South Pole explorer Admiral Richard Byrd used the company's shortwave in 1933 to communicate from just off the Chilean coast to CBS Radio in New York City.

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It is evident in the 1, 200 sculptures, large and small, he created in, as he proudly noted, seven continents. (A de Weldon monument of Richard Byrd, an American polar explorer, is in McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).

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Duda hit a laser line drive into the second deck in right field in the second after Marlon Byrd singled off Richard (0-1).

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Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, challenged Byrd's description of the administration's request.

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