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21 April 1918 to 1 May 1920: George Johnston: 1 May 1920 to 21 March 1921: Thomas Griffiths: First time Administrators of the Territory of New Guinea (1921–1942) 21 May 1921 to 13 June 1933: Evan Wisdom: 13 June 1933 to 12 September 1934: Thomas Griffiths: Second time, acting 12 September 1934 to December 1942: Walter McNicoll
The 14th-century Majapahit poem Nagarakretagama mentioned Wwanin as one of recognized territory in the east, today identified as Onin peninsula in Fakfak Regency, Bomberai Peninsula, West Papua. [5] Wanin was probably the oldest name in recorded history to refer to the western part of the island of New Guinea. [ 6 ]
Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (1997) Gash, Noel. A pictorial history of New Guinea (1975) Golson, Jack. 50,000 years of New Guinea history (1966) Griffin, James. Papua New Guinea: A political history (1979) Knauft, Bruce M. South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (1993) excerpt and text search; McCosker ...
The Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Thanh Niên Cách Mệnh Đồng Chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會), or Thanh Niên for short, was founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc (best known as Ho Chi Minh) in Guangzhou in the spring of 1925. [1]
New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, [a] or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of 785,753 km 2 (303,381 sq mi).
Archeological evidence suggests that humans arrived on New Guinea at least 60,000 years ago. These Melanesian people developed stone tools and agriculture. Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific entered New Guinea waters in the early part of the 16th century and in 1526–27, Don Jorge de Meneses came upon the principal island, which the locals called "Papua".
Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...
The form Việt Nam is first recorded in the 16th-century oracular poem Sấm Trạng Trình. The name has also been found on 12 steles carved in the 16th and 17th centuries, including one at Bao Lam Pagoda in Hải Phòng that dates to 1558. [14] In 1802, Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (who later became Emperor Gia Long) established the Nguyễn dynasty.