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Photojournalism of Jose Rizal's Controversial Life

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 05:10

THESE PICTURES, sketches, and other images are in one way or another historically relevant to the very celebrated and mysterious, if not mythic, biography of Dr. Jose Rizal.

          Many of these images are rare, legendary, classic, and even controversial, but were nonetheless verified by authorities to be pertinent to the life of the Philippine national hero.
          Everybody is invited to provide captions for these historical images. The BEST SUGGESTED CAPTION for each image will be written below or beside the picture, together with the NAME of the ONE WHO SUBMITTED THE CAPTION ...
 

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60 Legendary Pictures and Images in Philippine History

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 00:19

THE FOLLOWING ARE numerous pictures of Filipino heroes, former presidents, prominent persons in the Philippines in the past, and historically significant images. Rare and controversial as they are, many of these pictures could already be deemed as legendary and classic in Philippine history.

          Everybody is invited to provide captions for these historical images. The BEST SUGGESTED CAPTION for each image will be written below or beside the picture, together with the NAME of the ONE WHO SUBMITTED THE CAPTION ...
 

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15 interesting information about Stamp Collection

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 10:24
Dianne de Guzman Perlas, the contributor, likes Sarah Geronimo. (You, too, can have your articles published here. Send them through e-mail to OurHappySchool@yahoo.com)
 
1. Stamp Collecting is widely known as “The king of Hobbies and the Hobby of Kings”, even though Kings and Maharajas have now become a historical object.  The last three kings of England were keen collectors as is the present Queen.
 
2. The world's largest post office is the head post office in Chicago, Illinois.
 
3. The smallest post office in the world is located in Ochopee, Florida ...
 

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The PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY

Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 05:13
 
WHENEVER THE MONTH OF JUNE comes, we Filipinos celebrate the Philippine Independence Day. Amid the events surrounding this memorable occasion, have we asked ourselves what really is the so-called Philippine Independence?
 

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Losing one's nose for mathematics

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 02:41

Allan S. Galang, the contributor, is taking up BS Education Major in Mathematics at the University of the East, Manila, Philippines.(You, too, can have your articles published here. Send them through e-mail to OurHappySchool@yahoo.com)

TYCHO BRAHE, THE DANISH ASTRONOMER who made comprehensive astronomical measurements of the solar system and whose data were used by his assistant, Johannes Kepler, to formulate his (Kepler) laws of planetary motion, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation.

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Campus Romance: Rizal's ladies in La Concordia (II)

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 04:14

© 2013 by Jensen DG. Mañebog

IT WAS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE that Rizal’s romance with Segunda Katigbak did not prosper. For if it did, then there would have been no “Leonor Rivera &  Jose Rizal’s” love story, and Noli and El Fili would have had a different or no Maria Clara at all.

Leonor was a “tender as a budding flower with kindly, wistful eyes” colegiala at the La Concordia College when she became secretly involved romantically with her distant relative Rizal ...

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