Shortly after marrying Abram Poole in 1920, de Acosta became involved in a five-year relationship with actress Eva Le Gallienne.

When Acosta returned to Puerto Rico, he took a job as a professor of Botany and Maritime Sciences and became the director of the Civil Institute of Secondary Education.

Mr Jizhong Wei of China became the third President in the history of the FIVB after the 31st FIVB World Congress in Dubai approved by acclamation his election following the retirement of Dr Rubén Acosta after 24 years of outstanding success.

The road trip to Vegas became the basis for Thompson's book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with Acosta serving as the inspiration for the novel's Dr. Gonzo.

It comes from the Portuguese da Costa ( cognate of English " coast "), which in Spanish became de Acosta.

In 1920, she became involved with poet, novelist, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta about whom she was passionate for several years.

Huaycho became the capital of the province under the name Puerto Acosta ( meaning: " Port Acosta ") in honor of the writer Nicolás Acosta ( 1844-1893 ).

* John " coz " Acosta, member of band Forest for the Trees, vice-president American Federation of Musicians born South Bronx

According to Professor Ursula Acosta, a historian and member of the Puerto Rican Genealogy Society, the Kupferschein family emigrated from Austria to Trieste, where Franz Von Kupferschein was known as Francisco Confersin.

Following his discharge, Acosta worked his way through Modesto Junior College ; becoming the first member of his family to get a college education.

In 1968 Acosta moved to East Los Angeles and joined the Chicano Movement as an activist attorney, defending Chicano groups and activists, such as the S. O. S., Brown Berets member Carlos Filafasofa, and other underserved members of the East L. A. barrio.

Between 1865 and 1867, Acosta was a member of a Puerto Rican commission, which included Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Mariano Quiñones, and which participated in the Junta Informativa de Reformas de Ultramar ( Overseas Reforms Informative Board ) which met in Madrid.

That same year, whilst in Madrid, Acosta was made a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, for his work in the editing of Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra's Historia geografica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico.

* Armando Acosta ( contemporary ), doom metal drummer, former member of the band Saint Vitus

Cirilo Antonio Rivarola Acosta ( 1836, Asunción – 1879 ) was President of Paraguay March 1, 1870 – December 10, 1871.

It is well known for being the birthplace of the famous Chipa Barrero and for being located next to the fields of Acosta Ñú, where children were slain in a battle during the Paraguayan War ( 1864 to 1870 ).

While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper El Progreso ( Progress ) which was founded by José Julián Acosta and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico.

The municipality of Sabana Grande ( Spanish for Great Savannah ) was founded in 1813 by Pedro de Acosta, it is known in Spanish as " El Pueblo de los Prodigios " which translates to " The Town of Marvels.

Fernández Juncos first wrote for El Progreso ( Progress ), a newspaper founded by José Julián Acosta.

She also worked as a cashier at Pan American National Bank, a financial institution originally founded in 1963 by Romana Acosta Bañuelos.

Bercovici translated works from world literature: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Frank V ( 1964 ), Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta ( 1968 ), and Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder ( 1972 ), and wrote his own Yiddish-language plays, including Der goldener fodem (" The Golden Thread ", 1963 ), about Abraham Goldfaden ( who in 1876 founded the world's first Yiddish-language theater, in Iaşi, Romania ), and the musical revue A shnirl perl (" A Pearl Necklace ", 1967 ).

It was founded back in 1837 for the initiative of Captain Jeronimo Acosta.

Tradition states that El Almendro was founded in 1892, when Nery López, Perfecto Romero Acosta, Francisco González, and others, searchers of rubber trees and growers of Ipecacuanha ( known locally as raicilleros ) arrived looking for rubber and Ipecacuanha ( known locally as raicilla ).

** Nereus Acosta, Filipino politician, academician, and political scientist

An ardent liberal, de Acosta was committed to several political causes.

Manuel María de los Santos Acosta Castillo ( 1828 – 1901 ) was a Colombian General and political figure.

* Angel Moya Acosta, Cuban political activist

His father, an aristocratic Sephardic Portuguese Jewish, Daniel da Costa, a relative of Uriel Acosta, was a prominent merchant in the city of Amsterdam ; his mother, Rebecca Ricardo, was a near relative of the English political economist David Ricardo.

Acosta was the founder and editor of the newspaper El Progreso ( Progress ), and he collaborated with many other newspapers which were oriented toward liberalism.

Acosta was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in a small San Joaquin Valley rural town named Riverbank, California near Modesto, California.

After a 1917 coup by the brothers Federico Tinoco and Joaquín Tinoco, Acosta escaped to El Salvador, but led a counter-revolution, entering San José on 13 September 1919.

Carrillo was believed to be a part of the Guadalajara Cartel, sent to Ojinaga, Chihuahua to oversee his uncle's cocaine shipments, and to learn about border operations from Pablo Acosta Villarreal " El Zorro de Ojinaga " ( The Ojinaga Fox ).

His publications include Los nenúfares de piedra, stories, ( Ángel Acosta First Prize for Narrative, 1981 ); La cadena de agua y otros cuentos ( 1984 ); El camarote de la memoria ( Ángel Guerra Prize for Novel, 1986 ), edited by Cathedral Editorial ( Madrid, 1987 ) and reedited in the collection Anthology of Canary Literature ; La rotura indemne and La red, first prize for unanimity from the Competition of Canary Stories ( 1986 ); La mirada de plata, stories, 1991 ; Proa en nieblas, stories, Ediciones Baile del Sol, 2001 ( Tenerife ); Breves atajos, stories and short stories, Ediciones Baile del Sol, 2001 ( Tenerife ), and Línea de naufragio ( First Prize for unanimity from the VIII Competition Ateneo de La Laguna-CajaCanarias, 2002 ), published by Ediciones El Toro de Barro, Madrid / Cuenca, 2003.

* 1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.

Other important writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Gloria Anzaldua.

* 1867 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet ( d. 1908 )

* 1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite ( d. 1968 )

* Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina ( 2004 ): Los pingüinos ( Aves, Sphenisciformes ) fósiles de Patagonia.

* June 27 – 19-year-old American socialite Aida de Acosta becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, “ No. 9 ”, from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.

** Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite ( b. 1893 )

** Bert Acosta, American aviator ( d. 1954 )

* March 1 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite ( d. 1968 )

* February 18 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist ( b. 1540 )

** Cristóbal Acosta, Portuguese doctor and natural historian ( d. 1580 )

Left to right: Mayor John L. Davie, unknown, Eddie Rickenbacker, John M. Larsen ( aircraft salesman ), partially obscured unknown man, Bertrand Blanchard Acosta | Bert Acosta ( in cavalry boots ), J. J. Rosborough ( postmaster ), unknown.

Eddie Rickenbacker and Navy Lt. Bert Acosta ( pictured right ) at the controls of the Junkers F 13 re-badged as the model J. L. 6.