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Sinterklaas is the basis for the North American figure of Santa Claus. It is often claimed that during the American War of Independence, the inhabitants of New York City, a former Dutch colonial town (New Amsterdam), reinvented their Sinterklaas tradition, as Saint Nicholas was a symbol of the city's non-English past. [55]
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Introduced by the Ming dynasty in 1369, during the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, the Ming administration in Vietnam used the Datong calendar. At the start of the Vietnamese Lê dynasty in 1428, the end of Chinese domination over Vietnam, the calendar was not changed. [3] The calendar was calculated using the same method as the Datong ...
An experimental Wikipedia edition in the obsolete chữ Nôm script began in October 2006 at the Wikimedia Incubator. [6] It was deleted in April 2010. [7] [non-primary source needed] The Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects.
The Vatican estimates the number of Vietnamese martyrs at between 130,000 and 300,000. [2] John Paul II decided to canonize both those whose names are known and unknown, giving them a single feast day.
Formerly the Police Day (Ngày Cảnh sát Quốc gia) in South Vietnam June 28: Vietnamese Family Day: Ngày Gia đình Việt Nam July 27: Remembrance Day (Day for Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers or Vietnamese War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day) Ngày Thương binh Liệt sĩ August 19: August Revolution Commemoration Day: Ngày Cách mạng Tháng 8
On 12 February, a VC ambush had killed nine Marines from Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines. [2]: 345 A five-man Marine "hunter-killer" patrol led by Lance Corporal Randell D. Herrod, who had been in the country for seven months, alongside Private Thomas R. Boyd Jr., PFC Samuel G. Green, PFC Michael A. Schwarz and Lance Corporal Michael S. Krichten had been in Vietnam for only a month, was ...
Vua tiếng Việt (lit. ' King of Vietnamese ' ) is a Vietnamese television quiz show featuring Vietnamese vocabulary and language, produced by Vietnam Television . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The programme is aired on 8:30 pm every Friday on VTV3, starting from 10 September 2021, with the main host Nguyễn Xuân Bắc.