who discovered philippines?
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his name is magellan a spaniard. lapu lapu killed him, lapu lapu defended the country for freedom.
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Spanish Galleons are big three masted cargo ships that traveled from Spain, to Africa, then to the New World, to Asia (Philippines) and then back to the New World and Spain. Spices in Asia were extremely valuable back in the 16th century. The Spanish settled the islands and traded with the Filippino natives. They often used the natives as slaves and in fact, there is said to be a community of Filippino Americans  who live in Louisiana who are descendents from the first Filippinos brought over from Asia by the Spanish. The name "Philippines" comes from King Phillip of Spain. Also, today you can see a lot of the Spanish influence in the Philippines. Most Filippinos are Catholic and the cuisine is very similar to Spanish and Mexican foods. Good luck with your report. It helps if you do your own research.
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From 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine:\n\n"Around the year 232 B.C., Captain Rata and Navigator Maui set out with a flotilla of ships from Egypt in an attempt to circumnavigate the Earth.1 On the night of August 6-7, 2001, between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM, this writer, and fellow amateur astronomer Bert Cooper, proved in principle that Captain Rata and Navigator Maui could have known."\n\nMore at the article link below.
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Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan, Cebu, Philippines.
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are you from the philippines? i think it started when magellan set put in cebu in 1521.
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I believe they weren't discovered all at the same time so there are different people that discovered them. Is this your homework from school? I don't know how it would be helpful to know their names.. but anyway, Hope you find your answer!
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The Philippines was a colony of Spain. It had a governor-general who answered to the King of Spain. Mostly the communities were centered around 2 main buildings (the church and the city hall). this shows that the church had a great deal of power in running political and government affairs.
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http://www.aquinas-multimedia.com/stjoseph/galileo.html\n\nMy guess was Galileo and I was right.  Here, look.\n\nBut according to a book I have, the greeks noticed it first.  It was Galileo that proposed the theory to the world.
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It was discovered by Antonio Ingognito, in 1983. He had a good idea it would be where it was because his Lonely Planet book said so. Other people had discovered it before but they weren't explorers.
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A Filipino biologist, Dr. Lina Villacarlos, recently discovered a new breed of parasitic fungus. She named it Entomorphthora leyteensis because it falls under the fungus family known as Entomorphthorales – a family that is classified as parasites on insect like the common housefly – and leyteensis from the name of the place where she discovered it, that is Leyte. \n\nEDWARD QUINTO A Luminous Vision : This Filipino biologist has worked tirelessly to make use of low-cost, local resources to help his country and people.\n\nEarly in the 1960's, Filipino biologist (Dioscoro) Rabor alerted the world that this magnificent bird was in serious danger of extinction. Eagles were found on only four of the 1,700 islands of the Philippine Archipelago. A handful of birds were reported on Leyte and Samar, with the majority on the islands of Luzor and Mindanao.\n\nCarmela Española, a Filipino wildlife biologist, found a group of these dark brown birds with their distinctive orange-red bills and legs foraging in the undergrowth near a stream while she was walking through a rainforest on May 11 this year.\nHer notes and photographs, along with the recordings of the bird’s loud, harsh, rasping calls, later helped determine that the species was not only new to her, but also new to science. Locals, however, know the bird by the name ‘piding’. Some residents said the birds were there sometimes even caught for food.\n\nWood describes how he was brought by Dr Alcala, a distinguished Filipino biologist, to the one island where the reef was expected to be safe, since a marine nature reserve had saved it from dynamiting. Only to find it swarming with illegal squatters, driven by hunger to invade, fish out and ruin the last reserve
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The Philippines are a large archipelago of seven thousand islands near the coast of Asia. The primary commercial products are hemp, sugar cane, hemp, tobacco, coconut, rubber, gold and copper deposits. Much of its trade is done with the U.S.A. Even though the Philippines was surmounted by the Spanish, the Filipino people were still able to retain their identity. They are mostly Malay and Chinese with a small Spanish minority. To my knowledge, the Philippians's population is approximately 61,480,000 and the area is approximately 115,600 square miles. The Philippines is about 80% Catholic with a small Muslim minority. It is interesting to note that the Philippines was named after Philip of Spain.\n It is also interesting to note that in 1895 a group of Filipinos( called the Manila Men(mostly from the southern part of the Philippines) settled a little community near New Orleans, Louisiana. Using their experience of fishing in the Philippines, these men found the bayous of Louisiana similar to the bayous in the Philippines. They eventually founded one of the oldest and most popular fishing villages in Barataria Bay, Manila Village, named after the capital of the Philippines, Manila.
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Actually, it was Christopher Columbus who "discovered" Jamaica, though it was already there and inhabited.
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yes i think it's the Philippines....where else!
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Because of the goelogical positioning of the continents millions of years ago. Philippines was not yet a separate country as we know it now, but part of a huge single continent known as Pangea.
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Watson and Crick discovered it while researching "genetic material." For further information, check this site.
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I'm sure it's the Philippines...
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of course PHILIPPINES..because it has lots of tourist spots...and where you can also find the natural resources...\nlots of beautiful places and very cheap...