Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Philippine History: Who Were the Thomasites?

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Who Were the Thomasites? While some Filipinos may know who the Thomasites were, most Americans probably don't have the foggi...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Philippine American: 1763 Filipinos in Louisiana

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1883 picture of Saint Malo, from Hearn 1883 Not very many people know that Filipinos first lived in the New World in the late 1700s ...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Life in Parian Now, published Zee Lifestyle, Nov. 2008

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LIFE IN PARIAN NOW Cecilia Manguerra Brainard First published in Zee Lifestyle, November 2008 The first time I saw the building in Pa...
Monday, January 28, 2008

JOSE RIZAL MUSEUMS IN CEBU, PHILIPPINES

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Even though I grew up in Cebu, I never knew that Cebu has quite a lot of Jose Rizal artifacts. It was Marily Orosa, who years ago when she ...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

MORE COMMENTS RE BENAZIR BHUTTO ASSASSINATION

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I have a few more things to say about the Benazir Bhutto assassination: 1. The incident reminds me of what happened to Ninoy Aquino. Aquin...
Thursday, October 4, 2007

UPDATE GETTYSBURG, PA

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We visited the Eisenhower National Site, which was the home and farm of Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower. They bought the farm in 1950, after...
Friday, September 21, 2007

OLD CEBU TRIVIA

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Louie Nacorda sent in this Old Cebu Trivia about Zulueta Street in Old Cebu: "Anyway, I found some Old Cebu trivia that could be of int...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

LET'S BRING BACK OLD SPANISH COLONIAL CEBU

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Today, June 24 is the feast day of St. John the Baptist, who happens to be the patron saint of the old section of Cebu City, the Parian Dist...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

IMAGES OF THE FILIPINA IN LITERATURE

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By the time I was a teenager, the Philippines had been a colony of Spain and the United States for a combined time of some four centuries. T...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

DEATH OF A CARNIVAL QUEEN: 1912-2002

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(Concepcion Cuenco Manguerra collapsed on November 7, 2002, and was on life support until her heart gave way on December 1, 2002, in Makat...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

NEW ORLEANS AND THE ASIA CONNECTION

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(Note: This article was written in 1998, before Katrina) MY fascination with the city of New Orleans goes beyond the Mardi Gras festival, al...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

THE JESUITS IN CEBU

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I grew up in the city of Cebu, in Southern Philippines, whose claim to historical fame was that the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magell...

DIASPORA IN ITALY ~ ONE FILIPINA'S STORY

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DURING a visit to Rome I was surprised at the large number of Filipinos in St. Peter’s Basilica. In churches, metros, there were Filipinos;...
Friday, March 9, 2007

THE FASCINATION CALLED CHINA

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WHEN friends returned from a tour to China and raved about it, my husband and I, who enjoy travelling, decided to go there. We left in ...