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Daluyong begins where Francisco’s novel Maganda pa ang Daigdig ("The World Be Beautiful Still") ends. Lino Rivero, a former ranch worker, is given an opportunity to own a portion of land by the priest Padre Echevarria.
José Cecilio Corazón de Jesús y Pangilinan (November 22, 1896 – May 26, 1932), also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American occupation of the Philippines, a period that lasted from 1901 to 1946.
"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]
The Na'im (Arabic: النعيم) (singular Al Nuaimi Arabic: النعيمي) is an Arab tribe in the United Arab Emirates. [1] The tribe is also present in other gulf countries. The Na'im is divided into three sections, the Al Bu Kharaiban , the Khawatir and the Al Bu Shamis (singular Al Shamsi).
The Vocabulario de la lengua tagala by Pedro de San Buenaventura, O.F.M., printed in Pila, Laguna, in 1613, is an important work in Spanish-Filipino literature. Its rarity places it among the limited number of Filipino incunabula — works printed in the Philippines between the years 1593 and 1643—of which copies are still preserved.
Mabuhay (lit. ' to live ') is a Filipino greeting, usually expressed as Mabuhay!, which means "long live!".The term is also occasionally used for toasts during celebrations to mean "cheers".
"Gubat na Mapanglaw" (English: "The Dark Forest") is a Filipino poem written in the popular Filipino epic Florante at Laura. The poem was originally written by Francisco Balagtas and was translated into English by Rolando Tinio .
Francisco Balagtas, the inspiration for the creation of balagtasan. Florentino Collantes (left) and Jose Corazon de Jesus (right) are the first performers of balagtasan in manila