In World History, a declaration of independence does exactly that: declare a country's independence from a mother country. For example, the United States declared independence from England, and Comoros declared independence from France.
A.) Kepler's first law of Planetary motion states "<span>that planetary orbits are elliptical in shape, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse"
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Israel expanded its West Bank settlements.
<span>It separated North and South Korea.</span>
They wanted more land for their colonial expansion