* Philippines – Philippine Eagle ( National bird )

Two of the largest extant eagles, the Harpy Eagle and the Philippine Eagle, also have similarly reduced relative wing-length in adaptation to forest-dwelling.

The Philippine Eagle ( Pithecophaga jefferyi ), also known as the Monkey-eating Eagle, is an eagle of the family Accipitridae that is endemic to forests in the Philippines.

Killing a Philippine Eagle is punishable under Philippine law by twelve years in jail and heavy fines.

Upon its discovery, the Philippine Eagle was first called the monkey-eating eagle because of reports from natives of Bonga, Samar, where the species was first discovered, that it preyed exclusively on monkeys ; from these reports it gained its generic name, from the Greek pithecus (" ape or monkey ") and phagus (" eater of ").

This, coupled with the fact that the same name applied to the African Crowned Eagle and the Central and South American Harpy Eagle, resulted in a presidential proclamation to change its name to Philippine Eagle in 1978, and in 1995 was declared a national emblem.

Apart from Philippine Eagle and Monkey-eating Eagle, it has also been called the Great Philippine Eagle.

The back of the Philippine Eagle is dark brown, while the underside and underwings are white.

The Philippine Eagle is typically reported as being long, but a survey at several of the largest natural history collection in the world found that the average was for males and for females.

The longest Philippine Eagle reported anywhere and the longest eagle outside of the extinct Haast's Eagle is a specimen from Field Museum of Natural History ( FMNH ) with a length of, but it had been kept in captivity and therefore may not represent the wild individuals due to differences in the food availability.

The tarsus of the Philippine Eagle is the longest of any eagle, from long.

The most frequently heard noises made by the Philippine Eagle are loud, high-pitched whistles ending with inflections in pitch.

The Philippine Eagle is endemic to the Philippines and can be found on four major islands: eastern Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao.

A captive Philippine Eagle lived for 41 years in Rome Zoo, and it was already adult when it arrived at the zoo.

* 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.

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.

During this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II: the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

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* 1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units was enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.

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.

The desired result was for the AFP to gain sufficient capability to locate and destroy the ASG, to recover hostages and to enhance the legitimacy of the Philippine government.

When Marcos was overthrown in the People Power Revolution, other parties appeared, such as Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, Lakas ng Bansa, National Union of Christian Democrats, and Philippine Democratic Socialist Party.

A convention was held on May 21, 1989 at the Philippine International Convention Center ( PICC ).

* 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.

President Bush's speech on October 18, 2003 was only the second U. S. Presidential address to the Philippine Congress ; U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the first.

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

Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine ( née Blum ) and Ignatz Siodmak.

An example of siege during this time, prolonged during 337 days due to the isolation of the surrounded troops, was the Siege of Baler, in which a reduced group of Spanish soldiers, was besieged in a small church by the Philippine rebels, in the course of the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish-American War, until months after the Treaty of Paris, the end of the conflict.

One person was killed in the course of the plot — a Japanese passenger seated near a nitroglycerin bomb on Philippine Airlines Flight 434.

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.

The island of Taiwan was formed approximately 4 to 5 million years ago at a complex convergent boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

He did vote on legislation to protect the alcohol industry 30 times and was against Philippine independence.

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

; Supreme Bishop: Is the leader or primate of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente ( Philippine Independent Church ), known informally as Aglipayans.

It is also commonly known as ' bullfrog ' in Philippine English.

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* 1899 – 1901-Philippine-American War, commonly known as the " Philippine Insurrection ".

* Élisabeth de France ( Elisabeth Philippine Marie Helene ), sister of Louis XVI of France, also known as Madame Elisabeth

In the Philippines, Eid ul-Fitr, known to the Christian majority and other non-Muslims as " Wakás ng Ramadán " (" End of Ramadan ") or incorrectly as " Ramadan ", has been recognised by the Philippine Government as a regular holiday by virtue of Republic Act No. 9177 and it is also according to Presidential Proclamation No. 1083, signed into law on November 13, 2002 – the only Christian country worldwide to have done so.

These were collectively known as the " Cartas al Rey Don Felipe II: sobre la expedicion, conquistas y progresos de las islas Felipinas " ( Letters to the King Lord Philip II: on the expedition, conquests and progress of the Philippine Islands ).

This was known as the Philippine Expeditionary Forces To Korea, or PEFTOK.

This force was known as the Philippine Civic Action Group-Vietnam or PHILCAG-V.

Also worth mentioning is the formation of the famed Philippine Constabulary Band on October 15, 1902 by Colonel Walter Loving upon the instructions of Civil Governor William Howard Taft, who was known as a music lover.

This area, which soon became Camp Crame, Camp Murphy ( now known as Camp Aguinaldo ), and Zablan Field, site of the original air arm of the PC ( the Philippine Constabulary Air Corps or PCAC ), was exchanged by the Manila City government for the old Gagalangin barracks compound in Tondo.

Under the National Defense Act of 1935, promulgated by General Douglas MacArthur ( then newly appointed as commander in chief of the Philippine Commonwealth military ), the PC became the backbone of the Philippine Regular Army, later re-established after World War II and was known as both the Philippine Constabulary and as the Military Police Command.

The Constabulary was inactivated on this date and was known as the Constabulary Division, Philippine Commonwealth Army.

Headquarters Armed Forces of the Philippines became known as " General Headquarters, Armed Forces of the Philippines "; while General Headquarters, Philippine Constabulary became known as " Headquarters, Philippine Constabulary ", the nomenclature it had in the prewar years.

The Department and its sub-units were predominantly under the command of American officers, including an American general, while the majority of the troops were enlisted Filipinos, known as the Philippine Scouts ( PS ).