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The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War n Định Tường Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province ), South Vietnam. On 28 December 1962, US intelligence detected the presence of a radio transmitter along with a sizable force of Viet Cong (VC) soldiers, reported to number around 120, in ...
Central Vietnam. Central Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Trung Bộ or miền Trung ), also known as Middle Vietnam or The Middle, formerly known as Trung Phần by South Vietnam, Trung Kỳ and Annam under French Indochina, is one of the three geographical regions within Vietnam . The name Trung Bộ was used by the emperor Bảo Đại when he ...
1966–9. Đồng Tâm Base Camp was established on the northern bank of the Mekong River 7 km west of Mỹ Tho upon COMUSMACV General William Westmoreland 's decision to gain full control over the upper Mekong Delta region. General Westmoreland personally took part in site selection. [1] General Westmoreland chose the name Đồng Tâm meaning ...
The Trưng sisters ( Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng, 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
Quảng Thành. Quảng Thành is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam .
May 16, 2024 at 12:02 AM. HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year's deadly wildfires on Maui found that up to 74% of participants may have ...
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere . The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high ...
Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Pagoda. Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm is a Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. It was founded in 1965 and is the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition of Vietnamese Buddhism that attempts to recreate the original tradition of the Buddhist sangha by walking barefoot and begging for alms.