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| | VISAYANS IN HAWAII |
 | | For instance, in the 1924 strike, mostly Visayans were involved and in the ensuing Hanapepe massacre, all the strikers who were killed were Visayans. | | | Visayans have also done well in government and politics. | | | Partisan politics also figured in, particularly the result of the declaration of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos, an Ilokano, which was opposed by many Visayan groups. |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/cps/visayans.html
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| | INECE - Newsletter 9 |
| | The Visayan Sea Squadron is a joint project of the Law of Nature Foundation and the Sail and Dive Expedition Group. | | | The Visayan Sea Squadron's mission is to conserve, protect, and restore the Visayan Sea. | | | The volunteers comprising the Visayan Sea Squadron represent an assortment of specialists and experts nearly as diverse as the Visayan Sea itself. |
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http://www.inece.org/newsletter/9/regional_asia.html
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| | North Negros Forest Reserve |
| | The same practice was once common for hornbills and parrots but, according to interviews, this has largely been given up, since nests are rarely found today. | | | This body certainly has the appropriate political power to implement far reaching projects, and the authors feel that a strong and persistent voice of environmentalists and scientists in this body is essential to achieve the conservation of at least some of the West Visayan flora and fauna. | | | Traces of the Visayan Warty Pig (Sus cebifrons) that feeds on acorns were also found, and some groups of Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) moved about in the canopy. |
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http://genetics.forestry.ubc.ca/hamann/conservation/nnfr.html
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| | Sun.Star Iloilo - Salvilla: West Visayan boxers |
| | After this victory, he died in the United States of blood poisoning where it was suspected that he was murdered by the underworld who lost bets in his fight. | | | The second child was Gerry who was World Boxing Council super flyweight champion in 1997 when he defeated Japanese ring legend Hiroshi Kawashima. | | | West Visayan boxers first came into the international ring limelight when in 1925 Pancho Villa (Francisco Guilledo) of Ilog, Negros Occidental became the first Filipino world boxing champion ever when he won the flyweight crown after defeating Jimmy Wilde (The Might Atom) of England in Madison Square, New York. |
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ilo/2002/12/18/oped/atty..rex.s..salvilla.html
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| | Ethnographic Arms & Armour - Visayan Sword on Cato's Moro Swords? |
| | Have a guy in my unit who is Visayan and he keeps asking me questions I can't answer. | | | wilked, if you find any good visayan pieces in manila, please direct us to the right places. | | | Both this one and the one you referred to are Visayan. |
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http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/printthread.php?t=196
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| | Sun.Star Cebu - 3 governors support ban |
| | The Visayan Sea Squadron will travel around the Visayan Sea for the next five years and monitor illegal activities, and see that violators will be prosecuted. | | | Garcia said she will do everything to sustain the effort to police the Visayan Sea. | | | With this, the group, which is now registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been conducting regular seminars among children and teenagers. |
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2005/03/13/news/3.governors.support.ban.html
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| | PhilRadio International |
| | Visayan stories, legends and sentiments presented by Amapola. | | | Find out about the juicy goings on in the Fil-Am music scene from Jayme Jack. |
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http://www.philradio.com/sites.htm
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| | Animal Info - Visayan Warty Pig |
| | The soil of these plots is rapidly exhausted and new plots must be cleared every few years. | | | *** The Visayan Islands are in the central island group of the | | | The Visayan warty pig is reported usually to be found in groups of 4 - 5 individuals, with groups of up to a dozen individuals seen occasionally. |
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http://www.animalinfo.org/species/artiperi/sus_cebi.htm
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| | Visayan 50' Catamaran (V15) General Arrangement |
| | The after deckspace on the Visayan 15 spreads from the transoms to the after salon bulkhead without break where it is only two comfortable steps down to the salon. | | | This general arrangement plan shows one suggested layout of the Visayan 15 Catamaran. | | | The large forward salon windows on the Visayan 15 open wide, but seal well when closed, and will safely stand up to the roughest sailing conditions. |
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http://www.boatshop.com.ph/underconst/genarr.htm
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| | VISAYAN GOVERNORS STUDY 'VISAYAS REPUBLIC PROPOSAL' |
| | Arnaiz said part of their study will be the possible form of government that the Visayas Republic could adopt in the event that it would operate. | | | Arroyo yesterday, saying she is the only President who has given much attention to local government units by increasing their Internal Revenue Allotments (IRAs). | | | In gratitude to the President, the Visayan governors also announced the Kilos-Asenso program which will utilize 20 percent of their respective IRAs to support the President’s 10-point development agenda. |
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http://kgma.7.forumer.com/a/visayan-governors-study-visayas-republic-proposal_post96.html
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition SPECIAL REPORT > Human traffic cases alarming |
| | But they are real people who have been deceived and abused, and whose cases have been documented by the Visayan Forum—Author) | | | But the Visayan Forum says human trafficking is difficult to document, because “it happens unnoticed every day and anywhere.” Their forum’s statistics are based only on the number of the persons rescued, including those who have escaped from their illegal-recruitment agencies. | | | The Visayan Forum said the victims were deceived and maltreated, and their recruitment agencies pimped them in brothels or sent them to sweatshops. |
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http://www.manilatimes.net/others/special/2003/dec/15/20031215spe1.html
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| | Visayan warty pig - Sus cebifrons: More Information - ARKive |
| | Visayan warty pig - Sus cebifrons: More Information - ARKive | | | The Visayan Warty Pig Conservation Programme was established in 1991 (4), with the long-term aim of reintroducing 'warties' into areas from which they have been lost (3). | | | The Visayan warty pig is highly endangered; the species has been lost from 3 of the 6 major islands where it was found, and is on the verge of disappearing from a fourth (4). |
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http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Sus_cebifrons/more_info.html
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| | The Early History of Chavacano de Zamboanga |
| | Other accounts of a much smaller Visayan invasion force would have met their match against the Moro Pirates, and would not have been successful in their mission, making the larger number more viable. | | | A Visayan vocabulario was also compiled by Mateo Sanchez during this time frame but it was not published until 1711, after his untimely death in 1618. | | | Although there is no trace of the Visayan Chavacano, it does not preclude its past existence. |
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http://www.zamboanga.com/html/history_Chavacano_de_Zamboanga.htm
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| | Kalantiaw, the Hoax |
| | When Pavón described an ancient Visayan calendar in 1838-39 he happened to write that November was called "a bad month, for it brought air laden with putrefied microbes of evil fevers". | | | Many ardent admirers of the Datu, who disdain all historical evidence to the contrary, claim that he has long been a part of Visayan culture and heritage. | | | Francisco Deza had supposedly recorded in 1543 but he was not born until in 1620. |
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http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/kalant_e.htm
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| | Welcome to the L.A. Zoo |
| | Once found on several islands, its population has dwindled drastically in recent years. | | | Now they are only found on two and their numbers are dwindling. | | | This Little Piggy Went To Daddy: the Visayan warty pigs that arrived this past winter have produced a piglet — the first ever at the Los Angeles Zoo, which is only the second insitution outside the Philippines to have had a Visayan warty pig birth. |
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http://www.lazoo.org/vwp.html
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| | InfoHub Forums - Reply to Topic |
| | However, Amazon doesn’t seem to allow me to link directly to a search result, so you’ll have to do the job yourselves | | | Visayan (also known as Bisayan) is the name of a family of languages spoken in the central parts (the Visayan islands) of the Philippino archipelago. | | | But Jodirt was asking about books on Visayan, are there such books? |
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http://www.infohub.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=4069
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| | PhilRadio International |
| | a Visayan network on the internet for people from the Visayas and Mindanao. | | | There are also promoters from California and Australia who have asked her to stage a comeback project which she is considering. | | | Her internet radio show, Radyo Bisaya ng Amerika, which debuted on PhilRadio International, (www.philradio.com) last year also has archived shows on Live 365.com. |
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http://www.philradio.com/amapolafilipinas.htm
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| | Visayas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The chiefs and followers are believed to be the ancestors of the Visayan people. | | | There are legends, which are compiled in the book Maragtas, which tells the story of the ten chiefs (Datus) who escaped from the tyranny of Datu Makatunaw from Borneo to the islands of Panay. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visayas
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| | East Visayan History |
| | Like all Filipinos, the Visayans had a new enemy to face. | | | Rebels, led by General Vicente Lukban, attacked the American garrison in the town of Balangiga in eastern Samar during the Filipino-American War. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Waray%20Culture/waray_history.htm
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| | Visayan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Visayan language with the most number of speakers is Cebuano, spoken by 18 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, northern and eastern parts of Mindanao. | | | Native speakers of Visayan languages, especially Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray-Waray not only refer to their language by their local name, but also by Bisaya or Binisaya, meaning Visayan language. | | | This is misleading or may lead to confusion as different languages may be called Bisaya by their respective speakers despite their languages being mutually unintelligible. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visayan
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| | Visayan |
| | Located in the middle of the Visayan Islands, Cebu comprises 167 islands. | | | Most of the Spanish-built churches are found outside the city. | | | The Museo Iloilo in Iloilo City holds an extensive collection of Visayan artefacts ranging from prehistoric fossils to religious articles. |
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http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/asia/philippines/about_destin/visayan.html
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| | Visayan Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Visayan Sea is a small sea within the Philippine archipelago, surrounded on three sides by the islands of the Visayas. | | | The Eastern Visayas and Western Visayas lie to the east and west, while the Central Visayas lie to the south. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visayan_Sea
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| | Species Profile for Visayan deer |
| | USFWS Refuges on which the Visayan deer is reported. | | | Conservation Plans (Habitat Conservation Plans, Safe Harbor Agreements, Candidate Conservation Agreements) in which Visayan deer occurrence has been recorded. | | | Federal Register documents that apply to the Visayan deer. |
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http://ecos.fws.gov/species_profile/SpeciesProfile?spcode=A0FT
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| | Whatever Happened to Visayan Movies |
| | Visayan films subsisted merely on what was left of the theatrical days from the more organized bookings of English and Tagalog films. | | | Most of those Visayan movies were drawn from popular radio dramas at the time. | | | The way of the old Visayan movies is the way of any movie industry in its infancy. |
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http://www.thefreeman.com/lifestyle/index.php?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20041021&id=23664
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| | Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. |
| | VISAYAN FORUM FOUNDATION, INC. is a non-profit, non-stock and tax-exempt non-government organization established in 1991. | | | Visayan Forum is most known for its pioneering work on the issues of domestic work and trafficking in persons. | | | To help spread the spirit of the magna carta, click the poster and sticker icons below to have your own print ready copies at home. |
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http://www.visayanforum.org
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| | Baybayin, The Ancient Script of the Philippines |
| | The characters of these natives, or, better said, those that have been in use for a few years in these parts, an art which was communicated to them from the Tagalogs, and the latter learned it from the Borneans who came from the great island of Borneo to Manila, with whom they have considerable traffic... | | | Whereas long ago the Visayan pintados were tattooed according to their status in the community, today a growing number of young Filipinos are getting tattooed with baybayin characters to show their pride in their heritage. | | | Although one of Ferdinand Magellan's shipmates, Antonio Pigafetta, wrote that the people of the Visayas were not literate in 1521, the baybayin had already arrived there by 1567 when Miguel López de Legazpi reported that, “They [the Visayans] have their letters and characters like those of the Malays, from whom they learned them.” |
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http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/bayeng1.htm
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| | Hiligaynon: Bisaya |
| | Visayan, an inhabitant of one of the Visayan islands. | | | Library searches for the term "Visayan" will usually reveal books in or about Cebuano rather than Hiligaynon. | | | The term Visayan is used quite loosely and often stands collectively for the various languages spoken in the Visayan islands. |
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http://www.copewithcytokines.de/NAGATUON/cope.cgi?000878
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition METRO > FPJ uses ‘star charm’ to win Visayan voters |
| | Poe, however, is confident that his recent foray into the Visayas and the support he received from Visayan leaders would make a big difference on May 10. | | | tc "Poe, however, is confident that his recent foray into the Visayas and the support he received from Visayan leaders would make a big difference on May 10." | | | The Times noted, however, that the Bacolod City plaza, where the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino held a rally Saturday night, was only half full, and that the audience was not so lively. |
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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/apr/12/yehey/metro/20040412met6.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Visayan Islands |
| | Visayan Islands, island group in the central Philippines, one of the four main groups of the Philippines, lying in the Visayan Sea, between the islands... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569310/Visayan_Islands.html
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| | Visayan Shinbun |
| | Fifty-eight years ago today, the first issue of the Visayan Shinbun (1942-44) came out. | | | Visayan Shinbun tried to reflect the rise of a new order. | | | Published by the Manila Shinbun-ya and edited by Cebuano writer Napoleon Dejoras, this was the pro-Japanese newspaper after the Japanese Military Administration took control of government in Cebu. |
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http://www.ngkhai.com/pointcebu/culture/visayan.htm
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| | natives' wish |
| | Also, when I was in college, I had Visayan, Muslim, Ilocano, etc. classmates and they all could speak Tagalog fluently. | | | Cebuano can be understood by hiligaynon, and boholano, and some waray-waray. | | | Then the Constitution declared that "Filipino" language is the national language of the country, and it copied 100% of the Visayan language that you speak and understand. |
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http://www.nativeswish.com/categories/tagalog1.htm
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| | Islas de los Pintados: The Visayan Islands |
| | Although the archaeological of the islands is very much incomplete, tantalizing evidence of rich culture have been found. | | | Bisaya in archaic Tausog means slave; however, this is a case of later development when Visayan caught by slave raiders were being traded in Jolo to supply the manpower needs not just of the local datus but of Dutch merchants who run an active trade in Batavia (Jakarta). | | | Central Visayas is made up of the islands of Cebu, Bantayan, Camotes, Bohol, Panglao, Negros Oriental, Siquijor and nearby islands and islets; and Eastern Visayas, Samar, Leyte, Biliran, Lauang, and neighboring islands. |
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http://www.admu.edu.ph/offices/mirlab/panublion/islas.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Related Items - Sulu Sea |
| | , island group in the central Philippines, one of the four main groups of the Philippines, lying in the Visayan Sea, between the islands... |
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http://encarta.msn.com/related_761579327_0.7/Visayan_Islands.html
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| | Asian Journal Online |
| | Actor Ronnie Lazaro was on his way to church when Cesar called him and told him about doing a movie entirely in Cebuano. | | | As Visayan actors, we have to learn how to speak Tagalog so as not to be objects of ridicule. | | | First, he decided that his next major directorial work would be in Visayan, Cebuano to be exact. |
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http://www.asianjournal.com/cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00007757
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| | Visayan 50' Catamaran (V15) Deck Plan |
| | The forward windows in the hardtop open fully as in the salon. | | | In addition to the large airy salon on our Visayan 15 Catamaran, the permanent aft deck hardtop covers the deck seating and helm station for even more shade. | | | The Visayan 15 Catamaran, will be as comfortable on deck as down below. |
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http://www.boatshop.com.ph/underconst/deckplan.htm
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| | The organisation began in the Sunvalley Subdivision of Calamba Cebu City. | | | Check out the VisayanMusic radio station at Live365.com. | | | Visayan Entertainment Directory Online used to be known as Visayan Network. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/swiftscw
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| | Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Greater Negros-Panay rain forests (IM0114) |
| | Six of these species (Crocidura mindorus, two Apomys spp., and Chrotomys, Tarsomys, and Haplonyteris spp.) are limited to Sibuyan Island within the ecoregion (Crocidura mindorus is also found on Mindoro); most of these species have yet to be named. | | | The Visayan warty pig has been extirpated from Masbate, Guimaras, Cebu, and Siquijor and now lives only in isolated areas of Negros and Panay, where hunting of them is still intense. | | | One found only on Negros and Cebu, the Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia chapmani), is now believed to be extinct because of guano mining, deforestation, and hunting (Heaney et al. |
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http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0114_full.html
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| | Philippine spotted deer |
| | Thankfully, the fear expressed by Cox (1987) that a viable population of this species would not survive longer than 10-15 years does not appear to have been founded. | | | Unpublished report to the IUCN/SSC Pigs and Peccaries Specialist Group. | | | His Royal Highness Prince Alfred sent the first known specimen to P. Sclater (Sclater, 1870). |
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http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Cervus_alfredi.html
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| | COMMENTARY: Pastilan Duroy! |
| | But their giggles could be some manifestations of low regard of the Visayan language. | | | DAVAO CITY -- Visayan language is the most widely-used language in Davao City. | | | However, most of today’s children in middle and upper income bracket families in urban areas speak either Tagalog or English, or both. |
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http://www.mindanews.com/2005/01/04vws-balucos.html
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| | Filipinas Heritage Library - Aklat |
| | Written by Father Domingo de Esguerra, of the Society of Jesus, in 1662, this book is reprinted with all the ecclesiastic and governmental permits in 1747. | | | This study was made in order to be able to spread the Word of God to the Visayans. | | | It is an early and comprehensive study of the Visayan language of the province of Leyte and includes notes on its variations when spoken in Zebu (Cebu) and Bool (Bohol). |
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http://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/filipiniana/Aklat/lengua.asp
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| | Visayan Twin Islands |
| | Samar and Leyte are both within the group of islands of the Visayas. | | | Home > Inbound > Seat In Coach > Roundtrips > MGD-04 Visayan Twin Islands |
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http://www.marsman-tours.com.ph/mgd04.htm
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| | Dances |
| | Sinulog (Cebuano word for "carried along by the current") is believed to have originated from a ritual dance for a pagan deity who was fished out from the sea. | | | A distinctive type is the wide assortment of mimetic dances in which movements try to mimic, for example, the flight of birds, the catching of fish, the making of wine, and other aspects of Visayan life. | | | The modern arrangement is more lively and suitable for dancing by small groups. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Cebu%20Culture/Cebu%20Dances.htm
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| | Introduction - Action Plan |
| | The recently recognized Visayan warty pig is already extinct on two islands (Cebu and Guimaras) and endangered on the only other islands (Negros and Panay) on which it is known to occur. | | | Whatever was on Siquijor has been lost, and whatever the identity of the wild pigs on Sibuyan, Masbate, Bohol and many other smaller, or more isolated, islands, these populations are seriously threatened or likely to become so in the near future. | | | A review of domestic pig remains from archaeological sites in Sarawak. |
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http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgs/pphsg/APIntro.htm
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| | Visayan invasion: Brigher, stronger! |
| | The latter hails from Butuan City, but we could count her as one of our own because it has been within the local entertainment circle that she became known. | | | Interestingly, two more Visayans made it to the League of 12: Mabel Bacusmo from Baybay, Leyte and Jerome Sala from Bohol. | | | With five of them in the league, the “promdi” spirit is very much on the roll. |
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http://thefreeman.com/entertainment/?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20050309&id=28069
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| | Print - Visayan Charms |
| | The Visayan group of islands conjures images of the Pacific which was once traversed by Ferdinand Magellan, the Portugese explorer. | | | Marine parks, caves and sights of historical importance will dazzle travellers to these islands. | | | Commissioned by Spain to find an alternative route to the Spice Islands, he instead discovered the Philippines. |
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http://www.marsman-tours.com.ph/print_imp04.htm
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| | Visayan Warty Pig |
| | Based on recent taxonomic studies conducted under the Program, it was found out that warty pigs for Panay and Negros Islands are distinct from each other, belonging to different subspecies. | | | Said Agreements have been signed on June 21, 2000 and May 17, 1999, respectively. | | | The Program was initiated in 1993 under the aegis of a 3-year MOA signed by and between the DENR and San Diego Zoo on 3 June 1993. |
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http://www.pawb.gov.ph/programs/wartypig.htm
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