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My Inquirer column today on my Martial Law Childhood.http://opinion.inquirer.n...

My Inquirer column today on my Martial Law Childhood.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/32467/martial-law-baby


Martial law baby
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Reading “Subversive Lives” by Susan and Nathan Quimpo reminded me that I belong to a generation known as the “martial law babies.” I was 11 the first da

My Inquirer column today.http://opinion.inquirer.net/32346/how......

My Inquirer column today.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/32346/how-and-why-history-is-written


How and why history is written
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THICK books often go unread. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” or Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” remain on my bucket list. The Oxford English Dictionary and the 55-volume Philippine Islands by Blair and Robertson will never be read cover to cover but have at least been dipped into for work and reference....

Its truly a sad day when someone who made the nation laugh for many decades has...

Its truly a sad day when someone who made the nation laugh for many decades has passed on. Goodbye Rodolfo Vera Quizon of RVQ Films, the endorser of a pain reliever called "Dolfenal" because it is his screen name we all remember. Farewell "Dolphy" or in recent times "Pidol" (1928-2012)


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National Artist Arturo Luz narrates that when he was Director of the Design Cent...

National Artist Arturo Luz narrates that when he was Director of the Design Center he noticed the sculptural possibilities of paper clips twisted out of boredom or stress. These gave rise to the black metal sculptures of the 1970s he jokingly calls the "Spaghetti series." These small prototypes gave rise to giant ones now poised outside the Ayala Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.


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This anting-anting shirt was allegedly used by Macario Sakay. Magic shirts like...

This anting-anting shirt was allegedly used by Macario Sakay. Magic shirts like these were used by many Filipinos during the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino-American War who believed it made them bullet-proof, bayonet-proof, and cannon ball-proof.


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My column today on my earliest memory of books.http://opinion.inquirer.net/3204...

My column today on my earliest memory of books.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/32045/books-and-libraries


Books and libraries
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What is your first memory of a book? That was a simple question that unfortunately had more than one simple answer. Racing through the many rooms in my mind, I found not one but many childhood memories of books.

Hilaria del Rosario, shown on horseback during the Filipino-American War was Emi...

Hilaria del Rosario, shown on horseback during the Filipino-American War was Emilio Aguinaldo's first wife hence the Philippines first First Lady who established the precursor of today's Red Cross. She died in 1921. Aguinaldo then took a second wife, Maria Agoncillo.


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Sorry for the late posting. My column today on one teacher who changed my life:...

Sorry for the late posting. My column today on one teacher who changed my life: Doreen G. Fernandez.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/31913/remembering-doreen


Remembering Doreen
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Doreen G. Fernandez passed on a decade ago in New York, on a day you could be doused with water in San Juan, on a day that celebrates the founding of Spanish Ma

SM Doña Sofia, Queen of Spain will be on her third visit to Filipinas. The three...

SM Doña Sofia, Queen of Spain will be on her third visit to Filipinas. The three times I had the pleasure of meeting her were in Spain, this was taken in Cadiz last March. The place she remembers with fondness was the "Mercado de Perlas." Surprised, I asked her where this was and she replied with a smile "en Greenhills!"

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These calling cards give us the three addresses of Rizal's Hong Kong clinic as w...

These calling cards give us the three addresses of Rizal's Hong Kong clinic as well as his consultation hours. He brought these to his exile in Dapitan and wrote simple words on the back turning them into "flash cards" to teach his students English.

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