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My Inquirer column today on history in textiles,


History and design in Death Blankets | Inquirer Opinion
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At the recent Filipino-American Book fair in San Francisco there were many stalls in the street between the Asian Art Museum and the SFO Public Library that carried more than books. There were stalls with: patriotic t-shirts, caps with baybayin, Kapampangan food, Virgin coconut oil, Pinoy films on ...

Some motorists like me confuse Tandang Sora with Commonwealth the notorious "killer highway" in Quezon City. Melchora Aquino de Ramos (1812-1919) aka Tandang Sora supported the Katipunan during the Philippine Revolution. She was born on January 6 Feast of the Three Kings and her parents had a choice between Melchor, Gaspar or Baltazar. Next year will be her 200th birth anniversary.

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To motorists Tandang Sora is a notorious "killer highway" in Quezon City named after Melchora Aquino de Ramos (1812-1919) who supported the Katipunan during the Philippine Revolution. She was born on January 6 Feast of the Three Kings and her parents had a choice between Melchor, Gaspar, and Baltazar. Next year will be her 200th birth anniversary.

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To see is to believe. This "waxing" lady does home service in my aunt's house in Pampanga during our family reunions where cousins, nephews and nieces line up to have unwanted hair waxed off. They told me to have my hairy arms treated by Wilma Cruz "the Bulbulizer" whose celebrity clients include Ruffa Gutierrez.


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This blogger went to the bookfair and bought three books all from Anvil. Two of the three books were mine. Thanks!

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In My Mailbox (18): History, Mythology and Adventure
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I've been away from Gathering Books for a few months now. So much is going on in the real world that blogging had to take a few steps back, but I think Myra and Fats do a great job in holding the f...

Malacanang Museum has many interesting historical items, some so small you will miss them like this thimble that was supposedly used by Marcela Agoncillo as she led a group of women that sewed and embroidered the first Philippine flag in Hongkong in 1898.


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My Inquirer column today on the San Agustin cantoral.


Early Philippine music | Inquirer Opinion
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Many, many years ago I acquired, from an Ermita antique shop, a huge piece of pig-skin that had a Gregorian chant written on it. It was a page from an ancient cantoral or choir book that provided the antiphon or the words and music to accompany the "Misa ni San Jose," the proper texts for a Mass to ...

This wonderful piece of Hispano-Philippine ivory, carved in the 17th or 18th centuries was one of the luxury goods that travelled from Manila to Acapulco and on to Spain on the famous Manila Galleons. This ivory image now in the Cathedral of Sevilla makes me wonder why churches in the Philippines have nothing similar. Was it taste? Or maybe the best objects were exported leaving things of lesser value in the Philippines?

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Sorry for the late posting, jst got back from a lecture in Legazpi.


Dia da la Hispanidad | Inquirer Opinion
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Oct. 12, 1492 is the day Columbus set foot on America. This was an event once commemorated as the "discovery" of America but in 1992 was celebrated and repackaged as the "encuentro de dos mundos" or the encounter of two worlds, the meeting of the Old World (Europe) and the New (the Americas). When ...