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http://www.philippinebirds.com/2010/07/rufous-hornbill.html
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Transportation
This selection offers over 2270 illustrations of many means of transportation, including air, horse-drawn, motor vehicles, railroad, and ships.
Sports and Recreation
Clipart illustrations of various types of sports and recreational activities, broken into sports of varying amount of players, as well as board games and other recreation.
Science
This selection offers over 6690 illustrations of several different disciplines of science, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics.
Plants
This selection offers over 5340 illustrations of various members of the kingdom Plantae and Fungi. This includes, but is not limited to, trees, flowers and shrubs, mushrooms, mold, and mosses and lichens. Italso includes images of things produced by plants, such as fruits, vegetables, and leaves.
People
This selection offers over 6720 illustrations of people of all ages, as well as famous people of varying historic periods. It also contains parts of the body, such as illustrations of faces and hands.
Musical Instruments
This selection offers over 330 illustrations of ancient and modern musical instruments, as well as other images that relate to music.
Military
This selection offers over 590 illustrations of military items, such as firearms, artillery, armor, fortifications, and medals.
Angles
This selection offers more than 800 illustrations of angles. There are images of acute, right, obtuse, reflex, complimentary, and supplementary angles. Also included are illustrations of positive and negative coterminal angles, vertical angles, and polyhedral angles. For more clipart of angles, see the Protractors gallery in the Math Tools section and Theorems and Proofs in the Geometry section.
Literary & Storybook Characters
Over 2120 clipart illustrations of literary and storybook scenes and characters.
HOUSEHOLD OBJECT and ACTIVITIES
This selection offers over 880 illustrations of typical objects that might be seen and activities that might be done around the house.
FLAGS AND EMBLEMS
This selection offers over 1050 illustrations of flags and emblems from countries and organizations worldwide, including military flags, international code flags, and state flags.
EDUCATION
This selection offers over 230 illustrations of all aspects of school, including buildings, supplies, playground, and students and their studies.
DESIGN
This selection offers over 1620 illustrations of several design elements, including banners and borders of many shapes and sizes, dividers, doodads, quilt blocks, and tailpieces.
COUNTRIES AND RELIGIONS
This selection offers over 8650 illustrations of countries and regions from around the world. Selecting a region from below will lead you to another page, where you can pinpoint your search more specifically. For a collection of historical and contemporary world maps that include global, country, and regional maps, visit our Maps ETC site. You can also view flags of these countries in our flags section of theSitemap in our galleries World Flags, Black & White, or in World Flags, Color, as well as seals and coats of arms in our World Seals and Coats of Arms section.
ARTS
This selection offers over 1990 illustrations of arts of various types and on several mediums, including painting, pottery, sculpture, and visual arts.
AMERICAN HISTORY
This selection offers over 2980 illustrations of the history of America. This ranges from exploration and Colonial America, to the American Revolution and Civil War, to the twentieth century. You can also visit our Flags and Emblems galleries to view historic U.S. and state flags, in color and black & white, and our collection of Historic American Currency for historic currency used in the U.S.
ANIMALS
This selection offers over 9800 illustrations of a broad range of animals from the kingdom Animalia, including amphibians, birds, crustaceans, fish, insects, mammals, and reptiles.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Lourdes Cruz
Lourdes Cruz - Filipino Biochemist:
Doctor Lourdes Cruz has made scientific contributions to the biochemistry field of conotoxins, in particular the toxins of the venom of the marine snail Conus geographus. Lourdes Cruz documented the biochemical characterization of the homologous highly toxic monomeric peptides with internal disulfide bonds including: Conotoxin GI, Conotoxin GIA and Conotoxin GII. Lourdes Cruz has helped develop conotoxins for the purpose biochemical probes for examining the activities of the human brain.
Lourdes Cruz has published over one hundred and twenty papers in her field of study.Lourdes Cruz - Degrees:
B.S. Chemistry, University of the Philippines, 1962
M.S. Biochemistry, University of Iowa, 1966
Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Iowa, 1968
Lourdes Cruz - Awards:
NAST Outstanding Young Scientist Award 1981
NRCP Achievement Award in Chemistry 1982
Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service Award (Biochemistry) 1986
National Scientist 2008
Also known as:
Lourdes Jansuy Cruz
Rural Livelihood Incubator:
Lourdes Cruz established the Rural Livelihood Incubator in 2001. The program offers jobs and training in an effort to decrease poverty for rural Filipinos.
http://www.pinoygigs.com/blog/tag/lourdes-cruz/
Angel Alcala
Angel Alcal has more than thirty years of experience in tropical marine resource conservationa. Angel Alcala is considered a world class authority in ecology and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles, and is behind the invention of artifical coral reefs to be used for fisheries in Southeast Asia. Angel Alcala is the Director of the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management.
Angel Alcala - Degrees:
Undergraduate degree Silliman University
Ph.D. Stanford University
Angel Alcala - Awards:
1994 - The Field Museum Founders' Council Award of Merit for contributions to environmental biology
Magsaysay Award for Public Service
Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation
Work with Philippine Amphibians & Reptiles:
Angel Alcala has done the most comprehensive studies on Philippine amphibians and reptiles, and minor studies on birds and mammals. His research done between 1954 to 1999 lead to the addition of fifty new species of amphibians and reptiles.
Alfredo Santos
Doctor Alfredo Santos is a noted researcher in the chemistry of natural products, in particular the isolation and elucidation of the phaeantharine and other alkaloids from Philippine medical plants.
Alfredo Santos - Degrees:
BS in Pharmacy, University of the Philippines
Doctorate in Pharmacy, University of Santo Tomas
Doctorate in Philosophy, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster - 1929
Alfredo Santos - Awards:
1953 - Outstanding Pharmacist Researcher of the Philippine Pharmaceutical Association
1954 - Magsaysay's Distinguished Service Star
1973 - PhilAAS Outstanding Scientist Award
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Alamat ng Pakwan
Alamat ng Pakwan
Humigit-kumulang sa tatlong daan taong namalagi sa Pilipinas ang mga Kastila. Layunin ng Espanyang sakupin ang mga katutubo. Naging kasangkapan ng mga Espanyol ang Katolisismo upang lalong mapadali nila ang pamamalakad dito. Bagamat sa Limasawa, Leyte nagdaos ng unang misa, may isang paring Kastilang nagngangalang Padre Novelles ang nakarating sa lalawigan ng Nueva Ecija.
Sinikap niyang kumbinsihin ang mga katutubo upang maging Katoliko. Upang magawa ito, pinag-aralan niyang makapagsalita ng kanilang wika. Madali naman siyang natuto. Sapagkat matagal na ring sumasamba sa mga anito ang mga katutubo, hirap na hirap si Padre Novelles na manghikayat.
Lalong pinagsikapan ng paring Kastila ang pagtuturo ng buhay at mga aral ni HesuKristo. Binigyang diin niya ang pagpapasakit ng Anak ng Diyos. Isinalaysay niya ang pagkapasan sa krus upang iligtas lamang ni Hesus ang mga makasalanang tao sa daigdig.
Sapagkat misyunero, marami ang naliwanagan sa katotohanan. Pero kahit marami ang sumunod sa itinuturo ng paring Espanyol ay may isang barangay na bulag pa ring sumasamba sa mga anito. Ito ang barangay na pinamumunuan ni Datu Diliwariw. Ayaw ng Datung paniwalaan ang mga aral na itinuturo sa Katolisismo. Sa labis na pagkagalit ipinadakip mismo ng datu sa mga nasasakupan ang misyunerong nangangaral.
Sapagkat batay sa turo ng Katolisismo ay nagpasan ng krus at ipinako sa kabundukan si HesuKristo. Ito rin ang parusang ipinataw ng di binyagang datu sa paring Katoliko.
Awang-awa ang maraming katutubo sa pagpapasan sa krus si Padre Novelles. Ang maalikabok at baku-bakong lansangan ng Nueva Ecija ay kangyang dinaanan. Sa bundok ng mga anito na ngayon ay kilala bilang bundok ng Caraballo itinindig ang krus. Habang nagbabaga ang araw ay isinakripisyo ng misyunero ang abang buhay. Katulad ni Kristo, isang matulis na sibat ang tumapos sa hininga ng paring Katoliko. Ang sariwang dugo sa dibdib nito ay mayamang umagos sa lupang pinagtindigan ng krus.
Matapos ipapatay ay hindi mapalagay si Datu Diliwariw. Naalala niya ang itinuturo ng misyunero na si Hesus daw ay muling nabuhay pagkalipas ng tatlong araw.
Upang makatiyak, isinama ng datu ang pinakamatapat na kawal nang dumating ang ikatlong gabi. Ginimbal sila ng katotohanan, ang bangkay na kanilang iniwan ay nawala sa kanyang kinapapakuan. Napaluhod ang datu kasama ng kawal. Inalala nila ang mga aral na itinuro ng misyunero tungkol kay Kristo. Taos puso silang humingi ng tawad. Sa kanilang pagyuko at pagluha ay may napansin silang munting halaman sa lupang dinilig ng dugo ng kabanalan. Ang nasabing halaman ay nagbunga ng animo makinis na ulo ng paring misyunero na kapag biniyak mo ay may lamang tila mapulang dugo ng kabanalan, matamis at nakaaalis ng uhaw. Magmula noon, ang nagging Katolikong datu ay lagi nagng dumadalaw sa pinagpakuang kabundukan. Ang panata niyang iyon ay kalakip ng pagtanggap ng kaparusahan sa malaking kasalanang nagawa niya sa paring ipinapatay.
Sapagkat tumubo ang kakaibang halaman ay tinawag ang bunga nito na pinagpakuan na nauwi sa pakuan na ngayon ay naging pakwan. Iyan ang pinanggalingan ng alamat ng pakwan.
Alamat ng Mangga
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Kaisa-isang anak nina Aling Maria at Mang Juan si Ben. Mabait at matulungin siya. Nagmana siya sa kanyang mga magulang na mababait din naman. Isang araw, isang matandang pulubi ang kinaawaan ni Ben. Inuwi niya ang pulubi sa bahay, ipinagluto at pinakain. Isang araw naman, samantalang nangangahoy, isang matandang gutom na gutom ang nasalubong niya. Pinakain din niya ito at binigyan ng damit.
Makaraan ang ilang panahon, nagkasakit si Ben. Sa kabila ng pagsisikap ng mag-asawa na pagalingin ang anak, lumubha pa rin ang kanyang kalagayan hanggang sa siya’y bawian na ng buhay. Ganoon na lamang ang iyak ng mag-asawa. Kinabukasan, habang nakaburol ang kanilang anak, dumating ang isang diwata. Hiningi nito ang puso ni Ben, Ibinaon ng diwata ang puso sa isang bundok. Ito ay naging punongkahoy na may bungang hugis-puso. Marami ang nakikinabang ngayon sa bungang ito.