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The marauders beat and slashed to death all the males in a neighboring colony and subjugated the breeding females, essentially annihilating an entire community.

At the time of his death he had been in jail for three years on trumped-up charges and had recently been transferred to a penal colony in the Arctic Circle.

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However, he said the butterfly that was spotted at Havannah and Three Hills Nature Reserve was male and it would not create a colony itself.

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Another rights group, Spring 96, recognised Mrs Fenner as a political prisoner who had been imprisoned in a penal colony.

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The real “root cause” of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s inability to accept that centuries of empire do not confer the right to dominate former colonies forever.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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