Shingles is characterized by pain along an affected nerve and its branches and the eruption of blisters over skin areas supplied by the nerve. An attack will usually be preceded by a few days of intense pain in the affected areas.
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States..
Monroe Doctrine, 1823. 1  In his December 2, 1823, address to Congress, President James Monroe articulated United Statesâ policy on the new political order developing in the rest of the Americas and the role of Europe in the Western Hemisphere.