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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The premium attached to European defense plays in the current environment are reflected in a price-to-earnings multiple of almost forty times for 2026, more than double that of the overall market.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

The Tripoli government's General Mohamed Al-Haddad, four of his advisers and three crew died when the Falcon 50 jet they were travelling on crashed less than forty minutes after take-off on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

Over roughly forty years, the direction of this research has shifted in notable ways.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2025

"Three whole days were lost. More than forty drivers are ahead of me. Fifty, at least. I'm finished."

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell