Cleats by Bill Hinds for June 21, 2015

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    cdward  over 9 years ago

    About half the countries on the globe I received as a kid no longer exist.

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    Geldhart  over 9 years ago

    Almost anything can be used as a springboard to education. Way to go Grampa

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    cdward  over 9 years ago

    Probably what it says is that the biggest European colonies were in SE Asia and Africa. They eventually succeeded in getting European powers out, but that opened a long period of instability. And of course, Cold War Europe changed because of the end of the Cold War.

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    Earle H Landry  over 9 years ago

    Read Jared Diamond and Ian Morris for the details, if you read.

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    hippogriff  over 9 years ago

    cdward: Instability is common in new countries, particularly those with a violent origin. A decade into this country’s independence, it was a crime to criticize the president.

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