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Continue reading →: Veterans Day 2019
Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: For each and every veteran – Thank You!! For All Our Todays and Yesterdays Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however,…
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Continue reading →: The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 3
Originally posted on Subli: Admiral Halsey’s pilot reported that four of Kurita’s battleships had been severely damaged, that nine cruisers and destroyers had been sunk or heavily damaged, and that the remains of the armada were retreating westward. Halsey assumed that the Center Force was no longer a threat. On…
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Continue reading →: The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 2
Originally posted on Subli: The bridge of Musashi The messages from the Dace and the Darter, warning of the advance of Kurita’s fleet, began arriving in Flag Plot aboard USS New Jersey at 6:20 am on Oct. 23. Halsey and his staff pondered the significance of the sightings by the…
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Continue reading →: Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 1
Originally posted on Subli: The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the last great naval confrontation in history and the largest naval battle of World War II in term of ships and men. It was fought from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, between combined American and Australian forces and Imperial Japanese…
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Continue reading →: October 20, 1944 – Invasion of Leyte
I posted this blog at Subliblog.com but unfortunately the reblog button refused to work. So here it is: Alligators Charge toward the Foe on Leyte. Official U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Seventy-five years ago today, MacArthur fulfilled his pledge and returned to the…
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Continue reading →: Mort Künstler’s exhibition at The Hecksher Museum of Art
Originally posted on Long Island Past and Present: Mort Kunstler is best known for his incomparable paintings of Civil War events. However, he earned his stripes as an illustrator for pulp fiction magazines with his illustrations for men’s pulp adventure magazines published in the 50s, 60s and 70s. For the…
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Continue reading →: October Festivals in the Philippines
Originally posted on Subli: Filipinos love to party. They will find any excuse to have a party. They celebrate births, marriages, saints’ days and everything else. The Spanish adapted traditional rituals by celebrating a saint’s birthday on dates formerly associated with animistic rituals. You will see festivals in every ethnic…
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Continue reading →: Epsom Salt and Its Role in the Rose Garden
Originally posted on Rose Gardening World: Epsom Salt or Magnesium Sulfate is a chemical compound made up of magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen. It gets its name from the town of Epsom in Surrey, England, where it was originally discovered. Epsom salt is a popular remedy for many ailments. People use…
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Continue reading →: Bohol and its History
Originally posted on Subli: ? ? Bohol Island has much to offer in terms of history. Bohol’s contact with other civilizations antedates the Spanish “discovery” of the Philippines. Among the early settlers were people who used gold jewelry, death masks and who “beautified” their women by flattening and shaping their…
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Continue reading →: Bohol – Home of the Chocolate Hills
Originally posted on Subli: ? Bohol has become synonymous with Chocolate Hills located northeast of Tagbilaran, the provincial capital. Clusters of these cone-shaped mounds are scattered over about 50 square km. (about 30 sq. m.) around Sagbayan, Carmen, and Sierra Bullones in Central Bohol. Numbering 1,268 in all, the…