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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]
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.
Trưng Trắc was the first female monarch in Vietnam, as well as the first queen in the history of Vietnam (Lý Chiêu Hoàng was the last woman to take the reign and is the only empress regnant), and she was accorded the title Queen Trưng (chữ Quốc ngữ: Trưng Nữ vương, chữ Hán: 徵女王) in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.
This is a list of spouses of the presidents of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Phu nhân Chủ tịch nước Việt Nam). The position is sometimes informally called First Lady of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đệ nhất Phu nhân Việt Nam). [3] [4] There have been 12 [a] people holding this title since 1969.
This is a list of artists who were born in the Vietnam or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.. Artists are listed by field of study and then by family name in alphabetical order (review Vietnamese naming customs as the family name will display in the first name field, with exceptions including people of the diaspora), and they may be listed more than once on the list if ...
The first feminist women's organization in Vietnam was the Nu Cong Hoc Hoi under Madame Nguyen Khoa Tung in Hue in 1926, who voiced the demands of the bourgouise women's movement, which mainly centered around educational and professional opportunities, polygamy and child marriage. [55]
The items were gathered by the museum and Vietnam Women’s Union since the 1970s. [8] A public relations specialist, Nguyen Bich Van, was also appointed to travel across Vietnam and persuade families to provincial women’s union organisations to donate clothes, photographs and other memorabilia pertaining to female figures in Vietnam.
The new government of South Vietnam refused to issue her a visa to return and she resettled in Europe with her mother. Lệ Thủy was attending law school in Paris , when on April 12, 1967, [ 1 ] at the age of 22, she was killed in an automobile accident in Longjumeau , France. [ 2 ]