Maryland has had the death penalty since 1638 when the territory was a British colony.
Hong Kong, a British colony until 1997, has a comparatively high degree of autonomy from Beijing.
In 1973, the Bahamas attained full independence within the Commonwealth, having been a British colony since 1783.
Part of a former British colony, Ghana was among the first African countries to gain independence, in 1957.
Rennie's Mill traces its history to 1949, when remnants of Chiang's defeated army sought refuge in the British colony.
The brigade was stationed in Hong Kong until the former British colony was given back to China in 1997.
Then, last weekend, Hong Kong's own government turned to Beijing to get the former British colony's highest court overruled.
This weekend, the former British colony Hong Kong officially sworn in what is essentially the president of the autonomous zone.
In December 1949 the new governor of the recently acquired British colony of Sarawak was on his first official tour.
Hong Kong was a British colony that was the spoils of its military victory in the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s.
Australia, once a British colony like the U.S., never fought for independence.
By then Hong Kong had spent some 140 years as a British colony without enjoying the right to choose its own leaders.
The offer to Hong Kong, as a British colony, was rather less generous (Hong Kong was never allowed to build its own army).
Cyprus was a British colony and from my childhood I always aspired to come to Britain, to have my life in this country.
In 1841, New Zealand was formally proclaimed as a British colony.
The loosening of restrictions on trading yuan started in Hong Kong, a former British colony under Chinese sovereignty but with its own legal and financial systems.
Some 100, 000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group.
The skepticism is not limited to Hong Kong, a former British colony that's now a special administrative region of China with its own legal system and currency.
There were plenty of outlets, but they looked very odd to the eye, the kind of outlet you might see in a former British colony or something.
In the lead up to the winter solstice, several sites throughout the former British colony are hosting events to celebrate the end (or the resetting) of the Maya calendar.
It is unclear if the building is largely the same as it was when Ellen Morris set out on her journey to what was then still a British colony.
But others joked that a trip to the former British colony might be worth it, despite stiff penalties for carrying more than 15 kilograms of rice out of the city.
Hong Kong in July surprised itself by turning out in record numbers to vote for a new Legislative Council to replace the appointed body formed when the British colony returned to China.
Until the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997, the government, in agreement with the Chinese, created an artificial land shortage by releasing only small quantities of land for development.
The tiny British colony on Spain's southern tip has long been coveted by the Spaniards, and Britain and Spain have been tetchily negotiating a change of status the would provide for dual sovereignty.
The area became a British colony in 1814, but earlier Dutch colonists introduced vines to the Constantia Valley in 1685, making it the oldest winemaking region in the world outside of Europe.
Under the Basic Law, China's constitution for the former British colony, which was handed back to the mainland on July 1st 1997, the government is allowed to run only a temporary budget deficit.
Our military planners must never forget the lessons of Singapore in World War II, when the then British colony ignominiously fell to Imperial Japan in what Winston Churchill described as Britain's greatest military defeat.
When the king dies, Orumba satisfies his ambition for the crown by selling Oroonoko too, and the lovers end up in the British colony of Surinam, where Oroonoko leads a slave rebellion, is betrayed, imprisoned and finally killed.
Most experts and media say she left a controversial mixed legacy in terms of economic reform, but praise her for negotiating the smooth handover of former British colony Hong Kong to China and facilitating China's reintegration with the international community.
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