They claim to have documented 11, 500 "colonists" who have deforested around 150, 000 hectares since 2009.
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Only 60 of 300 of the original colonists survived, described as "looking like skeletons, " Horn said.
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Like other colonists, the Americo-Liberians believed that they had a mission to civilise the natives.
The colonists considered the constant imposition of taxes on them under those circumstances to be unconstitutional.
The first winter was brutal and actually most of the colonists remained on board the Mayflower.
The colonists fought for independence, against taxation without representation, to replace a monarchy with a republic.
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In the fall, the Powhatans waged war against these colonists, and launched a siege against the fort.
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Among 17th Century colonists in New England it applied to the "savage" sounds of the Native Americans.
But the colonists took matters into their own hands, and subsequent laws codified actions already in practice.
At the same time, the relationship between the Jamestown colonists and the native Powhatan Indians had broken down.
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Lord Delaware brought even more colonists and enough provisions to last a year.
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Early French and English colonists worked and lived in the country's far reaches to trap beavers for their pelts.
Many colonists worried that the attempts to impose taxes would only get worse.
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Scientists are also concerned that the struggles between natives and colonists will have a detrimental impact on the region's biodiversity.
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Early American colonists inherited from England a tradition in which the courts, like the legislature, were extensions of the crown.
Danish colonists established a series of weather stations on the Greenland coast, with reliable records that go back over 225 years.
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The permanent colonists who formed the fighting strength were escapees from a world of restricted social and economic opportunity at home.
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Inspired by the Portuguese colonists' white bean stew, they created a concoction with the earthier (and in my book, tastier) black beans.
Civilisations there dated back thousands of years and European explorers and colonists did a great deal of damage to the native cultures.
An interstellar ship would be like an ark, carrying everything the colonists might need, including greenhouses for growing food and sophisticated manufacturing facilities.
Moreover, some of the migrants were better off than the earlier settlers, many of whom had been converted to Christianity by Dutch colonists.
If lobsters are considered the vermin of the deep as early American colonists saw them then they become objects of disgust, not food fit for kings.
But the silver that the colonists brought back increased the monetisation and commercialisation of the Eurasian economy and led to an increase in trade.
That did not sit well at all with the few other colonists, among them nudists, sadists and Utopian philosophers, who had got there first.
Plants such as peppers and tomatoes are already extensively grown hydroponically, while lettuce, with its short lifecycle, would yield fast returns for pioneering space colonists.
It was the ideas of the Enlightenment, centered here in France, that helped inspire a band of Colonists across the ocean to seek our freedom.
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To many Australians, Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish Catholics, was a heroic anti-establishment figure who fought corrupt British colonists in the 19th Century.
He supported the American colonists and, as a dedicated Unitarian, was on the organising committee of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
The French revolution was fought for the rights of the collective and the state, while the American colonists battled for themselves and the rights of individuals.
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