funfacts

Did you know that...

...Nayong Pilipino is the first themepark in the Philippines?

...after the Katipuneros won their independence from Spain, the US becane to impose its own brand ofneo-colonialism on the Filipinos. It is known in the U.S. history books as the Philippine Insurrection, but is hardly ever thought in schools?

...Guillermo Tolentino, narional artist sculpted the Bonifacio Monument and UP Oblation? He was born July 24 1890.

...Carlos P. Romulo in 1941 won the Pulitzer Prize? The first Asian/Filipino to win the Award.

...Fernando Amorsolo was the first to be officially declared as a National Artist? He was given the distinction of National Artist for Painting in 1972.

...Juan Luna's Painiting Spollarium won the Gold Medal in the 1884 Exposicion Nacional De Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain?

...several Ewok lines in the Return of the Jedi episode of Star Wars are in Filipino (Tagalog) language?

...Lea Salonga is the first Filipina to win both Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award? She got it for her performance of Kim in Miss Saigon.

...Anna Bayle and international supermodel from Manila had walked the runways for all the major designers, like Calvin Klein, Channel, Christian Diior, Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan, Gianni Versace, and Yves Saint Laurent.