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unusual facts about Lipa, Batangas


Hemileia vastatrix

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, coffee rust did serious damage to the coffee plantations of Sri Lanka, Philippines, Java and Malaya, which led to the collapse of the coffee industry in Lipa, Batangas and almost putting the extinction of the Arabica variety.


2013 Philippine Collegiate Championship

The first two rounds were held at the First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities (FAITH) Gym in Tanauan, Batangas from November 25 to 26; the final three rounds are held at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig from November 28 to December 3.

Agoncillo

Agoncillo, Batangas, a municipality in the Province of Batangas, Philippines

Andreas Lipa

Lipa's English wife, Sarah Adams-Lipa, publicly spoke out against the WAGs culture in British football.

Armando Sanchez

He survived an assassination attempt on June 1, 2006 when he was able to get out of his Hummer H2 that exploded while boarding it inside the Batangas Capitol Grounds.

Armour of God II: Operation Condor

The scene where he stole the gem from the cave tribe and escaped by zorbing was shot in Mount Macolod in Cuenca, Batangas.

Balete

Balete, Batangas, a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines

Coffea liberica

The town of Lipa (now Lipa City) became the biggest producer of arabica in the 1880s, but collapsed when the coffee rust disease arrived in the 1890s, killing almost all coffee arabica plants, which threatened the variety with extinction.

Crocodile farming in the Philippines

The PWRCC sold saltwater crocodile products to seven "authorized commercial operators" in the regions of Luzon (particularly in Batangas, Cavite, Rizal, and Tarlac), Visayas (such as in Negros Occidental), and Mindanao (including Cagayan de Oro and Davao del Norte).

Daniel Scotto

Mr. Scotto also has extensive investment banking project experience – having served as the Senior Regulator/Company negotiator when the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) acquired Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO).

Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz

This saintly way of life that he exemplified caused the people of Las Piñas opposed his transfer to Sto. Tomas, Batangas.

García

Padre Garcia, Batangas, municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines

Hamr

Hamr na Jezeře, a village in Liberec Region (Česká Lípa District)

Hector Tarrazona

In 1970, he took an undergraduate pilot training in the Philippine Air Force Flying School in Fernando Air Base in Lipa, Batangas; and in 1982, he went to Monterey, California, U.S.A. to study International Defense Management at the Naval Postgraduate School and International Defense Management.

José Laurel

José B. Laurel, Jr. (1912–1998), Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, Representative of the 3rd District of Batangas, son of José P. Laurel

Juraj Jánošík

1862 Ján Botto, "The Death of Jánošík. A Romance." Lipa. — A key poem in Slovak literature and culture.

Leviste

Antonio Leviste, Governor of Batangas province in the Philippines from 1972 to 1980.

Expedito Leviste, Congressman from Batangas province in the Philippines

Feliciano Leviste, Governor of Batangas province in the Philippines from 1947 to 1972.

Lipa, Przasnysz County

A resistance group, called “Polish Military Organisation” (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa) was formed and included a number of the village’s residents, including Aleksander Gwiazda, Gwiazda (brother of Aleksandra), Ignacy Pokorski, Wacław Połomski, Aleksander Przybyłek and Wacław Szmytkowski.

Lipniki, Ostrołęka County

The name "Lipniki" most likely comes from the Polish "lipa," or linden tree, which grow in abundance in the village and environs.

Lipovans

The name has been suggested to be related to Slavic Липа (lipa), linden tree or to Filippovka, a holiday name dedicated to Saint Philip, however, the accepted etymology says it's derived from name of Filipp Pustosviat (1672–1742), the adepts of whom being named filippovcy or (fi)lippovane.

Liverpool Institute High School for Boys

Luminaries like Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered talks and readings in the main lecture hall (now the architecturally restructured Sir Paul McCartney Auditorium of LIPA).

Long Island Power Authority

On January 24, 2007, then-Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that Kevin Law would replace Richard Kessel as Chairman of LIPA until the fall when a new Chairman would be named and Law would become Chief Executive Officer of LIPA.

Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency

Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (or LAL deficiency) happens when the body does not produce enough active lysosomal acid lipase (LAL or LIPA) enzyme.

Matulji

Sixty five percent of the annual Croatian border traffic takes place through four international border crossings - Pasjak (with Starod in Ilirska Bistrica municipality on the Slovenian side), Rupa (with Jelšane), Mune (with Starod), and Lipa (with Novokračine) - within the Matulji municipality.

Miguel Malvar

Beginning January 1902, American General J. Franklin Bell took command of operations in Batangas and practiced scorched earth tactics that took a heavy toll on both guerrilla fighters and civilians alike.

Mount Macolod

Mount Macolod (also called Mount Makulot or Mount Maculot) is a mountain located in the town of Cuenca in Batangas province, in the Philippines.

Mount Sungay

Nearby mountains visible from Mount Sungay include Mount Makiling in Laguna/Batangas border; Mount Malepunyo and Mount Macolod in Batangas; and Mount Banahaw in Quezon.

Rex Navarrete

Navarrete, on the other hand, was raised by his grandparents in the provinces of Cavite and Batangas.

Richard Kessel

On January 24, 2007, then-Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that Kevin Law would replace Kessel as Chairman of LIPA until the fall when a new Chairman would be named and Law would become Chief Executive Officer of LIPA.

Ronald Humarang

Ronald Jaimeer C. Humarang (born December 15, 1994 in Agoncillo, Batangas, Philippines) is a Filipino singer and actor.

Sampiro National High School

Sampiro National High School is a Secondary Public High School located at Sitio Ugatan, Sampiro, San Juan, Batangas, Philippines (South west of brgy. Sampiro, South East of brgy. Sapangan, North West of brgy. Quipot,).

Sandali Na Lang

In deed, the video was shot at a good location, somewhere in the tip of Batangas, Philippines overlooking the Pacific.

Saturnina Hidalgo

She was married to Manuel T. Hidalgo, a native and one of the richest persons in Tanauan, Batangas.

Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), headed by Richard Kessel, was created in 1986 specifically to buy the plant from LILCO (which it did in 1992) for one dollar.

Southeast Asian coral reefs

On September 24, 2007, Reef Check (the world’s largest reef conservation organization) stated that only 5% of Philippines' 27,000 square-kilometers of coral reef are in “excellent condition” : Tubbataha Reef, Marine Park in Palawan, Apo Island in Negros Oriental, Apo Reef in Puerto Galera, Mindoro, and Verde Island Passage off Batangas.

St. Joseph School – La Salle

It is the third of the third generation of La Salle schools, which were founded by the De La Salle Brothers in the country, which include: La Salle Academy-Iligan (Iligan, Lanao del Norte: 198), La Salle Green Hills (Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila: 1959), and De La Salle Lipa (Lipa City, Batangas: 1962).

Teresita Castillo

Teresita Castillo celebrated her 21st birthday by "escaping" early in the morning at five from her father's house to enter the Carmelite Monastery of Lipa.


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