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The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. (commonly known by its trade name, Insular Life, and shortened as InLife) is a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines. Established on November 25, 1910 in Manila , it is the first Filipino life insurance company.
The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands [6] ( Spanish: Islas Filipinas Estadounidenses [7]) was an unincorporated territory of the United States that was established in 1902 and was reorganized in 1935 in preparation for later independence. [8] [9] [10] The Insular Government was preceded by the United States Military Government of the ...
Cesar Concio. Cesar Homero Rosales Concio Sr. (1907 – 2003) was an architect who as the first University Architect of the University of the Philippines designed many buildings in the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. [1] He was also one of the architects who created the Makati Central Business District. [2]
e. The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...
Spanish Filipino or Hispanic Filipino (Spanish: español filipino / hispano filipino / peninsular filipino/ insular filipino / criollo filipino/ latino filipino/ filipino indígena; Filipino/Tagalog: kastílâ filipino; Cebuano: katsílà filipino; Hiligaynon: katsílà filipino) are an ethnic and a multilingualistic group of Spanish descent native to the Philippines.
The Ayala Museum is a museum in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is run privately by the Ayala Foundation and houses archaeological, ethnographic, historical, fine arts, numismatics, and ecclesiastical exhibits. [2] Since its establishment in 1967, [3] the museum has been committed to showcasing overseas collections and situating ...
The Insular Cases have also been criticized for having been inconsistent in application between the two largest insular territories, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was seen as "an important geo-strategic asset" [27] for emerging U.S. imperialism and a gateway to Latin America, while insular control over the Philippines was a ...
The term "insular" (from insulam, the Latin word for island) [16] refers to U.S. island territories that are not incorporated into either a state or a federal district. All insular areas was under the authority of the U.S. Bureau of Insular Affairs, a division of the US War Department. [17] [18]