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Juan “Juancito” Torres Velez (January 14, 1936 – July 26, 2003), also known as "La Trompeta Nacional De Puerto Rico", was a Puerto Rican salsa and jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger, producer and musical director best known for his association with the Fania All-Stars from 1979 to 1985. [1]
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On March 8, 1948, the city of San Juan officially adopted as the city's first flag a white field, in the center of which is the current coat of arms of the city. The flag is based on Father Diego de Torres Vargas' text and it reads: "Escudo de armas dado a Puerto Rico por los Reyes Católicos en el año de 1511, siendo Procurador un vecino ...
Daniel Fernández Torres (born April 27, 1964) is a Puerto Rican Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Diocese of Arecibo in Puerto Rico from 2010 to 2022. He spent the years 2007 to 2010 as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Juan in Puerto Rico.
Juan Torres de Osorio was born in Cuéllar, Spain on 16 January 1562. [2] [3] On 13 November 1613, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Siracusa.[1] [2] On 24 November 1613, he was consecrated bishop by Paolo Emilio Sfondrati, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, with Antonio d'Aquino, Bishop of Sarno, and Domingo de Oña, Bishop of Gaeta, serving as co-consecrators. [2]
The rest of the board voted 3-0 to appoint Rosa Torres to serve on the board until the next election in November. She will have to run for re-election then if she wants to keep the seat.
Lying on the northwesternmost point of the islet of Old San Juan, Castillo San Felipe del Morro is named in honor of King Philip II of Spain.The fortification, also referred to as el Morro or 'the promontory,' was designed to guard the entrance to the San Juan Bay, and defend the Spanish colonial port city of San Juan from seaborne enemies.
Juan Muñoz was born in 1953 into a prosperous, educated family in Madrid. He was the second of seven brothers. He enrolled in a local school but became bored and was expelled, so his father retained a poet who was also an art critic to provide lessons, which gave Muñoz an awareness of modernism . [ 3 ]