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	Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byrd attended the University of Virginia before financial circumstances inspired his transfer and graduation from the United States Naval Academy.
		Byrd also commanded Operation Deep Freeze, which established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound, the Bay of Whales and the South Pole in 1955, accompanied by Andrew Van Mincey, for whom Mincey Glacier is named.
		By the time Richard Byrd died on March 12, 1957, he had amassed twenty-two citations and special commendations, nine of which were for bravery and two for extraordinary heroism in saving the lives of others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Byrd (745 words)

	MSN Encarta - Richard Byrd
		Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957), American explorer, author, aviator, and naval officer, known for leading several air and land expeditions to Antarctica, and for discoveries there.
		Byrd received the Medal of Honor for being the first person to fly over the North Pole; he made the flight with American aviator Floyd Bennett; however, there is some evidence suggesting that he and Bennett may not have reached the pole.
		In 1955 Byrd was appointed head of “Operation Deep-Freeze,” an Antarctic expedition organized by the United States in connection with the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574620/Byrd_Richard_Evelyn.html (419 words)

	Richard Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd learned to fly in WWI during his tour with the United States Navy.
		Byrd undertook three more expeditions to the south pole from 1933-1935 and 1939-1941, culminating in Operation Highjump from 1946 - 1947, the largest Antarctic expedition to date.Byrd was also commanded Operation Deep Freeze, which established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound, the Bay of Wales and the South Pole in 1955.
		However, Byrd was reportedly very modest about these achievements, preferring to dwell on the substance of hisadventures, and the stories of those that had gone awry.
	www.therfcc.org /richard-byrd-76950.html (468 words)

	Richard E. Byrd - Courtesy of: The Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd pioneered the technique of nighttime landings of seaplanes on the ocean and flew out over the horizon, out of sight of land, and navigated back to his base.
		With the conclusion of hostilities, Byrd was called to Washington and made responsible for the navigational preparations for the transatlantic flight attempt of the NC flying boats in 1919 He was a skilled officer in representing Navy interests under consideration by the Congress.
		Byrd was also invaluable in the long campaign of Naval aviators to establish a Bureau of Aeronautics.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/history/byrd.shtml (908 words)

	Richard E. Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Richard E. Byrd (burd) (1888-1957), an American rear admiral, was an Antarctic and Arctic explorer, aviator, and navigator.
		Byrd and American pilot Floyd Bennett claimed they flew to the North Pole, on May 9, 1926, but some scholars dispute that claim.
		Byrd's first Antarctic expedition, from 1928 to 1930, was equipped with aircraft to fly to the South Pole.
	www.worldbook.com /features/explorers/html/saga_byrd.html (382 words)

	The Papers of Admiral Richard E. Byrd
		As a navigational aviator, Byrd pioneered in the technology that would be the foundation for modern polar exploration and investigation.
		Byrd pioneered the technique of night-time landings of seaplanes on the ocean and flew out over the horizon, out of sight of land, and navigated back to his base.
		With the conclusion of hostilities, Byrd was called to Washington and assigned responsibility for the navigational preparations for the transatlantic flight attempt of the NC flying boats in l9l9.
	library.osu.edu /sites/archives/polar/byrd/byrd.htm (831 words)

	Richard E. Byrd and the Legacy of Polar Exploration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Richard E. Byrd was a member of a notable Virginia family whose roots extended deep into the seventeenth century and whose members have played prominent roles in the affairs of state to the present day.
		Byrd was then, as one biographer put it, the "Last Explorer." As the extent of the geographic unknown contracted, however, vast new fields of inquiry were opening into the operations of nature and life itself through the sciences of physics, geology, chemistry, and biology.
		Byrd, however, sought to put this new culture and the millions of people it touched to his own uses, relying on his media image as America's lone adventurer and last explorer to generate not only public interest in his exploits but also a market for the sale of that image.
	www.vahistorical.org /publications/abstract_hofstra.htm (5714 words)

	Admiral Richard E
		Byrd was particularly interested in the new technology of airplanes and earned his wings as a pilot at Pensacola.
		Byrd himself referred to his new status with both pride --and sometimes exasperation-- as “the hero business.” Soon after, in 1927, Byrd added to his fame by leading a team that flew an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean, the third since Charles Lindbergh in that year.
		Byrd’s papers at The Ohio State University, which include letters, expeditionary records, diaries, photographs, audio recordings, and films, are extraordinary both in research value and in physical extent.
	library.osu.edu /sites/archives/polar/exhibits/byrd/byrd.htm (702 words)

	Richard Byrd -- General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Optimization"(postscript), by R.H. Byrd, J. Nocedal and C. Zhu.
		revised 1998, (postscript) by R.H. Byrd, J.C. Gilbert and J. Nocedal.
		Problems"(postscript), by Z. Zou, R.H. Byrd, and R.B. Schnabel.
	www.cs.colorado.edu /~richard/Home.html (291 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| People & Events \| Richard E. Byrd
		When Richard E. Byrd contemplated the vast unexplored regions of the South Pole and the Antarctic, a land thought only to be bleak, barren, and forbidding to most, he saw a place of promise.
		Byrd envisioned a spot that "God had set aside as man's future -- an inexhaustible reservoir of natural resources." Byrd himself could rightly be described as an inexhaustible reservoir of ambition and complexity.
		Byrd's father, also named Richard, was known as a brilliant prosecutor, but an aloof and demanding father figure who fought a losing battle with alcoholism.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX86.html (1132 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Richard E. Byrd
		Byrd was a conspicuous player in six of them with four being sponsored by the United States government.
		Byrd, with Bernt Balchen as pilot and Harold June as radioman, left on January 27 for a longer flight eastward to the Alexandra Mountains, which had been discovered in 1902 by Robert F. Scott.
		Byrd was fairly certain that only one ship would make it through so the planes were secured nearby where the wind would keep the snow swept away after they were left behind.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000107.htm (5210 words)

	Richard Byrd: Beating the Pack to the Pole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd, who had given the Norwegian one of his sun compasses and Ellsworth his sealskin clothing, flew Josephine Ford several miles as an escort to the dirigible.
		Byrd and Bennett, the two names that had made history over the North Pole, were together again for the journey south.
		Byrd's logbook, records and calculations were hurried to a select panel of scientists at the National Geographic Society.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/blrichardbyrd/index3.html (968 words)

	About Admiral Richard E. Byrd
		With the conclusion of hostilities, Byrd was called to Washington and made responsible for the navigational preparations for the transatlantic flight attempt of the NC flying boats in l9l9.
		This effort almost cost Byrd his life when he was poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes.
		In the early post-war years, Byrd participated in the organization of the U.S. Navy Antarctic Developments Project in 1946-47 (Operation Highjump) He supervised the preparation of a study for the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Greenland as a site for military training and operations.
	polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu /AboutByrd/AboutByrd.html (1225 words)

	Balchen Main Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd had picked Bennett as a pilot on his forthcoming transatlantic flight, but Bennett died while he and Balchen were on a mission to evacuate the Bremen fliers.
		Byrd's brother was the almighty senator from Virginia, Harry Byrd.
		Byrd was never a true pilot nor navigator, he never contributed anything in that respect when we crossed the Atlantic, nor when we flew to the South Pole.
	home.acadia.net /userpages/kikut/BBMainText.htm (5726 words)

	Richard Byrd: Beating the Pack to the Pole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd's party, in the meantime, labored at clearing a skiway in the snow and ice, and in treating instruments with graphite rather than grease to keep them from freezing.
		Norwegian Bernt Balchen, who was later to gain fame piloting for Byrd, suggested to Byrd that the skis be waxed with a mixture of paraffin and resin to reduce friction.
		Byrd's original plan was to schedule a landing at Cape Morris Jessup in northern Greenland, the "northernmost known point of land in the world." After establishing a camp at the Cape, he could refuel and continue on his flight.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/blrichardbyrd/index1.html (911 words)

	Richard Evelyn Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Richard E. Byrd was an officer in the US Navy - he learned to fly during World War I and was an Antarctic explorer.
		On 28 December 1928, Byrd entered the Bay of Whales, and on 2 January 1929 the expedition's base camp was built.
		After 19 hours, on 29 November 1929, Byrd and his three men crossed the South Pole on the "Floyd Bennett", and on 5 December 1929 Byrd explored another area by plane.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/explorers/byrd (480 words)

	Byrd, Richard Evelyn on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In 1927 Byrd and three companions made one of the spectacular early flights across the Atlantic.
		In 1939-40 he was again in the antarctic, commanding a government expedition, and in 1946-47 he headed the U.S. navy expedition, the largest yet sent to the region (see Antarctica).
		In 1955, Byrd was placed in command of all U.S. antarctic activities, and in 1955-56 he led his fifth expedition to the region.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Byrd-R1ic.asp (412 words)

	Richard E. Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		RICHARD E. Richard Evelyn Byrd was a very busy man: explorer, naval officer, author, aviator, and writer.
		Richard Byrd was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1888.
		Richard Byrd's first polar expedition was to the Arctic.
	tqjunior.thinkquest.org /4034/byrd.html (439 words)

	The Antarctic \| Alone \| Admiral Richard E. Byrd
		Richard E Byrd was born in the right century (19th) to be an adventurer --- which he was --- but in the wrong one (20th) for his type of adventure: that of going off on his own into the wilds to the far north or the far south for glory and no little fame.
		Plans were for Byrd and two companions to spend the winter of 1934 on the Barrier --- a thankless waste of ice, snow, winds, fog, darkness and implacable loneliness.
		The key to Richard Byrd's survival was not to be his sturdy character...
	www.ralphmag.org /CO/richard-byrd.html (1056 words)

	Alone by Richard.E.Byrd
		ALONE is Richard E. Byrd's story of the five months he spent in absolute isolation at Advance Base, a tiny hut far south of Little America in Antarctica.
		First set up in 1928 as the headquarters for the polar explorations of Commander Richard E. Byrd, it was reused and enlarged by Byrd on his return expedition in 1933-35.
		In 1940 Byrd established a camp 7 miles (11 kilometers) northeast (later named Little America III) that served as the west base for a government-sponsored exploration of Marie Byrd Land before World War II.
	www.ast.leeds.ac.uk /haverah/spaseman/aloneint.shtml (884 words)

	Richard Byrd
		Rear Admiral Richard Byrd was an acclaimed Naval pilot and explorer who made the first flight over the North Pole in 1926 and the first flight over the South Pole in 1929.
		Byrd continued to make contributions to Polar explorations until nearly the end of his life.
		Assault on Eternity: Richard E. Byrd and the Exploration of Antarctica, 1946-47.
	www.multied.com /bio/people/byrd.html (151 words)

	Friends of Richard Byrd Library - FCPL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		It is no coincidence that January 1956 is also the date the Friends of the Richard Byrd Library was founded.
		The Friends of the Richard Byrd Library continue to be active in the Springfield community after 48 years.
		The Friends of Richard Byrd Library are dedicated to making the Library and its services known to all segments of the community and to encourage the branch's use as a cultural and community center.
	www.fairfaxcounty.gov /library/friends/rb/rbfriends.htm (270 words)

	Anecdotage.com - people Byrd anecdote. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd was once asked whether he knew what was in a 4...
		West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the KKK, was once nominate...
		On his second expedition to Antarctica, Richard Byrd was accompanied by the son...
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?category=people&who=Byrd (56 words)

	North Pole Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Inexplicably, Byrd began to harass Bernt Balchen, the pilot who saved the crew's lives on the Byrd transatlantic flight in `27 and who flew him to the South Pole in '29.
		Based on the facts related here, Byrd, some 20 years later, developed a strong antipathy toward Balchen, knowing that he was fully aware of his fraudulent claim and fearful that Balchen would reveal it to the world.
		After years of hectoring by Byrd, Bernt Balchen decided to do just that but was accused of waiting until after Byrd's death.
	home.acadia.net /userpages/kikut/NPFlightNew.html (169 words)

	Byrd, Richard E. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Byrd, Richard E. naval officer, pioneer aviator, and polar explorer best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes and other modern technical resources.
		First set up in 1928 as the headquarters for the polar explorations of Richard E. Byrd, it was reused and enlarged by Byrd on his return expedition in 1933–35.
		Byrd, Richard E. A 20th-century pioneer aviator and polar explorer, Richard E. Byrd first won fame with his long-distance flights in the Arctic and over the Atlantic.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018397 (801 words)

	Richard Byrd: Beating the Pack to the Pole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd understood that planning and preparation could somewhat offset the multitude of dangers at the top of the world.
		Among the dangers Byrd had to contend with were powerful Arctic winds that could easily throw a plane off course.
		Richard Byrd had chosen King's Bay in the Spitsbergen Islands as his takeoff point.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/blrichardbyrd (956 words)

	Richard Evelyn Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Byrd was also commanded Operation Deep Freeze, which established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound, the Bay of Wales and the South Pole in 1955.By the time Richard Byrd died on March 12 1957.
		To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925–1927 www.libraryreference.org/northpole.html To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925–1927.
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	Richard Byrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Through the Flood family Ed is related to Richard E. Byrd, a 20th-century pioneer aviator and polar explorer.
		Richard E. Byrd first won fame with his long-distance flights in the Arctic and over the Atlantic.
		He is best known for his well-organized expeditions to the Antarctic, where he conducted scientific explorations, survived a winter alone near the South Pole, and, from his base in Antarctica, flew over and named previously undiscovered tracts of territory.
	www.hill-ky.org /Richard_Byrd.htm (92 words)

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