colonial
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To those images, he adds still lifes he has made of colonial art collections or the architecture of old slave dungeons in Ghana, where the imprisoned were held before transport to the Americas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The study, "Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following colonial invasion," was published in Nature Human Behaviour.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
After America defeated the Marianas’ colonial ruler in the Spanish-American War, it wanted a base to project power over the western Pacific.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
The “public” would mean ordinary people like colonial patrons of taverns who gathered round to read the proposed Constitution in newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
France had a vast colonial empire: at the turn of the twentieth century, it stretched across almost all of west and central Africa.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Their seasoned troops, reinforced by Hessian mercenaries, faced an amateurish and poorly provisioned army of colonials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Proponents of prohibition argued that drinking culture was alien to India – while that’s debatable, the colonials filled their coffers with the liquor tax and certainly encouraged it.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
The term is also historically inaccurate, he said, because the first U.S. president and his contemporaries would not have identified as colonials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
The wealthiest and most international city in America, its grand mansions and comfortable houses would obviously be useful as a base for an invading army that was just beginning a campaign against uppity colonials.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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