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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Instrument (s) Guitar. Years active. 1958–2001. Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [1] [2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during the Vietnam War ...
Nguyễn Phú Trọng ( Vietnamese: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ fu˧˦ t͡ɕawŋ͡m˧˨ʔ] ⓘ new-yen foo chong; [ 1] 14 April 1944 – 19 July 2024) was a Vietnamese politician and communist theorist who served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 until his death in 2024. As the head of the party's Secretariat, Politburo and ...
Madame Nhu. Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 [2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor to President Ngô Đình Diệm. As Diệm was a lifelong bachelor and because she and her ...
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. As the 70th anniversary of Presley’s recording of ”That’s All Right” approaches Friday — July 5, considered a cultural ...
The General Staff ( GS; Vietnamese: Bộ Tổng Tham mưu, lit. 'Department of General Staff') is the commanding and managing organisation of the Vietnam People's Army, the paramilitary forces, militia and other activities relating to defence of Vietnam. The General Staff was established on 7 September 1945, right after the Proclamation of ...
The largest wildfire burning in California grew to more than 350,000 acres Sunday, but there was hope that progress in containing it, as well as a cooldown, will help defeat it.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) hold a signed copy of H.R. 6376, the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022," at an enrollment ...
Tomb of Tự Đức ( Vietnamese: Lăng Tự Đức ), officially Khiêm Mausoleum ( Khiêm Lăng, chữ Hán: 謙 陵 ), is located in Huế, Vietnam. It is built for the Nguyễn Emperor Tự Đức and took three years to build, from 1864 to 1867. It is divided into a Temple Area and a Tomb Area.