Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 24

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 Pickert told me about a box of memorabilia in her home that contains: an unpublished letter of Rizal to Blumentritt as well as two sketches of Loleng made during Juan Luna's visit to Litomerice in the spring of 1899.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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Don’t you think the title of my Inquirer column today should be “Lutong Macao?”

Don’t you think the title of my Inquirer column today should be “Lutong Macao?”



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My Inquirer column today fell on Chinese New Year.
So aside from wearing yellow and feeding the Lion a red angpao after a hearty Chinese lunch, I share primary sources in English on the Chinese (and the Tsinoys) during the Spanish period, 1565-1898.
In case you can't read the screenshot here is the link:
https://opinion.inquirer.net/180406/r...





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Xiao kou chang kai!

Xiao kou chang kai!
[May you smile/laugh openly and often in 2025!]



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PANSIT VENDOR, 1847

PANSIT VENDOR, 1847
“Chino Pansitero” is one of the delightful watercolors depicting everyday life in the Philippines circa 1847 by Jose Honorato Lozano. It is part of the album “Vistas de Filipinas” preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional de España. According to the text that comes with the illustration there are two types of pansiteros or pansit vendors: those that have a physical stall where people eat or buy take-away and ambulant pansiteros or “chanchauleros” who go where the customers are.
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