Thomas E. Gaddis ( September 14, 1908-October 10, 1984 ) was a United States author, most noted for his book about Robert Stroud, who was known as the " Birdman of Alcatraz ".

* The Amulet of Samarkand is the first book in the Bartimaeus Trilogy written by Jonathan Stroud.

* Robert Franklin Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, is buried in Metropolis

Stroud Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Stroud is a city in Creek and Lincoln counties in the U. S. state of Oklahoma.

Currently, Stroud is enjoying recovery due to increased economic activity in the oil and gas sectors, and is home to Service King, a manufacturer of oilfield workover rigs.

Stroud is located at ( 35. 759098 ,-96. 652162 ).

The role of project leader was taken over by Stroud District Council, and a new body, the Stroud Valleys Canal Company, was created in March 2009 to act as a holding company for the assets of the waterway, with a responsibiliry to manage and maintain it once it is reopened.

Water from the Slad Brook, which is culverted beneath Stroud, joins the canal a short distance above Lower Wallbridge Lock.

Cirencester is the hub of a significant road network with important routes to Gloucester ( A417 ), Cheltenham ( A435 ), Warwick ( A429 ), Oxford ( A40 via the B4425 road ), Wantage ( A417 ), Swindon ( A419 ), Chippenham ( A429 ), Bristol, Bath ( A433 ), and Stroud ( A419 ).

** Byron Stroud is confirmed as an official member of Fear Factory.

Stroud is one of the most notorious criminals in American history.

English took the last photo of Stroud, in which he is shown with a green visor.

Robert Stroud is buried in Metropolis, Illinois ( Massac County ).

( 2004-present ), a character named Birds, an escaped mafia hitman who uses birds, is based on Robert Stroud.

( whose pilot aired in 2007 and series began in 2008 ), the character of Gary, who always appears with a small yellow bird on his shoulder, is an allusion to Robert Stroud.

* William Stroud, Physics Professor at what is now Leeds University, who in the 1880s simplified the form of word problems for engineers.

Officially part of the London area of Harringay, it is also adjacent to Stroud Green, the Finsbury Park district and Manor House.

It is an extension of Camden Road, running from Holloway Road ( the A1 road ) at the Nags Head crossroads then on to another crossroads with Blackstock Road and Stroud Green Road.

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

It is the main town in Stroud District.

Stroud is known for its involvement in the Industrial Revolution.

It is now planned to restore these canals as a leisure facility by a partnership of Stroud District Council and the Cotswold Canals Trust with a multi-million pound Lottery grant.

Though there is much evidence of early historic settlement and transport, Stroud parish was originally part of Bisley, and only began to emerge as a distinct unit by the 13th century, taking its name from the marshy ground at the confluence of the Slad Brook and the River Frome called " La Strode " and was first recorded in 1221.

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Sutton Publishing Ltd for Army Records Society.

Some councils, like that at Stroud, Gloucestershire and Loerrach provide approved areas round the town where graffiti artists can showcase their talents, including underpasses, car parks and walls that might otherwise prove a target for the ' spray and run.

Colfax was laid out in 1849 by Montgomery Stroud and originally named Midway for its position between Indianapolis and Lafayette along the Lafayette railroad.

On Wednesday, July 29, 2009, an EF2 tornado touched down in Hamilton Township and tore through the landscape for five miles across Hamilton Township and neighboring Stroud Township.

* Robert Rouse and Cory Rushton, The Medieval Quest for Arthur, Tempus, Stroud, 2005 ISBN 0-7524-3343-1

Stroud was founded in 1892 and named for James Stroud, a trader.

Brown worked part-time for J. Willard Marriott, took classes, and married Sally Stroud ( another graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College drawn to Washington by the New Deal ).

By the time he was 18, Stroud had made his way to Cordova, Alaska, where he met 36-year-old Kitty O ’ Brien, a prostitute and dance-hall entertainer, for whom he pimped.

According to Stroud, on January 18, 1909, while he was away at work, an acquaintance of theirs, barman F. K. " Charlie " Von Dahmer, had allegedly failed to pay O ' Brien for her services.

Stroud assaulted a hospital orderly who had reported him to the prison administration for attempting to obtain morphine through threats and intimidation, and had also reportedly stabbed a fellow inmate who was involved in the attempt to smuggle the narcotics.

On September 5, 1912, Stroud was sentenced to an additional six months for the attacks and was transferred from McNeil Island to the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Then on March 26, 1916 after being there six months, Stroud was reprimanded by cafeteria guard, Andrew F. Turner, for a minor rule violation which would have annulled Stroud's visitation privilege to meet his younger brother, whom he had not seen in eight years.

The sentence was thrown out in December by the U. S. Supreme Court, because the jury had not said that it intended for Stroud to hang.

In 1959, Stroud was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he stayed until his death in 1963.

Stroud ’ s activities created problems for the prison management.

They had a close relationship, but Elizabeth Stroud strongly disapproved of the marriage to Jones, believing women were nothing but trouble for her son.

Stroud avoided trouble for several more years, until it came to light that some of the equipment Stroud had requested for his lab was in fact being used as a home-made still to distill alcohol.

In 1959, with his health failing, Stroud was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.

On November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Franklin Stroud died at the Springfield Medical Center at the age of 73, having been incarcerated for the last 54 years of his life, of which 42 were in solitary confinement.