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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 [1] – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and member of the NLF (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by ARVN forces while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.
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Chè trôi nước (sometimes called chè xôi nước in southern Vietnam or bánh chay in northern Vietnam, both meaning "floating dessert wading in water") is a Vietnamese dessert made of glutinous rice filled with mung bean paste bathed in a sweet clear or brown syrup made of water, sugar, and grated ginger root.
The Rex Hotel or Rex Hotel Saigon (Vietnamese: Khách Sạn Rex, French: Hôtel Rex de Saïgon) is a famous luxury and business hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. During the Vietnam War , the daily U.S. briefings at the hotel became known as " The Five O'Clock Follies ".
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋʷǐənˀ vān tʰîəwˀ] ⓘ; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975.
Nguyễn Văn Trân (15 January 1917, Yên Phong, Bắc Ninh, Indochina [now Vietnam] [citation needed] – 7 December 2018) [1] was a Vietnamese politician who served as Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee and Chairman of the Hanoi Resistance Committee, Inspector General of the Government and, later, as Minister of Transport and Postal Affairs in ...
Statue of Hồ Xuân Hương in Danang. By composing the vast majority of her works in chữ Nôm, she helped to elevate the status of Vietnamese as a literary language. . Recently, however, some of her poems have been found which were composed in Hán văn, indicating that she was not a p
It is a common misconception that this Nguyen Van Bay was the pilot who attacked the USS Oklahoma City on April 19, 1972. Rather, it was a different Nguyen Van Bay, or Bay B, who was downed and killed in Thanh Hoa province on May 6 the same year. [21] In 1971 Bay B and his fellow pilot Le Xuan Di were trained in anti-ship warfare by a Cuban ...