However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

The team also brought back former Marlins greats and released the All-Time Florida Marlins team and top 10 moments from the franchise's 19 year history.

* Robert Sheets is the former director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Florida.

Bush is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.

In 1977, a former Miss America contestant and orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant, began a campaign " Save Our Children ", in Dade County, Florida ( greater Miami ), which proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Liberation movement.

* 1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

* 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

** Ralph Haben, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

** A Miami, Florida jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.

** In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

* September 14 – Ion Farris, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives ( d. 1934 )

* November 10 – Ion Farris, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives ( b. 1878 )

In 1973, the Florida Legislature passed a law restoring the former 400-year-old name, and the Board went along.

* Daniel Webster ( Florida politician ) ( born 1949 ), former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

MacLean is the former president and general manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets and former head coach for both the Blue Jackets and the Florida Panthers.

The part of U. S. 1 in Georgia, as it shifts from the coastal alignment in Florida to the Fall Line alignment in South Carolina, is generally very rural, passing through marshes and former plantations between the towns and cities of Folkston, Waycross, Baxley, Lyons, Swainsboro, and Augusta.

Per ESPN. com, the former champion boxer is facing a felony count of child abuse and turned himself in to Florida authorities in April 2012 on a warrant filed late last year.

After spending nearly five months on the run with Dawn Schiller, he was arrested in Florida on December 4, 1981 by his former police handlers, LAPD homicide detectives Tom Lange and Frank Tomlinson, and returned to Los Angeles.

The Spanish offered the slaves freedom and land in Florida ; they recruited former slaves as militia to help defend Pensacola and Fort Mose.

While most of the former slaves at Fort Mose went to Cuba with the Spanish when they left Florida in 1763, others lived with or near various bands of Indians.

1982, former member of the Florida House of Representatives ( 2001-2007 )

* Shiloh, Florida, a former village in Brevard County

The Alabama and Florida Railway operates a former branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad through Opp, the Alabama Farmers Co-op in Opp being the only industrial customer on the line.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

Yutaka Katayama ( Mr. " K "), former president of Nissan's American operations, would have had his personal wartime experiences in mind supporting the name Datsun.

In a one-on-one fight, Syn defeated and killed Captain Satan to take command of his ship and crew ; among them was Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter with whom Syn had become friends in England after rescuing him from the Customs men.

Mr. Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.

Both the IAEA and its former Director General, Mr. ElBaradei, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Mr. Steel did not call the motion but Murray ( now Lord Murray, a former Senator of the College of Justice of Scotland ) agrees that the Commons still have the right to initiate an impeachment motion.

A former monopoly world champion, Mr Prince is considered an expert in exposing opponents defences and stealthily raiding their areas.

* U Nu or Mr. Nu, a former Burmese prime minister

* Punch, the former British humour magazine, was named after Mr. Punch.

The missing witness, a former police inspector, said he had seen Mr McCauley with FARC-EP members in 1998.

Afterward, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.

An avid fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, he appeared in the season 4 episode " Moments of Transition " as a character named " Mr. Adams ," who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.

One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.

In 1652, during his second visit to England, Williams published The Bloody Tenent yet more Bloody: by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to wash it white in the Blood of the Lamb ; of whose precious Blood, spilt in the Bloud of his Servants ; and of the Blood of Millions spilt in former and later Wars for Conscience sake, that most Bloody Tenent of Persecution for cause of Conscience, upon, a second Tryal is found more apparently and more notoriously guilty, etc.

It concluded that two allegations were founded — that Taleyarkhan had claimed independent confirmation of his work when in reality the apparent confirmations were done by Taleyarkhan's former students and was not as " independent " as Taleyarkhan implied, and that Taleyarkhan had included an additional colleague's name on one of his papers who had not actually been involved in the research (" the sole apparent motivation for the addition of Mr. Butt was a desire to overcome a reviewer's criticism ," the report concluded ).

Being snowed in, Mr. Lockwood stays the night and is shown to an unused chamber, where he finds books and graffiti from a former inhabitant of the farmhouse named Catherine.

Mr. Long reported to the police that, while the three were drinking beer at 7 a. m., Davis pulled out a gun and started shooting with a gun he had obtained from the car of a former roommate.

Wadsworth has gathered all the guests together to confront Mr. Boddy and turn him over to the police, which he later reveals is his revenge against Mr. Boddy, who is his former employer, because Boddy's blackmail had resulted in Wadsworth's wife committing suicide.

Having used her former call girl Yvette to murder Mr. Boddy and the cook, she herself killed Yvette and the others to keep her true business of " secrets ( extortion )" safe, planning on using the information learned tonight for her own benefit.

In some countries, a former ambassador may continue to be styled and addressed as ambassador throughout their life ( in the United States, " Mr. Ambassador " or " Madam Ambassador " may be heard ).

In early 1971, a former Air Force electronics technician named John Draper ( later self-nicknamed Captain Crunch, Crunch, Crunchman, or Mr. Crunchtastic ) was informed by his phone phreak friend Joe Engressia that a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of the cereal could be easily modified to emit a tone at precisely 2600 Hertz, the same frequency that was used by AT & T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready to route a new call.

Cameron's Mr. Peterson voice was an in-joke imitation of their former director Gene Saks.