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2023 In Puerto Rico
Events in the year 2023 in Puerto Rico. Incumbents * President: Joe Biden (Democratic Party (United States), D) * Governor of Puerto Rico, Governor: Pedro Pierluisi (D) * Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner: Jenniffer González Events January to May * March 17 – The Puerto Rico national baseball team is eliminated from the 2023 World Baseball Classic in the quarterfinals, in a 2023 World Baseball Classic knockout stage, 5-4 loss to Mexico. * April 11 – Governor Pedro Pierluisi declares a state of emergency on coastal erosion. * July 20 – The 2023 Premios Juventud, 20th Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) are held at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico Deaths *January 17 – Rickin Sánchez, television broadcaster. *January 19 – Bert Peña, baseball player (b. 1959). *July 20 – Luis Hiraldo, jockey (b. 1992). *November 20 – Willie Hernández, baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) (b. 1954). *December 24 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth. Located about southeast of Miami, Miami, Florida between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Isla de Mona, Mona. With approximately 3.2 million Puerto Ricans, residents, it is divided into Municipalities of Puerto Rico, 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the Capital city, capital municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Hiraldo
Luis Hiraldo Carrasquillo (1992 – 20 July 2023) was a Puerto Rican horse racing jockey. A winner of 14 horse racing classics, he won 1,118 out of the 6,506 races in which he participated. Career Hiraldo debuted in 2010. He won 177 races in Puerto Rico that year, having participated in 958, to become the top rookie in that country for that year and the second-winningest jockey there in 2010, behind Juan Carlos Diaz. In 2013, Hiraldo participated in the Clasico del Caribe horse racing classic in Panama City, Panama, riding a horse named "Son de Goma". He and the horse finished in fourth place in that international competition. He had won two-thirds of the Puerto Rican triple crown that year with the same horse. Also during 2013, Hiraldo suffered a dangerous injury when, riding on the fifth race of the day on May 26, 2013, his horse, El Bomberito, suffered an injury and fell to the ground, Hiraldo then getting run over by a horse named New Government, which was commanded by j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 21st Century In Puerto Rico
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s In Puerto Rico
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (letter), Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the ''Ξ, xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Puerto Rico
Events in the year 2023 in Puerto Rico. Incumbents * President: Joe Biden (Democratic Party (United States), D) * Governor of Puerto Rico, Governor: Pedro Pierluisi (D) * Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner: Jenniffer González Events January to May * March 17 – The Puerto Rico national baseball team is eliminated from the 2023 World Baseball Classic in the quarterfinals, in a 2023 World Baseball Classic knockout stage, 5-4 loss to Mexico. * April 11 – Governor Pedro Pierluisi declares a state of emergency on coastal erosion. * July 20 – The 2023 Premios Juventud, 20th Premios Juventud (Youth Awards) are held at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico Deaths *January 17 – Rickin Sánchez, television broadcaster. *January 19 – Bert Peña, baseball player (b. 1959). *July 20 – Luis Hiraldo, jockey (b. 1992). *November 20 – Willie Hernández, baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) (b. 1954). *December 24 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s
The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on 1 January 2020, and will end on 31 December 2029. The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first reports of SARS-CoV-2, the virus were published on 31 December 2019, though the Origin of SARS-CoV-2, first cases are said to have appeared nearly a month earlier. The pandemic led to COVID-19 recession, a global economic recession, 2021–2023 inflation surge, a sustained rise in global inflation for the first time since the 1970s, and 2021–2023 global supply chain crisis, a global supply chain crisis. The World Health Organization declared the virus a State of emergency, global state of emergency from March 2020 to May 2023. Several anti-government protest, demonstrations and rebellion, revolts occurred in the early 2020s, including a continuation of those in 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, Hong Kong agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Puerto Rico
The COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico was an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Puerto Rico started addressing the risks of an outbreak in early 2020. The island took "some of the most dramatic steps of any U.S. jurisdiction to control the virus," and "several U.S. cities and states followed Puerto Rico's lead, imposing curfews and shutting businesses" of their own. On February 29, Puerto Rico then governor Wanda Vázquez Garced established a task force to look into how the virus could affect Puerto Rico and to lay out plans on how to best mitigate any outbreaks. Given the long delays encountered by the Puerto Rico government in obtaining reasonable turnaround from the CDC test labs in Atlanta for samples submitted for testing, the local government took the position that every suspicious case was to be treated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In The United States
The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in the United States. The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber. The battle between the Freedom Caucus and McCarthy has been at the heart of an 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis, averted debt-ceiling crisis and the annual 2024 United States federal budget, budget debate nearly devolving into a Government shutdowns in the United States, government shutdown, all culminating in the Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, removal of McCarthy on October 3. The debate over abortion has further continued, with numerous laws being passed by state legislatures and court decisions issued at all levels over the issue with last year's overturning of ''Roe v. Wade'' and ''Planned Parenthood v. Casey'' with ''Dobbs v. Jackson Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleepy Hollow (TV Series)
''Sleepy Hollow'' is an American supernatural drama television series that aired on Fox from September 16, 2013, to March 31, 2017. The series is loosely based on the 1820 short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving, with added concepts from " Rip Van Winkle", also by Irving. The first three seasons are set in a fictionalized version of Sleepy Hollow, New York, which portrays the town as much larger than it actually is. For the fourth and final season, the setting moved to Washington, D.C. In October 2013, ''Sleepy Hollow'' was renewed for a second season with 13 episodes. The season was extended to 18 episodes in May 2014. Early in March 2015, after the second season, ''Sleepy Hollow'' showrunner Mark Goffman left the series. On March 18, 2015, Fox renewed ''Sleepy Hollow'' for an 18-episode third season, with a new showrunner, Clifton Campbell, taking over. On May 13, 2016, Fox renewed the show for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6, 2017. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Ops II
''Call of Duty: Black Ops II'' is a 2012 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 13, 2012, and for the Wii U on November 18 in North America and November 30 in PAL regions. ''Black Ops II'' is the ninth game in the ''Call of Duty'' franchise of video games, a sequel to the 2010 game '' Call of Duty: Black Ops'' and the first ''Call of Duty'' game for the Wii U. A corresponding game for the PlayStation Vita, '' Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified'', was developed by nStigate Games and also released on November 13. The game's campaign follows up the story of ''Black Ops'' and takes place in the late 1980s and in 2025. In the 1980s, the player switches control between Alex Mason and Frank Woods, the former being one of the protagonists from ''Black Ops'', while in 2025, the player assumes control of Mason's son, David ( codenamed "Section"). Both time periods invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
