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Manhattan is located at (41.422044, -87.981042). [3] According to the 2010 census, Manhattan has a total area of 6.57 square miles (17.02 km 2), all land. [4] Manhattan is located along the Wauponsee Glacial Trail that can be accessed at the Manhattan Road Access Point. [5]
UTC-6 ( CST) • Summer ( DST) UTC-5 ( CDT) FIPS code. 17-197-46370. Manhattan Township is located in Will County, Illinois. It was established in 1853. [ 2] As of the 2010 census, its population was 9,218 and it contained 3,199 housing units. [ 3] Manhattan Township was formed from the western half of Trenton Township at an unknown date.
Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5] It is the native language of ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh), as well as the second or first language for other ethnicities of Vietnam, and still used by Vietnamese diaspora in the world.
Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina. She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is considered a ...
Lý Thường Kiệt (李 常 傑; 1019–1105), real name Ngô Tuấn (吳 俊), was a Vietnamese general and admiral of the Lý dynasty. [1] He served as an official through the reign of Lý Thái Tông, Lý Thánh Tông and Lý Nhân Tông and was a general during the Song–Lý War. In Vietnamese history, he helped invade Champa (1069 ...
A bhikkhunī in Huế is wearing a nón lá and riding a bicycle. Nón lá (chữ Nôm: 𥶄蘿; lit. 'Leaf hat') or nón tơi (𥶄𥵖) is a type of Vietnamese headwear used to shield the face from the sun and rain. [1] It is a common name for many types of hats in Vietnam, but now it is mainly used to refer to cones with pointed tips.
Contents. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam. Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [ 1 ] The encyclopedia was republished in ...
Võ Văn Kiệt (Vietnamese: [vɔ̌ˀ vāŋ kîək]; 23 November 1922 – 11 June 2008 [ 1 ]) whose real name is Phan Văn Hòa, was a Vietnamese politician and economic reformer who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1991 to 1997. A well regarded Vietnamese revolutionary and political leader, [ 2 ] Kiệt was a veteran fighter in the ...