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The Japanese also converted a portion of Highway 54 (modern-day EDSA) into an auxiliary runway for fighter planes.
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A cap to an afternoon walk of the walled city or a pre-game before hitting the night, this museum visit will impress any date who would enjoy a tipple.
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Somos PacÃfico explores the people and objects from both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
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One of the most harrowing non-combat encounters at sea, Typhoon Cobra sank 146 aircraft and nearly wiped out an entire U.S. fleet.
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Sometimes we forget that they are like us, that they are and always were, human.
Heroes are human. They are afflicted by weaknesses, burdened by faults, strengthened by their will, and wary of the judgments of history.Yet seldom do our heroes probably want the stature they have now. It is the later generation who placed them ...
Rizal excelled in many things, but school wasn’t always one of them.
More than a century since his passing in 1896, new materials tied to Jose Rizal's life and family have resurfaced, offering fresh glimpses into the national hero's brilliance-and his frailties. From the descendants of his sister Narcisa come two ...
Briefly, the 'seat of the revolutionary government,' to be exact.
Lubuagan, Kalinga, may be the furthest from people's minds when it comes to thinking about the Cordilleras. The popular ones, after all, are the Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao, the Hanging Coffins of Sagada in the Mountain Province, and the City ...
Few stars in the Philippines shone as brightly as the vaudeville celebrity Juanita Antido in the 1920s. She even performed in places like Penang, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. But she was far ahead of her time, and after being imprisoned in a convent, she ended up being jailed in Bilibid for daring to be with the man she loved. This is her story.
In the 1920s Philippines, few stars shone as bright as the vaudeville celebrity Juanita Antido. She led quite a life, but it was deemed scandalous in early 20th century Philippines. Antido was dubbed the "Queen of Jazz in the Orient." She performed ...
The American soldier and teacher, who grew up in the plains of Kansas and made his way to the hills of Cavite, lived a rich and fascinating life. After the Philippine-American war, he settled in the country, married a Filipina, became a writer, and bought many parcels of fertile land along the Tagaytay Ridge, some of which still bear his name today.
He was born in 1876, 13,000 kilometers from the Philippine highlands where he would die, in the town of Sabetha, Kansas. Hammond Hall Buck was raised in a farmer's cabin of retrieved timber, dried mud and straw, amidst a rolling ...
They're known to be corrosion-resistant.
You've probably seen this distinct steel fence in different parts of the Philippines, especially in post-war houses or in towns that have been around for a while. It's these steel planks with holes in rows and with teeth-like ...
So physically removed from the pains and troubles of the Filipino people is the site the Senate chose for its new building in Bonifacio Global City, that one wonders what it might do to the soul of the institution.
In one of his letters, the English poet John Keats asked, "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"So physically removed from the pains and troubles of ...
Still standing today, the Sheikh Karimul Makhdum Mosque in Tawi-Tawi is purported to be the oldest mosque in Southeast Asia.
The Philippines has a rich Muslim identity that predates Spanish colonialism and Western Christianity by roughly 200 years. In the six centuries between the introduction of Islam to the country and today, Islamic traditions persist. It could be argued that Islam, after ...
It's one TIL after another.
Unless you really loved history as a child, the subject is just something you have to sludge through to make it through primary school. But it's different when you read up on it in adulthood when the fragmented stories we know ...
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