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Rizal in London
Where Rizal lived for a year to do the following:
To improve his knowledge of the English language To study and annotate Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (a rare copy which he heard to be available in the British Museum) It is a safe place for him to carry on his fight against Spain.
City of Rome
While Rizal was on his way to Liverpool:
Yo-yo a small wooden disc attached to a string from the finger
Used by Rizal to entertain the American and European passengers.
Life in London
Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor an exile of 1872 and a practicing lawyer in London
Where Rizal stayed when he arrived in London.
Persecution of the Calamba tenants including the Rizal family for their courage to petition the government for agrarian reform. Furious attacks on Rizal by Senators Salamanca and Vida in the Spanish Cortes and by Wenceslao Retana and Pablo Feced in Spanish Newspaper.
Rizals brother in law Manuel Hidalgo, husband of Saturnina was exiled by Governor General Valeriano Weyler to Bohol without due process of law. A friend of Rizal, Leureano Viado, a medical student at UST was arrested and jailed in Bilibid Prison because copies of the Noli Me Tangere were found in his house.
Good News
The defense of Fr. Vicente Garcia of his novel as told by Mariano Ponce.
Rizal spent 4 months for research and writing and 1 year to print the manuscript Ferdinand Blumentritt- wrote the preface emphasizing some salient points:
The Spaniards have to correct their erroneous conception of the Filipinos as children of limited intelligence. That Rizals comments on Spanish government were unique as they are given from the point of view of the victims of colonialism.
That there existed three kinds of Spanish delusions about the Philippines:
That the Filipinos were an inferior race That the Filipinos were not ready for parliamentary representation and other reforms That denial of equal rights can be compensated by strict dispensation of justice,
Rizals annotation consisted of 8 chapters The first 7 chapters is about the events during the time of the first 11 governor generals in the Philippines. The last chapter was focused on customs and usages of the Filipinos Rizal was able to produce the first history book of the Philippines, written for the Filipinos.
La Solidaridad
Asociacion La Solidaridad founded by Marcelo H. Del Pilar
A patriotic society that shall work for reforms from the Spanish government. Officers:
President: Galicano Apacible Vice-President: Graciano Lopez-Jaena Secretary: Manuel Sta. Mesa Treasurer: Mariano Ponce Accountant: Jose Ma. Panganiban
La Solidaridad
Although Rizal was not present, he was chosen as the honorary president of the organization. La Solidaridad organ of the Propaganda Movement
Founded by Graciano Lopez-Jaena Los Agricultores Filipinos (The Filipino Farmers) Rizals first article in the La Solidaridad
20 women in Mamlolos petitioned Governor General Valeriano Weyler for permission to open a night school so that they may study Spanish under Teodoro Sandiko. Seorita Gudalupe Reyes- was commissioned to be their teacher
Dr. Reinhold Rost editor of the Trubners Record, a journal devoted to Asian Studies, requested Rizal to contribute some articles.
Specimens of Tagal Folklore May 1888 Two Eastern Fables 1889
Examples
Proverbs
Malakas ang bulong sa sigaw Ang laki sa layaw karaniway hubad Hampas ng magulang ay nakatatab Ibang hari ibang ugali
Puzzles
Isang butil na palay sa buong bahay (light) Matapang ako sa dalawa, duwag ako sa isa (bamboo bridge) Dala ako niya, dala nya ako (shoes) Isang balong malalim, puno ng patalim (mouth)