1946, Byrd met James Byrd at the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base while attempting to buy drinks. She married James Byrd, with whom she had...
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  • The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the fifth album by the American rock band the Byrds, and was released in January 1968, on Columbia Records. The album represents...
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    Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair or "Fess" for short, was an American singer and pianist...
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  • Easley Byrd and Edward Byrd, and grew up in Texas and Oklahoma. Byrd's cousin, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, named Antarctica's Harold Byrd Mountains...
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    Sarnoff Mountains (redirect from Mount Byrd)
    in 1934 on aerial flights of the ByrdAE. Named by the USAS (1939–41) for Adam Asman, a member of the USAS West Base party. 77°10′S 144°38′W / 77.167°S...
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    "Curley" Byrd (February 12, 1889 – October 2, 1970) was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician. Byrd began a long...
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    Marie Byrd area, along with the coast line of meridians between 72 degrees and 148 degrees West. The team succeeded in building both East Base and West...
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    Danny Byrd (born 4 May 1979) is an English DJ, record producer and musician from Bath in the South West of England. He is influenced by genres such as...
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  • Jodi Ann Byrd is an American Indigenous academic. They are an associate professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where they also hold...
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    With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) is a sound part-talkie documentary film about Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his 1st quest to the South Pole beginning...
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