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Rizal the OFW

DID you know that Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the Philippine National Hero, was the first Filipino to enter the United States under a false name? When he arrived in San Francisco on May 1, 1888, he carried a passport showing his name to be "Jose Protacio Rizal." The problem is this wasn't his real name...

http://www.inq7.net/globalnation/col_gln/2005/jan10.htm

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