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18 hours ago · During a 1953 visit to Taiwan, Vice President Richard Nixon stated that the United States would help turn Taiwan into an anticommunist military and cultural bastion. [33]: 10 In 1954, the United States began providing significant funding for education in Taiwan, including to attract overseas Chinese.
18 hours ago · Band of Brothers is a 2001 American [2] war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. [3] It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. [4]
18 hours ago · Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.
18 hours ago · Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union; the brokering of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel; the overthrow of the US-friendly Mohammad ...
18 hours ago · Sir Keir Starmer has given a speech ahead of Wednesday's budget, where he announced the cap on bus fares would rise from £2 to £3. The early reveal won't go down well with the Speaker of the ...
18 hours ago · On October 29, former President Richard Nixon appeared as a rebuttal witness for the defense, and testified that presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt had authorized the bureau to engage in break-ins while conducting foreign intelligence and counterespionage investigations. [124] It was Nixon's first courtroom appearance since his resignation ...
18 hours ago · Als Donald Trump 1946 geboren wurde, befand sich der Wohnungsbau, in dem sein Vater Fred als Unternehmer tätig war, in einer schweren Krise. Zwar herrschte nach der Heimkehr von über sechs Millionen Soldaten aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg eine immense Nachfrage nach Wohnraum, aber wegen des großen Bedarfs an Baumaterialien waren diese für preiswerte Wohnprojekte, auf die sich Fred Trump ...
