Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Edward Crockett Pulaski (February 9, 1866 – February 2, 1931) was a U.S. Forest Service ranger based in Wallace, Idaho. [2] Pulaski traveled west and worked as a miner, railroad worker, and ranch foreman before joining the forest service in 1908. [3] He was reputed to be, and personally claimed that he was, a collateral descendant of Casimir ...
Model of a Co Tu tomb. The Vietnamese government's official name for the Katu ethnic group is "Co Tu". Within Vietnam, Katu people are indigenous groups recognized by the Vietnamese government and they almost live in the provinces of Thừa Thiên–Huế, Quảng Nam, and Da Nang city.
Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng (born 5 October 1972) [2] is a Vietnamese environmental human rights defender who founded and directed an environmental rights organization. [3] In 2023, she was imprisoned for tax evasion, [4] [5] after a trial which has been criticized by the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, and countries such as the United States [6] [7] as being politically motivated.
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.
Hoàng Tứ Duy (also known as Duy "Dan" Hoang) is a Vietnamese-born American democracy activist. He is currently the executive director for Viet Tan, an unsanctioned pro-democracy political movement in Vietnam. [1] [2] Before becoming a full-time democracy activist, he worked as an investment banker for over 10 years. He has testified before ...
In October 1945, President Hồ Chí Minh signed the decree to establish the University of Literature (Ban Đại học Văn khoa, or Trường Đại học Văn khoa) -the precursor of the current VNU-USSH. In April 1956, the University of Hanoi (Trường Đại học Tổng hợp Hà Nội) was established. During this period, fundamental ...
On November 17, 2007, three Việt Tân members, US citizens Nguyen Quoc Quan, a mathematics researcher, and Truong Van Ba, a Hawaiian restaurant owner, and Frenchwoman Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, a contributor to Việt Tân's Radio Chan Troi Moi radio show, were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City. [13] when 20 security officers raided the house. [14]
In 1912, he disbanded Duy Tân Hội to form Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội (“Vietnamese Restoration League”), modeled after Sun Yat-sen's republican party. [2]: 149–151 In 1925, French agents seized him in Shanghai. He was convicted of treason and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Huế. [3]