colonies
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Colonies exposed to higher peak air temperatures and greater internal temperature variation experienced declines in population size.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
Wall panels remind us of the Townshend Acts, the Tea Act and the Boston Massacre, all seminal events that led the Colonies to eventually break away from Britain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
By the late 1770s, the Revolution in what is known as the Middle Colonies had become a brutal civil war.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2025
The case involved corruption charges against three San Bernardino County officials and a developer who was a managing director of Rancho Cucamonga-based investor group Colonies Partners.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
Outside, the British Colonies of America detached themselves with infinite lumbering care, while within our enclave I thought on nothing that day but my mother.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
