/u/JJVMT's posts
Is it true that the earliest versions of the Tenochtitlan founding myth have an eagle holding a smaller bird rather than a snake, and that the snake variant was a later alteration based on European Christian heraldic symbolism of good triumphing over evil?
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Mafia ties have been insinuated as the reason for Mario Cuomo's decision not to run for president in '84 and '88. Is there any proof of this at all? If not, then why did the most charismatic and competitive Democratic politician of the Reagan years simply sit it out?
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As it's known today that Ancient Greek and Roman buildings and art were actually quite colorful, I'm curious, were Medieval castles really as gray and austere-looking as they appear today? If not, where can I find a graphic reconstruction of how a castle would have looked when it was new?
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What were the Finns doing during the Viking age? What kind of contact did they have with their Nordic neighbors?
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Did anyone speak Hebrew as a native, everyday language between Biblical times and Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda's raising his son Itamar Ben-Avi (born in 1882) to speak only Hebrew?
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How common was pony ownership among rural Polish Jews in the early to mid twentieth century? (Question inspired by the Seinfeld episode "The Pony Remark," where Jerry puts his foot (hoof?) in his mouth by expressing his hatred of kids who had ponies, which offends his elderly Polish-born relative)
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Is it true that German knights continued their crusades in the Baltic well after the Baltic peoples became Christian?
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What are some of the main things that late-18th and early-19th c. English Gothic novels get wrong about the Middle Ages?
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