By Ambeth R.

Ocampo

 Adios

patria adorada is t first lin of t poem titled Ultimo dios. Emilio Aguinaldo t e first P ilippine epubli president declared December 30, 1898 a national day of mourning. Ateneo Municipal a public secondary school in Intramuros run by the Jesuits.

Blumentritt izals friend who campaigned for Philippine independence. Jose Burgos one of the Gomburza, whose influence was transmitted to izal by Paciano. Bagumbayan (new field) was where Gomburza and izal were executed. ndres Bonifacio read izals writing, translated Ultimo dios to Tagalog.
Ferdinand

 Calamba,

Laguna The town where izal was born on June 19, 1861.

 Dapitan,

Zamboanga del Norte izals place of exile, 1892-1896.

 Elias

character in Noli Me Tangere often interpreted to be Bonifacio.

Faura founder of the Manila bservatory and inventor of the Faura barometer. El Filibusterismo published in Ghent, Belgium in 1891, sequel to Noli Me Tangere. Francisco Mercado father of Jose izal, married to Teodora lonso and had 11 children.
Federico

 Gertrude

Beckett was the daughter of izals landorld in London. In her letters, her pet name was Gettie and she called izal Pettie.

 the university town where izal took ophthalmology under tto Becker. To the Flowers of Heidelberg ne of the urban legends that izal sired Nazi leader dolf Hitler with one of his women while in Europe.
Heidelberg

 Indolence

of the Filipino one of izals famous essays in response to the myth of the lazy native spread by the Spanish colonizers.

Rizal was the second son, the seventh of the 11 children Josefa Rizal a.k.a. Panggoy was Rizals youngest sister. Josefina was the Spanish form for Josephine or Josephine Bracken, Rizals common-law-wife in Dapitan.
Jose

 Sa

king mga Kababata was a poem said to have been written when Rizal was 8. n hindi magmahal sa sariling salita, masahol a sa hayop at malansang isda

year after his graduation in Ateneo in 1877, Rizal graduated again in land surveying. Double Leonor Rizal was associated with two women: Leonor Rivera and Leonor Valenzuela. Lottery Rizal actually hit the second prize while he was an exile in Dapitan.
A

 In

1892 Rizal wrote the beginnings of a satirical novel in Tagalog. The opening chapter was called Makamisa (After the mass). Antonio de Morga in 1609 published the Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Events of the Philippine islands), a book that Rizal republished in Paris, 1890.

Me Tangere (Touch me not) Rizals first book, Berlin in 1887. Nellie Bousted was the woman who caused the love-sick Antonio Luna to challenge Rizal to a duel.
Noli

 Rizal

specialized in ophthalmology after his medical studies in Madrid, to cure his mothers failing eyesight.

 Paciano

Mercado was Rizal's elder brother, translated Noli into Tagalog. Fought the Spanish and became a general during the Filipino-American War. Pablo Pastells was the Jesuit superior with whom Rizal corresponded from Dapitan on religious and philosophical issues.

 a character in El Filibusterismo Quiopquiap the pseudonym of Pablo Feced, a journalist known for his anti-Filipino writings.
Quiroga

is Alexander spelled backwards and was the name of the street where Rizal lived in Hong Kong. Ricial, Risal or later Rizal a word that denoted green field ready for harvest. Another urban legend about Rizal could have been the infamous Jack the Ripper because he was in London at the time the Ripper murders took place. J.R.
Rednaxela

proposed to establish a Filipino colony in Sandakan, North Borneo. Segunda Katigbak was Rizals first love. La Solidaridad the Filipino newspaper in Spain edited by Graciano Lopez Jaena and latr, Marcelo H. del Pilar, where Rizal submitted some of his most famous essays.
Rizal

 Teodora

Alonso Rizals mother Tetcho Suehiro a Japanese journalist whom Rizal met on a ship bound for the United States. The Man from Manila

 Some

people during Rizals lifetime referred to Rizal as Dr. Uliman from el doctor Aleman (the German doctor) Unter den Linden - is a famous Berlin boulevard mentioned in Rizal's writing. Usui Seiko a Japanese woman whom Rizal fell in love with.

Ventura a wealthy friend from Pampanga who lived in Paris and advanced the funds for the publication of El Filibusterismo. Part of Rizals vertebra or backbone is displayed in Fort Santiago. This chipped piece of bone was preserved to show where the bullet hit him.
Valentin

 Women

of Malolos Rizal wrote a letter to the women of Malolos who, against friar objections, proposed a night school where they could learn Spanish instead of customary and purely religious teachings.

 Manuel

Xerez Burgos, nephew of the ill-fated Fr. Jose Burgos , interceded for Rizal who was not admitted into the Ateneo Municipal due to his small stature.

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Spanish orthography the letters I and Y are sometimes interchangeable, which explains Rizals characters Ybarra/ Ibarra and Ysagani/ Isagani in El Fili. Los Yndios/ Indios Bravos after the brave Indians. Indio

 During

his exile in Dapitan, Rizal collected specimens: sea shells, butterflies, flora, fauna, and other artifacts. Winged lizard (dracorizali), a frog or toad (rachophorusrizali) and a bug or beetle (apogoniarizali). Ben Zayb a character in El Filibusterismo