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unusual facts about Charles A. Ray


Charles A. Ray

In September 2006, President Bush appointed Ray as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs.


Abraham Archibald Anderson

In 1900, Anderson commissioned the 10-story Bryant Park Studios building from the New York society architect Charles A. Rich.

Anti-submarine weapon

Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, commander of the U.S. submarine fleet in the Pacific, later estimated that May's revelation cost the navy as many as ten submarines and 800 crewmen.

Archives of American Gardens

The Garden Club of America Collection, which was donated in 1992, includes documentation of landscape architects such as Marian Coffin, Lawrence Halprin, Beatrix Farrand, Hare & Hare, Gertrude Jekyll, Umberto Innocenti, Jens Jensen, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele.

Bosquet

Bosquets, unfamiliar in American gardens, but introduced in the Beaux-Arts gardens of Charles A. Platt, were planted along the Fifth Avenue front of the Metropolitan Museum in 1969-70.

Carian language

Ray, John D., An approach to the Carian script, Kadmos 20:150-162 (1981).

Ray, John D., An outline of Carian grammar, Kadmos 29:54-73 (1990).

Carroll O. Switzer

In early 1949, President Harry S. Truman announced his plan to nominate Switzer to fill a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa vacated by Charles A. Dewey.

Charles A. Blanchard

Named after the King of Sardinia, Charles Albert Blanchard was ten years old when his father left the Galesburg, Illinois area to assume the presidency of the Illinois Institute, which was soon to become Wheaton College.

Charles A. Buckley

He was chairman of the House Committee on Pensions in the 78th Congress and 79th Congress and chairman of the Committee on Public Works in the 82nd Congress and from the 84th Congress through the 88th Congress.

Charles A. Gabriel

While assigned as CINCUSAFE, Gen Gabriel traveled to RAF Bentwaters and was briefed on the Rendlesham Forest Incident where U.S. Air Force personnel stated they had observed UFOs.

Charles A. Johns

On June 4, 1918, Johns was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Wallace McCamant by Governor James Withycombe after McCamant resigned.

Charles A. Kennedy

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (in the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), and the Committee on Rivers and Harbors (in the Sixty-sixth Congress).

Charles A. Kraus

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was awarded several medals from the American Chemical Society, including the Priestley Medal in 1950.

Charles A. Lockwood

He oversaw the moving forward of the Pacific Fleet submarine bases from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Australia to places like Saipan - where a submarine tender was stationed for a period of time - Guam, the Admiralty Islands, and Subic Bay, the Philippines.

Charles A. Moore

In 1947 he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Watumull Foundation to do a year of postdoctoral work at Banaras Hindu University.

Charles A. Murphy

Stationed in Cherry Point, North Carolina, Murphy served a six-month tour as a Staff Judge Advocate for the commanding officer aboard the USS Guadalcanal that deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and Mogadishu, Somalia, as part of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Charles A. Pascal, Jr.

Also in 2006, Pascal represented several members of the board of directors of PACleansweep (a group founded to oppose the legislative pay raise) who sued the group's founder, Russ Diamond.

Charles A. Prince

Later in the 1890s he worked as a musical director for Columbia Records and also conducted the Columbia Orchestra and Columbia Band starting in 1904 as successor to cornetist Tom Clark.

Charles A. Shibell

Additionally, John J. Valentine, Sr. Wells, Fargo & Co. would, as a direct response to Brazelton's criminal actions in Pima County, send special agent and future sheriff of said county, Bob Paul, to investigate on their behalf.

Charles A. Spano, Jr.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and a teacher by profession, he is married to Mary Rose McAndrew, with whom he has four children.

Charles A. Stevens

He was subsequently elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alvah Crocker and served from January 27 to March 3, 1875.

Charles Crosby

Charles A. Crosby, former mayor of the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Charles Holt

Charles A. Holt (born 1948), behavioral economist at the University of Virginia

Charles May

Charles A. May (1818–1864), American military officer and hero of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma

Charles Platt

Charles A. Platt (1861–1933), American landscape gardener and architect of the "American Renaissance" movement

Clandestine HUMINT and covert action

While General Charles A. Willoughby, intelligence officer (G-2) at Douglas MacArthur's headquarters asked CIA, in the absence of an Army HUMINT function, to establish special reconnaissance (SR) teams.

Evolving digital ecological networks

Just one year later, Thomas S. Ray developed an alternative system, Tierra, and performed the first successful experiments with evolving populations of self-replicating computer programs.

Forrest McDonald

In his book We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution, McDonald argued that Charles A. Beard (in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States) had misinterpreted the economic interests involved in writing the Constitution.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

George Kruck Cherrie

The other eighteen men who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews, Robert Bartlett, Frederick Russell Burnham, Richard E. Byrd, James L. Clark, Merian C. Cooper, Lincoln Ellsworth, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, George Bird Grinnell, Charles A. Lindbergh, Donald Baxter MacMillan, Clifford H. Pope, George Palmer Putnam, Kermit Roosevelt, Carl Rungius, Stewart Edward White, and Orville Wright.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, who was an assistant US military attaché and murder of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov in Paris, as well as involvement in the attempted assassination of American consul in Strasbourg Robert O. Homme.

Hamilton Cady

This constituted the first step in the development of the ammonia system of compounds, a concept which, owing to the later contributions of Edward C. Franklin and Charles A. Kraus, became an outstanding feature of American chemical achievement.

Hulcherama

The Hulcherama is a shutterless, motor-controlled panoramic camera designed and manufactured by the Charles A. Hulcher Company, Inc. in Hampton, Virginia.

Iowa–Iowa State football rivalry

Conceived and created as a traveling trophy by the Greater Des Moines Athletic Club in 1976, the trophy was first presented to the winner by Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray in 1977.

John H. Ray

He was an assistant to special representative of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker in 1919.

John Koerner

He intended to major in engineering, but soon became involved in the local music scene where he met Dave Ray and Tony Glover.

Kempster Blanchard Miller

Credited in 1928, along with F.R. Welles and Charles A. Brown, with donating 100 acres of land that would become Pilot Butte State Scenic View in Bend, Oregon.

KILJ-FM

According to the company website, the station was started by Frosty Mitchell and former Iowa governor Robert D. Ray in 1970.

Maat

Kings inherited the duty to ensure Maat remained in place and they with Ra are said to "live on Maat", with Akhenaten (r. 1372-1355 BCE) in particular emphasising the concept to a degree that, John D. Ray asserts, the kings contemporaries viewed as intolerance and fanaticism.

Mark 14 torpedo

Only in May 1943, after the most famous skipper in the Sub Force, Dudley W. "Mush" Morton, turned in a dry patrol, did Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Commander Submarine Force Pacific (COMSUBPAC), accept the Mark VI should be deactivated, but waited to see if Bureau of Ordnance commander Admiral William "Spike" Blandy might yet find a fix for the problem.

Mike Enich

He was appointed to the district court bench in November 1971 by Governor Robert D. Ray.

Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly

In an October 6, 2005 report by Charles A. Duelfer, a CIA adviser who led the arms-hunting Iraq Survey Group, Izmerly is alleged to have been a key figure in training other Iraqi chemists trying to make poison gas for military use in the 1970s, the leader of the effort to produce mustard gas, and in the 1980s was chief of the chemical section of the Iraq Intelligence Service.

Orontium aquaticum

However, in a 1988 paper by Thomas Ray, he argued that the structure was misidentified by Engler and was actually a sympodial leaf.

Solvated electron

Charles A. Kraus measured the electrical conductance of metal ammonia solutions and in 1907 was the first to attribute it the electrons liberated from the metal.

Stephen K. Ray

Some of his talks have also been featured in multiple audio titles distributed by Lighthouse Catholic Media.

Stiglitz Report

Besides Stiglitz, members of the commission included Andrei Bougrov, Yousef Boutros-Ghali, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Charles A. E. Goodhart, Robert Johnson, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Benno Ndulo, José Antonio Ocampo, Pedro Páez, Avinash Persaud, Yaga Venugopal Reddy, Rubens Ricupero, Eisuke Sakakibara, Chukwuma Soludo, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Yu Yongding and Zeti Akhtar Aziz.

Thomas S. Ray

Tom Ray is also a former member of the International Core War Society.

In The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons's conclusion to his famous Hyperion Cantos sci-fi series, it is revealed by the character of Aenea that the TechnoCore originated from a human experiment in which computer programs were allowed to compete for resources (e.g. memory) and evolve accordingly.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.


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