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"Madame" Marie Aioe Dorion Venier Toupin (ca. 1786 – September 5, 1850) was the only female member of an overland expedition sent by Pacific Fur Company to the Pacific Northwest in 1810. Like her first husband, Pierre Dorion Jr., she was Métis. Her mother was of the Iowa people and her father was French Canadian. [1]
Empress Nam Phương (14 November 1913 – 16 September 1963), born Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, was the last empress consort of Vietnam. She was the wife of Bảo Đại ( r. 1926–1945 ), the last emperor of Vietnam (officially named as Đại Nam before March 1945), from 1934 until her death.
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was born in the southern province of Gia Định, the location of modern Saigon.He was of gentry parentage; his father was a native of Thừa Thiên–Huế, near Huế; but, during his service to the imperial government of Emperor Gia Long, he was posted south to serve under Lê Văn Duyệt, the governor of the south.
Trang at Burger Zoo, prior to receive her Future for Nature award 2018. Trang Nguyen or Nguyên Thị Thu Trang (born March 2, 1990) is a Vietnamese wildlife conservationist, environmental activist and a writer. [1] She is known for her conservation works in tackling the illegal wildlife trade in Africa and Asia.
Nha Trang, Vietnam: ... Khoa Dinh Nguyen (born October 9, 1966) is an American table tennis player. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer ...
In 1999, director Tran Anh Hung invited Hai Yen, only 17 at that time, to play a role in the film The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Vietnam/France). [3]In 2000, Hai Yen appeared again in the film Song of the Stork (Vũ khúc con cò), a co-production between Vietnam and Singapore, directed by Nguyễn Phan Quang Bình (Vietnam) and Jonathan Foo (Singapore).
Hương Thủy was born in southern Vietnam and spent her childhood living in a pagoda in Vĩnh Long, Vietnam. Growing up, her dream was to become a singer. She was an outstanding contestant and was accepted to learn in Đại Học Sân Khấu Cải Lương và Hài Kịch in Saigon. [2]
Nguyễn Khắc Viện. Nguyễn Khắc Viện (5 February 1913 in Hương Sơn – 10 May 1997) was a Vietnamese historian, literary critic, sometime dissident, and advocate of a Vietnamese health exercise dưỡng sinh similar to Yoga.