On US Veterans’ Day (Canada Remembrance Day), a Toast to Our Freedom Fighters
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Memories of the Filipinos’ resistance to Japanese occupation in World War II must never fade.
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Fil-Am History Museum in Stockton Turns One
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Why the Filipino American History Museum is in Stockton, California.
Read MoreThe Untold Story of Nina Thomas: The American Woman who could have been First Lady of the Philippines
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The woman Manuel L. Quezon would’ve married had Philippine independence not been in the way.
Read MoreMajor General Basilio J. Valdes – Doctor, Officer and Gentleman
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As President Manuel L. Quezon’s personal physician, Major General Basilio Valdes stayed with him until he drew his last breath at Saranac Lake, New York.
Read MoreMactan, 50 Years Ago and Now
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Mactan Island is a far cry from when it was overrun by American GIs during the Vietnam War.
Read MoreArsenio H. Lacson, the Best President the Philippines Never Had
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The late pugnacious mayor of Manila who was fittingly nicknamed “Arsenic.”
Read MoreA Man and His Book: Unmasking Duplicities of the Past
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From a writer’s collection of old books, documents and memorabilia comes the answer to his question: “How did foreigners come to rule the Philippines for so long?”
Read MoreSurprising Facts About Ferdinand Magellan and His Voyage to the Philippines
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Bet it never occurred to you that Lapu-lapu’s real name was most likely Pula-pula.
Read MoreThe Wacky 1978 Chess World Championship
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How the Conjugal Dictatorship’s international public relations baby, the 1978 World Championship in Baguio, turned into an opera bouffe—with a lot of logistical, pre-match posturing and chess rivals Korchnoi and Karpov trying to rattle each other.
Read MoreExceptional Philippine Churches
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Centuries-old churches testify to the Philippines’ lasting links with Spain and its friars’ goal of establishing a permanent Catholic presence in the archipelago.
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