Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
At home, the Rizal ladies recovered a folded paper from the stove. On it was written an unsigned, untitled and undated poem of 14 five-line stanzas. The Rizals reproduced copies of the poem and sent them to Rizal's friends in the country and abroad. In 1897, Mariano Ponce in Hong Kong had the poem printed with the title "Mí último pensamiento ...
The poem was presented in 1879 in Manila at a literary contest held in the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila (Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature), [4] a society of literary men and artists, where he won the first prize, composed of a feather-shaped silver pen [2] [4] and a diploma.
"Sa Aking Mga Kabatà" (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal, who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [1]
There are three animal species that Rizal personally collected specimens of and that were posthumously named after him: Draco rizali – a small lizard known as a flying dragon; Apogonia rizali – a very rare kind of beetle with five horns; Rhacophorus rizali – a peculiar frog species, now synonymized with Rhacophorus pardalis. [137]
This is the copy of Triumph of Science Rizal sculpture given by Jose Rizal to Ferdinand Blumentritt: The Triumph of Science over Death: Exhibited at the Dresden Museum of Modern Art, [2] now at Rizal Shrine, Intramuros [6] Allegorical work symbolizing science illuminating the world. Gift to Ferdinand Blumentritt. [2]: 134
The origin of the story can be traced to the Ilocano, [3] which is linked to Indian arts. [4] The Ilocano version of the story offers an explanation on why monkeys don't eat meat. Versions of the story have a common theme of a weaker but cunning character (the tortoise or turtle) winning over a stronger adversary (the monkey). [3]
Leonor Rivera and Rizal first met in Manila when Rivera was only 14 years old. When Rizal left for Europe on May 3, 1882, Rivera was 15 years of age. Their ensuing correspondence began when Rizal left a poem for Rivera saying farewell, and their letters to each other slowly became romantic in nature.
The filmmakers investigate Rizal's life by "interviewing" key individuals, i.e recreating scenes as they go through Rizal's historical correspondence and other documents. The interviews are done with his mother Doña Teodora, his siblings Trining, Narcisa, and Paciano, his love interest and alleged wife Josephine Bracken, and the Jesuit priest ...