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  • The largest city of the Philippines, in central Luzon adjoining Manila. Chiefly residential with a textile industry, it was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948 to 1976.

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  • proper noun A city in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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  • noun city on Luzon adjoining Manila

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  • Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zumapress.com People rallied calling for the scrapping of the mining act of 1995, which allows foreign mining corporations to own land in the country, Tuesday in Quezon City, Philippines.

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  • Rolex Dela Pena/European Pressphoto Agency REUSE AND RECYCLE: A boy collected recyclable material from mounds of uncollected trash that have been a major cause of flooding during the rainy season at a riverside community in Quezon City, Philippines, Thursday.

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  • Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters Students looked out from a school bus as they went home after the suspension of classes due to rainfall from Typhoon Nesat in Quezon City, Manila Monday.

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  • The pair would travel around the world for fights to such obscure places as Ali's October 1974 bout in Zaire against Foreman dubbed "The Rumble in the Jungle," and Ali's third fight against Joe Frazier in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, called by promoters as the "Thrilla in Manila."

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  • Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zuma Press A man collected scrap metal from his burnt home after a fire in Quezon City, Philippines, Monday.

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  • Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images Youths were sprayed with a water cannon by police during a protest against cutting subsidies on universities by more than $12 million outside the House of Representatives in Quezon City, the Philippines, Thursday.

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  • Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zuma Press Residents returned to their burnt homes after a fire at the Bahay Toro village in Quezon City, part of Metro Manila, Friday.

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