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Playboy is an American soft-porn men's magazine founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and world famous for it's 'bunny head' logo. Since the magazine, Playboy has extended into cabaret clubs, the first club being opened in Chicago, Illinois in 1960, famed for their waitresses dressed as 'Playboy Bunnies', a television channel and in 1994 a web site. In 1988 the last American Playboy club closed and in1991 the last international Playboy club, in Manila, closed.
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Dwight David Eisenhower was an American president and military leader. He was born in 1890 at Texas and died in 1969. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1915 and in 1935 served in the Philippines at Manila under MacArthur and from 1940 held high staff appointments at Washington. In June 1942 he was sent to England as US Commander in the European theatre and in November 1942 became Commander in Chief of the American and British forces on the occasion of the invasion of North Africa.
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George Dewey was an American admiral. He was born in 1837 and died in 1917. He fought under David Farragut in the American Civil War. He commanded the Asiatic squadron in the Spanish-American War, and engaged and destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila in 1898 without loss to his own side.
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The Tagalog are the majority ethnic group living around Manila on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, who number about 10 million. The Tagalog live by fishing and trading. The Tagalog language is the official language of the Philippines. The Tagalog religion is a mixture of animism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Cristina Raines (also known as Tina Herazo) is a Philippino actress. She was born in 1952 at Manila.
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The Battle of Manila Bay occurred on May the 1st 1898 during the Spanish- American war. A Spanish squadron under Admiral Montijo was destroyed in Manila Bay by a US squadron under Commodore George Dewey.
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The Spanish-American War broke out between Spain and America in 1898 over American desires for the island of Cuba. American preparations for invasion commenced in 1897, and in February 1898 the US Battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbour, allegedly by a mine, and in March 1897 the American army was mobilised. In April Congress declared the independence of Cuba, which naturally caused Spain to declare war.
A naval campaign was localised to the Philippine Islands and Cuba. At the Philippines the Spanish fleet under Admiral Montojo was destroyed on May the 1st at the Battle of Manila Bay; while the Cuban fleet was blockaded in Santiago Bay by Admiral Sampson, until it slipped out, was pursued and wiped out. The US landed 16,000 soldiers on Cuba and captured Cuba and Puerto Rico. Peace was arranged with Spain surrendering Cuba to the USA, and being required to sell the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam to the USA.
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Abaca or Manila Hemp, is a strong fibre yielded by the leaf-stalks of a kind of plantain (Musa textllis) which grows in the Indian Archipelago, and is cultivated in the Philippines. The outer fibres of the leafstalks are made into strong and durable ropes, the inner into various fine fabrics.
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Manilla hemp (abaca) is a fibrous material obtained from the plant Musa textilis, a plant allied to the banana, found growing in the Philippines and other East Indian islands. It is used to make matting, canvas, ropes, and cables.
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They Were Expendable is a Second World War drama starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne in a story about two American navy lieutenants based at Manila Bay in 1941, who believe their motor torpedo boats can do more to help the war effort than just ferry messages. They Were Expendable was directed by John Ford in 1945.
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