Category: Philippine History
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Baguio – The Summer Capital of the Philippines
Originally posted on Subli: Wright Park across The Mansion in Baguio – Photo Credit: Pinterest ? Baguio is a lovely town nestled aloft a high plateau with old Spanish houses and parks with profusion of flowers on a pine-clad mountain. Baguio is located in the southern part of the Province of Benguet, approximately 180 miles…
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Captain Kidd and his Buried Treasure
Originally posted on Long Island Past and Present: ? William Kidd, also known as Captain Kidd was born c. 1645, at Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland and died on May 23, 1701 in London. He was a 17th century British privateer and semi-legendary pirate who became celebrated in English literature as one of the most colorful outlaws…
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Zambales Province, Home Province of Subic Bay and Mt. Pinatubo
Originally posted on Subli: The Zambales Mountains – Photo Credit: Wikipedia Zambales Province is located in the Central Luzon region, north of Bataan and lies on the western shores of Luzon along the West Philippine Sea. Zambales Province is noted for its picturesque coastline featuring many coves and inlets and offers an authentic slice of…
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Thomas Cavendish – The Third Circumnavigator of the Earth
Originally posted on Subli: ? Sir Thomas Cavendish, also spelled Candish, was an English explorer baptized on September 19, 1560 at Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk, England and died c. May 1592 in the North Atlantic. Cavendish was a privateer known as “The Navigator”. He accompanied Sir Richard Grenville’s voyage to America (1585) and, upon returning…
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Getting Accepted Gastronomically in the Philippines
Originally posted on Subli: Westerners have been present in the Philippines for over four hundred years, and many Filipinos are aware that a Westerner’s ways are different. You see it more prominent when a Filipino married a Westerner. The outgoing hospitality of Filipinos, along with their willingness to adapt to foreign guests, make it too…
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Batanes Island – Its History
Originally posted on Subli: ? Batanes – Photo Credit – Pinterest by Arnel Lumanog Continuing from last week. . . The ancient inhabitants of Batanes, the native Ivatans, were divided into small pagan kinship groups inhabiting the mountains near or on the rocky natural fortresses known as ijangs. Clans were in a more or less…
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Batanes – The Philippine’s northernmost remote islands
Originally posted on Subli: This photo of Batanes is courtesy of TripAdvisor Beyond the northern tip of Luzon is the mountainous Batanes, Home of the Winds, and the Philippine’s smallest province, both in land area and population. Flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the east and the South China Sea on the west, the islands…
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The Timelessness of July 4th
Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: SEEMS WE DON’T SAY IT ENOUGH – SO, I’M TRYING TO FIX THAT RIGHT HERE – GOD BLESS THE USA!!! A 1940’s CELEBRATION WRAPPED AROUND A 1776 WAR SONG HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!! HARK, hark the sound of war is heard, And we must all attend; Take up our arms and go with speed, Our…
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The Galleon Trade
Originally posted on Subli: ? Acapulco in 1628 – Photo Credit: Wikipedia The Manila Galleons were Spanish trading ships which linked the Philippines with Mexico when both were part of the New Spain. Until 1821, the Philippines was administered by the Viceroy of Mexico; direct rule by Spain only started in 1821. The Manila-Acapulco…
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