colonies
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The programme will "not shy away from 'the darkest days of our past', as His Majesty has described them," a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said, ahead of the tour of the former colonies.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Britain’s North American colonies united to become Canada in 1867 partly to resist the pull of economic gravity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Most of the world was now divided by fixed borders into independent states and their colonies, and international respect for those borders was growing.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Trees occupied by wasps also consistently had much smaller ant colonies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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