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Dahon is the world's largest manufacturer of folding bicycles [5] [need quotation to verify] with a two-thirds marketshare in 2006. [6] The company was founded in 1982 by David T. Hon, a former laser physicist, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with assembly factories in China, Macau and Bulgaria. [7]
David T. Hon (born 1941) is a Guangdong-born [1] Taiwanese physicist, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor and founder of Dahon folding bicycles.Dahon has since grown to become the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of folding bikes [2] [3] with Hon still CEO to this day.
On December 18, 1895, while in exile in Dapitan, Philippine national hero Jose Rizal wrote a letter to his mother, requesting that she buy him a second-hand bicycle that he could ride to town. [ 3 ] Following the Spanish Empire's secession of the Philippines to the United States in 1898, bicycles made in the United States found their way into ...
The Philippine peso, also referred to by its Filipino name piso (Philippine English: / ˈ p ɛ s ɔː / PEH-saw, / ˈ p iː-/ PEE-, plural pesos; Filipino: piso [ˈpisɔː, ˈpɪsɔː]; sign: ₱; code: PHP), is the official currency of the Philippines. It is subdivided into 100 sentimo, also called centavos.
2000-peso bill (1998, 2000) (Philippine Centennial Commemorative Legal Tender Banknote) 10: 14: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo: ... List of presidents of the Philippines on ...
The New Design Series (NDS) (also known as the BSP Series after the establishment of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) was the name used to refer to the banknotes of the Philippine peso conceptualized from 1983 to 1985, issued from 1985 to 2013 and circulated from 1985 to 2019 including commemorative notes, and coins issued from 1995 to 2017.
The Philippine five-peso coin (₱5) is the third-largest denomination of the coins of the Philippine peso.. Three versions of the coin are in circulation, the version from the BSP Series which was issued from 1995 to 2017, the original round coin from the New Generation Currency Coin Series issued from 2017 to 2019 and the nonagonal (9-sided shape) version since 2019.
The Philippine peso is derived from the Spanish dollar or pieces of eight brought over in large quantities by the Manila galleons of the 16th to 19th centuries. From the same Spanish peso or dollar is derived the various pesos of Latin America, the dollars of the US and Hong Kong, as well as the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen. [1]