Surprising Facts About Ferdinand Magellan and His Voyage to the Philippines
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Bet it never occurred to you that Lapu-lapu’s real name was most likely Pula-pula.
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How Filipinos Got Their Surnames
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Had Spanish Governor General Narciso Claveria never bothered with systematizing tribute collection, Filipinos would have very interesting surnames today.
Read More‘The Month of December, 1872’ Dr. José Rizal’s Rough Draft
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A very young Jose Rizal was already adept at writing subversive satire.
Read MoreWhat If Magellan Had Survived Mactan?
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Filipinos would’ve been called Magallanes instead, and other likelihoods.
Read MoreMagellan’s Interpreter, Enrique, Was the First to Circumnavigate the World
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Why Enrique, the Malay slave, was the first human to go around the world.
Read MoreThe Holy Child Was Born, Now Let’s Eat
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Christmas Eve is the most scrumptious time of the year.
Read MoreGemelli Carreri, An Italian in Manila, 1696
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A 17th century traveler visits Manila and records his observations in a bestseller.
Read MoreRizal's "Kiss"
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So, who really wrote this satire on the difficulty of kissing a Filipino woman – Rizal or Antonio Luna?
Read MoreCircumcision: Writhe of Passage
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A rite of passage that generations of Filipino men had to endure
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