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  2. Stone skipping - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a stone skipping. Although stone skipping occurs at the air-water interface, surface tension has very little to do with the physics of stone-skipping. [4] Instead, the stones are a flying wing akin to a planing boat or Frisbee, generating lift from a body angled upwards and a high horizontal speed. [5]

  3. Skipping - Wikipedia

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    A game or form of exercise using a skipping rope; Exon skipping, in molecular biology; Stone skipping, throwing a stone so that it bounces off the surface of water; String skipping, a guitar-playing technique; Snowmobile skipping, a sport where drivers hydroplane snowmobiles on lakes or rivers; British slang for dumpster diving

  4. Nguyễn Khoa Điềm - Wikipedia

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    Nguyễn Hải Dương (born in Phong Điền District in Thừa Thiên Huế province on 15 April 1943) pen name and political name Nguyễn Khoa Điềm is a Vietnamese poet and government literary official. [1] [2] [3] He graduated from Hanoi National University of Education. [4] His work is included in the book, Six Vietnamese Poets. [5]

  5. Kurt Steiner (stone skipper) - Wikipedia

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    He also was the record holder for stone skipping from 2002 to 2007 with a throw of 40 skips, achieved in competition in Franklin, PA. He and Byars largely traded US national wins during this period, [5] and Steiner credits much of his world-record throws to the heavy competition with Byars driving him. Steiner has also competed internationally ...

  6. Vietnamese encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

  7. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.

  8. Ngo Dinh Diem - Wikipedia

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    In South Vietnam, a referendum was scheduled for 23 October 1955 to determine the future direction of the south, in which the people would choose Diệm or Bảo Đại as the leader of South Vietnam. [60] Diem, with the support of his brother Ngô Đình Nhu and the Cần Lao Party, used an avid propaganda campaign to destroy Bảo Đại's ...

  9. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.