The Dawn of Great Civilizations by Dr. Hilarion M. Henares Jr. Era of Darkness and Coming of the Light 3 The Dawn of Great Civilizations 9 The Greatness that was Egypt 13 The Glory that was Greece 17 The Grandeur that was Rome 23 The Wonder that was China 27 The Rise of Judaism 35 The Rise of Christianity 39 The Rise of Islam 43 Armageddon and the end of the world 47 Mary, the greatest celebrity of all time 51 Of Women Leaders 55 The First Citizens of the World 61 A Woman of Islam 79 A Woman of the Jewish Race 85 The Summing Up 91 + + + + + + Era of Darkness and Coming of the Light Meet the...

Certain historians have long held that Antonio Luna had a love child with Dona Ysidra, the grand matriarch of the Cojuangco clan. This book, written by Hilarion Henares with the research assistance of Ricardo Manapat, explores this historical question and comes up with a very interesting conclusion - that a highly-prominent member of the Cojuangco family may indeed be a direct yet hitherto unrecognized descendant of General Luna. ------------ Whatever happened to the alleged love- child born of Ysidra Cojuangco and Antonio Luna? The first question is answered by this series of articles which...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface: Why am I a critic of Opus Dei - p03 Chapter One. Octopus Dei - p14 Part 1. Opus Dei qui tollis pecuniam mundi - p14 Part 2. Priests are saintly, human but some are satanic -p16 Part 3. The Secret World of the Opus Dei - p18 Part 4. Kowtowing to rich, distaste for the poor - p20 Chapter Two. Opus Dei maligns Sister Christine - p22 Part 1. Opus Dei's demolition job on Sister Christine - P22 Part 2. Poison pen letters from Father Cremades' lackeys - p23 Part 3. Opus Dei puts down Sister Christine's Good Shepherd - p25 Part 4. Opus Dei weaseling its way to power - p26...

Chapter One. Opus Dei: Throwback to the past or wave of the future - p09 PART 1: Enter the Jesuits - p09 PART 2. Enter Opus Dei - p11 PART 3. Like Moonies and flagellants - p12 PART 4. Wealth and Influence - p13 PART 5. Discipline and Mind Control - p15 PART 6. The professional saints - p16 PART 7. Opus Dei in the Philippines - p17 PART 8. Opus Dei economic organization - p19 PART 9. The spiritual revival - p21 PART 10. The self-righteous ones - p22 PART 11. The brief and shining moment - p23 PART 12. The Magnum Opus - p24 Chapter Two. Opus Dei: warriors of the Cold War - p26 PART 1. The...

Preface. IPIS DEI, The Cockroach of God IPIS: a Filipino word meaning Cockroach. Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea, which also includes termites. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests, the common household cockroaches being the German cockroach, the American cockroach, the Australian cockroach and the Oriental cockroach. The cockroaches are an ancient group, dating back at least as far as the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago, long before man ever existed. They are common and hardy...

PREFACE Folks, I am already 93 years old, at this writing, and I have written 40 other books, the last seven written (my Legacy books) in one month's duration, in April, 2017 --- a complete list of which is printed at the back of this book. This volume "These Made Me Smile" is the 41st and may be the last I will write. It is the first book on which I spent two tiring months writing, May and June, 2017, because I did not write a great part of it. Others did, illiterates all, writing in the Internet, exactly as they write their cell phone texts and email, in broken abbreviated fractured pidgin...