The scale length has remained quite consistent since it was chosen by the originator of the instrument, Antonio de Torres.

* Constantine II of Torres ( died 1198 ), called de Martis, was the giudice of Logudoro

The show featured Judy Torres, Cynthia and The Cover Girls and was attended by several celebrity guests.

Many original freestyle artists, and DJs such as Jellybean, Tony Torres, Raul Soto and Roman Ricardo, were of Puerto Rican ancestry, which was one reason for the style's popularity among Latino Americans and Italian Americans, especially in the New York City area.

The action was brought as a test case to determine the legal rights of the Meriam people to land on the islands of Mer ( Murray Island ), Dauar and Waier in the Torres Strait, which were annexed to the state of Queensland in 1879.

Torres joined the Maquis in 2370 and was serving on the Val Jean when brought to the Delta Quadrant.

Although the character of Torres was twenty-five years old when the series began, Dawson was actually thirty-six.

The writers decided they did not want B ' Elanna Torres to become pregnant, so for the duration of Dawson's pregnancy, she was given an engineering lab coat, which was used to help cover her growing pregnancy.

Torres had a troubled childhood ; her human father, John Torres, and Klingon mother, Miral, often fought, and her father ultimately left the household when she was six years old ( conflicting statements also indicate that she may have been twelve ).

But before dropping out, Torres was a valued member on the academy decathlon, making the track and field coach furious in addition to the many other professors unhappy with her choice to leave the academy.

Torres became associated with a Maquis captain named Chakotay, and was serving as chief engineer on his ship, the Val Jean, when they were brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.

Torres reprogrammed it on a course for a Cardassian installation, but " Dreadnought " was swept into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.

She was placed in the engineering department, which had no clear department head because the original chief engineer was killed during the trip to the Delta Quadrant ; Captain Janeway eventually promoted Torres to chief engineer based on, now Voyager XO, Chakotay's recommendation.

Initially, Torres was very outspoken in her disapproval of Captain Janeway's decision to destroy the Caretaker's array, which had the ability to send the Voyager back home from the Delta Quadrant, and carried a small grudge against the captain.

Torres, along with Tom Paris, was later kidnapped by the Vidiians.

In 2373, Torres was the target of telepathically-inspired dreams from a member of a race called the Enarans.

Although Voyager was soon able to rescue them, Torres realized that her courage in admitting her love had brought her one step closer to discovering what she considered true honor.

Once he allayed her fears, he admitted wanting even more children just like their mother, and Torres was shown as finally enjoying the pregnancy (" Lineage ").

When a group of Klingon radicals spent time aboard Voyager (" Prophecy "), Torres began opening her self to more Klingon beliefs and, for the first time since childhood, was able to pray for her grandmother, L ' Naal, and her great-grandmother, Krelik.

Torres ' and Paris ' daughter, Miral Paris ( named after B ' Elanna's mother ), was born at the beginning of 2378, during Voyagers trip through a Borg transwarp conduit back to the Alpha Quadrant.

Torres ' birthdate – Torres stated in ( VOY: " Extreme Risk ") that she was nineteen when she quit Starfleet Academy and by 2376 it was ten years since she entered the Academy and ten years since she last spoke with her mother.

He believed that it was naïve to expect to find a single Papuan or Australian language family when New Guinea and Australia had been a single landmass for most of their human history, having been separated by the Torres Strait only 8000 years ago, and that a deep reconstruction would likely include languages from both.

The Dusky Myzomela or Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura is a small, brown bird that is a common resident of New Guinea, the Moluccas, the islands of Torres Strait, and northern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far south as the New South Wales border, though the species is rare south of Rockhampton.

During the course of the British withdrawal, Dodd becomes separated from his regiment and is cut off from the British forces, with the entire French army between him and the lines at Torres Vedras.

Nine students believed to be linked to the Tarata Bombing — Bertila Lozano Torres, Dora Oyague Fierro, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Richard Amaro Cóndor, Robert Édgar Teodoro Espinoza, Heráclides Pablo Meza, Felipe Flores Chipana, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas, and Juan Gabriel Mariños Figueroa — were separated from the others and taken away.

However, trade and intercourse between the separated lands continued across the newly-formed Torres Strait, whose 150 km-wide channel remained readily navigable with the chain of Torres Strait Islands and reefs affording intermediary stopping points.

Image: Cuernos del Paine from Lake Pehoé. jpg | View of Cuernos del Paine in Torres del Paine National Park

Ferries also leave regularly from Quai L ' Herminier on the west side of the gulf for Porto Torres, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.

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.

* 1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.

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 ).

Other writers have explored the application of Objectivism to fields ranging from art, as in What Art Is by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi ( 2000 ), to teleology, as in The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts by Harry Binswanger ( 1990 ).

In a brief concurrence in the judgment of Torres v. Puerto Rico, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Brennan, argued that any implicit limits from the Insular Cases on the basic rights granted by the Constitution ( including especially the Bill of Rights ) were anachronistic in the 1970s.

In 2371, B ' Elanna Torres joined the Voyager crew with the rest of the Maquis from the Val Jean, as Captain Kathryn Janeway offers them the opportunity.

A Vidiian scientist extracts the Klingon DNA from Torres, splicing her into two separate people: one human, one Klingon.

After her escape from the Vidiians the Klingon Torres suffered a fatal wound from the Vidiian energy weapon and died, but the Doctor used her DNA to restore the human Torres to her original half-human half-Klingon state.

When Torres and Paris conceived their child in 2377, she learned from The Doctor that the child would have distinct Klingon cranial ridges as well as other Klingon traits.

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.

* 1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.

The Stolen Generations ( also known as Stolen children ) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.

The 1997 publication of Bringing Them Home – Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families brought broader awareness of the Stolen Generations.

* Rob Riley ( deceased ), CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Service 1990 – 1995, author of Telling Our Story which instigated the National Inquiry into Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.

** Education module on the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families ( 2007 )

Torres, who explored the Alto Ucayali for the Peruvian government, gives it a length of, counting from the mouth of the Pachitea to the junction of the Tambo and Urubamba.

* c. 6000 BC: Rising sea levels form the Torres Strait, separating Australia from New Guinea