platoon in the Philippines. Mailer’s decision to use a range of characters instead of a single hero was inspired by Leo Tolstoy; Mailer used to read parts of Anna Karenina every morning, before he worked on his own writing. Perhaps as a result, he felt that The Naked and the Dead was...
by Julian Felipe in spanish, The lone surviving revolutionary member of the “13 Martyrs of Cavite”, whose life was spared from the firing squad because of illness. Originally written as incidental music, it did not have words when it was adopted as the National Anthem of the Philippines. ...
TREASURE ISLAND ; Few Had Heard of the Abu Sayyaf Terrorist Group until Easter Sunday Last Year, When Gunmen in the Philippines Seized a Group of Foreign Tourists, Earning Themselves Global Headlines - and a Staggering $25M in Ransom Mon... Sometimes, the story of a rather mundane family ca...
Filipino-American historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, writer Gayle Romasanta, and illustrator Andre Sibayan tell the story of the labor leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers Larry Itliong and his lifelong fight for ...
Panasonic Donates 3,900 Solar Lanterns to 14 Humanitarian & Non-Governmental Organizations in the Philippines Feb 15, 2017 Products & Solutions Feature Story Dallas Cowboys Score with Sports-Entertainment District Feb 02, 2017 Products & Solutions Feature Story A Large Delivery of Laser Projector...
What are you supposed to do with the Child of Prague on your wedding day? We answer this question about the strange Irish tradition!
Watch the videos below and learn more about technology-powered innovation and the Ashoka + Kind City changemakers atwww.kindcity.com. Marine Conservation and Protecting Sea Turtles in the Philippines Jessica Labaja, co-founder and executive director of the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute ...
Today, Lenovo and Ashoka, the global network of social entrepreneurs, announced a partnership to identify and empower four local networks of changemakers. Lenovo donated $100K USD to Ashoka to accelerate innovation and support initiatives based in Guadalajara, Mexico; Puerto Princesa, ...
8. While terrorist “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was hiding out in the Philippines, he kept a low profile byrenting a freaking helicopterand making fly-overs of the building where the “cultural dancers” he wanted to date worked. They were impressed enough to allow him to take them ...
Look up the past history of smallpox vaccine + Philippines. It triggered many epidemics of smallpox and other diseases and conditions. WHO field workers admitted in interviews for a book that the only thing that actually worked was the ancient practice of quarantine, and that "the real story ...