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A number of heads of state and heads of government have taken their own lives, either while in office or after leaving office.National leaders who take their own lives while in office generally do so because their leadership is somehow threatened – for instance, by a coup or an invading army.
Many place-names in Vietnam incorporate the word Long, or Rồng ("dragon" in Vietnamese): Hạ Long Bay (vịnh Hạ Long, lit. "Bay of Descending Dragon"), the section of the Mekong river flowing through Vietnam contains 9 branches and is called Cửu Long ("nine dragons"); Hàm Rồng Bridge (lit."Bridge of Dragon Jaw"), Long Biên Bridge ...
The name Hạ Long (chữ Hán: 下龍) means "descending dragon". Before the 19th century, the name Hạ Long Bay had not been recorded in the old books of the country. It has been called other names such as An Bang, Lục Thủy, and Vân Đồn. In the late 19th century, the name Hạ Long Bay appeared on the Maritime Map of France.
Hạ Long (Vietnamese: [hâːˀ lawŋm] ⓘ | transl. 'descending dragon') is a first-class provincial city and the capital city of Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam.It was found in 1993, when the old capital, Hòn Gai, was merged with Bãi Cháy, the main tourist area.
This is a list of aircraft in the collection of the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The identity of an aircraft may be its civil registration or its military serial number. An aircraft may have had civil use following its retirement from the military; furthermore an aircraft may not be displayed with the same identification as is ...
Levy's, also known as Levy Brothers, was a department store based in Tucson, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1950 by brothers Jacob and Ben Levy, who acquired the former Myers & Bloom department store in downtown Tucson. [1] The Levy brothers started department stores in Southern Arizona mining towns such as Douglas, Clifton and later ...
[15]: 123 Pearls are often depicted with the imperial dragon as according to the legend, the dragon guards a peal under the water. [16]: 132 The pearl is one of the Eight treasures and regularly appears on textiles and rank badge. [15]: 123 By the mid-Qing dynasty, the pearl evolved into the flaming pearl.
Its name means "Bay of the Descending Dragon" in Vietnamese. The bay consists of a dense cluster of 1969 limestone monolithic islands, each topped with thick jungle vegetation, which rise spectacularly from the ocean. Photo credit: David Stewart