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Dray (name)
Dray is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Julie Dray, French actress *Julien Dray (born 1955), French politician * Tevian Dray (born 1956), American mathematician * Walter Dray (1886–1973), American track and field athlete * William Herbert Dray (1921–2009), Canadian philosopher of history *Dray Skky Dray Skky is an American songwriter born in South Carolina, and raised in Miami, Florida. Early life Dray Skky was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Mary Williams and Clifton Hicks. She signed to Millie Lewis Modeling Agency at the age of fiv ..., American songwriter * Dray Prescot, protagonist of a series of science fiction novels by Kenneth Bulmer (under the pseudonym Alan Burt Akers) {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Dray
Julie Dray is a French actress. She is best known to international audiences for her roles in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Crashing'' (2016), the HBO and Sky One science fiction series ''Avenue 5'' (2020), and the films ''Breaking the Bank'' (2014) and '' A Bird Flew In'' (2021). Early life At the age of thirteen, Dray won a magazine competition to interview a pop star. Through this experience, she was offered a job as a columnist, and used the money she made from the gig to pay for after school drama classes. Dray trained in acting at the Cours Simon and Cours Florent The Cours Florent is a private French drama school in Paris established in 1967 by François Florent. The school is located on three nearby sites in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France: rue Archereau, rue Mathis, and Avenue Jean-Jaurès; f .... In addition to French, she is fluent in English and Spanish as well as knowing some Hebrew and Norwegian. Filmography Film Television Video games Stage Awards a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Dray
Julien Dray (born 5 March 1955 in Oran, French Algeria) is a French politician. He is a member of the French Socialist Party, member of the regional council of Île-de-France and was a member of the National Assembly of France between 1988 and 2012. He was a Trotskyist activist till 1981 and a cofounder with his friend Harlem Désir of SOS Racisme, of which he was vice president from 1984 to 1988.Christophe Nick, ''Les Trotskistes'', Fayard, 2002, p.548 sq. Works *''SOS génération'', Ramsay, 1987 *''Lettres d'un député de base à ceux qui nous gouvernent'', Flammarion, 1989 *''La Guerre qu'il ne fallait pas faire'', Albin Michel Albin may refer to: Places * Albin, Wyoming, US * Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, US * Albin, Virginia, US People * Albin (given name), origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin" * Albin (surname) ;Mononyms * Albin of ..., 1991 *''Les Clairons de Maastricht'' (with Gérard Filoche), Ramsay, 1992 *''De la gauche en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tevian Dray
Tevian Dray (born March 17, 1956) is an American mathematician who has worked in general relativity, mathematical physics, geometry, and both science and mathematics education. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. He has primarily worked in the area of classical general relativity. His research results include confirmation of the existence of solutions of Einstein's equation containing gravitational radiation, the use of computer algebra to classify exact solutions of Einstein's equation, an analysis of a class of gravitational shock waves (including one of the few known exact 2-body solutions in general relativity), and the study of signature change, a possible model for the Big Bang. More recently, his work has focused on applications of the octonions to the theory of fundamental particles. He was a graduate student under Rainer K. Sachs at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981, although much of his dissertation research was done in coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Dray
Walter Remy Dray (March 21, 1886 in Peoria, Illinois – April 1, 1973 in Yorkville, Illinois) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Dray attended Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ..., where he was the captain of the track team. He held the world record in pole vault three separate times. In 1904 he was sixth in pole vault competition. He died in Yorkville, Illinois, aged 87. References External links * 1886 births 1973 deaths American male pole vaulters Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 1904 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Peoria, Illinois Track and field athletes from Illinois Yale Bulldogs men's track and field athletes 20th-century Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Herbert Dray
William Herbert Dray (23 June 1921, in Montreal – 6 August 2009, in Toronto) was a Canadian philosopher of history. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He is known for his version of anti- positivist ''Verstehen'' in history, in ''Laws and Explanation in History'',Michael Martin, ''Verstehen: The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences'' (2000), p. 103. and his work on R. G. Collingwood Robin George Collingwood (; 22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including ''The Principles of Art'' (1938) and the posthumously published .... Selected publications * Dray, William H. ''Laws and explanation in history''. Oxford University Press, 1957. *Dray, William H. ''Philosophy of history''. Prentice-Hall 1964. *Dray, William H. ''Holism and individualism in history and social science''. 1967. *Dray, William H. 'On the nature and role of narrative in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dray Skky
Dray Skky is an American songwriter born in South Carolina, and raised in Miami, Florida. Early life Dray Skky was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Mary Williams and Clifton Hicks. She signed to Millie Lewis Modeling Agency at the age of five and for two years she starred in various department store commercials and advertisements. In elementary school, Skky developed a passion for writing poetry and short stories. When she moved to Carrollton, GA in the third grade, a childhood friend, who played the guitar, convinced Skky to add melody to her poems. This is when Skky realized how much she enjoyed the art of songwriting. Career Nicknamed " Skky" by affiliates in the urban market who knew her as a songwriter/vocal arranger, she debut her vocal abilities on Trick Daddy's December 2006 album release ''Back By Thug Demand''. Rumors quickly spread in the Fall of 2007 that Skky had signed with Dunk Ryder Records, teaming up with Trick Daddy, Ice Berg, Fella, and Soup for what wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |