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2 unusual facts about Tom V. Ray


Tom V. Ray

Subsequently Ray moved to Chicago and began collaborations with many of that city’s leading musical lights, including Uncle Tupelo’s Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar, Jon Langford of the Mekons, the performance artist Brigid Murphy, and Poi Dog Pondering’s Frank Orrall.

Since 1999 he has been a member of Neko Case’s band, which he continues to tour and record with, contributing to such releases as Case’s 2009 Grammy-nominated album Middle Cyclone.


BCH code

BCH codes were invented in 1959 by French mathematician Alexis Hocquenghem, and independently in 1960 by Raj Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri.

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).

Charles A. Ray

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

Charles Ray

Charles W. Ray, Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient

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.

Franklin County, Indiana

Governors James B. Ray, Noah Noble and David Wallace were known as the "Brookville Triumvirate," in that they all had lived in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana and served consecutive terms in the office of Governor of Indiana.

George Ray

George W. Ray (1844–1925), United States Representative from New York

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.

Herbert J. Ray

In March 1942, as Chief of Staff and Aide to the Commandant of the Sixteenth Naval District, Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell, he participated in General Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines.

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 D. Ray

His principal field of interest covers the Late and Hellenistic periods of Egypt, with special reference to documents in the demotic script, and he is also known for deciphering the Carian script, a writing system used by Anatolian mercenaries who fought for the late-period Egyptians.

John H. Ray

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

In 1937 appointed VP & general council of Western Electric and in 1942 promoted to VP and general council of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, a position he held until mandatory retirement in 1951.

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.

He is best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the blues trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, which included Dave Ray and Tony Glover.

Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp.

Plaintiff Consolidated Freightways Corporation sued Raymond Kassel, director of the Iowa Department of Transportation, Iowa governor Robert Ray, and number of other state transportation officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, alleging that Iowa's statutory scheme unconstitutionally burdens interstate commerce.

KILJ-FM

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

Lit de Justice

He made one more winless start in France before being sold on July 17, 1994, to Carol and Cornelius Ray's Evergreen Farm located near Paris, Kentucky.

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.

Maria Pearson

Pearson protested to Gov. Robert D. Ray, finally gaining an audience with him after sitting outside his office in traditional attire.

Mike Enich

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

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.

Patrick Jonathan

A former student of Stanley Glasser, Edward Gregson and Don B. Ray, he cites the great English symphonist Richard Arnell as his mentor, and a major influence on his creative life.

Ronald D. Ray

In 1990, President Bush appointed Colonel Ray to the American Battle Monuments Commission, which is responsible for commemorating the services of American Armed Forces through the erection of memorials and maintaining cemeteries.

Ronald E. Ray

He supported the Republican Party, and worked on the successful presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush in 1984 and 1988, respectively.

Stephen K. Ray

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

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.

William Ray

William H. Ray (1812–1881), United States Representative from Illinois

Xenoglossy

A later examination by John D. Ray (the current Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge) confirmed "there could be no mistaking Hulme's incompetence".


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