The La Torta Festival, which replaced the Pitlagong Festival in 2011, is the municipality’s local food festival in honor of St Michael the Archangel, the patron saint of Argao. La Torta Festival happens every September 28th and 29th to celebrate Argao’s Tart Economy and the torta as an Argaoanon delicacy, as well as cultural heritage […]
The Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall)
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced: bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ̯ɐ) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) on August 13, 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. […]
What Is Martial Law
What is martial law and why and how is it used is a question that I’ve been ask repeatedly over the last few weeks and felt that it was time to try to answer that question with some kind of reasonable explanation as well as give a brief history of the times it has been […]
The Life And Times Of Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 1880, the son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and Mary “Pinky” Hardy. Arthur MacArthur was an army officer and a Union hero of the American Civil War. “Pinky” was the daughter of a cotton merchant from Norfolk, VA. During the Civil War, her brothers fought […]
The DEI Nightmare
What is DEI? Diversity, equity and inclusion explained In order to fully understand, we first must turn to a dictionary to look up the words: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It is only then that we will be able to see how those words have been manipulated to represent and idea. The condition or fact of […]