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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 ]
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 ...
Do Thi Hai Yen (born 1 October 1982) is a Vietnamese actress. [1] She rose to international fame for her role in Academy Award -nominated film The Quiet American (2002) by Phillip Noyce , which made her the first Asian actress to be nominated for a Satellite Award . [ 2 ]
The official newspaper, the Nhan Dan, opined that "By throwing off Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, the US imperialists have themselves destroyed the political bases they had built up for years. The deaths of Diem and Nhu were followed by the disintegration of big fragments of the ... [government] machine." [133] [134]
Trần Lệ Xuân (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕən˨˩ le˧˨ʔ swən˧˧]; 22 August 1924 [2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.
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.
Nguyễn Thị Hiền Thục (born 13 May 1981), stage name Hien Thuc, is a contemporary Vietnamese pop singer. [1] She took a break from her music career to start a family from 2002 to 2004. She is known to have diversity styles which is mostly pop as well as being famous for several ballad songs.
The White Plague (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. [1] Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people ...