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Sunday, June 17, 2018

84. 12 MORE BIRDS AND THEIR KAPAMPANGAN NAMES, part II

SOURCES:

Lyre bird (kansusuit): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V46_D799_The_lyre_bird_menura_superba.jpg

Parrot (katala): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eclectus_roratus_-Malagos_Garden_Resort,_Davao_City,_Philippines_-male-8a.jpg

Hanging parrot (kulasisi): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:09949jfPhilippine_Hanging_Parrot_Bulacanfvf_02.jpg

Yellow-vented bulbul (luklak): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:09949jfPhilippine_Hanging_Parrot_Bulacanfvf_02.jpg

Martin (martinis): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_house_martin#/media/File:Delichon_dasypus_-Taiwan-8-4c.jpg

Common moorhen (patirik-tirik) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_moorhen_(Gallinula_chloropus)_with_worm.jpg

Collared kingfisher (salaksak) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collared_Kingfisher_RWD2.jpg

Philippine coucal (siabukut): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_coucal

Swallow (sibad): https://passnownow.com/10-amazing-bird-facts-swallow/

Pied fantail (silingsilingan ): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pied_Fantail_-_Bali_Barat_MG_9069_(29753605161).jpg

Brown shrike (tarat) : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Shrike_(Lanius_cristatus)-_Immature_feeding_in_Kolkata_I_IMG_1898.jpg

Marsh hen, moorhen (uis): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_moorhen.jpg

White tern (kampapalis dagat): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_tern_with_fish.jpg

Thursday, September 28, 2017

62. 13 AMAZING INVENTIONS OF DR. BILLY MALANG, PAMPANGA’S AWARD-WINNING ‘INNOVENTOR’

DR. VIRGILIO ”Billy” L. MALANG is one of the country’s most prodigious inventors. He has won over 20 local and 18 international awards, including recognitions at the 2008 First International Inventors Day Convention (Bangkok), the Outstanding Service Medallist for 2008 International Federation of Inventor Association (IFIA), the 2008 Outstanding Alumnus in Science and Technology of Pampanga High School and the 2015 Most Outstanding Kapampangan Awardee for Science and Technology. Born in San Fernando, Pampanga, Dr. Malang graduated with a PhD from the University of Santo Tomas, and an MBA from the U.P. He also serves as technical consultant of San Miguel Corporation, an author an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Humana Pharmaceuticals.

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SOURCES:

MR. Malang’s Invention: Billy Malang’s FB page

Female silhouette: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/78/26/2e/78262ef83e4806c754b8426ba28c4f67.jpg

Incinerator: Stock vector art: http://www.istockphoto.com/vector/incinerator-gm185688145-28577204?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect

Vintage 1928 magazine cover of a scientist: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Science_and_Invention_Nov_1928_Cover_2.jpg

San Miguel Vitamin Beer TVC: youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Bcf_9VHzM

Uploaded by vitaminsanmiguelbeer, 27 June 2008.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

43. 12 KAPAMPANGAN ASTRONOMICAL TERMS

Ancient Kapampangans were guided by the sun, moon and stars in their everyday life. They fished when the moon was full and reckoned time by the position of the sun. At times, they also saw other strange, celestial apparitions in the sky--comets, eclipses and streaking earth-bound lights—that left them awestruck and in fear. They soon believed that these ominous sights, too, affected the course of their future and their destinies. As they gazed up the skies, they began giving names to these complex, astronomical events, terms that we seldom use today.

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