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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.
Phanxicô Xaviê Nguyễn Văn Thuận, also known as Francis-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận (pronounced [ŋʷjə̌ˀn van tʰwə̂ˀn] ⓘ; 17 April 1928 – 16 September 2002), was a Vietnamese cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was a nephew of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục. [1] [2] [3]
[1] He was a member of the Ngô family who ruled South Vietnam in the years leading up to the Vietnam War and was the founder of Dalat University . While Thục was in Rome attending the second session of the Second Vatican Council , the 1963 South Vietnamese coup overthrew and assassinated his younger brothers, Ngô Đình Diệm (who was ...
The King of Ngo, Ngô Xương Văn had used force to suppress the revolt and beheaded Chu Thái. In 965 Ngô Xương Văn was shot by a barrage of and so perished. His son, Ngô Xương Xí took up his leadership but the dynasty gradually fell into disarray.
Ngô Quyền (chữ Hán: 吳權) (April 17, 898 – February 14, 944), often referred to as Tiền Ngô Vương (前吳王; "First King of Ngô"), was a warlord who later became the founding king of the Ngô dynasty of Vietnam.
Ngô Xương Văn was born in 935. According to Chinese source Historical Records of the Five Dynasties, his name was Ngô Xương Tấn (吳昌晉). [1] King Ngô Quyền died in 944, and appointed Văn's elder brother Ngô Xương Ngập as successor. However, Ngập was banished and usurped by the regent Dương Tam Kha. In order to deceive ...
Trần Lệ Xuân (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕən˨˩ le˧˨ʔ swən˧˧]; 22 August 1924 [2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.
He was born in 1878 and raised by his aunt and grandparents. He developed an interest in Chinese folk religion during this period. Later he served in the colonial bureaucracy and developed a fascination with spiritism.