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Kabayan Mummies. / 16.550°N 120.750°E / 16.550; 120.750. The Fire Mummies of the Philippines, also known as the Kabayan Mummies, Benguet Mummies, or Ibaloi Mummies, are a group of mummies found along the mountain slopes of Kabayan, Benguet, a town in northern Philippines. They were made from as early as 2000 BCE.
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A fire on May 16, 1998, destroyed much of the LCP's building and equipment. The fire, which started on 2:20 a.m., claimed 11 lives with nine more missing. [9] Calixto Zaldivar, the director of the Lung Center, was indicted on October 19, 1999, for criminal negligence. He was accused of ignoring advice from fire inspectors to install safety ...
Bureau of Fire Protection National headquarters along Senator Miriam P. Defensor-Santiago Avenue (formerly Agham Road) in Quezon City. The BFP was formed from the units of the Integrated National Police's Office of Fire Protection Service on January 29, 1991 through Republic Act No. 6975, which created the present Interior Department and placed the provision of fire services under its control.
1814 – War of 1812: British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to various U.S. government buildings, including the White House (pictured). 1889 – The New Zealand Native football team , predominantly comprising Māori players, concluded their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.
Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island ( Tagalog: Pulo ng El Fraile ), is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", [ 1] the reinforced concrete sea fort, shaped like a battleship, was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the ...
Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [ note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes . It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [ 1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [ 2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean .
Poverty incidence of Baguio 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 2006 1.20 2009 2.43 2012 0.85 2015 2.51 2018 2.28 2021 1.00 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority As a melting pot of different peoples and cultures in the Cordillera Administrative Region, numerous investments and business opportunities are lured to Baguio. Baguio has a large retail industry, with shoppers coming to the city to take advantage of ...