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Mai Thúc Loan (or Mai Huyền Thành (梅 玄 成), self-proclaimed Mai Hắc Đế (梅 黑 帝, The Black Emperor or The Swarthy Emperor), was the Vietnamese leader of the uprising in 722 AD against the rule of the Chinese Tang dynasty in the provinces of Hoan Châu and Ái Châu (now Thanh Hóa and Nghệ An).
Tan was born on 5 May 1933, [2] in Swatow, China, where he was the third of eight siblings. [3] When he was four years old, he emigrated with his family to settle in Singapore, where he grew up in Chinatown. [3] Tan's Teochew father died when Tan was 14. [3] Tan left school after his first year at a secondary school.
Peine forte et dure (Law French for "forceful and hard punishment") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead ("stood mute") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe ...
“I just have to say some of y’all really are a fist-full of a–hole,” Doute began. “I don’t have any filler. I’ve gained weight. I’m 40. You haven’t seen me on TV in over three years.
Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of (dumbbells, barbells or machines). People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons.
Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...
Thùy Linh received her acting training at Hanoi's College of Art.She initially gained fame as a member of the girlband Thien Than (Angels). During her teenage years, she was also a presenter for HanoiTV's children's game show, Vui Cùng Hugo.
The epigraphy of Thanh Mai inscription (c. 798) indicates that Chinese-influenced Buddhism was widely practiced among the Red River dwellers during the Tang period. Buddhist scriptures claim that in 580, an Indian monk named Vinītaruci arrived in northern Vietnam and founded the Thiền school of Zen Buddhism . [ 169 ]