Europe:Andorra (spoken by 99% of the population, although Catalan is official), 86,000 people Asia:Philippines, although it was official for 300 years and ruled from Mexico as part of the Spanish Empire, only some 689,000 people speak it nowadays (0,5% of the population) Middle East:Isra...
We went to the Philippines to explore more. Obviously, the Philippines was colonized by the Spanish about 10 years before Ireland was colonized by the British. They introducedChristianity, and they kind of wiped out these powerful healing women called the Babylon. When we went to the Philippines...
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded William McKinley as president in 1901, he was aware that America was in a different international position than it had been just a few years earlier. The United States had been a continental empire since its founding, but as a result of the Spanish-American ...
Until now‚ “manana” habit is still common among us Filipinos and it affects us in both positive and negative ways. How did this manana habit get into the Philippines? This habit that is most common to us Filipinos came from the Spaniards who colonized our country many years ago (Maxx...
History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400 years and then by the United States of America for the next 50 years. It proclaimed its independence from Spain on 12 June 1898. As an American ally, it was occupied for four years by the Japanese Imperial Army ...
The virus hit 26 countries and only eight Americans tested positive for SARS, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The United States and many other nations were not prepared 15 years later when a new coronavirus emerged, much more threatening to lives and well-being....
security interests in the Pacific area, Secretary of State Acheson spoke of a “defensive perimeter” that ran along the Aleutians to Japan and the Ryukyu Islands and then to the Philippines. He described these islands as “essential parts” of the Pacific area that “must and will be held....
but Toshiba also outsources its production to companies in the Philippines and China, and those manufacturers may outsource the production of some of their components to still other manufacturers. Ultimately all of these parts come to China for assembly. The assembly itself costs $4. Everybody alon...
History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400 years and then by the United States of America for the next 50 years. It proclaimed its independence from Spain on 12 June 1898. As an American ally, it was occupied for four years by the Japanese Imperial Army ...