We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle … - Max Fisher

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If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. . . . No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

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We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.

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