This river was named Turbio River by the Spanish conquerors, a name that is still in use today. Another possible name origin is due to a red dye called bariquí. When Juan de Villegas founded it, he named the city Nueva Segovia de Barquisimeto, but years later it became just Barquisimeto, a word popularized by Oviedo y Baños in his book History and Conquest of the Venezuelan Population.
In 1992 Serevi was again named the player of the tournament. At the 1993 Hong Kong Sevens, Serevi scored three tries to help Fiji to a 17–14 win over Australia in the semi-final, but was unable to prevent his team being defeated 14–12 in the final by Samoa.
It ran for 166 issues plus two trade paperback collections. In 2012 another series, also titled Mistress of the Dark, was announced for a 2013 debut to be written by R.H. Stavis and drawn by Jeff Zarnow.
After reaching an agreement to play home games at the Roanoke Civic Center, the NBDL announced Roanoke as the league’s fifth member on May 18, 2001. The announcement marked the return of professional basketball to Roanoke since the departure of the American Basketball Association’s Virginia Squires following the 1972–73 season.
In 1987, Smith chose to have GM enter in the first World Solar Challenge race and he hired AeroVironment to build a winning solar-electric vehicle. The resulting car, the Sunraycer easily won the race at a cost of just under 2 million dollars.
Nevertheless, the Republicans wooed Davenport, seeking to deprive the Democrats of one of their weapons, and eventually President and cartoonist met. In 1904, Davenport left the American for the New York Evening Mail, a Republican paper, to be paid $25,000 for the final six months of 1904 (most likely paid by the party’s backers) and an undisclosed salary after that.