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Jinx is a game, typically a schoolyard or children's game, with varying rules and penalties that occur when two people unintentionally speak the same word or phrase simultaneously. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It can also be used to refer to the general phenomenon of uttering the same content at the same time.
The Tale of Từ Thức Marrying a Goddess (chữ Hán: 徐式仙婚錄, Từ Thức tiên hôn lục) or Từ Thức Meeting Gods (Vietnamese: Từ Thức gặp tiên) is a Vietnamese legend told in Truyền kỳ mạn lục by Nguyễn Dữ in the 16th century and based on the Folktale of Từ Thức Cave (Vietnamese: sự tích động Từ Thức).
The protest was ended when nine civilians were killed because of a bomb, Diem government accused the Viet Cong being responsible . American journalists, who supported American intervention in Vietnam and opposed Diem for opposing it, blamed the military and even Archbishop Thuc for the deaths, [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Later, the Ngôs' forces ...
Võ Thị Thắng (10 December 1945 – 22 August 2014) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and stateswoman. She was a member of the Long An delegation to the National Assembly of Vietnam during its fourth, fifth, and sixth sessions (1975 to 1981).
Thị (氏) is an archaic Sino-Vietnamese suffix meaning "clan; family; lineage; hereditary house" and attached to a woman's original family name, but now is used to simply indicate the female sex. For example, the name "Trần Thị Mai Loan" means "Mai Loan, a female person of the Trần family"; meanwhile, the name "Nguyễn Lê Thị An ...
Just a anecdotal comment, part of my personal family history has been the telling that Allen Sangree (a great uncle of mine), a sports journalist from around the turn of the last century may have been one of the first people to use the word Jinx to mean someone who brought bad luck. CheyenneWills 18:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Born into a family of six children as the youngest, Tuấn Linh showed an early interest in reading and music, especially an ability to remember lyrics and music of songs.
Vince Young discredited the Sports Illustrated jinx by appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated twice during Texas' National Championship season. [4] Emmitt Smith appeared on the cover the same week the Dallas Cowboys won Super Bowl XXVIII. In the America's Game documentary, Smith recalled that he adamantly wanted off the cover for fear of ...