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Đình (Chữ Hán: 亭 or 庭) or Vietnamese communal houses are typical of buildings found in Vietnam villages, dedicated to worship the village god, Thành hoàng, the village founder or a local hero. They also play the role as a meeting place of the people in the community, akin to modern civic centers.
The outstanding works of Western architecture in Vietnam are the Hanoi Opera House, Notre Dame Cathedral. There are also some outstanding works of Vietnamese-French architecture such as Khải Định Tomb , Palace of An Định, Cửa Bắc Church , and the Vietnam National Museum of History .
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Tube houses (Vietnamese: nhà ống) are a vernacular architectural form of shophouse endemic to Vietnam, characterized by their narrow width and multistory structure. [1] [2] Common throughout the country, tube houses have proliferated as a result of limited building space and property taxation policies assessing only the first floor width of homes. [3]
Vietnam has 2,360 rivers with an average annual discharge of 310 billion m 3. The rainy season accounts for 70% of the year's discharge. [363] Most of the country's urban water supply systems have been developed without proper management within the last 10 years. Based on a 2008 survey by the Vietnam Water Supply and Sewerage Association (VWSA ...
However, only 11 of the 13 original episodes were rebroadcast. Episodes 2 and 13 were dropped. Vietnam: A Television History was the most successful documentary produced by PBS up to the time of initial broadcast. Nearly 9% of American households watched the initial episode, and an average of 9.7 million viewers watched each of the 13 episodes.
The term house itself gave rise to the letter 'B' through an early Proto-Semitic hieroglyphic symbol depicting a house. The symbol was called "bayt", "bet" or "beth" in various related languages, and became beta, the Greek letter, before it was used by the Romans. [4] Beit in Arabic means house, while in Maltese bejt refers to the roof of the ...
Television episodes about the Vietnam War (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Television episodes set in Vietnam" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.