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Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis stepped into history when she wore the famed Diadem of Empress Eugénie on her 1980 wedding day in Regensburg. The jewel, crafted circa 1853 in Paris for Eugénie, glittered with pearls tied to the French Crown Jewels. After the fall of the Second Empire, the Third Republic sold the treasure in the 1887 dispersal in Paris. Albert, the 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, purchased it in 1890 as a wedding gift for Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, bringing

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The Hunters ROTC was a Filipino guerrilla unit active during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, and was the main anti-Japanese guerrilla group active in the area near the Philippine capital of Manila. It was created upon the dissolution of the Philippine Military Academy. 🇵🇭 Cadet Terry Adevoso and others, refused to simply go home as cadets were ordered to do, and began recruiting fighters willing to undertake guerrilla action against the Japanese. 🇯🇵 When war broke out in the Phil

The "celebration of independence" in the Philippines during 1943 refers to the establishment of the Second Philippine Republic on October 14, 1943, under the Japanese occupation. Japan, promoting its "Asia for the Asiatics" and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere propaganda, declared the Philippines "independent" to gain support and legitimize its control. This new government, headed by President José P. Laurel, was effectively a puppet state, as Japanese military authorities retained ultimat

"The happy man is he who has enough. I am not in love with money or power." On November 6, 1959, Jose Paciano Laurel died in Manila. Known for his service as President of the Second Philippine Republic (1943-1945), the Batangas-born Laurel later struggled to shed the shadow of Japanese collaboration over his postwar political career. In his own words, "Everyone was a collaborator," emphasizing that his actions in general were meant to ensure the safety and the survival of those who were left to