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  2. Lady Triệu - Wikipedia

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    In the book Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 written by David G. Marr, an American Professor, told the story of Trieu Thi Trinh as follow: Trieu Thi Trinh was a 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) woman who had 3-foot-long (0.91 m) breasts. She also had a voice which sounded like a temple bell, and she could eat many rice pecks and walk 500 leagues per ...

  3. Hà Nội II W.F.C. - Wikipedia

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    The club was founded in 1998 as Tây W.F.C. in Tây, Vietnam. In 2008, Tây Province was subsumed into the city of Hanoi. So in 2009, the club was renamed Nội II W.F.C. Now the club is the youth squad of Nội I.

  4. Triệu dynasty - Wikipedia

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    The founder of the dynasty, Zhao Tuo (Triệu Đà), was a Chinese general [1] [2] from Hebei and originally served as a military governor under the Qin dynasty. [3] He asserted the state's independence in 207 BC as the Qin dynasty was collapsing. [4] The ruling elite included both native Yue and immigrant Han peoples. [5]

  5. Hanoi - Wikipedia

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    Hanoi [b] (Vietnamese: Nội ⓘ) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" [14] (Hanoi is bordered by the Red and Black Rivers). As a municipality, Hanoi consists of 12 urban districts, 17 rural districts, and one district-level town.

  6. Tây Hồ district - Wikipedia

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    The three main avenues in the district, Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, and An Dương Vương, were names of leaders of early Vietnamese civilization.The smaller streets in the district are named after renowned Vietnamese poets, artists and music composers, such as Xuân Diệu, Tô Ngọc Vân, Trịnh Công Sơn, Nguyễn Đình Thi and Đặng Thai Mai.

  7. Hỏa Lò Prison - Wikipedia

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    The Hanoi Hilton in a 1970 aerial surveillance photo. Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwâː lɔ̀], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.

  8. Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long - Wikipedia

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    The outermost sector is the primary defensive fortification of the citadel (called La thành or Kinh thành), the middle sector is the Imperial City (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành), between these two layers is a residential area, the innermost sector is the Forbidden City (or "Purple Forbidden City", from the Vietnamese Tử cấm thành; a term ...

  9. Cửa Lò - Wikipedia

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    By texts from Thiều Chửu, Dr. Lê Chí Quế and Trần Chí Dõi, its name Cửa-lùa (before) or Cửa-lò (in present) was a classical Annamese pronunciation of Malayo-Polynesian word keluar, or kuala, or simply k'la (kẻ-la, what is similar cổ-loa [1]) which means the point where two rivers join or an estuary. [2]