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  Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
Clyde Champion Barrow and his companion, Bonnie Parker, were shot to death by officers in an ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934, after one of the most colorful and spectacular manhunts the Nation had seen up to that time.
Clyde was paroled in February, 1932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crime.
It was learned that Bonnie and Clyde, with some of the Methvins, had staged a party at Black Lake, Louisiana, on the night of May 21, 1934, and were due to return to the area two days later.
www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/clyde/clyde.htm   (1140 words)

  
 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Clyde shows her his large pistol pointing upwards at hip level, a second phallic symbol of his manhood, as he bounces the wooden match between his teeth.
Clyde instinctively appeals to her wanderlust to leave the dead-end cafe waitress job she has and join him for adventure and a career in crime:
Clyde boastfully (but shyly) introduces them with a disarming smile, accentuating the bond they share with the country folk - while anticipating (almost as an afterthought) the course that they are committed to pursue - bank robbery:
www.filmsite.org /bonn.html   (3006 words)

  
 Clyde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clyde needs someone who is willing to continue on basic obedience with him as he enjoys training, and it gives him the direction that he needs.
Clyde is a handsome fella with the personality of a stout older gentleman.
Clyde should be kept out of the sun between 10:00 and 3:00 and/or use sunscreens on the nose with SPF of 15 or higher.
www.gsrbc.com /Clyde.htm   (1307 words)

  
  Handbook of Texas Online: CLYDE, TX
Clyde is an incorporated community on Interstate Highway 20 and Farm Road 604, five miles west of Baird and eight miles east of Abilene in northwestern Callahan County.
Clyde had a population of 459 in 1910, some 610 in 1920, and 750 in 1925.
Clyde is built above an aquifer, and in 1926 its fruits and vegetables earned it the nickname "the California of Texas." Farmers often shipped their produce out by rail.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/hgc9.html   (690 words)

  
 shutterbug: Clyde Butcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1993 Clyde Butcher moved with his family into the heart of the Big Cypress National Preserve, 13 acres of swamp with a two-story dwelling surrounded by wild orchids and irises in the middle of a cypress strand.
Clyde is a big man, very big indeed, with a long Santa Claus beard and the crinkled sweet smile of a happy man. Always by his side is his wife of 40 years, Niki (“the most wonderful woman in the world”).
Clyde’s interests keep expanding to show us the natural beauty of the Redwoods, the Rocky Mountains, areas in California, and of Lincoln Park, which is the main outlet that protects the Chesapeake Bay.
www.shutterbug.com /features/0204sb_clyde   (1453 words)

  
 Clyde on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The lower Clyde, traversing the heart of Clydeside (Scotland's population, industrial, and shipbuilding center), is the main route of commercial water traffic in Scotland.
Bonnie and Clyde: the Louisiana connection.(Streetcar)(Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker)
Clyde Foster, of Tracy, California, assembles boxes at the Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin in Tracy, California.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Clyde.asp   (770 words)

  
 City of Clyde Hill · General Information
Clyde Hill is about 1.5 to 2 miles east of the City of Seattle and is bordered by the cities and towns of Bellevue, Kirkland, Medina, Yarrow Point and Hunts Point.
Clyde Hill was incorporated in 1953 as a small residential town covering an area of approximately one square mile.
Clyde Hill is in the middle of a rapidly developing metropolitan area, shares its eastern boundary with the City of Bellevue (the state's fifth largest city), and is one of the smaller communities in King County.
www.clydehill.org /generalinfo.html   (862 words)

  
 CLYDE DAVENPORT
Clyde said the only girl musician in the family was a double second cousin who played fiddle and banjo.
Clyde remained on his parents' farm until he was drafted into the infantry during World War II.
Clyde stopped playing fiddle and banjo altogether from about the age of 35 until he was 52, and he thinks he lost much of his touch on the fiddle and many of his tunes.
www.stg.brown.edu /projects/davenport/CLYDE_DAVENPORT.html   (867 words)

  
 Cloning Clyde for Xbox 360 Review - Xbox 360 Cloning Clyde Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The different Clydes you'll use are really cool and give the game some variety, but the level design usually gives you an animal and a DNA machine right at the start of the level, and you're rarely working with more than one mutated Clyde at a time, so much of the game is pretty straightforward.
Clydes will perish if they take too much damage from land mines, hover mines, exploding chickens, Clyde-eating plants, and so on, but they just instantly respawn at a checkpoint.
Clyde starts off in his hospital gown, but you can unlock skins as you play, turning your Clydes into robots, cowboys, mutants, and more.
www.gamespot.com /xbox360/action/cloningclyde/review.html   (1195 words)

  
 Clyde McPhatter Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clyde Lensley McPhatter was a great singer of R&B and pop tunes in the 50's and 60's, and a huge influence in the evolution of music during that time.
Clyde's career with the Drifters ended when he was drafted in 1955, although the group went on to have numerous personnel changes and a great deal of success into the next decade.
Clyde had a distinctive, pleasing singing voice and is regarded as one of the top lead singers of all time.
www.tsimon.com /mcphattr.htm   (546 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Clyde Crashcup
Clyde Crashcup was a crazy inventor, in the grand tradition of Gyro Gearloose, O.G. Wotasnozzle and Wallace, of Wallace & Grommit.
Clyde's inventing career began with the first Saturday morning TV version of Alvin & the Chipmunks, which debuted on October 4, 1961.
An exception was the episode in which Clyde invented a wife — her voice was done by June Foray (Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Witch Hazel).
www.toonopedia.com /crashcup.htm   (332 words)

  
 Meet Clyde Langtry: Cat Conversationalist and More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clyde told me that the psychic had divined the location of the latest runaway to a neighborhood about a mile southeast of our apartment building, and he had to find a time soon to go look for it.
Some time ago, Clyde and his wife, Priscilla, who is not outwardly nuts except for her choice in husbands, were going out of town for several days and asked our landlord, Ken, to feed the cats.
By the time Clyde and Priscilla came home from their trip, all the veggie bowls were empty and all traces of the meat were gone.
www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/0885_meet_clyde_langtry_cat_conversationalist_more.html   (1016 words)

  
 HistoryBuff.com -- The Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Clyde and Turner (Bonnie was not with them) were recaptured in Middletown, Ohio and Clyde got 14 years at the Texas State Penitentiary.
Although Clyde claimed he was in the car at the time of the shooting, he and Raymond Hamilton, a childhood friend, were then known as the killers of John Bucher.
Clyde's and Bonnie's families tried to gain ownership of the guns that they were found with because they realized their worth to collectors.
www.historybuff.com /library/refbonnie.html   (2570 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Scottish Cups | Clyde 2-1 Celtic
Clyde twice had the ball in the net only for the officials to cruelly rule against them before Craig Bryson headed the First Division side in front.
Clyde, who ran Rangers close in the CIS Cup, were outstanding for the first hour and Graham Roberts' side were worthy winners.
Clyde did not let the decisions get them down and took a thoroughly deserved 33rd-minute lead when Malone's cross was missed by Boruc and Bryson stooped to head into an empty net.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/scot_cups/4584934.stm   (548 words)

  
 IGN: Cloning Clyde Review
Clyde joins a number of other oddball games on the XBLA like Wik and Outpost Kaloki X, but it's also offers some of the most extensive game modes available.
Clyde, a total moron, is unwittingly roped into a genetic experiment with the promise of a 20 dollar reward.
Clyde's main goal in each stage is to reach the exit.
xbox360.ign.com /articles/719/719790p1.html   (1030 words)

  
 Clyde River (Bhundoo), South Coast NSW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Indeed, during extremely dry periods, the Clyde is, in its upper reaches, reduced to merely a trickle.
When locals talk about the Clyde, they are often referring to the upper catchment area of the river, shaped as it is by tectonic plate movement in the earth's crust to create the spectacular mountain and cliff terrain within which the Clyde rises.
The Clyde opens to its estuarine state more than 30kms from its mouth at Batemans Bay and from here it is navigable for larger craft.
www.southcoast.com.au /clyderiver   (867 words)

  
 Bonnie & Clyde
Clyde lets him take a couple of shots at the house because the bank took it from the farmer and his family.
Bonnie was caring for the sister of one of Clyde’s girlfriends, who had broken her arm.
Clyde came to visit, met Bonnie, and it was love at first sight.
course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/bonnieclyde.htm   (1865 words)

  
 McPhatter, Clyde --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Drifters were actually two groups—one built around lead singer Clyde McPhatter, the other an entirely different group that took the name Drifters, to which manager George Treadwell held the copyright, after he dismissed the original contingent.
U.S. animal trainer Clyde Beatty is best known for his “fighting act,” which was designed to show his courage and mastery of the ferocious animals under his control.
A former premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland (later Newfoundland and Labrador), Clyde K. Wells was appointed chief justice of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland in 1999.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108715?tocId=9108715   (702 words)

  
 Welcome to the San Diego Zoo!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tipping the scales at a hefty 284 pounds (128 kilograms) with an 8-foot (2.4-meter) arm reach and a truly epic coat of hair, it's a really good thing Clyde is gentle.
Father of Satu, Clyde is known for his patience, tolerance, and a major love for sleeping in (and not just on weekends).
Clyde can often be seen sitting atop the jungle gym to quietly contemplate the world around him.
www.sandiegozoo.org /zoo/apes_clyde.html   (70 words)

  
 Drummerworld: Clyde Stubblefield
Clyde Stubblefield started his musical career as a child in Chattanooga, TN, "playing on tin can lids, pasteboard boxes - everything." Since then Clyde has played all over the world and recorded with some of the greatest funk, soul and RandB performers including James Brown, Otis Redding, and Clayton Fillyau.
Clyde was the WAMI 2000 Hall of Fame Inductee and was honored in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8 May 2000.
Clyde's drum sticks are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Clyde_Stubblefield.html   (225 words)

  
 Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - River Clyde by Boat
Berthed on the southern bank of the Clyde, in the centre of Glasgow, is the ferry which used to ply across the river further downstream at Renfrew.
When passing the mouth of the river Kelvin, a tributary of the Clyde, we were informed that seals are often seen here, sunning themselves after dining on the fish which now swim in the Clyde.
There are only a few shipyards left on the Clyde from the dozens which used to supply the world with merchant ships and warships for the UK and navies of many other countries.
www.rampantscotland.com /visit/blvisitclyde.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Clyde Tombaugh Interview -- Academy of Achievement
Clyde Tombaugh: I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
Clyde Tombaugh: She talked to me about what I had seen in the telescope the night before, and she was just a marvelous person, a real teacher.
Clyde Tombaugh: At that time the Lowell Observatory was the only planetary observatory in the country, and I was particularly interested in planets at that time, and so I thought I would just like to see what they thought of them.
www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/tom0int-1   (1856 words)

  
 Bonnie and Clyde: Romeo and Juliet in a Getaway Car - The Crime Library
Clyde Chestnut Barrow stood 5’7," weighed 130 pounds, slicked back his thick brown hair in the style of the day, and parted it on the left.
As the fame of Bonnie and Clyde grew, they shot their way out of police loops, each time growing tighter and tighter, and claimed that the "laws" they killed just happened to get in the way between their fiery outcry and the rest of the country.
Marie asserts that her brother and father had concocted their own signal to let the families know when the outlaws were in town: Clyde would pause the latest of his stolen automobiles in front of the Barrow service station and from the car toss a soda pop bottle containing directions to a place of rendezvous.
www.crimelibrary.com /americana/bonnie/main.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Falls of Clyde National Historic Landmark Nomination
As built in 1878, Falls of Clyde is an iron-hulled, four-masted vessel originally rigged as a ship, later downrigged to a bark, subsequently dismasted, and then restored in 1970 to her original ship rig.
Falls of Clyde is 266.1 feet in length, with a 40.0- foot beam and a 23.5-foot depth of hold.
Falls of Clyde is registered at 1,807 gross and 1,741 net tons.[1] Built staunchly with iron Z-bar frames and double riveted iron plate laid as inner and outer strakes, Falls of Clyde was rated 100A1 by Lloyd's of London, the highest rating the conservative maritime insurance firm could provide.
www.cr.nps.gov /maritime/nhl/falls.htm   (3647 words)

  
 Dallas Historical Society - Dallas History Special Section: Bonnie and Clyde
November 1929: Clyde is arrested, and later released, for a series of robberies.
February 1930: Clyde is arrested and incarcerated in the McClennan County jail.
The famous pictures of Bonnie and Clyde are found on a roll of left behind film.
www.dallashistory.org /history/dallas/bandc.htm   (512 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bonnie and Clyde are presented as social drop-outs, alienated from a society that is seen as devitalized and decayed.
Bonnie and Clyde are presented as the hippies of an earlier generation, humiliating the established order, having fun, and generally acting out a vaguely directed program of social revolt that accords with a Sixties feeling of youthful protest, particularly against the Vietnam War.
Clyde's impotence contributes to his sense of inferiority and it is implied that his criminal activities were partly attempts at self-assertion.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000ING1?v=glance   (2031 words)

  
 Clyde W. Tombaugh 1907-1997
Clyde Tombaugh talked to members of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City during a special meeting in June of 1988.
Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, died on Friday, January 17.
On February 18 at 4 pm, Clyde was scanning a pair of plates centered on Delta Geminorum, when he noticed a 17tj magnitude speck of light shifting from plate to plate exactly as a trans-Neptunian planet should.
www.icstars.com /HTML/icstars/graphics/clyde.htm   (581 words)

  
 Clyde, Cessna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clyde had always favored a monoplane design, while his partners favored biplanes, so after a while, there was an amicable parting of the ways with Clyde working on his own design and forming the Cessna Aircraft Company.
Noel Cessna relates that Clyde was devastated by Liggett’s death and was never involved in any aviation enterprise again.
Eldon Cessna worked with the firm briefly, but rather than accept a subordinate role to his younger cousin, moved to California where he worked for North American for 31 years and was involved in the design of the AT-6, P-51, F-86, X-15, the Apollo Lunar Landing Module, and the Space Shuttle.
www.swaviator.com /html/issueJF04/clyde.html   (957 words)

  
 Clyde Butcher Black and White Landscape Photography Big Cypress Gallery Everglades Florida
Clyde was honored for his effort in helping the people of Florida understand the importance of keeping our environment clean and healthy.
July 2004, Clyde was honored as being one of four large format photographers from across the nation who was chosen for this article.
Given to Clyde by the United Arts Council of Collier County to salute the leadership in the arts and contributions made to the local community.
www.clydebutcher.com   (308 words)

  
 Clyde Public Library
The purpose of the Clyde Public Library is to provide resources and services to fulfill individual informational needs for day-to-day living and pleasure, and for cultural, educational, and leisurely pursuits.
The Clyde Public Library was established in 1903 as an outgrowth of the school library and was located on the third floor of the old Union School on Vine Street.
The Clyde Public Library is funded from the Library and Local Government Support Fund, a portion of the state income tax collected each year.
www.clydelibrary.org   (798 words)

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