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The recent rains reminded me of this charming print "Moro umbrella" by Elizabeth...

The recent rains reminded me of this charming print "Moro umbrella" by Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956) who is best known for her vignettes on Japan. She travelled a lot in Asia and produced a series on the prewar Philippines now little known. One of my regrets was not buying this print in the mid 1980s when I first saw it in Heritage Art Center in Cubao


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Fabian de la Rosa, uncle of Fernando Amorsolo, the first National Artist, paint...

Fabian de la Rosa, uncle of Fernando Amorsolo, the first National Artist, painted this flooded Manila street over a century ago yet the scene and the experience is the same in 2012. Is this history repeating itself? Not really. We just need to blame someone or something else. History doesn't repeat itself, it is we who repeat it.


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My Inquirer column today on crocodiles and chocolates.http://opinion.inquirer.n...

My Inquirer column today on crocodiles and chocolates.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/34239/chocolates-and-crocodiles


Chocolates and crocodiles
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When the rain pours and makes the Pasig river swell, I notice that the normally dark and stagnant water turns a shade lighter, and the stench momentarily wafts away. When the Pasig throws up all the garbage stupid people have thrown into her I realize we never get the message. There was a time, jud...

Josephine Bracken was from Hongkong but we have a photo of her in Filipiniana at...

Josephine Bracken was from Hongkong but we have a photo of her in Filipiniana attire. Rizal was from the Philippines but we have no photo of him in a Barong Tagalog or Camisa de Chino. In many of his studio pictures Rizal wears a Western coat that provided the title for my book "Rizal Without the Overcoat."


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My Inquirer column today on missing historical sources.http://opinion.inquirer...

My Inquirer column today on missing historical sources.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/33919/regrets


Regrets
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When Anita Magsaysay-Ho passed away last May, I remembered the last time I had the pleasure of sitting beside her at dinner. Six years ago she reiterated an inv

See you at the Ayala Museum August 25.

See you at the Ayala Museum August 25.

My Inquirer column today on the Olympics.http://opinion.inquirer.net/33749/the...

My Inquirer column today on the Olympics.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/33749/the-ilocano-shark


‘The Ilocano Shark’
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“It’s more fun in the Philippines” may be the brainchild of our Department of Tourism, but it is at best a means for public diplomacy, a way for the country to brand and make itself known in the world. It is not just our beaches and historic places that we should advertise at home and abroad, but al...

In another place, in a distant time, I was known as Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB afte...

In another place, in a distant time, I was known as Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB after Ignatius Loyola. July 31 is our Feast Day. It was odd for a Benedictine to take the name of the founder of the Jesuits but then you can take a boy out of Ateneo, but you cannot take Ateneo out of the boy.


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Rafael T. Crame (1863-1927) was the first Filipino Chief of the Philippine Const...

Rafael T. Crame (1863-1927) was the first Filipino Chief of the Philippine Constabulary from 1917-1927. Ortigas & Co. donated the land for what was then known as Camp Murphy (named after US Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy) in 1935, part of the camp was given to the PC in 1938 and became the present Camp Crame. The PC was the grandfather of the present PNP. Was I absent when this was taken up in Araling Panlipunan?


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Dwight Davis (1879-1945) founded the International Lawn Tennis Challenge in 1900...

Dwight Davis (1879-1945) founded the International Lawn Tennis Challenge in 1900. He donated the silver trophy that gave the annual tournament its name--Davis Cup. Not many know that Davis was Govenor-general of the Philippines 1929-1932. He is shown here on the way to the Malacanang tennis court.


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