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unusual facts about Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa?



2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt

Déby’s plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad.

Advanced Base Force

In an exercise in 1907 at Subic Bay, a battalion commanded by Major Eli K. Cole emplaced forty-four heavy guns in a ten-week period due to the Eight-eight fleet war scare with Japan in 1907, which convinced the Navy Department that it should organize the matériel for an advanced base force to be available in the Philippines and one that is well-prepared and trained in Philadelphia, PA.

Al Holbert

The son of racecar driver Bob Holbert, who also ran a Volkswagen-Porsche dealership in Warrington, PA, near Philadelphia, Holbert worked for Roger Penske while studying at Lehigh University.

Alberto Edjogo-Owono

Edjogo made his Equatorial Guinea national team debut on 6 July 2003, in an 2004 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Morocco in Bata, a 0–1 home loss.

B.J. Phillips

Instead of Brown's photo and byline, those of Phillips ran in at least the edition delivered to suburban Delaware County, PA, while Brown's photo and byline ran properly in at least the edition delivered to suburban Montgomery County, PA.

Batanagar

The Bata brand was established on August 24, 1894 in Zlín, then in Austria-Hungary (now in Czech Republic).

Bob Artley

While in the Army in 1943, he met and married fellow lab technician and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps enlistee Virginia E. (Ginny) Moore, of South Fork, PA while they were both stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.

Carl A. Anderson

Anderson has received honorary doctorates from The Catholic University of America, The Pontifical Theology Academy of Kraków and St. Vincent’s Seminary, Latrobe, Pa.

Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé

At the Third National Congress of the CPDS, held in Bata on 28–30 January 2005, Bacalé was re-elected to his post on CPDS National Executive Committee as Secretary for International Relations and Cooperation.

Central Oak Heights

Ownership of the land passed through several churches when in 1946, the Evangelical Church merged with the United Brethren in Christ at a meeting in Johnstown, PA to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

Dave Hannan

He currently resides in Venetia, PA.

Derrick Murdock

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Murdock has recorded and/or toured with talented performers such as Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show Band, Natalie Cole, Sheena Easton, BB King, Cedric the Entertainer, Gladys Knight, Patti Austin, Michael Bolton, Aaron Neville, Chuck Berry, Dr. Dre, Will Smith, Huey Lewis, Rose Royce, Mandrill, Jim Carrey, Bill Cosby, Solomon Burke, and Peter Frampton.

Francisco Ascaso

He took part in anarchist insurrections that marked the first years of the Republic, and in 1932 was detained and deported in Bata, on the coast of Río Muni, and then to the Canary Islands.

González Gil-Pazó GP-1

The single seat GP-2 was flown by Lorenzo Richi in March 1936 from Madrid to Bata in what was then Spanish Guinea at an average speed of 187 km/h (116 mph).

HNK Borovo

For that season, Bata brought to their ranks a new coach, the Hungarian Károly Nemes, and players such as Milan Antolković from Građanski Zagreb, Đorđe Lojančić and Nikola Perlić from SK Jugoslavija, Slavko Šurdonja from BSK Belgrade, among others.

Jared Isaacman

Jared Isaacman is the founder and CEO of United Bank Card, Inc. (UBC), a payment processing organization based in Allentown, PA.

Jim Schrader

After graduating from Scott Township High School in Carnegie, PA, he went on to the University of Notre Dame, where he played under head coach Frank Leahy who was the former line coach for the Seven Blocks of Granite and played shoulder-to-shoulder with Tackle Art Hunter Guard Menil Mavraides, and Fullback Neil Worden as the main blockers for Heisman Trophy winning running back Johnny Lattner.

John Lucas II

He won one other tour match, by default in doubles in 1973 in Merion, PA while partnering Vic Seixas.

John Tusa

He then became general manager of the Bata factory and its associated village in East Tilbury, living in the nearby village of Horndon-on-the-Hill where his son grew up.

Joseph Melrose

Melrose currently serves Special Advisor to United Nations University Rector Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder and as president of the National Model United Nations Board of Directors and is a professor of International Relations and serves as the current ambassador-in-residence at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.

Jozef Lenárt

He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company.

Juan Cuyami

His debut came on 11 October 2003 in a 1–0 win against Togo for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers (eventual 1–2 aggregate loss), in Bata.

Kiondashawa

He was a chief of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware Nation) and primary chief of The Pymatuning, a series of villages along the Shenango River from New Castle, PA to above the Linesville, PA area near the current Pymatuning Reservoir

Lengue language

The Lengue language, also called Molengue, Balengue, Molendji, is a Bantu language of southern Equatorial Guinea, spoken by the Lengue people between Bata and the Gabon border near the coast.

Lengue people

Today Bengas inhabit the coast region of the country's mainland, between Bata and the Gabonese border.

Lino Sima Ekua Avomo

Sima Ekua Avomo attended the Diplomatic School of Madrid, Spain and the Carlos Lwanga National Institute of Secondary Education in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

Lualhati Bautista

Lualhati garnered several Palanca Awards (1980, 1983 and 1984) for her novels ‘GAPÔ, Dekada '70 and Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? exposing injustices and chronicling women activism during the Marcos era.

M. Craig Barnes

In 1993, he became senior pastor of National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., serving until 2002, when he took a call as senior pastor of Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA.

Manohari Singh

In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.

Mervin Heller, Jr.

In 1992, Heller established the Berks County Tennis Association (BCTA), a community tennis association serving his hometown of Reading, PA, as well as the surrounding communities.

Minsi Trails Council

The council consists of six districts and maintains two camping properties: Camp Minsi in Pocono Summit, PA and Trexler Scout Reservation in Jonas, PA.

NKOTBSB

The tour ended on June 3, 2012 in Pasay, Philippines, and they performed one last time on August 18, 2012 in Hershey, PA at Summer Mixtape Festival.

Rosamonde Safier

Born to Joseph and Sarah Goldberg Safier in Monessen, PA, on September 9, 1912, the youngest of five siblings, “Rody” Safier composed twenty songs while still in high school, and played two of them for Helen Kane in the Stanley Theater.

Samuel Meredith

He spent time in Carbondale Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, where the local fire department bears his name.

Samuel Philip Sadtler

Sadtler was born at Pine Grove, Pa., the son of a Lutheran minister, and educated at Pennsylvania College (class of 1867), at Lehigh University (one year), at Lawrence Scientific School (BSc 1870), and in Europe at the University of Göttingen (PhD 1871).

Sarah Tyson Rorer

She was born at Richboro, Pa., daughter of Charles Tyson Heston, a pharmacist, and Elizabeth Sagers.

SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines

Route 37Chester, PA (3rd & Crosby Streets) to Juniper/13th Street Station via Industrial Highway (PA 291) Eastwick Avenue, Woodland Avenue & Subway Surface Tunnel – Woodland Carhouse.

South Middleton School District

Located on 4 Forge Road (along with the Middle School and High School) in Boiling Springs, PA, there is a total of 338 students enrolling here attending grades 4-5.

Svit

It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers.

Telecommunications in Equatorial Guinea

:* International: International communications from Bata and Malabo to African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

The Saturday Light Brigade

The Saturday Light Brigade is broadcast live from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon (Eastern) on Saturday mornings and airs on WRCT in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, WSAJ in Grove City, Pennsylvania, WNJR in Washington, PA, WCUC in Clarion, PA, WIUP in Indiana, PA, and WMCO in New Concord, Ohio.

Therm-All Insulation

These include the company’s Cleveland-based headquarters and branches in Lancaster, PA; Columbus, WI; Kennesaw, GA; Dallas, TX; Stockton, CA; Phoenix, AZ; and Kent and Spokane, WA.

Tim Dlugos

In 1968, Dlugos joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order and entered their college, La Salle College, in Philadelphia.

Tom Bostelle

His works are in the permanent collections of the )National Portrait Gallery Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa..

WCHR-FM

WCHR-FM is the most powerful FM station in the Monmouth/Ocean market and can be heard as far west as the city of Philadelphia and Bucks County, PA, as far north as Wall Township, New Jersey, and as far south as Ocean City.


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