W Wishes us Happy CINCO DE MAYO!

BUSH: "FIRST OF ALL, CINCO DE MAYO IS NOT THE INDEPENDENCE DAY. THAT'S DIECISEIS DE SEPTIEMBRE, AND ..." MATTHEWS: "WHAT'S THAT IN ENGLISH?" BUSH: "FIFTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER." (DIECISEIS DE SEPTIEMBRE = SEPT. 16)
-HARDBALL, MSNBC, MAY 31, 2000

 

Anybody else think it quite amusing that he had a mariachi band playing behind him during his speech thing.

 

On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared independence. Hidalgo and other leaders of the revolution were soon captured. In 1811, the four leaders of the movement for independence, Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, Juan de Aldama, and José Mariano Jiminez were executed and beheaded.

The heads of the four revolutionaries were hung in cages on the four outside corners of the Alhóndiga and they hung there until independence was won ten years later in 1821.

In 1861 France tried to make Mexico a part of her empire. The French eventually succeeded in installing Napoleon's relative, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg, Austria in Mexico City as the new ruler of Mexico.

Many Mexicans, led by Benito Juarez, continued to resist. Finally in 1867 the French occupation was defeated. Archduke Maximilian of Austria was captured & executed by a Mexican firing squad June 19, 1867.

Can you phrase it in the form of a question?

Who is... Archduke Maximilian?

 

Can you pose it in the form of a question?

"I WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTIONER. I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO ASK THE QUESTIONERS THE QUESTION THEY'VE BEEN QUESTIONING. AUSTIN, TEXAS, JAN. 8, 2001



The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
--no, no--the Center...El Centro de Notre-Dame!
...uh, was it--the Quarterback..?