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2 unusual facts about Felix Gonzalez-Torres


Félix González

Félix González-Torres (1957-1996), American, Cuban-born, gay visual artist

Félix González-Torres

Subsequently he taught at New York University and briefly at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.


1842 in birding and ornithology

John MacGillivray sails as naturalist on board HMS Fly, despatched to survey the Torres Strait, New Guinea.

Alexandre Deulofeu

Alexandre Deulofeu Torres (20 September 1903, in L'Armentera – 27 December 1978, in Figueres) was a Catalan politician and philosopher of history.

Ana de Jesús

Born Ana de Lobera y Torres in Medina del Campo in the Province of Valladolid, her parents were Diego de Lobera and Francisca Torres, who also had a son called Cristóbal, who became a Jesuit.

Andrea Torres

When Ka-Blog! went off the air, Torres concentrated for a while in her studies she's taking up Communication Arts in University of Santo Tomas and in commercial modelling.

On July 30, 2012, GMA Network announces that Torres together with Mikael Daez will reprise the role of Cecilia Fulgencio and Carlos Miguel Altamonte which originally played by Tanya Garcia and Dingdong Dantes, respectively, for the 2012 remake of the 2002 popular teledrama Sana Ay Ikaw Na Nga.

Antonio Torres

:For the guitar maker often known simply as Torres, see Antonio Torres Jurado.

Arnoldo Torres

Articles written by Torres have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Arizona Republic, Sacramento Bee, Albuquerque Journal and U.S. News & World Report.

Ben Fong-Torres

He conducted interviews for Rolling Stone of entertainment figures including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, comedian Steve Martin and Linda Ronstadt's first cover story in 1975.

Celia de Fréine

De Fréine has translated many European poets into Irish and English, including: Sreko Kosovel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Xohana Torres, Itxaro Borda, Irina Alekseyeva, and Catullus, as well as the Chinese poet Shi Tao and the Gujarati poets, Ramesh Parekh, Pranjivan Mehta, Dileep Jhaveri, Nitin Mehta, Hemant Dhorada, and Kamal Vora.

CIDG-FM

On November 9, 2011, Frank Torres submitted an application to the CRTC to operate a new radio station at Uxbridge, Ontario.

Color Esperanza

In 2003, the song was performed specially by Torres for the Pope John Paul II in Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid, Spain by the festival of the Youth, in order to welcome the Pope.

Cómplices Al Rescate: Mariana

The CD contains the music from the series performed for the cast, including Belinda, Laura Flores, Fabián Chávez, Johnny Lozada, Silvia Lomelí and the "Cómplices": Alex Speitzer, Ramiro Torres, Vadhir Derbez, Martha Sabrina, Dulce María López and Diego Amozurrutia.

Corruption in Spain

its directors were Diego Torres Pérez and former handball star Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma the son in law of the Spanish King, who also ran a consultancy with his wife, the princess Cristina de Borbón y Grecia.

Cristóbal de Moscoso y Montemayor

Cristóbal de Moscoso y Montemayor also known as the Marquis de las Torres, was the Viceroy of Navarre in the 1700s.

Doris Pilkington Garimara

In May 2008 she was awarded the $50,000 Red Ochre Award which is made to an indigenous artist for their outstanding, lifelong contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts at home and abroad.

Elmer Espiritu

Elmer Torres Espiritu (born November 23, 1985) is a Filipino professional basketball player who plays for Barako Bull Energy Cola in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Enrique Peña Sánchez

In 1902 he moved to Havana, and founded the band La Juventud, with himself as director and cornet, Rogelio Solis (double bass), Félix González (figle), José Belén Puig (first clarinet), José Urfé (second clarinet), José de los Reyes (kettle drum) and Rufino Cárdenas (güiro).

Gen. T. de Leon National High School

The campus buildings can be widely seen at the Torres Bugallon part of the North Luzon Expressway after Balintawak Tollgate.

Georgie Torres

With the Crabbers, Torres teamed up along with players such as José Ortiz, Carlos Arroyo, Rolando Hourruitiner and Sharif Fajardo to win the league's championship in 1999.

Gone with the Wine

Jaakko visits the Torres winery in the home region of Spain’s most famous wine, Sangre de Toro, in the wine region of Penedes.

González Gil-Pazó GP-1

In January 1936 Ramón Torres and Carlos Coll set a record with their flight from Barcelona to Agadir, Morocco in the two seat GP-2.

Henri Torres

Torrès was involved in several criminal trials, before the Schwartzbard trial, not only in Paris but in Moscow and in Rumania.

Ipanema, Porto Alegre

The streets in Ipanema were name after Rio Grande do Sul coast beaches, like Atlântida, Cassino, Capão da Canoa, Cidreira, Torres and Tramandaí.

Iván Villazón

They later changed record labels to BMG Ariola of Colombia, recording the album Entrégate with songs like No te ruego más by Jorge Valbuena, Entrégate by Fabián Corrales, Yo la Ví by Jacobo Ibarra and Marcos Torres, and Corazón Sensible by Franco Arguelles.

John Torres

From 2005-2006, Torres worked as a vocalist for a host of different songwriters, producers and organizations including Disney, Grammy Award winner, Steve Porcaro, and Grammy nominee Guy Roche.

José Augusto Torres

Torres' last game was a 2–2 draw, again against Bulgaria for the 1974 World Cup qualifiers, on 13 October 1973 (at the age of 35).

José Ortega Torres

José Ortega Torres majored in Romance Philology at the University of Granada between 1966 and 1969 and in 1971 read his dissertation "Aproximación a la poesía de Rafael Guillén" (Approach to the poetry of Rafael Guillén), under the supervision of Professor Emilio Orozco Díaz.

Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres, better known as Chaco Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is an Argentine football midfielder who plays in Ukraine for Metalist Kharkiv.

Torres has two children: a daughter with his first wife Ailyn Lobato, and a son with the actress Catalina Artusi.

Julie Ault

Her most recent books include a monograph she edited on the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and a major publication on the art of Sister Corita, which received an extensive review on the group blog Design Observer.

Luis de Torres

The Luis de Torres Synagogue in Freeport, Bahamas is named after Luis de Torres, and there is a great amount of traditions on his life.

Luis Lloréns Torres

Lloréns Torres' book, "El Grito de Lares", deals with the attempted overthrow of the Spanish government on the island with the intention of establishing the island as a sovereign republic.

Mario Torres-Marin

Mario Torres-Marin was a prosecutor for the Puerto Rico Department of Justice who died during a drug-war operation when a Puerto Rico National Guard in which he was being transported to supervise several arrests on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico crashed during severe weather north of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

NS-class blimp

Similar to the Coastal and C-Star classes, the "North Seas" employed a tri-lobe envelope based on the Astra-Torres design principles.

Pierre Daura

In 1929–30, Daura joined Michel Seuphor and Torres-Garcia in organizing the group Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square), which promoted geometric construction and abstraction in opposition to Surrealism.

Rodolfo Galeotti Torres

Rodolfo Galeotti Torres was born on March 4, 1912 in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano

Before his death, Rosenberg recorded a video message saying if he were murdered, Álvaro Colom Caballeros, President of Guatemala, Gustavo Alejos, Sandra Torres de Colom, and Gregorio Valdés would have been directly responsible.

Rusty Torres

This time, at least, Rusty wasn't on the field when the madness started; the first game had ended and Torres (who had singled and scored the Sox' only run in the 4–1 loss) was in the dressing room when disc jockey Steve Dahl "blew up" a box of disco records, causing thousands of fans to run onto the field, which was eventually cleared by police in riot gear.

San Francisco Herald

Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, actor/comedian Richard Lewis, comedian Margaret Cho, 1970s band Bad Company and 1980s band Berlin.

Supreme Beings of Leisure

In 1996, Oversoul 7 formed with singer Geri Soriano-Lightwood, Ramin Sakurai, bassist Kiran Shahani, and guitarist Rick Torres, and released "Nothing Like Tomorrow" and "What's the Deal" on two compilations on the Moonshine Music dance label.

Todd Torres

Torres also competed for the United States, winning a bronze medal at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb.

Torres Islands

Despite the fact that they belonged to a broader regional complex of human and material exchanges that extended well into present-day Temotu province (in the Solomons), the Torres Islands eventually became part of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides in 1906, and were subsequently incorporated into the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980.

Torres Strait

Torres Strait is mentioned in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a dangerous strait where the submarine, the Nautilus, is briefly stranded.

Ugo da Parlascio Ebriaco

Around 1128, Gonario II, Constantine's son, the child ruler of Logudoro, was brought to Porto Torres by his regent, Ittocorre Gambella, after an attempt to harm the child had been made by the Athen family.

University of the East College of Business Administration

On September 11, 1946, five people namely Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr., Herminiglio Reyes, Jose Torres, Jaime Hernandez and Santiago dela Cruz established the Philippine College of Commerce and Business Administration (PCCBA) along R. Papa St. in Sampaloc, Manila.

William Torres

William Jeovanny Torres Alegría (born October 27, 1976 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Zafra de Záncara

Fernando Casado de Torres e Irala (1754–1829): squadron leader and general commander of the Corps of Engineers of the Royal Spanish Navy.


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