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  James Earl Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ray was quickly extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder, confessing to the assassination on March 10, 1969, (though he recanted this confession three days later) and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Ray and six other convicts escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee on June 10, 1977 shortly after Ray testified that he did not shoot King to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but were recaptured on June 13 and returned to prison.
Ray died in prison April 23, 1998 at age 70 from complications related to kidney disease, caused by hepatitis C.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Earl_Ray   (419 words)

  
 Death ray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The concept of a death ray is generally portrayed as some form of directed energy weapon that projects energy at a person or object in order to kill or destroy them.
A death ray weapon is under (Click link for more info and facts about active research) active research and development, but most examples of such weapons appear in (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction.
The difficulty in creating a death ray is that most weapons work not by transferring energy, but by matter causing physical damage at the point of impact.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/death_ray.htm   (1750 words)

  
 Death Ray - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1905 Death Ray was reported to have utterly eviscerated over three thousand bears, including one entire recently-endangered species, in a two and a half week period.
Death Ray died of bear poisoning and Severe Tissue Malfunction a month later, August 14th, 1905.
"Death Ray" was also the nickname given to the cybernetically reanimated body of the late Ray Charles.
www.uncyclopedia.org /uncyclopedia/index.php?title=Death_Ray   (496 words)

  
 Raygun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Types of raygun have various names: ray gun, death ray, beam gun, blaster, laser gun, etc. They supply the general role of guns in the scenarios of many stories.
When the laser, invented in 1960, became industrial reality in the 1960s, the generic fictional death rays were often renamed "lasers".
The ray fired is stated in each scenario to be laser or particle beam or plasma, or some form of energy which does not exist in the real world, or is undefined.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_ray   (807 words)

  
 Rayocide by Mark Bloch
Ray's School has most often been cited as a pun on the word "dance," and indeed it was, but the third element in that triangulation seems to have been forgotten—the French spelling of the word.
Ray's rigourous art of free association can easily be dismissed by those without the hearty tenacity required to follow the links from one correspondance to another.
Ray's clever pallette remains profoundly punctuated with the forgotten details that other people's lives would be made of, if we only had the time to ponder such things.
www.panmodern.com /rayjohnson/rayocide.html   (3800 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Ray (Biology, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ray was the first to name and make the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
Ray studied and wrote on quadrupeds, reptiles, and birds.
The Ray Society for the publication of scientific works was founded in his honor in 1844.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RayJ.html   (259 words)

  
 Ray Johnson
Ray’s death may have been a sad event for his friends, the art world, and society.
Ray Johnson was born (Staudek, 2003) in Detroit, Michigan in 1927.
Because Ray Johnson was the original "bridge" between so many of the people and sensibilities that dot the landscape of the international art scene and it's fringes, it is ironic that he took his own life at age 67 on January13th, 1995 by jumping from a bridge into the chilly waters of Sag Harbor.
www.digitalsalon.com /ray_johnson.html   (1994 words)

  
 CNN - Brother says James Earl Ray near death - April 22, 1998
Ray, 70, is serving a 99-year sentence for the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jerry Ray said his brother's blood pressure is too low for doctors to perform kidney dialysis, and attempts to raise his blood pressure have been unsuccessful.
Ray, who suffers from cirrhosis of the liver, has been in and out of the hospital more than a dozen times since December 1996.
www.cnn.com /US/9804/22/ray.update   (337 words)

  
 CNN - Death of James Earl Ray won't end assassination controversy - April 23, 1998
Ray's attorney, William Pepper, has worked for years to try to get the state of Tennessee to get Ray a trial, and the King family has supported those efforts.
Ray if we are given the opportunity to seek it out through one or another forum.
Ray is deceased, we do still believe that there is enough information that if a thorough job is done, we can only hope and pray that the truth one day emerges," he said.
www.cnn.com /US/9804/23/james.earl.ray.reax   (580 words)

  
 Ray Krone/Death Penalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(Ray Krone is this guy in Arizona who was in prison for 8 years, and then was on death row for 2 more years.
Ray Krone got his picture in the paper many times last week; he got to talk on a cell phone, eat a steak dinner, and swim in a hotel pool.
If Ray can't find a job in the next couple of weeks, then make him a security guard at the prison he just got out of.
home.earthlink.net /~oguuc/Raykrone.html   (353 words)

  
 Death Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Both have a death ray, some revolutionaries, and a fair share of intrigue but beyond that there is not much of a similarity.
The only actual scenes of the "death ray" shown in what survives of the film are laboratory experiments.
The climax apparently featured the "death ray" in action to settle a battle between the establishment and the revolutionaries.
www.silentsf.com /essay/deathray.html   (321 words)

  
 Tesla: The Electric Magician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On the evening of June 30, accompanied by his associate George Scherff atop Wardenclyffe tower, Tesla aimed his death ray across the Atlantic towards the arctic, to a spot which he calculated was west of the Peary expedition.
It was plain that his death ray had overshot its intended target and destroyed Tunguska.
The death ray was never reconstructed, and for that we should probably all be thankful.
www.parascope.com /en/0996/tesla4.htm   (965 words)

  
 Tesla's Death Ray
While Tesla wasn't the first (or last) to come up with a scheme for building a death ray, he was the one with the credentials to get the press to take him seriously enough to interview him without breaking out in a case of the giggles.
Maybe Tesla's death ray was unstoppable, but the towers look very stoppable indeed, so I doubt there would would have had a sudden khaki surplus even if Tesla's device had worked.
What puts Tesla's death ray in a league of its own is that his design actually had competent, even inventive, engineering about it.
www.davidszondy.com /future/tesla/teslaray.htm   (561 words)

  
 The Poker Page: Forty-Four   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Death Ray - This is played exactly like Forty-Four, except the third card represents a Death card.
If a player has a matching rank card to the Death card in their hand, they cannot win unless they successfully bluff out all other players who do not have Death cards.
the Death card cannot be used in a hand, nor can any other community cards which match it in rank, even if the Death card is also the Wild card.
www.oinc.net /poker/fortyfour.html   (204 words)

  
 Death Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thus the death ray was born in the mind of the popular press.
At least 10 people, it seemed, had been harbouring death rays in their private laboratories and sheds, and the War Office was inundated with claimants.
Yes, government officials had seen a demonstration of the alleged death ray – but they were keen to point out that the circumstances of demonstration were of Matthews’ choosing, at his laboratory with all equipment being provided and set up by him.
www.forteantimes.com /articles/174_deathray2.shtml   (2159 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Death Is a Lonely Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ray Bradbury, as his fans know, is a man who has published a lot of works through the years -- over 500 -- but only a handful of novels.
Death Is A Lonely Business, a very good title from a man who is a master of titles, published in 1985, was his first novel since 1962's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Strange deaths begin occuring around him, seemingly triggered by a mysterious encounter with a man he calls at one point "Death's friend".
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380789655?v=glance   (2487 words)

  
 Actual Case of Near-Death Experience - Ray
Here are the two near-death states experienced by Ray: one when he was only 10 years old, the second when 16.
It is important that experiencers like Ray share their episode with others, and talk especially about what happened afterward.
I was no longer Ray, my ego had dissolved but somehow I was still Ray with the same sense of humor and the same hang ups.
www.cinemind.com /atwater/RayNDE.html   (1671 words)

  
 Death Ray Gun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Soviets are employing just such a scalar "death ray" weapon in Afghanistan, apparently in the noses of some of their HIND helicopters.
This eery, instant death that leaves a non-decaying corpse is not due to a gas.
The description of Tesla?s death ray is very similar to the description of the Soviet particle beam weapon.
www.worldnewsstand.net /04/sprpt/2-1.htm   (1512 words)

  
 Ray Johnson Gallery
Ray Johnson has drawn "how to make Ray Johnson bunnies step by step," a parady similar to correspondence art school ads challenging readers to "draw this portrait" and return for analysis.
Indeed, through the years Johnson regularly asked friends and strangers alike to alter his bunny heads, what Ray termed as "add-ons." At other times the bunnies were assigned the names of persons either famous, unknown, or known only to Ray and his circle of friends, collectively known as the New York Correspondence School.
Ray Johnson's fl self-portrait was a contribution to the "Netshakers Stamp Sheet," a grouping of 99 mail artist portraits arranged by Crackerjack Kid for "Netshaker" zine (Volume 3, No. 1).
www.actlab.utexas.edu /emma/Gallery/galleryjohnsonpix.html   (874 words)

  
 DEATH RAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The potential for a death ray that would fire a particle beam or laser or radiation stream sufficiently powerful to kill humans, has been part of science fiction at least through the 20th century, and the subject of at least some serious weapons research.
Through the 1930s the atomic bomb and radiological weapon were proposed, and the related, more selective, surgical idea of a death ray was probably more appealing than wanton and horrific destruction by such means.
It is not clear whether this was part of a general plan to facilitate the Collapse of the Soviet Union by misdirecting the Soviets into investing in research that had no practical outputs (this was a common Cold War strategy on both sides).
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/DEATH+RAY   (440 words)

  
 Death Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Death Ray is ubiquitous from science fiction to Conspiracy Theory.
It wasn’t a name he chose for himself, but of all the inventions Harry Grindell Matthews was known for, it was the death ray for which he was both feted and vilified.
The first was a ray which would disable the Zeppelins, and the second was a ray which could control unmanned craft.
www.forteantimes.com /articles/174_deathray.shtml   (1226 words)

  
 Death Ray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But Ray showed B.C. and the 32,844 fans at Commonwealth that he could play as he led the Esks to a 37-27 win over the Lions.
The 23-year-old castoff of the San Francisco 49ers and escapee from the arenafootball2's Fresno Frenzy threw four touchdown passes on the night as the Esks improved to 4-1-0-0 on the season.
Two of Ray's 21 completions were third-quarter TD tosses to Ed Hervey, who was making his first start of the season for the Green and Gold.
www.jdeq.com /Slam020727/cfl_edm-sun.html   (840 words)

  
 'Death Row Defender,' Ray Dix Publishes Award Winning Debut Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dix’s two-time award winning novel, "Death Row Defender," opens reader’s eyes to what goes on behind the scenes in a murder trial and how easily an innocent man can be convicted and sentenced to death.
Hard Shell Word Factory is proud to announce the release of Ray Dix’s debut novel, "Death Row Defender." In "Death Row Defender," a man who swears he is innocent faces execution in Florida's electric chair.
Ray Dix served in the Army Security Agency, and in the Coast Guard reserves.
www.prweb.com /releases/2005/10/prweb298165.htm   (472 words)

  
 Tremorous Night of the Death Ray
Beyond this speculation of a death ray of unthinkable power lies a conspiracy theory wild enough to fit comfortably in either paranoid fantasy or "believe-it-or-not" reality.
Tesla claimed he could snap the Earth in two, could destroy aircraft 400 km away with a death ray, and could use electromagnetism to dump vast amounts of energy in microseconds on any target he wished.
It was a bit odd." Enter the death ray: "US researchers believe what was demonstrated (during the 1993 fireball) was the earthquake-inducing power of the weapon, followed by a Tesla shield, produced by the same technology." The Tesla shield, apparently, is an anti-ballistic missile defence.
www.ufomind.com /misc/1997/mar/d22-001.shtml   (1348 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US military pioneers death ray bomb
American military scientists are developing a weapon which kills by delivering an enormous burst of high-energy gamma rays, it is claimed today.
The science behind the gamma ray bomb is still in its infancy, and technical problems mean it could be decades before the devices are developed.
Experts have warned that if the US scientists succeed in building a gamma ray bomb, it could force other countries to start nuclear programmes, or worse, encourage those who already possess nuclear weapons to use them.
www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1018300,00.html   (583 words)

  
 From Death Ray to Household Appliance
It was the elaborate death ray that could cut steel---and threaten secret agents as Goldfinger threatened James Bond in the 1964 movie.
But two years before Goldfinger hit the theaters, optics experts were telling their colleagues they could build a far simpler laser that would eventually fit on a tiny chip, and be efficient enough to run with a small battery.
With the next James Bond movie coming soon, you may not see any death rays about to spoil 007's tuxedo-but on the way to the theater you may use dozens of lasers so tiny and reliable you probably won't notice they're there.
www.insidescience.org /reports/2002/056.html   (648 words)

  
 Glubco Weaponry Presents the Death Ray O2Cannon Of Doom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Death Ray is an oxygen cannon using a nine thousand volt power supply to ignite the reaction chamber with an ultra hot plasma arc.
The Death Ray is not a meant for use as a weapon.
Never fire seal-a-meal bags 2" in diameter from the Death Ray if they are filled with 5 oz of gasoline.
www.glubco.com /weaponry/cannon.htm   (123 words)

  
 Jimmy Ray Slaughter - Death Row, Oklahoma
Jimmy Ray Slaughter, 57, insisted he was not guilty even as the mix of lethal chemicals was injected into his arms at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
It was a lie from the beginning," he said while strapped to a gurney in the Oklahoma death chamber.
Slaughter was the 76th person executed in Oklahoma since the state resumed capital punishment in 1991, 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a national death penalty ban.
www.ccadp.org /jimmyrayslaughter.htm   (548 words)

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