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Diokno
Diokno is a Tagalog language, Filipino surname that originated from Taal, Batangas. It was changed to a more Filipino surname from the original Hispanized surname, Diocno. Diokno#Diokno, Ángel Diokno (born c. 1830) is the oldest known patriarch of the immediate family of Ananías Diokno, Gen. Ananías Diokno (son of Ángel). Although the Diokno family members are primarily prevalent in the Philippines, there are significant numbers of people with this surname in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Through marriages the Diokno clan is also interrelated with multiple historical figures, such as public servants Francis Garchitorena, Justice Francis Garchitorena, Corazon Aquino (sixth cousin twice removed of Jose W. Diokno through the Sumulong clan), and Governor-General Félix Berenguer de Marquina, Félix Berenguer de Marquina y Fitzgerald, who is the namesake of Marikina. Family of Ananías Diokno Because of the Irish ancestry of Berenguer de Marquina coming f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jose Manuel Diokno
Jose Manuel Tadeo "Chel" Icasiano Diokno (Tagalog: dʒɔknɔ born February 23, 1961) is a Filipino politician and lawyer who is a representative-elect for Akbayan Partylist. He is concurrently the chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. Diokno is the son of former Senator Jose W. Diokno. He studied law at the University of the Philippines College of Law and Northern Illinois University in the United States, graduating in 1986 and passing the Philippine Bar Examinations in 1988. For much of his legal career, Diokno has been affiliated with the Free Legal Assistance Group, a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers. He became its chairman in 2003. In 2009, he founded the Tañada-Diokno School of Law as the De La Salle University College of Law and served as its inaugural dean until 2019. In 2022, he became the chairman of the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. Diokno unsuccessfully sought election to the Senate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diokno
Diokno is a Tagalog language, Filipino surname that originated from Taal, Batangas. It was changed to a more Filipino surname from the original Hispanized surname, Diocno. Diokno#Diokno, Ángel Diokno (born c. 1830) is the oldest known patriarch of the immediate family of Ananías Diokno, Gen. Ananías Diokno (son of Ángel). Although the Diokno family members are primarily prevalent in the Philippines, there are significant numbers of people with this surname in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Through marriages the Diokno clan is also interrelated with multiple historical figures, such as public servants Francis Garchitorena, Justice Francis Garchitorena, Corazon Aquino (sixth cousin twice removed of Jose W. Diokno through the Sumulong clan), and Governor-General Félix Berenguer de Marquina, Félix Berenguer de Marquina y Fitzgerald, who is the namesake of Marikina. Family of Ananías Diokno Because of the Irish ancestry of Berenguer de Marquina coming f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maris Diokno
Maria Serena Encarnacion "Maris" Icasiano Diokno (born August 16, 1954) is a Filipino historian, academic, and former government official best known for having served as chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and as a Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the University of the Philippines (UP) system. Early life and education Diokno was born in Manila on August, 16, 1954. She was the fourth of ten children of Filipino nationalist figure and legislator Sen. Jose W. Diokno and Carmen Icasiano. Her father is considered to be the father of human rights. She is also the older sister of human rights advocate Atty. Jose Manuel Tadeo "Chel" Diokno and the aunt of Chel's son, the independent filmmaker Pepe Diokno. Like the rest of the daughters of the Diokno clan, she was educated at St. Scholastica's College, Manila. Diokno graduated from UP Diliman and earned a PhD in African and Oriental studies at the University of London in 1983. Career She aid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ramón Diokno
Ramón Diokno y Marasigan (March 28, 1886 – April 21, 1954) was a Filipino statesman, jurist, Associate Justice, and one of the foremost nationalists of his generation. He fought the American Parity Rights Amendment and was one of four senators to be ousted so that the amendment may be ratified. He later became Associate Justice under Ramon Magsaysay but had the shortest term when he died two months and eleven days later. Diokno is known as the very first Government Corporate Counsel (Office of the GCC) in history from 1935 to December 1941 when the war began. Justice Diokno is famous for writing the ponencia in the Resolution for the In Re: Albino Cunanan, et al. Early life and education Diokno was born in Taal, Batangas on March 28, 1886, as the only son to Ananías Diokno, head of the Visayan forces during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War, and Paulina Marasigan. Diokno had four half-siblings from his father's second wife Emilia Rivera. Diokno's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carmen Diokno
Carmen Reyes Icasiano Diokno (November 28, 1923 – August 26, 2011), also known as Ka Nena, was a Filipino activist. Her campaigns contributed to the United States withdrawal of its military bases from the Philippines and the push for democracy during martial law. Early life and education Carmen Icasiano was born in Mindanao on November 11, 1923. She studied at Far Eastern University, taking up accounting, and was on her last term when World War II broke out. After the war, she worked as a waitress and was seeing American soldiers, as her parents wanted her to marry a Filipino politician named Belek Madrigal, whom she rejected. In a party hosted by Arsenio Lacson, the future mayor of Manila, she was on a date with an American colonel when she met Jose W. Diokno. The coupled talked for hours then started dating at The Aristocrat. Carmen acquired tuberculosis and frequently called Diokno while he was vacationing in the United States. Diokno found out and flew back to marry he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ananías Diokno
Ananías Diokno y Noblejas (January 22, 1860 – November 2, 1922) was reputedly the only Philippine Revolutionary Army general to lead a full-scale military expedition to the Visayas against the Spanish forces. Also known as ''General of the Seas'', his successful landing in Bicol and the Visayas were considered one of the first missions of the Philippine Navy. He is the father of nationalist Supreme Court Justice and Sen. Ramón Diokno, and the grandfather of Sen. Jose W. Diokno, the intellectual leader of the opposition against the Marcos administration and the father of human rights. Diokno is also the great-grandfather of human rights lawyer and professor Jose Manuel "Chel" Diokno. Early life He was born in Taal, Batangas, Philippines on January 22, 1860, to Ángel Diokno and María Andrea Noblejas y Sauza. There are no records regarding his boyhood and early career. Philippine Revolution In 1895, Diokno, along with his Taaleño friend Felipe Agoncillo, were prosec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Free Legal Assistance Group
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. It was founded in 1974 by Senate of the Philippines, Sen. Jose W. Diokno, Lorenzo Tañada, J.B.L. Reyes, and Joker Arroyo during the Martial law in the Philippines, martial law era under former President of the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos. It is the first and largest group of human rights lawyers established in the nation. They work on countering varied abuses against human rights and civil liberties. Its current chairman since 2003 is Human rights lawyer, human rights attorney Chel Diokno, the founding dean of the Tañada-Diokno School of Law, De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno School of Law. Founding and martial law era FLAG was founded in October 1974 at the home of Jose W. Diokno, Sen. Jose W. Diokno, together with Lorenzo Tañada, Sen. Lorenzo M. Tañada, Justice J.B.L. Reyes, and Atty. Joker Arroyo—more than two years after the 1972 proclama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Félix Berenguer De Marquina
Félix Ignacio Juan Nicolás Antonio José Joaquín Buenaventura Berenguer de Marquina y FitzGerald, KOS (November 20, 1733 – October 30, 1826) was a Spanish naval officer, colonial official and, from April 30, 1800 to January 4, 1803, viceroy of New Spain. His wife was María de Ansoátegui y Barrol from Spain. Origins and early career Background Berenguer de Marquina was born in Spain to a family of the minor nobility of Alicante in 1733. His father was Ignacio Vicente Berenguer de Marquina y Pasqual de Riquelme, descendant of one of the most influential families in Alicante. His mother, Mary FitzGerald, a native of Cork, could trace her ancestry back to the Anglo-Norman earls of Desmond. Félix joined the navy at a very young age. On April 30, 1754 he took the midshipman examination. Thereafter he served on ships of war in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Marriage He married María de Ansoátegui y Barrol in 1758, thus becoming, years later, the uncle of one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Taal, Batangas
Taal , officially the Municipality of Taal (), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 61,460 people. Taal is famous for its old Ancestral houses of the Philippines, ancestral houses, one particular ancestral house (now a museum) where Marcela Coronel Mariño de Agoncillo grew up in Taal, Batangas built in the 1770s by her grandparents, Don Andres Sauza Mariño and Doña Eugenia Diokno Mariño. Its poblacion (town proper) is designated as a National Historical Landmark. The municipality is known as the Balisong (knife), balisong and barong tagalog capital of the Philippines. The town is home to hundreds of heritage structures dating from the Spanish colonial period. Scholars have been pushing for its inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Etymology The name "Taal" may have come from: * The archaic Tagalog language, Tagalog word ''taal'', pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Batangas
Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas ( ), is a first class province of the Philippines located in the southwestern part of Luzon in the Calabarzon region. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,908,494 people, making it the 8th most populous province in the country. Its capital is the city of Batangas, and is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north, and Quezon to the east. Across the Verde Island Passages to the south is the island of Mindoro and to the west lies the South China Sea. Poetically, Batangas is often referred to by its ancient name, Kumintáng. The province of Batangas was billed as the second richest province in the Philippines by the Commission on Audit by the year 2020. It has been the second richest province in the country for two consecutive years. In 2020, its provincial government posted a record high of ₱25.2 billion worth of assets, the largest in Calabarzon and the whole Luzon. Batangas is one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Corazon Aquino
María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines and the first woman president in the country, from Presidency of Corazon Aquino, 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the History of the Philippines (1965–1986), two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic History of the Philippines (1986–present), Fifth Philippine Republic. Aquino was married to Senate of the Philippines, Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., who was one of the most prominent critics of President Marcos. After the Assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr., assassination of her husband on August 21, 1983, she emerged as leader of the opposition against the president. In late 1985, Marcos called for a snap election, and Aquino ran for president with former Senator Salvador Laurel as her runni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries by area, fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the List of countries and dependencies by area, 12th-largest in the world. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the south. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of Geography of Saudi Arabia, its terrain consists of Arabian Desert, arid desert, lowland, steppe, and List of mountains in Saudi Arabia, mountains. The capital and List of cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
