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don't forget that the Spanish Empire, for one, was pretty global - and it was fueled by the eternally renewable resources of Fear, Surpise, a Ruthless Efficiency and a Fanatical Devotion to the Pope.(okay, so they weren't all that efficient, but I'm in a Monty Python mood today. I wonder what triggered my sense of absurdity? Might have been those selfsame presidential elections...)
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