Browsing Archive: February, 2012

Josefa Llanes Escoda : BANKNOTES & STAMP

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Thursday, February 2, 2012, In : Banknote

Josefa Llanes Escoda, founder of the Girl Scout of the Philippines , is executed together with other Filipinos who have resisted Japanese Occupation during World War II, January 31, 1945.

Great civic leader, social worker, suffragette and war heroine, Pepa, as she was affectionately called, was born on September 20, 1898 in Dingras, Ilocos Norte.

She was last seen on January 29, 1945. She was then apparently taken and held in one of the Far Eastern University buildings occupied by the Japanese...

THE MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Posted by jov3n- trader202 on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, In : Postal Stamp

PHILIPPINE MASONRY: Marcelo H. del Pilar and Dr. Jose P. Rizal conceived the idea of organizing Freemasonry in the Philippines. As a result, Nilad Lodge No. 144 was established in 1891 with the consent of the Grand Oriente Espanol. M.H. del Pilar, also known in the Philippine Revolutionary world as “Plaridel” earned the recognition of Father of Philippine Masonry.