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The King's Man is a 2021 spy action film directed by Matthew Vaughn from his story and a screenplay he wrote with Karl Gajdusek.The third installment in the British Kingsman film series, which is based on the comic book The Secret Service (later retitled Kingsman) by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, in-turn based on a concept by Millar and Vaughn, it is a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service ...
Vietnam provides limited anti-discrimination protections for transgender people. [3] [a] The right to change gender was officially legalized in Vietnam after the National Assembly passed an amendment to the Civil Code in 2015. [4] Vietnam's first gay pride parade took place in Hanoi on 5 August 2012.
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [68] the Vietnam Conflict, [69] [70] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) [a] is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.Founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh, the CPV became the ruling party of North Vietnam in 1954 and then all of Vietnam after the collapse of the South Vietnamese government following the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; [11] Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam, lit. 'Military of and for the people of Vietnam' [12]), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (Vietnamese: Quân đội Việt Nam, lit.
Map of Nam tiến – Vietnam's southward territorial expansion at the expense of Champa & Khmer Empire Đại Việt, Champa and Khmer Empire (12th century) Northern and Southern dynasties (Vietnam)(1533–1592) Vietnam in 17th century during the Trịnh–Nguyễn War Map of Vietnam under the control of Trịnh lords and Nguyễn lords Map of division of French Indochina North and South ...
[3] [4] It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. [5] The dong was also the currency of the predecessor states of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, having replaced the previously used French Indochinese piastre. [6] [7] Formerly, it was subdivided into 10 hao (hào), which were further subdivided into 10 xu, neither of which are now used due to ...
Eddie Adams believed and repeated this story. "It turns out that the Viet Cong lieutenant who was killed in the picture had murdered a police major--one of General Loan's best friends--his whole family, wife, kids, the same guy. So these are things we didn't know at the time." [18] "I didn't have a picture of that Viet Cong blowing away the ...