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2 unusual facts about Eugene K. Bird


Eugene K. Bird

Lieutenant Colonel Eugene K. Bird (11 March 1926 – October 28, 2005) was US Commandant of the Spandau Allied Prison from 1964 to 1972 where, together with six others, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess was incarcerated.

After the publication of the book, Bird campaigned to have Hess released from what had effectively become permanent solitary confinement after Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released in 1966.


Auto-Train Corporation

A concept of Auto-Train Corporation founder Eugene K. Garfield, a former employee of the US Department of Transportation, the novel approach allowed families to relax en route and save the expense and unfamiliarity of a rental car on arrival.

Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company

The store was started by Kersey Coates and William Gillis in the 1860s in the then Town of Kansas at the corner of Missouri Avenue and Main Street.

Eugene K. Garfield

He served as the primary advisor to the Governor of Florida and the Florida Department of Transportation on the development of a high speed rail system in Florida.

Jennifer Oxley

Jennifer Oxley is the creative director of Wonder Pets and 3rd & Bird, children's television series that appear on Nick Jr., Noggin, and CBeebies.

John Bird

John T. Bird (1829–1911), American Democratic Party politician and businessman

John E. Bird (1862–1928), member of the Michigan Supreme Court, 1910-1928

Josh Selig

Josh Selig is the founder and president of Little Airplane Productions, which is the creator of Wonder Pets, Oobi, 3rd & Bird, and Small Potatoes.

Konstanty Kalinowski

Jan Zaprudnik, Thomas E. Bird: Peasant's Truth, the Tocsin of the 1863 Uprising in: Zapisy Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 14.

Linda J. Bird

Her personal awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, and various campaign and unit awards.

Meertens number

It was "given" to Lambert Meertens by Richard S. Bird as a present during the celebration of his 25 years at the CWI, Amsterdam.

Michael J. Bird

His series for the BBC all had the common theme of being set in the Mediterranean - The Lotus Eaters and Who Pays the Ferryman? were set in Crete, The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979) was set in Cyprus and The Dark Side of the Sun took place on Rhodes.

Pebbles, Volume 4

Dave Edmunds – the only artist represented who is not American – had numerous hit songs in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including 1970's international success, "I Hear You Knocking." The Trashmen are renowned for their 1963 hit "Surfin' Bird" and are a prolific enough band that a 4-CD box set was released several years ago on Sundazed.

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

In 2007 the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority (PA) banned the book and issued a directive to pull Professor Kanaana's book from school libraries and destroy it, however, the ban was later lifted.

The Best of The Ramones

# "Surfin' Bird (Live)" - (Al Frazier/Sonny Harris/Carl White/Turner Wilson)

Van Orden v. Perry

The appeal of the 5th Circuit's decision was argued by Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and the Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, who represented Van Orden on a pro bono basis.


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