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11 unusual facts about Philippines


Alfredo Flores Tadiar

The result of his study entitled "Court-Referred Mediation" bore legal fruit in 1999 by an official pilot project for such diversion in the cities of Valenzuela and Mandaluyong.

Berean Christian Academy

Location: Don Pedro Yulo Street, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, Philippines, 6107.

Dorothy Detzer

As a high school graduate, Detzer decided to forgo the traditional college course, opting instead to travel in the Far East and live for a time in the Philippines.

Jesuit Martyrs in Micronesia

With the missionaries came a garrison of thirty soldiers, many of them colonials from the Philippines, whose responsibility was to protect the missionaries and to pacify the local people if need should arise.

Just the Beginning

It was released in 1999 under the Kamikaze label and sold 50,000 copies in the United States and Philippines where it went gold.

KTKB-FM

KTKB-FM, (101.9 FM) branded as Megamixx 101.9 Forever!, is the first Filipino format station in the United States territory of Guam.

Nevile Gardiner

In 1954, he was bitten by an unidentified species of venomous insect while visiting the Philippine Islands.

Philippine College of Ministry

Philippine College of Ministry (PCM) is a four-year undergraduate Christian Bible college in Baguio City, Philippines.

Seven Churches Visitation

To accommodate the faithful, many Catholic churches during Holy Week remain open until midnight.

In the Philippines, the tradition is known as Visita Iglesia (English: Church Visit).

Vicatan

Vicatan (Vicente Doria Catan Jr., 1948 – 13 May 2004) was a Filipino comic book artist and Novelist.


2013 FIBA Asia Championship Group A

In a game that is colored by the killing of the Philippine Coast Guard to a Taiwanese fisherman at the waters near Batanes, and the subsequent withdrawal of invitation from the 2013 William Jones Cup by Taiwanese to the Philippines, which were defending champions, Chinese Taipei banked on Lu Cheng-ju and Lin Chih-chieh to defeat the Filipinos to win the group.

4th Composite Group

The 2d Aero Squadron, having served in the Philippines beginning in 1915, was transferred back from Rockwell Field, California in 1920 after training duties in the United States during the war.

Alfredo Razon Gonzalez

He is married to Regina Anne Marie Arcenas-Gonzalez, Managing Director of Terry S.A., Inc. (Official distributor of Havaianas, David & Goliath, Pininho, and Dupe in the Philippines).

Alvin Crowder

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Crowder served almost three years in the army in World War I, including assignments in the Philippines and 11 months with the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia.

Ampatuan

Andal Ampatuan, Sr., former Governor of Maguindanao province, the Philippines, and suspect in the Maguindanao massacre

Bailen

General Emilio Aguinaldo, Cavite, a town in the Philippines, which was formerly known as Bailen

Carlos P. Romulo

Feeling betrayed, Romulo left the Liberal Party and became national campaign manager of Magsaysay, the candidate of the opposing Nacionalista Party who won the election.

Central Mindanao University

Central Mindanao University is a public research university located at the heart of Mindanao Island in the Philippines, specifically at University Town, Musuan, Maramag, Bukidnon.

Channel 23

DWAC-TV, the flagship television station of ABS-CBN Sports+Action channel 23 in Metro Manila, Philippines

Curry puff

In Singapore, Old Chang Kee has been selling curry puffs for over 70 years and now has outlets all over Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Dicta License

Two years after, the band released their first album, Paghilom, under Warner Music Philippines.

Dingdong Avanzado

It was also during the time when he met and married one of the Philippines’ biggest selling female recording artists, Jessa Zaragoza.

Enrique B. Magalona, Negros Occidental

The municipality is named after Enrique B. Magalona, former Senator of the Philippines and the grandfather of the late Filipino rap icon Francis Magalona.

Fidel Villarroel

He is also known as the most-prolific saint-maker in the Philippines for his Positio Super Introductione Causae, or historical research, that he made for the beatification and canonization of Lorenzo Ruiz and fifteen other companion-martyrs.

FTI railway station

The station is near major landmarks such as the Ayala Land development Arca South, Taguig campus of the Technological University of the Philippines, the Sunshine Mall, the Taguig City Hospital, a major warehouse of the National Food Authority and, most notably, a series of low-cost housing developments collectively called BLISS Taguig (commonly called "Tenement").

Heroes' Day

National Heroes Day is a national public holiday in the Philippines to honour and remember the country’s heroes, men and women in Philippine history whose acts of courage enabled the Philippines to grow as a nation.

I-Balita

i-Balita was the flagship news broadcast of Net 25 (DZEC-TV) in the Philippines, replacing Newsbeat.

Isamu Chō

From 1941 to 1942, he accompanied the Southern Army to French Indochina to oversee implementation of Japanese strategy, and served as a liaison officer between the Southern Army and the 14th Army in the Philippines.

Jocelyn Oxlade

She was on the cover of the January 2007 FHM Philippines issue with Gwen Garci, and on the cover of the FHM Philippines December 2007 issue with the rest of the Kitty Girls.

KC Concepcion

KC Concepcion (born Maria Kristina Cassandra Cuneta Concepcion on April 7, 1985) is an actress and singer from the Philippines who is currently a National Ambassador Against Hunger of the UN's World Food Programme.

Kurt Jahnke

Born in Gnesen, Jahnke immigrated to the United States in 1899, became a naturalized citizen, and served in the U.S. Marines in the Philippines.

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.

Legal issues in airsoft

Every month and year of the Philippine elections and months leading up to it now has the strict firearm ban which was first imposed in 2010 by the Philippine Commission on Elections "(COMELEC)" during preparations.

Lingayen-Lucena corridor

The Lingayen-Lucena corridor is the part of Luzon in the Philippines, between Lingayen (in Pangasinan) to Lucena, comprising the province of Pangasinan, and the regions of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and CALABARZON, where national elections are claimed to be won.

Liwayway Arceo

Liwayway A. Arceo (1920 - 1999) was a multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines.

Loay, Bohol

Upon the decree of King Phillip II, after whom the Philippines was named, they retained the honors and privileges they had before their conversion and subjection to the Spanish crown.

Luis Fernández de Córdoba y Arce

A Spanish noble gentleman of El Carpio, in the Province of Cordova and member of an influential family, Luis Fernandez de Cordoba y Arce made his military career in the navy becoming a general of the Navy of the Philippines.

Madridejos

Madridejos, Cebu, a 4th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines

Nacho King!

Nacho King! (corporate name Emyth, Inc.) is the largest Tex-Mex food manufacturer in the Philippines.

Pacquiao: The Movie

Pacquiao: The Movie is a 2006 action-drama film based on a true story of Filipino boxer Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao, co-produced by Star Cinema and FLT Films.

Pawnee, Oklahoma

Ernest E. Evans, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient for action as commander of Destroyer USS Johnston off Samar Island, Philippines, 1944

Philippines–Russia relations

Peter Dobell became a naturalized citizen and took the name Petr Vasilievich Dobel and was appointed as the Consul General in the Philippines.

Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Ragay

Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Ragay Extension or PUP Ragay (Filipino: Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, Sudlong ng Ragay ) is a PUP campus located in Municipality of Ragay, Camarines Sur, Bicol Region, Philippines.

Quirino Avenue

The whole length of the highway that forms part of Circumferential Road 2 was later named in honor of the sixth president of the Philippines, Elpidio Quirino.

Randy David

David is married to Karina Constantino-David who served until 2008 as the Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) of the Philippines.

Robert L. J. Long

He was a member of an American election observer team sent to the Philippines in 1986 and headed by Senator Richard Lugar to observe the Presidential election contest involving Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino.

Robertsite

Recently, in an exploration conducted by the Italian La Venta Geographical Association, confirmed the existence of Robertsite in the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the city center of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres

The Archbishop Leonard Legaspi O.P., who was also the first Filipino Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, and the first Vicar of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.

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.

Romulo Highway

The Romulo Highway, formerly the National Highway 13, is a highway in the Philippines that passes through the provinces of Tarlac and Pangasinan.

Roosevelt College Quirino

Roosevelt College Quirino is a defunct college founded in 1953 in Quezon City, Philippines.

Roosevelt Station

Roosevelt LRT Station, a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System in Manila, Philippines

Saint Jerome's Academy

Saint Jerome's Academy, also called SJA, is a private, Roman Catholic parochial school located at the town proper of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

Samboy Lim

In one of the invitationals where foreign teams were pitted against PBA teams, Samboy Lim saved the face of the Philippines when he single-handedly took over in the IBA-PBA challenge in 1987 where the import was a then obscure Bobby Parks.

Sikatuna

Datu Sikatuna, an ancient chieftain of Bohol in the Philippines

Silver-banded whiting

The silver-banded whiting is known only from a single island in the Western Central Pacific; Lumbucan Island in Palawan, a province of the Philippines.

Sonneratia

The Sonneratia are called 'berembang' in Malaya, 'mangrove apple' in English, and 'Mangrovenapfel', "Pagatpat" in the Philippines, particularly in the Bataan and Pampanga region or 'Holzapfelmangrove' in German.

Sonny Angara

He was one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines awardees for 2010, along with Senator Alan Peter S. Cayetano, 2009 CNN Hero Efren Peñaflorida, and a cousin of President Benigno S. Aquino III.

Spanish-based creole languages

Chavacano is also spoken in Cavite City and in parts of Ternate, Cavite and Sabah, Malaysia nearest to the Philippines, and even in Brunei and Latin America, because of recent migrations.

Ursula Hall

Residents of Ursula Hall welcomes undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities, religions and cultures—residents are from dozens of countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.