Word: costilla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Satirist Luis Hidalgo held an exhibition of his brilliantly colored little figures in Manhattan's Arden Gallery without a single critic recording the fact that that round-faced swart young man is a direct descendant of the patron saint of Mexico's independence, fiery Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who captured the Spanish prison of Dolores in 1810, declared Mexican independence, prematurely, and got himself imprisoned and shot for his pains...
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