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More journos visiting: TeleRadyo Serbisyo Journalists Christian Yosores and Pamela Vasquez dropped by last May 3 to see the exhibit, Letizia: A Life in[READ]
Industrial design students explore the archives of Letizia Roxas Constantino
A group of senior students taking up industrial design recently visited the exhibit, all the way from their Diliman campus. They were surrounded above[READ]
Honoring the Power of Words: KC Constantino-Torres and Kara David pay tribute to their lola in ‘Her Life in Letters,’ as featured by spot.ph
Honoring the Power of Words: KC Constantino-Torres and Kara David pay tribute to their lola in 'Her Life in Letters,' as featured by spot.ph[READ]
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Long trial on massacre of PH’s foremost botanist, colleagues nearing promulgation – Kodao.org
The decade-and-a-half trial on the massacre of the country’s most famed botanist and his colleagues 15 years ago today is due for promulgation, his family announced.
On the 15th death anniversary commemoration and announcement of his rescued photos and files, botanist Leonard Co’s widow Glenda said both prosecution and defense have finished their presentations.
The parties are awaiting the Kananga Municipal Trial Court’s announcement of the date of promulgation, she said.
Nine soldiers[READ]
Pasts Revisited
Love Revisited
On this day in 1943, Renato and Letizia became one. Today, we celebrate the love that paved the way for all of our other loves to flourish: love for family, love for country, love for our people. (Isabel Allende was one of Letizia’s favorite novelists.) #aPastRevisited #LoveRevisited #LoveAlways (21 Nov. 2024)
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On June 15, designated as World Wind Day, another history tour on bicycles will pedal around 15 kilometers of slow storytelling around key parts of Manila. One of its stops: Rodel’s Pasalubong Place in Don Quixote St. for refreshments, snacks, and a bit of talk about food, climate, and history. [...]
Cycling through the fabled history of an opera house, now a hotel
ON the corner of Rizal Avenue and Doroteo Jose stands the Manila Grand Opera Hotel, a fabulist if the establishment were a person.This is about the history of a place that has gone through many costume changes, a story bursting with intersectionality, with a past so implausible it should be celebrated annually by poets and climate activists alike. [...]
Heritage bicycle ride visits site of first PH power plant, goes inside Old Bilibid
Fair climate policy advocates joined forces again with history buffs as they pedaled in celebration of largely unheralded landmarks in Manila. Dubbed #SintangLakbay in commemoration of the 120th founding anniversary of the country’s premier Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), [...]
PUP unveils mural hailing Filipino ‘science revolutionaries’
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) unveiled on Monday a gigantic campus mural, showing Filipino scientists Leonard Co, Maria Y. Orosa, and Eduardo Quisumbing for their contributions in the country's scientific reputation. The mural, titled "Mga Rebolusyonaryo," gave the three figures with their own descriptive, naming Co as "Bayani Ko," Orosa as "Tagapagligtas," and Quisumbing as "Muhon ng Bayan." [...]
