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In case I need to remind you, Adama has to lead the last survivors of humanity from the Twelve Colonies of Kobol to a long-lost mythic planet called Earth, home of the 13th Tribe.
The plot revolves around the destruction of the 12 colonies of mankind, by a race of machines called Cylons.
Outside the train station of Marseille, through which many a Frenchman left for the colonies, stands a 19th-century statue allegorically depicting Indochina as three half-naked girls lounging in the tropical sun.
Soon the survivors of a vanquished group of human colonies make their way back to Earth to find their "mythical" sister in race.
The currency was in theory governed by a rules-based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.
Colonies were short on expertise.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the 13 former British colonies had created a common market, with common institutions, including a central bank.
Steam power, factories, markets, and industry quickly spread throughout northwest Europe and its settler colonies.
As late as 1950, according to United Nations data, illiteracy was pervasive in Europe’s African and Asian colonies.
By forming mutually beneficial partnerships with its former colonies, Europe can increase its exports and put its industry back to work, while providing African countries – which are already looking to China and India – with the resources that they need.
This dependence on the US for collective security does not make American allies exactly into colonies.
In Palestine, Israeli colonies continue to grow with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignoring Washington’s efforts to secure traction for the peace process.
Once the colonies had achieved independence – Saudi Arabia, today a Sunni regional power, was created in 1932 – a new attempt was made to unite the Arab nation by means of the political Islam that emerged in the 1920’s in response to the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate.
For all the loose talk of an “American empire,” the fact is that the US does not have colonies that it must administer, and thus has more freedom to maneuver than the UK did.
Much of the so-called Third World was either recently independent, or remained colonies; all of it was very poor.
Today, former colonial powers have evolved significantly, just as have their former colonies.
Joining the euro was certainly ruinous for Greece, but there is always “a great deal of ruin in a nation,” as Adam Smith remarked 250 years ago, when losing the American colonies seemed to threaten Britain with financial devastation.
It is one thing for colonies to blow up on the other side of the world.
They were especially persuasive in Britain’s former colonies, notably in newly independent African states.
If France is now serious about merging national armies into a joint defense force under a central EU command – rather than just an intervention force for its former African colonies – Macron could well secure his place in the history books.
Europe's Designer DemagoguesThe world needs a Europe committed to internationalism, generous to its former colonies, and willing to absorb its share of migrants and refugees.
Indeed, the Indian Penal Code of 1860, which was exported as a model by Britain to its colonies around the world (and which still today forms the basis for anti-gay legislation in countries such as Egypt), was a crucial tool in the management of empire and the control of unruly new populations.
In the United States, deforestation began as soon as the colonies were settled.
Before long, the colonies were exporting wood to the many nations that no longer had the timber they needed for ships, casks, shingles, and other construction materials.
The most adventurous and ambitious could seek fame and fortune in the colonies of Africa and Asia.
Worse, direct talks have not only failed to produce the desired results; their continuation has also helped to mask widespread construction of Israeli colonies on Palestinian territory.
One such particularity is that many contemporary Arab states were established with relatively new and arbitrary boundaries, and were then occupied and often reconfigured as European colonies.
During the “Scramble for Africa” (which lasted from roughly the late 1860s until 1905), European powers signed hundreds of bilateral and multilateral agreements that partitioned the largely unexplored continent into protectorates, free-trade areas, and colonies.
As citizens of British colonies, they were legally regarded as citizens of the UK as well.
The French economy, with its strong industrial base and dynamic private- and public-sector companies, benefited from these devaluations, thanks to increased exports (including to its former African colonies).
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