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Glass isn't solid, but liquid.
An adult dragonfly has 28,000 eyes.
Store condom in a cool, dry place to maintain quality. Wallet not recommended.
Alokon, endemic to the Philippines, has vitamins A, B & C, besides calcium, phosphorus, potassium & iron.
What antibiotic did Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar co-discover? Hint: Brand is Ilosone, named after Iloilo. Erythromycin.
Who invented the fluorescent lamp? Thomas Edison discovered the electric light and the fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the fluorescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores of Tondo, originally from Guiguinto, Bulacan. Americans helped Filipino politicians to develop it internationally for home use. (Yes! Many foreigners have noted the Filipino population's high percentages of inventors and international beauty queens.)
The one-chip video camera was first made by Marc Loinaz, a Filipino inventor from New Jersey.
"What's still most impressive to me about the Philippines is the friendliness of the people, their sense of humor...," wrote Honolulu journalist John Griffin in a 1998 visit to Manila.
Distinguished British traveler-writer A. Henry Savage Landor, thrilled upon seeing a Bicol landmark in 1903, wrote: "Mayon is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen, the world-renowned Fujiyama (Mt. Fuji) of Japan sinking into perfect insignificance by comparison." Mayon has the world's most perfect cone.
Filipinos had their first taste of Mexican chili and corn during the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade (1573-1811). In return, Mexico's people had their initial taste of tamarind, Manila mango and a Filipino banana called racatan or lakatan.
Los Angeles, California was co-founded in 1781 by a Filipino named Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, along with 43 Mexicans. (Source: Atty. Rodel Rodis' "Telltale Signs" column.)
Founded in 1595 by Spaniards, the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, Philippines is older than Harvard and is the oldest existing university in Asia. The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, established in 1611, is Asia's second oldest.
What University of the Philippines fraternity lets new members run around campus naked during initiation rites? Alpha Phi Omega.
What is the world's 3rd largest English-speaking nation, next to the USA and the UK? The Philippines. (Not land area. Source: Moon Publications)
The USA bought the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam from Spain in 1898. The Filipino-American Independence War from 1899 to 1902 ensued, killing about 4,000 Americans and how many Filipinos? About 16,000 were killed in action and 200,000 died from famine and pestilence. (The Philippines lost and was colonized until 1946.)
The first female president of the Philippines sworn into office in 1986 was Corazon Cojuangco Aquino. Her maiden name is Chinese... In a March 31, 1997 article, The New York Times reported that the CIA manipulated Philippine elections: "(CIA operative Col. Edward Lansdale) essentially ran the successful presidential campaign of Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay in the Philippines in 1953."
Who was the personal physician of former United States Pres. William Clinton? Eleanor "Connie" Concepcion Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest captain in the US Navy.
The first Filipino-American in US Congress was Virginia Rep. Robert Cortez-Scott, a Harvard alumnus.
Who was the first Asian and/or Filipino to snatch America's Pulitzer Prize? Philippines Herald war journalist Carlos P. Romulo in 1941. (He was also the first Asian to become UN President.) The first two Filipino-Americans to garner the same award 56 years later were Seattle Times' Alex Tizon and Byron Acohido, who is part-Korean... Gwendolyn Brooks became the first black writer to win a Pulitzer in 1950... In 1995, the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter claimed that the Nobel Prize committee gave its Medicine award to Italian researcher Rita Levi Montalcini because of her company Fidia's $8.4 million lobbying campaign.
In the Philippines, Filipinos were introduced to the English language in 1762 by British invaders, not Americans.
The first Filipino act to land a top hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 1960s was the group Rocky Fellers of Manila. Sugar Pie deSanto (father was from the Philippines), The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (according to the October 1984 article "Prince in Exile" by Scott Isler in the magazine Musician), Jaya and Enrique Iglesias followed. Pure Filipinos who made success in minor charts were Jocelyn Enriquez aka Oriental Madonna, Buffy, Pinay and (Ella May) Saison.
Latina-American pop star Christina Aguilera lost to Filipina vocalist Josephine Roberto aka Banig during the International Star Search years ago. In a mid-1999 MTV chat, she said that competing against someone of Banig's age was "not fair."
Two Filipina beauties chosen as Miss Universe in 1969 and 1973, respectively, have Ilocano ties. Gloria Diaz is from Northern Ilocos region - La Union; Margie Moran hails from Southern Ilocos - Pangasinan.
Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2, and grew up to speak more than 20 languages, including Latin, Greek, German, French and Chinese. What were his last words? "Consummatum est!" ("It is done!")
The first ever international Grandmaster from Asia was Eugenio Torre who won at the Chess Olympiad in Nice, France in 1974. In March 1999, Maurice Ashley of New York became the first black grandmaster.
This son of two Filipino physicians scored over 700 on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) before age 13 - Kiwi Danao Camara of Punahou School, Hawaii... Edward Sanchez, a Mensa member, bagged the grand prize in the first Philippine Search for Product Excellence in Information Technology.
Who was the Filipino-American dancer who scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT? Joyce Demonteverde of California.
Pure- or part-Filipino celebrities in American showbiz include Von Flores, Tia Carrere, Paolo Montalban, Lea Salonga, Ernie Reyes Jr., Nia Peeples, Julio Iglesias Jr., Lou Diamond Phillips, Phoebe Cates and Rob Schneider. (Miss Ruffa Gutierrez, where are you?) (After co-hosting the November 13, 1999 Holyfield-Lewis boxing pre-fight special with TVKO's Joe Rocco, she has been assigned to host many other events for US television. - J. M.)
Besides gracing fashion magazine covers, this international supermodel from Manila had walked the runways since the 1970s for all the major designers, like Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan, Gianni Versace and Yves Saint Laurent - Anna Bayle.
Supermodel Kate Moss is 5'6".
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Did you know that the inventor of the antibiotic erythromycin was a Filipino? Read on
to learn more facts about great Filipinos in recent history!!!
Pride Of The Filipino Race
1. Diosdado Banatao, an engineer from Cagayan made GUI (graphical
user interface) possible. {Added Summer 99
2. Polio vaccine was discovered using Philippine monkeys. {Written
Aug 15 99
3. Zebronkey, half-zebra and half-donkey, was first bred in Manila
Zoo in 1962. {Added Summer 99.
4. Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III demonstrated that tilapia's fry fed
with sexhormones can turn female potential fry into male. {Added
Summer 99
5. The Filipino doctor who co-created the drug Erythromycin (Ilosone)
fromIloilo soil was Abelardo Aguilar. {Written Aug 15 99
6. In Spring 1999, the water-based insect buster called Household
Insecticide(HI) won Gonzalo Catan Jr. the Silver Medal at the 27th
International Exhibitionof Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland. This
Filipino innovation makes use of 21useful microorganisms, among other
materials, to kill flies, mosquitoes,termites, ants, roaches, as well
as dog ticks, fleas and lice. {Added Summer 99
7. Two Filipino inventors scored a pair of gold medals in the
InternationalInvention, Innovation, Industrial Design and Technology
Exhibition (ITEX 2000)held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September
2000. Engr. Cornelio Seño of Los Baños,Laguna and Rolando dela Cruz
garnered golds for their inventions called,respectively, "Pressure
Fluid Machine" and "Topical Formulationin Removing Warts, Moles and
the Like Using Cashew Nuts (Annacardium occidentale)." Dela Cruz
spent 25 years of research for his winning cashew nut
preparationknown as Dewart and Demole. Seno has four US and four
Philippine patents underhis name. {Added Nov 30 00
8. The University of the Philippines developed an anti-cough medicine
(Ascof)and a diuretic (Releaf) from Philippine herbs lagundi and
sambong, respectively,which won a silver in the 1997 International
Inventors' Fair in Switzerland. Theresearch papers were organized by
Dr. Francis Gomez. {Added Summer 99
9. Besides inventing the banana vinegar, Maria Carlita Rex-Doran also
producedan ampalaya (bittermelon) concoction for diabetes mellitus
and HIV infection.The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
conferred her the Gold Medalin 1989, four years after another
Filipina inventor, Olympia Gonzales, achievedthe same award. {Added
Aug 8 00
10. Who first made the banana catsup and the pineapple vinegar? Maria
Ylagan Orosa of the Philippines. {Written Aug 15 99
11. Dr. Ramon Barba discovered that spraying mango trees with
potassium nitrateinduced flowering all year round. This technology
made the Philippines a leadingexporter of mangoes and mango products
such as candy, puree and juice. {Added Summer 99
12. In 1971, a team was led by Dr. Emerita V. de Guzman in making the
firstmakapuno (coconut mutant variety) harvest from a test tube. A
student at theUniversity of Santo Tomas named Teodula K. Africa made
the first nata de coco(fermented coconut gelatin) in 1979. {Added
Summer99
13. Milagros A. Ramos invented the submerged method of cultivating
ediblemushroom mycelium (the vegetative stage of mushrooms) in liquid
medium in 1963.Her concept departed from the traditional bed-culture
method. {Added Oct 31 00
14. The world's rice research leader, International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI),is located in Los Baños, Laguna. The leading rice
exporter is Thailand,followed by the USA. The Philippines' foremost
rice breeder, Dr. Rodolfo Aquino,was one of the scientists who
developed IR8, the 1966 strain of the rice varietythat launched
Asia's "Green Revolution." {Written Aug 15 99... In 1970,
Dr.Ricardo Lanticanof Los Baños led a corn research that saved
America's corn industry from theSouthern leaf blight. {Added Summer
99
15. Dr. Nic Liquido pioneered the research on light-activated dyes
that controlmany fruit flies. He is a University of the Philippines
(UP) alumnus and formerlab director of the US Dept. of Agriculture
(USDA) Research Service. {Written Aug 15 99... Dr.Baldomero Olivera,
a UP summa cum laude graduate, discovered conotoxins, a bunchof
biomolecules in Philippine marine snails now used in
internationalneuroscience research. A seacone known scientifically as
Conus LapuLapu wasnamed after LapuLapu, the Philippine hero who
killed Ferdinand Magellan in war. {Added Summer 99
16. Dr. Florante Quiocho, a Filipino scientist, solved the structure
ofcalmodulin bound to its ligand (calcium). {AddedSummer 99
17. Urine is normally used in drug detection, but Dr. Enrique Ostrea
discoveredthat the use of meconium (the baby's first stools) was more
sensitive since thedrugs taken by the mother accumulate in the fetus'
intestines. This mec test isnow used by the US National Institute of
Health, and Ostrea has receivednumerous awards and US patents. {Added
Summer 99
18. Dr. Jorge Camara, a University of the Philippines graduate, made
history asthe world's first doctor to use teleophthalmology when he
guided Dr. Susan Senftin removing an eye tumor via two-way, closed
circuit television in 1999. {Added Oct 19 00
19. In the 1970s, immunologist Eduardo A. Padlan, together with Dr.
D. R.Davies, used x-ray crystallography to study the antibody, which
was helpful indiagnosing cancer cells and in understanding the immune
system as a whole. NedTeves, a Filipino anesthesiologist, invented
the endotracheal tube cardiac monitor. {Written Aug 15 99
20. Wilmo Orejola, a Filipino surgeon, created the harmonic scalpel,
anultrasonic surgical knife that doesn't burn flesh. He has more than
a dozenmedical and toy patents in the US and in the Philippines.
{AddedSummer 99
21. Francis Duhaylongsod, a Filipino heart surgeon in Hawaii,
invented anoperation called minimally-invasive cardiac surgery. This
uses smaller cuts intothe body, reducing the nine-week recovery
period to two. {AddedSummer 99
22. The orthopedist who authored the ''Fracture Classification
Manual'' nowwidely used all over the world was who? Ramon Gustilo, a
Filipino surgeon whoholds nine patents for artificial bone
replacement systems. {AddedSummer 99
23. Dr. E. V. Macalalag Jr., chief urologist of the Philippine Army
GeneralHospital, discovered that water from young coconut could be
used as universalurinary stone solvent. He named this procedure as
bukolysis. {AddedSummer 99
24. Who invented the fluorescent lamp? Thomas Edison discovered the
electriclight and Nikola Tesla invented the fluorescent lighting. But
the fluorescentlamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores, a
Filipino electrician.
25. Similarly, the anti-cancer drug Taxol was invented by Filipinos
usingPhilippine yew (Taxus matrana) but patented by Americans.
{Written Aug 15 99, Revised May 18 00
26. Francisco Quisumbing, a Filipino chemist, invented Quink pen ink
which hesold to Parker for international consumption. The ink cleans
the pen as itwrites, dries quickly on paper, and remains liquid
inside the tube.
27. Juanito A. Simon, a US-educated and -trained metallurgist who
smoothlyspeaks Kapampangan, formulated the Per'tua motor lubricant
internationally knownas Tribotech. This product is now used by
McDonnell Douglas in AH-65 Apachecombat support helicopters, Boeing
autoclaves and giant ovens which bake vitalaircraft parts. {Added Dec
11 00
28. A rust-proofing and water-coating material rolled into one called
MarglueMarcoat was invented by Margie Centeno of the Philippines.
{Added Summer99
29. Melano's gadget tells the contents of a liquefied petroleum gas
(LPG) tankand automatically shuts off gas flow to the burner once a
hose or tank leaks.This safety device was created by Arquillo Melano
Sr. and had never beeninstituted by American, European and Japanese
manufacturers earlier. {Added Summer 99
30. Felix D. Maramba Sr. invented the power generator fed by charcoal
andcoconut oil.
31. Dr. Antonio Mateo made the double-flaring tool (DFT) for
plumbinginstallation for airtight sealing of joints. He was awarded
the WIPO Gold Medalin Geneva, Switzerland in 1994. His company AMECOS
also markets the fireblanket, a Filipino innovation that saves lives
and properties in case of fire. {Added Summer 99
32. NEW! WIPO Inventor of the Year 1995 Edgardo Vazquez brought home
the Gold Medal for the modular housing called Vazbuilt. This is
asystem for building fire-, termite-, typhoon- and earthquake-proof
houses inless than a month using prefabricated posts and panels.
{Added Jan 30 01
33. Rodolfo Arambulo of Laguna, Philippines developed Multishock, a
bullettype that increases the firepower and stopping power of an
ordinary gun withmultiple hits in a single shot. It is considered as
the first of its kind in theworld. {Added Aug 3 00
34. Engr. Leonardo Gasendo of Manila made the super windmill as well
as the saltevaporator. {Written Aug 15 99
35. Architect Eddie Urcia, a Bicolano who owns a bicycle factory in
Brunei,invented and patented the world's fastest bike with 48-gear
combinations. {Added Summer 99
36. Filipina Margie Talaugon made the first car seat pillow for a
child. {Added Summer 99
37. Filipino inventor Daniel Dingel started working on a water-
powered car andprototype in 1969. According to the Philippine Daily
Inquirer, his hydrogenreactor uses electricity from a 12-volt car
battery to transform ordinary tapwater with salt into deuterium oxide
or heavy water. European and other foreigncars run on liquid
hydrogen, not ordinary water; they also make use of fuel cellengines
instead of internal combustion engines. (Dingel's car has never
beenpatented and commercialized because of what he suspects as an
anti-Dingel carconspiracy by multinational oil companies.)
{AddedSummer 99
38. Roberto del Rosario invented the piano tuner's guide, the piano
keyboardstressing device, the voice color tape, and the one-man-band
(OMB). The OMB waslater developed as the Sing-Along-System (SAS) to
aid his voice students. Hisfirst model came out in the 1970s, and was
copied by the Japanese who namedtheir device the karaoke. The July
24, 1999 Philippine Daily Inquirer reportedthat Del Rosario filed a
suit and was consequently awarded sole authority overkaraoke's
Philippine production. {Written Aug 15 99, Revised Spring 00
39. Ironmate, a device that automatically shuts off electricity when
a flatironis rested on it, was designed by Rodolfo Biescas Sr. of
Albay, Philippines. {Added Summer 99
40. Camilo M. Tabalba, a Filipino engineer, headed a team to make the
telephoneelectronic in 1970. By 1975, he published his findings,
including thedevelopment of the dynamic transducer (a transmission
circuit replacing thecarbon transmitter). His work helped in the
development of the modern Touchtonephone. {Added Fall 99
41. Engr. Jose Zafaralla of Mariano Marcos State University in Batac,
IlocosNorte invented a machine that makes straight bamboo poles for
use in makingfurniture and other bamboocrafts. {Added Summer 99
42. The 22-watt reflectorized circular lamp was built in a wooden box
by EduardoSta. Ines. The auxiliary is a plastic diffuser and a
stainless-steel reflectorthat gives a bright and wide illuminator.
{Added Summer 99
43. Dr. Josefino Comiso, a Filipino physicist with NASA, first
discovered arecurring polynya (semipermanent area of open water in
sea ice) in the CosmonautSea, south of the Indian Ocean. {Added
Summer 99
44. The first Filipina engineer to become NASA Space Mission manager
wasAngelita Albano Castro Kelly, who studied Mathematics/Physics at
the Universityof Santo Tomas in Manila and finished summa cum laude.
{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Winter 9945. Filipino Eugene Resos
designed the pilot seat for Boeing 747 jumbo jet in1968. Flying in
1954 at the Manila International Airport, the airplane with anengine
using alcohol was invented by Dr. Gregorio Zara (born on March 8,
1902).He also made the TV-telephone (videophone), a device that
enables callers toview each other onscreen. {Written Aug 15 99
46. Who created the Lunar Rover or moon buggy used in 1969 by
Americanastronauts who first landed on the moon? A Filipino employee
of LockheedCorporation christened Eduardo San Juan. {Written Aug 15
99, Revised Fall99
47. Filipino astronomers Edwin Aguirre and Imelda Joson discovered
Asteroid 6282(called Edwelda after their first names), an asteroid
orbiting the sun betweenMars and Jupiter. {Added Summer 99
48. Dr. Jose B. Cruz used engineering and mathematics to devise the
comparisonsensitivity matrix for evaluating changes occurring in
different components -from the parts of an ordinary flashlight to the
automatic control and feedbackof a Patriot missile. He graduated
Summa cum Laude from the University of thePhilippines. {Added Summer
99
49. Who pioneered the padding or translational technique now widely
used incomplexity theory? Dr. Carlos H. Ibarra, a Filipino professor
at University ofCalifornia (Santa Barbara) who has been a leading
researcher on the design andanalysis of algorithms, the theory of
computation, computational complexity,parallel computing and digital
libraries. {Added Summer 99
50. Edward Sanchez, a Mensan, bagged the grand prize in the first
PhilippineSearch for Product Excellence in Information Technology.
{Written Aug 15 99
51. The inventor of the one-chip video camera was Marc Loinaz, a
Filipino resident of New Jersey who works with Lucent Technologies. He
was featured inthe July 1999 issue of Discover Magazine. {Added
Summer 99
From Dave Matthews
Trust me, there's more to a country than it's economic and political structure. We can't use these two as a basis since they are both superficial in nature. I don't wanna sound preachy but then, you see, there's this thing called morality. I got this article from a friend and I think ya'll should read it. (it's pretty long though)>;>;>;>;>;>;
To my fellow Filipinos, especially those who think the U.S. is such a wonderful place. I personally think we are very lucky to be living in the Philippines where family, God and Church remain strong.
This article is in reference to the shooting at the school in Colorado where so many children died.
ONLY IN THE U.S. From the San Angelo (Texas) Standard - Times. So I give them full credit for this article.
How can we blame it all on guns? For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a
tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns. It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised in broken homes.
It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day. After all, we give our children quality time.
It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets as children.
It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care centers where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the law of the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children look on and make sure that no blood is spilled.
It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on average, seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for adult consumption.
It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.
It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so spoiled with material things that they come to equate the receiving of the material with love.
It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created when contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time.
It couldn't have been because our nation is the world leader in developing a culture of death - in which 20 million to 30 million babies have been killed by abortion. It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to teen-agers who kill their newborns.
It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and by handing out condoms as if they were candy.
It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are no laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions don't have consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it.
Nah, it must have been the guns.
Thank God, we live in a country where Family Values mean something, where we love and care for our children and where our religion is strong and part of our daily life. These are part of the reasons I love living in the Philippines and prefer living here rather than in the U.S.
A New Concept
Whoa! What in the world is happening with our kids today? Let's see...I think it started when Madalyn Murray O'Hair complained that she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you had better not read the Bible in school-the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt ot steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK.
Remember Dr. Benjamin Spock, who said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem? And we said, OK, we won't spank them.
Then someone said that teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And our administrators said whoa, no one in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued.
Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and we won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, that's a grand idea.
Then someone else said, let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the "fun" they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents. And we said, that's another great idea.
And then some of our top officials said that it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And we said, as long as I have a job and the economy is good, it doesn't matter to me what anyone does in private.
So now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. Does it have anything to do with "we reap what we sow"?
WOW! What a concept!. . .
