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Colonies
/ ˈɒəɪ /
plural noun
- the subject territories formerly in the British Empire
- history the 13 states forming the original United States of America when they declared their independence (1776). These were Connecticut, North and South Carolina, Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and New Jersey
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Resistance to their whims, even in speech, gets critics carted off to the Colonies to be worked to death if they didn’t immediately catch a bullet.
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Colonies consist of hundreds of individuals linked in chains that can be up to several meters long.
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Heavily taxed playing cards circulated in the American Colonies before the Revolutionary War.
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Colonies of seabirds, then, are helping keep the Arctic cooler and dampening the effects of climate change “one splat at a time.”
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In 1619, the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, one of the newly formed 13 American Colonies.
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