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Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The festival ...
a 16th-century tribal chieftain in the Philippines known to have slain the famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Who is Lapu-Lapu, and why is he being celebrated by Filipino migrants in ...
The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honours Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who famously defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of ...
The Lapu Lapu Festival is a Filipino block party that honors Lapu-Lapu, the chieftain who led native forces in the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan in 1521 ...
ON April 26, the Filipino immigrant community in Vancouver, Canada, held a festival honoring Lapu-Lapu, the Mactan chieftain who vanquished Ferdinand Magellan and his men in battle in April 1521. What ...
The incident happened as the Filipino community in Vancouver celebrated Lapu Lapu in remembrance of indigenous chief Lapulapu who led the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in a battle ...
The Filipino community had gathered there for Lapu-lapu Festival, which commemorates a 16th century anticolonial chief who killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. “My heart goes out to ...
The incident occured during a gathering of Filipinos in Vancouver to celebrate Lapu-Lapu, the indigenous chief who led the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.