Why it took them to the time of the Macapagal regime to institute the change? What’s their motive?

How could they justify that the Philippines was truly independent then when during those times the Filipino people were under US occupation right after Spain was defeated in a Spanish-American war and subsequently the Spaniards ceded its rights to the Americans.

By just a mere declaration on paper by a bunch of people led by Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898, does not mean anything because in reality the Philippines did not become a sovereign and an independent state on that day.

If Aguinaldo and his cohorts wanted to, they have to defeat first the American occupation in a war and drive them out from the country to support their claim, but then they didn’t because they were not capable in confronting the might of the colonizer and that made their declaration of independence a farce.

The Americans have continued their Philippine occupation for decades until they install the Philippine Commonwealth in 1934, a ten year transitional government led by Manuel Quezon prior to the granting of Philippine independence.

In 1946, the Philippine Commonwealth ended. President Manuel Roxas was sworn in into office as the first duly elected president of the Republic of the Philippines.

The Philippines was granted its independence by the American government on July 4, 1946.

Assigning a date of Philippine independence other than July 4, 1946, tantamount to deviation of historical truth and thwarting the true meaning of sovereignty or what an independent state is.

The law creating June 12, 1898 as Philippines’ independence day is in essence historically wrong and therefore, should be repealed.

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The book authors, Richard Courtney and George Cassidy embark on the idea treating successes and failures of the Beatles as an inspiration not only for aspiring bands and rock stars but for every business people as well.

As self starter, the Beatles only mode of transportation was a van missing its windshield. That meant that in the dead winter, band members who were not driving huddled on top of one another for warmth, the authors write, adding: “Take a page out of their book. Although frostbite is generally a bad idea, avoid relying heavily on debt to finance your daily operations or growth.”

The Lennon-MCartney decision to always share credit on song provided another lesson, the authors suggest: Don’t waste time arguing over crumbs when that energy could be better used building a bakery, or in this case, the Beatles songbook.

Another story from the Beatles’ early years highlights the importance of heeding feedback. Executives at Capitol Records, the American affiliate of EMI, passed on, ‘Love Me Do.’

The Beatles could have kept arguing about the album’s merits or simply giving up on conquering America. Instead, they kept recording new material and sending it to Capitol for one solid year. Finally, in 1964, Capitol released ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand,’ which became the Beatles’ first No. 1 hit in the United States.

“The most important lesson here is not simple perseverance, though that is important,’ the book says. The approach was key. They did not continue to pitch Capitol the same product that they had already rejected.” Instead, George Martin, the Beatles’ producer, got in touch only “when he had something new and improved.”

The Beatles is composed of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

They will be doing a facial reconstruction work with the hope that they will prove once for all if Lisa Gherardini was the subject of the Leonardo da Vinci portrait that has mystified viewers around the world.

The painting has long also been known as La Gioconda, linking it to Gherardini’s husband, Francesco del Giocondo, who commissioned da Vinci to paint his wife.

The excavation team will be led by Silvano Vinceti, an art historian where digging will start later this month at a convent in central Florence where Gherardini was buried in 1542, the report says.

The team will use ground-penetration radar to search for forgotten tombs inside the building. If they discover human remains, they will sift through the bones to identify any that are compatible with a woman of Gherardini’s age.

Florence researchers are about to excavate the bones of the woman they believe served as the model for Mona Lisa.

Researchers this time will hunt for Gherardini’s specific tomb at the convent using radar and seeking the remains of a woman in her 60s who died in the mid-1500s,

They’ll carry out carbon dating and DNA tests to link remains to Gherardini’s children’s remains, also buried in Florence.

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The scientist’s predicament did not end with his death in 1642. As a convicted heretic he could not be given a church burial, but for years after his death, his followers pushed to give him an honorable resting place.

The Florence’s history of science museum recently renovated and renamed it as Galileo Museum to honor Galileo. He was considered by his modern day supporters as secular saint, hero and martyr to science. Galileo was a symbol of his fight for freedom of thought.

In 1992, the church came around to acknowledging that the judge who had convicted Galileo of hearsay had erred, but it came short of clearing him either. In 1737, members of Florence’s cultural and scientific elite unearthed the scientist’s remains in peculiar Masonic rite.

According to records, the historian and naturalist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti with the use of a knife took off several fingers, a tooth and a vertebra from Galileo’s body as souvenirs. The scientists was then reburied in a ceremony similar to that of a saint beatification, according to Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the Galileo Museum.

The museum which has reopened in June after a high tech renovation that transformed it into one of Italy’s best boutique collections. Visitors seemed captivated by the telescope, painted globes, clocks and as nearly room size model of the universe based on Ptolemaic geocentric system commissioned by Ferdinando de Medici in 1588 that Galileo rejected in favor for the Copernican one.

Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, the people’s theological watchdog, had Galileo arrested for preaching Copernicanism, the church never acknowledge that his heliocentric theory is correct.

Pope John Paul II reopened the Galileo case in 1981, eleven years later, the church commission’s finding has acknowledged that the judge who condemned Galileo had erred in the same token that the scientist has also erred in arrogantly thinking that his theory would be accepted with no physical evidence.

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She has drawn increasing attention marking the founding of the Jamestown settlement that were being billed as America’s 400th anniversary.

Many places around the US named after the girl, the English sisters called her a princess, who John Smith later claimed saved his life from the hostile Indians moments before he would have been executed.

The legend goes that Jamestown colonist John Smith was captured and dragged before Powhatna at his capital, Werowocomoco.

Years later, Smith described the encounter in his memoirs, saying Indians ready to beat him to death with clubs. He said Pocahontas rushed up and lay over his head to save his life.

But Smith was known at the time as a braggart and the timing of the account draws into question whether it actually occurred, historians say.

If it did happen, the incident was likely part of an adoption ritual and Smith’s life was not actually endangered, a Jamestown historian say at the various museums dedicated to the colony.

Pocahontas, whose real name was actually Matoaka, the daughter of Powhatna, chief of the tribes. She would have been a young girl of around ten years old at the time, not of curvaceous young woman of Disney fame.

Myths that Pocahontas and John Smith has a romantic relationship as they did in the Disney film are also false, though her relationship with the settlers certainly helped them survive.

The legends persist to this day, much to the chagrin of some native Americans. A monument to Pocahontas stands on tribe’s reservation about an hour from Jamestown.

Smith, who wrote that Pocahontas saved the colony from “death, famine and utter confusion”, himself played a crucial role in saving Jamestown from starvation.

During his brief stint as leader, he instituted a no work no food policy to alleviate problems with people more interested in digging for gold than finding food.

Smith also charted and explored much of the Chesapeake Bay before returning to England.

Pocahontas seems to have married a fellow Native American, but was later taken captive by the English settlers and held for more than a year. After that time, she married an English man, John Rolfe, who was crucial in introducing tobacco as a cash crop to Virginia.

She was baptized as Rebecca Rolfe in 1614. They traveled to England in 1616 as part of the promotional voyage to boost the colony, and she was widely in royal circles.

Before she could return home to Virginia, she feel ill, died at the age of twenty two and was buried in England. The couple had one child, Thomas Rolfe.

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