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Ba Tầm
Nón Ba Tầm is a traditional Vietnamese flat palm hat. It should be distinguished from other traditional Vietnamese headwear such as the conical nón lá and the coiled turban, khăn vấn. Nón Ba tầm is traditionally worn by women in Vietnam, as an accessory to finer garments, as opposed to the more functional clothes associated with farm work. Until the early 20th century, this hat was widespread in Northern Vietnam. The hats worn by shamans, traditionally had silver ornaments hanging from silk strings around the brim.Maurice M. Durand - ''Technique et panthéon des médiums viêtnamiens (Đông)'' 1959 "Chapeau de femme avec des attaches en argent (chiến) où sont suspendus des cordons de soie, giày thao. C'est le nón quai thao." Origin of the hat According to documents from the French at the end of the nineteenth century, Ba tầm were translated into French as, Le chapeau de trois tầm (literally "the hat of three tầm), tầm (尋) was an ancient unit of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vương Thị Phượng
Vương or Vuong (Chữ Nôm: ) is a Vietnamese surname, meaning King. In the United States, Vuong was the 7,635th most common surname during the 1990 census and the 4,556th most common during the year 2000 census.US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service.How Popular Is Your Last Name? Accessed 6 Apr 2012. Notable people * Vương Văn Đông, Army of the Republic of Vietnam colonel, staged the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt * Vương Hữu Nhơn (born 1932), Vietnamese economist, The First General of State Audit of Vietnam (1994-2000), deputy director of Ministry of Finance (1979-1986), Vice President of Vietnamese People's Committee (1991-1996) * Vương Tiến Dũng (born 1949), Vietnamese football coach * Vương Đình Huệ (born 1957), Vietnamese politician, Minister of Finance (2011 - 2013), Deputy Prime Minister (from 2016) * Vương Trung Hiếu (born 1959), Vietnamese writer * Vương Anh Tuấn (born 1959), Vietnamese economist, General Director of Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Édouard Hocquard
Charles-Édouard Hocquard ( Nancy 1853 - Lyons 1911) was a French medical doctor and explorer, famous for being a photographer. Biography Born in Nancy, he studied military medicine in Paris at Val-de-Grâce Hospital. He volunteered for the French expedition in Tonkin (now North of Vietnam) in 1883 and explored Indochina, from the Chinese frontiers to the delta of Saigon. His photographs were displayed at the Antwerp Universal Exhibition in 1885 where they were awarded by a Gold Medal. He published ''Trente mois au Tonkin'' (Thirty Months in Tonkin) in ''Le Tour du Monde'' (1889 and 1891) and ''Une campagne au Tonkin'' in 1892. Hocquard travelled to Madagascar and Comores in 1894, and became director of the military health service of the French expeditionary troops in Madagascar. He published in 1896 ''L'Expédition de Madagascar, journal de campagne''. He died in Lyons in 1911 from influenza. Photographs File:Hocquard1.jpeg, Soldiers of the Yellow Flag Army, enlisted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonkin (French Protectorate)
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Hoàn Kiếm Lake
Hoàn Kiếm Lake ( vi, Hồ Hoàn Kiếm, chữ Hán: 湖還劍, meaning ''"Lake of the Returned Sword"'' or ''"Lake of the Restored Sword"''), also known as Sword Lake (''Hồ Gươm'') or Tả Vọng Lake (''Hồ Tả Vọng''), is a fresh water lake, measuring some 12 ha in the historical center of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. In the past, the lake was variously named "Lục Thủy Lake" ( vi, Hồ Lục Thủy, meaning "Green Water Lake" - aptly named for the water's color) or "Thủy Quân Lake" ( vi, Hồ Thủy Quân, meaning "Mariner's Lake"). The lake is one of the major scenic spots in the city and serves as a focal point for its public life. History According to the legend, after defeating the Ming China, Emperor Lê Lợi was boating on the lake when a Golden Turtle God (Kim Qui) surfaced and asked for his magic sword, Heaven's Will. Lợi concluded that Kim Qui had come to reclaim the sword that its master, a local God, the Dragon King (''Long Vương ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dupuis
Jean Dupuis (7 December 1829, Saint-Just-la-Pendue, France – 28 November 1912, Monaco) was a French trader and explorer. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as ''Đồ Phổ Nghĩa''. Biography Dupuis was educated at Tarare (Rhône department). In 1858 he went to Egypt as a trader, and from thence to China. His trading journeys took him into many previously unexplored parts of southern China, and in 1871–2 his efforts opened up the Red River to commerce. In 1873 he was involved in a dispute with the Vietnamese authorities for trading weapons for goods on the Red River.Jean DupuisIl etait un Tonkin forez-info.com, 22 février 2016. He was one of those people who persuaded the French to try and establish a base in Vietnam. The French explorer Francis Garnier came down on the request of the governor of Cochin China to solve the dispute; Garnier invaded the Tonkin area and captured its capital, Hanoi. The foundations of the French possessions in Tongking were thereby lai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Thuyên
An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian anime convention * Ansett Australia, a major Australian airline group that is now defunct (IATA designator AN) * Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) 1903–2002 ** AN Railway, a successor company, 2002– * Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization * Australian National Railways Commission, an Australian rail operator from 1975 until 1987 * Antonov, a Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aircraft manufacturing and services company, as a model prefix Entertainment and media * Antv, an Indonesian television network * ''Astronomische Nachrichten'', or ''Astronomical Notes'', an international astronomy journal * ''Avisa Nordland'', a Norwegian newspaper * ''Sweet Bean'' (あん), a 2015 Japanese film also known as ''An'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anh Thơ
Anh Thơ ( Ninh Giang, Hải Dương Province, 25 January 1921 – 14 March 2005), real name Vương Kiều Ân, was a Vietnamese poet. In 1943, she published ''Hương Xuân'', the first poetry collection by women poets in quốc ngữ The Vietnamese alphabet ( vi, chữ Quốc ngữ, lit=script of the National language) is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Portuguese mis ..., together with Hằng Phương, Vân Đài and Mộng Tuyết.Tham Seong Chee ''Essays on Literature and Society in Southeast Asia.'' 1981 Page 329 1981 "A place should also be reserved for the poetesses of Vietnam and the poets of the Resistance in South Vietnam. Among the most well-known poetesses are: Mrs. Van Dai, Mrs. Anh Tho, and Mrs. Hang Phuong." Anh Tho was born in Ninh Giang town, Ninh Giang district, Hai Duong province. Birthplace: Bac Giang town, Bac Giang province. Her father was a Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lý Cây đa
LY or ly may refer to: Government and politics * Libya (ISO 3166-1 country code LY) * Lý dynasty, a Vietnamese dynasty * Labour Youth of Ireland * Legislative Yuan, the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Science and technology * .ly, the Top-level domain for Libya * .ly, the default filetype extension of the GNU LilyPond sheet music format * Light-year, the ''distance'' that light travels in one year in a vacuum * Langley (unit), a unit of energy distribution over a given area Other uses * Lý (Vietnamese surname), a Vietnamese surname * Ly the Fairy, a character from ''Rayman 2: The Great Escape'' * '' -ly'', an adjectival and adverbial suffix in English * Hungarian ly, or ''elipszilon'', a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet * El Al (IATA airline designator LY) See also * * light year (other) * YL (other) A substituent is one or a group of atoms that replaces (one or more) atoms, thereby becoming a moiety in the resultant (ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ca Dao
CA or ca may refer to: Businesses and organizations Companies * Air China (IATA airline code CA) * CA Technologies, a U.S. software company * Cayman Airways, a Cayman Islands airline * Channel America, a defunct U.S. television network * Classic Army, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of airsoft replicas * Coal & Allied, Australian mining company * Continental Airlines, a U.S. airline * Creative Assembly, a PC game developer * Crédit Agricole, a major French bank Government and political * Bureau of Consular Affairs, a division of the U.S. Department of State * Canadian Alliance, a former Canadian political party * Centre Alliance, Australian political party formerly known as Nick Xenophon Team * Citizens' Alliance, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago * Combined authority, a local government entity in the United Kingdom * Commission on Appointments, a body of the Congress of the Philippines * Conservatives Abroad, overseas wing of the British Conservative Party * Countryside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
