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Emmanuel Agapito Flores Lacaba (December 10, 1948 – March 18, 1976), popularly known as Eman Lacaba, was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, playwright, short story writer, scriptwriter, songwriter and activist, often referred to as the "poet warrior" of the Philippines.
Pedro Edralin Flores (26 April 1896 – 3 January 1964) [1] was a Filipino businessman and yo-yo maker who has been credited with popularizing yo-yos in the United States. He patented an innovation to yo-yos that used a loop instead of a knot around the axle, allowing for new tricks such as the ability to "sleep".
Fluorescent lamp, said to be invented by a certain Agapito Flores. The name of the invention supposedly comes from the surname of the purported inventor, "Flores", sounding similar to the term fluorescent. [61] Yoyo, alleged to have been invented by Filipinos. Some believe that the toy could have been used as a weapon.
Agapito Jiménez Zamora (1817–1879), Costa Rican politician; Agapito Lozada (1938–2011), Filipino swimmer; Agapito Mayor (1915–2005), Cuban baseball player; Agapito Sánchez (1970–2005), Dominican Republic boxer; Agapito Flores, purported inventor of fluorescent light; Surname. Julio García Agapito (died 2008), Peruvian environmentalist
Chicago-born Margarito Flores Jr. was around 8 years old when his father started taking him and his twin brother Pedro on car rides to Mexico. It was mostly business for his father, a hard ...
Vicente H. Garces was to parents Agapito Garces and Teodora Hermosa born on December 18, 1887. [1] The family used to reside in the district of Parian, Cebu City. [2] He attended school at the Colegio de San Carlos, [3] and then proceeded to take a law degree at the Lyceum de Manila.
During March 1842, Colonel Seguin and the citizens of San Antonio sought refuge at Manuel Flores' Ranch in the city of Seguin, Texas. [29] A counterattack was planned, and even though Seguín pursued the army of Ráfael Vásquez , chasing them from Texas, [ 30 ] he was deemed to be to blame for the attack.
Two of Logroño's TV characters would surface around this time: Agapito Flores, a rather naive country bumpkin with a speech impairment, and Nicky El Bro, a Nuyorican hustler. A third character, "Chinito Rivera" (a flasher that said little and wore a raincoat he was eager to open at the slightest provocation) would eventually evolve into "El ...