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53 unusual facts about Manila


2nd FAMAS Awards

The 2nd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1954 in Life Theater, Quezon Boulevard, Quiapo, Manila.

Ang Tundo Man May Langit Din

The novel involves love and romance occurring between individuals that are residing in a poverty-stricken area in Tondo, Manila in the Philippines.

Arthur Angara

He finished his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree at the University of the East in Sampaloc, Manila in 1960, the same year when he passed the Dentist Licensure Examination, in which he was ranked 12th.

Baguio Central University

When Manila is at 35°C or above, Baguio seldom exceeds 26°C at its warmest.

Blumentritt Road

It runs through the border of the City of Manila with Quezon City and Caloocan from Rizal Avenue in Santa Cruz district to Gregorio Tuazon Street (formerly Calle Balic Balic) in Sampaloc district.

Bonifacio Drive

North of the river, Bonifacio Drive continues as Marcos Road (Radial Road 10) heading into North Harbor and the district of Tondo.

Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children’s Museum has inspired both the Museo Pambata in Manila, Philippines, and Le Musée des Enfants in Brussels, Belgium.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

When the DREAM road is completed in 2033, C-6 will follow the proposed Metro Manila Tollway route eastward starting from its northern terminus at the North Luzon Expressway in Marilao in Bulacan province (Expressway segment).

This expressway will be named Padre Jacinto Zamora Super Highway after Father Jacinto Zamora, one of the three martyr priests executed in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) in Manila during the Spanish Colonical Period.

C-6 will then pass through San Jose del Monte in Bulacan, turn southward and pass through Montalban (also known as Rodriguez), San Mateo, Antipolo, Angono, and Taytay in Rizal province, finally entering Taguig.

Chinese in Palau

One Russian explorer, August von Kotzebue reported noted that Chinese or Filipino traders from Manila sailed to Palau and Yap to sell dragon jars to the islanders during the early to mid 19th century.

Chinese Taipei men's national softball team

The 1992 World Championships, the eighth time the event was competed for, was held in Manila.

De La Salle Brothers Philippine District

The location is at the former Perez-Samanillo Compound on 652 Calle Nozaleda in Paco, Manila.

Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga

The presence of Don Bosco in the Philippines began in 1912 when two Salesian priests arrived in the Parish of Nuestra de los Remedios in Malate, Manila.

Enderun Colleges

Other presenters were Bel S. Castro, a member of Enderun’s F&B faculty, Reto Klauser, area manager and general manager of Makati Shangri-La, Manila, J. Gamboa, executive chef of Cirkulo and Milkyway restaurants and director of Les Toques Blanches, and Amy Besa, owner of the Purple Yam restaurant in New York and author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens.

España railway station

Major landmarks near the station include the University of Santo Tomas, Dominican School Manila, the Ramon Magsaysay High School, the Legarda Elementary School and the España Tower.

Fejervarya moodiei

It has in the past been often mixed with Fejervarya cancrivora; its distribution is not well known but includes the Philippines (its type locality is Manila, Luzon), Thailand, Hainan Island (China), and India.

Fourth national congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines

The fourth national congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines was held February 24-28, 1946, at Quality Club, Rizal Avenue in Manila.

Grace Christian College

The school was founded 1950 at Nagtahan Street in San Miguel, Manila, by Baptist missionaries Dr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Spahr and educator Mrs. Julia L. Tan.

Ignatius Jones

Ignatius Jones (born Juan Ignacio Trápaga in 1957, Singalong, Manila, Philippines) is an Australian events director, journalist, actor and previously fronted the shock rock band Jimmy and the Boys.

James Hamilton-Paterson

His novel Ghosts of Manila (1994) portrayed the Philippine capital in all its decay and violence and was highly critical of the Marcoses - a view he rescinded with the publication of America's Boy (1998), which sets the Marcos regime into the geopolitical context of the time.

Jo Kittinger

Jo Kittinger has been an avid speaker over the last 10 years; speaking at everything from major conferences in the States, and as far away as Manila, Philippines, to author visits in local classrooms.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

Jose Laurel Street

Jose Laurel Street, also known as J.P. Laurel Street, is a quiet tree-lined street in the district of San Miguel in north-central Manila, Philippines.

Kirby Higbe

Nonetheless, he stayed in Manila until March 1946, at which point he finally returned to the United States.

Konankuppam

It is said to have been the first place of worship he erected, and when it was completed he went to Madras and asked the Bishop of Mylapore to procure for him a statue from Manila, an image of the virgin, in native dress of Tamil Nadu and bearing the child Jesus in her arms, fashioned after a model he had made.

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

The bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally meaning great houses made of stone) which have stone foundations on the first floor and are made of wood on the second floor(constructed thus to withstand earthquakes), were transplanted from Manila (Tondo, Binondo and Quiapo), Quezon City, Pampanga, La Union, the Ilocos and Cagayan

Lawrence Olson

After the end of the war, Olson worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC between 1948 and 1950, and he served as cultural attaché at the American embassy in Manila, Philippines from 1951 to 1952, before finishing his PhD at Harvard.

Legarda Street

Legarda Street is a short street located in Sampaloc district in Manila, Philippines.

It heads due west, traversing the southern edge of Sampaloc and skirting the northern boundary of San Miguel.

Lester L. Westling, Jr.

He was also the founding Vicar of the Emmanuel Mission, Tondo, Manila.

Makamisa

Hanna Malonzo - Manila-raised daughter of Kapitan Lucas, who returned to Tulig for her aunt's funeral

Manila Chinese Cemetery

Two hundred and sixty people died during the collapse of the 6-story Ruby Tower, located near the corner of Teodora Alonzo and Doroteo Jose streets in Santa Cruz, Manila.

Manila, Kentucky

Manila's original post office opened on July 1, 1898 and was named in honor of the Battle of Manila Bay, which had occurred earlier that year.

Marcos Road

The highway is an extension of Bonifacio Drive and Roxas Boulevard (Radial Road 1 or R-1) north of the Pasig River running north-south through the Manila North Port area serving the coastal Tondo and Navotas communities.

Martin Teofilo Delgado

He went to school at the Santa Barbara Parochial School and later at the St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, then known as Seminario de San Vicente Ferrer, in Jaro and Ateneo Municipal in Manila.

Mendiola Consortium

It was founded on July 16, 1974 upon the invitation of then Centro Escolar University President Dionisio Tiongco the heads of San Beda College, College of the Holy Spirit and La Consolacion College Manila.

Niall Anthony MacDermot

Subsequently the family lived in Taiwan, Manila and back to Japan, which they were forced to leave on very short notice at the outbreck of World War II.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails know as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials.

Owen Summers

Arriving in Manila in August they accepted the surrender of the Spanish Army of 15,000 soldiers.

Pablo Ocampo Street

It runs west-east for about 3.4 kilometers (2.1 miles) connecting the southern districts of Malate and San Andres southeast to Makati.

Partas

The latest terminal within Metro Manila was opened in Sampaloc district of Manila City.

Robert DeCourcy Ward

During 1929, Professor Ward made a tour of the world, stopping in locations such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila to perform scientific studies.

Santa Cruz Bridge

The steel truss bridge was the fourth to span the river connecting the district of Santa Cruz from Plaza Goiti to Arroceros Street in the old city center of Manila.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

Shawl

These were called China crêpe shawls or China shawls, and in Spain mantones de Manila because they were shipped to Spain from China via the port of Manila.

South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium

In its over two decades of existence, the consortium has been led by the Board of Responsibles composed of the presidents of the member institutions namely, Adamson University (AdU), De La Salle University (DLSU-Manila), the Philippine Christian University (PCU), St. Scholastica's College (SSC), the Philippine Normal University (PNU), and St. Paul University-Manila (SPUM).

Established in 1974, the IIC is composed of five schools located along Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines.

The South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium (SMIIC), formerly known as the Inter-Institutional Consortium (IIC) is a group of higher educational institutions in the southern portion of Manila.

Tayuman Street

It stretches 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district.

Tirtayasa

Ageng established trade with Spanish Manila for silver and built canal for coconut palm and sugar plantations, among other developments.

Unión Obrera Democrática Filipina

The organization was established on February 2, 1902 at a congress of "approximately 140 printers and lithographers" gathered at Variedades Theater in Sampaloc, Manila.

Vicente Madrigal

He married Susana Paterno y Ramos, who grew up in Pangil, Laguna and was a poor relation to her own Manila relatives, the Paternos of Quiapo and Santa Cruz, Manila.


2008 Paris Motor Show

In this edition, the subject was "Taxis du Monde" (Taxis from around the world), and it featured a variety of taxi vehicles from different cities and eras, such as a New York Checker cab, a Chicago Yellow Cab, London Black cabs, a Manila Jeepney, a Bangkok Tuk Tuk, etc., as well as several Parisian taxis, starting with the classic Renault Taxi de la Marne and ending with the proposed future taxi Peugeot Expert Tepee.

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Doña Isabel Barreto was honoured in Manila and Quirós was commended for his service and absolved of any responsibility for the killings on Santa Cruz.

Arturo Tolentino

He was a law professor in the University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomás, University of the East, University of Manila, Arellano University, FEU, Manila Law College, Philippine Law School, San Beda College and Quezon College.

Billy Blanks

Blanks was hired as a bodyguard for lead actress Catherine Bach during the filming of 1988's Driving Force, due to the political unrest present in Manila at the time; he impressed the producers so much, they wrote him into the script.

Blumentritt railway station

It is located at the corner of Old Antipolo Street and Rizal Avenue in Sampaloc, Manila and derives its name from nearby Blumentritt Road, which is named after the Czech professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, friend of José Rizal and sympathizer of the Filipino cause.

Capture of Malolos

General Arthur MacArthur, Jr.'s division advanced to Malolos along the Manila–Dagupan Railway.

Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao

Mrs. Batocabe was then the high school principal of Maryhill Academy on sabbatical for her doctoral studies at De La Salle University, Manila.

Cesare Syjuco

A flurry of smaller exhibitions won him the Araw Ng Maynila "Patnubay Ng Sining At Kalinangan" Award in 2007 from the 436-year-old City of Manila, and the 2007 La Sallian Achievement Award for the Arts from his alma mater, De La Salle University.

College of St. John-Roxas

The supervision of the school was transferred to De La Salle University-Manila and Br.

Dawsonne Drake

During his administration in the Philippines, his term was scandalized by bitter quarrels with various military officers (General William Draper; Admiral Cornish; Major Felt; Captain Thomas Backhouse (command British forces in Manila); and Captain William Brereton, RN).

Don Antonio de Ulloa

Don Antonio de Ulloa, a Spanish Navy cruiser that fought at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Dusit Thani Group

The Hotel Nikko Manila came under the management of Dusit Thani Hotels & Resorts, and was renamed the Dusit Hotel Nikko, Manila.

Emilio Terrero y Perinat

The Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan which constitutes much of the North Main Line today, began construction in July 1887 with the laying of the cornerstone for Tutuban station by Terrero himself.

Eugenio Lopez

Eugenio Lopez, Sr., original owner of the Manila Chronicle and founder of Chronicle Broadcasting Network, see DWWX-TV

Exodians

It is also notable that among the 36 seminarians who were expelled from the seminary, four of them came from the Prelature of Ipil, in the western section of Mindanao Island who were sent by then Ipil Bishop Federico Escaler, SJ,who is now retired and residing in Manila.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

HNLMS K XIII

She made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma.

HUMANFOLK

Assembled in the summer of 2008, the introduction of Alegre, Ibarra and Rodriguez at the United States Embassy in Manila spurred a series of musical and social interactions.

Inocencio Junquera

Resil Mojares, Introduksiyon sa Modernong Teatrong Cebuano, in Dulaang Cebuano (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1997).

Intramuros Consortium

The Intramuros Consortium, established in 2002, is a non-profit, academic cooperation consisting of four prominent institutions of higher education located in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.

Isla de Luzon

Isla de Luzon, a Spanish Navy second-class protected cruiser that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

José María of Manila

José María was born in Manila, Philippines on 5 September 1880 to Spanish parents Don Eugenio Sanz-Orozco, the last Spanish Mayor of Manila, and Doña Feliza Mortera y Camacho.

Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez

Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez (born 1980 in Sta. Mesa, Manila), a poet, fictionist, critic, and journalist, hails from Flora, Apayao, Philippines.

Martin de Goiti

The Spanish colonization paved the way for the establishment of Manila as a permanent settlement and capital city of the Spanish East Indies.

Mateo Guez

Shot on location in the vast urban slum of Manila’s Smokey Mountain in the Philippines, the film is a portrait of both the place, and the people who inhabit it.

Mel Lopez

In recognition of his leadership in Manila, some 20 prospective candidates of United Nationalists Democratic Organizations (UNIDO) for the 1984 Batasang Pambansa elections signed a resolution giving him authority to select the five other candidates for the six assembly seats assigned to Manila based on voting population.

MTV Supahstar

After successful auditions in Cebu, Davao, Baguio, and Manila, celebrity casting directors Tim Yap, Radha, and Andrew E. finally narrowed down the finalists to 15 talented supahstars-in-the-making and divided them into different roles.

President's Cup Regatta

Then Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos, impressed by the success of Ray Ordoveza's "Vida" in the China Sea Race and Easter Regatta, encouraged the Manila Yacht Club to organize an International regatta at Subic in 1997.

Reina Cristina

Reina Cristina was a Spanish cruiser that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Reycard Duet

In July 1966, the duo was one of the opening acts for the Beatles' performance at Rizal Stadium in Manila, along with Dolphy and Panchito and Pilita Corrales.

Robinsons Place Manila

Robinsons Manila was originally built in the 1980s, on the site of what was then the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University before it relocated to Loyola Heights and the Assumption Convent before it relocated to San Lorenzo Village, Makati.

Roman Catholic Marian churches

The new Immaculate Conception Cathedral was built in Manila, Philippines and the Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria in Tenerife, Spain.

Sangley

The Spanish government created schools and colleges run mostly by religious Orders, including the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, the Ateneo Municipal, the Universidad de Santo Tomás in Manila, or the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Cebu, that were opened to all types of students, regardless of race, gender or financial status in case of primary instruction.

Sucat railway station

Further away from the station are Our Lady of Miraculous Medal National Shrine, St. James College of Parañaque, Sucat Elementary School, Cupang Elementary School, the Muntinlupa Business High School, a Makro, the Philippine headquarters of Zilog, housing developments such as Posadas Village and the Tribeca Private Residences, and cemeteries such as the Loyola Memorial Park and the Manila Memorial Park.

The Manila Times

On December 30, 2007, The Manila Times enthroned Reynato Puno as "Times Person of the Year", chosen by all the newspaper's editors.

The Triumph of Science over Death

A large replica, made of concrete, stands in front of Fernando Calderón Hall of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine along Pedro Gil St. in Ermita, Manila.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in Metro Manila

However, both NAIA and Clark International Airport, located in the Clark Freeport Zone in Angeles, Pampanga serve the Manila area, with CIA catering mostly to low-cost carriers that avail themselves of the lower landing fees than those charged at NAIA.

Transportation in Tacloban

Airphil Express also connects the two cities from Manila (4x daily) and Cebu (daily).

Universidad de Manila

Universidad de Manila was founded in 1995 during the term of Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim.

University of the Philippines Concert Chorus

Korus was a favorite guest choir among other performing groups like Manila Symphony, Ballet Philippines and Teatro Filipino.

Wesley Merritt

After George Dewey defeated the Spanish navy at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, the U.S. began to organize ground forces to attack and capture the city of Manila.

William Leonard Marshall

He has also written two mystery series based in Manila and late-19th-century New York City, the latter featuring City Detective Virgil Tillman – New York City's "first thinking detective" – and his partner, patrolman Ned Muldoon of the Strong Arm Squad.