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Đoàn Thị Điểm was born in 1705 at Giai Phạm village, Văn Giang district, Kinh Bắc local government (now Yên Mỹ District, Hưng Yên province). She is best known for her biography of the goddess Liễu Hạnh [1] and her version of Đặng Trần Côn's poem Lament of a soldier's wife from Hán into vernacular Nôm. [2]
Nguyễn Thị Hiền (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ tʰi˧˨ʔ hiən˨˩]; born 1958) is the former Spouse of the President of Vietnam during the presidency of Trần Đại Quang from 2016 until his death in 2018.
President Ngo Dinh Diem and family at his home in Hue (Central Viet Nam).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem on an inspection tour 350 km from Saigon (December, 1956).jpg; Portrait of Ngô Đình Diệm, from the book Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem with the troops who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg
On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh.After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist protests against longstanding religious ...
[35] Diem later banned Bảo Đại from entering the State of Vietnam. [36] Diem's advertising included the parading of giant pageant-style floats of Bảo Đại through the streets of Saigon, depicted with bags of money on his shoulders, a deck of cards in his hands, and with naked blonde women and a bottle of cognac in his arms. This was a ...
An American military advisor described Thi as "tough, unscrupulous, and fearless, but dumb". [5] There is some dispute as to whether Thi participated in the coup of his free choice. [ 9 ] According to some sources, Thi was still an admirer of Diệm and was forced at gunpoint by Đông and his supporters to join the coup at the last minute ...
[5] On her return to Hampshire College, she wrote poems, prose, and pieces of dialog that would form the foundation for her senior thesis and first solo performance work Mua He Do Lua/Red Fiery Summer. After graduation, she traveled the United States from 1995 to 1997 performing her play Red Fiery Summer in community spaces and formal theaters.
Hiền was born in the village of Liên Bạt, in Son Lang district of Hà Đông Province.His father was a minister of the Nguyễn dynasty court in Huế, and while still in his teenage year, Hien was married to the daughter of Tôn Thất Thuyết, who was then the head mandarin of Emperor Tự Đức, Vietnam's last sovereign monarch.