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Ray Shannon
Raymond Thomas Shannon (1 July 1917 – 7 June 2008) was a New Zealand butterfly collector who at one point had New Zealand's largest collection in private hands. His collecting began while on military service in WWII in the Solomon Islands, and continued for over fifty years. On his death his specimens were donated to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Museum. Life Shannon was born in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand, to Gertrude and Thomas Shannon. His childhood was spent in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, where he attended Whitiora Primary School and Hamilton High School, New Zealand, Hamilton High School, and later Wellington Technical College. As a young man he was a keen sportsman, excelling in rowing, swimming, rugby, and hunting. He graduated in 1940 from Victoria University College of the University of New Zealand with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Shannon joined the New Zealand Air Force in June 1942 as a radio mechanic, and served in Guadalcanal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ray may refer to: Fish * Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin Science and mathematics * Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point * Ray (graph theory), an infinite sequence of vertices such that each vertex appears at most once in the sequence and each two consecutive vertices in the sequence are the two endpoints of an edge in the graph * Ray (optics), an idealized narrow beam of light * Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state Arts and entertainment Music * The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s * Ray (musician), stage name of Japanese singer Reika Nakayama (born 1990) * Ray J, stage name of singer William Ray Norwood, Jr. (born 1981) *Ray (Bump of Chicken album), ''Ray'' (Bump of Chicken album) * Ray (Frazier Chorus album), ''Ray'' (Frazier Chorus album) * Ray (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), ''Ray'' (L'Arc-en-Ciel albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
