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Byrd Group
Byrd commonly refers to: * William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance * Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer Byrd or Byrds may also refer to: Other people *Byrd (surname), including a list of people with the name *Byrd Baylor (1924–2021), American children's writer * Byrd Billings (died 2009), American murder victim *Byrd Brown (1929–2001), American lawyer and Civil Rights activist * Byrd D. Crudup (1897–1960), American football and basketball coach *Byrd Spilman Dewey (1856–1942), American author and land investor *Byrd Dickens (born 1971), Canadian former actor * Byrd Douglas (1894–1965), American college baseball and football coach and judge * Byrd Gibbens (born 1936), American historian and professor * Byrd Hill (1800–1872), American slave trader *Byrd Leavell, American literary agent * Byrd Lockhart (1782–1839), American surveyor, Alamo defender, courier, and Texian officer * Byrd Lynn (1889–1940), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd (surname)
Byrd is a surname of English and Irish origin, a variant of the surname Bird. Notable people with the surname * A. Dean Byrd (1948–2012), American psychologist * Adam M. Byrd (1859–1912), American politician * Adrianne Byrd (1970–2020), American romance novelist * Albert Byrd (1915–1990), American cyclist * Alma W. Byrd (1924–2017), American politician * Alton Byrd (born 1957), American-British basketball player, sports broadcaster and sports executive * Andrew Byrd (born 1982), American politician * Bill Byrd (1907–1991), American baseball player * Billy Byrd (1920–2001), American country guitarist * Bobby Byrd (1934–2007), American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician * Boris Byrd (born 1962), American football player * Brandon R. Byrd, American historian * Bretton Byrd (1904–1959), British composer and musician * Brigitte Byrd (born 1959), French-American poet *Butch Byrd (born 1941), AFL Hall of Fame * Charles Byrd (fighter) (born 1983), American mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd Whigham
Robert Byrd Whigham (June 13, 1933 – October 22, 2017) was an American minor league baseball player and college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Troy State University—now known as Troy University Troy University is a public university in Troy, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1887 as Troy State Normal School within the Alabama State University System, and is now the flagship university of the Troy University System. It was one ...—from 1974 to 1975. Head coaching record College References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Whigham, Byrd 1933 births 2017 deaths American men's basketball players Baseball pitchers Guards (basketball) Auburn Tigers baseball players Auburn Tigers football coaches Auburn Tigers men's basketball players Georgia Bulldogs football coaches Graceville Oilers players Troy Trojans football coaches High school football coaches in Florida People from Louisville, Alabama Baseball players from A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd Polar And Climate Research Center
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) is a polar, alpine, and climate research center at Ohio State University founded in 1960. History and research The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) at Ohio State University was established in 1960 as the Institute for Polar Studies. BPRC is the oldest research center at Ohio State University. The name was changed to the Byrd Polar Research Center in 1987 after the polar explorer and aviator Richard E. Byrd when Ohio State purchased the Byrd papers from the Byrd family in 1985. BPRC conducts interdisciplinary research at the nexus of Earth Sciences and Engineering. BPRC is known for its ice core paleoclimatology research collecting ice core records from Earth's highest and most remote ice fields and modeling polar climate variability. Studies at BPRC include paleoclimatology, remote sensing, polar meteorology, glacier dynamics, satellite hydrology, paleoceanography, geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and climate change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reconciliation (United States Congress)
Budget reconciliation is a special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress set up to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate. The procedure overrides the Senate's filibuster rules, which may otherwise require a 60-vote supermajority for passage. Bills described as reconciliation bills can pass the Senate by a simple majority of 51 votes or 50 votes plus the vice president's as the tie-breaker. The reconciliation procedure also applies to the House of Representatives, but it has minor significance there, as the rules of the House of Representatives do not have a '' de facto'' supermajority requirement. Because of greater polarization, gridlock, and filibustering in the Senate in recent years, budget reconciliation has come to play an important role in how the United States Congress legislates. Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyderco
Spyderco is an American cutlery company based in Golden, Colorado, producing knives and knife sharpeners. Spyderco pioneered many features that are now common in folding knives, including the pocket clip, serrations, and the opening hole. Spyderco has collaborated with 30 custom knife makers, athletes, and self-defense instructors for designs and innovated the usage of 20 different blade materials. History Spyderco was founded by Sal Glesser. The name Spyderco was coined after Glesser noticed that many high-performance sports cars had 'Spyder' in the name, which inspired the name Spyderco to signify high performance cutting tools. The first product Spyderco produced was the Portable Hand in 1976, this "spider-shaped device", was a series of angles, ball joints and alligator clips that helped people such as jewelers and hobbyists to work with small parts. Spyderco's founder, Sal Glesser, and his wife Gail, converted an old bread delivery truck into a motorhome and traveled to sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd Amendment (1971)
The Byrd Amendment—named for its author, Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Virginia—was a 1971 amendment to the U.S. Federal Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. It prohibited the US government from banning the importation of any strategic material from a non-communist country as long as the importation of the same materials from communist countries was also not prohibited. While it did not single out any particular country, it had the effect–intended by its sponsors–of creating an exception in the United States embargo of Rhodesia to enable the import of chromite ore from that country. Pro-segregation Southern legislators (Byrd Jr. himself was an ardent segregationist) and several American businesses pushed hard for the amendment. Rhodesia, run by a mostly white supremacist government, was unrecognised internationally and under a United Nations-led trade boycott from 1965 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain. Prior to the boycott, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd Amendment
The Byrd Amendment is also known as the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (CDSOA). It passed as title X of . Substance The act is American legislation closely associated with its chief sponsor, Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The act changed the disposition of funds raised from duties on imports that the US government has determined to be subsidized or otherwise unfairly priced. Prior to the act, those funds were incorporated into the US budget. The Act specifies that the funds be distributed to the US companies that file pricing complaints. In short, this meant that non-US firms which sell below cost price in the US can be fined, and the money given to the US companies who made the complaint in the first place. Duration Congress enacted the Byrd Amendment on October 28, 2000, and repealed it on December 21, 2005. History On July 21, 2001, the European Commission and eight other countries – Australia, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Byrds
The Byrds () were an American Rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn (known as Jim McGuinn until mid-1967) being the sole consistent member. Although their time as one of the most popular groups in the world only lasted for a short period in the mid-1960s, the Byrds are considered by critics to be among the most influential rock acts of their era. The band's signature sound of "angelic harmonies" and McGuinn's jangle, jangly Twelve-string guitar, 12-string Rickenbacker Electric guitar, guitar sound was "absorbed into the vocabulary of rock" and has continued to be influential. Initially, the Byrds pioneered the musical genre of folk rock as a popular format in 1965, by melding the influence of the Beatles and other British Invasion bands with contemporary and traditional folk music on their Mr. Tambourine Man (album), first and Turn! Turn! Turn! (album), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd (Martian Crater)
Byrd commonly refers to: * William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance * Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer Byrd or Byrds may also refer to: Other people *Byrd (surname), including a list of people with the name *Byrd Baylor (1924–2021), American children's writer * Byrd Billings (died 2009), American murder victim * Byrd Brown (1929–2001), American lawyer and Civil Rights activist * Byrd D. Crudup (1897–1960), American football and basketball coach * Byrd Spilman Dewey (1856–1942), American author and land investor *Byrd Dickens (born 1971), Canadian former actor * Byrd Douglas (1894–1965), American college baseball and football coach and judge * Byrd Gibbens (born 1936), American historian and professor * Byrd Hill (1800–1872), American slave trader *Byrd Leavell, American literary agent * Byrd Lockhart (1782–1839), American surveyor, Alamo defender, courier, and Texian officer * Byrd Lynn (1889–1940 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd (lunar Crater)
Byrd is an irregular Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The north rim of Byrd is nearly connected to the crater Peary (crater), Peary, a formation that is adjacent to the pole. The smaller crater Gioja (crater), Gioja is attached to the remains of the southwest rim. The rim of Byrd is worn and eroded, with sections distorted by intruding crater rims along the perimeter. As a result, the crater interior is longer in the north–south direction than it is wide. There is a gap in the western rim, and the southern rim is now little more than a low ridge on the surface. Some time after the original impact the crater interior was covered in lava flows, leaving a nearly flat surface that is marked only by tiny craterlets. There is no central peak at the midpoint of the interior and no ridges of significance. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byrd Station
The Byrd Station is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by U.S. Navy Seabees during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica. It was a year-round base until 1972, and then seasonal up to 2005. The station was built in 1957, and is located on the West Antarctic ice cap. It was accessible by overland ice traverse or by ski-equipped C-130 aircraft. History A joint Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines operation supported an overland tractor train traverse that left out of Little America V in late 1956 to establish the station. The train was led by Army Major Merle Dawson and completed a traverse of over unexplored country in Marie Byrd Land to blaze a trail to a spot selected beforehand. The station consisted of a set of four prefabricated buildings and was erected in less than one month by U.S. Navy Seabees. It was commissioned on January 1, 1957. The original station ("Old Byrd") lasted about four years befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Byrd
Sarnoff Mountains () is a range of mountains, long and wide separating the west-flowing Boyd Glacier and Arthur Glacier in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Location The Sarnoff Mountains are in the Ford Ranges. They run in a northwest direction between Boyd Glacier to the southwest and Arthur Glacier to the north. Features include, from northwest to southeast, Walgreen Peak, The Billboard, Mount Rea, Mount Dolber, Mount Cooper, Mount Blades, Bailey Ridge, Asman Ridge, Mount Byrd, Mount Gonzáles, Mount McClung, Fleming Peaks and Mount Crow. Nearby features on the west side of Boyd Glacier include Mount Woodward, Mount Kohler and Mount Douglass. Nearby features to the north include Rea Rocks, Mount Warner and Andrews Peaks. Discovery and name The west end of the range was discovered and roughly plotted from photographs taken by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE; 1928–30) on the flight of December 5, 1929. The range was mapped in greater detail by the Byrd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
