In spring 2005, The Choir returned to the dreamlike rock sound of Chase the Kangaroo and Circle Slide with the album, O How the Mighty Have Fallen, thanks to the influence of new band member Marc Byrd.

After he returned to the US, Byrd wrote an article for the August 1927 edition of Popular Science Monthly in which he predicted that while specially modified aircraft with one to three crewmen would fly the Atlantic non-stop, it would be another 20 year before it would be realized on a commercial scale.

This skit was retired for a time, after Byrd supposedly quit the show in 2007, but has recently returned.

Byrd left the office on 19 April 1849, and returned to his mercantile store in Jefferson County, Arkansas.

Teaming with guitarist Charlie Byrd, who had just returned from a U. S. State Department tour of Brazil, Getz recorded Jazz Samba in 1962 and it became a hit.

Byrd holds the Bills ' career records for interceptions ( 40 ), interception return yards ( 666 ) and interceptions returned for touchdowns ( 5 ).

After earning his Ph. D. in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001.

While William Byrd, probably the most famous English composer of the time, experimented with the madrigal form, he never actually called his works madrigals, and shortly after writing some secular songs in madrigalian style returned to writing mostly sacred music.

Byrd returned to Richmond upon the death of his father in 1705.

When he was denied the position, William Byrd II returned once more to London on romantic endeavors.

Byrd returned to the U. S., signed with Don King and beat Maurice Harris to win the United States Boxing Association heavyweight belt in Madison Square Garden.

When Byrd returned to the States in 1961 armed with " Desafinado " and a cache of new Brazilian songs, the first person he rang up was jazz producer Creed Taylor.

Warman returned to the studio again in 1996-97 to record 2 albums of Library music for De Wolfe with band mates Andy Hamilton and Steve Byrd along with Brad Lang, Pete Thoms, Roger Beaujolais, Steve Hamilton, Neil Angilley, Dave Clayton and Nigel Brown.

The other members including Bobby Byrd and Nafloyd Scott also left the band due to royalty disputes over the song by 1957 and Brown briefly replaced them with " interim Flames " though both men returned to the group in early 1959 after the release of " Try Me ".

Starting in 1959, the Famous Flames composed the performance with Brown performing the song to the point of feigned exhaustion, at which by this point, overwhelmed by his feelings, he would simply drop to his knees and collapse on the stage, dropping the microphone in the process, while a Fellow Flame ( sometimes Bobby Byrd and at other times Bobby Bennett ) drop either a blanket or big towel around his back and carry Brown offstage until Brown again loses it, rips the towel off him and returned to his microphone to the excitement of his audience.

Byrd returned to the Meadowlands for the Jets ' home opener on September 5, 1993, walking to midfield as an honorary captain for the coin toss.

Byrd returned with Moskowitz to the West Coast, accepting a teaching assistant position at UCLA ( moving into a beachfront community populated by musicians, artists, and Indian musicians ), where he studied music history, acoustics, psychology of music, and Indian music.

Robert Byrd ( D-List of United States Senators from West Virginia | West Virginia ) served as president pro tempore during Democratic Senate majorities from 1989 to 2010, and as president pro tempore emeritus from 2003 to 2007

With the change in party control, Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia replaced Thurmond as president pro tempore, reclaiming a position he had previously held from 1989 to 1995 and briefly in January 2001.

Thurmond's retirement from the Senate on January 3, 2003, coincided with a change from Democratic to Republican control, making Stevens president pro tempore and Byrd the second president pro tempore emeritus.

Byrd, president of Louisiana Tech, and founder of C. E.

When Governor Thomas Stevenson Drew resigned from office on January 10, 1849, Byrd was president of the Senate and became acting governor.

In 1960, Treen opposed the election of both Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy as president and ran as an elector for the Louisiana States ' Rights Party, which supported Virginia Democratic U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

* Curley Byrd ( 1882 – 1970 ), U. S. politician, university president, multi-sport athlete and coach

The facility is named after Harry " Curley " Byrd, a multi-sport athlete, football coach, and university president in the first half of the 20th century.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia called it " an offensive slap at Congress ," asserting that the legislation would enable the president to intimidate individual members of Congress by targeting the projects of his political opponents.

Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929 and named for John McEntee Bowman, president of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation, who donated headquarters for the preparation of the expedition.

If such a legislative survivor were the sitting Speaker or President Pro Tempore – as for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 State of the Union addresses, in which President Pro Tempore Ted Stevens ( R-Alaska ) or Sen. Robert Byrd ( D-West Virginia ) was also a designated survivor – he or she would become the acting president rather than the surviving Cabinet member.

He is the president of the Byrd Park Civic League.

Byrd began a long association with the University of Maryland as an undergraduate in 1905, and eventually rose to the position of university president from 1936 to 1954.

Byrd resigned as university president in order to enter politics in 1954.

Byrd was appointed to the post of assistant university president in 1918.

In 1932, Byrd was promoted to vice president of the university.

Opponents in The Baltimore Sun alleged that Byrd emphasized athletics over academics and belittled him as the only college football coach to rise to the position of university president.

Byrd organized the College Park Rotary Club and served as its first president.

During a halftime ceremony, Jets president Steve Gutman presented him with a trophy for the Most Inspirational Player Award, which would thereafter be called the Dennis Byrd Award.

* November 20 – Robert Byrd, U. S. senator from West Virginia and President pro tempore of the United States Senate ( d. 2010 )

Thurmond became President pro tempore of the US Senate in 1981, and held the largely ceremonial post for three terms, alternating with his longtime rival Robert Byrd depending on the party composition of the Senate.

During the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, several people holding offices in the line of succession ( among them Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate President pro tempore Robert Byrd ) were taken to " secure locations " in order to guarantee that at least one officer in the line of succession would survive the attacks.

He invoked the 25th Amendment in letters ( full text ) given to White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, who transmitted them by fax to Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert and President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd.

* On July 21, 2007, under the same circumstances as the 2002 invocation, President George W. Bush transmitted a letter to President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi declaring himself temporarily unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office prior to undergoing a colonoscopy which required sedation ( text of letters to Congress ).

* Following his re-election in 2006, Robert Byrd of West Virginia became chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and President pro tempore of the United States Senate, placing him third in line in Presidential succession.