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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The premium attached to European defense plays in the current environment are reflected in a price-to-earnings multiple of almost forty times for 2026, more than double that of the overall market.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

The Tripoli government's General Mohamed Al-Haddad, four of his advisers and three crew died when the Falcon 50 jet they were travelling on crashed less than forty minutes after take-off on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration announced this week it will scale back flights by about 10% at forty of the nation’s busiest airports, a move that could ground thousands of departures per day.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025

They always parked the Shack & Shop on private property — high ground — at least forty miles from where his father thought he and Tomás would be working.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith