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  2. CertainTeed - Wikipedia

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    Historically, CertainTeed was a major manufacturer of asbestos-cement pipes for water utilities for many decades. Asbestos was mixed into the cement as a binder. CertainTeed phased out the use of asbestos in its products around 1990. As a result, CertainTeed is now a major defendant in product liability lawsuits brought by persons who worked on ...

  3. Cổ Loa Citadel - Wikipedia

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    Cổ Loa Citadel (Vietnamese: Thành Cổ Loa) is an important fortified settlement and archaeological site in present-day Hanoi 's Đông Anh district, roughly 17 kilometers north of present-day Hanoi, in the upper plain north of the Red River. [1] Various relics of the Bronze Age Phùng Nguyên culture and Đông Sơn culture have been found ...

  4. Ngô Đình Nhu - Wikipedia

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    Trần Văn Chương (father-in-law) Ngô Thế Linh (cousin) Nguyễn Văn Thuận (nephew) Signature. Ngô Đình Nhu (listen ⓘ; 7 October 1910 – 2 November 1963; baptismal name Jacob) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. [1] He was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam 's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm.

  5. Dương Văn Minh - Wikipedia

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    Dương Văn Minh. 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 ...

  6. Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Dien Bien Phu. France. United States. 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.

  7. Lê Duẩn - Wikipedia

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    During the First Indochina War (1946-1954), Lê Duẩn was an active revolutionary leader in South Vietnam. He headed the Central Office of South Vietnam, a Party organ, from 1951 until 1954. During the 1950s Lê Duẩn became increasingly aggressive towards South Vietnam and called for reunification through war.

  8. Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - Wikipedia

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    1976: The school was named Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology according to Decision No. 426/TTg dated October 27, 1976, with 5 faculties: Civil construction, Electrical engineering, Irrigation science, Mechanical engineering and Chemistry. October 27 has been chosen as the anniversary of HCMUT. 1978: Faculty of Geology was established.

  9. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    2011 (republished) Media type. 4 Hardback Volumes. 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 ...