Australia, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac Union that spoke American.

After his stay in Nernst's lab, Lewis returned to Harvard as an instructor for three more years, and in 1904 left to become Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the Bureau of Science of the Philippine Islands in Manila.

** Datus, Rajas, and Sultans of the Philippine Islands, see Sultanate of Sulu and History of the Philippines

Methodist and Wesleyan traditions in the Philippines are shared by three of the largest mainline Protestant churches in the country – The United Methodist Church, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas ( IEMELIF ) ( Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands ), and The United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

After being defeated in 1898 in the Spanish-American War and losing possession of the Philippine Islands, Spain sold the Palau archipelago to Imperial Germany in the 1899 German-Spanish Treaty.

They, together with the cluster of the Visayan Islands that separate them, represent the three principal regions of the archipelago that are identified by the three stars on the Philippine flag.

* State of the Philippine Islands A book written by a Spaniard during the early 19th century that studies the economic conditions of the Philippines which was then, a colony of Spain.

He was also the first Pope to bestow the Immaculate Conception as Patroness to the Philippine Islands on 9 February 1579.

Spam was introduced into the aforementioned areas, in addition to other islands in the Pacific such as Okinawa and the Philippine Islands, during the U. S. military occupation after World War II.

* 1564 – 1571 – Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi sails from Mexico and conquers the Philippine Islands, founding Manila.

In reality, there is no single Philippine English Accent, many indigenous languages affect the English that is spoken throughout the Islands.

The act mandated U. S. recognition of independence of the Philippine Islands as a separate and self-governing nation after a ten year transition period.

The act empowered the U. S. President, within two years following independence, to negotiate matters relating to U. S. naval reservations and fueling stations of in the Philippine Islands.

In 1821, the administration of the Philippine Islands was shifted directly to the Kingdom of Spain in Madrid, rather than the Philippines being ruled via the Viceroy of Mexico, since Mexico and its southern neighbors ( in Central America ) had won their independence from Spain.

However, following an escalation of the Spratly Islands dispute in 2011, various Philippine government agencies started using the name " West Philippine Sea ".

In September 2012, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed Administrative Order No. 29, mandating that all government agencies use the name " West Philippine Sea " to refer to the parts of the South China Sea within the Philippines ' exclusive economic zone, and tasked the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority ( NAMRIA ) to use the name in official maps to bolster the Philippines ' claims to the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal .< ref >

After a brief stopover at the Marine Barracks at Cavite, he arrived at his duty station on May 5, 1921, the Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands.

He was a survivor of the Bataan Death March in the Philippine Islands.

The film company spent $ 250, 000 building a replica gunboat named the San Pablo, based on the USS Villalobos -- a former Spanish Navy gunboat that was seized by the U. S. Navy in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War ( 1898 – 99 ) -- but with a greatly reduced draft to allow sailing on the shallow Tam Sui and Keelung rivers.

* Spratly Islands: The Governor of the Philippine state of Palawan has sent Philippine soldiers to take possession of the uninhabited oil-rich Spratly Islands, which are claimed by the Philippines, Brunei, the People's Republic of China, Malaysia, the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), and Vietnam.

In the Philippines, ASL is widely understood by the Deaf community, though it is not the ancestor of Philippine Sign Language as sometimes thought.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

Aside from the American version and the newly-published Philippine Book of Common Prayer, the Filipino-Chinese of Saint Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in the Diocese of the Central Philippines uses the English-Chinese Diglot Book of Common Prayer, published by the Episcopal Church of Southeast Asia.

Other examples in Asia include Seoul Metropolitan Subway which has suburban lines operated by Korail in South Korea, KTM Komuter in Malaysia, The Philippine National Railways orange line in Metro Manila, Philippines and, KRL Jabotabek in Jakarta Metropolitan area, Indonesia.

There is also Philippine English, but it is influenced by North American English.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels, and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance ( which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows ).

The extent of Allied quantitative and qualitative superiority by this point in the war was demonstrated during Battle of the Philippine Sea, a lopsided Allied victory where Japanese fliers were downed in such numbers and with such ease that American fighter pilots likened it to a great turkey shoot.

Though many of the Philippine languages do not have a fully codified grammar, most of them follow the verb aspects that are demonstrated by Filipino or Tagalog.

Hamon de Bola, produced by the major Philippine food manufacturers, is usually offered as gifts to employees in most companies and government offices during the Yuletide season.

* 2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Variations include the longer and more pointed iták intended for combat, and it was also used during the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish colonial authorities, later becoming a signature weapon of guerrillas in the Philippine-American War ; the longest variation, called a kampilan, was used by the ancient sultanates of Mindanao.

Mindanao is surrounded by 4 seas: the Sulu Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south, and the Mindanao Sea to the north.

* 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.

A Philippine province is headed by a Governor.

A Philippine city or municipality is headed by a Mayor.

These and oxpeckers ( and the Philippine creepers if they are not outright but highly apomorphic starlings ) form a group of Muscicapoidea which originated probably in the Early Miocene-very roughly 25-20 mya-somewhere in East Asia ( Zuccon et al.

Early on the morning of 12 December, the Japanese landed 2, 500 men of the 16th Division at Legazpi on southern Luzon, from the nearest American and Philippine forces.

* waldorflibrary. org The Philippine Waldorf Initiative on Early Childhood