Emperor to honor war dead
Every now and then, in a narrow alley named Yamashita in Los Baños town, children would cry out, “may mga Hapon!” (the Japanese are here!)
Every now and then, in a narrow alley named Yamashita in Los Baños town, children would cry out, “may mga Hapon!” (the Japanese are here!)
For more than a century now, Filipinos have been told of the life of Jose Rizal, especially his last 24 hours, his execution and his last poem, “Mi Ultimo Adios.”
A slender woman rose from the audience and did an impromptu flamenco, twirling about and whirling her mantilla, as Russian bass-baritone Nikolai Massenkoff sang the Gypsy ballad “Ochi Chyornye.”
IF YOU’RE familiar with Manuel L. Quezon in his official photographs, wait till you see him in his youth, particularly those images younger than that on the P20 bill.
He may have given “the shortest inaugural address,” but through an ongoing exhibit to commemorate his 125th birthday on Nov. 16, the family of President Elpidio Quirino wants today’s generation to have a memory of the postwar leader.
‘I realized this was not an easy character. If I were to make him a mere mad dog, binabastos ko ang kasaysayan at babastusin ko ang Pilipino’
Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin pulls out his smartphone and turns on an app that details the number of days left before he leaves the Department of National Defense.
Your mantra for the week: “The gift of love is the best gift in the world.”
The ongoing exhibit of Philippine precolonial gold at Asia Society New York received a glowing review in the Sept. 24 issue of The New York Times. Writer Ken Johnson describes
Auggie Cordero can laugh about it now, but he still remembers the numbing, disquieting feeling when the realization finally dawned 29 years ago: No one was going to knock on his door anymore. Not today, never mind tomorrow.
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