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Mixing the 19th and 20thCenturires in the National Museum of Western Art Tokyo. Auguste Rodin sculpture and n a jewel box of a b...

Mixing the 19th and 20thCenturires in the National Museum of Western Art Tokyo. Auguste Rodin sculpture and n a jewel box of a building designed by Le Corbusier.



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Souvenirs from yesterday’s sold out Eras Lecture @Ayala Museum. See you next Saturday October 21 for a lecture on Juan Luna.

Souvenirs from yesterday’s sold out Eras Lecture @Ayala Museum. See you next Saturday October 21 for a lecture on Juan Luna.



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If you think history is boring, you had a bad teacher.If you think history is about memorizing facts, you do not realize how su...

If you think history is boring, you had a bad teacher.
If you think history is about memorizing facts, you do not realize how subversive history can be.
Thanks to the Rizal Library for their patience with my extended closing remarks at their library congress this morning.


ATM: Ambeth Ocampo, Historian from the Ateneo de Manila University gave the closing remarks on the last day of the Rizal Library International Conference.

“Librarians are guardians and propagators of truth.”

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My column today on Binondo as oldest Chinatown in the world, and 16 pages of references to historical documents on the Chinese i...

My column today on Binondo as oldest Chinatown in the world, and 16 pages of references to historical documents on the Chinese in the Philippines in the 55 volume "Philippine Islands" compiled by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson.
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Sorry for the late posting.What it was like to collect Filipiniana when I was in college.https://opinion.inquirer.net/files/20...

Sorry for the late posting.
What it was like to collect Filipiniana when I was in college.
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LEGAL ISSUE ON MARRIAGE. Reading an article from the August 1934 Graphic magazine regarding the "Yangco Twins" Lucio and Si...

LEGAL ISSUE ON MARRIAGE.
Reading an article from the August 1934 Graphic magazine regarding the "Yangco Twins" Lucio and Simplicio Godino and their wives the Motos Sisters. The legal issue was whether they should apply for one or two marriage licenses. The moral issue was whether the conjoined brothers could marry sisters. They got married in the end and at the time of the magazine feature were in the U.S. performing music in vaudeville shows.
Rescued from a Coney Island freak show by...

It literally takes a village to be me. To do the things I do. Sorry for the late posting of the annual tribute to teachers and m...

It literally takes a village to be me. To do the things I do. Sorry for the late posting of the annual tribute to teachers and mentors who made me and this column possible.
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ONE TIRING BUT HAPPY DAY. Was surprised at the turnout for the joint BookSigning this morning at the Center for Kapampangan...

ONE TIRING BUT HAPPY DAY.
Was surprised at the turnout for the joint BookSigning this morning at the Center for Kapampangan Studies, Holy Angel University for my latest book "Cabinet of Curiosities" and Ian Alfonso's "Dogs in Philippine History." (Left photo grabbed from Robby Tangtingco)
The biggest surprises though were (RIGHT) the gift of a replica (by Arnel Garcia) of the Laguna Copper Plate a National Cultural Treasure preserved in the National Museum and a set of notecards of artw...

BONIFACIO AND JACINTO DOCUMENTS IN SPAIN. For many many years primary source documents on the Philippine Revolution lay in ...

BONIFACIO AND JACINTO DOCUMENTS IN SPAIN.

For many many years primary source documents on the Philippine Revolution lay in the Spanish Military Archives largely unused because these were written in Tagalog. To complicate things further texts were also in Katipunan code.

From the conclusion of a document dated March 8, 1896 we can see two coded signatures: on the Left "Pinkian" the pseudonym of Emilio Jacinto, while the signature on the right, in blue, reads "Maypagasa" the KKK name of...

Reading Historical Documents. The Philippines as we all know got its name from Felipe, Principe de Asturias, who later beca...

Reading Historical Documents.
The Philippines as we all know got its name from Felipe, Principe de Asturias, who later became Philip II of Spain. Our post today provides a face to the name from a portrait in the Museo del Prado in Madrid (Right).
When I was in college I came across, Cedulario de Manila, a publication from the Philippine National Archives that was a reprint of Spanish laws for the far-flung colony. From this book I learned that many formal edicts opened with the name o...