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Ambeth Ocampo steps into podcasting | Ambeth Revealed with Lance Cham

Thanks to Lance Cham, who interviewed me years ago on his Project Offbeat podcast, and believes a historian's life is worth talking about.
Please like my YT channel and check out the other old videos buried there. Will be doing new content soon. The show is also in Spotify titled "Ambeth Revealed"


"Perhaps more students may be inspired to take a history class, or become a historian, after listening to my life.” - Ambeth OcampoWelcome to the pilot episo...

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Mark your calendars: HISTORY MONTH

Mark your calendars: HISTORY MONTH.
Will be at these events:

1.Meet-Greet-Booksigning.
@ histoEX: History to Experience
Sunday August 3, 3-5pm Quantum Skyview, Gateway Mall2, Araneta Center. Sponsored by NHCP.
Free and open to the pubic.

2. Talk-Meet-Greet-Booksigning.
"Zooming in History: God is in the Details"
Friday August 8, 3-5 pm. GSIS Museum, Pasay City.
Free and open to the public.

3. Talk-Meet-Greet-Booksigning.
Roderick Hall Memorial Lecture, Filipinas Heritage Library
Saturday Au...

We can colorize better than this

We can colorize better than this.
All photos of Rizal’s are in black-and-white this one from the early 20th century added too much rouge.



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My Inquirer column is about floods and what disasters can tell us about how we cope with history.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/184907/f...





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Next time I am in airport Duty Free I will look for this 19thC whiskey brand

Next time I am in airport Duty Free I will look for this 19thC whiskey brand.
On 22 February 1892 Jose Rizal wrote to his cousin, Sixto Lopez, apologizing that he could not find the JOHN POWER AND SONS whiskey he ordered. He didn't dare to find a replacement, and asked Sixto to write him again for another brand.
I wonder if Rizal liked whiskey. I only take Suntory Yamazaki but am curious to try this brand referred to in Rizal's correspondence.



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SCAM ALERT

SCAM ALERT.
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My real account [Bottom] has more than one follower, and is an FB VERIFIED account marked by a Blue Check,



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My Inquirer column today is on how Pagasa named our typhoons. Would you believe one is called "Zigzag"?
https://opinion.inquirer.net/184846/a...





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Thanks to Felice Prudente Sta

Thanks to Felice Prudente Sta. Maria's profile pic, I was able to identify this random photo in my food files as the practice kitchen in the Philippine Normal School, circa 1910, In this kitchen dominated by a huge exhaust future teachers of, what we know today as, Home Economics learned cooking and how to manage a home.
We who live in the age of convection and microwave ovens will find the earthenware palayok and kalan quaint. I can't cook with an electric or convection top and prefer the...

CAN YOU READ THESE UNIQUE SIGNATURES?

CAN YOU READ THESE UNIQUE SIGNATURES?

Many of my students cannot read cursive, almost all of them cannot write in cursive. To give them a sense of my work I ask them to transcribe 19th century manuscripts in Tagalog. When they say the task is difficult, I reply you have not even tried reading documents from the 17th and 18th centuries!

The most complicated 21st century signature [Inset Lower Left] I know was from the late Ludovico D. Badoy, who was Executive Director when I was Chair of t...

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Solidaridad bookshop@60.

One evening I asked National Artist F. Sionil Jose what it was like to grow old,. To get a feel of it and retirement I asked if I could try on his wheelchair.

Frankie Jose was the light and life of Solidaridad Bookstore, that celebrates its 60th anniversary today. It rose to become the cultural heart of Ermita. I owe a lot to Frankie and Tessie, the bookshop, and the kindred spirits who gathered there. It was a place where I felt that my person and my work was...