Cricket is a sport enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the globe, mainly in former British colonies.
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Dr. John Morgan, perhaps the best-trained physician in the colonies, was then the leader.
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The laws carried over to the American colonies, and would ultimately go on the books in 40 U.S. states.
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It remains the receptive petri dish to any and all sorts of colonies of humanity that finally managed to find one another.
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Instead, the two colonies were joined in a confederation, with separate legislatures.
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Frontenac defines his position and raises a note of alarm in his very first despatch to the minister for the colonies.
Count Frontenac|William Dawson LeSueur
Upon this question the deputies of several cities and colonies were heard.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus|Tacitus
For this time Pitt's political wisdom had saved England from a disastrous breach with her colonies.
A History of England, Period III.|Rev. J. Franck Bright
After the loss of most of the American colonies the new department was abolished in 1782.
The Popular Science Monthly, July, 1900|Various
Even in the British colonies the victorious efficiency of the German commercial conquerors was making itself felt more and more.
Right Above Race|Otto Hermann Kahn
Colonies
/ (ˈkɒlənɪz) /
pl nthe Colonies
Britishthe subject territories formerly in the British Empire
UShistorythe 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