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Four Wives is a 1939 American drama film starring the Lane Sisters (Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane) and Gale Page. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and is based on the story "Sister Act" by Fannie Hurst . [ 3 ]
A survey conducted in 2009 of married Chinese-Vietnamese couples in 30 villages in the Sino-Vietnamese border area found that 38.6% of marriages were arranged by relatives, 27.2% were for romantic love, 19.5% were brought together by a Vietnamese woman who had married a Chinese man, 8.5% were brought together through matchmaking services, and 6 ...
In the Ming Dynasty, there were four scholars, whose literary and artistic skills are unmatched in China. Tong Pak Fu (Stephen Chow) is the most famous, for having eight wives in addition to his expertise as an artist, poet, and calligrapher. However, Tong's wives are all gambling addicts and unappreciative of Tong's artistic skills.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
A Vietnamese couple wearing a Western wedding gown and a tuxedo for their wedding. While most Vietnamese are Mahayana Buddhists, a significant number are Christians, with the majority being Catholic. However, Vietnamese Catholics will still incorporate all parts of the wedding ceremonies and reception.
The Vietnamese women became wives, prostitutes, or slaves. [44] [45] Vietnamese women were viewed in China as "inured to hardship, resigned to their fate, and in addition of very gentle character" so they were wanted as concubines and servants in China and the massive traffick of Tongkinese (North Vietnamese) women to China started in 1875.
Trưng Trắc was the first female monarch in Vietnam, as well as the first queen in the history of Vietnam (Lý Chiêu Hoàng was the last woman to take the reign and is the only empress regnant), and she was accorded the title Queen Trưng (chữ Quốc ngữ: Trưng Nữ vương, chữ Hán: 徵女王) in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.
Nam Phương served as a member of the Reconstruction Committee for Vietnam after the end of World War II and was the patron of the Vietnamese Red Cross. She raised funds and called for the recognition of the independence of Vietnam. After Bảo Đại left Huế for Hanoi in September 1945, he had other mistresses.