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Ethnonym. A Sama lepa houseboat from the Philippines ( c. 1905) Sama-Bajau is a collective term, referring to several closely related indigenous people who consider themselves a single distinct bangsa ("ethnic group" or "nation"). [6] [11] It is generally accepted that these groups of people can be termed Sama or Bajau, though they never call ...
Manila sound. Manila sound is a musical genre that began in the mid-1970s in the city of Manila. The genre flourished and peaked in the mid to late-1970s. It is often considered the "bright side" of the Philippine martial law era and has influenced most of the modern genres in the country, being the forerunner to OPM .
Mestizos as illustrated in the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734. In the Philippines, Filipino Mestizo (Spanish: mestizo (masculine) / mestiza (feminine); Filipino/Tagalog: Mestiso (masculine) / Mestisa (feminine)), or colloquially Tisoy, is a name used to refer to people of mixed native Filipino and any foreign ancestry.
Pure play method. In finance, the "pure play method" is an approach used to estimate the cost of equity capital of private companies, which involves examining the beta coefficient of other public and single focused companies. [2] See also Hamada's equation . Here, when estimating a private company A's equity beta coefficient, the equity beta ...
Chinese Filipinos [a] (sometimes referred as Filipino Chinese in the Philippines) are Filipinos of Chinese descent with ancestry mainly from Fujian, [4] but are typically born and raised in the Philippines. [4] Chinese Filipinos are one of the largest overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.
The Philippines is generally mountainous; uplands make up 65 percent of the country's total land area. [53]: 38 [201] The Philippines is an archipelagoof about 7,641 islands,[202][203]covering a total area (including inland bodies of water) of about 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi).
Vicor Music Corporation. Aquarius Records. Pilar Garrido Corrales (born August 22, 1939) [1] is a Filipino pop singer, songwriter, actress, comedian and television presenter. She is best-known for her distinctive backbend [2] when singing and is popularly referred to as the "Asia's Queen of Songs" for her vocal style and longevity.
Edgardo Jose Santiago Valenciano was born in the Santa Mesa district of the City of Manila on August 6, 1964. He is the sixth of the seven children of Vicente Calacas Valenciano, a Bicolano from Camalig, Albay, and Grimilda Santiago y Olmo (1934–2019) from Arecibo, Puerto Rico. [6] His parents met in New York City, married, and settled in ...