#spanish teacher teresa

[barbielore]

As we come into the end of Hispanic Heritage Month, I wanted to talk again about Barbie's best friend Teresa.

I previously made a post about Teresa in which I said that it was ambiguous whether Teresa was intended to be perceived as Hispanic.

It was subsequently pointed out that in Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures she appears to be depicted as unambiguously Latina based on her character design, the fact that she is presented as a Spanish speaker - and of course, her canonical surname in both Dreamhouse Adventures and the doll-line is Rivera, which technically could be an Italian surname, but it does seem most likely that Mattel has intended her to be a Hispanic/Latina character.

So please do consider this my correcting my past misinformation - and my sincerest apologies if I have used inappropriate terminology to refer to her race and/or culture.

Some of Teresa's best looks or most interesting appearances from throughout the years in my personal opinion are...

NSYNC Number One fan Teresa.

Spanish Teacher Teresa.

Flying Hero Teresa.

Teresa more or less stopped appearing in the doll line in the mid 2000s - since 2003, she appeared four times in 2007 and once in 2021.

However, this year is the 35th anniversary of Teresa as one of Barbie's friends, and as a result Mattel have released an anniversary edition Teresa as part of the Signature line.

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA (Mother Teresa) Feast Day: September 5

"She is the United Nations. She is peace in the world." -Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former Secretary-General of the United Nations

The foundress of the Missionaries of Charity (Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate), was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, on August 26, 1910 in Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North Macedonia). Raised in a Christian family, she was fascinated by the lives of the saints, especially of the missionaries. She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Ottoman Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. Her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova.

In 1928 at the age of 18, she joined the missionary congregation of the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary; English was the language of instruction of the Sisters of Loreto in India, and was assigned to India. She made her profession on May 24, 1931, taking the religious name of Teresa, in honor of Thérèse de Lisieux, the patroness of missions, because a nun in the convent had already chosen that name, she opted for its Spanish spelling of Teresa. Teresa took her solemn vows on May 14, 1937 while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta, taking the style of 'Mother' as part of Loreto custom. She served there for nearly twenty years and was appointed its headmistress in 1944.

After teaching for over 20 years in a Catholic school near Calcutta, she became increasingly disturbed by the surrounding poverty. The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city, and the August 1946 Direct Action Day began a period of Muslim-Hindu violence.

On September 10, 1946, while travelling by train to the Loreto convent from Calcutta for her annual retreat, she experienced 'the call within the call,' meaning a strong urge to leave the convent and to live among the poorest of the poor. Replacing her traditional religious habit with a white cotton sari decorated with a blue border, she began her missionary work in the slums of Calcutta. Two years later in 1948, she began missionary work with the poor. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent several months in Patna to receive basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital and ventured into the slums. She founded a school in Motijhil, Calcutta, before she began tending to the poor and hungry. At the beginning of 1949, Mother Teresa was joined in her effort by a group of young women, and she laid the foundation for a new religious community helping the 'poorest among the poor'.

On October 7, 1950 after she received Vatican permission for the diocesan congregation, together with thirteen young women, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, whose mission was: 'to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared, for throughout society.' In 1952, Mother Teresa opened her first hospice with help from Calcutta officials. She converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home for the Dying, free for the poor, and renamed it Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart (Nirmal Hriday).

Those brought to the home received medical attention and the opportunity to die with dignity in accordance with their faith: Muslims were read the Quran, Hindus received water from the Ganges, and Catholics received extreme unction. At the height of the Siege of Beirut in 1982, Mother Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas. Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she travelled through the war zone to the hospital to evacuate the young patients.

Mother Teresa had a heart attack in Rome in 1983 while she was visiting Pope John Paul II. Following a second heart attack in 1989, she received a pacemaker. In 1991, after a bout of pneumonia in Mexico, she had additional heart problems. Although Mother Teresa offered to resign as head of the Missionaries of Charity, in a secret ballot the sisters of the congregation voted for her to stay, and she agreed to continue. But on March 13, 1997, she resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity.

Respected as a 'living saint,' she died in Calcutta, West Bengal, India at the age of 87. At the time of her death, the Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters and an associated brotherhood of 300 members operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programmes, orphanages and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were aided by co-workers numbering over one million by the 1990s.

She is beatified by St. John Paul II on October 19, 2003 and canonized a saint by Pope Francis on September 4, 2016.

She said for herself: 'By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.'

[findalesia]

ROMANCE NOVEL ALERT!!

Last Evenings with Teresa - Juan Marsé

Ignoring the fact that the author only describes women based on their tits (a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s really noticeable)

I love how this novel depicts how our social status transforms our desires and expectations in love. The characters are carefully thought and Marsé totally accomplished in making me despise them!

(In real life I would be a total victim of Manolo.)

This story takes place in Barcelona, Spain (I am from Spain haha) during the 50’s, Franco’s dictatorship regime.

How I would describe the characters:

Manolo: a total fuck boy loser who I would probably fall for. Total asshole. I grow fond of him because he is too much of a loser. But then he always disappoints.

Teresa: rich girl with a serious saviour complex.

Hypocrisy, delusions and desire mark this journey through the summer they both shared.

Fun fact: when Juan Marsé was asked by a student about the social critique he does. He said “I only wrote the book because I wanted to fuck a blonde with blue eyes just like you” the girl immediately left (so real)

I think that explains a lot about how women are described in this novel. Apart from that, it’s beautifully written.

I have a total love - hate relationship, both with the characters, the story and the way it’s all described.

Thanks to my literature teacher for making me read this. I am doing my IB Spanish Literature Essay about this 🧸

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EN ESPAÑOL es una joya de libro vamos. Las risas y la incredulidad que me ha causado al leerlo, vamos.

[kmurphy77]

Day 3 Sunday May 19th

Madrid, Avila, and Salamanca, Spain

We are off and running! We started the day with a bus tour around Madrid and a guided tour of the Prada Museum. Madrid has beautiful buildings and monuments. The Prada Museum is a well known art museum with an amazing collection that includes such painters as Goya, El Greco and Titian.

After appreciating the highlights of the Prado we headed to Salamanca with a lunch stop in Avila. The ancient walls that still surround Avila gives it a peaceful and timeless feel which is accentuated by the fact that it is also the place that gave us St. Teresa of Avila, a saint from the order of Carmelites and great teacher of the Catholic faith. The only downside to our stop was that it was raining and naturally I had neither hood nor umbrella.

Then on to our stop for the night, Salamanca.

Salamanca is a old city with lots of historical buildings with many still in use. We had a good dinner served by an entertaining waiter. Then we went to mass in a beautiful ancient church. We got to the church a bit early and there were only a handful of people but by the time mass started it was standing room only. Amazing! I’m sure the homily was inspiring too except since it was all in Spanish, I didn’t understand a word!

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Events 3.13

624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. 1591 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. 1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. 1741 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins. 1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus. 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809. 1811 – A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. 1826 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry. 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. 1848 – The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna. 1862 – The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. 1884 – The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885. 1888 – The eruption of Ritter Island triggers tsunamis that kill up to 3,000 people on nearby islands. 1900 – British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War. 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory. 1940 – The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty. 1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. 1954 – The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam. 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. 1969 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. 1974 – Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 crashes into the White Mountains near Bishop, California, killing 36. 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état. 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. 1992 – The Mw  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). 1993 – The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas. 1996 – The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. 1997 – The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader. 2003 – An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints. 2012 – The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children. 2013 – The 2013 papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. 2016 – The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people. 2016 – Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people. 2020 – President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States. 2020 – Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against racism and police brutality.

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Legarda Lineage

Doña Clarita Tambunting Legarda’s father was Don Vicente Lucio Flores Legarda, born Dec. 13, 1873.

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Don Vicente was a naval architect, marine engineer, and teacher. He was a Glasgow, Scotland-educated architect who trained under Daniel Hudson Burnham who drew up the city planning maps for Manila and Baguio City, Philippines. In 1902, he taught in San Francisco, USA, and went home on Manila in 1909 to become one of Manila's prominent architects. He died Feb 24, 1956, in Manila, Philippines at age 82. He is buried in Manila, Philippines. His parents were Don Miguel Legarda and Doña Genoveva Flores-Legarda. Don Miguel Legarda was born July 2, 1852 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

Don Miguel is the son of Don Benito Pablo Legarda y Lerma and Doña Cirila Tuason de Legarda.

Don Miguel had a brother, Don Cosme Benito Legarda y Tuason, born September 26, 1853 in Binondo, Manila, (died August 15, 1915 at 61 years old in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, and buried in Manila, Philippines). Don Cosme Benito was married to Teresa de la Paz de Legarda. He earned a law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, in 1874. He was a politician and lawyer and member of President Emilio Aguinaldo's cabinet at Malolos and vice president of the Filipino Congress 1896-1898. He was Resident Commissioner for the US Congress 1907 – 1913, representing State/Territory: Philippine Islands. (Legarda, Benito, 1853-1915, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).

From wikipedia:

Benito Cosme Legarda y Tuason (September 27, 1853 – August 27, 1915) was a Filipino legislator who was a member of the Philippine Commission of the American colonial Insular Government, the government's legislature, and later a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress.

Benito Legarda died on August 27, 1915, in Evian-les-Bains, France. He is buried at the Manila North Cemetery.

The Legardas are considered one of Manila’s oldest families:

Manila’s Original 400 Old Family Names

Doña Teresa de la Paz de Legarda (born October 15, 1841 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines, died April 22, 1890 at 48 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines of Pneumonia) once owned the largest private hacienda in the Philippines in the 1800s and is the ancestor of the Tuason-Legarda-Prieto-Valdes Clan of Manila, Philippines. She was first married to Don Jose Severo Tuason, the son of Don Jose Maria Tuason and Doña Maria Jose Patiño y Tuason.

Don Benito Pablo was born on January 12, 1822 in Zubielqui, Navarra, Navarra, Spain, and died January 15, 1873 at age 51 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

Don Benito Pablo is the son of Don Juan Domingo Pablo Legarda Alcaine, born August 12, 1798, in Allín, Navarre, Spain, and Doña Juana Lerma.

Sources:

-The Last Hacendera: Doña Teresa de la Paz, 1841-1890 Luciano P. R. Santiago of Pila, Laguna

-Teresa de la Paz: Feminine Wiles and Family Trees, Filipino Geneology Project. Spanish-Filipino (Mestiza) Ancestry

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 In the event that your birthday is June 18, your zodiac sign is Gemini June 18 - character and character character: unselfish, astute, unpretentious, savage, requesting, shameless calling: technician, janitor, clerk tones: orange, cyan, dim stone: opal creature: swan plant: hackberry fortunate numbers: 9,17,25,45,48,55 very fortunate number: 13 Occasions and observances - June 18 Practical Gastronomy Day Mentally unbalanced Pride Day June 18 Superstar birthday celebrations. 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Today I’m posting the translation of a classic: the 1974 song Homenatge a Teresa (“Homage to Teresa”) by the Valencian singer-songwriter Ovidi Montllor (1942-1995).

Ovidi was a revolutionary musician, part of the Nova Cançó, the 1960s-1970s movement who sang against the dictatorship and in the Catalan language, which was persecuted by Franco’s fascist dictatorship. The dictatorship, which lasted from 1939 to 1978, imposed the Spanish language, culture and identity, as well as the Catholic religion and morale and fascist beliefs, never doubting to jail, torture, and even execute those who opposed them. Ovidi went against all of that, singing in Catalan against fascism, against capitalism, and against other forms of oppression.

In this song, he remembers his childhood in the post-war period, which was governed by the dictatorship and the Catholic church’s repression. And a girl who defied it by daring to talk about taboos and educating about sex.

Here’s the original lyrics in Valencian Catalan and the translation of each stanza to English:

Com un record d'infantesa sempre recordaré la Teresa, ballant el vals.

Like a childhood memory I will always remember Teresa, dancing a waltz.

Potser fos l'últim fet amb algú que estimés abans que un bombardeig la tornés boja.

Maybe it was the last thing she did with someone she loved before a bombing made her go crazy.

Tots els xiquets la seguíem i en un solar apartat ens instruíem al seu voltant.

All the kids followed her and in a plot of land outside the town, we were taught around her.

Mig descabellonada ens mostrava les cuixes i ens donava lliçons d'anatomia. Ella ens va dir d'on veníem. I que els Reis de l'Orient no existien. Ni llops ni esperits. 

With messed her she showed us her thighs and gave us lessons on anatomy. She told us where we come from and that the Three Wise Men [our equivalent of Santa Claus] didn’t exist. Nor wolves nor spirits.

Ens parlava de l'amor com la cosa més bonica i preciosa. Sense pecats.

She talked to us about love like the most beautiful and precious thing. Without sins.

Ens ensenyà a ballar, a cantar i a estimar. D'això ella era la que més sabia.

She taught us to dance, to sing and to love. She was the one who knew the most about these things.

Amb una floreta al seu cap i un mocador negre al coll i faldes llargues i un cigarret.

With a little flower on her head and a black shawl on her neck and long skirts and a cigarette.

Vas ser la riota dels grans, i la mestra més volguda dels infants.

You were the grown-ups’ laughing stock and the children’s most beloved teacher.

Ara de gran comprenc Tot el que per tu sent i et llence un homenatge als quatre vents.

Now that I’m older I understand everything I feel for you and I sing this homage to the four winds.

Com un record d'infantesa sempre et recordaré a tu, Teresa, ballant el vals.

Like a childhood memory, I will always remember you, Teresa, dancing the waltz.

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Olena Zelenska held the opening speech on the Santander WomenNOW congress in Spain.

(the following text is a translation of several news and her speech)

"We fight not only for ourselves, but for the right to freedom and independence." In an emotional live video from a secret location, Olena Zelenska called for “not to treat this war as one that is happening somewhere behind a strong neighboring wall. There are no walls in the world. And the missiles go through them easily.” Four months after the start of the war, the First Lady opened Santander WomenNOW, Vocento's international women's leadership summit held in Madrid under the slogan "Leadership in uncertain times". The First Lady of Ukraine, the Third Vice President of the Government, Teresa Ribera, the former basketball player Pau Gasol, the economist Mariana Mazzucato, and the former Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly, Fawzia Koofi, starred in the first session of Santander WomenNOW, the congress on female leadership organized by Vocento.

The First Lady of Ukraine was connected live at 9:30 AM with Madrid. Behind a desk, with the blue and yellow flag to one side, Olena Zelenska opened Santander Women Now with a tough and combative speech. Also desperate. "At this very moment that I pronounce these words, the city of Severodonetsk continues to be destroyed by the Russians," she reminded the public, who received her with long applause, and thanked the Spanish role in welcoming refugees: "When contemplating Guernica I see Mariupol destroyed and the inhabitants of Bucha murdered," she said and introduced herself as the "ambassador of all Ukrainian women, whose lives and families have been broken by aggression, but who do not give up."

Zelenska dedicated words of gratitude to Spain, "which has welcomed 140,000 Ukrainians. If we compare it, Spain saved an entire city. She welcomes our military, our children in need of cancer treatment. You save lives! We Ukrainians will always be grateful to them."

"This meeting is called WomenNOW, so I will tell you what is happening to Ukrainian women right now, as we speak," she said, her face serious, in an emotional and solemn speech. "They heal, they save, they suffer… But they fight! Because this is his house, where evil has come."

With the projection of images of four women who maintain their courage under attack (an amputee recovering in a hospital, a teacher in arms in the Donbas, a pediatrician from Kharkiv and an old woman trying to rebuild her house near kyiv) Zelenska asked for weapons. "Although this is not the role of a First Lady, today for the first time I ask Spain and the whole world to give us arms, to protect us," Zelenska continued. “Each day without weapons means more death for us. There are about 37,000 women in our army. Should these heroic women fight unarmed against the enemy? Will they have something to stop him?

She recalled that on June 23-24, the European Council will consider granting Ukraine the status of a candidate of the European Union. Zelenska also called for her country to join the European Union. "In a few days an event will take place that may decide the fate of this terribly aggressive war. Europe, she said, must understand that "war does not happen behind a wall, it is not something that happens to the neighbor."

“We fight for the right to freedom and independence. We do not want to be with you as refugees, but as a related and ally country. We have the essential component to belong to the European Union, which is to make the value of human life prevail over everything else", she maintained in the forum. Her serious face relaxed only briefly at the end. She almost smiled and put her hand to her heart to conclude, 'Thank you.'

Lourdes Garzón, director of Santander WomenNOW and of Mujerhoy, said that "she embodies the courage and value of an entire country."

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INTRODUCING THE STUDENTS OF WESTWOOD

Ottoline Brassard, The Survivor

Born to Everett and Winona Brassard, Ottoline is the last surviving Witch of the Castemont line, and thus carries with her, in her very blood, the key to Atticus' tomb. Sent to Westwood Academy by the Eldritch Council for not only her protection but the safety of others following a volatile display of raw, untrained magic, Otto feels very much out of place among the teachers and the students, all of whom are members of Recondite Citizenry – an intricate and clandestine community of mystical beings Otto had never even known about let alone ever considered she'd be a part of. Having been raised by her (for lack of a better word) Muggle father, Otto had been constantly moved around as a child with little to no explanation as to why. Westwood Academy – although slow to warmly receive – was her first stable home since her mother died. And she'd be damned if she let anyone or anything take it from her, even if it was a centuries old blood curse and a deadly race of magicians all clawing to be the one to release their fiendish lord from his bonds.

Ulric Baranov, The Faithless

Ulric Baranov was a cold boy, with a cold smile – if you were ever so lucky to have caught a glimpse of it before it so easily vanished. His attention was as elusive as a glimmer of warmth in glacial eyes, and yet, against all odds, Ottoline Brassard caught the former, and would later prove to be a master at conjuring the latter. At first, she'd been an annoyance: too many questions, too quick to smile, too much wide-eyed awe and bewildered confusion. He never knew when it became endearing to him. He supposed, being born into all this, he never took a moment to ponder how truly magical it really was. He'd been a ward at Westwood ever since he was a young boy, when his family were all slaughtered, leaving him with a mutilated leg and a desolate bitterness. He never dared venture off campus, for he feared those who had attempted the extermination of the Dumont line would attempt it again, and finally succeed. So he stayed, locked in the safety of Westwood's halls, practicing, learning. Learning to protect himself against those who would claim his head.

Thomasin Rothchild, The Scion

Thomasin knew David Rothchild never wanted children – never saw himself as much of the parental type, he'd used to say – but there was never any doubt in her mind that he loved her as if she were his own. There hadn't been even a hint of hesitation when he accepted guardianship of his niece, and she'd been admitted to Westwood to join the Rothchild Pack. The line from which Rothchilds come had been known to produce incredibly powerful Alphas, and with that came enemies. Rival packs and rogue wolves who held the belief that to best one in combat would bring good fortune and status. Vampire covens who had centuries worth of bad blood against the family. Fickle Fae who had made and broken deals for the enjoyment, but had come to regret and swear vengeance when retribution was exacted. It had been a betrayal that had slaughtered her father – of that, Thomasin was certain. And although she was old enough to depart from her uncle's side – had been for a few years by then – she remained at Westwood, until she deemed herself strong enough to Alpha her own pack and reclaim what was rightfully hers. What should've gone to her the moment Warren Rothchild's Beta turned on him and clamped his vicious maw around his neck.

Eliseo Santos, The Condemned

Born a Witch in Spanish Inquisition infested Navarre in the year 1587, Eliseo's family was burned at the stake for heresy during the Basque witch trials. Prior to their execution, Teresa sold Eliseo to the Vampire, Violante Santos, in hopes of him avoiding the same fate. What came would be what Eliseo would argue to be a fate worse than death, for Violante Turned him after he attempted to join his family in death. This would serve to be the first of many families Eliseo would come to lose. But at Westwood, he found another; and if he had anything to say about it, the last. At Westwood he found home after centuries of searching; and he refused to lose it again. Because at Westwood, he found Thomasin Rothchild.

Matías Vilades, The Protector

The wolf had cornered him during a midnight hike at summer camp, but when the bite came, he did not scream. If Matías Vilades could liken the experience to anything, it would be pure destiny. And it was like the wolf knew it too, like it had chosen him for that very reason, intelligence aglow in amber eyes. Matías took to lycanthropy like second nature, but unfortunately, that nature was still a wild one, and in the eyes of the Eldritch Council, wild dogs without packs were either put down or domesticated. Matías understandably elected for the latter, and was promptly enrolled at Westwood Academy, where he was taken under the wing of the Rothchilds. Under the tutelage of the Recondite Citizenry's finest, Matías grew to be strong, powerful. And so it was no surprise when the new girl – a Witch with a bounty on her head – arrived, Matías was the number one choice to be her personal guardian. Her protector.

Lucille Burke, The Deceiver

Lucille would argue that every drop of blood she'd spilled was necessary, and had she been born of a different time, she'd be as pure as the undriven snow. Most of the Council would agree. She was a victim of her circumstances; all she ever wanted was freedom. And she'd wanted it so desperately, she'd signed her soul away for it. Born in an age where the word "property" could be used to refer to your fellow man, Lucille Burke had lived many lives. And although she enjoyed the benefits of being Warlocked the first hundred years or so, she came to despise the newfound gifts she had been given. For they had enslaved her as much as her indenture had years prior, and she was now bound to a demon every bit as evil as the man that had claimed ownership of her before. She had not been the one to propose the exorcism of Atticus Aimes, but she had been the one to lure him into the trap the First Families had constructed. They had been bound by the same demon, Atticus and her, the same fiend, and she had believed she was helping Atticus then. She wasn't so sure now. For they'd locked both Atticus and The Fiend away, banished them to a prison unknown. She vanished shortly after to escape a pending trial by the Eldritch, and later resurfaced, seeking refuge at the Vanderbilt Castle – the first iteration of the Westwood Academy. The Vanderbilts thought an ally of her, but were mistaken. She betrayed them to the Eldritch Council, and in their inferring gaze, Lucille Burke had earned her redemption. But there was still a penalty to be paid, and Lucille still had a sentence to serve for her prior violations. She would serve it at Westwood, praying every day that The Fiend would not return, for she knew that she would never be prepared for his wrath. She knew God could not hear her; he'd forsaken her long before she'd bargained herself away.

Tristan Daughtler, The Beguiled

Not much was known about Tristan Daughtler, and he preferred it kept that way. His year and country of origin, the circumstances of his Turning. All of these were things only Tristan knew, for everyone who even had a chance of knowing were long dead. What was known about Tristan Daughtler was that he was ruthless, remorseless, and as close to the devil as one would meet without being dragged to the fiery depths of hell. He hadn't always been like this; that was what Eliseo Santos had thought, and what Eliseo Santos had hoped. For they had been friends once. Tristan Daughtler, too, had been Sired by Violante Santos, and when Eliseo was taken in, Tristan accepted him with open arms. They became brothers, for a time. Neither wished to speak of what caused them to part so viciously — all that is known is that they were all that remained of the Santos Coven, and Eliseo is the only one who still mourns. Tristan's sentencing to Westwood by the Eldritch Council had been a futile attempt at subduing the savage, for how could one ever hope to rehabilitate a being more monster than man? And then he saw her. The little anomaly, the Witch. Ottoline Brassard, his saviour, his enchantress. His beguiler. He decided she was his that day. And seldom things could dissuade Tristan Daughtler.

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The last Sandy Hook

This is the hardest prose I ever had to type in my blog. I don't think I ever became passionate like this with the words I used. Perhaps it's connected to me in a way because it involves a special education teacher and her paraprofessional that met their demise the same day. It feels out of my shell and it took time to be sure I got the victims names right, though I extended a few of them or wrote the Spanish equivalent where applicable. Forgive me for feeling horrible about this.

I know I could barely change all things; I know some things shall always remain constant.

I could give sympathies, condolences or thoughts over anything terrible that happens.

But if there's something I know of that can, shall, and must change -- it's about assault rifles and semi automatic ones too. It's become commonplace and so conspicuous it should be crazy and a crime.

Twenty one lives matter and don't have to leave by a massacre in vain.

The time is around 11:30am CDT on May 24, 2022, and nineteen elementary school students are in the right place where they are meant to be. About four or five of them just had happy things occur to them hours even days earlier.

One girl didn't even want to go to school that day, sensing that something bad was going to happen.

One teacher was planning a wedding anniversary with her husband later, another one was proud of her fourth grade students that she taught all of this year and seventeen others while also known as someone that had helped an autistic student like me during her teaching years.

Most importantly, those nineteen kids were going to come home to their families and two ladies were going to come home to their husbands -- one of them planning twenty five years since she got married to her husband.

They were planning vacation time and more happy things to come to them. It's very close to the end of the academic year.

The fourth graders among them were about to move up to enter fifth grade.

Then an eighteen year old troubled, reserved, and scary troublemaking Chupacabra shoots his weapon to the window through a school parking lot for twelve minutes before just walking into Robb Elementary and going into four different classrooms, systematically commiting robbery on young futures, femicide and genocide on twenty one of his own ethnic Latino people that were strangers to him.

I don't know how or even why he got there, particularly after he almost murders his grandma to later drive and abandon his grandma's pickup truck near the elementary school without a driver's license. I don't understand why he picked that particular elementary school.

His grandpa especially doesn't realize his grandson has bought two legal semi-automatics; he himself has had a criminal record that doesn't let him be in a residence with any weapon.

His mom sends him over to his grandparents because she has a fight and a falling out with her son. Even his grandma has to fight him over a phone bill.

No one in that family even knows where the dad is in this Chupacabra's life.

All of that doesn't matter in the end, even when a border patrol cop eventually annihilated the Chupacabra.

Evangelína Mireles, Irma García, Elíana García, Uziyah García, José Flores Jr., Xavier Diego López, Amerie Josefina Garza, Annabell Guadalupe Rodríguez, Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, Tessa Mariela Mata, Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, Elíahana Cruz Torres, Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares, Alithia Ramírez, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Makenna Lee Elrod, Miranda Mathis, Layla Salazar, María-Teresa (Maite) Yuleana Rodríguez, Rojelio Torres

Y'all didn't deserve to leave this earth that morning the way you did.

Amerie, you tried calling for help, Irma, you hugged your students that were scared out of their mind over the guns that were used, Evangelína, you were a lady that helped an autistic student like me years before and you just jumped in to save your students lives, Tessa, you just wanted to go to a Disney park, Alithia, you just celebrated ten years since you came into this unforgivable Earth, Elíahana, you especially wanted to read a Bible that coming Sunday, Jacklyn, you were so happy about a Catholic communion - you would have been more than happy about a quince that was stolen from you.

Estos tiroteos me ponen tan triste, enojado, enfadado y mal. Yo no sé por qué hay que quitarle la felicidad casi de inmediato. Pero este tiroteo se convertirá en la última vez que alguien robe la felicidad de muchachos innocentes.

Por los senadores, representantes, y gobernadores, ser cobarde es malo, y la decisión correcta es a menudo muy difícil. No esperes a hacerlo algo bien antes de que te afecte. No tenga miedo de tomar una decisión difícil con respecto a este problema.

Para la policía, haz tu trabajar mejor para arrinconar a la gente que hace el mal.

Para los residentes de la ciudad, nunca te conformes con la desesperanza con respecto a este problema. Dígale a las personas de su confianza si nota algo que no se ven bien.

Para las personas heridas, tómate todo el tiempo que necesites para sanar del dolor.

Para los sobrevivientes de la masacre, tómense todo el tiempo que necesiten para procesar lo sucedido.

Por las familias y huérfanos de las víctimas, no pierdan la esperanza de que algo bueno salga de está terrible tragedia.

Yo estoy cansando de las masacres que suceden demasiado. Esto no puede seguir pasando cada vez en este país. ¡No más!

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[noratilney]

yay! @kendelias okay so i have the broad strokes worked out for mariana in most places and some more detailed stuff for others.

mariana is the third of four children, all girls. she’s considered very smart at mckinley and has an incredibly high gpa but she is the least smart of all her sisters and they all know it. (teresa is studying astrophysics and ofelia is studying civil engineering.) so that’s rough for her. as is the fact that she shares a room with her younger sister antonia who is a genius and the smartest of the bunch.

my face claim for her is herizen guardiola.

mariana’s mom (first name tbd) is an afro-latina lawyer from venezuela and her dad (first name also tbd) is dr garcia, he’s from spain. both of them are jewish and they both came to the states to go to college and have a certain amount of similar cultural background but were also treated quite differently.

i’ve decided that puck’s mom, who does not have a stated job in canon, works for mariana’s dad and so she’s known puck who she and her family all call noah and his little sister (who i have named sadie since she doesn’t have a canon name) most their lives. ms. sandoval likes sadie but thinks puck is a bad influence, dr. garcia treats him like the son he doesn’t have and is more indulgent of him.

mariana is a cheerio but she’s frequently seen out of uniform or wearing either the cheerios top with pants or the skirt with a different shirt, symbolizing her lack of commitment to being on the cheerios. her two true passions are soccer, she is also on the mckinley girls’ soccer team, and theatre. but unlike rachel, she wants to do the non-musical side of theater - shakespeare, oscar wilde, tennessee williams, henrik ibsen, etc.

she auditions for glee club in the pilot as one of the original members after the director of the school play fails to give her a part with even one line. technically this means she is the first cheerio to join although because she often doesn’t wear her cheerio uniform outside of practice and competition, it doesn’t come up until the unholy trinity audition.

oh she’s a freshman in s1 so she’s still in high school in s4.

mariana has a tendency to come across “sjw”-y but most of that is actually related in some way to her multiple identities - black, bisexual, jewish & latina - or experience, her mom is a lawyer and her sister ofelia has epilepsy so she knows a bunch about the americans with disabilities act (ada), such as that not providing artie with accommodations to sectionals in s1 is a violation and could get the school sued. (sorry that plotline just bugs me so much! 😖)

* friendships *: she and puck are friends although maybe it’s more accurate to say they have a familial relationship, mariana will tell him he’s being stupid and call him an ass to his face but she also sticks up for him such as when he fights with finn, even when he’s actually in the wrong.

tina is the first person in glee that she already knows. they’re in the same math class. their friendship is little more downlow/subdued compared to others on this list but long-lasting.

mariana likes brittney a lot, more than santana. they probably hang out the most of the friendships here.

she and santana are not infrequently in agreement but they rub each other the wrong way. the few times they work in tandem shows how dangerous they can be together - for example, in s3e12 “the spanish teacher”, mariana is completely in agreement with santana, she also files a complaint about mr. schue, dances with david martinez, and when santana says, “because they don’t know any better,” mariana chimes in, “she’s right!” and then mr schue says, “it was you! you filed the complaint about me.” mariana: “we both did.” (can you tell i just rewatched that ep recently? 😛) (mariana takes either french or italian at mckinley since she has no need to take a spanish class.)

she doesn’t like finn, like at all. and while she’s not as mean or aggressive about it as santana, she’s also very clear about how she feels.

mariana also finds rachel annoying.

artie, kurt and blaine she likes some of the time.

she likes sam and mercedes (and probably shipped them too lol) and rory but she’s not so close with them.

i don’t know where she stands on the newer kids since i haven’t gotten there in my rewatch.

she and emma have a super sweet inter-generational friendship and mariana’s often in her office hanging out and chatting.

(one time sue walks by and sees her there and comes in and asks what she’s doing in there (probably insulting emma in some way) and mariana looks up at her and just deadpans, “i have a lot of problems.”)

she definitely thinks emma is too good for mr. schue but she wants her to be happy.

* relationships *: mariana first dates matt, who stays on the show. i don’t have why they break up worked out but it’s definitely awkward between them for awhile. they eventually manage to become friends and are very sweet ones to each other.

she and quinn are a thing um at some point after quinn has her baby but mariana’s insistence that they make it official, not even public but like not just a hookup, complicates things for them and then they sort of fizzle out as quinn becomes obsessed with getting beth back and mariana doesn’t fit into that ‘happy families’ picture. they do hook up again at mr. schue’s wedding in s4 in place of quinn and santana.

mariana is interested in sunshine and there seems like there might be something between them. she’s furious with rachel for sending her to a crackhouse. they try to make it work for awhile while sunshine is at carmel high but eventually they call it quits because making a long-distance relationship work is hard even when you’re not a sophomore in high school.

my endgame for her is with mike chang loml, but i don’t have all the details worked out since i don’t know how things go for after graduation yet. (since i know you have billie endgamed with mike, in our crossover, mariana and quinn can get together properly and be endgame. ☺️) she always thought he was smart and nice and a very talented dancer. mariana thought he was a great boyfriend to tina and although she listened and was sympathetic and made the appropriate sympathetic responses to tina’s complaints, mariana always thought she would have been happy to have someone treat her the way he did tina.

edited to add: i think mariana hung out with mike and tina sometimes while they were dating (some of which was fun and some of which was awkward thirdwheeling) and mike and brittney sometimes but never just her and mike until after high school.

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Events 3.13

624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. 1591 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. 1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. 1741 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins. 1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus. 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809. 1811 – A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. 1826 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry. 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. 1848 – The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna. 1862 – The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.[ 1884 – The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885. 1900 – British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War. 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory. 1940 – The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty. 1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. 1954 – The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam. 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. 1969 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état. 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan. 1992 – The Mw  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). 1993 – The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas. 1996 – The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. 1997 – The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader. 2003 – An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints. 2012 – The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children. 2013 – The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. 2016 – The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people. 2016 – Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people. 2020 – President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States. 2020 – Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against racism and police brutality.

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Vicente Legarda Price Lineage

Vicente Legarda Price is the only son of Walter Scott "Scotty" Price II from his first marriage to Clarita Tambunting Legarda Price and the grandson of Walter Scott Price and Simeona Kalingag Price. Walter Scott "Scotty" Price II (Jr.) is the son of Walter Scott Price.

On January 1, 1942, Walter's son. Walter Scott Price Jr. “Scotty”, married Doña Clarita Tambunting Legarda (born May 6, 1920, who died Feb. 16, 1945 from shrapnel during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines WWII). Her only son Vicente (Vincent) Legarda Price was 6 months old. Vicente later married Corazon Relova of Pila, Laguna, Philippines (my mother).

Clarita Tambuting Legarda (Photos from Valerie Price)

Doña Clarita's mother was Doña Clara Tambunting de Legarda (1881-1950), who was born in 1881 to Don Idelfonso Cosiam Tan Bunting (Tambunting). Doña Clara Tambunting Legarda died on April 2, 1950, leaving properties of great value. Her will was probated on August 21, 1950. She left as her sole and direct heir her grandson Vicente Legarda Price, an only child of her only daughter Doña Clarita.

Property value 250,000 pesos (Aug 30, 1955 G.R. No. L-8162 Philippine Supreme Court File). (About 3 Million USD in 1950).

Don Ildefonso Tambunting (Tan Bunting) was my Chinese ancestor on my father’s side. He was the son of a Chinese immigrant from Fujian, China. He was married to Doña Filomena Concepcion de Tan Bunting. In 1932, the name Tan Bunting was changed to Tambunting. They operated the largest pawn shop in the Philippines in 1890.

Don Ildefonso Tambunting History

Tambunting Pawn Shop History

Tambunting Mausoleum

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Doña Clarita's father was Don Vicente Lucio Flores Legarda, born Dec. 13, 1873. Don Vicente was a naval architect, marine engineer, and teacher. He was a Glasgow, Scotland-educated architect who trained under Daniel Hudson Burnham who drew up the city planning maps for Manila and Baguio City, Philippines. In 1902, he taught in San Francisco, USA, and went home on Manila in 1909 to become one of Manila's prominent architects. He died Feb 24, 1956, in Manila, Philippines at age 82. He is buried in Manila, Philippines. His parents were Don Miguel Legarda and Doña Genoveva Flores-Legarda. Don Miguel Legarda was born July 2, 1852 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

Don Miguel is the son of Don Benito Pablo Legarda y Lerma and Doña Cirila Tuason de Legarda.

Don Miguel had a brother, Don Cosme Benito Legarda y Tuason, born September 26, 1853 in Binondo, Manila, (died August 15, 1915 at 61 years old in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, and buried in Manila, Philippines). Don Cosme Benito was married to Teresa de la Paz de Legarda. He earned a law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, in 1874. He was a politician and lawyer and member of President Emilio Aguinaldo's cabinet at Malolos and vice president of the Filipino Congress 1896-1898. He was Resident Commissioner for the US Congress 1907 – 1913, representing State/Territory: Philippine Islands. (Legarda, Benito, 1853-1915, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).

From wikipedia:

Benito Cosme Legarda y Tuason (September 27, 1853 – August 27, 1915) was a Filipino legislator who was a member of the Philippine Commission of the American colonial Insular Government, the government's legislature, and later a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress.

Benito Legarda died on August 27, 1915, in Evian-les-Bains, France. He is buried at the Manila North Cemetery.

The Legardas are considered one of Manila’s oldest families:

Manila’s Original 400 Old Family Names

Doña Teresa de la Paz de Legarda (born October 15, 1841 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines, died April 22, 1890 at 48 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines of Pneumonia) once owned the largest private hacienda in the Philippines in the 1800s and is the ancestor of the Tuason-Legarda-Prieto-Valdes Clan of Manila, Philippines. She was first married to Don Jose Severo Tuason, the son of Don Jose Maria Tuason and Doña Maria Jose Patiño y Tuason.

The Tuasons were the only Chinese family in the Philippines granted with patents of nobility by a Spanish monarch. Her second husband was Don Benito Legarda y Tuason, a third cousin of Don Jose Severo. The Tuasons descended from an 18th-century Chinese trader, Son Tua (later changed to Tuason). During the British occupation, Son Tua aided the Spaniards in fighting off the British and was awarded land and a noble title.

The Oldest Family Names in Manila

Don Benito Pablo was born on January 12, 1822 in Zubielqui, Navarra, Navarra, Spain, and died January 15, 1873 at age 51 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.

Don Benito Pablo is the son of Don Juan Domingo Pablo Legarda Alcaine, born August 12, 1798, in Allín, Navarre, Spain, and Doña Juana Lerma.

Sources:

-The Last Hacendera: Doña Teresa de la Paz, 1841-1890 Luciano P. R. Santiago of Pila, Laguna

-Teresa de la Paz: Feminine Wiles and Family Trees, Filipino Geneology Project. Spanish-Filipino (Mestiza) Ancestry