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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 11:53:20 GMT 8
Oopsies!
Looks like the gun tube I mentioned was moved an additional 90*, so now it points more or less northwest, like the northern mount.
I guess the Philippine Navy did not like a loaded cannon pointing at them, eh?
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Post by dmether on Mar 10, 2014 8:15:47 GMT 8
When we spoke to the lady who ran the museum and Fort Abad, she said the gun's were pointed out into the Bay in accordance with Feng Shui.
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Post by darthdract on Mar 10, 2014 16:35:58 GMT 8
Why are the museum keepers using Feng Shui? what does traditional Chinese mysticism have to do with a 300+ yr old spanish fort?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 17:32:57 GMT 8
When I can dig up the original pics Dad took (in the 1970s) for Fort San Antonio Abad, one will see the southernmost gun tube was indeed pointing to the Central Bank Building....Feng Shui had nothing to do with it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 17:38:26 GMT 8
As a further note....the building that is in between the Fort and Roxas Blvd once held a museum containing an enormous cache of weapons, including (among other things) a US halftrack mounting a .50BMG (I do not know what model of halftrack)...and easily over 100 (more likely 200) assorted rifles and machineguns. My brothers and I would often go there (admission was free) and play at shooting each other. If emmory serves, this was set up by Marcos as a supposed display of firearms captured from anti-government forces (meaning both the communists and the muslim separatists), but being a child at the time I never questioned that and never really researched it. I have absolutely no clue as to what happened to the contents of the museum, other than the fact that in 1990 it was gone.
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Post by dmether on Mar 11, 2014 8:15:57 GMT 8
What does Feng Shui have to do with a historic Spanish fort? Nothing of course. But that was the explanation. We headed over to Fort Santiago after Abad. Looked like a bomb had gone off in a section over the dungeon area. The people who are responsible for the fort let gold hunters in a few years ago, they torn the hell out of a section of the fort, then left it that way. Makes no sense as well.
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