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In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro.However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on behalf of the Spanish Empire.
Ven. Thich Nhat Tu has authored more than seventy books in Vietnamese and English on Buddhist philosophy and applied Buddhism. He is editor-in-chief and publisher of Buddhism Today Books Series (more than 200 volumes on different subjects have been published in Vietnamese to meet the needs of researchers and practitioners).
Antonio C. Atalig Memorial Rota Public Library of the State Library of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is in Songsong. [5] The current library was built circa 2002 but it did not open until its "soft" opening on February 26, 2012. [6] It was named after Mayor of Rota Antonio C. Atalig. [5] It adopted its current name in 1981. [7]
Guam's Point Udall is the westernmost point of the U.S., as measured from the geographic center of the United States. [35] [36] The Mariana chain, of which Guam is a part, was created by collision of the Pacific and Philippine Sea tectonic plates. Guam is located on the micro Mariana Plate between the two.
Within Vietnam, Katu people are indigenous groups recognized by the Vietnamese government and they almost live in the provinces of Thừa Thiên–Huế, Quảng Nam, and Da Nang city. The Katu in Vietnam numbered 50,458 in the 1999 census, [ 4 ] 61,588 in the 2009 census, and 74,173 in the 2019 census.
Chữ khoa đẩu is a term claimed by the Vietnamese pseudohistorian Đỗ Văn Xuyền to be an ancient, pre-Sinitic script for the Vietnamese language. Đỗ Văn Xuyền's works supposedly shows the script have been in use during the Hồng Bàng period, and it is believed to have disappeared later during the Chinese domination of Vietnam .
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In 2006, after completing his study in Germany, Hà Anh Tuấn returned to Vietnam to participate in the Sao Mai điểm hẹn singing contest held by Vietnam Television (VTV). [2] In that contest, he won the promising singer award and was one of the top 3 most popular singers – alongside singer Hoàng Hải and rocker Phạm Anh Khoa.