December 2011
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Looking towards the future with Hope
(with acapella Auld Lang Syne playing in the background) :) IndioHistorian’s Log, Supplemental: I know that title sounds cliche-ish at this moment. Perhaps stranger even is the fact that a historian, a Filipino historian at that makes that statement. We historians are somewhat of a pessimist. We love popping some overblown balloons of exaggerations coming from extreme nationalists who love...
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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veronica-vaughn asked: i really love your tumblr and i just spent a few hours going through all 18 pages haha. i was wondering if you could recommend even more tumblrs that are similar?
Dec 29th
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camemiman asked: katulad po ng ginto ang blog ninyo! ayus na ayus!
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Diario de Filipinas: EXCLUSIVE: Colonial... →
If blogging entered the late 19th century Philippines, you’d probably encounter this. Imagine steampunk-ized internet. History unfolds once again as we end the year 2011, the 150th birth anniversary of Jose Rizal. There is also a last-days-of-Rizal trending on twitter. In a snap, we have been part of history once again.  diariodefilipinas: Fort Santiago, Manila - where Dr. Jose Rizal is...
Dec 28th
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Dec 26th
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“…I should like to see a Christmas celebration with a Christmas tree, but...”
– Jose Rizal to his Austrian friend Ferdinand Blumentritt, letter written at Berlin on December 24th, 1886 A die-hard scholar’s simple joys :) Merry Christmas guys!
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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'Sendong' disaster foretold 3 years ago →
The tragedy that struck the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan was an event waiting to happen. It was foretold three years ago, but was dismissed by lawmakers as “too alarmist.” Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines (WWF), said Monday the events in Northern Mindanao over the weekend mirrored the prediction. “It was an exact fit,” Tan said.
Dec 20th
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“I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many years, I will...”
– William Tyndale, (1494-1536) produced the first English translation of the Bible. It is said that 83% of the King James Version was from his version. He was strangled to death and burned at the stake for the charge of “heresy”. Celebrating the 400 year influence of the King James Bible...
Dec 17th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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“Seek the truth Listen to the truth Teach the truth Love the truth Abide by...”
– John Huss (via drquote)
Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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“By three o’clock, the Japs had become desperate, and were killing every...”
– Gilda Cordero-Fernando, from A Wilderness of Sweets (a short story of the tragedy of the Liberation of Manila in 1945). I was close to tears when the author was reading this at the Philippine PEN Congress yesterday.
Dec 1st
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