Two of Columbus's crewmen during his 1492 journey, Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, are said to have encountered tobacco for the first time on the island of Hispaniola, when natives presented them with dry leaves that spread a peculiar fragrance.

This event was witnessed by José Torres who said he was amazed to see Duran's compassionate gesture as he lifted De Jesus out of his bed and hugged him at a time when so little was known and so much feared about AIDS.

Notable politicians have declared support for independence, including Bob Katter and former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, who in August 2011 wrote to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in support of Torres Strait Islands independence from Australia ; Prime Minister Gillard said in October 2011 " her government will respectfully consider the Torres Strait's request for self-government ".

Needing a win in the last game against West Germany in Stuttgart, manager José Torres famously said to the press, after being severally doubted that his team would qualify for Mexico 1986, " Let me dream!

Light Heavyweight Champion Jose Torres, in his 1971 biography of Ali Sting Like a Bee, said that as of 1963, Ali's prophetic poems had correctly predicted the exact round he would stop an opponent 12 times.

The said oath was confirmed by Jean-François some days later, in an official letter addressed to the Dominican Archbishop, Fernando del Portillo y Torres.

FA Premier League champions Chelsea were believed to be interested in signing Torres during the summer of 2005, but Atlético president Enrique Cerezo said that they had " no chance " of signing him.

Cerezo later said in January 2006 that the club was willing to listen to offers for Torres, and Torres claimed Newcastle United of the FA Premier League had made a bid to sign him in March.

Carlos Castresana said that President Colom, the First Lady Sandra Torres and the Private Secretary to the President Gustavo Alejos were cleared of charges, and the link that bonded them to the case was finally broken.

Fellow musician Barbarito Torres said of Leyva: " Pio has always been a famous singer in Cuba.

California State Senator Art Torres, chairman of a special Senate committee on UC admissions, said the UCLA's administration was partly responsible for the troubles by not making minority students feel welcome on campus and that the election melee, while unfortunate, " was merely a catalyst for what was brewing underneath.

Torres, remembering painful events from her own childhood, urged the Doctor to perform gene therapy to reduce this phenotype, and even went so far as to reprogram him to do so.

Desperately needing a win against the Dodgers in the final game of the year to force a one-game playoff with the Braves in San Francisco, the controversial choice of Giants rookie pitcher Salomon Torres proved disastrous as he gave up three runs in the first four innings and the Giants went on to lose the game 12 – 1.

Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places.

After " My Island Home ", she released her first album, Stylin ' Up which went platinum, and also gained her a position as a spokeswoman for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

Camarón then went to Madrid with Miguel de los Reyes and in 1968 became a resident artist at the Tablao Torres Bermejas where he remained for twelve years.

Brown went on fighting until 1942, challenging unsuccessfully for the Panamanian Featherweight title on September 30, 1942, when he drew with Leocadio Torres, but retiring as a winner, defeating Kid Fortune by a decision in ten rounds on December 4 of the same year.

Llorens Torres went to Spain after he finished his secondary studies on the island.

Torres made his return in a 2 – 1 victory against Marseille in the Champions League and went on to score two goals in the Merseyside derby against Everton on 27 September 2008 to give Liverpool a 2 – 0 win.

Later on, Torres went on to play with the " Guaynabo Mets ".

On April 5, Wright went 2-3 with a walk on as the Mets ' Opening Day third-baseman against the Braves, where Wright drove in Andrés Torres with a single for the game-winning run in the 6th inning off of Tommy Hanson, giving the Mets the 1-0 win.

He and another puppeteer, Francisco Torres, toured Puerto Rico and went to almost every public school on the island, where they presented their educational shows.

In Zamora He organized some troops and sent them with Torres to Pátzcuaro, Torres was attacked in the Tinaja Hill, Rayón went to help him and both won the battle against the Spanish army.

Juan de Torres, he went to the gold mines of Talibong.

Some parts are quite lurid, such as her description of the wreck of the Charles Eaton, a ship that went down in the Torres Strait in 1834.

After seeming to bounce back in the beginning of 1995, starting the season 2-1 with a 2. 19 ERA for the Cubs, he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals along with minor leaguer catcher Francisco Morales and first baseman / third baseman Paul Torres for third baseman Todd Zeile and cash, and went 5-6 in 17 starts the rest of the way.

In August 1, marshal Pascual Liñán arrived to the fort with a powerful army, Mina escaped in August 8 and went to Fuerte de los Remedios to help José Antonio Torres.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

The action which brought about the decision had been led by Eddie Mabo, David Passi and James Rice, all from the Meriam people ( from the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait ).

In all three games the strong Cuban female team lead by Regla Torres and Mireya Luis won the Gold medal.

Since its origins at the turn of the 12th century, Sassari has been ruled by the Giudicato of Torres, the Pisans, the Sassaresi themselves in alliance with Genoa, the Catalan-Aragonese and the Spanish, all of whom have contributed to Sassari's historical and artistic heritage.

In fact, despite the lack of agreement regarding all other aspects of Orosius ’ s life, including his biography and his works, most experts agree on the universalist nature of this work, including classicists such as Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and even more modern historians such as Torres Rodríguez.

This was a rejection of nearly all of the statements made by Torres Rodríguez on this matter.

Among those are Mario ' Quijote ' Morales, Raymond Dalmau, Jose ' Piculin ' Ortiz, Ramón Rivas, Jerome Mincy, Georgie Torres, Angelo Cruz, Angel Santiago, the late Federico ' Fico ' Lopez and Rubén Rodríguez showcased their talents to all of Puerto Rico's TV viewers and game goers.

Many prominent members of the PAN ( Manuel Clouthier, Addy Joaquín Coldwell and Demetrio Sodi ), most of the PRD ( most notably all three Mexico City mayors Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Marcelo Ebrard ), the PVEM ( Jorge González Torres ) and New Alliance ( Roberto Campa ) were once members of the PRI, including many presidential candidates from the opposition ( Clouthier, López Obrador, Cárdenas, González Torres, Campa and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, among many others ).

The Jesuit provincial Torres arrived in 1607, and " immediately placed himself at the head of those who had opposed the cruelties at all times exercised over the natives ".

Frustrated by the political divisions and protests that characterized the Torres and Ovando years, and, traditionally an enemy of dissent and freedom of speech, Banzer banned all the left-leaning parties, suspended the powerful Central Obrera Boliviana, and closed the nation's universities.

As a result, a collaboration began between Torres and the French company Astra, which managed to buy the patent with a cession of rights extended to all countries except Spain, in order to make possible the construction of the dirigible in its country.

The ultraconservatives were led by the Joaquim Rodrigues Torres, Viscount of Itaboraí, Eusébio de Queirós and Paulino Soares de Sousa, 1st Viscount of Uruguai — all former ministers in the 1848 – 1853 cabinet.

In 1994, Dawson began her role as the half Human / half-Klingon engineer B ' Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager which lasted for all seven seasons of the show.

The White-faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae, also known as the White-fronted Heron, and incorrectly as the Grey Heron, or Blue Crane, is a common bird throughout most of Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, the islands of the Subantarctic, and all but the driest areas of Australia.

The White-faced Heron is found throughout most of Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, the islands of the sub-Antarctic, and all but the driest areas of Australia.

Despite this, in 1995 the site of the Tent Embassy was added to the Australian Register of the National Estate as the only Aboriginal site in Australia that is recognised nationally as a site representing political struggle for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The Torres Strait Islanders insisted that they were Australians, however, and after considerable diplomatic discussion and political disputation between the Queensland and the Federal Governments, all of the Torres Strait islands, including Thursday Island, remained part of Australia.

Warfare ( both inter-tribal and against European ships in transit through the Coral Sea ) and head hunting were part of the culture of all Torres Strait islanders.

They in common with all Torres Strait Islanders had a mixed reputation for hostility as well as eagerness to develop trading links with outsiders before they became Christian in the early 1870s.

The tradition ( fixed probably in the 16th century ) says that the Moorish people had gathered around 5, 000 men from all Estremadura ( Alenquer, Óbidos, Tomar, Torres Novas and Torres Vedras ) to fight against only 1500 Christians, but the latter defeated the Muslims in a large blood bath, with this wondrous victory personally attributed to the intervention of the Holy Virgin, which brought many Christians speaking strange languages ( this is, the crusades that took Lisbon that same year ).

The longer " circuit " walk includes all the sights of the " W ", but avoids most backtracking, by connecting Glacier Grey and the Torres del Paine around the back of the mountain range.

Luis García, Reina and Arteta all began their career at FC Barcelona B, Alonso started out at Real Sociedad and Torres grew up in the Atlético Madrid system.