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  2. Cephalopod eye - Wikipedia

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    Cephalopods, as active marine predators, possess sensory organs specialized for use in aquatic conditions. [1] They have a camera-type eye which consists of an iris, a circular lens, vitreous cavity (eye gel), pigment cells, and photoreceptor cells that translate light from the light-sensitive retina into nerve signals which travel along the optic nerve to the brain. [2]

  3. Hòn non bộ - Wikipedia

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    Hòn non bộ, as well as miniature plants and rocks, are mentioned in Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh, a thousand-page book by Nguyễn Du (1766–1820). [9] During the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945), the art of miniature plants without much additional landscaping, cây kiểng, flourished. (It was called cây cảnh in the north.)

  4. List of lighthouses in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Name Image Year built Location & coordinates Class of Light [3] Focal height [3] NGA number [3] Admiralty number [3] Range nml [3]; Ba Lạt Lighthouse: Image: 1962: Tiền Hải District

  5. Vietnamese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...

  6. Thành hoàng - Wikipedia

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    Thành hoàng (chữ Hán: 城隍) or Thần hoàng (神隍), Thần Thành hoàng (神城隍) refers to the gods or deities that are enshrined in each village's Đình in Vietnam. The gods or deities are believed to protect the village from natural disasters or calamities and bring fortune.

  7. Vitreledonella - Wikipedia

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    Vitreledonella is a genus of mesopelagic octopods from the family Amphitretidae which contains two species, [1] one of which is the glass octopus.. These octopods have the sucker on their arms arranged in a single series with the suckers widely separated from each other.

  8. Thổ Châu islands - Wikipedia

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    On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lost contact with ground while flying by Thổ Châu island. According to the Statement on the basis of the territorial width in the Tonkin Gulf [note 4] and a number of related documents, Thổ Châu is considered by the Vietnamese press as the farthest place to the West to determine the above sovereignty of Vietnam on the ocean.

  9. Hoàn Kiếm Lake - Wikipedia

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    Hoàn Kiếm Lake (Vietnamese: 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.