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Portrait of the Philippines: 500 Years Without Love

Five Hundred Years Without Love is the thought-provoking title of a new book launched on National Heroes Day, by bestselling author Alex Lacson.

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Published at 2020-09-06 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, History, Stories
Tags: Filipino, Rizal, country, government, love, story

A Sojourner's View: Mindanao Histories and Studies

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 September) — A recent initiative to aggressively push for the inclusion of Mindanao’s identities, cultures, politics, languages, folkways, tales, as well as traditional conflict resolution systems, trading practices, family relations and, finally the concept of peace and development into the Philippines’ formal and non-formal educational engagements has just taken off with a proposed roadmap.

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Published at 2019-09-21 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Communities, History, Lifestyle, People
Tags: American, Davao, History, History, Lumad, Manila, Mindanao, Power, colonial, indigenous, story, story

A Sojourner's View: Mindanao Histories and Studies

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Gayang: Igorot Folklore Goes to the Comic Book

Move over Darna, Captain Barbell and Dyesebel – no disrespect to your creator, the legendary Mars Ravelo. Here come Lampong, Pili, Inlablabbuut and others. The latter have come alive in a new comic book collaboration by young artists from the Cordilleras.

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Published at 2019-07-18 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Culture, Mythology & folklore
Tags: Books, Folklore, Igorot, creatures, story, students

Uncovering “The Secrets That We Keep:” A Book Review

The Secrets That We Keep is an anthology, with eight carefully-curated crime stories: Web, The Children of Truth, Where is Sandra, Tomorrow We’ll See, Sniper, Snatched, Among Us, Kate’s Retreat, and Missing Bodies. The stories in this book have their own individual twists, enough to keep readers engrossed in their well-written story lines and well-thought out plots.

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Published at 2018-04-02 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Arts, Entertainment
Tags: Books, anthology, story

“Selling” My Story

As one of the few American freelancers in the Philippines, I thought it was my duty to get down there and work. I got myself onto a C-130 military cargo plane and flew from Manila to Zamboanga, crowded into the hull with 150 soldiers leaning on their rifles. When we landed, I hitched a ride in the back of a rumbling military jeep and was dropped off at the hotel where some local journalists were waiting in the lobby.

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Published at 2018-03-17 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: People, Stories
Tags: story

The Yoyo: A Story of Downs and Ups

First, yellowing pictures and old news clippings from the 1920s and 1930s were passed from hand to eager hand. One photograph showed nattily dressed Filipinos coaxing wooden yoyos of all sizes into creative twists and spins. In another, the young Shirley Temple, sausage curls and all, looked up at Albert Viernes, a Filipino, doing the “Cat’s Cradle” with his yoyo.

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Published at 2018-03-17 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Documentary, History, Stories
Tags: story

August 21 Stories

August 21, 1983 will be forever remembered as the day Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. was assassinated. But something else happened on August 21 twelve years prior to Ninoy's martyrdom -- the Plaza Miranda bombing in 1971. The tragedy was likewise a defining moment in Philippine history because it gave then-President Ferdinand Marcos reason to declare martial law.

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Published at 2018-03-17 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Documentary, History, Stories
Tags: story

The Story Behind the Philippine Gold

The Exhibit, that is. Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms opened on September 10, 2015, in New York City at the Asia Society museum. The exhibit features exquisite pieces of gold jewelry and adornments found by one Berto Morales in a shallow mound in Surigao del Sur sometime in 1981.

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Published at 2018-03-15 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Documentary, Stories
Tags: Philippines, gold, story

Nina Thomas the American Woman Who Could Have Been First Lady of the Philippines

One day we found ourselves at Prospero’s Books, an antiquarian bookstore in Northern Virginia that had an unusual section: an entire shelf on the US colonial period in the Philippines. Because we did not find any title particularly interesting, we asked the manager whether they had anything else on the Philippines. By coincidence, he said, a book just came in that morning—published in 1916, written by a Filipino, and autographed.

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Published at 2018-03-13 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: People, Stories
Tags: American, First Lady, story, women

Philippine Folktales: the Story of Dumalawi

The story of Dumalawi is a folktale from the Tinguan people of the Philippines collected by Mabel Cook Cole in her book Philippine Folk Tales published in 1916. According to Cook the major characters in Tinguian mythology are often representative of heroes of times gone by whose exploits have become exaggerated and embellished by continued telling from generation to generation from the people of the “first times”. Cook says, these people of “the first times” practiced magic.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Mythology & folklore
Tags: Folklore, story