https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knvgOdKPaMQ&list=RDVDEsZfpXWQs&index=3
"Aprendí a querer el perfume del dolor"
Random thoughts to share. Pensamientos al tun-tun para compartir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knvgOdKPaMQ&list=RDVDEsZfpXWQs&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHw85yeYGU
PART II
Sadly, Filipinas is defenseless before the proliferation of Chinese mafias.
The English on the postcard tells me that the photo dates from the start of the U.S. regime, which was marked by an explosion of photography by many American soldiers of Filipino cities, towns, rural landscapes. (However, almost none of the homes and activities of the wealthy, which created a skewed imagery of that time.)
RAE has this entry, "calesa", stating that it comes from the French caleche, which in turn comes from the Czech word kolesa:
Impresiones Filipinas
(PAGINAS DE UNA PRISIONERA CUBANA)
Impressions of Filipinas: Pages from a Cuban prisoner of war.
by: Avelina Correa de Malvehy
Avelina is known as the first woman journalist of Cuba. This interesting character was held captive for a year and a half by the Katipunan after they killed her Spanish husband in Santo Tomás, a town near San Fernando, Pampanga, in May 1898. The leader of the KKK there was known as Tino.
They had just arrived from Spain. Her husband had been assigned to a public service position.
His name was Alfonso Caos de Rebolledo.
While she was a prisoner, being moved from town to town, living in houses and under the protection of a Spanish mestiza (who was also continually fleecing her of any money she was receiving as help from private citizens, even after they had been rescued and were in Manila; i.e., she was charging Avelina for her "protection"), Avelina delivered a baby girl.
Avelina finally returned to Cuba with her child, Alfonsa de los Milagros, in 1900. Later she remarried, hence her name as it appears in her book, "(señora) de Malvehy".
Ang manga bulkán na ito'y ang: Mayón, Hibok-Hibok, Kanlaón, Taal, Bulusan.
Translation: Five Volcanoes in Simultaneous Eruption: Mayón, Hibok-Hibok, Kanlaón, Taal and Bulusan.
I found a reference to a volcanic cataclysm in which three volcanoes erupted in 1641, from the historical work by a military man, Francisco Javier de Moya y Jiménez, published in 1882. In the References the following item appears. The conversion of the PDF to Word resulted in many errors, thus I can't be sure if the date is 11 January 1641. But at least the year and month are certain. The reference is to the author Raimundo de Magira, the triple eruption of Mayón, Taal and Bulusan. It states that of the three volcanoes, two are of fire and the other of water. I would guess that the one of water is Taal. But it's just a guess.
Magira (Raimundo de).—Suceso
raro de tres volcanes, dos de fuego y uno de agua, que. reventaron en ii de
Enero de 1641 en diferentes partes de estas Islas (Filipinas),
1641.
EN 1882
ESTUDIOS HISTÓRICOS, GEOGRÁFICOS,
ESTADÍSTICOS Y
DESCRIPTIVOS
FRANCISCO JAVIER DE MOYA Y JIMENEZ
COMANDANTE CAPITAN DE ARTILLERÍA
SOCIO DE NUMERO, DE LA REAI. SOCIEDAD ECONÓMICA DE AMIGOS DEL PAÍS, DE FILIPINAS