/u/JJVMT's posts
In the majority of the early versions of Miguel Hidalgo's Shout of Dolores, he says "Long live Ferdinand VII!" Is it wrong to say that the father of Mexican independence was a royalist?
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Can modern Mexican government corruption be traced in any way to colonial Spanish governing practices?
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Are there pre-Columbian surnames that survive among modern Mexicans (particularly those who belong to an indigenous ethnic group), specifically that are not revivals, but rather have that been passed down from generation to generation since the pre-conquest period?
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When Spiro Agnew became VP, was he considered a landmark first as the first VP of Southern European heritage?
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Franks and Frankness; or, What Does an Ancient Germanic Tribe Have to Do with Being Forthright and Candid?
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According to its etymological origin, the word senate means "council of elders." Did the Roman Senate begin with a minimum age requirement? If so, did it change between the foundation of the Republic and the 6th century AD?
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For Native North Americans not on the Atlantic coast, was there word of European colonists before their arrival? And how long was the wait for inland peoples being hearing about these colonists and actually seeing one of them?
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Given the rise of climate change denial in the GOP under the Reagan and Bush administrations, what did Nixon, who oversaw the creation of the EPA, have to say about it?
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"War" is apparently an example of a French-derived (or at least more broadly Gallo-Romance derived) English word that slightly pre-dates the Norman Invasion. What kind of contact did England have with the Normans and/or other Gallo-Romance speaking peoples before 1066?
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