Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 20

RIZAL's ROSARY

RIZAL's ROSARY.
I first saw Rizal's rosary over 40 years ago, it was exhibited in the Ateneo High School Library and it was the first Rizal relic that made an impression on me. It did not strike me in a religious way since many Ateneans are taught to keep a rosary in their pockets.
This object made Rizal real to me that day, it made me realize that he was not just a distant hero fossilized in bronze and marble but someone who once walked the earth as I did.
A certificate of ...

When you visit the National Museum to view the small Rizal sculpture of "Josephine Sleeping" it's best to remember what Josephin...

When you visit the National Museum to view the small Rizal sculpture of "Josephine Sleeping" it's best to remember what Josephine Bracken actually looked like, from a studio portrait, where she posed in Filipina dress.



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My Inquirer column today on getting students to do primary source research and actually enjoy it.





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FAKE AMBETH OCAMPO Page sending Friend Requests

FAKE AMBETH OCAMPO Page sending Friend Requests.
This is one of the bad things that come with being "Ambeth Ocampo."
If you receive a friend/follow request from a page that pretends to be mine. Please check the FB Verified Badge or "Blue Check" beside my name. Also check the number of friends/followers if there are none it is a fake Ambeth Ocampo page (Left)
Please report so that these will be removed from FB.
When I checked yesterday there are still many "Ambeth Ocampo" pages with no friends, n...

Ferdinand Blumentritt's great-granddaughter in Manila

Ferdinand Blumentritt's great-granddaughter in Manila.
Last night I sat beside ELKE PICKERT at a dinner in the residence of the Austrian Ambassador Johann Brieger. She is descended from Blumentritt's daughter Dolores who Rizal called "Loleng."
Ms. Pickert told me about a box of memorabilia in her home that contains: an unpublished letter of Rizal to Blumentritt as well as two sketches of Loleng made during Juan Luna's visit to Litomerice in the spring of 1899.
I advised Ms Pickert...

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My Inquirer column today are anecdotes from Emilio Aguinaldo's childhood shared, in a handwritten letter, with Carlos Quirino in 1955.
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C.S.I. A Century ago

C.S.I. A Century ago.
T. he first Medico-Legal Laboratory was established in Manila in 1895. The UP Department of Legal medicine was established in 1919 under Dr. Sixto de Los Angeles who was part of the team that examined the so-called " Bonifacio Bones" exhumed from Maragondon a year before.
This photo from a prewar medico-legal textbook depicts the beginnings of forensic investigation or CSI in the Philippines.



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A view of Baguio six decades ago

A view of Baguio six decades ago.
Do you recognize it?
How much of it has changed?



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President Ramon Magsaysay looks into our present from his perch in the Magsaysay Center on Roxas Boulevard [Right]

President Ramon Magsaysay looks into our present from his perch in the Magsaysay Center on Roxas Boulevard [Right].
When I studied the statue up close I saw the signature of Guillermo Tolentino, National Artist for Sculpture, on the base. I dug up my files and found a photo [Left] of the sculpture when it was still in Tolentino's studio on Retiro street.



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People have been asking to have their books signed

People have been asking to have their books signed. Mark your calendars I will have a meet-greet-signing at the Philippine Bookfair on March 15 from 3-5pm. See you there!



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