I refer here to the foreword of volume 3, entitled "Magellan arrived in the Philippines" by Maria Dolores Elizalde. Ms Elizalde used for the foreword a paper she delivered at a forum on Spain and ...

In the hazy days of the Chinese empire, centuries before Magellan reached the Orient, the Igorots of Benguet mined gold in the Philippine hills. The Spaniards snatched off their gold earrings and ...

While textbooks credit Ferdinand Magellan as the one who “discovered” the Philippines, residents of Eastern Samar, particularly those of Suluan Island, commemorate the landing as a show of compassion ...