colonies

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Sailing west across the Pacific for three months, the ships brought silver coins from Spain's American colonies to Manila, where they would be exchanged for luxury goods like silk, porcelain and jade from China.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

To link the original 13 colonies with territories to the west, American politicians and engineers made bold plans for a long-distance highway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

As former British colonies, both Kenya and Nigeria share English as an official language, but each country has developed distinct spoken varieties with different phonetic structures.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

The project fits into Musk's long-term ambition to build colonies on the Moon and Mars and is "a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization," he wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The Southern slaveholding colonies would agree to form a union only on the condition that the federal government would not be able to interfere with the right to own slaves.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander