The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five ( Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González ) are five Cuban intelligence officers convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, acting as an agent of a foreign government, and other illegal activities in the United States.

Some well-known artists are Banda El Recodo, La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho, Banda Los Recoditos, Banda Cuisillos, Joan Sebastian, Chalino Sánchez, El Chapo de Sinaloa and Banda Machos.

The last descendant of the original princes, René of Nassau, left the principality to his cousin William the Silent, who was not a descendant of the original Orange family but the legal heir to the principality of Orange.

René of Châlon, as the last descendant of the original princes, left the principality to his first cousin William of Nassau-Dillenburg ( better known as " William the Silent "), who was not a descendant of the original Orange family but the legal heir to the principality of Orange, and heir of all of René's lands.

* 1 – The first legal same-sex marriage in the Canadian province of Quebec is celebrated ; Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf wed in Montreal.

Because divorce was prohibited by law of both the Roman Catholic Church and in France, these children were baptized as the children of Madame Chouteau's legal husband, René Auguste Chouteau ( père ).

" One " is the pilot episode of the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the second created spinoff of the original Law & Order series, created by Dick Wolf and developed and co-created veteran Law & Order writer René Balcer.

On October 11, 2000, while returning from a visit to relatives in the Dominican Republic, René was mis-identified as Leo Rosario at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and arrested.

Among the matters investigated were attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Diem brothers of Vietnam, Gen. René Schneider of Chile and President John F. Kennedy's plan to use the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba.

René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia ( then part of Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic ).

Well known members of the Commission included Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, who was the Chairperson, Jacques Maritain, René Cassin and Stéphane Hessel of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, and P. C. Chang of the Republic of China, among others.

The Republic of Metz often had to fight for its freedom: in 1324, against the Dukes of Luxembourg and Lorraine, as well as, against the Archbishop of Trier ; in 1363 and 1365, against the English brigands under command of Arnaud de Cervole ; in 1444, against Duke René of Anjou and King Charles VII of France ; and in 1473, against Duke Nicholas I of Lorraine.

Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d ' Estaing (; born 2 February 1926 ) is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981., he is a member of the Constitutional Council of France.

* in present Benin, since 13 October 1946 Dahomey overseas territory, on 4 December 1958 granted autonomy as Republic of Dahomey, the last ( acting ) governor, René Tirant ( b. 1907 ), stayed on as only High commissioner till the 1 August 1960 independence

Under the Fifth Republic, presidents Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and Jacques Chirac have both been classed on the Orléanist tradition of the three French right-wing families identified by historian René Rémond ( Bonapartism and Legitimism being the two others ).

** Pairs ' champions: Radka Kovariková / René Novotný, Czech Republic

René Coty stayed president of the Republic until the new president was proclaimed.

René Reynaldo Harris ( 11 November 1947 – 5 July 2008 ) was President of the Republic of Nauru four times between 1999 and 2004.

René Capitant founded a Gaullist Union for the Fourth Republic but it could not prevent the approval of the text prepared by the elected Assembly, which restored the parliamentary system.

Jean Raphaël Adrien René Viviani ( ; 8 November 18637 September 1925 ) was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister for the first year of World War I.

René Garcia Préval (; born January 17, 1943 ) is a Haitian politician and agronomist who was twice President of the Republic of Haiti.

René Mayer (; 4 May 1895, Paris13 December 1972, Paris ) was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953.

René Pleven (; 15 April 1901 – 13 January 1993 ) was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic.

René and Gérard were Armenian immigrant children who came from Constantinople to Montreal in the 1910s, fleeing the Armenian genocide, with their parents and siblings, via New York.

Leading historians of the period who testified as " experts " during the trial included Jean-Pierre Azéma, André Kaspi, Marc-Olivier Baruch, Henry Rousso, Denis Peschanski, Maurice Rajsfus, René Rémond, Jacques Delarue, Henri Amouroux, Michel Bergès, as well as US historian Robert Paxton and Swiss historian Philippe Burin.

* September 21-Attempting a New York to Paris flight, Frenchman René Fonck with co-pilot Lt. Lawrence Curtin of the US Navy, crashed their $ 100, 000 Sikorsky S. 35 on takeoff, killing radio operator Charles Clavier and mechanic Jacob Islamoff.

Szondi welcomed, among others, Jacques Derrida ( before he attained worldwide recognition ), Pierre Bourdieu and Lucien Goldman from France, Paul de Man from Zürich, Gershom Sholem from Jerusalem, Theodor W. Adorno from Frankfurt, Hans Robert Jauss from the then young University of Konstanz, and from the US René Wellek ( Harvard ), Geoffrey Hartman and Peter Demetz ( Yale ), along with the liberal publicist Lionel Trilling.

The victory was overshadowed by two deaths at the club a few months earlier: Albert Van Coile, who had succumbed from injuries sustained in a match against US Tourcoing, and former chairman René de Peellaert, who died from pneumonia which he had caught during Van Coile's funeral.

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

In 1804 after the United States made the Louisiana Purchase, the wealthy French fur trader Jean Pierre Chouteau, a half-brother of René Auguste Chouteau, was appointed the US agent assigned to the Osage.

Formalism was the dominant mode of academic literary study in the US at least from the end of the Second World War through the 1970s, especially as embodied in René Wellek and Austin Warren's Theory of Literature ( 1948, 1955, 1962 ).

The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported ( in part ) by Gottfried Leibniz.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

He was an efficient member of the American revision committee for the Revised Version ( 1881-1885 ) of the King James Bible, and helped prepare Caspar René Gregory's Prolegomena to the revised Greek New Testament of Constantin von Tischendorf.

However, Chiron did compete the following year, when he was beaten by René Dreyfus and his Bugatti and finished second, and took victory in the 1931 race driving a Bugatti.

René Préval was declared to have won with over 50 percent of the vote.

René Thom was another prominent figure in its early history.

It was only in the late 19th century, with the work of such masters as Peter Carl Fabergé and René Lalique, that art began to take primacy over function and wealth.

Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

His architecture teacher in the Art School was the architect René Chapallaz, who had a large influence on Le Corbusier's earliest houses.

Among them was René Blum, founder of the Opera, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

In 1449 King René d ' Anjou gave to Angers Cathedral the amphora from Cana in which Jesus changed water to wine, acquiring it from the nuns of Marseilles, who told him that Mary Magdalene had brought it with her from Judea, relating to the legend where she was the jilted bride at the wedding following John the Evangelist received his calling from Jesus.

Optical theory progressed in the mid-17th century with treatises written by philosopher René Descartes, which explained a variety of optical phenomena including reflection and refraction by assuming that light was emitted by objects which produced it.

In 1644, René Descartes theorized that pain was a disturbance that passed down along nerve fibers until the disturbance reached the brain, a development that transformed the perception of pain from a spiritual, mystical experience to a physical, mechanical sensation.

The first was the defeat of the referendum on Quebec sovereignty, called by the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967 ) was a Belgian surrealist artist.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (; 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 ), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet.

Odo was portrayed in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by actor René Auberjonois

She was well-read in the works of René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza.

René Guénon in Insights into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism ( Sophia Perennis 2003 ) contended that Sufism was the esoteric aspect of Islam supported and complemented by exoteric practices and Islamic law.