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Jun 28, 2024 · Teacher Leonila Arucan, dressed in dried banana leaves, takes part in the mud festival outside the church of St John the Baptist at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines. All photos: AP. Families wear dried banana leaves and gather at village church to show devotion to St John the Baptist.
Apr 30, 2024 · People visit the remnants of the old sunken town of Pantabangan on April 28, 2024 in Nueva Ecija province, Philippines. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images. CNN —. A nearly 300-year-old settlement...
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This photo, taken in the early 1890s during a Muslim wedding in Sulu, is one of the earliest in Dean C. Worcester’s photographic collection. Worcester published “The Philippine Islands and Their People,” one of the first books to ever reach American readers after the end of Spanish-American War in 1898. Born in Vermont in 1866, Worcester worked as ...
Another gem from Worcester’s collection, this photo–along with another one showing some tribal Filipinos staring at and amused by a phonograph–suggested the cultural inferiority of indigenous Filipinos. As the colonial administrator and head of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, Dean Worcester slowly introduced the Western culture to the indigenou...
This undated photo shows a man on a hammock–presumed by some historians to be Apolinario Mabini–guarded by American soldiers including an officer on horseback. Known in Philippine history books as the “Sublime Paralytic” or“Brains of the Revolution,” Mabini was Aguinaldo’s most trusted adviser. When the Filipino-American War broke out, he fled to C...
This photo from the archives of the National Museum of Public Health shows two plague researchers in the Philippines wearing protective masks/uniforms. In 1912, Dr. Heiser, chief quarantine officer, and director of health of the Philippine Islands discovered that the Third Plague had already reached the country. The Third Plague, said to have origi...
This heartbreaking photo shows three Filipino children–with the older boy severely burned–during the aftermath of Battle of Manila in 1945. The Japanese atrocities resulted in the deaths of at least 100, 000 innocent Filipino civilians, including women and children. Also Read: 12 Rare Pinoy Historical Videos You’ve Probably Never Seen Cruel acts of...
Apr 9, 2024 · According to Nueva Ecija resident Renren Gala, whose photos of the lost town have gone viral, the ruins have reemerged on April 1. You can now see the old cross of St. Andrew Parish, constructed in 1825; foundations of the old municipal hall, the town plaza, and town marker; and old tree trunks that have been submerged for 50 years.
May 3, 2024 · NUEVA ECIJA, Philippines May 3 (Reuters) - Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare spectacle and an extra source...
Jul 24, 2012 · Nueva Ecija figures in our country's history for its many significant contributions towards Philippine liberty, and its people have kept alive and have zealously protected the many monuments and tributes to their fellowmen who have given their all for freedom.
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Nueva Ecija is the biggest rice producer in Central Luzon and in the Philippines, thus, often referred to as the Rice Bowl of the Philippines. Rice fields in Guimba. Nueva Ecija is considered the main rice growing province of the Philippines and the leading producer of onions in the country.
