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Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912. [3] It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), who wrote and set her novel Little Women (1868–69) there.
The Coffee House is a Vietnamese coffeehouse chain, created in 2014. [1] It is based in Ho Chi Minh City. [4] As of March 2018, the chain has over 100 stores across Vietnam [5] that serve over 40,000 customers a day. [6] The CEO Nguyen Hai Ninh announced that the company plans to open as many as 700 outlets across Vietnam. [6] [7]
An ancestral house (Vietnamese: nhà thờ họ, chữ Nôm: 茹悇𢩜 or Vietnamese: từ đường, chữ Hán: 祠堂) is a Vietnamese traditional place of worship of a clan or its branches which established by male descendants of paternal line.
Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ (born February 10, 1971), better known as Chairman Vũ, is a Vietnamese entrepreneur and businessman.He is the co-founder (along with former spouse Lê Hoàng Diệp Thảo), [1] president and general director of Trung Nguyên Group.
This position was formerly designated as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Chủ tịch Ủy ban Thường vụ Quốc hội Việt Nam) from 1946 to 1981. The chairman is elected by the deputies of the National Assembly in the first season of the assembly's tenure.
Hang Nga guesthouse was originally built as a personal project by Vietnamese architect Dang Viet Nga, opening to the public in 1990. Nga, daughter of Trường Chinh , who received a PhD in architecture from the University of Moscow , has stated that her overall design was inspired by the natural environment surrounding of the city of Da Lat ...
At the Battle of Bạch Đằng River in 938 near Hạ Long Bay in northern Vietnam, the military force of the Viet-ruled domain of Tĩnh Hải quân, led by Ngô Quyền, a Viet lord, defeated the invading forces of the Chinese state of Southern Han and put an end to the Third Era of Northern Domination (Chinese ruled Vietnam). [3]
According to scholar Pétrus Ký, the waterfront area at the end of rue Catinat was once called Bến Ngự (translating to "royal wharf"), the royal landing stage. He also revealed that it was known in Khmer as Compong-luong, [3] which suggests that its history may date back to the 17th century, when Saigon was still the Cambodian settlement of Prey Nokor.