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MANILA Around the 1920s How times have changed. Generally speaking, most Chamorros today would never consider working as a domest...

Picture of the Foxhound etched on a tooth of a sperm whale captured by the ship The ship visited Guam twice in 1835 Apra Harbor was ...

View of Tinian from Anson's ship in 1742 Hopefully it is by now well-known by my readers that Tinian was used, during the major ...

The Payesyes bat A branch of the Castro family on Guam is known as the familian Payesyes. More people know about the fanihi bat, al...

Why do chickens scratch the ground so much? Well, common sense tells you the chicken is scrounging for food. But here's a more color...

In a list of Chamorro government officials in the 1830s, we find the following officials for Hågat. JOSÉ BABAUTA was the "Mayor...

Drinking tuba out of a bongbong Gi 1900 na såkkan, ma sodda' na tumutuba si Encho' sin lisensia.  (In 1900, Encho' wa...

BROTHER MIGUEL TIMONER, SJ While a great many people know about Guam's Father Jesús Baza Dueñas, killed by the Japanese just befo...

Education was quite limited in the Marianas until modern times. Even in the early American administration of Guam and the Japanese a...

One morning in 1853, as the sun was just rising, Captain Shiell of the British ship Rodsley , saw what looked like a small European vess...

Ai pobre kilisyåno! Ma na' chispas sin pinto'-ña. Ya ma sodda' gi bodega na ha sasaosao lago'-ña. (Oh poor p...

JAMES AUSTIN "KIMO" WILDER 1868 ~ 1934 The Marianas in the 1800s were known to quite a bit of people in the Western Hemis...

A Korean snack brand known as Pepero. A branch of the Dueñas family on Guam, and some Sablans from Saipan, are better known as famil...

Mai'es (Corn) The main staple of the Chamorro diet before the war In 1902, Juan Mesa, from the familian Dodo , owed José Cruz F...

Salomón Tenorio Garrido was the alguacil of Hagåtña in the early 1900s. The alguacil (Spanish title) was like a sheriff, court clerk ...