Isnyour name Ray?
n IF YES → Celebrate May Ray Day!
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nIfnit sunny today? (with plenty of sun rays)?
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n IF YES →nCelebrate May Ray Day!
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nIfnNO, go on.
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nDonyou enjoy sunny days, with plenty or rays?
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n IF YES → Celebrate MaynRay Day! n
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nThisnholiday is an excuse to go outdoors and soak up some rays. And it’snalso a day for people named Ray.
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n(Bynthe way, if you do go outside, be sure to wear protection against thensun—sunscreen and your Ray-Bans or other sunglasses.)
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nHerenare a few of my favorite Rays / rays:
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nRaynCharles was a musician who went blind at age 7 but became anlegend as an adult. He is credited with being a pioneer in soul musicnand racially integrating country and pop music. Check out Ray singingnGeorgia on My Mind and America the Beautiful.
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nMantanrays are large fish that are close relatives of sharks. Likenother rays and skates, they have almost diamond-shaped bodies. Andnwhen I say large, I mean up to 23 feet (7 meters) wide! Tryndrawing a manta wave using this Art for Kids Hub video.
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nInngeometry, a ray is a line that has a beginning, but no end.nThis is kind of like a ray of light coming from a star. The light raynhas a starting point (the star) but no ending point; it just goes onnforever. (In reality, a lot of light does not go on “forever,”nbut gets absorbed when it runs into a planet, or anbit of interstellar dust, or a star, etc..)
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nDorothynJean Ray was an author and anthropologist who studied NativenAlaskan art and culture. Check out Alaska Native Arts Organization.
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nRaynBradbury was a science fiction author of best-selling books such as The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes,nand Fahrenheit 451.n I personally find Bradbury’s writing interesting but upsetting. Herenis a link to a story about children who live on Venus. (Note thatnBradbury wrote the story before our space probes and other machinesndiscovered that Venus is super hot!) WARNING: This story is somewhat disturbing.
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nPlannAhead…
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards of Maynholidays, historicalnevents in May,nand Maynbirthdays.
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nAlsonon this date:
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nBirthdaynof the Ringling Brothers Circus
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nMalcolmnX Day