However in July 1797 he had lost an arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and had been forced to return to Britain to recuperate.

Initially, Cruz had no ambition to be an actress and focused on dance, having studied classical ballet for nine years at Spain's National Conservatory.

" When Rose asked Cruz if she was concerned about how she would be perceived after her role in the film, Cruz replied, " I just knew I had to do the complete opposite.

Cruz stated that she had difficulties understanding people speaking English while she was filming The Hi-Lo Country.

The following year, Cruz had a minor role in the horror film Gothika, as Chloe Sava, a patient at a mental hospital.

Variety reported that Cruz had originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman.

Cruz has appeared in print ads for Mango and had a contract with Ralph Lauren in 2001.

Ever since October 1821, when the former Governor General, Juan de la Cruz Mourgeón, left the isthmus on a campaign in Quito and left the Veraguan colonel in charge, the separatists had been slowly converting Fábrega to the separatist side.

Spaniards moved northwestward across the Chaco to found Santa Cruz in Bolivia ; eastward to occupy the rest of present-day Paraguay ; and southward along the river to refound Buenos Aires, which its defenders had abandoned in 1541 to move to Asunción.

Soon after the article appeared, the programmer for a local midnight film series in Santa Cruz decided to screen The Big Lebowski, and on the first weekend they had to turn away several hundred people.

This declaration by UNESCO will, occur, further promoting international had Santa Cruz de Tenerife, being the first Carnival of Spain to obtain this recognition, for its permanent in time and it would reach the five continents through UNESCO.

In November 1991, after the massacres at Santa Cruz ( near Dili, East Timor ), Kelly had supported Indonesian President Suharto and declared him to be a moderate with no alternative to his rule.

The Argentine Chancellor Alberto Vignes drafted with Juan Perón, who had returned from exile in 1973, a decree granting Gelli the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Libertador in August 1974, as well as the honorary office of economic counselor in the embassy of Argentina in Italy.

The Japanese naval construction units and combat troops, under the command of Captain Kanae Monzen, panicked by the warship bombardment and aerial bombing, had abandoned the airfield area and fled about west to the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area, leaving behind food, supplies, intact construction equipment and vehicles, and 13 dead.

She also meets and becomes deeply involved with several characters: Rosa, a young nun who works in a shelter for battered prostitutes and is pregnant by Lola ; Rosa's mother ; Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired ; and the drug-addicted Nina Cruz, Huma's co-star and lover.

During the coroner ’ s inquest on Morgan's murder, Pete Spence's wife Marietta Duarte testified that her husband, Frank Stilwell, Frederick Bode, Florentino " Indian Charlie " Cruz, and an unnamed half-breed Indian had turned up at her home an hour after the shooting, and that Spence threatened violence if she told what she knew.

Celia Cruz, who had a successful career in Cuba, was able to transition well to salsa in the United States.

Together the couple had five children: Sancho Ramírez, his successor ; García, Bishop of Jaca ; Sancha, married Armengol III of Urgel ; Urraca, nun in Santa Cruz de la Serós ; and Theresa, married William Bertrand of Provence.

At the Santa Rita mines in nearby Santa Cruz Valley, three superintendents had been killed by Indians.

Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, frontier settlement at Santa Cruz had produced a rustic and self-reliant population.

A map attributed to a Spanish cosmographer Alonzo de Santa Cruz, who had access to all documents relating to the maritime expeditions of Spain ( i. e., Niza ’ s, deSoto ’ s & Coronado ’ s ) designates yet another name for the Trinity River.

Governor Francisco de Garay of Jamaica had commissioned him to explore the Gulf Coast from Florida to Vera Cruz.

In The Girl of Your Dreams, Cruz portrayed Macarena Granada, a singer who is in an on-and-off relationship with Antonio Resines's character, Blas.

While working on " La Viuda de Blanco " she began a personal association with producer Carlos Alberto Cruz ; they legalized their relationship in a private ceremony.

Governor Cruz Bustamante and Governor Gray Davis were both Democrats, they reportedly had an icy relationship and had not spoken in months before the 2003 California recall election approached.

As Cruz and Eden began dating during this period, their differing ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, became major hurdles in their relationship.

Despite this, Cruz and Eden continued with their relationship and were soon engaged.

This caused a great deal of tension in the relationship since Cruz often found himself struggling between his duty as a police officer and his loyalty to Eden.

After a couple of months, Eden was cleared of any suspicion of her father's attempt murder, but the damage to her relationship with Cruz had been done.

Buddy and Pilar's mother, Mercedes Cruz, had forbidden the relationship when they were teenagers ; Sam and Pilar had assumed that racial prejudice was the reason, although Buddy had always enjoyed cordial relations with the county's Mexican population.

Shinn's and Stella's relationship was praised by Cruz for the friendship mainly they made because both of them were unnaware they are enemies.

As a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he conducted research in the ontogeny of self / non-self boundaries and the evolution of the nervous system and its relationship to space-time dimensionality and was awarded a Masters degree in biology from the University of California in 1989.

Twice a week he drove his tallyho over the Santa Cruz road, upland and through the redwood forest, with orchards below him at one hand, and glimpses of the Pacific at the other.

In the late 1990s, under Project Monterey, IBM and the Santa Cruz Operation planned to integrate AIX and UnixWare into a single 32-bit / 64-bit multiplatform UNIX with particular emphasis on running on Intel IA-64 ( Itanium ) architecture CPUs.

Lara moved in with his future fellow Trinidadian cricketer Michael Carew in Woodbrook, Port of Spain ( a 20 minute drive from Santa Cruz ).

During the show's run, Bixby invited two of his long-time friends, Ray Walston and Brandon Cruz, to guest star with him in different episodes of the series.

In 1983 he was reportedly observed leaving a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies.

Prieto and his adviser, Portales, feared the efforts of Bolivian general Andrés de Santa Cruz to unite with Peru against Chile.

On 17 April he set sail with Diogo Pereira, leaving Goa on board the Santa Cruz for China.

José Cruz became Houston's everyday left fielder and hit. 303 with 28 stolen bases.

Tide pools with sea stars and sea anemone in Santa Cruz, California

" In a foreshadowing way, Cruz remembers when she was four years old, " playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them — I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

Cruz with her agent, Katrina Bayonas

" In an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News in 1999, Cruz commented that " it was a great part, but ... I wasn't really ready for the nudity.

Cruz's performance in the film was praised by film critics, with Jonathan Holloland of Variety magazine writing " if confirmation is still needed that Cruz is an actress first and a pretty face second, then here it is.

In 1999, Cruz worked with Almodóvar again in All About My Mother, playing Sister María Rosa Sanz, a pregnant nun with AIDS.

" Annlee Ellingson of Box Office magazine wrote " Cruz is stunning in the role — innocent and vulnerable yet possessing a mature grace and determined strength, all while sizzling with unchecked sensuality.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

Canoe said, " The story feels forced and the performances dreary, with the notable exception of Cruz, who seems to be in a different film from the rest of the cast.

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz " goes all out " with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a " sensitive performance " from Cruz.

Cruz with Volver director Pedro Almodovar at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.