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Kuratong Baleleng is an organized crime syndicate in the Philippines that was once an anti-communist, vigilante group. [2] [3] Considered to be one of the largest syndicates in the country, Kuratong Baleleng received nationwide attention due to their alleged end in a shootout with the Philippine National Police in May 1995 in Quezon City.
Several of these are held to honor the local Roman Catholic patron saint, to commemorate local history and culture, to promote the community's products, or to celebrate a bountiful harvest. They can be marked by Holy Masses , processions , parades , theatrical play and reenactments , religious or cultural rituals, trade fairs , exhibits ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Khartoum, Sudan Prehistoric times. circa 5000 BCE, first documented skull, human bones and tools found in ...
The Buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis), one of the birds locally known in the Philippines as tikling, which were the inspiration for the movements of the dance. The name tinikling is a reference to birds locally known as tikling, which can be any of a number of rail species, but more specifically refers to the slaty-breasted rail (Gallirallus striatus), the buff-banded rail ...
Poverty incidence of Santa Fe 10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 53.50 2009 50.14 2012 36.99 2015 32.71 2018 26.52 2021 23.25 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Agriculture is the most important sector in the municipality. This sector comprises sub-sectors namely: crops, livestock, poultry, and fishing. Crops like rice, corn, mango, cassava, banana, sweet yam and coconut are raised by farmers ...
The Blaan people, [9] [a] are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines.Their name may be derived from "bla", meaning "opponent", and the "people"-denoting suffix "an".
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-2994-1. Biran, Michal (2005). The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-84226-3.
A patadyong from the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines. The patadyong (pronounced pa-tad-jóng, also called patadyung, patadjong, habol, or habul), is an indigenous Philippine rectangular or tube-like wraparound skirt worn by both men and women of the Visayas islands and the Sulu Archipelago, similar to the Malong, or Sarong.