[1] For the Philippines‚ the seventies was more than just a period of shaggy hair‚ bell-bottom jeans‚ platform shoes‚ and disco music. It represented the rise of the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos‚ a U.S.-sponsored regime characterized by military repression and wholesale human rights violations. Conversely‚ it was also the fecund period for the sociopolitical awakening and involvement of many Filipinos; the humus for the renowned religious-political event‚ the 1986 EDSA People
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February 25‚ 1986 marked significant national event that has engraved in the hearts and minds of every Filipino. This revolution was widely seen as a victory of the people against the 20 year running authoritarian‚ repressive regime of then President Ferdinand Marcos and made news headlines as “the revolution that surprised the world.” Benigno Aquino’s widow Cory‚ ran against Marcos. The election was marked by widespread fraud‚ with Marcos’s thugs beating up election workers and scrambling voter roles
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Portugal in disgrace and every expedition that he joined was withheld by the king. Magellan has no choice‚ with high confidence and the desire to go around the world and discover a new world‚ Magellan offers his skills to the king of Spain. Ferdinand Magellan studied all of the most recent navigation charts. He learned a lot from from the mistakes and discoveries of several other explorers; Christopher Columbus’s who discovered North America and Vasco Núñez de Balboa’s march across the Panamanian
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In 1963‚ the British illegally transferred Sabah to newly formed Federation of Malaysia. Upon the illegal inclusion of Sabah into Malaysian Federation‚ President Diosdado Macapagal broke diplomatic relation with Malaysia. In 1967‚ President Ferdinand Marcos initiated "Operation Merdeke" involving the training of commandos in Corrigidor. Their task is to infiltrate Sabah. Ninoy Aquino‚ a Filibuster in the Philippine Senate‚ exposes the secret operation. Because of the expose "Operation Merdeke"
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Full Name: Benigno Simeon Aquino‚ Jr.. Nickname: Ninoy Pen Name/s: Ninoy Aquino Date of Birth: November 27‚ 1932 Place of Birth: Conception Tarlac‚ Philippines Name of Parents: Benigno Aquino‚ Sr. (father) Aurora Aquino (mother) Childhood Life: At an early age‚ Ninoy exposed himself to current events by becoming a journalist. During the Korean War in the 1950s‚ Ninoy - at the age of 17 only - went to Korea to cover the war as a reporter for Manila Times. Schools Attended: St. Joseph’s College
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planet. This spread European ideals to other countries and this was the beginning of European type civilizations in America. Although there were many explorers in the Age of Discovery‚ the three most important explorers were Christopher Columbus‚ Ferdinand Magellan and Bartholomeu Dias. Christopher Columbus was one of the most important explorers in the Age of Discovery. He was born in Italy and he made many voyages all around the world as a young man. Columbus had a goal which was to sail to India
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A POPULAR DEVOTION TO STO.NIÑO I. INTRODUCTION o HISTORICAL BACKGROUND On April 28‚ 1565‚ Juan Camus‚ a sailor in the fleet of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi‚ found in a modest house of the then village of Cebu the image of the Santo Niño‚ which at the time all agreed had been brought from Europe. Deeply impressed by this finding and aware of its significance‚ Legaspi ordered an official inquiry conducted; the document drawn on May 16 of the same year and still extant in the archives of the Santo Nino
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Greatest Contribution of The third Republic of the Philippine Presidents Manuel A. Roxas First presidentf the Republic of the Philippines. A lawyer‚ he began his political career in 1917. An advocate for Philippine independence from the U.S.‚ he was a member of the convention that drew up a constitution under the revised Philippine Independence and Commonwealth Act (Tydings-McDuffie Act; 1934). He collaborated with the pro-Japanese administration during World War II but was defended in postwar
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LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES UNIVERSITY A.Y. 2011-2012 Submitted by: Paulo B. Penano AC103 Submitted to: Professor Vladimir Tolentino The History and Evolution of the Philippine Constitution * The 1897 Constitution of Biak-na-Bato‚ or Constituciong Halal sa Biak-na-Bato‚ promulgated by the Philippine Revolutionary Government on November 1‚ 1897‚ is the provisionary Constitution of the Philippine Republic during the Revolutionagainst Spain. It provides that the Supreme Council‚ vested
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Over the Edge of the World In 1519 Magellan and his fleet set sail from Seville‚ Spain‚ to find a water route to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. Magellan was Portuguese by birth. He first asked the King of Portugal to fund an exploration to the Spice Islands by sailing west‚ but since Portugal had already found a route to the east the king denied Magellan. However Charles I of Spain funded Magellan because Spain had not found a route to the Spice Islands as yet. Charles I gave Magellan five ships
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