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  2. End of Watch Call - Wikipedia

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    The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.

  3. Trần Quốc Toản - Wikipedia

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    Today, Trần Quốc Toản is still considered as one of the finest examples of Vietnamese patriotism, especially for the young generation. [8] Stories about his spirit and action are taught in schoolbooks of several grades while many streets, schools and gymnasiums in Vietnam are named in honour of this young hero.

  4. Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...

  5. 1971 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. serviceman shot and killed a 16 year old South Vietnamese who tried to steal his watch and wounded a 14 year old in Huế, sparking anti-U.S. demonstrations in the city. [ 241 ] Senator George McGovern on a visit to Saigon was trapped by rioters in a Saigon church and had to be rescued by South Vietnamese police and U.S. Military Police.

  6. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...

  7. Giải phóng miền Nam - Wikipedia

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    Phạm Hùng, Secretary of the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN), outlined the requirements about the ordered anthem: [1] [2] The anthem's targets were all of the population of South Vietnam. The anthem had to call for the armed insurrection against the US-backed Saigon regime and the unification of Vietnam as a whole.

  8. Battle of Chu Dreh Pass - Wikipedia

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    The Viet Minh had by this time conquered a substantial part of the Central Highlands including the towns of Kontum and An Khê. On 20 July, a battlefield ceasefire was announced when the Geneva agreements were signed. On 1 August, the armistice went into effect, sealing the end of French Indochina, and the partition of Vietnam along the 17th ...

  9. Ngô Đình Cẩn - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the war, the Japanese left the country, and France, severely weakened by political turmoil within the Vichy regime, was unable to exert control. [10] Hồ Chí Minh's Viet Minh declared independence as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and battled other Vietnamese nationalist groups as well as French forces for control of the ...