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Instead of dancing xenomorphs, Bong made “Mickey 17,” in theaters Friday, a bleakly comedic sci-fi thriller set aboard a colonist spaceship bound for a distant icy planet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

However, the researchers report their work revealed the "richness, abundance and composition" of the bee populations were "signficantly impacted by agricultural colonization after as little as 10-17 years of settlement by colonist farmers and ranchers."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2023

It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.

From Reuters ● Jul. 28, 2022

According to most estimates, by the mid-1770s, the average American colonist consumed more than three quarts of molasses a year—making it an irreplaceable part of the colonial economy.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

This view came from England “and crossed the Atlantic with the colonists — and was adopted with little fanfare after the Revolution,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

This provides "very little evidence that the yeasts have been multiplying over millennia," he said, adding that he believed they were "relatively recent colonists of the mummy's body".

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

When Captain John Smith and the British colonists first came to the Jamestown colony in Virginia in the early 17th century, he recorded two goldsmiths, a jeweler and two refiners on the ship, Gordon says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman