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Zebrina (/ zəˈbriːnə /) was a schooner -rigged, three-masted sailing barge, of 189 tons, built in 1873 at Whitstable, originally intended to trade on the River Plate in South America. She was discovered aground on the coast of France in October 1917 with her crew missing. The Zebrina sailed from Falmouth in October 1917, commanded by ...
Alocasia zebrina, commonly known as the zebra plant or zebrina alocasia, is a plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to the islands of Luzon, Mindanao, Leyte, Samar, Biliran, and Alabat in the Philippines. It is commonly grown as an ornamental plant worldwide. [1][2] It is also locally known as gabing tigre ("tiger taro ") in Tagalog. [3]
Some notable locations include Fort Santiago, [ 2 ][ 20 ] Casa Manila, [ 21 ] itself located in the reportedly haunted Plaza San Luis Complex, [ 22 ] the ruins of the Aduana Building, the Baluarte de San Diego, and the Manila Cathedral. [ 23 ][ 24 ] La Salle Green Hills, Mandaluyong: One classroom is said to be haunted by a poltergeist.
e. The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...
Manila galleon. The Manila galleon (Spanish: Galeón de Manila; Filipino: Galyon ng Maynila) refers to the Spanish trading ships that linked the Philippines in the Spanish East Indies to Mexico (New Spain), across the Pacific Ocean. The ships made one or two round-trip voyages per year between the ports of Manila and Acapulco from the late 16th ...
The Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina), now officially remembered as the First Philippine Republic and also referred to by historians as the Malolos Republic, was established in Malolos, Bulacan during the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire (1896–1898) and the Spanish–American War between Spain and the United ...
1923 is an American Western drama television series that premiered on December 18, 2022, on Paramount+. [1] The series is a prequel to the Paramount Network series Yellowstone and serves as a sequel to the series 1883 , with Isabel May reprising her role from the latter as narrator Elsa Dutton.
The Manila Business School was founded and started its operation (later as the Philippine School of Commerce, 1908, then as the Philippine College of Commerce, 1952, and now the Polytechnic University of the Philippines). November 16 Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm is established in Palawan, country's oldest and largest open prison. [28] [29] 1905