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Cúc Phương National Park. Coordinates: 20°19′00″N 105°36′30″E. Cúc Phương National Park. Cúc Phương National Park ( Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Cúc Phương) is located in Ninh Bình Province, in Vietnam 's Red River Delta. Cuc Phuong was Vietnam's first national park and is the country's largest nature reserve.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu. / 21.38694°N 103.01556°E / 21.38694; 103.01556. The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union 's colonial Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.
A scene from the film Kim Vân Kiều (金雲翹) in 1924. As an integral part of Vietnamese literature for 200 years, The Tale of Kiều had been the inspiration for numerous works. The poem had been adapted into numerous other art forms, including cải lương, chèo, pantomime and Western-style operas.
Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program ( Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of Special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.
North Vietnamese figures: 1,436 wounded (before mid-March) [ 21] 2,469 KIA (from 20 January until 20 July 1968). [ 1] The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War.
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [4]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.
I Ching. The I Ching or Yijing ( Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ] ⓘ ), usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC). Over the course of the ...
A War of One's Own. A War of One's Own or One Person's War ( Simplified Chinese Characters: 一个人的战争) is a novel written in 1994 by Lin Bai ( Mandarin Chinese: 林白). It explores the coming-of-age of a young woman and is retold through a series of the main character's recollections and inner thoughts which focus on her identity ...