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Ray Rice

Name at birth: Raymell Maurice RiceRay Rice is the football player who was suspended indefinitely by the NFL in 2014 after the release of video showing him hitting his fiancee in a hotel elevator.…

Ray Liotta

Actor Ray Liotta was best known for playing Henry Hill, the central "wiseguy" in Martin Scorsese's mobster film Goodfellas (1990). Ray Liotta began his acting career in New York, where he had early…

Ray Combs

Ray Combs hosted the game show Family Feud for six years, replacing original host Richard Dawson in 1988 and in turn being replaced by Dawson, who returned to the show in 1994. Ray Combs was a…

Ray Charles

Ray Charles is famous for soulful pop hits like "Georgia On My Mind," "Hit the Road, Jack," and "I Can't Stop Loving You." Blind from the age of seven, Charles was a gifted pianist and saxophonist…

Ray LaHood

Ray LaHood, a former U.S. Representative from Illinois (1994-2008), served as the Secretary of Transportation under President Barack Obama from 2009-13. He led a 60,000-employee agency that regulates…

Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc is the American entrepreneur who turned McDonald's hamburger stands into an international success and the world's largest chain of restaurants. Ray Kroc's rags-to-riches story started in…

Ray Romano

A dark-haired average Joe with a New York accent, Ray Romano starred in the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005). After building a career on the stand-up comedy stage, Romano…

François Truffaut

Filmmaker François Truffaut was one of the founders of the French New Wave in cinema in the 1950s, and the director of The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, and Day for Night. He also sometimes appeared on…

Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot

(Encyclopedia) Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, 1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of…

reflection

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Image formation by curved mirrors and lenses reflection, return of a wave from a surface that it strikes into the medium through which it has traveled. The general principles…