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"Mukhang Pera: Banknotes and Nation" is on tomorrow at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at 2pm. BSP invites everyone to wat...

"Mukhang Pera: Banknotes and Nation" is on tomorrow at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at 2pm.

BSP invites everyone to watch the livestreaming of its first numismatic event “Money Talks: What Every Filipino Should Know about the History of Philippine Money” on Friday November 12 at 2:00 pm. The event will feature remarks by BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno, Filipino historian, AMBETH OCAMPO as well as by officials of the Philippine Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, and the BSP.
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This Thursday na ang kwentuhan namin kasama si Prof. Ambeth R. Ocampo ! Listen in as we talk about his travels, adventures, and...

This Thursday na ang kwentuhan namin kasama si Prof. Ambeth R. Ocampo ! Listen in as we talk about his travels, adventures, and the things he misses most about travelling to Japan!

#JapanForMe on November 11 at 8PM on IG Live! Ikuzo!

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Art in History (Every Tuesday)GOD IS IN THE DETAILS. I have committed to a lecture in the National Museum on "Carlos V. Franc...

Art in History (Every Tuesday)
GOD IS IN THE DETAILS.

I have committed to a lecture in the National Museum on "Carlos V. Francisco: The Artist as Historian" following many hours studying the details in his visual history of Manila from pre-Spanish times to 1964, during the term of Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas who commissioned the mural.
Often overlooked in the proud and defiant depiction of Raja Soliman [Left]are two details with water plants: NILA, behind his legs, that gave the city i...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE WEEK. (Every Sunday)Quotes are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from th...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE WEEK. (Every Sunday)
Quotes 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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ENCARNACION ALZONA (1895-2001) is often remembered as the first Filipino woman to obtain a PhD. She had two Master’s degrees in ...

ENCARNACION ALZONA (1895-2001) is often remembered as the first Filipino woman to obtain a PhD. She had two Master’s degrees in history: one from the University of the Philippines (1918) and another from Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1920), she obtained a PhD in history from Columbia in 1923. It’s a pity that her name and byline does not ring a bell among young readers today because she was, in her time, the fairest historian in a hardy discipline dominated by men. Photo from the Atene...

HISTORY UP CLOSE. (Every Thursday)RIZAL’S DRAWINGS DISFIGURED! Asuncion Lopez Bantug, granddaughter of Narcisa Rizal, rela...

HISTORY UP CLOSE. (Every Thursday)
RIZAL’S DRAWINGS DISFIGURED!
Asuncion Lopez Bantug, granddaughter of Narcisa Rizal, related that when she did well in school she was rewarded with handling the original manuscript of Hans Cristian Andersen tales translated by Jose Rizal from German to Tagalog. Photo on the left is the first page of "Ang Pangit na Sisiu ng Pato."
While the original remains unlocated Mrs. Bantug assured me it was not destroyed during the 1945 Battle for Manila, but was ...

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE LECHON?For most Pinoys it's the crispy skin while others prefer the day-old leftovers recycle...

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE LECHON?
For most Pinoys it's the crispy skin while others prefer the day-old leftovers recycled into paksiw taken with patis as sawsawan. My favorite, especially with lechon Cebu, are the salty ribs and the lining of the belly seasoned with lemon grass, garlic and other spices.
When my mother was alive, lechon was served three-ways like Peking Duck.
Peking Duck is usually served two ways: first, skin/meat in wrapper with sliced leeks and a hoisin or plu...

TODAY IN HISTORY (Every Monday) On November 1, 1897 Isabelo Artacho and Felix Ferrer cobbled, from the Cuban Constitution,...

TODAY IN HISTORY (Every Monday)
On November 1, 1897 Isabelo Artacho and Felix Ferrer cobbled, from the Cuban Constitution, what textbook history calls the Biak-na-Bato Constitution. This document does not figure in many lists of the different Constitutions of the Philippines: the 1899 Malolos Constitution, the 1935 Constitution during the Philippine Commonwealth, the 1943 Constitution during the Japanese occupation, the 1973 Constitution during Marcos’s Martial Law, and the 1986 Freedom Co...

+ROMY GACAD, Agence France Presse photo editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. I met Romy in Jakarta in 2011 where he...

+ROMY GACAD, Agence France Presse photo editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
I met Romy in Jakarta in 2011 where he took a series of photographs of my face covered with batik. It looked like a shroud or death mask the creases and folds of the textile forming the outline of my facial features. He gave me test prints but told me to keep them embargoed until he exhibited the series. That never was. The photos and the memory would have been apt for November 1 or Undas 2021.
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