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It was the debt incurred during the last Rajapaksa presidency that forced Sirisena in 2017 to sign away to China the Indian Ocean’s most strategic port, Hambantota, along with 6,070 hectares (15,000 acres) of nearby land, on a 99-year lease.

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Tribes lost millions of acres.

The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.

Green School sits in south-central Bali, and it's on 20 acres of rolling garden.

For instance, imagine that in 1900, you owned 100 acres of land someplace in the Midwest.

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