This is the tragic story of Maria Camila O'Gorman Ximénez, a 19th-century Argentine socialite executed over a scandal involving her relationship with a Roman Catholic priest. She was 23 years old and believed to be eight months pregnant when she and Father Ladislao Gutiérrez faced a firing squad.

Camila O'Gorman (July 9, 1825 - August 18, 1848), is considered a national heroine. Born to an aristocratic Rosista family of Buenos Aires, Camila lived in a society dominated by the rules of the dictatorial regime of General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who later ordered her execution in the name of "law and order."

At nineteen, she fell in love with Uladislao Gutiérrez, a young and attractive Jesuit priest from Tucumán, then serving her Parish of the Virgen del Socorro. After some hesitation and knowing that they were defying the moral and civil codes of their time, they decided to elope on 12 December 1847, thus confronting family, political authorities, and the Catholic Church.

It's time again to reminisce on those high school days when I got to know unforgettable literary works, especially in American Literature. There were a lot of them, but on epic poems, two of the best were written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie.

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie was written in 1847, tells the story of the young and beautiful Evangeline and the noble Gabriel Lajeunesse, childhood friends living in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia.

The two are members of a peaceful farming community that embodies all the values of virtuous rural life held dear by the Victorian audience for whom the poem was written. They are engaged to be married, but are almost immediately separated when their entire community is forced into exile.

She was a gift from a friend of a friend. She came to us a week before Christmas, 2012. From that time on, she was a member of the family. We called her Roxy. She was loved by everyone and she loved them back too.

But she had divided loyalties. When she was in our room, she barks and bites my children when they come in. Whe my wife or me go into the children's rooms, she would likewise bark and bite us. My wife explained that she was "territorial".

She was very healthy and playful, runs up and down the stairs quickly and jumps excitedly when she senses that we were going out, to let us know that she too wants to go out with us. With her enthusiasm it was always difficult to say no to her.

Then on March 12, a Saturday, we didn't see her around. Which was very unusual. Even when my other children came to visit, they noticed she was not there to welcome them. We all looked for her. There she was, hiding under the table, lying down, weak and can barely stand up.

Tom Clancy, (full name Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr.) was born on April 12, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Thirty years ago, Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker. Before that, he had been an English major at Baltimore's Loyola College. He had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, showed his passion for naval history. The book sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it "the perfect yarn."

From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He created the techno-thriller— a suspenseful novel that relies on extensive knowledge of military technology and espionage.

Here are the six movies based on his books that you might already have seen, but want to see again. And again.

Sunday, February 20, 2022 was a happy occasion for the family. It was the wedding day of my fifth child, daughter Inday Alessandra. Fathers say the tired cliche that "no I'm not losing a daughter but gaining a son."

Instead, I'll quote my grandson who said "Tita Inday, it would be weird to go to Lolo's house and not see you there." Having seen her practically everyday for thirty-two years, it is indeed weird, that I won't see her now as often as I used to.

Although she is just a phone call away, there's that gnawing feeling of emptiness, of something lost though knowing it's still there. Alessandra has always been a picture of happiness. I saw her as the happiest that day.

One can only wish it will stay that way forever.

In the mid-1800's, there was a wave of migration from the Visayas provinces to Mindanao. The migrants settled along the coastlines of Dapitan in the west, to Gingoog in the east and as far as Lanao and Cotabato in the south. Benito "Titong" Apepe, a migrant from Loay, Bohol, settled in a place called Anuran (now Aloran) in what was then the province of Misamis.

Aloran was a barrio, but in 1910, a concerted effort to restore Aloran into a regular town started. Local government and independence was restored by Executive Order no. 67, dated September 30, 1916 and took effect on January 1, 1917, signed by American Governor General Francis Burton Harrison.

Benito Apepe was appointed as first Municipal President (equivalent to today's mayor) with councilors representing the first barrio of Balaring, Cassosan, Lawa-an and other sitios of Caputol, Pelong, Culpan, Miasan and Conat. His term lasted from 1917-1919.

These are two movies featuring rogue CIA agents.

In Safe House, Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA rookie who is manning a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa, when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) the CIA's most wanted rogue agent is captured and taken to the safe house. During Frost's interrogation, the safe house is overtaken by mercenaries who want Frost.

In Dying of the Light, Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) plays a CIA veteran who, decades after his career in the field ended, is a desk jockey whose main role at the Agency is to give an annual pep talk to new recruits

Evan Lake is a true believer in the righteousness of an institution beleaguered by scandal and mismanagement, but his passion here is also colored by a malady of the brain: he suffers frontotemporal dementia, which is causing unexplained mood swings and disorientation and will likely kill him before long.