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  • Her Crab vending previous project is still on-going to where every week he sells in the city of Calamba.

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  • Her Crab vending previous project is still on-going to where every week he sells in the city of Calamba.

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  • He was born and raised in the Philippines to a prominent indio family who were nevertheless tenants of a land-owning religious order near Calamba, an old Spanish colonial town on the southern shores of Laguna de Bai, south east of Manila.

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  • Mora, and the Governor of the Laguna Province, they rose in open rebellion and killed these officials in the town of Calamba.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Also, near Calamba, in the same province, water power was eventually employed to advantage.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • In July an expedition was sent up the Laguna de Bay, and the towns on the south shore were successively captured as far as Calamba, which was occupied on the 26th of the month.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Born in Calamba (La Laguna), three hours 'journey from Manila, on June 19, 1861, he was destined to become the idol of his countrymen, and consequently the victim of the friars and General Polavieja.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • However, I have seen in the towns of Candava (Pampanga), Pagsanján (La Laguna), near Calamba in the same province, in Naig (Cavite), in Camarines Province, and

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Manila to Batangas, _via_ Calamba (a distance of about 70 miles), and thence on to Albay Province, was under consideration for many years prior to the American advent; but the poor financial result of the only

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Backhouse returned to Calamba, entered the Province of Batangas, overran it, and made several Austin friars prisoners.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

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