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The Sambali or Piat Sambali Festival is celebrated every year in Piat, Cagayan from June 23 to July 2. A spectacle of color, form and movement and songs is to be expected in this celebration, all brought about centuries-old cultural traditions. The Sambali festival originated from the Sambali dance which is a war dance of the Itawis tribe of Cagayan that was converted to Christianity through the intercession of the Lady of Piat. It was revived in 1989... (read more)

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El Indio is an adventure komiks novel written and illustrated by Francisco V. Coching and published in the pages of Pilipino Komiks from 1952 - 1953. It tells the story of Fernando, a handsome and dashing colored Spanish mestizo who went back to the Philippines to exact revenge on his father who he believed abandoned him and his mother Blanquita. There he discovered the cruel and oppressive colonial government, and joined the rebels in the fight against the oppressors as El Indio. El Indio was the sequel to Coching's popular series, Sabas, Ang Barbaro and is the most popular and most succesful of all his comic novels and in Philippine komiks history... (read more)

• The Sumuroy Revolt, also known as Sumuroy Rebellion, was an uprising led by Juan Ponce Sumuroy...

• Formal education in the Philippines follows the educational ladder of 6+4+4 structure...

• Mangatyanan or The Blood Trail is a film included in the Cinemalaya Film Festival for 2009...

• Wang Ta-Yuan is the writer of the Summary Notices of the Barbarians of the Isles...

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  After outclassing British pride Ricky Hatton in just two rounds, Manny Pacquiao remains the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world according to Ring Magazine.
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  RP gets the chairmanship of the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Intellectual Property Policy and Cooperation for the first time.
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  Philippines finally wins the right to host the 2010 World Robot Olympiad after three tries.
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  Library of Congress unveils Doctrina Christiana, the oldest book printed in the Philippines published in 1593.

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Hey Bianca! Jorge Bocobo was not only a professor but he was actually the fifth president of the University of the Philippines and you may expect why he is strict in implementing rules. He has been known as a man of discipline and morals. And as a result of his desire to urge students to return to simple but basic virtues, he suspended a whole batch of students for violating the dance regulations. He believed in not only doling out knowledge but imparting values and principle. He may be strict but there definitely is more to this great man than a list of laws to follow. Wikipilipinas has articles that would satisfy your interest about this great scholar.

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