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Australian Journal of International Affairs 70.6 (2016): 625-640. Siracusa, Joseph M., and David G. Coleman eds. Australia Looks to America: Australian–American Relations, since Pearl Harbor (Regina Books, 2006). Stuart, David. "American trade with the British colony of New South Wales, 1792–1816—A reappraisal." History Compass 18.12 ...
Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The screenplay was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney (uncredited) from Goldsmith's 1939 novel Detour , and the film was released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid–20th ...
Australian Americans are Americans who have Australian ancestry. [2] The first Australian Americans were settlers in Australia who then moved on to America. This group included English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish settlers in Australia who then moved to California during the Gold Rush.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [ N 5 ] It has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania .
American Australians are Australian citizens who are of American descent, including immigrants and residents who are descended from migrants from the United States of America and its territories. This includes people of European , African American , American Indian , Hispanic or Latin American , Asian , and Pacific Islander backgrounds.
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]
Connection with Australia Connection with America Geraldine Brooks: 1955– author: born in Australia: father was American; became naturalized U.S. citizen in 2002 Prudence Farrow: 1948– author: Australian father: U.S. born; Irish-American mother Jill Ker Conway: 1934–2018: author & academic: born in Australia: worked in the U.S. Sumner ...
The Australian cotton crop became more important to Britain, which had lost its American sources, and Australia served as a supply base for Confederate blockade runners. Immigrants from Europe seeking a better life also found Australia preferable to war-torn North America.