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In Hawaiian religion, Pele (pronounced ) is the goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands.Often referred to as "Madame Pele" or "Tūtū Pele" as a sign of respect, she is a well-known deity within Hawaiian mythology and is notable for her contemporary presence and cultural influence as an enduring figure from ancient Hawaii. [1]
Định was born from a peasant family in Bến Tre Province, and fought with the Viet Minh forces against the French. She was arrested and incarcerated by the French colonial authority between 1940–43, and helped lead an insurrection in Bến Tre in 1945, and again in 1960 (against the government of Ngô Đình Diệm).
Trần Lệ Xuân (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕən˨˩ le˧˨ʔ swən˧˧]; 22 August 1924 [2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.
Nguyễn Thị Bình (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ tʰi˧˨ʔ ʔɓïŋ˨˩]; born Nguyễn Thị Châu Sa [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ tʰi˧˨ʔ t͡ɕəw˧˧ saː˧˧]; 26 May 1927), also known as Madame Bình, [1] [2] is a South Vietnamese revolutionary leader, diplomat and politician.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]
The Vietnamese Women’s Museum has been listed as one of the best attractions in Hanoi by tourism website TripAdvisor many times. [12] The statue of a “Vietnamese mother” at the museum lobby won the first prize at a sculpture competition organised by the Museum and the Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City in 1995. [9]
Hồ Thị Quế, also known as the Tiger Lady of the Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Nữ Hổ Tướng Đồng Bằng Sông Cửu Long) and Big Sister (Chị Cả) was a master sergeant of the South Vietnamese 44th Ranger Battalion, also known as "The Black Tigers" that fought against the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. She was a field medic and ...