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Today in History: March 22, The Beatles release their first album

Lima Ohio 22 Mar 2025
TODAY IN HISTORY. In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.) ... In 1933, during the Prohibition Era, President Franklin D ... Sen.
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Kenya’s handshake politics: Elite self-preservation disguised as compromise

Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2025
It is a legacy of British colonialism. The first handshakes were doled out at the dawn of colonial rule as the British co-opted local potentates and pretenders as colonial officials, giving them the ...
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Trump says open to U.S. "associate membership" in British Commonwealth

Xinhua 21 Mar 2025
The Commonwealth of Nations, created in 1926, has 56 member states, most of them former colonies of the British Empire ... "associate membership" in British Commonwealth.
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'Say you want a revolution?': 250 years ago, 'The shot heard around the world' rang out

The Gardner News 21 Mar 2025
250 years ago the battles of Lexington and Concord propelled the British colonies in America into a revolutionary war that would sever governmental ties with Great Britain and end with the formation of the United States of America.
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Donald Trump reacts to report of King Charles' 'secret offer', says it sounds good to him

The Times of India 21 Mar 2025
The report said plans are afoot to make the US the next 'associate member' of the Commonwealth -- a voluntary association of 56 nations, mostly British colonies.
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Games-India eyes hosting 2030 Commonwealth Games as it bids for 2036 Olympics

News India Times 21 Mar 2025
The closing ceremony brought down the curtain on 12 days of sporting action at the $6 billion games for 71 mostly former British colonies.
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March to Liberty: Warren: The hope Patrick Henry's speech holds today

Detroit news 21 Mar 2025
The British Governor responded by dissolving it ... The speech, combined with Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense, swept through the colonies — forging a hardened resistance to the British.
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‘Sounds Good’: Trump Interested in King Charles’ ‘Secret Offer’

The Daily Beast 21 Mar 2025
The Commonwealth, a loose association of 56 nations—many of them former British colonies—also includes countries like Canada, Australia, and ...
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Commentary: America, for so long a state of mind, is losing its sense of mission

Grand Forks Herald 21 Mar 2025
When I was a teen in a British colony in Africa, long before I imagined I would spend most of my life in America, I met a man who had seen the promised land ... Writing in the British monthly magazine ...
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India eyes hosting 2030 Commonwealth Games as it bids for 2036 Olympics

Al Jazeera 21 Mar 2025
list 3 of 4From Champions Trophy to AFCON ... India will be optimistic of landing the centenary edition of the multi-sports gathering of mainly former British colonies, particularly because the Games has struggled to find takers in recent times ... .
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Hong Kong’s richest man is in hot water over his company’s Panama Canal ports deal

Asahi News 21 Mar 2025
Li’s rags-to-riches story paralleled the former British colony’s rise ... Globally, his conglomerate owns assets including British drugstore chain Superdrug and European mobile phone network operator Three.
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In Response: Duluth's defenders of the status quo need waking up

Duluth News Tribune 21 Mar 2025
While my comment — the focus of Passi’s Feb ... was founded as a Christian nation. But the declaration is just a document listing grievances held by the colonies toward tyrannical British rule ... the Red Scare, McCarthyism, HUAC) ... I’d ask ... .
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Canada's new prime minister is triggering an election campaign this weekend. Here’s what to know

Fox31 Denver 21 Mar 2025
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to trigger the process for an early parliamentary election this weekend for an expected vote on April 28 ... Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies ... Who is running?.
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Canada’s new prime minister is triggering an election campaign this weekend. Here’s what to know

Wtop 21 Mar 2025
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to trigger the process for an early parliamentary election this weekend for an expected vote on April 28 ... Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies ... Who is running?.
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Birmingham is quickly transforming into a third world city

The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2025
This colonial-style “British Raj” approach to keeping the peace by outsourcing law-and-order responsibilities to unaccountable “community figures” clearly didn’t pay off, with The Clumsy Swan pub ...
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