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3 unusual facts about Baird


Baird, Texas

It has one Dairy Queen, five churches, four gas stations, and no grocery store

Jack L. Anson

He was the author of The Golden Jubilee History of Phi Kappa Tau in 1957, A Diamond Jubilee History of the National Interfraternity Conference: 75 Glorious Years in 1984 and at the time of his death he was serving as editor of the current edition of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities.

William Raimond Baird

William Raimond Baird (1848–1917) was the namesake of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities and publisher of its early editions.


Allard Baird

After a terrible start to the season, Baird was fired on May 31, 2006 and replaced by Dayton Moore.

During his years as General Manager, Baird traded away popular players Johnny Damon, Carlos Beltran, and Jermaine Dye with many Royal fans feeling that the team didn't get equal value.

Baird House

Theodore Baird Residence, Amherst, Massachusetts, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and also known as Baird House (and listed as Baird House on National Register of Historic Places)

Battle of Blaauwberg

Baird sent Brig Gen William Beresford to negotiate with him, and the two generals conferred at a farm belonging to Gerhard Croeser near the Hottentots-Holland on 16 January without reaching agreement.

Bernard Natan

In November 1929, Natan established France's first television company, Télévision-Baird-Natan.

Bernhard Wise

He was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in April 1883, and in August 1883, he returned to Sydney with his fiancée, Lilian Margaret Baird, whom he married in April 1884.

Bil Baird

Baird's choice of his professional name inspired Termite Terrace cartoon writer Edward Stacey Pierce III to add a second "D" to his own professional name, calling himself Tedd Pierce.

Briny Baird

On May 19, 2009, Baird hit a 230-yard shot from the top of the Omni San Diego Hotel to a bulls-eye in the center of Petco Park in order to give everyone a free chicken wrap at P. F. Chang's China Bistro.

Bruce Baird

Baird's children include Julia Baird, columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald, and Mike Baird, the Treasurer of New South Wales in the O'Farrell government and a member of the NSW Legislative Assembly representing Manly for the Liberal Party since 2007.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

(Baird's and Slee's names now grace the two buildings which house the music department at the University at Buffalo, while the university's main administration building is named after Capen.)

Burton Memorial Tower

Its carillon was donated by Michigan alumnus Charles A. Baird, a lawyer and the first U-M athletic director, and has been christened the "Charles Baird Carillon".

Charles McKay

McKay collected a number of plants and animals for Baird, including a pair of a new species of bird which were named McKay's Bunting in his honour.

Charles Washington Baird

This collection includes an article on Charles W. Baird by Hughes Oliphant Old.

Charlie Baird

In February 2009, Baird presided over hearings related to the case of Tim Cole, a Texas Tech University student convicted of raping a fellow student in 1985.

Baird attended Kilgore College, then transferred to The University of Texas, graduating in 1976 with a degree in business administration.

Coraopolis Bridge

John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.

Craig Baird

Baird was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours 2010, for services to motorsport.

Eric Boon

This was achieved on Baird projection equipment using a 16-inch projection tube running at 45,000 volts, producing light levels comparable to that of normal films.

George Alexander Baird

George Alexander Baird (30 September 1861 – 18 March 1893) was a wealthy British race horse owner, breeder and the most successful amateur jockey (gentleman rider) of his day, who rode under the assumed name of Mr. Abington.

Baird's London house - 36 Curzon Street - came to him during an evening of dining and drinking with it's then owner Sir George Chetwynd, another man of the turf.

Hugh Baird

He only received an international cap in 2006, after a successful campaign was started by Gary Imlach calling for his father and other affected players (including Baird) to receive caps.

J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers

Baird was drafted shortly after the group formed and the band brought in J. Frank Wilson, after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base (San Angelo, Texas) and Sid Holmes subsequent mental deterioration in 1962.

Jason Baird Jackson

Jason Baird Jackson (born 1969) is the Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and an associate professor of folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.

Jenna Lambert

She entered Lake Ontario in Baird Point, New York, and swam 34 kilometres to Lake Ontario Park, in Kingston, Ontario.

Kingsley Baird

Kingsley Baird is a Wellington-based artist and designer whose commissions include the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the National War Memorial of New Zealand and Te Korowai Rangimarie - Cloak of Peace - at Nagasaki Peace Park.

Layah Jane

She has collaborated with a collection of Canada's finest musicians, including: Ben Riley (Bruce Cockburn), Mark Mariash (Ron Sexsmith, Sarah Slean), Bryden Baird (Feist), Mark McLean (Serena Ryder, Molly Johnson), Lyle Molzan (Jann Arden), Marc Rogers (K'naan, Philosopher Kings), Brian MacMillan (Kevin Hearn, Barenaked Ladies) and Burke Carroll (Kathleen Edwards) among others.

Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma

The only actors from the films to lend their voices were Ving Rhames, to the character of Luther Stickell, and actor John Polson, to the character of Billy Baird, reprising their roles from Mission: Impossible II.

Mount Thor

Donald Morton and Lyman Spitzer made the first ascent of Mount Thor in 1965 during the Alpine Club of Canada expedition led by Pat Baird.

Neoshamanism

Piers Vitebsky, The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul - Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon, Duncan Baird, 2001.

Palm Beach Zoo

Capybara, Blue and Gold macaw, Bush dog, Jaguar, Giant Anteater, Baird's tapir, Capuchin monkey, and Mexican spider monkey are among the species exhibited in this complex.

Pamela Baird

Prior to Leave It to Beaver, Baird appeared as Hildy Broeberg in ten episodes of the CBS western series, My Friend Flicka (1956–1957), starring Johnny Washbrook, Gene Evans, Anita Louise, and Frank Ferguson.

Real Life with Sharon Caddy

Guests have included Glen Peloso (Restaurant Makeover), Elizabeth Baird (Canadian Living), Mark Cullen, Ricardo (Ricardo and Friends), Anthony Sedlak, Christine Cushing, Garry Marshall, Hal Linden, Erica Ehm, Mike Chalut (Kim's Rude Awakening, W Network), Trisha Romance, Michael W. Smith and many others.

Robert Galloway

They had two sons, William Galloway born 1872 in Newcastle and James Baird Galloway born in 1874 at Gateshead.

Robert Sale

His regiment formed part of Baird's brigade of Harris's army operating against Tippoo Sahib, and Sale was present at Malavalli and the Battle of Seringapatam, subsequently serving under Colonel Arthur Wellesley in the campaign against Dhundia.

Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies

The Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, often referred to as the "Baird Commission", was created by the Canadian federal government under Brian Mulroney in 1989 to study the ethical, social, research, and legal implications of new reproductive technologies in Canada.

Samuel T. Baird

Born in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, Baird was educated under private tutors and attended the Vincennes (Indiana) University.

Sheldon B. Vance

Sheldon Baird Vance (January 18, 1917 – November 12, 1995), born in Crookston, Minnesota, was the U.S. ambassador to Zaire from May 27, 1969 through March 26, 1974.

Slim Dunlap

In 1991 Dunlap toured with ex-Georgia Satellites lead vocalist Dan Baird to promote the Baird's solo album, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired.

Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Arts Center

Squeaky Wheel is supported in part by the Baird Foundation, the Children's Foundation of Erie County, the Peter C. Cornell Trust, the Experimental Television Center, the Fund for the Arts, Hodgson Russ LLP, M&T Bank, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the John R. Oishei Foundation, Starbucks Foundation and our members.

Stuart Baird

Baird was rumored to have been hired to replace director Stephen Sommers on the film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, after he was allegedly fired following a disastrous test screening.

The Hemingway Hoax

Seventy-five years later in 1996, John Baird, a Hemingway scholar (and possessed of a completely eidetic memory), is persuaded by Sylvester "Castle" Castlemaine, a grifter in Key West, to create a fake manuscript to be passed off as one of the lost copies.

Vladimir K. Zworykin

This electronic system was officially adopted by the BBC whose experimental public broadcasts began in England in November 1936 and initially included the Baird-system.

William Alexander Baird

Following his departure from city council, Baird remained involved in the West York Conservative Association, and was the main in-party opposition to the incumbent MPP Forbes Godfrey, as the two disagreed on the issue of local option which enabled the ward to impose a ban on alcohol sales.

William Phipps Blake

Through his Yale contacts and Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institute, he was selected mineralogist and geologist of the Pacific Railroad Exploring Expedition of 1853, exploring a railroad route in southern California.


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