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• v  settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world
  Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
• v  settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
  The British colonized the East Coast

• colonise

• decolonize
• decolonise

News & Articles

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• Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President
  First time accepted submitter aBaldrich writes "Edward Snowden was offered 'humanitarian asylum' by Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. The country's official news agency reports (original spanish, Google translation) that the decision was taken after a meeting of the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Maduro denounced an attempt to 'colonize ...
  July 6, 2013 - Slashdot
• Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President
  First time accepted submitter aBaldrich writes "Edward Snowden was offered 'humanitarian asylum' by Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. The country's official news agency reports (original spanish, Google translation) that the decision was taken after a meeting of the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Maduro denounced an attempt to 'colonize ...
  July 6, 2013 - Slashdot
• New Genetic Advances Tie Living Natives To Ancient Remains
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online When Europeans began to colonize the Americas, male settlers sporadically began having children with native females. This mixing of bloodlines would have made tracing today's native ancestries difficult several years ago, but new advances in the sequencing of mitochondrial DNA have allowed researchers to draw a direct line between someone ...
  July 4, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Jeremy Rifkin in NewsWithViews.com
  We feel that ensuring the survival of the human race by helping it colonize a new planet is both a moral good in and of itself and also the most likely method of ensuring the survival of our best - okay, fine, only -- base of web search volume and... Larry Page http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGiwWhagzNLdfxx8HpAH55UGjNJ2Q InternetNews.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/google-is-sending-me-to-mars.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG9kftyKjpopu3L1FLTG8C0Xde3qg Apr 1, 2008 19570 27283 colonize Rifkin said, In the great era of urbanization, we have shut off the human race from the rest of the natural world in the belief that we could conquer, colonize and utilize the riches of the planet to ensure our autonomy without dire consequences to...