Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 116

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK.Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volu...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volume Escritos de Rizal series (Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission, 1961).



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Banknotes may be contested territory, but what about maps and streetnames? Using Google maps I found Kalantiaw streets in: Quezo...

Banknotes may be contested territory, but what about maps and streetnames? Using Google maps I found Kalantiaw streets in: Quezon City, Angeles City, and Cavite. There is a Barangay Kalantiaw in Caloocan and even a Kalantiaw Elementary school in project 4 despite Kalantiaw declared a hoax, a forgery by the NHCP 20 years ago.
My Inquirer column today is on the naming and renaming of streets that doesn't merit enough anger as the Philippine Eagle on the P1,000 banknote.
https://opinion.inquirer.ne...

Replacing the World War 2 heroes and heroine from our P1000 banknote with the Philippine eagle has received so much comment onli...

Replacing the World War 2 heroes and heroine from our P1000 banknote with the Philippine eagle has received so much comment online and out. I don't think its about the Bangko Sentral erasing history (impossible) or even revising history (speculation). To protect the integrity of our money the BSP needed an image whose details would be a front-line defense against forgery.
Much that I have read online since the weekend is either clickbait designed to get you angry or self-serving comments by p...

A lost EGRET in Makati. My daily morning walk makes me appreciate what little green remains in the concrete jungle that is ...

A lost EGRET in Makati.
My daily morning walk makes me appreciate what little green remains in the concrete jungle that is Makati. Three different types of birds walk about on my route and don’t fly away when I approach unlike the rare birds in Glorietta that fly at the first sight of humans or vehicles.
This morning I saw an egret!
I know of them from the flocks that congregate in the Candaba swamps annually from September to December. When passing them along NLEX to my grandmo...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK.Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volu...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volume Escritos de Rizal series (Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission, 1961).



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In 2019, I consulted the New York Public Library album of Philippine Costumes by Justiniano Asuncion in a locked, windowless, Ra...

In 2019, I consulted the New York Public Library album of Philippine Costumes by Justiniano Asuncion in a locked, windowless, Rare Book Room. I told the librarian that when I first handled the album in the 1980s I was allowed to take it out of the room so I could look at the plates in natural light--out in the corridor by a window. She replied gruffly: "That was a mistake that will not happen today!"
In retrospect I could have walked out the entrance on Fifth Avenue with this treasure :) Wi...

Ave Maria Purisima, Sin pecado concebida. This afternoon the 250 year old image of the Inmaculada Concepcion de Malabon left her...

Ave Maria Purisima, Sin pecado concebida. This afternoon the 250 year old image of the Inmaculada Concepcion de Malabon left her shrine to send off a barge carrying her proxy image and that of the Santo Nino de Cebu before they cruised and blessed the Malabon river and the people who once drew life from a now polluted waterway. Covid has suspended the traditional pagoda and fluvial parade for two years now.



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The second page of Franklin D. Roosevelt's draft "Day of Infamy" speech on the US National Archives website shows his handwritte...

The second page of Franklin D. Roosevelt's draft "Day of Infamy" speech on the US National Archives website shows his handwritten addition on the Japanese attack on the Philippines hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
My Inquirer column today is on December 8, 1941 when the war began in the Philippines.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/147308/d...



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December 8 was marked in old calendars as the feast of the Inmaculada Concepcion (not Immaculada) and girls born on this day wer...

December 8 was marked in old calendars as the feast of the Inmaculada Concepcion (not Immaculada) and girls born on this day were often christened Concepcion, sometimes Maria Concepcion hence the Pinoy nickname “Maricon” that refers to a limp-wristed gay man in Spanish macho culture.
The grand staircase of the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in Intramuros was destroyed by fire in 1932, and what was left of the rebuilt campus destroyed again in the 1945 Battle for Manila. The staircase lives on in mem...

DETAILS.Portraits in the age before smartphones, were meticulously painted. Leticia Jimenez was captured in all her finery, and...

DETAILS.
Portraits in the age before smartphones, were meticulously painted. Leticia Jimenez was captured in all her finery, and down to the finest detail sometime in the 1870's by an artist whose name is lost to history.
Bango Sentral ng Pilipinas Collection presently displayed in the National Museum of the Philippines.



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