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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Originally posted on Subli: The blue area is the Philippine Sea. To its left is the Philippine Islands. ? Can you visualize the location of the Philippine Sea within the vast Pacific Ocean? The long elongated island to the extreme middle left is The Philippines. Philippine Sea is a section of the western North Pacific,…

Originally posted on Subli: Today being Father’s Day, I want to talk about Filipino families. Mom & Dad with me and my brothers at a family gathering taken years ago. Due to the importance of the family in Filipino culture, it is impressed upon every individual from childhood to adulthood that parents are owed a…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: ? 244 Years Strong THE U.S. ARMY AMERICA’S FIRST NATIONAL INSTITUTION ? Since its official establishment, June 14, 1775 — more than a year before the Declaration of Independence — the U.S. Army has played a vital role in the growth and development of the American nation. Drawing on both…