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The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit. 'Nine Dragon River Delta' or simply Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, 'Mekong River Delta'), also known as the Western Region (Vietnamese: Miền Tây) or South-western region (Vietnamese: Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of ...
Awards. Hero's Medal of the Vietnamese People's Army. Nguyễn Văn Bảy (1936 – September 22, 2019), was a Vietnamese jet fighter ace for the Vietnam People's Air Force (North Vietnamese Air Force) during the Vietnam War. Piloting a MiG-17 F while assigned to the 923rd Fighter Regiment, Bay claimed 7 aerial combat victories while engaged ...
e. Golden ratio base is a non-integer positional numeral system that uses the golden ratio (the irrational number 1 + √ 5 2 ≈ 1.61803399 symbolized by the Greek letter φ) as its base. It is sometimes referred to as base-φ, golden mean base, phi-base, or, colloquially, phinary. Any non-negative real number can be represented as a ...
The district was established in 1896. In the past the area of the district included U Thong district. The district office was moved away from the Song Phi Nong canal to the present location in 1964 because the old location was prone to flooding. [1] Its name Song Phi Nong means 'two siblings'. Presumably it refers to the confluence of two ...
The total fertility rate in Vietnam dropped from 5.6 in 1979 to 3.2 by 1993, suggesting the two-child policy was successful in containing the population growth. [60] According to one demographic model, the Bongaarts' model of components of fertility , high rates of contraceptive use and of induced abortion are plausible explanations for the ...
The 2-8-8-2 was a design largely limited to American locomotive builders. The last 2-8-8-2 was retired in 1962 from the N&W's roster, two years past the ending of steam though steam was still used on steel mill lines and other railroads until 1983. A similar wheel arrangemement exists for Garratt locomotives, but is referred to as 2-8-0+0-8-2 ...
The affected counties voted for Trump by only 5 points in Georgia and 7 points in Florida, so the storms will theoretically hinder Trump and Biden voters there in almost equal measure. By contrast ...
Yên: 鄢. Yến: 燕. In Vietnamese culture, women keep their family names once they marry, whilst the progeny tend to have the father's family name, although names can often be combined from a father's and mother's family name, e.g. Nguyễn Lê, Phạm Vũ, Kim Lý etc.