Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

Proof66's, a website that acts as an aggregator of professional ratings including the Beverage Testing Institute, as well as scores from other professional rating organizations, places Bacardí Reserva Limitada, Bacardí 1873 Solera, and Bacardí 8 in the First Tier of all rated spirits .</ br >

Sergio Danguillecourt, a member of the board of directors of Bacardi Ltd and a great-great-grandson of the rum company's founder Don Facund Bacardí i Massó, and his wife Jacqueline Kriz Danguillecourt were on board.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

Hemingway also mentioned Bacardí and Hatuey in his novels To Have and Have Not ( 1937 ) and For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1940 ).

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

In its 150 year history, Bacardí rum has won upwards of 400 awards for quality and product profile making it the world ’ s most awarded rum.

Emblems of gold medals and the Spanish Coat of Arms awarded during the formative years of the business appear on every bottle of Bacardí Rum.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Next to the stage was a bar, at which people crowded, ordering daiquiris and beer, all free .” A sign at the event read: Bacardí rum welcomes the author of The Old Man and the Sea.

In September 1953, his relatively prosperous family ( he was the son of a Bacardí executive ) sent him to study business management at Columbia University in New York, to take him away from the political turmoil of the time.

Bacardi Limited is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda and has a 16-member board of directors led by the original founder's great-great grandson, Facundo L. Bacardí.

Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Catalan wine merchant, was born in Sitges, Catalonia, ( Spain ) in 1814, and emigrated to Cuba in 1830.

Emilio Bacardí, Don Facundo's eldest son, was repeatedly imprisoned and was exiled from Cuba for having fought in the rebel army against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence.

In 1899 US General Leonard Wood appointed Emilio Bacardí Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.

In Santiago, his brother Facundo M. Bacardí continued to manage the company along with Schueg, who began the company's international expansion by opening new bottling plants in Barcelona ( 1910 ) and New York City ( 1915 ).

In 1930 Schueg opened the art deco Bacardi building in Havana and the third generation of the Bacardí family was entering the business.

Facundito Bacardí was known to have invited US-Americans ( still subject to Prohibition ) to " Come to Cuba and bathe in Bacardi rum.

Portuondo and other Bacardí family members initially supported the Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro and the broader M-26-7 movement: Bosch personally donated tens of thousands of dollars to the movement, and acted as an intermediary between the revolutionaries and the CIA to assuage the latter's concerns.

The Bacardí family ( and hence the company ) maintained a fierce opposition to Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the 1960s.

Bacardi Limited has made several acquisitions to diversify away from the eponymous Bacardí rum brand.

In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.

* May 9 – Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer ( b. 1814 )

In 1814 Facundo Bacardí, founder of the international rum brand Bacardi, was born in Sitges before emigrating to Cuba where he set up his company.

In the United Kingdom, he has been awarded 9 Platinum, 11 Gold and 8 Silver albums, and in the United States, 5 Platinum and 7 Gold.

Nicknamed " The Wizard " for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists ( 8, 375 ) and double plays ( 1, 590 ) by a shortstop ( the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel ), as well as the National League ( NL ) record with 2, 511 career games at the position ; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons ( 1980 – 1992 ).

" The house was put on the market for a reported $ 3. 8 million, and many fans, feeling it was the end of a major era in her life and career, tagged it as a " Kingdom Up For Sale ", a line from the song " Gold Dust Woman ".

On 8 January 1913, he received the prestigious Gold Medal from the Technical University in Delft, for his Study of the Interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence ( Laurenskerk ) in Rotterdam.

By the end of the day, the forces at Omaha were to have established a bridgehead five miles ( 8 km ) deep, linked up with the British 50th Division landed at Gold Beach to the east, and be in position to move on Isigny the next day, linking up with the American VII Corps at Utah Beach to the west.

For his injuries, Stauffenberg was awarded the Wound Badge in Gold on 14 April and for his courage the German Cross in Gold on 8 May.

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The community of Gold River consists of a residential planned development and some smaller subdivisions served by Gold River Discovery Center ( a K through 8 school ), as well as some retail, commercial and light industrial areas.

The racial makeup of Gold River was 5, 837 ( 73. 8 %) White, 195 ( 2. 5 %) African American, 20 ( 0. 3 %) Native American, 1, 426 ( 18. 0 %) Asian, 28 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 97 ( 1. 2 %) from other races, and 309 ( 3. 9 %) from two or more races.

In August 1882, the line was completed to Billings, and on September 8, 1883, spike-driving celebrations at Gold Creek, Montana forged the final link in the NP's chain across the continent.

* America's Castles: A & E Network documentary series on gilded age homes featured Peggy Phipps Boegner touring one of the Phipps family's estates on the episode airing August 8, 1995 entitled The Gold Coast

On May 8, 2008, eBay announced the opening of its newest building on the company's North Campus in San Jose, which is the first structure in the city to be built from the ground up to LEED Gold standards.

Of the over 30 albums Jimmy Buffett has released, as of October 2007, 8 are Gold Albums and 9 Platinum or Multi Platinum.

The engine within which adventures are played is based on the " Gold Box " engine that made its debut in the game Pool of Radiance, although some improvements have been made ( for instance, the color depth has been increased from 4 bits to 8 bits ).

The album broke the top ten in both the United Kingdom (# 5 ) and United States (# 8 ) and achieved Gold status on advance orders alone.

James William Marshall ( October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885 ) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, whose discovery of gold in the American River in California on January 24, 1848 set the stage for the California Gold Rush.

In 2008, she appeared in Fool's Gold, a romantic comedy released on February 8, and her second film to co-star Matthew McConaughey.

The " Fools Gold " single made number 8 in the UK singles chart, becoming the biggest-selling indie single of the year.

The most memorable moment for the franchise occurred on July 8, 1994, when the team played the Sacramento Gold Miners in the first ever CFL match involving two American based teams.

The Gold Miners were once again a part of CFL history when they played against the Las Vegas Posse in Sacramento on July 8, 1994.

The Gold Miners made a decided improvement from their 1993 inaugural season with a 9 – 8 – 1 record.