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3 unusual facts about San Mateo, Rizal


Christ the Lord of Harvest Academy

or "CLHA, Inc." is a private Christian institution of learning in San Mateo, Rizal, Philippines particularly in Silangan.

Jose Rafael Diaz

Jose Rafael Evangelista Diaz (born April 3, 1968) is the current Mayor of San Mateo, Rizal.

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.


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.

California Juvenile Stakes

The California Juvenile Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds held annually at Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California.

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.

Donald Bogue

Don Bogue is married to Linda Bogue, formerly Linda Baker, and lives in San Mateo, California.

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.

Eddie Panagabko

He is interred at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California.

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

Grady Mathews

When he was 14 years old in San Mateo, Mathews began playing pool at a local bowling alley.

Hero Games

In 1981, George MacDonald and Steve Peterson, from San Mateo, California, printed 1000 copies of a 64 page rulebook for Champions, their super-hero role-playing game, to take to a Bay Area gaming convention.

Ichilo River

In its course, after joining San Matéo, it is called Ichilo, flowing in a northerly direction, where it forms the border between the Cochabamba Department and the Santa Cruz Department.

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.

Last Farewell

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

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.

Olfaction

Example applications this district has engaged are the San Mateo, California wastewater treatment plant; the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California; and the IT Corporation waste ponds, Martinez, California.

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.

Richard M. Tobin

Tobin maintained homes in San Mateo and San Francisco, and was active in several San Francisco organizations as a board member, officer, and benefactor, including the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Musical Association, and Catholic church.

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.

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.

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.

San Mateo Arboretum

The Arboretum is located in San Mateo's Central Park, which also has a Japanese garden designed by Nagao Sakurai that was dedicated in 1966.

San Mateo Union High School District

The district consists of seven public high schools, one alternative high school (a "college high school"), and one adult School in San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, and San Mateo.

The San Mateo Union High School District is a high school district headquartered in San Mateo, California.

San Mateo-Foster City School District

San Mateo-Foster City School District is a school district in San Mateo and Foster City, California.

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.

Ted Lempert

Ted Lempert (born June 14, 1961 in San Mateo, California) is a Democratic politician who served two stints in the California State Assembly from 1988 until 1992 and from 1996 until he was term limited in 2000.

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.

William J. Justice

His family moved to San Mateo, California in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1946.


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