12 Things I Was Not Able To Do On My 38th Birthday

1. I was not able to apply for a Postal ID.
2. I was not able to have a haircut.
3. I was not able to unweed the grasses in our yard.
4. I was not able to buy new running shoes.
5. I was not able to jog.
6. I was not able to have a photo with our two Siberian Huskies.
7. I was not able to have a family portrait at a photo studio.
8. I was not able to buy apples since there was no price tag.
9. I was not able to update our business records. Again.
10. I was not able to get a copy of Game of Thrones Season 7.
11. I was not able to decide if I will attend the 21th UPOU Commencement Exercises although I still have a few days left to decide and budge.
12. I was not able to continue writing my FIRST novel. AGAIN.

References: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R45HcYA8uRA

12 Happenings On My Birthday

As I end my day, I pondered on the things that happened today, 30 August, which is my birthday. One special anxious moment was this morning. I had a nightmare at around 07:11 AM since I am on night shift schedule, I had to sleep in the morning. Thank God, my Love was there to wake me up.

I thank the Lord for all the small and big blessings I have received and ask forgiveness for all the wrongdoings I have done.

1. I bought two games from GTribe which has a promo that was extended and long enough for me to buy with 2 hours left on the clock. The original price of the game was ‎US$39.99 for the Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth PC game and DiRT Rally was originally priced at US$59.99. I bought the two games at a promo price of $38.75 making me a UX member at GTribe with an exclusive badge at my profile plus an option to launch my own Fan Page at GTribe while helping game developers.  
   
2. I donated a few savings at UNICEF of which I am a  regular donor. 
   
3. I bought 2 pieces of Coin Collector's Collecting Album Holder which was on a Lazada promo price of Php 508.00 which is 40% of the original price of Php847.00. This is a good price already since it amounts to two coin albums already. 
   
4. I also bought a TECO Coffee Maker at Lazada worth Php743.92 with an original price of Php 1,500.00, a sure savings of 50%. 
   
5. I bought a Gold Medal Ear Mite and Tick Control (4 oz) at Lazada, for Ikkyo and Recca, our Siberian Huskies, to help get rid of their itchiness in their ears, most especially with Ikkyo's case. 
   
6. I also donated a few pesos to the Save The Children organization, for Marawi children who are in need of our assistance because of the effects of the war against Maute group involved in terrorism. 
   
7. I joined two teams at Chess dot com, namely Team International and The Bear Cubs. 
   
8. I also joined the 40th tournament at the Chess dot com so that I will be able to exercise my mind again. 
   
9. I bought Sampaguita garlands worth 50 pesos when we went to church. The Sampaguita garlands today are high compared to when I was young which was worth 10 pesos back then. I used the garlands as offering for my two patron saints. 
   
   
   
   
10. I got a Silver Engineer badge in my Ingress gameplay. I got it when I reached the required 1,500 mods deployed for upgrading portals. 
    
11. I SAW MY GOOGLE BIRTHDAY DOODLE TODAY WHEN I USED MY LAPTOP. ALRIGHT!!! 
    
12. My family had dinner at home together with my two sister-in-laws and it was a delicious and mouth-watering experience. 
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

12 Trivia Facts About Steven Seagal

1. Is the first foreigner ever to own and operate an Aikido dojo in Japan. Known as "Master Take Shigemichi", he was the chief instructor at the Aikido Tenshin Dojo in the city of Osaka.
2. Is an Aikido master - 7th Dan.
3. His first seven films were all starring roles, ending with Executive Decision (1996).
4. Broke Sean Connery's wrist when he was teaching him martial arts during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983).
5. His love of guitar and appreciation of rasta music led him to study with a teacher in Jamaica, where he owns a vacation home.
6. Owns a very large collection of guitars and samurai swords.
7. All of his main leading role movies have been rated R except for Half Past Dead (2002) which was the only Seagal film to be PG-13.
8. He and Jackie Chan are friends and Chan offered him the role of the villain in Rush Hour 3 (2007), but Seagal turned it down.
9. Was asked to play a cameo in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables (2010), but had to turn it down because of his fallout relationship with producer Avi Lerner. However, Seagal joined in another big ensemble film, Machete (2010).
10. Steven Seagal received Russian citizenship on 3 November 2016.
11. Married second wife Adrienne Larussa before his divorce from first wife Miyako Fujitani was finalized (they married in Japan). He eventually had the marriage to Larussa annulled when he began dating third wife Kelly LeBrock, who became pregnant with the couple's first child.
12. Steven Seagal acquired Serbian citizenship on 10 January 2016.

References:
 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000219/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_10
http://stevenseagal.com/

Happy 72nd Birthday President Duterte

1. President Rodrigo Duterte was born on 14 March 1945, in Maasin, Leyte.
2. His maternal grandfather was a Chinese immigrant from Xiamen, Fujian. 
3. His father was Vicente G. Duterte (1911–1968), a Cebuano lawyer; and his mother Soledad Duterte (née Roa) (1916–2012), was a school teacher from Cabadbaran, Agusan and a civic leader of Maranao descent.
4. Duterte went to Laboon Elementary School in Maasin, for a year and spent his remaining elementary days at the Santa Ana Elementary School in Davao City, where he graduated in 1956.
5. He finished his secondary education in the High School Department of the then Holy Cross College of Digos (now Cor Jesu College) in today's city of Digos in the now defunct Davao province, after being expelled twice from previous schools, including one in Ateneo de Davao University High School due to misconduct.
6. He graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at the Lyceum of the Philippines in Manila.
7. He obtained a law degree from San Beda College of Law in 1972 passing the bar exam in the same year.
8. Duterte has said that he was sexually abused by a priest when he was a minor. After he was challenged by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and AdDU officials to name the priest and file a case against him, Duterte then revealed the priest's name as Fr. Mark Falvey, SJ (d. 1975). The Jesuits of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines confirmed that according to press reports in the United States, in May 2007, the Society of Jesus agreed to a tentative payout of USD16 million to settle claims that Falvey sexually abused at least nine children in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1975. 
9. On 30 May 2016, the 16th Congress of the Philippines proclaimed Duterte as the 16th President-elect of the Philippines after he topped the official count by the Congress of the Philippines for the 2016 presidential election with 16,601,997 votes.
10. At the age of 71, Duterte became the oldest person ever elected to the presidency, after former President Sergio Osmeña. 
11. Duterte is also the first local chief executive to get elected straight to the Office of the President
12. On 7 August 2016, Duterte approved the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes' Cemetery in Taguig saying that Marcos is qualified for the burial at the cemetery due to him being a "former president and a soldier".

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte
https://successstory.com/people/rodrigo-roa-duterte
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/793138/profile-rodrigo-duterte
http://pcoo.gov.ph/profile/
http://www.filipiknow.net/rodrigo-duterte/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBnpO2x8zNM

12 Trivia Facts About Rachel Weisz

1. Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. 
2. Her father was born in Hungary and her mother was born in Austria. Both moved to the U.K. around 1938, because of the Nazi threat. Rachel's paternal grandparents, Yair Weisz (from Pressburg) and Katherine Glickel Sternberg (from Budapest), were both Ashkenazi Jews. Rachel's maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was an Austrian Jew, and Rachel's maternal grandmother, Anna Bassi, who was Catholic, had Austrian and Italian ancestry. Rachel's mother formally converted to Judaism when marrying Rachel's father.
3. She pronounces her last name "Vice."
4. Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in.
5. Drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels.
6. Has a tattoo of a ladder on her hip.
7. She appeared in two movies in 2005 that have the word "Constant" in their titles: Constantine (2005) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
8. Manila, The Philippines: Started filming for The Bourne Legacy (2012). [January 2012]
9. Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Weisz was 7 months pregnant with her son Henry when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener (2005).
10. Was the 127th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener (2005) at The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) on March 5, 2006.
11. Became an American citizen in 2011.
12. 22nd June 2011 She married James Bond actor Daniel Craig.

Source:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001838/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Today is the 150th birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

1. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa was born in Albi, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrenees region of France, the firstborn child of Comte Alphonse and Comtesse Adele de Toulouse-Lautrec.
2. Henri's parents, the Comte and Comtesse, were first cousins (Henri's two grandmothers were sisters) and Henri suffered from congenital health conditions sometimes attributed to a family history of inbreeding.
3. At age twelve Toulouse-Lautrec broke his left leg and at fourteen his right leg and the bones did not heal properly, and his legs ceased to grow. The post-Impressionist, whose legs stopped growing when he was a child so that he grew to a height of 1.54m (5ft 1in), was one of the most celebrated characters of La Belle Epoque.
4. Deprived of the physical life that a normal body would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived completely for his art. Lautrec's physical appearance contributed to his suffering from alcoholism, and he's thought to have invented the notorious cocktail "Earthquake" - 3 parts Absinthe, 3 parts Cognac, over ice. 
5. The bright green and alarmingly potent spirit Absinthe became the creative fuel for the bohemian artists of the day. It became known as "the queen of poisons", favoured by Lautrec, Picasso and van Gogh.
6. In his 20-year art career, Toulouse-Lautrec was exceptionally prolific, creating 737 canvases, 275 watercolours, 363 prints and posters and at least 5,084 drawings - as well as ceramic and stained glass work.
7. "The Laundress" is the painting that set a new record when Christie's auction house sold it in 2005 for $22.4m.
8. Actress Marcelle Lender was a favourite subject of Toulouse-Lautrec, who had a passion for theatre in all forms.
9. The young Pablo Picasso imitated Toulouse-Lautrec when he first visited Paris and in fact, Toulouse-Lautrec influenced Picasso’s concept of art throughout his career.
10. “A favourite model was a red-haired prostitute called Rosa la Rouge from whom he allegedly contracted syphilis.”
11. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, Toulouse-Lautrec was placed in a sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) after a particularly violent bout of delerium tremens in 1889 shortly before his death. He recovered and was released, but died in 1901 from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis at the age of 34 at the family estate in Malrome, fewer than three months before his 37th birthday. He is buried in Verdelais, Gironde, a few kilometers from the Chateau of Malrome, where he died.
12. Toulouse-Lautrec's last words reportedly were: "Le vieux con!" ("Old fool!")

References:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Biography
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec: Google celebrates 150th anniversary of French artist's birth
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [French Post-Impressionist Painter and Printmaker, 1864-1901]
Why Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is much more than Google Doodle’s poster boy
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The French painter's 10 most famous works and facts about his life

Leo Tolstoy

1. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer, philosopher and political thinker who primarily wrote novels and short stories, born on 9 September 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia.
2. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya). Tolstoy's parents died when he was young, so he and his siblings were brought up by relatives.
3. During his 1857 visit, Tolstoy witnessed a public execution in Paris, a traumatic experience that would mark the rest of his life. Writing in a letter to his friend Vasily Botkin: "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
4. On 23 September 23, 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior and the daughter of a court physician. She was called Sonya, the Russian diminutive of Sofya, by her family and friends. They had thirteen children: 
1. Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (July 10, 1863 -– December 23, 1947), composer and ethnomusicologist
2. Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya (October 4, 1864 -– September 21, 1950), wife of Mikhail Sergeevich
3. Sukhotin Count Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy (May 22, 1866 –- December 11, 1933), writer 
4. Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (June 1, 1869 – October 18, 1945), writer and sculptor
5. Countess Maria Lvovna Tolstaya (1871–1906), wife of Nikolai Leonidovich Obolensky
6. Count Peter Lvovich Tolstoy (1872–1873), died in infancy
7. Count Nikolai Lvovich Tolstoy (1874–1875), died in infancy
8. Countess Varvara Lvovna Tolstaya (1875–1875), died in infancy
9. Count Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy (1877–1916), served in the Russo-Japanese War
10. Count Michael Lvovich Tolstoy (1879–1944)
11. Count Alexei Lvovich Tolstoy (1881–1886)
12. Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya (July 18, 1884 –- September 26, 1979)
13. Count Ivan Lvovich Tolstoy (1888–1895)
5. The marriage was marked from the outset by sexual passion and emotional insensitivity when Tolstoy, on the eve of their marriage, gave her his diaries detailing his extensive sexual past and the fact that one of the serfs on his estate had borne him a son.
6. The Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and Leo Tolstoy's descendants today live in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Among them are Swedish singer Viktoria Tolstoy and Swedish landowner Christopher Paus, Herresta.
7. Tolstoy returned to Yasnaya Polyana and founded thirteen schools for his serfs' children, based on the principles Tolstoy described in his 1862 essay "The School at Yasnaya Polyana". Tolstoy's educational experiments were short-lived, partly due to harassment by the Tsarist secret police. However, as a direct forerunner to A. S. Neill's Summerhill School, the school at Yasnaya Polyana can justifiably be claimed the first example of a coherent theory of democratic education.
8. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).
9. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
10. A 2009 film about Tolstoy's final year, The Last Station, based on the novel by Jay Parini, was made by director Michael Hoffman with Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as Sofya Tolstoya. Both performers were nominated for Oscars for their roles. There have been other films about the writer, including Departure of a Grand Old Man, made in 1912 just two years after his death, How Fine, How Fresh the Roses Were (1913), and Leo Tolstoy, directed by and starring Sergei Gerasimov in 1984.
11. There is also a famous lost film of Tolstoy made a decade before he died. In 1901, the American travel lecturer Burton Holmes visited Yasnaya Polyana with Albert J. Beveridge, the U.S. senator and historian. As the three men conversed, Holmes filmed Tolstoy with his 60-mm movie camera. Afterwards, Beveridge's advisers succeeded in having the film destroyed, fearing that documentary evidence of a meeting with the Russian author might hurt Beveridge's chances of running for the U.S. presidency.
12. Tolstoy died on 20 November 1910 at the age of 82 at Astapovo, Russian Empire due to pneumonia.

References:

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Creates a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most (1891)

5 Reasons Why Twentysomethings Should Read Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

The Very Last Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured on Video

Leo Tolstoy - Rare Historic Video

Ramon Magsaysay

7th President of the Philippines, 3rd President of the Third Republic

1. Ramón del Fierro Magsaysay was born in Iba, Zambales on August 31, 1907 to Exequiel Magsaysay y de los Santos (April 18, 1874 in San Marcelino, Zambales - January 24, 1968 in Manila), a blacksmith, and Perfecta del Fierro y Quimson (April 18, 1887 in Castillejos, Zambales - May 5, 1980 in Manila), a schoolteacher.
2. He spent his elementary life somewhere in Castillejos and his high school life at Zambales Academy at San Narciso, Zambales. After high school, Magsaysay entered the University of the Philippines in 1927, where he enrolled in a pre-medical course. He worked as a chauffeur to support himself as he studied engineering; and later, he transferred to the Institute of Commerce at José Rizal College (1928–1932), where he received a baccalaureate in commerce. He then worked as an automobile mechanic in a bus company (Florida) and shop superintendent.
3. He was married to Luz Magsaysay (née Banzon) in June 16, 1933 and they had three children: Teresita Banzon-Magsaysay (1934–1979), Milagros "Mila" Banzon-Magsaysay (b. 1936) and Ramon "Jun" Banzon-Magsaysay, Jr. (b. 1938).
4. On 22 April 1946, Magsaysay, encouraged by his ex-guerrillas, was elected under the Liberal Party to the Philippine House of Representatives. In 1948, President Manuel Roxas chose Magsaysay to go to Washington as Chairman of the Committee on Guerrilla Affairs, to help to secure passage of the Rogers Veterans Bill, giving benefits to Philippine veterans. In the so-called "dirty election" of 1949, he was re-elected to a second term in the House of Representatives. During both terms he was Chairman of the House National Defense Committee.
5. When news reached Magsaysay that his political ally Moises Padilla was being tortured by the forces of provincial governor Lacson, he rushed to Negros Occidental, but was too late. He was then informed that Padilla's body was swimming in blood, pierced by fourteen bullets, and was positioned on a police bench in the town plaza. Magsaysay himself carried Padilla's corpse with his bare hands and delivered it to the morgue, and the next day, news clips showed pictures of him doing so. Magsaysay even used this event during his presidential campaign in 1953.
   
   The trial against Lacson started in January 1952; Magsaysay and his men presented enough evidence to convict Lacson and his 26 men for murder. In August 1954, Judge Eduardo Enriquez ruled the men were guilty and Lacson, his 22 men and three other mayors of Negros Occidental municipalities were condemned to the electric chair.
6. Presidential election of 1953 - This was the first time that an elected Philippine president did not come from the Senate.
7. Magsaysay started the practice in the Philippines of "campaign jingles" during elections, for one of his inclinations and hobbies was dancing.
8. In the Election of 1953, Magsaysay was decisively elected president over the incumbent Elpidio Quirino. He was sworn into office wearing the Barong Tagalog, a first by a Philippine president. He was then called "Mambo Magsaysay".
9. As president, he was a close friend and supporter of the United States and a vocal spokesman against communism during the Cold War. He led the foundation of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization also known as the Manila Pact of 1954, that aimed to defeat communist-Marxist movements in South East Asia, South Asia and the Southwestern Pacific. 
10. During his term, he made Malacañang literally a "house of the people", opening its gates to the public. One example of his integrity followed a demonstration flight aboard a new plane belonging to the Philippine Air Force (PAF): President Magsaysay asked what the operating costs per hour were for that type of aircraft, then wrote a personal check to the PAF, covering the cost of his flight. He brought back the people's trust in the military and in the government.
11. His administration was considered one of the cleanest and most corruption-free; his presidency was cited as the Philippines' Golden Years. Trade and industry flourished, the Philippine military was at its prime, and the Filipino people were given international recognition in sports, culture and foreign affairs. The Philippines ranked second in Asia's clean and well-governed countries.
12. Magsaysay's term, which was to end on 30 December 1957, was cut short by a plane crash. On 16 March 1957, Magsaysay left Manila for Cebu City where he spoke at three educational institutions. That same night, at about 1 am, he boarded the presidential plane "Mt. Pinatubo", a C-47, heading back to Manila. In the early morning hours of 17 March, the plane was reported missing. By late afternoon, newspapers had reported the airplane had crashed on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu, and that 36 of the 56 aboard were killed (the actual number on board was 25, including Magsaysay). Only newspaperman Néstor Mata survived. Vice-President Carlos García, who was on an official visit to Australia at the time, assumed the presidency to serve out the last eight months of Magsaysay's term.
    
    An estimated 2 million people attended Magsaysay's burial on 31 March 1957. He was posthumously referred to by people as the "Idol of the Masses".

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References:

Ramon Magsaysay
About Ramon Magsaysay
Today in Philippine History, August 31, 1907, Ramon Magsaysay, seventh President of the Philippines was born in Iba, Zambales
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7792
History of the Quezon Service Cross
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Official Website of Zambales
Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga Del Sur
7th Secretary of National Defense 

What Happened On August 30

And these are what happened on 30 August ...

1. 1850 - Marcelo H. del Pilar was born in Kupang, San Nicolas, Bulacan, on August 30, 1850.
   

   The province of Bulacan led the rest of the nation in commemorating the 164th birth anniversary of hero Marcelo del Pilar this coming August 30, 2014. The day is a special non-working holiday in the province as declared by Republic Act (RA) 7449, which was enacted during the time of the late former President Corazon Aquino.

2. 1896 - The Battle of San Juan del Monte, took place on 30 August 1896. It is considered the first real battle of the Philippine revolution, which sought Philippine independence from Spain.Special Non-Working Holiday (for San Juan-based employees)
   San Juan Day, in commemoration of the Battle of Pinaglabanan
3. 1896 - Governor-General Ramon Blanco proclaimed a state of war in the eight provinces that took up arms, and placed them under martial law. The provinces were Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija—provinces that would forevermore stand as the eight rays of the sun on the Philippine flag.
4. 1951 - Remarks of President Elpidio Quirino on the signing of the U.S.-P.I. defense pact, Washington, D. C., Thursday, August 30, 1951:
   

   We have witnessed today an act that may be described as the end of the beginning. Here we have set the first milestone on the road towards the enduring security of the Pacific area. I have special reason to rejoice at this moment because it was not so long ago in this same capital, that I took the liberty of proposing the conclusion of a Pacific Security Pact under the initiative of the United States. This is the first fruit of that vision. This is a treaty of mutual defense with unavoidable connotations of military action. Yet it is, in fact, wholly dedicated to peace and to the methods of peace. It means so much to the economic development and happiness of the Filipino people. Here, our two countries pledge ourselves anew to the principle of the Pacific settlement of disputes enshrined in the charter of the United Nations. Here, we have assumed a formal undertaking to assist each other and to stand together in the face of aggression, in the hope that hereafter we may be able to follow undistracted the fruitful pursuits of peace. We have no aggressive aims against anyone. Our purpose is rather to give notice that a potential aggressor must henceforth take due account of our common purpose and united will to act in self defense. From the history of the Filipino people and of our relations with the United States during the past 50 years, nobody can have the slightest doubt about our devotion to freedom and our readiness to share in its defense. On this solemn occasion, Mr. President, may I convey to you, and through you to the American people, the deepest sentiments of goodwill and friendship from the people of the Philippines. This treaty proclaims the sense of unity of our two peoples, and this is a declaration of historic importance. For we established our unity of purpose, not on any consideration of race, creed, or equality of power, but solely on the ground of our common faith in freedom. Though humbled by the great significance of this alliance, the Filipino people are nevertheless proud that our young Republic has merited this recognition of its faith and its courage. Mr. President, I bring to witness, at this signing, our faith in democracy and the courage to defend it with all our strength.
   
   Source: University of the Philippines, College of Law Library

5. 1957 - The municipality of Isulan was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 266 dated August 30, 1957 with the seat of government at Barangay Kalawag. However it was only on September15, 1957 that the municipal government officially functioned with the appointment of its first set of officials headed by Mayor Datu Suma Ampatuan who served as a Mayor until 1967. Since its creation, Isulan was classified as a 5th class municipality with an estimated annual income of P 38,380.83. The biggest sources of income of the town then were the logging companies in the area like the Sabros & Co. Inc.; Habaluyas Logging Enterprises and the Magsaysay & Silverio Logging Co., Inc.
6. 1959 - President Garcia today, August 30, 1959 directed the National Orthopedic Hospital to extend all medical facilities to a crippled 12-year old boy, Salvador Miranda,  who is suffering from tuberculosis of the hip joint at the Albay Provincial Hospital. 
7. 1969 - On June 21st, 1969, president Ferdinand E. Marcos signed the Charter of Mandaue City. Another proclamation by the same president, from August 30, 1969 is taken as the date when the City of Mandaue was formally organized. The first mayor of this city was Demetrio Cortes Senior.
8. 2014 - Youth volunteers and government partners will be planting tree saplings at the La Mesa Forest Park in Quezon City today (August 30). The project is part of the Climate Change advocacy campaign of the Philippine Information Agency-National Capital Region (PIA-NCR) in partnership with the Department of Environment & Natural Resources-NCR and in cooperation with Pilipinas Natin! PIA-NCR Regional Director Riza J. Baldoria said the activity dubbed  “Happy Birthday Tree (HBT)!” aims to encourage everyone to give back to the environment by planting trees.
9. 2014 - Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin on Saturday said Filipino peacekeepers came "under attack" by Syrian rebels on the Golan Heights. In a text message to reporters, Gazmin confirmed that there was a firefight between rebels and peacekeepers at Position 68, one of the posts held by Filipino troops. Gazmin said the firefight errupted at around 6 a.m. (11 a.m. Manila time).
10. 2014 - FINAL SCORE. Croatia escapes Gilas Pilipinas in overtime, 81-78 Gilas Pilipinas takes its first step in the FIBA World Cup on Saturday, August 30 when it faces off with the Croatian national basketball team in Seville, Spain.
11. 2014 - Globe Slipstream, a one-day event of speed exhibitions, music performances and other fun-filled activities for the whole family will highlight the telco’s partnership with Lotus F1 Junior Team and Marlon Stockinger, the first Filipino Junior Lotus F1 driver on August 30, 2014, Saturday, at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.
12. The International Day of the Disappeared on August 30 is a day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives. The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM), a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment, forced disappearances and abduction in a number of Latin-American countries.
    On August 30, 2007, hundreds of Philippine relatives and supporters of desaparecidos, mostly activists, missing after being abducted or killed by Philippine security forces protested against the government to mark International Day of the Disappeared. Edita Burgos remembered her missing son, Jonas, a member of the Peasants' Movement of the Philippines.
    On August 30, 2008 the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances, which gathers family member organizations and human rights organizations from around the world, joined hands for a global campaign event to promote the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

 References:

The President’s Day: August 30, 1959
August 30 2014 Marcelo Del Pilar Day in Bulacan
August 2014 Special and Regular Non Working Holidays in Philippines
Marcelo H. del Pilar
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FPJ 75th Birth Anniversary

Today, 20 August 2014, is the 75th birth anniversary of National Artist for Film Ronald Allan Poe better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King.

1. Full name is Ronald Allan Kelley Poe.
2. He was the son of Filipino actor Allan Fernando R. Poe (Fernando Poe, Sr.) and Elizabeth Kelley, an American who were not yet legally married when he was born on 20 August 1939, although his parents were later married in 1940.
3. He was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan.
4. He was the second among six siblings and it was his brother Andy who was really named Fernando Poe, Jr. which FPJ later adopted, to bank on the popularity of his father who was a top actor in his time. Conrad Poe, a Filipino actor is FPJ's half-brother, the illegitimate son of the late Fernando Poe Sr. and actress Patricia Mijares.
5. Pou is the original spelling of the family's surname from his grandfather, playwright Lorenzo Pou, a Catalan migrant from Majorca, Spain, who ventured into mining and business in the Philippines.
6. In 1953 Poe finished his primary education at San Beda College. For high school, he went to San Sebastian College. He continued his education at Mapua Institute of Technology and University of the East. His father died from rabies at age 35, leaving the young Poe as the family's breadwinner. In order to support his family, he was forced to drop out of school. He did not complete high school, but went on to win numerous awards and prizes as an actor and film director.
7. Poe married actress Susan Roces (real name: Jesusa Sonora) in a civil wedding in December 1968. They later married in a religious service and among their primary sponsors were then-President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda. Poe and Roces adopted a daughter, former MTRCB Chairman and May 2013 senatorial candidate, Grace Poe. Poe was also partnered with Anna Marin and had one son as Ronian and former actress Rowena Moran has one daughter Lourdes Virginia.
8. Fernando Poe Jr., was the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP)'s candidate for the 2004 presidential election when he accepted the nomination in December 2003 and was to be the opposition standard-bearer for the Philippines' 2004 presidential election.
9. Poe was admitted to Saint Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City on the evening of 11 December 2004 after complaining of dizziness at a gathering in his production studio during a Christmas party. He suffered from a stroke and slipped into a coma while being treated for a brain clot. Doctors described his condition as a cerebral thrombosis with multiple organ failure.
10. He died at the age of 65 on 14 December 2004 at 12:01 am, without regaining consciousness and was buried in his family plot along with his father and mother in North Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
11. On 20 July 2012, President Aquino signed Proclamation No. 435 confirming his posthumous declaration as a National Artist as conferred in Proclamation No. 1069 dated 23 May 2006. 
12. On 14 December 2012, eight (8) years after his death, FPJ was feted with a monument along Roxas Boulevard in Manila. The monument was unveiled at the corner of Roxas Boulevard and Arquiza Street, with widow Susan Roces and daughter Grace Poe attending the affair.

References:

Fernando Poe, Jr.
Did you know: Fernando Poe Jr.
D E C I S I O N
Best Fernando Poe, Jr. Movies
Fernando Poe, Jr.AKA Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, Jr.

Manuel Quezón 2014

136th birth anniversary  of Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina

1. Quezón, was born in Baler in the district of El Príncipe (which later became Baler, Tayabas, now Baler, Aurora). His Spanish parents were Lucio Quezón and María Dolores Molina. His father was a primary grade school teacher from Paco, Manila and a retired Sergeant of the Spanish colonial army, while his mother was a primary grade school teacher in their hometown.
2. In 1899, Quezón cut short his law studies at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila to participate in the struggle for independence against the United States, led by Emilio Aguinaldo. During the Philippine-American War he was an ayuda-de-campo to Emilio Aguinaldo. He rose to the rank of Major and fought in the Bataan sector. However, after surrendering in 1900 wherein he made his first break in the American press, Quezón returned to the university and passed the bar examinations in 1903, achieving fourth place.
3. He worked for a time as a clerk and surveyor, entering government service as an appointed fiscal for Mindoro and later Tayabas. He became a councilor and was elected governor of Tayabas in 1906 after a hard-fought election.
4. In 1907, he was elected to the first Philippine Assembly – later became the House of Representatives – where he served as majority floor leader and chairman of the committee on appropriations. From 1909 to 1916, he served as one of the Philippines' two resident commissioners to the U.S. House of Representatives, lobbying for the passage of the Philippine Autonomy Act or Jones Law.
5. From 1916 to 1935, Quezón returned to Manila in 1916 to be elected into the Philippine Senate and later became Senate President, serving continuously until 1935 (19 years). He headed the first Independent Mission to the U.S. Congress in 1919 and secured the passage of the Tydings-McDuffie Independence Law in 1934. In 1922, Quezón became the leader of the Nacionalista Party alliance (Quezón was the first Senate president elected to the presidency).
6. In 1934, the United States Congress passed the Philippine Independence Act, which established the Commonwealth of the Philippines and in 1935, Quezón won the Philippines' first national presidential election under the banner of the Nacionalista Party. He obtained nearly 68% of the vote against his two main rivals, Emilio Aguinaldo and Gregorio Aglipay. Quezón was inaugurated in November 1935 and became the first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (Quezon was the first president elected through a national election).
7. President Quezón was given the power under the reorganization act, to appoint the first all-Filipino Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1935. From 1901 to 1935, although a Filipino was always appointed chief justice, the majority of the members of the Supreme Court were Americans. Complete Filipinization was achieved only with the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935. Claro M. Recto and José P. Laurel were among Quezón's first appointees to replace the American justices. The membership in the Supreme Court increased to 11: a chief justice and ten associate justices, who sat en banc or in two divisions of five members each.
   
   
   •     Ramón Avanceña – 1935 (Chief Justice) – 1935–1941
   •     José Abad Santos – 1935
   •     Claro M. Recto 1935–1936
   •     José P. Laurel – 1935
   •     José Abad Santos (Chief Justice) – 1941–1942
    
8. Quezon was considered "Father of the National Language" for advocating Filipino-language amendments to the 1935 Constitution,  following a year's study, the Institute of the National Language – established on 1936 – recommended that Tagalog be adopted as the basis for the national language. The proposal was well received, considering that the Director – the first to be appointed – at the time, Jaime C. de Veyra, was an ethnic Visayan. On April 1, 1940, President Quezón officially authorized the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language. Likewise, the Chief Executive decreed that the national language was to be compulsorily taught in all the schools during the forthcoming academic term. For its part, the National Assembly enacted Law No. 570 raising the national language elaborated by the institute to the status of official language of the Philippines, at par with English and Spanish, effective July 4, 1946, upon the establishment of the Philippine Republic.
9. Quezón had originally been barred by the Philippine constitution from seeking re-election. However, in 1940, constitutional amendments were ratified allowing him to seek re-election for a fresh term ending in 1943. In the 1941 presidential elections, Quezón was re-elected over former Senator Juan Sumulong with nearly 82% of the vote (the first incumbent to secure re-election for a partial second term, later extended, due to amendments to the 1935 Constitution).
10. Quezon escaped by submarine in 1942 during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines which drove Quezon to Corregidor and from there, he headed a Philippine government in exile.
11. Quezón suffered from tuberculosis and spent his last years in a "cure cottage" in Saranac Lake, New York, where he died on August 1, 1944. He was initially buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His body was later carried by the USS Princeton and re-interred in Manila at the Manila North Cemetery on July 17, 1946 before being moved to Quezon City within the monument at the Quezon Memorial Circle on August 19, 1979.
12. On August 19, 1939, the occasion of his 61st birthday, President Manuel L. Quezon issued Executive Order No. 217 that prescribed a set of civic and ethical precepts—collectively known as the Code of Citizenship and Ethics—to be taught in all schools in the Philippines. The list, a product of a Committee composed of leading jurists and political luminaries organized by the President, would eventually be turned into a 71-page volume, complete with historical anecdotes and references to the virtues Filipinos have displayed throughout the years. In a letter to the President printed as a preface to the book, the Committee wrote, “The life of a nation depends upon the moral and civic virtue of its citizens. Now, more than ever, when nations, great and small, are on the verge of collapse do we realize this fundamental truth.”

References:

2010 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia
Manuel L. Quezon
QUIZ: How well do you know Manuel Quezon?
Manuel L. Quezon, First President
Quezon’s Code of Citizenship and Ethics

Alfredo Santos - Filipino National Scientist

Dr. Alfredo C. Santos - 114th Birth Anniversary today, 15 August 2014

1. Recognized for having pioneered phytochemistry in the Philippine or his researches in the chemistry of natural products.
2. Has done a lot of work in the isolation and elucidation of the phaeantharine and other alkaloids from Philippine medical plants.
3. Served in various capacities at the UP for 45 years until retirement in 1965 as Dean of the College of Pharmacy.
4. After UP stint, continued to do research at the UST Research Center and the National Institute of Science and Technology.
5. Received Pres. Magsaysay's Distinguished Service Star in 1954 in recognition of his original experimental researches in numerous alkaloids isolated from Philippine medicinal plants.
6. Recipient of the 1953 Outstanding Pharmacist Researcher of the Philippine Pharmaceutical Association
7. Recipient of the 1973 PhilAAS Outstanding Scientist Award.
8. BS in Pharmacy, University of the Philippines
9. Doctorate in Pharmacy, University of Santo Tomas
10. Doctorate in Philosophy, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster - 1929
11. National Scientist Awardee in 1978
12. Born on 15 August 1900 in Sto. Tomas, Pampanga and died on 11 April 1990.

Alfredo Santos - Filipino Chemist

References:

Dr. Alfredo C. Santos' profile
Order of National Scientists
What Did Dr. Alfredo C. Santos Invented?
Dr. Alfredo C. Santos, PhD: Pharmacist, Chemist, Educator, Thomasian
Alfredo C. Santos (Chemist and Pharmacist)
Alfredo Santos - Filipino Chemist
National Scientist Alfredo C. Santos "Father of Natural Products Research"
My Top 10 Famous Filipino Scientists and Inventors

John Venn

John Venn

1. Today is the 180th birthday of John Venn who was born on 4 August 1834 in Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire to Martha Sykes and Rev. Henry Venn, who was the rector of the parish of Drypool.
2. Venn was descended from a long line of church evangelicals, including his grandfather John Venn and he also became an Anglican priest, ordained in 1859, serving first at the church in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and later in Mortlake, Surrey.
3. He was educated by private tutors until 1853 when he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
4. In 1857, he obtained his degree in mathematics and became a fellow.
5. In 1862, he returned to Cambridge University as a lecturer in moral science, studying and teaching logic and probability theory.
6. In 1868, he married Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone with whom he had one son, John Archibald Venn.
7. In 1883, he resigned from the clergy having concluded that Anglicanism was incompatible with his philosophical beliefs.
8. Also in 1883, Venn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded a Sc.D. by Cambridge.
9. He died on 4 April 1923; the cause of his death was not specified.
10. John Venn was also an English logician and philosopher more famous for introducing the Venn diagram, which is used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
11. A Venn diagram or set diagram is a diagram that shows all possible logical relations between a finite collection of sets.
12. Venn diagrams were conceived around 1880 and are used to teach elementary set theory, as well as illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science.

Screenshot of Google's Doodle for the 180th Birthday of John Venn

References:

John Venn
John Venn's 180th Birthday
Venn diagram

12 Facts About Hermano Pule

 De la Cruz, Apolinario (1815-1841) 

1. Apolinario De la Cruz was also known as Hermano Pule (Brother Pule).
2. He was a Filipino religious leader who tried to provide native-born Filipinos with a means of entering a career in the Roman Catholic Church which meant opposing the Spanish rulers of the Philippines during that time.
3. Hermano Pule was born in Barrio Pandác in the town of Lucban in Tayabas Province (now Quezon) on 22 July 1815. 
4. His parents were wealthy and devout Roman Catholics named Pablo de la Cruz and Juana Andres.
5. As a young man in 1829, he went to Manila and tried to join the Dominican Order to become a Catholic priest, but no Catholic order would accept a native Filipino during those times.
6. He was accepted as a donado in the San Juan de Dios Hospital and he was admitted to the Cofrad'ia de San Juan de Dios, a religious brotherhood open to the native-born, which was an affiliate of the hospital that opened De la Cruz's interest in public speaking. 
7. He was expelled from the hospital for reasons unknown and went back to his native town, Lucban, and founded  Cofradia de San José (Confraternity of St. Joseph) in 1832 which was composed of native Filipinos.
8. The aims of the cofradia were never clear in the accounts, but one of them was to honor Saint Joseph and Virgin Mary by having a mass celebrated on the 19th of every month. This gave historian David P. Barrows reason to describe the cofradia as a "special cult."
9. Apolinario started the Cofradia with 19 members and called himself, being the leader, as hermano mayor, thus, he became widely known as Hermano Pule and later on, the Confraternity's membership rose up to 5,000 members which prompted the Spaniards to suspect that it was a secret political organization set to overthrow the state. 
10. In 1 November 1841, Spanish soldiers attacked Apolonio De la Cruz and his followers and after fours hours of fighting, a thousand members were killed.
11. Hermano Pule was able to escape to Sariaya, Quezon but was tracked, captured, arrested, tried for treason, executed at the age of 26 on 4 November 1841 and and as a warning those who are similarly inclined, his body was cut into pieces while his head was placed in a cage and was hung on a pole along the road leading to Majayjay town. Two days later on 6 November 1841, prominent members Dionisio de los Reyes and Miguel de Jesus, both of tayabas Town, and Francisco Espinosa of Sariaya, were executed by a firing squad.
12. A monument in his honor now stands in Tayabas City, and his death anniversary is a holiday in Quezon Province and Hermano Pule may have influenced secular priest José Burgos - who was executed in 1872 - to demand for racial equality in the clergy.

Bust of Hermano Pule; Photo courtesy of Watawat Website

References

2010 World Book
APOLINARIO DELA CRUZ (1815-1841)
APOLINARIO A. DE LA CRUZ (1815-1841) Crusader of Religious Freedom
Hermano Pule
HERMANO PULE AND THE COFRARIA DE SAN JOSE'

12 Things About Nelson Mandela

1. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in Umtata, in the Transkei territory of South Africa.
2. His father was a chief of the Xhosa-speaking Tembu people.
3. He received a bachelor's degree in 1943 at the South African Native College (now the University of Fort Hare) and the University of South Africa.
4. He passed the bar in 1952 after studying law at the University of Witwatersrand.
5. In 1952, in Johannesburg, he and political ally Oliver Tambo opened the first black law partnership in South Africa.
6. Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 and helped form the organization's Youth League and in 1956, the government arrested Mandela and others on a charge of treason, but he was found not guilty in 1961 and it was also in 1961 when he became the commander-in-chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), an organization committed to an armed struggle against apartheid.
7. In 1964, he was convicted of sabotage and conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison and was released in 1990.
8. Mandela and then-President F. W. de Klerk of South Africa shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, were honored for their work to end apartheid and to enable the country's nonwhites to fully participate in the South African government.
9. In April 1994, in the first South African election in which all races could vote, the ANC won a majority of the Assembly seats, and Mandela became president, the first black president of South Africa, serving from 1994 to 1999.
10. Mandela stepped down as head of the ANC in 1997 and in 1999, he retired as president of South Africa.
11. Nelson and Winnie Mandela divorced in 1996 and in 1998, Mandela married Graca Machel, the widow of former President Somora Machel of Mozambique.
12. He passed away on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95 due to prolonged respiratory infection at around 20:50 local time (UTC+2) at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg, surrounded by his family.

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Reference:

2010 World Book

The Life & Times of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela From Wikipedia

12 Women In Rizal's Life Before Bracken

For some historians, there were only 9 women who were known to have a love affair with our national hero whose birthday we celebrate today 19 June. But, there are other historians and sources that indicates more than 9 women. Based on historical documents, these are the 12 "known" women in the life of José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda better known as Jose Rizal, national hero of the Philippines.

1. JULIA - met at a river in Dampalit, Los Baños, Laguna; first woman to catch Rizal's eyes.
2. SEGUNDA KATIGBAK - At 16, first love of Jose Rizal from Lipa, Batangas; sister of Rizal's friend, Mariano Katigbak; close friend of Olympia, Rizal's sister; already engaged to Manuel Luz; considered puppy love of Jose Rizal.
3. MISS L - (some sources: MARGARITA ALMEDA GOMEZ and some sources: JACINTA (some sources, VICENTA) YBARDALOZA - From Pakil, Laguna; after several visits, Jose Rizal stopped pursuing her because of Segunda's sweet memories and his father was against her family.
4. LEONOR VALENZUELA -  aka Orang. As a sophomore student at the University of Santo Tomas, Jose Rizal sent love letters in invisible ink made from a mixture of water and table salt that can be read by heating over a lamp or a candle to allow the words to surface; neighbor of Jose Rizal in Intramuros; daughter of Capitan Juan and Capitana Sanday Valenzuela; an elegant and graceful, tall girl from Pagsanjan, Laguna.
5. LEONOR RIVERA - aka Taimis. As a third year student at the University of Santo Tomas; longest love for 11 years although others say 8; Rizal's cousin from Camiling, Tarlac; Leonor's mother disapproved Rizal who was known to be a filibustero and kept all of Rizal's letters for Leonor while he was away, and was persuaded to marry the English Engineer, Charles Henry Kipping; Leonor Rivera was the inspiration for the Maria Clara character in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. 
6. CONSUELO ORTIGA Y REY (some sources: Y PEREZ) - As a student at the Universidad Central de Madrid in 1882; daughter of former Civil Governor (City Mayor) of Manila, Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey; Jose Rizal did not pursue for two reasons because he was still engaged to Leonor Rivera at that time and he did not want to ruin his friendship with Eduardo de Lete who also had an affection with the girl.
7. O-SEI SAN KIYO - aka Seiko Usui. At Azabu district, Tokyo, Japan in 1888; ; a Japanese samurai’s daughter; Jose Rizal was her first love; taught Jose Rizal the Japanese art of painting "Su-mie"; also helped in improving his language.
8. GERTRUDE BECKETT - aka Gettie. At London, Paris in May 1888; eldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Beckett; a buxom young lady with blue eyes and brown hair; fell in love with Rizal; he gave her a carving which he made in memory of their short relationship.
9. ADELINA BOUSTEAD - As a guest in Villa Eliada, winter residence of Boustead family in Biarritz in 1891; sister of Nellie Boustead, daughter of Mr. Eduardo Boustead in Biarritz.
10. NELLIE (some sources: NELLY) BOUSTEAD -  the prettier and younger daughter of Mr. Eduardo Boustead; Rizal's marriage proposal failed because he did not want to convert to Protestantism and Nelly's mother did not approve of Rizal, as she had no desire to entrust her daughter to a man who was wanting in wealth and  persecuted in his own country.
11. SUZANNE JACOBY (some sources: SUSANNE JACOBE) - At Brussels, Belgium in January 1888; niece of his landlord; fell in love with Rizal and wept when he left for Madrid in July 1890.
12. PASTORA NECESARIO CARREON - aka Inday Torak. At Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte where Jose Rizal was exiled.

After these 12 women, JOSEPHINE LEOPOLDINE BRACKEN - last love of Jose Rizal; adopted daughter of George Taufer from HongKong, married to Jose Rizal (disputed by most historians).  Lived together and in early 1896 they were expecting a baby.  Unfortunately, Josephine had to go into premature labor after Rizal played a prank and frightened her. (?) A little boy of eight months was born, who lived for only three hours. Rizal named him Francisco in honor of his father, and buried the child in Dapitan.

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References:

José Rizal
Rizal had 14 ‘queridas’ — historian Ocampo
13 women in the life of Jose Rizal
Demythologizing Rizal
8 Mind-Boggling Myths About Jose Rizal
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Jose Rizal
Girlfriends of Rizal
Queridas ni Rizal
Queridas ni Rizal: the Ambeth Ocampo lecture
Talambuhay ni Dr.Jose P. Rizal
Mga Kababaihan ni Rizal
Pag- ibig ni Jose Rizal (Final!!!)
Just About Jose Rizal
Dr. Jose Rizal, the symbol of ideal leadership today
Ambeth Ocampo: Breathing life into the past
Happy Birthday, Gat Jose Rizal!
get in touch with NHI Chair Ambeth Ocampo on Jose Rizal’s house painted green
Why Rizal’s house turned green
25 Extremely Interesting Facts About Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Who are the many girlfriends of Jose Rizal?
Recto’s Rizal Bill
Rizal Sired Hitler
Rizal Without the Overcoat by Ambeth Ocampo
152nd Birth Anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Love that kills
This. Is. Not. A. Blog. (But Ambeth Rocks)
Ambeth Ocampo's "Queridas ni Rizal" Lecture at the Ayala Musem
Rizal: Celebrity forgotten
Rizal’s most anti-clerical work
Chapter 11: El Filibusterismo (The Revolutionist)
Rizal In Life... In Love
Rizal's Romances
Mga pag ibig ni dr jose rizal
CC MF Ang Mga Babae Sa Buhay Ni Rizal
ladies of Rizal documentary
Women in Rizal's Life (Short Documentary)
The Women of Jose Rizal