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This policy dominated U.S. foreign policy over the last decade as the nation embarked on two military campaigns in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although both campaigns attracted international support, particularly the fighting in Afghanistan, the scale and duration of the war has lessened the motivation of American allies.
The White Australia policy was a set of racial policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European non-white ethnic origins – especially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islanders – from immigrating to Australia in order to create a "white/British" ideal focused on but not exclusively Anglo-Celtic peoples.
In 2001, Swiss Re took control of the Aurora National Life policies; Swiss Re fully acquired Aurora National Life in 2012. [6] [7] In 2014, Aurora National Life was sold to Reinsurance Group of America. [8]
The emergence of abstract art coincided with the invention of Cubism in Paris in the first decade of the 20th century. Paris remained the centre of gravity for later art movements like Futurism, Purism, Vorticism, Cubo-Futurism, Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism until the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi persecution of "degenerate art", which precipitated a mass migration of artists and ...
Rachael Louise Gunn [2] was born on 2 September 1987 [3] in Hornsby, New South Wales. [4] She danced as a child, and was trained in ballroom, tap, and jazz styles. [4] [5]Gunn attended Barker College [6] before enrolling at Macquarie University, where she completed a bachelor's degree in contemporary music in 2009 and a PhD in cultural studies in 2017. [7]
The 1988 Miller High Life 500 was the 13th stock car race of the 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the seventh iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, June 19, 1988, before an audience of 96,000 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania , at Pocono Raceway , a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) triangular permanent course.
[citation needed] In 1896, the GOP platform pledged to "renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection, as the bulwark of American industrial independence, and the foundation of development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry.
Kamala Devi Harris [b] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving with President Joe Biden.