Talk:Zambales

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I am uncertain if it is proper for me to post this, but i feel a need to mention these items which may be lost if not recorded here.

I cannot say that I grew up in Zambales, but I have enough connection with the first district (Subic, Castillejos and San Marcelino) to note the following information garnered from conversations with the elderly gentlemen of the area.

In the Late 70's, I met a carpenter from San Marcelino who told me that there is a volcano in his town. He gave the name of the volcano as Mt. Pinatubo, and he said the volcano is sacred to the aetas of the area. No one else that i spoke with knew that there was a volcano in the area, much more that it's name was Mt. Pinatubo. But in the early 90's, everyone knew this fact very well as it changed every facet of Zambales life.

Another impressive feat of this carpenter is that he could tell time by looking at the sun with a squinted eye. although, his accuracy was only to the hour, he could tell with great accuracy (plus or minus 5 minutes)the 5:00 pm hour, which happened to be the end of the work day and time to clean up and go home.

I wonder how this common tao gained knowledge of this information. Was it in school or another chance conversation like mine?

In the early 80's, I met a fisherman from Subic in the wee hours of the morning. please don't ask what we were doing at that time of the day. The fisherman directed me to look at the sky. He pointed to a cluster of stars in the middle of the eastern sky. I saw about six (i am unsure now as to the exact number) stars with the same size and brightness. he told me that when these stars allign to form a cross, then the time would be four o'clock in the morning. we waited until i saw the cross formation and indeed the time was 4:00 am. He explained to me that it was time for fishermen to set off to do their profession. And that, if the cross could not be seen due to cloud cover, then it would not be safe to go out to sea.

This method of telling time and weather, is as good as any Rolex watch or aneroid barometer. When asked where he learned this trick, he replied that his father who was also a fisherman taught him early in life. So, this trick is really second nature to him, but a marvel to city folk like me.

This will be all for now. I hope you the reader can explain or add to what i have written. I am Noel F.

Bluemask 19:56, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Zambales is also a surname of some of the citizens of the Republic of the Philippines
It may be surprising, but ZAMBALES is also a surname of some inhabitants of the Republic of the Philippines. Many of those who have Zambales as their surnames are residing in Zamboanga Peninsula, Panay Provinces,Palawan, and Metro Manila.

Philippines —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.213.146.91 (talk) 05:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

This looks like a page written by a tourist board of some sort. While it is reflective of pride in the region, it isn't factually supported, written in an encyclopedic fashion, or especially relevant, imho. I'll edit some of the more egregious offenses, but someone with more regional knowledge needs to work on this page. Sonicjimi (talk) 13:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Map parameters are breaking the page
I believe that the map you added (beginning with this edit) has incorrect parameters in the image-label templates. The documentation for Image label says that the values for x and y should be between 0 and 1, as fractions of the width and height of the map, but the values in the templates used here are all more than 100.

The result is that on my screen, the entire article page is shrunk over to the right, and there is vast space both below and to the left of the edges of the actual article page when I scroll down or over. (This may or may not render the same way for others, depending on which browser or display they're using.) I think the software is trying to place the labels way out to the right and way down, making the browser act as if there is something on the page in those places.

I don't know very much about this kind of labeled map or image on Wikipedia, or I might try to fix it myself. I hope you'll make it work! Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 04:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Website
It doesn't seem the website links for the Zambales page is working. It seems there's a new link now but not sure how to edit it. Zjzr (talk) 23:51, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Zip postal code
how to see 112.198.113.103 (talk) 14:19, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Philippine politics goverment
how will does my local goverment unit perform in terms of the major function cited previously? 111.90.194.147 (talk) 13:03, 21 November 2023 (UTC)