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The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast. [1] It was overseen by the Duke of York , the brother of Charles II of England ; the RAC was founded after Charles II ascended to the English throne in the 1660 Stuart ...
' gourd crab fish tiger '; also Bầu cua tôm cá or Lắc bầu cua) is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The game is often played at Vietnamese New Year . Instead of showing one to six pips, the sides of the dice have pictures of a fish ; a prawn ; a crab ; a cock ; a calabash ; and a stag (or a tiger ).
Cú Roí appears in the side-tale "Comlond Munremair & Con Roi" ("The combat of Munremar and Cú Roí") included in Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge. [5] Cú Roí, who has sent a contingent to the Connacht army but had not hitherto been personally involved in the recent hostilities between Ulster and Connacht, [6] does intervene when he learns that the Ulster warrior Munremar mac Gerrginn (lit.
Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [1] [2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter.
Signing of Declaration of Independence by Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq, c.1873. Congress functioned as a de facto national government from the outset by establishing the Continental Army, directing strategy, and appointing diplomats.
Conte comes from the French word conter, "to relate". [2] The French term conte encompasses a wide range of narrative forms that are not limited to written accounts. No clear English equivalent for conte exists in English as it includes folktales, fairy tales, short stories, oral tales, [3] and to lesser extent fables. [4]
Situated about 185 km (115 mi) from Vũng Tàu and 230 km (140 mi) from Ho Chi Minh City, the group includes 16 mountainous islands and islets.The total land area reaches 75.15 km 2 (29.02 sq mi) and the local population is about 5,000.
A lord was the fattest lord in Flanders. He loved his son dearly. One day, the young man told him he did not find the women in Flanders beautiful; he did not wish to marry a woman who was pink and white, because he did not find them beautiful.