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Currently visiting Puerto Rico and came across this statue of Ponce de Leon in Old San Juan. Someone had left flowers at the base…

Does this man look like a virtuous and heroic knight to you?

Born of a wealthy family in Valladolid, 1474 this dude went to the Americas as a “gentlemen volunteer” with Columbus’ second voyage and was made the first ever governor of Puerto Rico by the Spanish crown in 1508.

That’s like if the son of an influencer who was pardoned by the president visited an island on one of those trips where they gentrify 3rd world countries and was declared in charge.

Just felt like sharing. Please call out any mis-information, whatever I didn’t get from the plaque I got from Wikipedia.

I was reading “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen E. Ambrose and there have been a few sections involving dudes getting scalped and I remembered a bit cobbler mentioned in one of the YeeHaw videos.

Putting bounties on dudes scalps is wild because how are you gonna verify you have the right guy’s scalp? By the sounds of it, they didn’t bother to check. So surely guys were just scalping the first person they ran into and saying it was the bounty. I have to imagine some of these bounty hunters didn’t even know what their bounties looked like.

My new insane history theory is that male pattern baldness evolved in American Europeans specifically to defend against being scalped by some guy just looking to get paid asap.

Obviously this is a schizophrenia induced delusion but it crossed my mind while I was reading and couldn’t help but laugh about it.

Thank you.

Does this look like a virtuous gentleman to you?

Male pattern baldness is a defense mechanism against scalping.