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The earliest technical usage for jiffy was defined by Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946). He proposed in 1926 a unit of time called the "jiffy" which was equal to the time it takes light to travel one centimeter in vacuum (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds). [5] It has since been redefined for different measurements depending on the field of ...
Bui Diem was born in Phủ Lý, Hà Nam, French Indochina, on October 1, 1923. [8] He was the nephew of Trần Trọng Kim , who served as the Prime Minister of Emperor Bảo Đại . [ 9 ] Diem had been active in politics since he studied at Pomelo School and joined the Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam ( Đảng Đại Việt ) in 1944 ...
The university's notable alumni are some of Vietnam's leading politicians: - Mr. Truong Tan Sang (President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2011–2016 tenure), - Ms. Truong My Hoa (Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2022–2007 tenure), - Ms. Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh (Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 9/ ...
Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505286-2. Karnow, Stanley (1997).
Jiffy (convenience store), a convenience store brand in Thailand; Jiffy Packaging, a British packaging manufacturer; Jiffy Steamer, an American manufacturer of clothing steamers; Jiffy mix, a line of baking mixes manufactured by the Chelsea Milling Company
Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (in Vietnamese) (Nội các quan bản ed.), Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House; Taylor, Keith Weller (1991), The Birth of Vietnam, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-07417-3; Trần Trọng Kim (1971), Việt Nam sử lược (in Vietnamese), Saigon: Center for School Materials
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ kaːw˧˧ ki˨˩] ⓘ; 8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) [1] [2] was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.
Bình Xuyên Force (Vietnamese: Bộ đội Bình Xuyên, IPA: [ɓɨ̂n swiəŋ]), often linked to its infamous leader, General Lê Văn Viễn (nicknamed "Bảy Viễn"), was an independent military force within the Vietnamese National Army whose leaders once had lived outside the law and had sided with the Việt Minh.