Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The immediate trigger was the refusal by American-owned oil refineries to refine the crude oil received from the Soviet Union. Faced with the prospect of no oil, Cuba nationalized the three American refineries. This action escalated the US embargo on Cuba, which responded by nationalizing all American owned property. Eventually all Cuban ...
Became an American citizen in 2020. [20] Diane von Fürstenberg - Born and raised in Belgium. Became an U.S. citizen in 2002. Carolina Herrera – Born in Venezuela. Became an American citizen in 2009. [21] Oscar de la Renta - Born and raised in Dominican Republic. Ferdinando Sarmi - Born in Italy. Became a U.S. citizen in 1959.
Some nationalizations take place when a government seizes property acquired illegally. For example, in 1945 the French government seized the car-maker Renault because its owners had collaborated with the 1940–1944 Nazi occupiers of France. [2]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
List of American suffragists; List of Americans who married international nobility; List of naturalized American citizens; List of Ellis Island immigrants; Biography portal; Lists portal; United States portal
BNG America (2007) BNG Project Services (2008) Reactor Sites Management Company (2007) Westinghouse Electric Company (2006) East Thames Buses (2009) Leeds Bradford International Airport (2007) London Underground (2003, sale of concession to maintain infrastructure for 30 years) National Air Traffic Services (2001 – 51%) Newcastle Airport ...
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
Advocacy groups: Lakota Freedom Movement, [81] [82] Mohawk Warrior Society, American Indian Movement, American Indian Movement of Colorado, International Indian Treaty Council, Red Power movement; Southern US. Southern United States. Proposed state or autonomous region: Confederate States of America or Southern United States or Dixie or Dixieland