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• Biography is the life history of an individual, written by someone else.
• In October 1898, Luna founded what is now the Philippine Military Academy, which operated for less than half a year before the Philippine-American War broke out in February of 1899 and classes were suspended so that staff and students could join the war effort.
• In Biography, the author is not the subject and it could be someone still living today, or it could be the subject of a person who lived years ago.
• A Prominent Filipino is said to be heroes who changed Philippine history or the Filipino who has exemplary works or has the biggest contribution in the society.
• DR. JOSE P. RIZAL is a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
• DR. JOSE P. RIZAL was born on June 19, 1861 in Calamba, Laguna.
• DR. JOSE P. RIZAL's contribution was in his novels that awakened Philippine nationalism.
• DR. JOSE P. RIZAL is a patriot, physician, and man of letters who was an inspiration to the Philippine nationalist movement.
• DR. JOSE P. RIZAL's advocacy for reforms in the Philippines under the hands of Spanish colonial authorities led to his early death at the age of 36.
• DR. JOSE P. RIZAL was executed in Bagumbayan, now called Luneta, in Manila on December 30, 1896.
• ANDRES BONIFACIO was a Filipino Freemason and revolutionary leader.
• ANDRES BONIFACIO is often called "The Father of the Philippine Revolution" and is considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines.
• ANDRES BONIFACIO was one of the founders and later the Kataastaasang Pangulo of the Katipunan, a movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Tagalog Revolution.
• APOLINARIO MABINI was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic.
• Graciano López Jaena was a Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero who is well known for his newspaper, La Solidaridad.
• Despite his commitment to discipline the army and serve the Republic which attracted the admiration of people, General Antonio Luna's temper caused some to abhor him.
• General Antonio Luna organized professional guerrilla soldiers later to be known as the "Luna Sharpshooters" and the "Black Guard".
• General Antonio Luna (29 October 1866 – 5 June 1899) was a Filipino army general, who fought in the Philippine-American War.
• General Antonio Luna's three-tier defense, now known as the Luna Defense Line, gave the American troops a hard campaign in the provinces north of Manila.
• General Antonio Luna was also an active researcher in the scientific community, having received his doctorate
• General Antonio Luna was also a member of the Malolos Congress.
• General Antonio Luna was regarded as one of the fiercest generals of his time, and succeeded Artemio Ricarte as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
• Graciano López Jaena was the first to arrive in Spain and may have begun the Propaganda Movement, which advocated the reform of the then-Spanish colony of the Philippines and which eventually led to the armed Philippine Revolution that begun in Manila in 1896.
• General Antonio Luna sought to apply his background in military science to the fledgling army.
• General Antonio Luna was awarded the Philippine Republic Medal in 1899.
• Juan Luna y Novicio was born on October 23, 1857 in Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
• Besides his military studies, General Antonio Luna also studied pharmacy, literature and chemistry.
• At the age of 18, Graciano López wrote the satirical story Fray Botod, which depicted a fat and lecherous friar.
• Philippine historians regard López Jaena, along with Marcelo H. del Pilar and José Rizal, as the triumvirate of Filipino propagandists.
• Despite his mother wanting him to become a priest, Graciano López's true ambition was to become a physician.
• The Spoliarium, was Juan Luna's most renowned art where he won top prize at the 1884 Madrid Exposition.
• The story Fray Botod was not published, but a copy circulated in Iloilo and the friars could not prove that Graciano López was the author.
• Juan Luna's brother, General Antonio Luna, was an active contributor in the rebellious Katipunan movement.
• Juan Luna is a famous Filipino painter who is a successor of the Cala Family of the Philippines.
• Juan Luna was a late-nineteenth-century political activist who participated in the Philippine Revolution to which he is a highly significant figure for his achievements as a classical painter and prominent role in elevating the school of Philippine art to international regard.
• The story Fray Botod depicted a friar who was always on the lips of God and the Virgin, but his actions were unjust and underhanded.
• Juan Luna attained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1874.
• Graciano López y Jaena, commonly known as Graciano López Jaena, was born in Jaro, Iloilo, in the Captaincy General of the Philippines in the Spanish Empire on December 18, 1856.
• Upon his revisit to the Philippines, Juan Luna was under arrest two years later under distrust of subversion.
• APOLINARIO MABINI is regarded as the "utak ng himagsikan" or "brain of the revolution" and is also considered as a national hero in the Philippines.