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📌 NOVEMBER PUBLICATION
[SAVE THE DATE]

🔖 1: Comfort Women in Japanese Occupation
🔖 5: World War II and PH Rice Production
🔖 7: Birth of Colonel Jesus Antonio Villamor
🔖 10: Women’s Suffrage
🔖 12: Treaty of Paris
🔖 14: Birth of Gregorio del Pilar

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Source: Know your heroes: Andres Bonifacio. Accessed October 14, 2022. https://t.co/9cG15tcSEC.

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‼️ BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUT ‼️

On November 30, 1863, 2 days from today, Andres Bonifacio was born in Tondo, a district in the city of Manila. Iconically known as the leader and founder of the Katipunan, Bonifacio led many revolutions with the goal of winning Philippine independence.

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Poll Time 🗳⏰

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(cont. 2/2) are meant to be an agricultural country and thus we should not make an effort to improve or strive for industrialization.

This brings us to the topic of education and leads us to ask ourselves, is this really a form of pacification? ❔📖

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Source: Aguinaldo, Emilio. True Version of the Philippine Revolution. Tarlak, P.I. 1899.

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August 13, 1898
"Ok lang, sanay naman kami maloko" -Philippines (1/3)

Ever wondered why “The Mock Battle of Manila” is called that way? On this day, the same battle happened due to a silent agreement between the Spaniards and Americans to hand the Philippines over to the latter!

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August 13, 1898
"Ok lang, sanay naman kami maloko" -Philippines (3/3)

However, when the Americans entered through the areas of Malate and Ermita, they didn’t fire a shot?! The army was in utter confusion, but by sunset they found out about the utter betrayal of capture by the US

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SOURCE:
Cortes, Rosario, et al. “The Birth of a Nation,” “The First Republic,” and “The Republic against American Imperialism” in The Filipino Saga: History as Social Change Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 2010 (reprint).

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January 19, 1899
AGUINALDO INBOX-ZONED? 1/4

On this day, Aguinaldo wrote a letter to Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram II in hopes of forming a negotiation with the Jolo population.

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January 19, 1899
AGUINALDO INBOX-ZONED? 4/4

However, the Sultan never wrote back due to the years of conflict and cultural and religious stereotyping they experienced. Thus, Aguinaldo no longer possessed roles in future regimes. #Ouch

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‼️RECOUNTING HISTORY‼️

Exactly 427 years ago today, Manila was proclaimed as the capital city of the Philippine islands by King Phillip II of Spain.

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❗️DID YOU KNOW❓

On this day, exactly 87 years ago, the government of the Philippine Commonwealth was inaugurated. #HistoryRewind

𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 and briefly learn more about the commonwealth era below!