The commander-in-chief is the President of Ecuador, currently Rafael Correa.

Fearless is a 1993 film directed by Peter Weir and written by Rafael Yglesias from his novel of the same name.

The current president is L. Rafael Reif, who formerly served as provost under President Susan Hockfield, the first woman to hold the post.

* 1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Punta Sardegna is a panoramic site on the coast of northern Sardinia, near Porto Rafael, Palau.

The two-handed grip gained popularity in the 1970s as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors, and later Mats Wilander and Marat Safin used it to great effect, and it is now used by a large number of the world's best players, including Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.

* December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.

* The Rancho Rincon de Los Esteros Land Grant is confirmed to Rafael Alvisa, ( part of the present Santa Clara County, California ).

* May 30 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running dictatorship in Latin American history.

** A 3-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic, consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro and the Venezuelan government, whose objective is to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.

* May 16 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo is elected president of the Dominican Republic.

Although the first European trade expeditions to China took place in 1513 and 1516 by Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, respectively, Andrade's mission is the first official diplomatic mission of a European power to China commissioned by a ruler of Europe ( Manuel I of Portugal ).

This is followed up by Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, who commands an expedition from Portuguese Malacca in 1516 to land on the shores of mainland southern China, in order to trade with Chinese merchants at Guangzhou.

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being ( hereinafter WMCF ) is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist.

Lakoff is, with coauthors Mark Johnson and Rafael E. Núñez, one of the primary proponents of the embodied mind thesis.

Rafael E. Núñez is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego and a proponent of embodied cognition.

The most accessible, famous, and infamous treatment of this perspective is Where Mathematics Comes From, by George Lakoff and Rafael E. Núñez.

Inside the building is a stone-vaulted antechapel, at the end of which hangs a ' Deposition of the Cross ' by Anton Rafael Mengs, completed around 1777.

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County.

All that was left of the Mission was a single pear tree from the old Mission's orchard, it is for this reason that San Rafael is known as the " most obliterated of California's missions.

" Originally planned as an asistencia (" sub-mission ") to Mission San Rafael Arcángel, it is the northernmost Alta California Franciscan mission ( an attempt to found a twenty-second mission in Santa Rosa in 1827 was aborted ).

The screenplay, written by Casey Robinson, is based on the novel of the same name by Rafael Sabatini.

* The rescue and subsequent attempt to return Louis XVII to the throne is told in the 1937 novel The Lost King by Rafael Sabatini.

Puerto Rican playwright, Luis Rafael Sánchez published in 1968 La Pasión según Antígona Pérez, taking the basic premise of the play into a contemporary world, where Creon is the dictator of a fictional Latin American nation, and Antígona and her ' brothers ' are dissident freedom fighters.

Harte married Anna Griswold on August 11, 1862, in San Rafael, California.

They had five children: actor Miguel Ferrer ( b. 1955 ), Maria Ferrer ( b. 1956 ), Gabriel Ferrer ( b. 1957 ) ( who married singer Debby Boone ), Monsita Ferrer ( b. 1958 ), and Rafael Ferrer ( b. 1960 ).

Mr. Carrión, an old-school business native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is married to Conxita Martorell and has five children: Io Ana, Richard, Ceciliana, Ana Sofía and Rafael Luis.

" The two remained married throughout his life and had two sons, Juan-Luis and Rafael.

Muñíz was married to Luz María García de la Noceda and they had eight children: Rafael ( aka Rafo ), Ruby, Hilda, Mario, Luzie, Tomito, Manolo, Pedro and Félix Antonio ( Toño ).

He married Alicia Pietri de Caldera ( granddaughter of Juan Pietri, and first-cousins with Arturo Uslar Pietri and Andres Boulton Pietri ) in 1941 with whom he had six children: Mireya, Juan José, Rafael Tomás, Alicia Helena, Cecilia, and Andrés Antonio Caldera Pietri.

In 1917 he transferred to the University of Bern ; there, he met Ernst Bloch, and Dora Sophie Pollak ( née Kellner ) ( 1890 – 1964 ), whom he later married, and they had a son, Stefan Rafael ( 1918 – 1972 ).

In his personal life, in 1903 he married Countess Anna Julie Marie Széll von Bessenyö (* 1 March 1880 in Budapest ), niece of former Prime Minister of Hungary Kálmán Széll, with whom he had eight children, five violinist daughters and three sons, among them conductor Rafael Kubelík.

Joaquim Chissano is married to Marcelina Rafael Chissano.

They had several children together and, coincidentally, one of them, Manuela Rodríguez Alvarado, married Rodríguez's successor, Rafael Yglesias Castro.

Rafael Núñez married Soledad Román, the love of his life, a lady of Cartagena.

During this period Sandino married a young telegraphist, Blanca Arauz, of the village of San Rafael del Norte.

She was married to painter Rafael Palacios from 1931 to 1935 and during this marriage they had two children: Carmen Palacios Mendoza and Rafael Palacios Mendoza.

He became an amateur painter possibly upon contact with the Amsterdam painters Rafael and Jochem Govertsz Camphuysen, whose sister Lysbeth he married in 1629.

Rubirosa married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina.

Rafael married Miriam and together they had five children.

Silvia Pinal has been married four times, first to Cuban actor Rafael Banquells who had a daughter with her, actress Sylvia Pasquel ( Pasquel is a combination of the surnames Pinal and Banquells ).

On January 4, 2011, she married Mexican international football player Rafael Márquez on the beach in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.

Jô was married three times and has a son called Rafael, who has autism.

There she married again, to the brigadier Rafael Tobias de Aguiar.

He was the brother of Rafael Perestrello, who married and had issue, ancestor of the Perestrellos of Torres Vedras.

She married journalist Rafael da Costa in 1952 ; the couple divorced the following year.