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"The boondocks" (or "boonies"), meaning "rural" or "back country," was imported by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines following the Spanish American War. It is a mispronounced version of the Tagalog word, bundok, which means "mountain."
The antibiotic erythromycin — used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections, such as respiratory tract infections, middle ear infections, and skin infections — was created by Filipino scientist Abelardo Aguilar, and has earned American drug giant Eli Lilly billions of dollars. Neither Aguilar nor the Philippine government received royalties.
The symbolic name for the Philippines, Juan dela Cruz, is not a Filipino invention... It was coined by R. McCulloch-Dick, a Scottish-born journalist working for the Manila Times in the early 1900s, after discovering it was the most common name in blotters.
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