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  CIVIL ORDER OF CHARITY OF SPAIN Orden Civil de Beneficiencia From 1872 to 1876, Spanish society was rocked by a civil war. The Carlistas w...

AMERICAN FLAG IN 1792 When the Hope set sail In March of 1792, the American ship Hope , under the command of Captain Benjamin Page, left P...

  CHARSAGUA is an indigenous Chamorro name. It appears in the censuses during Spanish times. The name could mean several things, all of the...

  In 1980, a Saipan band called Tropicsette released their album Palasyon Rico . One of the biggest hits from that album was a song that ev...

  A former seminarian from the 1960s, who, for reasons you will understand at the end of this story, did not proceed to the priesthood, told...

  THE BOKKONGO' AT ASAN POINT shortly after the American return in 1944 By 1943, the Japanese were quite sure that the Americans were on...

  Here's a song that, I believe, is not that old. At least I've never heard it before, and in my 62 years I have been around. The so...

  YANGGEN MAPOTGE' TA'LO I NANA, MÅS CHETTON I PATGON-ÑA GIYA GUIYA. If a mother gets pregnant again, her child becomes more attache...

  The Peace Corps is an independent agency of the US Government which enlists volunteers who go out to developing countries to assist in the...

  It used to be that Guam, in the 1950s and 60s, was almost a one-party island. The Popular Party, and then the Democratic Party, held onto ...

  Before there were Democrats and Republicans on Guam, there were the Popular and the Territorial Parties. If the Popular (later Democrats) ...

  Even as late as the early 1800s, that is, 120 years after Spanish colonization, our ancestors turned to some very unusual (for us) remedie...

  WILLIAM MANN He knew Guam well The Marianas were not his only "playground," but he lived, worked and romped around the Marianas ...

  FLECHA MEANS "ARROW" This is one of the better-known Chamorro hymns to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Alex Unpingco plays it in this...

  It was the most modern movie theater on Guam in its day. The Cinema Theater opened on April 12, 1967 showing The Sound of Music,  a huge h...