Trivia about the National Museum of the Philippines
The National Museum of the Philippines is a government institution under the Office of the President mandated by law as the country's caretaker and repository of its cultural heritage.
The National Museum of the Philippines is a government institution under the Office of the President mandated by law as the country's caretaker and repository of its cultural heritage.
Written in 1590, a manuscript which became known as the Boxer Codex provides present-day Filipinos a detailed description of the way of life of the inhabitants of the Philippines during the first century of the Spanish contact in the Philippines. The manuscript came into the hands of Charles R. Boxer. an American scholar and an expert on orients history and Colonial Asia. The papers are now in the Lyle Collection in Indiana, USA.
The removal of the seal of the Office of the President from the face of the stamps was done to give space for a much bigger image since the size of the definitive stamps are smaller. The printing of the 68M was to augment the dwindling supply of P5.00 denomination in post offices nationwide.
CORAZON C. AQUINO – She is the first woman President of the Philippines. She stepped into the presidency via the “People Power” a strong force of courageous and self-sacrificing people behind a noble cause which is a change to a genuine democracy which united the Philippines as a nation.
In the early morning of September 13, 1900, Captain Devereaux Shields led 51 soldiers of Company F,Twenty-ninth U.S. Infantry in reconnoitering the mountains near Torrijos town, Marinduque. After three hours of hiking, the company’s vanguard stumbles upon a revolutionary camp and fires at it. Too late, they realize that they are almost completely encircled by guerillas hiding 300 yards to the north.
Cagayan de Misamis, now known as Cagayan de Oro City, was the Capital town of the Segundo Distritc de Misamis in northern Mindanao at the close of the Spanish regime in the Philippines. In December 1898, just after Spain signed the Treaty of Paris with the United States, Misamis organized its first Filipino local government which President Emilio Aguinaldo sanctioned.
On February 4,1999 the whole nation commemorate the centennial of the Outbreak of the Philippine-America which signals the start of any other major battle beet win the Filipino revolutionists and the American forces.One of those major battle fought by the Filipino Freedom fighters under the leadership of General Emillion Aguinaldo included the battle of Paye which took place in a sitio of Barangay,Balimbing,Boac Marinduque.
In response to a war challenge earlier called by a Filipino revolutionary general, Juan Cailles, Colonel Cheatham of the U.S. forces based in Sta. Cruz, Laguna ordered a company each of the 37th and 15th Infantry Regiments to attack the revolutionary camp at Mabitac, Laguna. Commanded by Captain David Mitchell of the 15th Infantry, the group was ordered to attack from two sides: east of the river and west over the water.
MANUEL A. ROXAS – He was born in Capiz on January 1, 1892. In 1913, he finished his law degree and passed the bar examination in the same year with highest honor. He became a municipal councilor, provincial governor, member of the lower house of the Philippine legislature and Speaker of the House for eleven years. During the Japanese occupation, he secretly helped the resistance movement. After liberation, he founded the Liberal Party. He became the President of the Philippines on July 4, 1946. After 29 years in public service, he died on April 15, 1948.
Philippine relations with Thailand are among the oldest and most fruitful in Philippine history. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties on 14 June 1949, relations between the two countries have been characterized by cordiality, harmony, and dynamism |
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