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51 unusual facts about Manila


2nd FAMAS Awards

The 2nd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1954 in Life Theater, Quezon Boulevard, Quiapo, Manila.

Agimat

Like those in Quiapo district in Manila, most of the agimat merchants are near churches (like in its courtyard or in the marketplace just nearby).

Arthur Angara

He finished his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree at the University of the East in Sampaloc, Manila in 1960, the same year when he passed the Dentist Licensure Examination, in which he was ranked 12th.

Baguio Central University

When Manila is at 35°C or above, Baguio seldom exceeds 26°C at its warmest.

Blumentritt Road

It runs through the border of the City of Manila with Quezon City and Caloocan from Rizal Avenue in Santa Cruz district to Gregorio Tuazon Street (formerly Calle Balic Balic) in Sampaloc district.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

When the DREAM road is completed in 2033, C-6 will follow the proposed Metro Manila Tollway route eastward starting from its northern terminus at the North Luzon Expressway in Marilao in Bulacan province (Expressway segment).

Chinese Taipei men's national softball team

The 1992 World Championships, the eighth time the event was competed for, was held in Manila.

De La Salle Brothers Philippine District

The location is at the former Perez-Samanillo Compound on 652 Calle Nozaleda in Paco, Manila.

Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga

The presence of Don Bosco in the Philippines began in 1912 when two Salesian priests arrived in the Parish of Nuestra de los Remedios in Malate, Manila.

Enderun Colleges

Other presenters were Bel S. Castro, a member of Enderun’s F&B faculty, Reto Klauser, area manager and general manager of Makati Shangri-La, Manila, J. Gamboa, executive chef of Cirkulo and Milkyway restaurants and director of Les Toques Blanches, and Amy Besa, owner of the Purple Yam restaurant in New York and author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens.

Families and Children for Empowerment and Development

It facilitates leadership development, empowerment, organizational development and social services among street children, urban poor children and their families in identified urban poor areas of Districts V and VI (Paco and Pandacan) Manila.

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz was born on June 6, 1932 in Santa Cruz, Manila.

Fejervarya moodiei

It has in the past been often mixed with Fejervarya cancrivora; its distribution is not well known but includes the Philippines (its type locality is Manila, Luzon), Thailand, Hainan Island (China), and India.

Fourth national congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines

The fourth national congress of the Communist Party of the Philippines was held February 24-28, 1946, at Quality Club, Rizal Avenue in Manila.

Francisco Guilledo

While in Iloilo, he befriended a local boxer and together they migrated to Manila, settling in Tondo.

Gonna Fly Now

In the Philippines, the song was used in the commercial for Tiger Energy Biscuits which shows the Tiger mascot eating the said biscuit brand before jogging in the streets of Manila.

Grace Christian College

The school was founded 1950 at Nagtahan Street in San Miguel, Manila, by Baptist missionaries Dr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Spahr and educator Mrs. Julia L. Tan.

How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

Brian McKnight & Kyla - "How do You Keep the Music Playing" performed live at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila (2012)

Ignatius Jones

Ignatius Jones (born Juan Ignacio Trápaga in 1957, Singalong, Manila, Philippines) is an Australian events director, journalist, actor and previously fronted the shock rock band Jimmy and the Boys.

Intramuros Consortium

The Intramuros Consortium, established in 2002, is a non-profit, academic cooperation consisting of four prominent institutions of higher education located in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.

John Hays Hammond

In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.

Kerima Polotan Tuvera

The city of Manila conferred on Polotan-Tuvera its Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, in recognition of her contributions to its intellectual and cultural life.

Kirby Higbe

Nonetheless, he stayed in Manila until March 1946, at which point he finally returned to the United States.

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

The bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally meaning great houses made of stone) which have stone foundations on the first floor and are made of wood on the second floor(constructed thus to withstand earthquakes), were transplanted from Manila (Tondo, Binondo and Quiapo), Quezon City, Pampanga, La Union, the Ilocos and Cagayan

Lawrence Olson

After the end of the war, Olson worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC between 1948 and 1950, and he served as cultural attaché at the American embassy in Manila, Philippines from 1951 to 1952, before finishing his PhD at Harvard.

Legarda Street

Legarda Street is a short street located in Sampaloc district in Manila, Philippines.

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It intersects with Recto Avenue–Mendiola Street and Bilibid Viejo Street–San Rafael Street before terminating at the junction with Concepcion Aguila Street and Nepomuceno Street (formerly Tanduay Street) near the Basilica of San Sebastian in Quiapo district.

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It heads due west, traversing the southern edge of Sampaloc and skirting the northern boundary of San Miguel.

Lester L. Westling, Jr.

He was also the founding Vicar of the Emmanuel Mission, Tondo, Manila.

Manuel Barbeyto

Barbeyto was born in Tondo, Manila, where he was raised by his parents, Inocencio Barbeyto and Catalina Costosa.

Manuel Earnshaw

He was born in Cavite, Philippine Islands, born November 19, 1862; attended the Ateneo de Manila and the Nauti School, Manila, Philippine Islands.

Marcos Road

Marcos Road, also known as President Ferdinand E. Marcos Highway and by its highway designation Radial Road 10 or R-10, is a 6-10 lane divided highway in northern Manila, Philippines connecting Recto Avenue in San Nicolas district with Circumferential Road 4 in Navotas in the north.

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The highway is an extension of Bonifacio Drive and Roxas Boulevard (Radial Road 1 or R-1) north of the Pasig River running north-south through the Manila North Port area serving the coastal Tondo and Navotas communities.

Martin Teofilo Delgado

He went to school at the Santa Barbara Parochial School and later at the St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, then known as Seminario de San Vicente Ferrer, in Jaro and Ateneo Municipal in Manila.

Mendiola Consortium

It was founded on July 16, 1974 upon the invitation of then Centro Escolar University President Dionisio Tiongco the heads of San Beda College, College of the Holy Spirit and La Consolacion College Manila.

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Mendiola Consortium (MC) is an educational organization of four institutions located along the street of Mendiola in Manila, Philippines.

Niall Anthony MacDermot

Subsequently the family lived in Taiwan, Manila and back to Japan, which they were forced to leave on very short notice at the outbreck of World War II.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails know as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials.

Pablo Ocampo Street

It runs west-east for about 3.4 kilometers (2.1 miles) connecting the southern districts of Malate and San Andres southeast to Makati.

Partas

The latest terminal within Metro Manila was opened in Sampaloc district of Manila City.

Quirino Avenue

It runs for 3.6 kilometers (2.2 miles) in a northeast-southwest direction from Nagtahan Bridge across from Santa Mesa in the north to Roxas Boulevard in Malate in the south.

Ricky Belmonte

Belmonte was born as Jesse Cruz on December 24, 1947 in Tondo, Manila.

Rizal

The provincial territory began with the organization of the Tondo province and Laguna province during the Spanish administration.

Rune Djurhuus

His Grandmaster title was gained after scoring a norm at the Chess Olympiad in Manila in 1992, and two norms at Gausdal, in the 1994-1995 tournament, and the 1995-1996 tournament.

Santa Cruz Bridge

The steel truss bridge was the fourth to span the river connecting the district of Santa Cruz from Plaza Goiti to Arroceros Street in the old city center of Manila.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium

In its over two decades of existence, the consortium has been led by the Board of Responsibles composed of the presidents of the member institutions namely, Adamson University (AdU), De La Salle University (DLSU-Manila), the Philippine Christian University (PCU), St. Scholastica's College (SSC), the Philippine Normal University (PNU), and St. Paul University-Manila (SPUM).

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Established in 1974, the IIC is composed of five schools located along Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines.

Tayuman Street

It stretches 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district.

Tirtayasa

Ageng established trade with Spanish Manila for silver and built canal for coconut palm and sugar plantations, among other developments.

Yonghe District

Before the city was merged with New Taipei and became a district, it had the highest population density in Taiwan and second in the world (after Manila in the Philippines), with over 41,300 people per square km.


Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira

Doña Isabel Barreto was honoured in Manila and Quirós was commended for his service and absolved of any responsibility for the killings on Santa Cruz.

Amada Santos Ocampo

Amada Santos-Ocampso was born in Manila, Philippines, of parents Antonino Santos-Ocampo, Sr., and Juanita Galvez of Manila.

Arnold Atienza

He was the Presidential Adviser on Youth Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and was concurrently the head of the Manila sports development office and inner city development program from 2001 to 2007.

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila, Philippines) is a concert pianist, writer and artist, the only child of United States Army General and Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur and grandchild of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur.

Benjamin P. Ablao, Jr.

His parents were both of Filipino heritage, with his father being from the Philippine capital, Manila, and mother from the Philippine "summer capital", Baguio City.

Billy Blanks

Blanks was hired as a bodyguard for lead actress Catherine Bach during the filming of 1988's Driving Force, due to the political unrest present in Manila at the time; he impressed the producers so much, they wrote him into the script.

Budoy Marabiles

Billed by the show as the "M-16 of Samar", he is best known as the vocalist of the Cebu-based reggae band Junior Kilat, which is responsible for songs such as Original Sigbin (In Bisaya mythology, Sigbin is a mythical creature), K Fyne (Okay, Fine) and Ako si M-16 (I am M-16), which bagged the Best Song in the 2005 NU Rock awards sponsored by the Manila-based rock radio station NU 107.

Capture of Guam

Some thought the expedition was to hoist the American flag over the Caroline Islands and remain there until reinforcements arrived for a stronger descent upon Manila.

Capture of Malolos

General Arthur MacArthur, Jr.'s division advanced to Malolos along the Manila–Dagupan Railway.

Casa del Niño Jesus de Pagbilao

Mrs. Batocabe was then the high school principal of Maryhill Academy on sabbatical for her doctoral studies at De La Salle University, Manila.

Cebu Pacific Flight 387

Cebu Pacific Flight 387 (5J387) was a domestic Cebu Pacific air flight from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City on Mindanao Island.

Chinese in Palau

One Russian explorer, August von Kotzebue reported noted that Chinese or Filipino traders from Manila sailed to Palau and Yap to sell dragon jars to the islanders during the early to mid 19th century.

College of St. John-Roxas

The supervision of the school was transferred to De La Salle University-Manila and Br.

Dawsonne Drake

During his administration in the Philippines, his term was scandalized by bitter quarrels with various military officers (General William Draper; Admiral Cornish; Major Felt; Captain Thomas Backhouse (command British forces in Manila); and Captain William Brereton, RN).

Ethnic issues in the Philippines

After the destructive raids of various ports and towns including the newly Spanish-established Manila by Chinese pirate Limahong, the colonial government saw the Chinese as a threat and decided to curb the Sangley in the colony by racial segregation and immigration control.

Families and Children for Empowerment and Development

FCED decided to focus its assistance to street children and urban poor children and their families in 13 low income Barangays of District V and VI in Paco and Pandacan, in the city of Manila.

Football in the Philippines

Its third project was to upgrade the pitch in the Rizal Memorial Stadium to an artificial turf from August to September 2012, but it was discontinued because Philippine Football Federation President Mariano Araneta said that conducting the 2012 Philippine Peace Cup in Manila would lessen the expenses of the PFF in the event.

HNLMS K XIII

She made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma.

HUMANFOLK

Assembled in the summer of 2008, the introduction of Alegre, Ibarra and Rodriguez at the United States Embassy in Manila spurred a series of musical and social interactions.

Indian Institute of Banking and Finance

The Institute is having collaboration arrangements with reputed international bodies like Canadian Institute of Bankers; Securities Institute, Australia; World Bank, Washington; American Bankers Association and Asian Institute of Management, Manila and IIMs / XLRI, India for offering courses and CPD programmes to banking and finance professionals.

Inocencio Junquera

Resil Mojares, Introduksiyon sa Modernong Teatrong Cebuano, in Dulaang Cebuano (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1997).

José Abad Santos

The Japanese High Commander Kiyotake Kawaguchi took him and his son aboard a ship on April 26, 1942 thinking they were heading to Manila.

Katrina Legarda

Under the auspices of the UNICEF, PLAN International, the British Embassy (Manila) and UNIFEM, she trains judges, prosecutors, social workers and police personnel around the country (as well as in Vientiane, Lao PDR, Goa, India and Lahore, Pakistan) on the investigation of crimes involving women and children.

Ladislao Diwa

The two became close friends and Diwa later boarded with Teodoro Plata at Bonifacio's house in Tondo, Manila.

Mark Salvatus

Graduated Cum Laude at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design, Manila with a degree in Advertising Arts (2003) and awarded Benavidez Outstanding Student Achievement Award in the same year.

Miss Resorts World Manila 2011

Miss Resorts World Manila 2011, is the 2nd pageant edition of Resorts World Manila held on Aug. 27, 2011 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Newport City, Metro Manila.

Nelly Kamwelu

Nelly Alexandra Kamwelu (born 1991) is a Tanzanian model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe Tanzania and Miss Southern Africa International titles in 2011.She represented her country in Miss Universe 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil, Miss International 2011 in China, Miss Earth 2011 in Manila, Philippines, and Miss Tourism Queen International in China.

Owen Summers

Arriving in Manila in August they accepted the surrender of the Spanish Army of 15,000 soldiers.

Pontifical Council for the Family

It organizes the World Meetings of Families, convened in Rome, Italy in 1994, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1997, Rome again in 2000, Manila, Philippines in 2003, Valencia, Spain, in 2006, Mexico City, Mexico in 2009, Milan, Italy in 2012, and Philadelphia, United States this coming 2015.

Reycard Duet

In July 1966, the duo was one of the opening acts for the Beatles' performance at Rizal Stadium in Manila, along with Dolphy and Panchito and Pilita Corrales.

Ricardo Ramírez

Whilst working on the Family Religious Education Project in Tehuacán from 1970 to 1976, Ramírez furthered his studies at the East Asian Pastoral Institute of the Ateneo de Manila University in Manila (1973-1974).

Sucat railway station

Further away from the station are Our Lady of Miraculous Medal National Shrine, St. James College of Parañaque, Sucat Elementary School, Cupang Elementary School, the Muntinlupa Business High School, a Makro, the Philippine headquarters of Zilog, housing developments such as Posadas Village and the Tribeca Private Residences, and cemeteries such as the Loyola Memorial Park and the Manila Memorial Park.

Sulu Archipelago

In the second half of the 18th century, Great Britain became a new player in the archipelago After occupying Manila from 1762 – 64, during the Thirty years war between Spain and Great Britain, the British Army withdrew to the south and established trading alliances between the Sulu Sultanate and the British East India Company.

The Triumph of Science over Death

A large replica, made of concrete, stands in front of Fernando Calderón Hall of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine along Pedro Gil St. in Ermita, Manila.

Thomasites

The name Thomasite was derived from the transport vessel USAT Thomas (earlier known as SS Minnewaska in private service), which brought the educators to the shores of Manila Bay.

Tom Van Sant

These include the international airports of Honolulu, Taipei and Los Angeles, the civic centers of Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Inglewood, and corporate centers in Taiwan, Manila, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Honolulu and San Francisco.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Universidad de Manila

A year later, Manila City officials, including Mayor Lito Atienza, initiated the elevation of CCM to a university to promote higher learning and provide more opportunities to Manila youth for a quality education.

University of the East College of Business Administration

On September 11, 1946, five people namely Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr., Herminiglio Reyes, Jose Torres, Jaime Hernandez and Santiago dela Cruz established the Philippine College of Commerce and Business Administration (PCCBA) along R. Papa St. in Sampaloc, Manila.

University of the Philippines Concert Chorus

Korus was a favorite guest choir among other performing groups like Manila Symphony, Ballet Philippines and Teatro Filipino.

William Leonard Marshall

He has also written two mystery series based in Manila and late-19th-century New York City, the latter featuring City Detective Virgil Tillman – New York City's "first thinking detective" – and his partner, patrolman Ned Muldoon of the Strong Arm Squad.