colony
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In “Empire and Frontier,” Samuel Marquis focuses on the conflict’s tumultuous consequences for England’s colony of New York, and for its northern neighbors, the Five Nations of the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“The Rivals of Amziah King” is the story of one queen replacing another in order to keep the colony intact, but we’re not talking about bees at this point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Dutch influence remains around New York City, a legacy of the short-lived 17th-century Dutch colony along the Hudson River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The site was home to scarce plants including pyramidal and bee orchids, and a rare colony of marbled white butterflies that had relied on common knapweed and red fescue.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
A traveler had found the whole colony on the Island of Wings dead.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
That shifts attention toward other characteristics that may have helped ants, bees and wasps repeatedly evolve highly cooperative colonies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
France and Britain housed small communities from former colonies—an immigration pattern so mundane that 1960s France let citizens of former West African colonies fly into Paris without a passport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Emily Burton, conservation manager, said: "Gannet populations have suffered significant declines, and many colonies are still recovering from the impacts of avian influenza."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
They point out that “solar farm” is a misnomer because the land — an alluvial plane with Yucca colonies dating back hundreds of years, creosote rhizomatic rings even longer — will be scraped and fenced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The American colonies passed laws barring people convicted of crimes from a wide variety of jobs and benefits, automatically dissolving their marriages and denying them the right to enter contracts.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing colony
American History I
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Ancient Greece - Introductory
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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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