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Contents. School shark. The school shark (Galeorhinus galeus) is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, and the only member of the genus Galeorhinus. Common names also include tope, tope shark, snapper shark, and soupfin shark. It is found worldwide in temperate seas at depths down to about 800 m (2,600 ft). It can grow to nearly 2 m (6 ft 7 in ...
South Vietnam. Ngô Đình Diệm (/ djɛm / dyem, [ 2 ] / ˈjiːəm / YEE-əm or / ziːm / zeem; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ⓘ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam ...
On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA -backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh. After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist ...
President Ngo Dinh Diem and family at his home in Hue (Central Viet Nam).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem on an inspection tour 350 km from Saigon (December, 1956).jpg; Portrait of Ngô Đình Diệm, from the book Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem with the troops who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg
Battle of Dien Bien Phu. The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union 's colonial Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.
Võ Nguyên Giáp. Võ Nguyên Giáp (Vietnamese pronunciation: [vɔ̌ˀ ŋʷīən jǎːp]; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Regarded as one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century, [1][2] Giáp led Vietnamese communist forces to victories in wars against Japan ...
Dương Văn Minh (Vietnamese: [jɨəŋ van miŋ̟] ⓘ; 16 February 1916 – 6 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm. In 1963, he became chief of a military junta after leading a ...
Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina. She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is considered a ...