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Prof. Ligaya Tiamson Rubin of the Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas (DFPP) received the Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez award, which is given to outstanding educators in the field of literature and communication. Rubin was cited for her “dynamic, intense and penetrating approach to the teaching of language and Filipino literature.”
Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (Dulaang UP) Vargas Museum Kontemporaryong Gamelan Pilipino (Kontra-GaPi) is the resident ethnic music and dance ensemble of the UP-College of Arts and Letters which is inspired by indigenous peoples of the Philippines culture and Gamelan in creating new music, dance and related arts - dance heard even as dance ...
Emma Darwin with Charles Waring Darwin. Charles Waring Darwin, born in December 1856, was the tenth and last of the children. Emma Darwin was aged 48 at the time of the birth, and the child was mentally subnormal and never learnt to walk or talk. He probably had Down syndrome, which had not then been medically described.
In April 2008 Darwin's private papers were launched. The event marked the largest release of new materials by and about Darwin ever published. The collection covers c. 20,000 items across c. 90,000 electronic images. One notable item is the Diary of Emma Darwin (1808–1896), Darwin's wife. [7] [8] The site is accessible open access free of ...
Official historical marker Alternate logo used on official social media pages. The Commission on the Filipino Language (CFL), [2] also referred to as the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), [a] is the official regulating body of the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local Philippine languages.
Charles Darwin in 1868. Darwinism is a term used to describe a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others. The theory states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
The seven-year-old Charles Darwin in 1816, a year before the sudden loss of his mother. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home, the Mount, [1] He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Waring Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood).
The Reverend Leonard Jenyns, a naturalist Darwin had known since his time at the University of Cambridge, had at Darwin's request contributed the volume on Fish in Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, and was now working on a book of notes on observations of plants and animals. On 12 October Darwin wrote to tell him that "work on the species ...