In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was The City of New York ( a Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking ); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ( named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions ); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named " Stars And Stripes " ( now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum ); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia ( Byrd's birth state ).

In July 1936, Richard Evelyn Byrd's " Stars And Stripes " Fairchild FC-2 aircraft used to explore the South Pole was displayed at the airport.

The specific year of Byrd's birth is uncertain.

There is no documentary evidence concerning Byrd's early musical training.

Byrd's output of Anglican church music ( defined in the strictest sense as sacred music designed for performance in church ) is surprisingly small, but it stretches the limits of elaboration then regarded as acceptable by some reforming Protestants who regarded highly wrought music as a distraction from the Word of God.

Byrd's contribution to the Cantiones is highly variegated in character.

As John Harley has shown, it is probable that Byrd's parental family were Protestants, though whether by deeply-felt conviction or nominal conformism is not clear.

Byrd's setting of the first four verses of Psalm 78 ( Deus venerunt gentes ) is widely believed to refer to the cruel execution of Fr Edmund Campion in 1581, an event that caused widespread revulsion on the Continent as well as in England.

Finally, and perhaps most remarkably, Byrd's Quomodo cantabimus is the result of a motet exchange between Byrd and Philippe de Monte, who was director of music to the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, in Prague.

It is dedicated to William Petre ( the son of Byrd's patron John Petre, 1st Baron Petre ) who was only 15 years old in 1591 and could hardly have played it if it had been composed much earlier.

Taverner's influence is particularly clear in the scale figures rising successively through a fifth, a sixth and a seventh in Byrd's setting of the Sanctus.

A special feature of the four-part and five-part Masses is Byrd's treatment of the Agnus Dei, which employ the technique which Byrd had previously applied to the petitionary clauses from the motets of the 1589 and 1591 Cantiones sacrae.

The second stage in Byrd's programme of liturgical polyphony is formed by the Gradualia, two cycles of motets containing 109 items and published in 1605 and 1607.

Byrd's small output of church anthems ranges in style from relatively sober early examples ( O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our queen ( a6 ) and How long shall mine enemies ( a5 ) ) to other, evidently late works such as Sing joyfully ( a6 ) which is close in style to the English motets of Byrd's 1611 set, discussed below.

Byrd's setting is on a massive scale, requiring five-part Decani and Cantoris groupings in antiphony, block homophony and five, six and eight-part counterpoint with verse ( solo ) sections for added variety.

This series of thirteen recordings is the first time that all Byrd's Latin music is available on disc.

It is also commemorated in a U. S. postage stamp issued at the time, and a considerable amount of mail using it was sent from Byrd's base at Little America, which was powered by a Jacobs Wind 2. 5 kW.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd Middle School, located in Frederick County, Virginia, was opened in 2005, and is decorated with pictures and letters from Byrd's life and career.

William Byrd's mass for 4 voices is a notable example of a musical setting originally written with five syllables in mind, later altered for six syllables.

Byrd's Nest No. 2, one of a series of shelters built in the park by Senator Harry Byrd, is nearby.

Byrd's wife, Kym, is a certified life coach where she helps married athletes with the rigors of their unique marriages.

He is mentioned in one of Byrd's diaries as " Colonel Randolph ", his militia title.

Byrd's text is also the focus of David Gatten's film project, also titled The Secret History of the Dividing Line.

How unpartisan will be the recommendations of Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd's Senate Committee on Government Operations??

As a result of this friendship, Byrd's family helped Brown secure an early release on June 14, 1952 after serving three years of his sentence.

Moreover one of Byrd's earliest compositions was a collaboration with two Chapel Royal singing-men, John Sheppard and William Mundy, on a setting for four male voices of the psalm In exitu Israel for the procession to the font in Easter week.

Ferrabosco's motets provided direct models for Byrd's Emendemus in melius ( a5 ), O lux beata Trinitas ( a6 ), Domine secundum actum meum ( a6 ) and Siderum rector ( a5 ) as well as a more generalized paradigm for what Joseph Kerman has called Byrd's ' affective-imitative ' style, a method of setting pathetic texts in extended paragraphs based on subjects employing curving lines in fluid rhythm and contrapuntal techniques which Byrd learnt from his study of Ferrabosco.

As a result of this Byrd's membership of the Chapel Royal was suspended for a time, restrictions were placed on his movements and his house was placed on the search list.

The contents show Byrd's mastery of a wide variety of keyboard forms, though liturgical compositions based on plainsong are not represented.

Byrd's contribution includes the famous Earl of Salisbury Pavan, composed in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who had died on 24 May 1612, and its two accompanying galliards.

HIstoric marker for William Byrd's Camp on his expedition to survey the Dividing Line, Henry County, Virginia, 1728

In 1958 Norwegian-American aviator and explorer Bernt Balchen cast doubt on Byrd's claim on the basis of his extensive personal knowledge of the airplane's speed.

Accepting that the conflicting data in the typed report's flight times indeed require both northward and southward groundspeeds greater than the flight's 85 mph airspeed, a remaining Byrd defender posits a westerly-moving anti-cyclone that tailwind-boosted Byrd's groundspeed on both outward and inward legs, allowing the distance claimed to be covered in the time claimed.

who adds that the sextant data in the long unavailable original official typewritten report are all expressed to 1 ", a precision not possible on Navy sextants of 1926 and not the precision of the sextant data in Byrd's diary for 1925 or the 1926 flight, which was normal ( half or quarter of a minute of arc ).

Byrd's third expedition was his first one on which he had the official backing of the U. S. government.

His body had caught the culvert on the side of the road, resulting in Byrd's decapitation.

Although verified at the time by a committee of the National Geographic Society, this claim has since been undermined by the 1996 revelation that Byrd's long-hidden diary's solar sextant data ( which the NGS never checked ) consistently contradict his June 1926 report's parallel data by over.

Byrd's first known professional employment was his appointment in 1563 as organist and master of the choristers at Lincoln Cathedral.

This career move vastly increased Byrd's opportunities to widen his scope as a composer and also to make contacts at Court.

Byrd's wife Julian was first cited for recusancy ( refusing to attend Anglican services ) at Harlington in Middlesex, where the family now lived, in 1577.

Poetically, the set ( together with other evidence ) reflects Byrd's involvement with the literary circle surrounding Sir Philip Sidney, whose influence at Court was at its height in the early 1580s.

On 11 September 1591 John Baldwin, a tenor lay-clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor and later a colleague of Byrd in the Chapel Royal, completed the copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a collection of 42 of Byrd's keyboard pieces which was probably produced under Byrd's supervision and includes corrections which are thought to be in the composer's hand.

Byrd's acquaintance with the Petre family extended back at least to 1581 ( as his surviving autograph letter of that year shows ) and he spent two weeks at the Petre household over Christmas in 1589.

Ironically in view of Byrd's own religious beliefs, it was his Anglican church music which came closest to establishing a continuous tradition, at least in the sense that some of it continued to be performed in choral foundations after the Restoration and into the eighteenth century.

He began his career in New Orleans in 1948, earning a gig at the Caldonia Club, where the owner, Mike Tessitore, bestowed Longhair with his stage name ( due to Byrd's shaggy coiffure ).

* Early May-Both Chamberlain's and Byrd's group are at adjoining Curtiss and Roosevelt Fields in New York awaiting favorable flight conditions.

* William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus as interactive hypermedia at the BinAural Collaborative Hypertext

The family moved in 1929, at the end of Byrd's term as Governor, after some renovations.

This was where the film With Byrd at the South Pole ( 1930 ) was filmed, about Byrd's trip to the South Pole.

Hollick-Kenyon ( serving as a replacement for Balchen ) and Ellsworth left on November 23, 1935 from Dundee Island bound for Richard E. Byrd's base camp at Little America.

Without Byrd's " nod ," no candidate had a chance at statewide office in Virginia.