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Trần Văn Hương (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕən˨˩ van˧˧ hɨəŋ˧˧]; 1 December 1902 – 27 January 1982) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the penultimate president of South Vietnam for a week in April 1975 prior to its surrender to the communist forces of North Vietnam.
Văn Mai Hương (born 27 September 1994 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese Pop Music singer. She was the runner-up of Season 3 of Vietnam Idol in 2010, before becoming a mainstay in the industry. Career
Phạm Văn Đổng was born October 25, 1919, in Quốc Oai district, Sơn Tây, Tonkin (now North Vietnam), when Vietnam was still part of French Indochina.He grew up in his father's village of Xuân Đỗ, Gia Lâm district (then part of Bắc Ninh Province) and went to school in Hà Nội where he earned the "Thành Chung" (Diplôme d'Etudes Primaires Superieures Indochinoises (DEPSI ...
Lê Văn Hưng (March 27, 1933 – April 30, 1975) was an infantry general of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.Hưng was perhaps best known as the "Hero of An Lộc" in 1972 when he commanded the 5th Division in defense of the city of An Lộc from the coordinated attacks of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces in the Battle of An Lộc.
Map showing the location of District 2 within metropolitan Ho Chi Minh City. District 2 is a former urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.As of 2010, the district had a population of 140,621 and a total area of 50 km².
A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong (VC) gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the ...
The first temple devoted to Lieu Hanh has traditionally been considered Phu Van temple in Van Cat [12] which was originally constructed in 1642. [12] The next to appear was the Tien Huong temple sometime between 1643 and 1649, which would come to be the main center for Lieu Hanh's cult. [12]
Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Hương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans".