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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]
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.
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.
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.)
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 ...
Map of ancient Asia shows location of the Âu Việt state of Nam Cương and other Viet’s kingdoms. According to folklore, prior to Chinese domination of northern and north-central Vietnam, the region was ruled by a series of kingdoms called Văn Lang with a hierarchical government, headed by Lạc Kings ( Hùng Kings ), who were served by ...
Hủ tiếu Nam Vang ("Hu tieu Phnom Penh") – comes from Phnom Penh-style kuyteav originally prepared at the city's Old Market [16] Hủ tiếu sa tế ("Shacha hu tieu") – based on the Teochew dish; Hủ tiếu Mỹ Tho – served on prawns, octopus, cuttlefish, and snails on thin, white rice noodles
Map from the Đại Nam nhất thống chí. The Đại Nam nhất thống chí (chữ Hán: 大南一統志, 1882) is the official geographical record of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty written in chữ Hán compiled in the late nineteenth century. [1] It also contains historical records of military campaigns. [2] [3]