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	PHILIPPINE ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Physical Features.The islands are mainly of volcanic origin, and their surface is much broken by hills, isolated volcanoes and mountain ranges, trending north and south, north-west and southeast, or north-east and south-west.
		The island of Mmdanao is traversed north to south by mountain ranges, which rise in their summits to heights exceeding 4000 ft. That along the east coast is longest and least broken, and between it and the next range inland is the level valley of the Agusan river, from 40 to 50 m.
		Farther west and south-west is the valley of the Rio Grande Mindanao, the largest river on the island, and between the lower course of this river and the south coast is a mountain range with a north-west and south-east trend.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHILIPPINE_ISLANDS.htm (1200 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philippine Islands
		The islands are washed by the China Sea on the north and the west, the Pacific Ocean on the east, and the Sea of Celebes on the south.
		The inhabitants of Luzon and adjacent islands are the Tagalogs, Pampangans, Bicols, Pangasinans, Ilocanos, Ibanags or Cagayanes, and Zambales.
		Thirty-one delegates are from the Visayan Islands, and forty-four from Luzon.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12010a.htm (7278 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Philippine Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Philippine Islands lie between 116° 40' and 126° and 34' E. longtitude, and 4° 40' and 21° 10' N. latitude.
		It is bordered on the east by the Philippine Sea, on the west by the South China Sea, and on the south by the Celebes Sea.
		The government of the Philippines, loosely patterned after the American system, is organized as a representative republic, with the president functioning as both head of state and government, as well as being the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/philippine_islands (1952 words)

	Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), or the Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas), is a nation in Southeast Asia.
		The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations (UN) since its inception on October 24, 1945 and a founding and prominent member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an active player in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Latin Union and a member of the Group of 24.
		Roughly two-thirds are residing in the island of Luzon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippines (2928 words)

	Ocean Ambassadors -- Philippine Turtle Islands
		Turtle Islands at the border of Sabah, Malaysia and Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.
		The islands are mostly tadpole-shaped and elongated along the northeast-southwest direction, with the highest portion in the northeast.
		As of 1995, the population of the five permanently inhabited islands on the Philippine side of the Turtle Islands was 2,644 representing 424 households.
	www.oneocean.org /ambassadors/track_a_turtle/tihpa/pti.html (3018 words)

	Chronology--Philippines and Guam
		Emilio Aguinaldo was elected president of the new republic of the Philippines; Andrés Bonifacio was demoted to the director of the interior.
		Governor-General of the Philippine Islands Fernando Primo de Rivera, in a surprise move, was replaced by Governor-General Basilo Augustín Dávila in early April.
		Philippine revolutionists began the siege of the Spanish garrison at Baler, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
	www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/1898/chronphil.html (3561 words)

	Philippines Tourist Guides - Introduction
		The two largest islands are Luzon to the north, and Mindanao to the south, with a host of smaller islands in between, including some unnamed and uninhabited patches of land.
		Because of its volatile post-independence governance, the Philippine nation has always received bad press - dictatorship, corruption, terrorist attacks and economic problems tend to overshadow its image; the forces of nature do not help either - the Philippines islands are regularly struck by natural disasters like typhoons, earthquakes, floods, landslides and volcanic eruptions.
		However, the Philippines are a relatively save and cheap place to visit (if one avoids the trouble prone areas in the south) with long beaches, interesting mountain treks and hikes, and spectacular underwater experiences.
	www.sino.net /philippines-tourist-guides (594 words)

	History - Philippines
		On June 12, the Philippines is proclaimed independent from Spain by Aguinaldo.
		It provides for the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under a constitution to be drafted by a constitution convention.
		Japanese bombers attack the Philippines and force Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of the U.S Armed Forces in the Far East to retreat to Bataan.
	www.regit.com /regitour/philipin/about/history.htm (538 words)

	Philippines -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The total land area of the Philippines is 115,800 square miles (300,000 square kilometres).
		It is bounded by the Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, and the South China Sea to the west and north.
		(1899–1985), Philippine diplomat, born in Camiling, Luzon; aide-de-camp to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in World War II; Philippine resident commissioner in U.S. Congress 1944–46; president UN General Assembly 1949; Philippine secretary of foreign affairs 1950–51, 1969–78; minister of foreign affairs from 1978; ambassador to U.S. 1952–61; president University of the Philippines...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108539 (771 words)

	The History Guy: Philippine American War
		After defeating Spain in Cuba and in the Philippines in 1898, the U.S. purchased the Philippines, Puerto Rico and several other islands from the Spanish.
		By November of 1899, Aguinaldo and his forces had been pushed further and further into central Luzon (the main Philippine island) and he realized he could not fight the Americans with conventional military units.
		Through successful civilian administration, the Islands were modernized and the nation prepared for eventual independence.
	www.historyguy.com /PhilipineAmericanwar.html (1106 words)

	Philippine Islands
		Exploration of the Reefs and Cultures of the Philippine Islands
		The next stop was at the island of Pamilacan, the home of a people that were still hunting whales a few years back.
		The females come to lay their eggs on the long sand beaches of the islands and atolls, nestling between the boobies and other sea birds that thrive in this protected area.
	www.pcrf.org /philippine.html (1005 words)

	Philippine Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Philippines is an archipelago surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Celebes Sea, and the South China Sea.
		The Philippines lies on the volatile Pacific “Ring of Fire,” and most of the highest mountains are volcanic in origin.
		The first people to live in the Philippine Islands are thought to have migrated from various regions of Asia, including negroid Aetas and Mongloid people from Southeast Asia.
	www.filipinomissions.org /filipino_facts.htm (1834 words)

	7,107 Islands Philippine : Islands Philippines - Filipino People, Great Philippine Places, Philippine Islands and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Philippines is an archipelagic nation made up of 7,107 islands spanning 1,840 kilometers north to south.
		It is part of the East Indies, a vast island group lying south and east of mainland Asia, with Taiwan at its northernmost coast and Borneo on the south.
		The three main Philippine island groups are Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.
	www.islandsphilippines.com /philippines.html (562 words)

	Philippine Culture and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Philippine Heroines of the Revolution: Maria Clara they were not (by Robert L. Yoder)
		Of the Philippines and Moluccas Pierre Sonnerat (1782)
		More information on Philippine history and the Philippine Revolution can be found under "Rizal-Blumentritt Friendship".
	www.univie.ac.at /Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/culhist.htm (233 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| BUSINESS > Shares end lower as investors take profits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.30 percent lower on Wednesday as investors took profits amid a lack of fresh leads, dealers said.
		Bank of the Philippine Islands retreated 50 centavos to P52.50 while Manila Water advanced 10 centavos to P6.60.
		Philippine Long Distance Telephone was steady at P1,695 and rival Globe Telecom was also unchanged at P730.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/oct/13/yehey/business/20051013bus10.html (266 words)

	Philippines Real Estate - Home
		Known as the Pearl of the Orient Seas, The Philippines is a dream paradise for tourists around the world.
		When it comes to investing or leasing of tropical islands and beaches, the Rov-Land Realty website is the most comprehensive in the Philippines.
		Led by industry experts, Rov-Land Realty is the ideal partner in seeking tropical islands, beaches, villas and resorts in the Philippines.
	www.philippines-real-estate.com (323 words)

	Philippine Islands
		Capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank.
		The Philippine Islands Campaign provided the Army with its first extended combat experience since World War I. Routine reports of new enemy tactics and weaponry were not lost on the leaders of the vast new American Army then being formed.
		For all the courage and resourcefulness of the Philippine defenders, their fate was sealed when the Japanese crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on 7 December and virtually destroyed U.S. air power in the Philippines a few hours later.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/pi/PI.htm (6318 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century; they were ceded to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.
		The Philippine Government faces threats from armed communist insurgencies and from Muslim separatists in the south.
		The Philippines was less severely affected by the Asian financial crisis of 1998 than its neighbors, aided in part by annual remittances of $7-8 billion from overseas workers and no sustained runup in asset prices or foreign borrowing prior to the crisis.
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/rp.html (1429 words)

	Philippine News Link, your link to news events, newspapers, magazines, and other online publications on the Philippines
		In the Philippines, as many as 85,000 Filipinos mostly women, are recruited abroad yearly as domestic helpers and nurses and other jobs.
		The Philippines is on the US tier 2 watch list for failing to convict traffickers.
		Officials in Washington assured me that they are already investigating Filipinos linked to trafficking under the US complicity law under which any Filipino public or private person shown to be complicit in the sex trade or trafficking can be brought to trial for violation of human rights wherever they are committed.
	www.philnews.com (707 words)

	Philippine Holidays and Philippine Festivals : Islands Philippines - Filipino People, Great Philippine Places, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the most popular of the Philippine festivals, the Ati-atihan is a celebration in honor of the Sto.
		The blessing of candles and the yearly procession of the patroness, the Nuestra Senora de Candelaria is followed by the fiesta queen and her court which highlights the celebration.
		All About Philippine Resorts - Offers white sand beaches, diving resorts and resort hotels in Bohol, Boracay, Cebu, Davao, Palawan, Puerto Galera and other tourist destinations in Philippines.
	www.islandsphilippines.com /holidays-festivals-detailed.html (1816 words)

	Philippine Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of our two favorite dive locations, the Capone islands (shown in the background) are only about a 20 minute drive from the former Subic naval base, on the west coast of Luzon.
		The Philippines archipelago refers to over 7000 islands located in the Pacific ocean about 3 1/2 hours southeast of Japan and 4 hours west of Guam by jet airplane.
		The main island is Luzon, where the capitol of Manila is located.
	www.divegallery.com /philippi.htm (225 words)

	index - Philippine Free Line : No Kidding, Please!
		The Philippine leadership is turning shoulders it could lean on to.
		With the general perception that the government is loosing control.
		To paraphrase the present Philippine venture to guide the Filipinos for the next century.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /philippinefreeline (475 words)

	Philippines
		Bataan and Corregidor: The Fall of the Philippines
		An introduction to the strategic importance of the Philippine Islands, their doomed defense, and the American withdrawal and surrender on April 9, 1942.
		The Allies retook the Philippine island of Leyte in an amphibious assault on October 20, 1944.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Philippines (159 words)

	USATODAY.com - 1 dead, 8 hurt in Philippines ferry fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ship's owner, WGandA, said the fire broke out near Corregidor Island, about 45 miles southwest of Manila, nearly two hours after the ferry left port with 702 passengers and a crew of 159.
		Small boats and ferries are the chief means of travel among islands in the Philippine archipelago, where boat accidents are common.
		The Philippines was the site of the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster when a ferry sank after colliding with a fuel tanker in 1987, killing 4,340 people.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-26-philippines-fire_x.htm (436 words)

	History of the Philippines
		-Western discovery of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellan, the voyage under the auspices of Spain's King Charles V. -Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, departing from Navidad, Mexico, reached Sarangani Island in Mindanao; named Leyte as Las Phelipinas in honor of then crown-prince Philip II of Spain.
		-Surrender of the Spaniards in Negros island to the Filipinos.
		-Arrival of Monsignor Placido Chapelle, U.S. apostolic delegate to the Philippines.
	www.garmentsasia.com /philippines/history/phil_hist.shtml (3004 words)

	Islands Philippines - Filipino People, Great Philippine Places, Philippine Islands and Philippine Destinations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A world class of Philippine travel and tourism of the digital force...
		Islands Philippines came up a new features that provides travel enthusiasts, Philippine travellers, not only on their travel adventure, but full satisfaction in their explorations on places, and in Philippine tourist destinations; in discovering new grounds of leisure activities that would truly give them a different adventure and excitement.
		This was learned from Antonio 'Tony Boy' Aquino, chief executive officer of the Technical Information Assistance of the Philippines, Inc. (TIAP), a non-government organization which helped facilitate the approval of the project that is expected to boost the tourism industry and real estate leisure in Subic.
	www.islandsphilippines.com (873 words)

	Philippine Islands - Today in the Philippines
		The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands covering a land area of 115,739 sq.
		Like any living language, Filipino is in a process of development through loans from Philippine languages and non-native languages for various situations, among speakers of different social backgrounds, and for topics for conversation and scholarly discourse.
		ALL sectors in Mindanao are involved in an extensive advocacy to promote the island as a safe and peaceful place to visit and invest.
	www.philippine-islands.info (584 words)

	Welcome to Palawan - Palawan.com
		It's showing the splendor of the islands from the point of view of the people who live there.
		From margaritas on Pangulasian Island to kayaking the Big and Small Lagoons, we felt that we were in safe hands and lost in paradise!!
		We were going to go toward Coron Island after advice from some of the staff at Miniloc, but there wasn't a return flight available in time.
	www.palawan.com (783 words)

	DU
		But there are rumors that on neighboring Semirara Islands there is a coalmine.
		All islands are nearer to reach from southern tip of Mindoro Island, but there is not a such sophisticated tourism infrastructure than on Boracay Island available, e.g.
		Calamian Group is the Northernmost part of Philippine's Palawan Province and the distance to Sulu Archipel and Basilan Island the strongholds of the rebels is quite big, so it should be safe.
	www.dxholiday.com /oc/du.htm (497 words)

	Philippine Islands
		The arrival of the Spanish in the Philippines was not an "internal" affair, but it was mainly due to what was happening to the "outside world." Here are some information on what happened prior to the actual colonization of the archipelago by the Spanish crown.
		Recorded history of the Philippines began with Ferdinand Magellan’s arrival in 1521.
		In the heart of Southeast Asia lies an archipelago composed of 7,107 islands, where nature is abundant and the people are friendly.
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/philippine_islands (383 words)

	Philippine Shares End Flat - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Philippine shares ended little changed Monday, with shares of tycoon John Gokongwei's JG Summit jumping 4.2 percent following news of dividend payouts from its food manufacturing and property units.
		Profit taking weighed down Bank of the Philippine Islands, which lost 1.9 percent to end at 52.50 pesos, and Jollibee, off 2.7 percent at 35.50 pesos.
		Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. was the most active stock, up 0.3 percent at 1,665 pesos, boosted by the 2.4 percent advance made by the company's American depositary receipts in New York Friday.
	www.forbes.com /associatedpress/feeds/ap/2005/10/10/ap2267292.html (518 words)

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