Furthermore, members of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments who wished to remain in the Philippines upon being discharged were transferred to a subordinate unit under this division.

One of Sylvester's high school musical groups was a doo-wop act called The Viscaynes, in which he and a Filipino teenager were the only non-white members.

One of these was The Viscaynes, a doo-wop group in which Sylvester and his Filipino friend, Frank Arelano, were the only non-white members.

In a resolution past during the BAYAN 7th Congress in August 2004, the coalition would expand to include overseas Filipino organizations as official members of BAYAN.

The Philippine Organic Act of 1902 provided for the establishment of a bicameral legislature composed of an upper house consisting of the Philippine Commission, an appointed body with both American and Filipino members.

The new agreement of 1986 featured for the first time all Filipino Board composed of 11 members, 8 of them representing each BCP district.

The Visayans ( Visayan languages: Bisaya ) are a Filipino ethnic group whose members are speakers of one or more Visayan languages, the most widely spoken being Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Waray.

There are 210 faculty members, 93 % of whom are expatriates ; the rest of the professional staff are Filipino citizens.

A potent tool in promoting Filipino nationalism in Spanish was the foundation of La Solidaridad ( more fondly called La Sol by the members of the propaganda movement ) in 15 February 1885.

A potent tool in promoting Filipino nationalism in Spanish was the foundation of La Solidaridad ( more fondly called La Sol by the members of the propaganda movement ) in 15 February 1885.

It had 17 members and incorporated on January 22, 1946 with the purpose to unify, coordinate and organize Filipino Catholics to work together on education, social welfare, religious and spiritual issues under the direction of the Filipino bishops.

Their teachers were: twelve ( 12 ) regular Filipino faculty members and a number of volunteers from the British Voluntary Service Overseas, Volunteers in Asia, Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation and others.

A spokesman for Yang Ming Lines, owner of the Maersk Dubai, claimed the Filipino crew members had made false accusations in retaliation for a dispute over wages.

Lee Cohen, a Halifax immigration lawyer, acted on behalf of some of the Filipino crew members, while the Republic of China retained the services of the Canadian criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan.

The Philippine Legion of Honor was patterned after the Legion of Merit of the United States of America, and was meant to honor both civilians and members of the military, Filipino or foreign.

Most members of the newer generation of Filipinos have English Christian first names, but some still have Spanish or indigenous Filipino names.

By June 1957, there were 76 students and two more Filipino Sisters joined the faculty.

Back in the Philippines, he served anew with the faculty of the Ateneo de Manila in 1953, later becoming its first Filipino college dean while teaching history at the same time.

The faculty of the San Beda Law Graduate School includes prominent Filipino legal luminaries such as former Human Rights Commission Chairperson Purificacion Quisumbing, former Senator Rene Saguisag, former Supreme Court Justice Jose Vitug, former Associate Justice Ricardo Puno, and Justice Oscar Herrera, Justice Hilarion Aquino, currently Chair of the Legal Education Board of the Philippines, among others.

* Addressed the faculty and students of Pamantasa ng Makati on " The Quest of the Filipino for Truth, Justice and Democracy and his Crusade for Good Governance ," held at the Audio-Visual room of bldg.

Designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and Filipino-Malaysian Engineer Deejay Cerico under the consultancy of J. C. Guinto, and Filipino Designer Dominic " Minick " Saibo, the Petronas Towers were planning started on 1 January 1992 after rigorous tests and simulations of wind and structural loads on the design after seven years of construction and became the tallest buildings in the world, It was excavators began digging down 30 metres below the surface of the site on 1 March 1993.

On January to December 1944, Some of all local Filipino ground troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army 6th, 10th, 101st, 102nd and 105th Infantry Division and the Philippine Constabulary 10th Infantry Regiment began sending local combat military operations and they arrival the recaptured and liberated around the province of Zamboanga and aiding the Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim resistance groups attacks the Imperial Japanese military forces from the couple of twelve months and one year before the liberation.

Its teaching was kept strictly within Filipino communities until the late 1960s when masters such as Angel Cabales began teaching it to others.

In 1910, the U. S. Army began sending one outstanding Filipino soldier per year to West Point.

As the senior field commander of Filipino and US forces — under General Douglas MacArthur — Wainwright was responsible for resisting the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, which began in December 1941.

History records how the Filipino-American war began after American troops killed a Filipino soldier who was crossing the San Juan bridge on February 4, 1899.

1945 Filipino and Filipino-American soldiers under the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment of the United States Army began the Battle of Samar and aided the local Filipino soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army 4th, 9th, 91st, 93rd, 95th and 96th Infantry Divisions and the Philippine Constabulary 9th Infantry Regiment, the local Samareño guerrilla resistance and the U. S. liberation forces defeated the Japanese liberating the province of Samar.

The work began in 1900 with Eric Lund ( a Swedish missionary working with the American Baptist Missionary Union ) and Braulio Manikin ( a Filipino converted during Lund's work in Spain ) on the island of Panay.

The retreat of Aguinaldo from Bayambang, Pangasinan through the mountainous terrain began on November 13, 1899, after disbanding the regular Filipino army into guerrilla units.

Many Filipino American families began purchasing homes and establishing businesses in the area beginning from the 1940s, shifting away from the Little Tokyo area in the 1920s and the Bunker Hill area later.

The surge of Filipino immigration to Nevada began later than any other states.

After the Second World War Filipinos began to assume more important positions, culminating in the appointment of Silliman's first Filipino president in 1952.

Other notable clubs include Maharlika (" royalty " in the Filipino language ), a Filipino culture club that puts on a PCN ( Pilipino Culture Night ) every year in May, the Hawaii Club, which promotes the state of Hawaii and Polynesian culture, the Biola Asian Student Association ( BASA ), a heterogeneous Asian ethnic club, and the Honorable Biola Cheese Society, a club that began as a floor tradition with weekly meetings consisting of classical music, poetry readings, cheese tasting and grape juice.

Immensely influenced by this new breed of British artists, many Filipino bands began adopting similar musical styles.

Meanwhile, as the Americans and Philippine riflemen exchanged fire, the large force of Filipino bolomen began maneuvering to surround the Americans.

In 2006, GK began collaborating with some Filipino actors to produce a film about the program.

Suddenly, swarms of Filipino troops began to attack from different directions.

During his term which began in 1901, Governor Demetrio Larena, the first Filipino governor for Negros Oriental and Siquijor, changed the name Canoan to Larena, his namesake, which was duly approved by the Philippine legislature.

On the narrow trail of Tirad Pass, the Filipino soldiers watched as their enemies began to move up the trail.

* On Friday night, 10 of the Filipino truth-seeking friends prayed fervently for the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

There does exist in Filipino an equivalent, gender-neutral term for the professional that carries the more general notion of " healer ", traditional ( for example, an albuláryo ) or otherwise: manggagámot.

These are also commonly found in most Filipino kitchens, with some sets displayed on the walls and other sets for more practical use.

* 1901 – Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.

* September 28 – Philippine – American War: Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.

This is largely due to more than a century of foreign colonial occupation, bringing in Spanish, German, Japanese, Chamorro, Filipino, American, Australian, other western Europeans, and it being home to the capital of the national government, which employs hundreds of people from the other three FSM States ( Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae ) having distinct ethnic and cultural origins.

The racial makeup of Oakland was 134, 925 ( 34. 5 %) White, 109, 471 ( 28. 0 %) African American, 3, 040 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 65, 811 ( 16. 8 %) Asian ( 8. 7 % Chinese, 2. 2 % Vietnamese, 1. 6 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 7 % Laotian, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian ), 2, 222 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander ( 0. 3 % Tongan ), 53, 378 ( 13. 7 %) from other races, and 21, 877 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Vacaville was 61, 301 ( 66. 3 %) White, 9, 510 ( 10. 3 %) African American, 846 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 5, 606 ( 6. 1 %) Asian ( 3. 3 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Indian, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Korean ), 532 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander, 8, 136 ( 8. 8 %) from other races, and 6, 497 ( 7. 0 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Fairfield was 48, 407 ( 46. 0 %) White, 16, 586 ( 15. 7 %) African American, 869 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 15, 700 ( 14. 9 %) Asian ( 9. 1 % Filipino, 1. 8 % Indian, 1. 0 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 2 % Thai, 0. 1 % Pakistani ), 1, 149 ( 1. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 13, 301 ( 12. 6 %) from other races, and 9, 309 ( 8. 8 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Stanislaus County was 337, 342 ( 65. 6 %) White, 14, 721 ( 2. 9 %) African American, 5, 902 ( 1. 1 %) Native American, 26, 090 ( 5. 1 %) Asian ( 1. 5 % Indian, 1. 1 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 5 % Chinese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 1 % Japanese, 0. 1 % Korean, 0. 1 % Cambodian ), 3, 401 ( 0. 7 %) Pacific Islander, 99, 210 ( 19. 3 %) from other races, and 27, 787 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races ; Hispanic or Latino of any race were 215, 658 persons ( 41. 9 %); 37. 6 % of Stanislaus County is Mexican, 0. 6 % Puerto Rican, 0. 5 % Salvadoran, 0. 2 % Nicaraguan, and 0. 2 % Guatemalan.

She also appeared in more than 10 movies, including Hataw Na, a film with Filipino actor and singer Gary Valenciano ( who is half-Puerto Rican ).

The principal distinction between the Filipino design and more primitive yo-yos is in the way the yo-yo is strung.

Compare this to the racial makeup of Oakland, which was 134, 925 ( 34. 5 %) White, 109, 471 ( 28. 0 %) African American, 3, 040 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 65, 811 ( 16. 8 %) Asian ( 8. 7 % Chinese, 2. 2 % Vietnamese, 1. 6 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 7 % Laotian, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian ), 2, 222 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander ( 0. 3 % Tongan ), 53, 378 ( 13. 7 %) from other races, and 21, 877 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Concord was 78, 767 ( 64. 5 %) White, 4, 371 ( 3. 6 %) African American, 852 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 13, 538 ( 11. 1 %) Asian ( 4. 4 % Filipino, 2. 4 % Chinese, 1. 3 % Indian, 0. 7 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 6 % Korean, 1. 2 % Other ), 816 ( 0. 7 %) Pacific Islander, 15, 969 ( 13. 1 %) from other races, and 7, 754 ( 6. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of El Monte was 44, 058 ( 38. 8 %) White, 870 ( 0. 8 %) African American, 1, 083 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 28, 503 ( 25. 1 %) Asian ( 13. 5 % Chinese, 7. 4 % Vietnamese, 1. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Cambodian, 0. 2 % Burmese, 0. 2 % Japanese, 0. 2 % Korean, 0. 2 % Indian, 0. 2 % Thai ), 131 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 35, 205 ( 31. 0 %) from other races, and 3, 625 ( 3. 2 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Palmdale was 74, 901 ( 49. 0 %) White, 22, 677 ( 14. 8 %) African American, 1, 316 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 6, 548 ( 4. 3 %) Asian ( 2. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Indian, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Chinese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 2 % Japanese ), 335 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 38, 773 ( 25. 4 %) from other races, and 8, 200 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Carmichael was 49, 776 ( 80. 6 %) White, 3, 972 ( 5. 8 %) African American, 546 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 2, 653 ( 4. 3 %) Asian ( 0. 9 % Filipino, 0. 9 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Other ), 287 ( 0. 5 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 035 ( 3. 3 %) from other races, and 3, 493 ( 5. 7 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Citrus Heights was 66, 856 ( 80. 3 %) White, 2, 751 ( 3. 3 %) African American, 753 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 2, 714 ( 3. 3 %) Asian ( 1. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Indian, 0. 4 % Chinese, 0. 3 % Japanese, 0. 2 % Vietnamese, 0. 4 % Other ), 363 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 5, 348 ( 6. 4 %) from other races, and 4, 516 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Rancho Cordova was 39, 123 ( 60. 4 %) White, 8, 561 ( 13. 1 %) African American, 668 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 7, 831 ( 12. 1 %) Asian ( 3. 6 % Filipino, 2. 0 % Indian, 1. 6 % Vietnamese, 1. 4 % Chinese, 1. 0 % Korean, 0. 4 % Japanese, 2. 0 % Other ), 556 ( 0. 9 %) Pacific Islander, 5, 517 ( 8. 5 %) from other races, and 4, 520 ( 7. 0 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Oceanside was 109, 020 ( 65. 2 %) White, 7, 873 ( 4. 7 %) African American, 1, 385 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 11, 081 ( 6. 6 %) Asian ( 3. 4 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Japanese, 0. 7 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Chinese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 2 % Indian ), 2, 144 ( 1. 3 %) Pacific Islander, 25, 886 ( 15. 5 %) from other races, and 9, 697 ( 5. 8 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Santee was 44, 083 ( 82. 5 %) White, 1, 057 ( 2. 0 %) African American, 409 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 2, 044 ( 3. 8 %) Asian ( 1. 8 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Chinese, 0. 5 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Japanese, 0. 2 % Korean, 0. 2 % Indian, 0. 5 % Other ), 253 ( 0. 5 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 677 ( 5. 0 %) from other races, and 2, 890 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Lathrop was 7, 410 ( 41. 1 %) White, 1, 300 ( 7. 2 %) African American, 231 ( 1. 3 %) Native American, 3, 968 ( 22. 0 %) Asian ( mostly Filipino ), 144 ( 0. 8 %) Pacific Islander, 3, 735 ( 20. 7 %) from other races, and 1, 235 ( 6. 9 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 50. 92 % White, 4. 49 % African American, 1. 21 % Native American, 13. 36 % Asian ( mostly Filipino ), 0. 54 % Pacific Islander, 21. 11 % from other races, and 8. 38 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Santa Barbara was 66, 411 ( 75. 1 %) White, 1, 420 ( 1. 6 %) African American, 892 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 3, 062 ( 3. 5 %) Asian ( 1. 0 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Filipino, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 4 % Indian, 0. 2 % Vietnamese, 0. 4 % Other ), 116 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 13, 032 ( 14. 7 %) from other races, and 3, 477 ( 3. 9 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Cupertino was 18, 270 ( 31. 3 %) White, 344 ( 0. 6 %) Black American, 117 ( 0. 2 %) American Indian, 36, 895 ( 63. 3 %) Asian ( 28. 1 % Chinese, 22. 6 % Indian, 4. 6 % Korean, 3. 3 % Japanese, 1. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 9 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Pakistani, 0. 1 % Thai, 0. 1 % Bangladeshi ), 54 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 670 ( 1. 1 %) from other races, and 1, 952 ( 3. 3 %) from two or more races.