colonies

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General warrants and writs of assistance enraged the colonies precisely because they allowed British officials to rummage through homes and businesses without individualized suspicion.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

Most Muslims in the first American colonies had arrived from Africa as slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

For many years after independence in the 1960s, France maintained close economic, political and security ties in many of its former colonies, leading to widespread accusations that little had changed.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have shown that bistrifluron, a chemical that blocks the formation of new termite exoskeletons, can destroy drywood termite colonies by interfering with the insects' ability to grow.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz