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Originally posted by habitforming
Originally posted by xuenchen
I don't know.
That's why I asked ??
You must suspect something or you would not be responding so strongly !!
Maybe he is a hidden relative.
WHAT????????
You do not know what they are covering up?????
OK. Well then I want to know what it is you are covering up and why you are covering it up.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by xuenchen
What are they covering up then?
Have you ever read the communist manifesto, das kaptial or anything else written by Marx?
edit on 20-6-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by xuenchen
What are they covering up then?
Have you ever read the communist manifesto, das kaptial or anything else written by Marx?
edit on 20-6-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by igor_ats
Why does he have a Hispanic sounding name. . . none of them sound Philippine.
Jose - no
Antonio - no
Vargas - not that I know of
Although they were not the first Europeans in the Philippines, the first well documented arrival of western Europeans in the archipelago was the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan, which first sighted the mountains of Samar at dawn on 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar), making landfall the following day at the small, uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf.[1] Magellan had abandoned his Portuguese citizenship and became a Spanish subject prior to his contract with Spain. On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1521 (Spanish calendar), at Masao, Butuan, (now in Agusan Del Norte), he solemnly planted a cross on the summit of a hill overlooking the sea and claimed possession of the islands he had seen for Spain, naming them Archipelago of Saint Lazarus.[2]
History of the Philippines (1521–1898)