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Supposedly the referendum carried out in the Spanish Philippines in 1599 helped to legitimise the Spanish invasion and occupation. Who was actually participating in this referendum and was there any reasonable chance of rejecting Spain?
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When gentleman explorer Richard Francis Burton proposed the idea of a 'Sotadic Zone' of the world where pederasty is normalised, although the zone covered most of the inhabited world except northern Eurasia, Arabia and Africa, India was also largely excluded. What caused him to exclude this area? NSFW
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