Thursday – 18 Aug 2011

  [smartads] Continuing with the Provinces of the Philippines, this is #10 of 80.  This province is famous from WWII and also the story of a movie starring John Wayne ( Back to Bataan).  It is pronounced “Bah-tah-ahn” not “Bah-tan”.  I hear many people, even in the movie, say it wrong. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8724323@N06/4748700782/ Bataan (/bəˈtæn/; Tagalog: [bɐtɐˈʔɐˑn]) is a province of…

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Sunday – 24 Apr 2011

[smartads] Bataan is a province of the Philippines occupying the whole of Bataan Peninsula on Luzon.  The province is part of the Central Luzon region.  The Bataan Peninsula is a rocky extension of the Zambales Mountains, on Luzon in the Philippines.  It separates the Manila Bay from the South China Sea. Bataan was established in…

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