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Filipino monkeys are the smartest in the world. They can read! Saw this during a recent stroll in San Nicolas and Binondo.

Filipino monkeys are the smartest in the world. They can read! Saw this during a recent stroll in San Nicolas and Binondo.



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My Inquirer column today refers to the last will of Frs. Burgos and Gomes. The Burgos will is doubtful, but that of Gomes is interesting because he acknowledged a natural son, who people thought was a nephew.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/169661/h...





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Thanks to the Lucas Family of Malabon, I am able to hear mass at San Agustin on January 1, the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God, ...

Thanks to the Lucas Family of Malabon, I am able to hear mass at San Agustin on January 1, the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God, formerly the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord in the old Catholic calendar.
January is named after Janus, the ancient Roman God of doorways, time, the rising of the sun and and its setting, new beginnings, etc. I was reminded of the image of Janus, that is one head with two faces looking in opposite directions as I stood by the ancient doors of San Agustin Chu...

Rizal Monument Series 4. People of a certain age will remember this aluminum pylon (Upper Left) that marked the boundary be...

Rizal Monument Series 4.
People of a certain age will remember this aluminum pylon (Upper Left) that marked the boundary between Parañaque and Pasay. It used to be located on the middle of Roxas Boulevard where a footbridge now stands near Max Baclaran, but removed when the present flyover was built and nobody knows where it went.
This pylon was once installed over the Rizal Monument (Right) but was removed due to negative public opinion. The pylon was part of an over-all plan by Natio...

Looking forward to everything 2024 will bring! Happy New Year!

Looking forward to everything 2024 will bring! Happy New Year!



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Rizal Monument Series 3.Alfonso T. Ongpin's photo-documentation of the entries to the Rizal Monument Competition includes a ser...

Rizal Monument Series 3.
Alfonso T. Ongpin's photo-documentation of the entries to the Rizal Monument Competition includes a series of photographs of the bronze figures of the Rizal monument still in the studio of the sculptor Richard Kissling. The bronze figures were cast in a foundry in Paris, while the base and obelisk were made from granite sourced in Switzerland.
Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo travelled to Switzerland from Paris to check on the progress of the monument and he sent to Manil...

Rizal Monument Series 2. Photos of some of the entries to the International Rizal Monument Competition (1905-1907) from the...

Rizal Monument Series 2.
Photos of some of the entries to the International Rizal Monument Competition (1905-1907) from the album of Alfonso T. Ongpin. First Prize went to the entry (Top Right) "To the Martyr of Bagumbayan" by Italian Carlo Nicoli, but for some reason the commission eventually went to the SECOND Prize winner (Top Left) "Motto Stella" or "Guiding Star" by Swiss Richard Kissling.
Would you prefer any of the other entries that, in my opinion, work more for wedding cakes tha...

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My Inquirer column today goes back to Edmund Plauchut [Second photo] a Frenchman who lived in Manila and constructed his account of Gomburza from eyewitnesses.
Like many historians I first read "La Algarada Caviteña de 1872" by Edmondo Plauchut (1916) [Left of Portrait] that has Plauchut's retelling of Gomburza translated from the original French from the third installment of "L'archipel des Philippines" in Revue des Deux Mondes (1877) [Right of Portrait] into Spanish as reproduced in La S...

Rizal Monument Series 1. Two views of the Marble Hall, Ayuntamiento de Manila in 1907 photographed by Alfonso T. Ongpin sho...

Rizal Monument Series 1.
Two views of the Marble Hall, Ayuntamiento de Manila in 1907 photographed by Alfonso T. Ongpin showing the different models and drawings submitted for the Rizal Monument Contest. Some entries were disqualified because they did not meet the deadline, others for not meeting specifications, shortlisting to about 40 entries evaluated by a jury.
At the end of the hall in the Top Photo you can see Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo's painting "Per Pacem et Libertatem" destr...

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Reel vs Real.
Compare Cedrick Juan (Center of the colored Gomburza Movie poster) with the three black and white images of the real Fr. Burgos. A film is about storytelling, it is not a doctoral dissertation. Watch the film and be moved to action, history remains relevant to us today because things don't have to be the way they are.
My Inquirer column is a review of Gomburza:
https://opinion.inquirer.net/169365/g...







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