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23/12/2022

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SIM CARD REGISTATION REMINDERS!

Starting Dec. 27, 2022 all mobile subscribers must register their SIM cards or face deactivation after 180 days or 6 months
Here are the links to remember on December 27, 2022 for the SIM Card Registration.

For DITO Subscribers,
https://dito.ph/RegisterDITO
For Globe/TM/Gomo Subscribers,
https://new.globe.com.ph/simreg
For Smart/TNT/Sun Subsribers,
https://smart.com.ph/simreg
Note: Sa December 27 pa po available ang mga link

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29/09/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

On September 29, 1637, Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino Saint, was hung upside down in a pit by his tormentors until he suffocated to death in Nagasaki, Japan.

Ruiz was subjected to water torture. Needles were inserted through his finger nails and was beaten until unconsciousness.

Despite the torture inflicted on him, Ruiz did not renounce his Christian faith.

Ruiz body was cremated and the ashes were thrown into the sea.

In 1636, while working as a clerk for Binondo Church, Ruiz was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard. He sought asylum on board a ship with three Dominican priests: Saint Antonio Gonzalez; Saint Guillermo Cortet; Saint Miguel de Aozaraza, a Japanese priest; Saint Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz; and a lay l***r Saint Lazaro of Kyoto. Ruiz and his companions left for Okinawa on June 10, 1636.

His boat landed at Okinawa at the time when the Tokugawa shogunate was persecuting Christians. The missionaries were arrested and thrown into prison, and later transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture.

Prior to his persecution, Ruiz and his Filipino wife, two sons and a daughter, led a peaceful, religious life with full of contentment.

On February 18, 1981, Lorenzo Ruiz was beatified by Pope John Paul II during his Papal visit to Manila. It was the first beatification ceremony held outside the Vatican. San Lorenzo Ruiz was elevated to sainthood and canonized by Pope John Paul II in the Vatican City, Rome on October 18, 1987, making him the first Filipino saint and the first Filipino martyr.

Sources:
Philippine News Agency archives
Wikipedia
Photo credit: http://www.ucanews.com/

20/09/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

On September 20, 1898, Josefa Llanes Escoda, noted civic leader, educator and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP), was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte.

Escoda, who obtained her teaching degree in 1919 at the Philippine Normal School in Manila, was a social worker for the Philippine Chapter of the American Red Cross.

She was sent to undergo training in Girl Scouting in the United States under the sponsorship of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.

She also obtained a master's degree in Social Work in 1925 from Columbia University, through Red Cross Scholarship.

Upon her return to the country, she began training women to become Girl Scout leaders and eventually proceeded to organize the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.

On May 26, 1940, when President Manuel L. Quezon signed the GSP Charter, she became the group's first National Executive.

She was married to Antonio Escoda, whom she met as a reporter from the Philippine Press Bureau. They had two children.

She was executed on January 6, 1945 at the age of 46 on Japanese suspicion of being a guerrilla sympathizer. Her husband, Colonel Antonio Escoda, was also executed in 1944, along with General Vicente Lim.

A street and a building in Manila have been named after her and a monument has been dedicated to her memory.

Reference: Philippine News Agency
Photo: Wikipilipinas

15/09/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

On September 15, 1857, William Howard Taft, the first Civil Governor of the Philippines, and the 27th President of the United States, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was Alphonso Taft, a prominent Republican attorney who served as secretary of war and attorney general under President Ulysses S. Grant, then ambassador to Austria-Hungary and Russia under President Chester A. Arthur.

William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House.
(William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House.)
After his preparatory schooling in his native town, Taft graduated at Yale University in 1878, studied law at University of Cincinnati and was called to the bar in 1880, entered private practice, and worked as a judge in Ohio Superior Court and in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In early 1900, President William McKinley called Taft to Washington and tasked him with setting up a civilian government in the Philippines, which had become a U.S. protectorate after the Spanish-American War of 1898. Though hesitant, Taft accepted the post of chairman of the Second Philippine Commission, with the knowledge that it would position him well to advance further in national government.

Taft's sympathetic administration in the Philippines marked a dramatic departure from the brutal tactics used by the U.S. military government since 1898. Taft improved the island economy and infrastructure and allowed the people at least some voice in government. Though sympathetic to the Filipino people and popular among them, he believed they needed considerable guidance and instruction before they could be capable of self-rule, and predicted a long period of U.S. involvement. The Philippines would not gain independence until 1946.

After McKinley was assassinated in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt twice offered Taft a Supreme Court appointment, but he declined in order to stay in the Philippines. In 1904, he agreed to return and become Roosevelt's Secretary of War, on condition that he retained supervision of Filipino affairs.

Roosevelt, who had pledged not to run for a third term in office, began promoting Taft as his successor. Though he disliked campaigning, Taft a Republican, agreed to mount a presidential run in 1908 at the urging of his ambitious wife, and soundly defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan by pledging to continue Roosevelt's program of progressive reforms.

Official White House portrait of William Howard Taft, painted in 1911 by Anders Zorn
Official White House portrait of William Howard Taft, painted in 1911 by Anders Zorn
By 1912, Roosevelt was so incensed with Taft and the conservative Republicans that he chose to break from the party and form his own Progressive Party, the Bull Moose Party. In the general election that year, the divide among Republicans handed the White House to the progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who received 435 electoral votes to Roosevelt's 88. Taft received only 8 electoral votes.

Relieved to be leaving the White House, Taft took a position teaching constitutional law at Yale University Law School. In 1921, President Warren Harding fulfilled Taft's lifelong dream by appointing him Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In that post, Taft improved the organization and efficiency of the United States' highest court.

Often remembered as being the most obese US president, Taft married Helen "Nettie" Herron, the daughter of another prominent local Ohio lawyer and Republican Party activist; the couple would have three children.

Taft died on March 8, 1930, from cardiovascular disease.

President William Howard Taft became the only man in history to hold the highest post in both the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Taft's enduring legacy includes many things named after him including the Taft Avenue in Manila. The town of Taft in Eastern Samar is also named after him.

Sources:

William Howard Taft, http://www.history.com/
The Philippines, John Foreman, Filipiniana Book Guild, 1980, Manila
Photo credit: Wikipedia Commons
The Kahimyang Project

07/09/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

On September 7, 1840, Regino Garcia, a renowned Filipino artist, botanist, and forester, was born in Manila.

Garcia was with the Manila Botanical Garden, in one or another capacity, since the inception of that institution in 1858, and with the Spanish Forestry Bureau from 1877 to 1898.

In May 1900, he took charge of all work of botanical nature as botanist in the Forestry Bureau of the American Civil Service.

Garcia, also a printing instructor at the University of the Philippines, was also noted for being one of the botanical illustrators. He produced plates for Francisco Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas, the illustrated version of which was published in Manila between 1877 and 1883.

During the Filipino-American war, he resigned from his job and enlisted in the Philippine Army. Appointed colonel in the engineering corps, Garcia helped supervise the construction of fortification and defense works along the Pampanga River, near Calumpit, Bulacan, and other points.

Garcia died on July 6, 1916 at the age 75.

Reference: Philippines News Agency archives

31/08/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
Born: August 31, 1907
Birthplace: Iba, Zambales, Philippines
Died: March 17, 1957 (aged 49)
Cause of Death: Plane crash
Profession: 7th President of the Philippines
Nationality: Filipino
Biography: was the first President of the Philippines to come from the lower middle class and the first not to be elected from the Senate. Throughout his tenure he was well-loved for his sense of humility. While he aligned himself with US interests he is also credited with making a stand on anti-corruption.

Magsaysay came to power for his part on restoring law and order during the crisis in 1950 and successfully defeating the communist-led Hukbalahap movement.

During his term as president Magsaysay passed significant agrarian reforms and established a system for hearing grievances of the people. His life and term of office was tragically cut short by his death in a plane crash in 1957.

22/08/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

On August 22, 1989, the RINGS of NEPTUNE were discovered. NASA's spacecraft Voyager 2 was approaching Neptune when images revealed a faint ring circling the planet.

The Hubble Space Telescope and Earth-based telescopes have imaged the two brightest rings of Neptune. Astronomers named those two Neptunian rings Adams and Le Verrier. They’re named for John Couch Adams and Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, whose independent calculations helped find Neptune’s position in the sky – and thus led to its discovery – in 1846.

NASA Solar System Exploration explained that there are also names for three more rings of Neptune: Starting near the planet and moving outward, the main rings are named Galle, Leverrier, Lassell, Arago, and Adams. The rings are thought to be relatively young and short-lived.

Today, we know that Neptune has at least five main rings. Plus it has four prominent ring arcs. The arcs are peculiar clumps of dust. Astronomers struggled to understand their existence, because the laws of motion predict these arcs should spread out into a uniform ring over short timescales. Scientists now believe the gravitational effects of Galatea, a moon just inward from the ring, confine the arcs.

Four prominent arcs have names, too. Astronomers call them Liberté (Liberty), Egalité (Equality), Fraternité (Fraternity), and Courage. They’re located in the outermost ring, Adams.

08/08/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

On Aug. 8, 1901, the former Philippine Constabulary was organized by authority of Act No. 175 of the Philippine Commission to assist the American military in combating lawlessness in the country. The PC was replaced in 1999 by the present Philippine National Police or PNP.

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01/08/2022

DID YOU KNOW?

It was in August that two Filipino presidents died. The first was Manuel Quezon, first president of the Philippine Commonwealth, and the second was Corazon C. Aquino, the country's first woman president. Incidentally, both of them died on the same date, although 65 years apart: Quezon on Aug. 1, 1944, and Aquino on Aug. 1, 2009.