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I recently signed up as a “fan” of the Facebook page Old Philippines. The page’s Overview statement is as follows: Old Philippines was created as a page for everyone who wishes to relive the excitement of the “Old Philippines.” Your precious memories live on here… Some of the images were taken about 110 years ago [...]
…An hour or so after the shooting a dead-wagon from San Juan de Dios Hospital took Rizal’s body to Paco Cemetery…Rizal had been wearing a black suit which he had obtained for his European trip, and a derby hat, not only appropriate for a funeral occasion because of their somber color, but also more desirable [...]
I would like to share with our esteemed colleagues and gentle readers here at Filipino Voices, some explorations I’ve recently made in Mindanao’s long and tragic history. Consider them soundings in the great river of Philippine history. The first is from the great classic work by Horacio de la Costa, S.J., History of the Jesuits [...]
Here is a little heralded scientific fact: the oldest known fossil remains of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia — a portion of a human tibia — is from the Tabon Cave near Quezon, Palawan. It was radiocarbon dated to have an age of about 47,000 years. The most amazing discovery about Tabon Man so far [...]
For as far as one can go back in known history of that territory that now exists and is known as Philippines, its people have always been, successively, directed, guided, dictated to, and influenced, one way or another, by a foreign power. It took the Spaniards to spawn the embryo of Filipino nationhood. It took [...]
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