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Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo. " Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo " ( lit. '"The Gift of the Filipinos to the World"' ), released in English as " A New and Better Way—The People's Anthem ," is a 1986 song recorded in Filipino by a supergroup composed of 15 Filipino artists. The song serves to commemorate the bloodless People Power Revolution which ...
The National Museum of Anthropology ( Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Antropolohiya ), formerly known as the Museum of the Filipino People ( Filipino: Museo ng Lahing Filipino ), is a component museum of the National Museum of the Philippines which houses Ethnological and Archaeological exhibitions. It is located in the Agrifina Circle, Rizal ...
Libingan ng mga Bayani ( LNMB, local pronunciation: [liːˈbiːŋan ˈnaŋ maˈŋa baˈjaːni], lit. 'Cemetery of [the] Heroes') is a national cemetery within Fort Bonifacio (formerly Fort William McKinley) in Barangay Western Bicutan, Taguig, Philippines. First established in May 1947 as a fitting resting place for Philippine military ...
The coat of arms of the Philippines from 1978 to 1985, during which " Isang Bansa, Isang Diwa " appeared on the banderole. Isang Bansa, Isang Diwa ( Filipino for "One Nation, One Spirit") was the national motto of the Philippines from 1978 to 1986, during the presidency of President Ferdinand Marcos. It was adopted on June 9, 1978 by virtue of ...
A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named.
Severino Reyes was born on February 11, 1861, in Santa Cruz, Manila during the Spanish colonial era to Rufino Reyes and Andrea Rivera. He pursued his early education in an institution owned by Catalino Sanchez and acquired a bachelor's degree at the Escuela de Segunda Enseñanza of the Colegio de San Juan de Letran.
The exclusive economic zone of the Philippines (Philippine EEZ ), per the mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), consists of four subzones. [1] It covers 2,263,816 square kilometers (874,064 sq mi) of sea. The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [2]
Unlike the name "Lacambini" (Lakambini) or Lacan Baliñgasay (Lakang Balingasay), the linker (e.g. m, ng, n) between laka and pati is not used because this name has a different origin: Sanskrit loka-pati = "lord of the world" (an epithet of "Brahman the Creator" and "Vishnu the Preserver"); Sans. loka = location, the earth, field + Sans. pati ...