Sunday, March 23, 2008

19 - Quezon, Negros, Philippines

Main town on the island's E coast. It, like many other places named Quezon in the country, is named for Manuel Quezon, who was the first, or the second, or the third President of the Philippines, depending on who you ask (but who died in the USA in 1944, in exile during the Japanese occupation). All this was before the US granted the Philippines true independence on (how convenient) July 4, 1946.

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