Fiction: Beyond What Reasons May Offer

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 27, October 27, 1998
On the cover: Migui Moreno and Meryll Soriano

An intriguing story, “Beyond What Reasons May Offer,” is about an unintensional incest, between a couple who loved, married and had a wonderful family life until they found out later that they were father and daughter. Based on a real-life story.

Miscellanous Weekly Vol. 8 No.174, October27, 197
On the cover: Alta Tan
 

Another magazine trivia quiz section, Maze Match, I made exclusive for Miscellaneous Weekly. This issue is about Hollywood actresses’ real names.

“If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.” – The Third Book of Moses Called Leviticus 5:17, Holy Bible, The New King James Version.

November 9



NOVEMBER 9

Pilipino Komiks Taon 20 Blg. 500 Nobyembre 9, 1967

Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang kuwentong “Dirty Politician... Sumpain Ka”

 nina R. R. Marcelino at Ernie de Chan

Nobyembre 9 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Nobyembre 9, 1994, natukoy ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang 15 lugar sa loob at sa kapaligiran ng dating U.S. naval base sa Subic, Zambales na kontaminado ng mga nakalalasong basura na iniwan ng U.S. military.

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Personalities and celebrities born on November 9:

1826 – Teodora Alonzo Realonda, college-bred housewife and mother of Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal, in Manila (d. August 16, 1911).

1855 – Mariano Llanera, revolutionary general – in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija (d.September 19, 1942).

1861 – Teodoro Yangco, businessman, philanthropist and pioneer of YMCA Philippines – in San Antonio, Zambales (d. April 20, 1939).

1912 – Teodoro A. Agoncillo, historian, college professor and National Scientist – in Lemery, Batangas (d. January 14, 1985).


1968 – Janice de Belen (full name Catherine Janice Yap de Belen), actress and television host – in Quezon City.

Janice de Belen
on the covers of TV Times (December 23-29, 1979) and Miscellaneous Weekly (December 1, 1987).

 

1980 – Vanessa Joy Lachey (birth name Vanessa Bercero Minnillo), American-Filipino television host, actress and model – in Clark Air Base, Pampanga.

Vanessa Minnillo
on the covers of Maxim (October 2006) and Shape (April 2007).

Diana Ross on the cover of
Blues & Soul (November 9-22, 1993)

Picture Trivia

          Diana (Ernestine Earle) Ross started her road to fame as the lead singer of the group The Supremes (1959-1970), before going solo. In 1972, she portrayed the American jazz singer Billie Holiday (real name Eleonora Harris, 1915-1959) in the film Lady Sings the Blues, where she won the Golden Globe Award. She became “Female Entertainer of the Century” in 1976.
          In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records cited her as the “most successful female artist in history” for having 70 hit singles in her career as a singer. Ross is among the rare breed of entertainers who were given two “stars” in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as a member of The Supremes and as a solo artist.  

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