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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY – APRIL, 1672 and 2015: A Cruel Month?… THE AGE OF THE DOUBLE CROSS

Posted on March 18, 2015 by

Written by Rick Sanders. By 1668, the heroic Dutch resistance to the Spanish Inquisition was 100 years behind them. The oligarchical disease began to take hold in earnest with the founding of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 and … Continue reading →

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