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Man Ray
Man Ray 1890-1976, American photographer, painter, and sculptor, b. Philadelphia. Along with Marcel Duchamp , Ray was a founder of the Dada movement in New York and Paris. He is celebrated for his later surrealist paintings and photography. Among his inventions is the rayograph, a photograph obt... Read more
Piltdown man
Piltdown man name given to human remains found during excavations (1908-15) at Piltdown, Sussex, England, by Charles Dawson. The find led to much speculation and argument. Since they were found with remains of mammals of the Lower Pleistocene epoch, they were supposed to belong to a "Piltdown man... Read more
cosmic rays
cosmic rays charged particles moving at nearly the speed of light reaching the earth from outer space. Primary cosmic rays consist mostly of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms), some alpha particles (helium nuclei), and lesser amounts of nuclei of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and heavier atoms. These n... Read more
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson 1920-89, American boxer, b. Detroit. His real name was Walker Smith. He began boxing after three years of high school in New York City. Having won all his amateur fights (about 90), including the Golden Gloves featherweight title, Robinson turned professional in 1940. He won the ... Read more
Hans Richter
Hans Richter , 1888-1976, American artist, b. Germany. A painter and filmmaker, Richter was influenced by cubism and Dada and was a member of the Dutch de Stijl group (see Stijl, de ). His preoccupation with continuity led him first to scroll painting and then to the making of abstract films su... Read more
Sir William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg 1862-1942, English physicist, educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served on the faculties of the Univ. of Adelaide in Australia (1886-1908), the Univ. of Leeds (1909-15), and the Univ. of London (1915-23). From 1923 he was Full... Read more
Dada
Dada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with the poetry of the Romanian Tristan Tzara . Dada attacked conventional standar... Read more
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller , 1890-1967, American geneticist and educator, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1910; Ph.D., 1916). A student of Thomas Hunt Morgan , he taught (1915-18) at Rice Institute, Tex., at Columbia (1918-20), and at the Univ. of Texas from 1920 until he became senior geneticis... Read more
Sir Bernard Lovell
Sir Bernard Lovell (Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell), 1913-, English radio astronomer, b. Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, England, Ph.D. Univ. of Bristol, 1936. He was a member of the cosmic-ray research team at the Univ. of Manchester, was occupied with radar research during World War II, and i... Read more
sting
sting in zoology, organ found in bees, many wasps, some ants, and in scorpions and sting rays, used defensively as well as to kill or paralyze prey. In the bee and the wasp the venom is produced by glands associated with the ovipositor (egg-laying organ) of the female. As symptoms differ, it is a... Read more

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cosmic rays
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...producing secondary cosmic rays of protons, neutrons, mesons, electrons, and gamma rays of high energy, which in turn...indicates the energy of the primary ray, which may be as high as 10...highest energy yet produced in a man-made particle accelerator; however, cosmic rays of lower energy ...
Nicholas Ray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of In a Lonely Place, which Ray explored again in later works...and Johnny Guitar, reflected Ray's attitude about the McCarthyism...believed was a Communist menace, Ray watched the destruction of the...nothing to win a battle over a man; the John Wayne vehicle The...shelters him; and The Lusty ...
Man Ray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Man Ray Man Ray (1890-1976), painter, photographer, and object maker, was the...printing color photographs. From the early 1950s until his death in 1976, Man Ray lived in France. He spent that time working on a variety of different projects...
Dixy Lee Ray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Dixy Lee Ray Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) was a marine...and a center for scientific symposia. Ray also became a local television personality...popular success. In 1967 Seattle named Ray its Maritime Man of the Year in recognition of her success...
Charles, Ray
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Ray Charles Born: September 23...The African American musician Ray Charles was widely admired as...music known as soul. Early life Ray Charles Robinson was born in...Charles remembered that "The old man … was hardly ever around...
Ray Stannard Baker
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Ray Stannard Baker The American author Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) was a...official biographer of Woodrow Wilson. Ray Stannard Baker was born in Lansing...and thousands of homeless, starving men in the streets. "My attitude was that...
Bradbury, Ray
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Ray Bradbury Born: August 22, 1920...screenwriter, and dramatist Ray Bradbury was among the first...Chronicles (1950), an account of man's colonization of Mars, established...short stories, The Illustrated Man (1951), the stories are based...
Ray Bradbury
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury (born 1920) was among the first...collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man (1951), also uses a framing device, basing...The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. Bradbury shifted his focus in these volumes...
Ray, Man
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Ray, Man (1890–1976) US photographer, painter, sculptor, and film...founder of the New York Dada movement with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Ray is best known for photographs produced without a camera by placing objects...
Bradbury, Ray (Douglas)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Bradbury, Ray [Douglas] (1920–), born in Illinois, long resident...in England), about Mars a century hence; The Illustrated Man (1951); The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), satirical...Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (1973), Where Robot Men and Robot Women Run Round in Robot Towns (1977), and ...

Dictionary entries related to "Man Ray"

Ray, Nicholas
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers RAY, Nicholas Nationality: American...Schwab (divorced); 4) Susan (Ray), four children. Career...Dangerous Ground ; The Lusty Men 1954 Johnny Guitar 1955 Run for...Forman) (role) Publications By RAY: articles— "Portrait...
Ray, Man
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...ph, asst) Publications By RAY: books— Self-Portrait...x2014; Belz, Carl, The Role of Man Ray in the Dada and Surrealist...1963. Penrose, Roland, Sir, Man Ray, Thames and Hudson, 1975...Rizzoli, 1977. Esten, John, Man Ray: Bazaar Years, Rizzoli...Fall 1991. Hopkins, ...
Sugar Ray
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 SUGAR RAY Formed: 1992, Newport Beach...stars. The members of Sugar Ray have spent their entire career...rock proclivities, the five-man band spent the 1990s surfing...songs. If you listen to Sugar Ray's major label debut, Lemonade...named one of America's sexiest men by People magazine in ...
Man Ray
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Man Ray (1890–1976). American painter...Emmanuel Radinski, but he was known only as Man Ray from the age of about 15 because other...the mainstays of the New York Dada movement. Man Ray also collaborated with Duchamp and Katherine...
Milland, Ray
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers MILLAND, Ray Born: Reginald Truscott-Jones...mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, 1976, and Seventh Avenue...as Joe Reynolds) 1932 The Man Who Played God (Adolfi) (as...Santell) (as a rich young man); Payment Deferred (Mendes...Reed) (as Ken Warren); Men with Wings (Wellman) (as Scott...
Harryhausen, Ray
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers HARRYHAUSEN, Ray Special Effects Technician and Director...Argonauts (Chaffey) (+ assoc pr) 1964 First Men in the Moon (Juran) 1966 One Million Years...1950s until his retirement in the 1980s, Ray Harryhausen set the standards for stop...
Al-Bīrūnī (or Bērūnī), Abū Rayḥān (or Abu’l-Rayḥān) Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x12B; ), Ab ū Ray ḥ ā n (or Abu ’ l-Ray ḥ ā n) Mu...va. There also Ab ū Ray ḥ ā n, spent...x16B; Na ṣ r Man ṣ ū r. At...
Charulata
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1965. Houston, Penelope, "Ray's Charulata," in Sight and...Stanbrook, Alan, "The World of Ray," in Films and Filming (London...no. 3, 1966. "Satyajit Ray Issue" of Montage, July 1966...Satyajit Ray: Genius Behind the Man," in Film (London), Winter...
Rebel Without a Cause
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...USA, 1955 Director: Nicholas Ray Production: Warner Bros. Pictures...Shulman of a storyline by Nicholas Ray inspired from the story "The...Hopper (Goon ); Ed Platt (Ray ); Steffi Sydney (Mil ); Marietta...Kempton, Murray, "Mother, Men and the Muse," in Show (Hollywood...
Chatterjee, Soumitra
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...film for the director Satyajit Ray, Apur Sansar ; 1962—...The World of Apu ) (Satyajit Ray) (as Apurba Kumar Roy) 1960 Devi (The Goddess ) (Satyajit Ray) (as Uma Prasad); Kshudista...Mahapurush (The Coward and the Holy Man ) (Satyajit Ray) (as Amitabha...

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Rays put sting on Zito for 15 hits to beat A's
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 7/9/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...starts against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. With Oakland spinning its wheels...lackluster 9-3 loss to the Devil Rays before 13,162 fans at the Network...early in the count, the Devil Rays usually jumped all over the offering...inning bunt ended up in no-man's land between Zito and first...
WHOA, RAY, NOT SO FAST!
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/15/1988; ; 700+ words ; Ray Flynn acts like an escapee from...is in the corner office. But Ray has always kept his own calendar...expense of needy people,' " Ray said to reporters after emerging...meeting with Gorbachev's advance men instead of Ray from across the...
RACHAEL RAY TIMELINE: A MEDIA STAR IS BORN.(special report: Rachel Ray Tribute)(Chronology)(Biography)
Magazine article from: TelevisionWeek; 1/15/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...N.Y., recruits Rachael Ray-who had been teaching cooking...10,000 copies locally. Ms. Ray and publisher Hiroko Kliffner...2 million books. 2001 - Ms. Ray publishes two more "30-Minute...and peaks at No. 38. 2003 - Men's magazine FHM runs a photo...
READ ALL ABOUT THIS MAN 'RAY'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/3/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...is a fireman. Ray is a teacher. Ray picks up trash, shovels sidewalks...busy streets and finds lost dogs. Ray is sort of everyman. Ray plays B-Ball with the boys hanging on the corner, buys coffee for the men who sleep on grates, drives around...
Ray Barretto, 1929-2006
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...When I got the news that Ray Barretto had been taken...me. "Open your ears, man," he'd say, buthe...am here to tell you that man, this rivalry was serious...riot. "You see, bro?" Ray would say in that low drone...he playing? Come on, man, it's the same changes...
Blu-ray Discs Production Surge Expected by December.
PR Newswire; 7/11/2008; 700+ words ; ...attractive promotion on buying Blu-ray Disc players (http://www...gift of reserved- copy Blu-ray video discs will be given. That...buyers of BDP- S300 Blu-ray Disc player will receive three...discs: Kung Fu Hustle, Spider-Man 3 and Open Season. At present...
A Clarke-Ray Feud by Mail
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/30/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...Democrats David A. Clarke and John Ray have eyed each other warily on...Jackson. On Election Day, Ray and Clarke, who were both supporting...Backus is in Precinct 66, Ray's precinct and one of the highest...you really wanted to help the man and the cause, surely you would...
Ray deserves a real trial
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/24/1997; ; 700+ words ; James Earl Ray, the two-bit thief imprisoned...of evidence that the dimwitted Ray was just a patsy in a conspiracy...are supporting the request of Ray, now 68 and reportedly dying...a role in silencing the black man they professed to fear, but...
Ray was Shakespeare of Indian cinema: book
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/4/2005; 700+ words ; ...compared the legendary Satyajit Ray's cinema with the sun and the...Robinson in the form of "Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema", which...Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without...Philosopher's Stone', 'The Holy Man'), fantasies (the musicals...
KING, RAY FAMILIES AGREE TRIAL KEY TO RESOLVING KILLING.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 2/9/1997; 700+ words ; ...into forever. James Earl Ray, the man who went to prison for the...King.'' It might be that Ray has told all he knows...the fact remains that a man who went to prison for murdering...from London who represents Ray. Ray has talked to reporters...