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The Ontario Place theme park operated annually during the summer months from 1971 until 2011. Designed originally to promote the Province of Ontario through exhibits and entertainment, [1] its focus changed over time to be that of a theme park for families with a water park, a children's play area, and amusement rides.
Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Dang (鄭, 黨, 唐, 滕) is a Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean surname. It can also be found in both Hindus and Sikhs of the Punjab region in the north-western India (in Punjabi, ਡਾੰਗ). [ citation needed ]
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.
The Nguyễn dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn or Triều Nguyễn, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, established by a Nguyễn lord and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 to 1883 before becoming protectorates.
Historical exonyms include place names of bordering countries, namely Thailand, Laos, China, and Cambodia. During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can ...
[274] [262] [273] In spite of the Vietnam War that took place, the Hoa continued commercially thrive and dominate Southern Vietnamese commerce and industry, where upwards 80 to 90 percent of the South's wholesale and retail trade fell under the control of Chinese hands. [275]