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  2. Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Dien Bien Phu. /  21.38694°N 103.01556°E  / 21.38694; 103.01556. The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union 's colonial Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.

  3. Ho Chi Minh - Wikipedia

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    Following his release in 1943, he returned to Vietnam. It was during this time that he began regularly using the name Hồ Chí Minh, a Vietnamese name combining a common Vietnamese surname (Hồ, 胡) with a given name meaning "Bright spirit" or "Clear will" (from Sino-Vietnamese 志 明: Chí meaning "will" or "spirit" and Minh meaning "bright").

  4. Phi Nhung - Wikipedia

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    Years active. 1993–2021. Labels. Thúy Nga. Phạm Phi Nhung (10 April 1970 [1] [2] – 28 September 2021) was a Vietnamese-American singer, actress and humanitarian. She specialised in Dan Ca and Tru Tinh music. She sang for Paris By Night and Vân Sơn and also acted in their plays and Tinh production. She also recorded music for Lang Van.

  5. Death and state funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp - Wikipedia

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    General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who led the Viet Minh forces during the First Indochina War and the North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, died on October 4, 2013, after a long stay at the 108 Hospital in Hanoi. The Vietnam News Agency did not officially confirm it until a day later, [1] when they announced a two-day national funeral to be ...

  6. The Triumph of Death - Wikipedia

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    Medium. oil on panel. Dimensions. 117 cm × 162 cm (46 in × 63.8 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. [ 1] It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827. [ 2]

  7. 1969 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    1969 in the Vietnam War. The inauguration of Richard Nixon in January led to a reevaluation of the U.S. role in the war. U.S. forces peaked at 543,000 in April. U.S. military strategy remained relatively unchanged from the offensive strategy of 1968 until the Battle of Hamburger Hill in May which led to a change a more reactive approach.

  8. Võ Thị Sáu - Wikipedia

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    Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina. She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is considered a ...

  9. Thích Nhất Hạnh - Wikipedia

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    Early life. Nhất Hạnh was born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo on 11 October 1926, in the ancient capital of Huế in central Vietnam. [ 13][ 7][ 14] He is 15th generation Nguyễn Đình; the poet Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, author of Lục Vân Tiên, was his ancestor. [ 15] His father, Nguyễn Đình Phúc, from Thành Trung village in Thừa Thiên ...