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  • A medieval statute, recently revived to baffle the suffragettes, was originally directed against robbers and "pillers," i.e. plunderers, but the name Piller is also for pillar; cf. the French name Colonise.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Northwest and Colonise the Banks of the Yellow River and of the

    The Awakening of China 1871

  • Microsoft and Its Drones Lobby for Even More Tax Breaks; Bill Gates Tries to Loot Italians Frederick Kaufman on the Gates Foundation's Monsanto Venture; 100,000 Indians to Protest by Fasting United Nations and World Bank Help Bill Gates and Microsoft Colonise Africa Bill Gates Slammed for Global Warming Debate Aversion, Conspiracy to Defraud Taxpayers

    Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en] Schestowitz 2010

  • Colonise a quarter of the globe - but if anyone doesn't give a shit if you lose some shitty sporting competition, you get all defensive about it and imagine racism?

    Shuggy's Blog 2008

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