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Alejo Mabanag

Alejo R. Mabanag (born July 14, 1886 – ?) was a Filipino politician born in San Fernando, La Union, to Liberato Mabanag of Calamanugan, Cagayan and Manuela Ragojo of Bangar, La Union.

Anastacio Caedo

He assisted Tolentino in creating most of his landmark commissions like: the UP Oblation; the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan City; the Rizal Monument in front of the Rizal Provincial Capitol; and the Shaw Monument at Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong to name a few.

Antonio Ledesma Jayme

He was also a founder and a professor of the Instituto Rizal, which was later renamed as the Negros Occidental High School.

Arsenio Cruz-Herrera

During the First Philippine Assembly elections and the Second Philippine Assembly elections, he led the Progresista Party and ran for the First District of Rizal.

Battle of Pateros

These skirmishes occurred shortly after the execution of Rizal and are considered the renewal of hostilities in Luzon after a period of ceasefire from the Battle of Binakayan to the Rizal execution.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

When the DREAM road is completed in 2033, C-6 will follow the proposed Metro Manila Tollway route eastward starting from its northern terminus at the North Luzon Expressway in Marilao in Bulacan province (Expressway segment).

This expressway will be named Padre Jacinto Zamora Super Highway after Father Jacinto Zamora, one of the three martyr priests executed in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) in Manila during the Spanish Colonical Period.

C-6 will then pass through San Jose del Monte in Bulacan, turn southward and pass through Montalban (also known as Rodriguez), San Mateo, Antipolo, Angono, and Taytay in Rizal province, finally entering Taguig.

Cagayancillo, Palawan

Seeing this, as they were soothsayers, they returned to the islands of Cagayan, from where they set out every year, and scattered themselves over all the islands to build ships.

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

Her family includes her brother, lawyer and diplomat, León María Guerrero, best known for his translations of Rizal's two novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, as well as the prize-winning work on Jose Rizal, The First Filipino: her second brother Mario X. Guerrero, was one of the country's first foreign-trained cardiologists.

CE-Learning

El Filibusterismo is Dr. Jose Rizal's sequel to his earlier work Noli Me Tangere.

Controversies in the Philippine general election, 2010

On May 13, about 65 PCOS machines (counting machines) were found in a house at Antipolo, Rizal.

Delfina Herbosa de Natividad

Delfina Rizal Herbosa was born on December 20, 1879 in Calamba, Laguna to Mariano Herbosa and Lucia Rizal, sister of José Rizal, and she is of Spanish, Chinese and Japanese descent.

Diosdado Talamayan

Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan, D.D., Ph.D., S.T.D. (Born October 19, 1932) is the Archbishop-emeritus of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuguegarao in the province of Cagayan, on the island of Luzon, Philippines after his retirement on June 15, 2011.

DXAG-TV

TV Patrol Northern Mindanao (simulcast over TV-2 Cagayan de Oro & Bukidnon and TV-7 Ozamiz)

DXXB-TV

TV Patrol Northern Mindanao (simulcast on TV-2 Cagayan de Oro, TV-7 Ozamiz and TV-4 Iligan)

DYAQ-TV

The transmitter is located Mt. Canlandog, Murcia, Negros Occidental and studios located at Rizal St. corner Lacson St. in Bacolod and at Phase 5 Alta Tierra Village, Jaro in Iloilo City.

Effects of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season in the Philippines

(Cagayan and Isabela are not specified but are also flooded which can mean it may have experienced more than 50 mm of rain. Moreover, Cagayan River flooded).

G Liner

From these mentioned units, some of the bus units (UD Nissan Diesel, Mitsubishi Fuso) were still maintained for the route from Quiapo, Manila to Taytay and Cainta in Rizal, while some were refleeted and transferred to their sister companies such as Marikina Auto Line Transport Corporation (MALTC) and Eastern Manila Bus Corporation (EMBC).

General Antonio Luna Avenue

This is a two-lane national road and one of the major thoroughfares of San Mateo, Rizal

Guane

The Filipinos worked the huge tobacco plantations much as they did in their home country, in the present provinces of Ilocos Sur, Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Cagayan and Isabela.

Jones, Isabela

The southern portion of Echague separated by Cagayan River was created into a municipality named Jones in honor of an American Legislator, William Atkinson Jones, who authored the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, and was inaugurated on January 1, 1921.

Jose Villa Panganiban

In 1903, Geminiano Panganiban, a lawyer, pharmacist and a non-combatant lieutenant in the Philippine Revolutionary Army, had to surrender to the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in Northern Luzon because his wife, Policarpia Villa, from Caloocan Rizal, a descendant of Emilio Jacinto of the revolution, was pregnant.

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

The bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally meaning great houses made of stone) which have stone foundations on the first floor and are made of wood on the second floor(constructed thus to withstand earthquakes), were transplanted from Manila (Tondo, Binondo and Quiapo), Quezon City, Pampanga, La Union, the Ilocos and Cagayan

Last Farewell

"Mi último adiós" (Spanish for "My last farewell"), an 1896 poem by the Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal

Lumbia Airport

On June 15, 2013, the international airport served Northern Mindanao including its major cities; Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.

Makamisa

Although written in a different language, its style, characterization and setting mirror those of Rizal's two previous works, Noli me tangere and El filibusterismo which he wrote in Spanish.

Mariano Ching

The group was named "Surrounded by Water" after the first gallery that was held in Angono, Rizal.

Marikina–Infanta Highway

The Marikina–Infanta Highway, also known as the Marcos Highway or MARILAQUE Highway (MARILAQUE stands for Manila-Rizal-Laguna-Quezon), is a scenic mountain 44-kilometer highway that connects Metro Manila with Infanta, Quezon in the Philippines.

Meralco Avenue

Other notable businesses on Meralco Avenue include UnionBank Plaza, Metrowalk and the upcoming mixed-use development called Capitol Commons at the former Rizal Provincial Capitol lot on Meralco and Shaw Boulevard.

Negros Occidental High School

Sometime in 1902, former leaders of the Republica de Negros, Ex-minister of Justice Antonio Ledesma Jayme and Ex-provincial Governor Melecio Severino exerted efforts for the opening of the a secondary school in Occidental Negros which they named Instituto Rizal, now Negros Occidental High School.

Ormoc

Kananga was created in 1950 from the barrios of Lonoy, Kananga, Rizal, Tugbong, Montebello, Aguiting, Tagaytay, Montealegre, Libungao, Naghalin, and Masarayao which all used to be part of Ormoc City.

Radio Mindanao Network

The stations first live broadcast coincides with its opening and the program involves the airing of a 3-hour “Anejo Rum” show from Plaza Divisoria, a central park in downtown Cagayan de Oro, for which Canoy billed La Tondena executive Hugo Chan Hong the sum of P500 as payment for the radio coverage.

Rizal

The provincial territory began with the organization of the Tondo province and Laguna province during the Spanish administration.

This consisted of the towns of Antipolo, Bosoboso, Cainta and Taytay from the Province of Tondo; and the towns of Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla, Angono, Binangonan and Jalajala from the Province of La Laguna, with the capital at Morong.

The Rizal Province will be accessed by the future C-6 Road connecting the provinces of Bulacan and Cavite and cities of Taguig (beside Laguna de Bay), Parañaque and Muntinlupa which are located within Metro Manila.

Rizal sa Dapitan

Rizal sa Dapitan (lit. Rizal in Dapitan), is a 1997 film adaptation of life of the Filipino national hero Dr. José Rizal, starring Albert Martinez as José Rizal and Amanda Page as Josephine Bracken, the screenplay is by Pete Lacaba.

Rizal, Cagayan

Mount Malaueg: The Eco-tourism mountain still developing for becoming a pure habitat for rare animal-plant species.

Rizal's 1st legislative district special election, 1994

Cainta and Taytay were expected to provide the swing votes as neither of the candidates are from those two municipalities, and that many residents there were immigrants from other parts of the country.

Robinsons Metro East

The name "Metro East" refers to the fact that the mall is located in the eastern district of the Greater Manila Area, which includes the cities of Pasig and Marikina in Metro Manila as well as Antipolo City within the municipalities of Cainta and San Mateo in Rizal.

Saint John Academy

Saint John Academy is a Catholic school for secondary students situated in Rizal Street, Dinalupihan, Bataan, Philippines and is in the Diocese of Balanga.

Saturnina Hidalgo

Saturnina Rizal Mercado de Hidalgo (1850–1913, born as Saturnina Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda) or simply Saturnina Hidalgo was the eldest sister of Philippine national hero José Rizal.

Teddy Boy Locsin

Aside from the TOFIL award, Locsin’s other notable awards were “Outstanding Newspaperman for 1956” by the Confederation of Filipino Veterans, “Rizal pro Patria Award” in 1961, and the “Philippine Legion of Honor Award” (twice).

University of Rizal System

The College is about 67 kilometers from Metro Manila and accessible to towns of Rizal through Manila East Road through the newly opened sea level in the Sierra Madre Mountain range and is overlooking the Laguna Lake and the surrounding lake towns.

University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters

CAL is housed at three establishments – at the CAL Main Building (where most of the classes are held), Bulwagang Rizal (or Rizal Hall, also known as the Faculty Center) beside Osmeña Avenue, and the Vargas Museum (dedicated to former U.P. alumnus Jorge Vargas, and features the collection of Fernando Amorsolo's artworks as well as the Filipiniana Research Center).

Vicente Madrigal

In 1992, a public school in Binangonan, Rizal was built and was named after him, the Vicente Madrigal Municipal High School.


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