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  The tune is from composer George Frideric Handel (died 1759) and is used in more than one Chamorro hymn, but this is a Christmas one sung ...

  REAR ADMIRAL LOUIS KEMPFF Captain Richard P. Leary is best known to us as the first American Governor of Guam. But there was a prior Naval...

  Everyone has their version of the ways things happened in the past.  The following story comes from the late Sister Mary Mark Martinez, a ...

  YANGGEN HUMUYONG I MAPOTGE' NA PALAO'AN AN GUALÅFON, SIEMPRE PIRI' I NENE If a pregnant woman goes out when the moon is full, ...

  INTRAMUROS AND MANILA (Intamuros was the heart of the city) In 1822, a dozen Chamorro young men were sent, at Government expense, to learn...

  In 1874, a Spaniard by the name of Francisco Chacón Lara was exiled to Guam for political reasons. Years later, he wrote a book about his ...

  I taotao siha, annai ma hahasso i taotaomo'na, ma popo'lo na man dångkulo yan man lokka' siha. Ya hunggan magåhet taiguennao p...

  How should we end our prayers in Chamorro? You hear "Amen" a lot of the times but sometimes you hear " Taiguennao mohon. ...

  In many families, a female member who became a godmother ( matlina , or nina ) for one baby in the family was called NINA by everybody, ev...

  In 1874, a Spanish political exile named Francisco Chacón Lara came to Guam. Years later, he wrote a book about his time on Guam and what ...

  FIESTA SCHEDULE FROM 1977 NA' TAOTAO TUMANO' is a Chamorro term used on Guam for the communal meal served to the faithful who att...

The center of the CELIS family is Saipan, but there is a small branch on Guam. It all began with a man named AGATÓN CELIS from the Philip...

  The name of Guam's cathedral-basilica is a Spanish one. Dulce Nombre de María, which means "the Sweet Name of Mary." It'...

  Todo håfa bidå-mo siempre un binisita. Everything you do will surely visit you. This is one Chamorro way of saying "what goes around ...

  In modern times, dialing a wrong number brings you to a dead end. Lucky if the other party even says goodbye before they hang up. Lucky if...