colonial
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When butcher Asser Levy died in Colonial New York, he had gone from penniless immigrant to successful businessperson by meeting the booming city’s food needs.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Shed your too-cool-for-school attitude, embrace the weirdness and Colonial Williamsburg can be spellbinding in a way a regular old museum can’t.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The two-story pool house’s red tile roof, wooden trellises and Spanish Colonial Revival features will look roughly the same on the outside, Kingsnorth said, and the rehabilitation will comply with federal standards for historic structures.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
The can of Colonial Beef Dripping was taken on the 1953 journey by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay who were the first confirmed to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
They scrambled to a ridge and looked down the other side at a white Colonial house—May Castellan’s place.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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