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Quilez: A 19th Century Cebu Calesa

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The Campana de Vuelo of Sta. Teresa de Avila Parish

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How to Commute: Cebu IT Park to Talisay City

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How Two Food Books Inspired My Bacolod-Silay Trip

Posted by Margaux Camaya, The Visual Traveler November 17, 2021

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My New Ernest Hemingway Book Collection

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Sergio Osmena's El Nuevo Dia First to Report About The 1901 Balangiga Massacre

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#YOUTHink Magazine: Bisaya Ni, Bai!

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NEUROBION for My Pangangalay and Pamamanhid

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The Philippines is truly a diverse country. Aside from having thousands of islands, fifty different ways to cook adobo, we also have hundreds of languages and dialects. Filipinos are also innovative. One of the popular lingo or slang that came about during the 20th Century is known as Swardspeak or Beki.

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The popular composite of Fathers Zamora, Gomez and Burgos. Wikicommons The martyred Filipino priests: Jose Burgos , Mariano Gomes , and Jacinto Zamora died on February 17, 1872. They were falsely implicated in the Cavite uprising and executed by garroted in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park). The governor-general at that time was Rafael Izquierdo. Father Mariano Gomes de los Angeles was born in 1799 and became secular curate of Bacoor, Cavite on June 2, 1824. Father Gomez was a strong advocate of secularization. Father Jacinto Zamora was born in Pandacan and became a priest in 1859. He was parish priest in Mariquina when he developed a gambling habit. He loved playing a card game popular during the Spanish period called panguingue. He also placed bets in cockfights. Father Jose Burgos was an intellectual. He earned a total of eight degrees from the Universidad de Santo Tomas: three bachelor, three licentiates, and two doctorates. Father Burgos was closely associate

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It was a Saturday morning when I went to the National Museum of Fine Arts. And if it weren't for a group of young people who were taking a selfie, I wouldn't have known that there is a special exhibit of twenty-eight Noli Me Tangere Paintings by Leonardo Tayao Cruz . This is the largest collection of paintings inspired by Jose Rizal 's novel. When one of the security guards approached the group to ask them to refrain from making a lot of noise, I got to talk to her afterward about the Museum. She advised me of the Noli Me Tangere exhibit which is located on the Judiciary Floor (Sandiganbayan Reception Hall and Gallery) . Right after my conversation with the guard, I went directly to the ground floor to see the paintings. The oil paintings were completed between 2002 and 2006. They were previously displayed at the Rizal Shrine in Fort Santiago in 2008. The paintings were done in the classical-impressionist style which the artist is known for. It wou

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"The Bisayans are accustomed to paint their bodies with some very elegant tattoos. They do this with iron or brass rods, the points of which are heated on fire. These are done in the manner illuminations, paintings all parts of the body, such as the chest, the stomach, legs, arms, shoulders, hands, and muscles, and among some, the posteriors." What seems to be the connection between a British Peer, World War II, a historian, and the Philippines? A 307-page manuscript that is full of colored drawings, superstitions, norms, and descriptions of flora and fauna that is known today as the Boxer Codex. The twenty-month British occupation of Manila and Cavite from 1762-1764 saw a massive sacking of academic and historical materials that were brought back to the United Kingdom by the forces of Brigadier General William Draper. A huge percentage of that plunder came from the Augustinian library . In the next century or so, the colored illustrated manuscript would end up

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