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Quang Trung. Emperor Quang Trung ( Vietnamese: [kwāːŋ ʈūŋm]; chữ Hán: 光中, 1753 – 16 September 1792) or Nguyễn Huệ ( Vietnamese: [ŋwĩəŋ hwêˀ]; chữ Hán: 阮惠 ), also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình ( Vietnamese: [ŋwĩəŋ kwāːŋ ɓîŋ̟]; chữ Hán: 阮光平 ), or Hồ Thơm ( chữ Hán: 胡𦹳) was the second ...
The Trưng sisters ( Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng, 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
Ngô Thanh Vân was born on 26 February 1979 in Trà Vinh, Vietnam. [ 1] She is the youngest child with two older brothers. When she was 10, her family put her in a boat to escape the Vietnamese communist government. In 1990, Vân arrived in Norway as a boat refugee with an aunt. [ 2][ 3] She was subsequently naturalized as a Norwegian citizen.
The Trưng sisters' rebellion was an armed civil uprising in the southern provinces (today Northern Vietnam) of Han China between 40 CE and 43 CE. In 40 CE, the Luoyue leader Trưng Trắc and her sister Trưng Nhị rebelled against Chinese authorities in Jiaozhi (in what is now northern Vietnam ). In 42 CE, Han China dispatched General Ma ...
Hiō Hàn-su. The Book of the Later Han, also known as the History of the Later Han and by its Chinese name Hou Hanshu ( Chinese: 後漢書 ), is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE, a period known as the Later or Eastern Han. The book was compiled by Fan Ye and others in the 5th century ...
Hàng Trống painting ( Vietnamese: Tranh Hàng Trống) is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut painting that originated from the area of Hàng Trống ( vi) and Hàng Nón streets in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam. In the past, Hàng Trống painting was an essential element of the Tết Nguyên Đán holiday in Hanoi, but today this tradition ...
Description. Formed in Carboniferous / Permian limestone, the main Sơn Đoòng cave passage is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume – 3.84 × 10 7 m 3 (1.36 × 10 9 cu ft), according to BRCA expedition leader Howard Limbert. It is more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long, 200 metres (660 ft) high and 150 metres (490 ft) wide.
Hakka people. The Hakka ( Chinese: 客家 ), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, [ 1][ 3] or Hakka Chinese, [ 4] or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese ...