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The Story of How Jose Rizal Died

"I SAW RIZAL DIE" There is one eyewitness to Rizal’s execution whose observation was told to a journalist in 1949, or 53 years after the event. A man named Hilarion Martinez, then 72 years old, relayed to Alberto Mendoza of the Sunday Times Magazine what he witnessed...

World War 2 Field Ration by U.S. Army that our grandparents may have tasted.

I remember my Lolo's and Lola's told me before they were gone that after world war 2 they're lots of canned goods the U.S. Army just give away to civilians during that time. For over several months all they eat are field rations that are so abundant that you get...

General Douglas MacArthur Week: BSP Council to honor scout who met MacArthur in Macabalan

The Boy Scouts of the Philippines Cagayan de Oro Council will honor one of its scouters for the role he played in a footnote in history on March 13, 1942. As recounted by Ann Gorra in her anthology “City of Gold: People Who Made Their Home and History in Cagayan de...