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  The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you think government corruption is a modern thing, consider that human beings are ...

  Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, also known as Saint Therese the Little Flower and also Saint Therese of Lisieux, was only canonized in t...

  FUNERAL RECEIPT 1930 Once in a blue moon someone needed proof from the village priest that they paid the Church for funeral services, so t...

  Felipe was arrested in 1930 by an American Marine patrol man in the San Ramón district of Hagåtña. This area is behind the Cathedral, all ...

  There are many stories of pregnancies outside of marriage in olden Guam, but this court case from 1929 is interesting to me because it inv...

  Juan was just 12 and Francisco was just 11, but they may have been the youngest individuals ever arrested in Guam history, at least before...

  According to the records left by the Freycinet Expedition, a visit to Guam (1817) by French scholars and scientists, FAULOS means "na...

  Attorney Michael White from Saipan sent me pics of two postcards written in Chamorro from the Northern Marianas during the German Administ...

  CATHOLIC SISTERS IN PREWAR SAIPAN but no Catholic Sisters were allowed on Guam Every Catholic mission throughout the world wanted religiou...

  ROSALÍA'S GRAVE with sister Carmen Pedro Guevara Dumanal, better-known-as Pedro'n Tagålo, was a wanted man by the Japanese in 1943...

  From some French scientists and scholars we do know the meaning of this truly, indigenous surname. The Freycinet Expedition (1817) was a v...

  TI SIÑA UN FOKSE HÅGA' GINEN I KAMUTE You cannot squeeze blood out of a sweet potato. This is a Chamorro variation of "you can...

  Thanks to the Spanish language, Chamorro has a word found in very few languages around the world. That word is CO-MOTHER-IN-LAW. In Spanis...

  A delightful anecdote about one of the Spanish Governors of the Marianas comes to us from reports from the Freycinet Expedition (1817-1820...

  We who lived through the Covid pandemic weren't the first, and probably won't be the last, people of the Marianas to go through su...