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Sunday, January 11, 2004

funky Filipino factoids
In 1587, 'Luzones Indios' (Filipinos from the island of Luzon) landed on the coast of California via the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade-- 33 years before the Mayflower docked in the Americas. In 1765, a number of Filipinos founded 'Manila Village' in the bayous of Louisiana, where they pioneered 'dancing the shrimp', a method of de-shelling shrimp that has since become ingrained in the local Cajun and Creole culture.

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