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Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.

Ruins on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Credit: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Many people are familiar with the legend of Romulus and Remus, which supposedly explains the origin of the ancient ...

Winkler, who wrote a book about the salute. There is no Roman art, writing, or coins that display the gesture, according to Winkler. "The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ...

Or the turgid revolutionary speeches delivered by the Chairman, based on the real orations of Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia’s Marxist-Leninist dictator when the novel was published in Amharic ...