Thursday, July 18, 2019

University of Santo Tomas (1611) - the Oldest University in Asia

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Universidad de Santo Tomás was born out of the dying Archbishop Miguel de Benavides, O.P., who came to Manila on July...

It was 53 Years Ago Today, The Beatles went to Manila and Played

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...53 years ago on July 4, 1966 The Beatles held two sold out concerts at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium w...

The Doctrina Christiana was the first book in the Philippines written and printed in 1593, much older than America’s first and oldest book “The Bay Psalm Book” that was printed in 1640.

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...the oldest book in the world was printed in 1455: “The Gutenberg Bible” (in Latin), printed in Europe with mo...

Historical relationship of the Philippines and Catalonia’s Barcelona

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# ...an apartment by Plaça del Bonsuccés near Calle La Rambla has a marker text in Catalan and Tagalog commemorat...

Binondo the first, the original, oldest and biggest Chinatown in the world

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...great cities like Manila are established where rivers meet the sea and because of 300 years Manila/Acapulco Galleon T...
Friday, January 11, 2019

The Great Escape and Manila as Open City

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The attacks by the Japanese, landings of their army in many points of the country and its rapid advance towards ...
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June 15, 1935, before the scheduled U.S. controlled Philippine Commonwealth Presidential election candidates:

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# ...Manuel Quezon of Nacionalista Party - for president, his vice president was Sergio Osmeña (then a senate pr...