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Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
The claim that St. Ignatius of Loyola was of Jewish ancestry rests less on definitive genealogical proof and more on scholarly interpretation of ambiguous early-modern records and patterns of Jesuit r...
The word “nigger” is widely recorded as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people and is described by major reference sources as “perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial s...
Documented cases exist in which AI-generated channels and accounts impersonated journalists, anchors, or news outlets: a high-profile network of nearly 90 TikTok accounts mimicked Spanish‑language jou...
The December 1991 Madrid inquest recorded that Robert Maxwell died from a heart attack combined with accidental drowning, while also documenting unresolved questions about the physical scene aboard hi...
A targeted review of the provided reporting finds no authoritative public list of the exact exhibit numbers admitted into evidence at the 2005 People v. Jackson criminal trial, nor a catalog in those ...
The year 1526 marks an early and contested moment in North American slavery: Spanish expeditions brought Africans to the Atlantic coast that later became the southeastern United States, and those capt...
The slang form nigga derives historically from the racial slur nigger, itself tracing back through English borrowings of Spanish/Portuguese negro from Latin niger “black,” and has been attested in dia...
No — distilled water is not a person and therefore does not have personal pronouns in the sense that people use them; pronouns are words used to refer to people and their gender identities, and while ...
The Massacre of the Innocents—Matthew’s account of Herod ordering Bethlehem’s infants killed—has been a resilient cultural motif from the medieval church to contemporary art, used as devotional commem...
The term “Aztec” refers to a dominant imperial system — chiefly the Mexica rulers of Tenochtitlán and their Triple Alliance — not a single homogeneous tribe, and Spanish conquerors used alliances and ...
The historical roots of racism in the United States rest on a convergence of early colonial labor systems, transatlantic slavery, legal codification of race, and the social invention of “whiteness” to...