Britain

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Britain transported an estimated three million African people across the Atlantic before abolishing the practice in the early 1800s.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

In early 17th-century Britain, “fund” meant a source of goods or store of supply; it also meant the bottom or lowest part of something.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

It took 15,000 soldiers six years to build, is a Unesco World Heritage site and arguably the best-known Roman structure still visible in Britain.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

The Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote probably learned that the Continental Congress had severed ties with Great Britain from a source in the shop of John Dunlap, who had a contract to print the body’s resolutions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Later that year, in September 1938, Hitler held a meeting in Munich, Germany, with the leaders of Britain, France, and Italy.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti