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Ang Larawan, internationally released as The Portrait, is a 2017 Philippine musical film directed by Loy Arcenas. Based on the 1997 stage play, Larawan which in turn was based on the 1950 literary play A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino by National Artist Nick Joaquin , the film takes place in 1941 just before World War II in a mansion in Manila.
The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Spanish: Mancomunidad de Filipinas; [7] [8] Tagalog: Komonwelt ng Pilipinas [9]) was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946.
The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people.
Maynila, also known commonly as Manila, was a major Islamic Tagalog bayan ("country" or "city-state") [6] [1] situated along the modern-day district of Intramuros in the city of Manila, at the southern bank of the Pasig River.
Banig in the Philippines sold with various other traditional handicrafts Women weaving banigs at Saob Cave in Basey, Samar. A baníg (pronounced buh-NIG) is a traditional handwoven mat of the Philippines predominantly used as a sleeping mat or a floor mat.
The Bantayog ng mga Bayani (lit. ' Monument of Heroes ' ), sometimes simply referred to as the Bantayog , is a monument, museum, and historical research center in Quezon City , Philippines , which honors the martyrs and heroes of the struggle against the dictatorship of the 10th Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos .
The Tagalog maginoo, the Kapampangan ginu, and the Visayan tumao were the nobility social class among various cultures of the pre-colonial Philippines.Among the Visayans, the tumao were further distinguished from the immediate royal families, the kadatuan.
Emilio Jacinto y Dizon (Spanish: [eˈmi.ljo xaˈsinto]; December 15, 1875 – April 16, 1899) was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution.He was one of the highest-ranking officers in the Philippine Revolution and was one of the highest-ranking officers of the revolutionary society Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, or simply and more popularly ...