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  2. William P. Upshur - Wikipedia

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    William Upshur was born October 28, 1881, in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1902. [2]After graduating from VMI he was appointed a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on February 1, 1904, and subsequently served aboard several vessels of the United States Navy, at foreign stations throughout the world, and at various posts and ...

  3. Re-education camp (Vietnam) - Wikipedia

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    The term re-education, with its pedagogical overtones, does not quite convey the quasi-mystical resonance of học tập cải tạo(學習改造) in Vietnamese. Cải ("to transform", from Sino-Vietnamese 改) and tạo ("to create", from Sino-Vietnamese 造) combine to literally mean an attempt at re-creation, and making over sinful or incomplete individuals.

  4. VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Wikipedia

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    In October 1945, President Hồ Chí Minh signed the decree to establish the University of Literature (Ban Đại học Văn khoa, or Trường Đại học Văn khoa) -the precursor of the current VNU-USSH. In April 1956, the University of Hanoi (Trường Đại học Tổng hợp Hà Nội) was established. During this period, fundamental ...

  5. High School for Gifted Students, VNU University of Science

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    The HUS High School for Gifted Students, commonly known as High School for Gifted Students of Science (HSGS; Vietnamese: Trường Trung học phổ thông chuyên Khoa học Tự nhiên), is a specialized, most-selective (6% acceptance rate) public magnet school of VNU University of Science, a member of Vietnam National University, Hanoi system.

  6. USNS Upshur (T-AP-198) - Wikipedia

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    USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), was a Barrett Class [1] transport named in honor of Major General William P. Upshur, USMC. [2] [3]The hull of the USNS Upshur was laid down on September 1, 1949 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey as the SS President Hayes.

  7. VinUniversity - Wikipedia

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    VinUniversity Campus is located next to Vinhomes Ocean Park - a 420-ha residential area newly established by Vingroup in Gia Lâm District of Hanoi. After the ground-breaking ceremony in November 2018, it took Vingroup only one year and two months to complete the first phase of the campus over an area of 230,000 square metres (56.83 acres) at a cost of around 6,500 billion VND. [12]

  8. Dầu Tiếng Base Camp - Wikipedia

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    On 24 June 1967 a Vietcong (VC) mortar attack on Camp Rainier disabled 29 UH-1 helicopters of the 188th Assault Helicopter Company. [4] On 4 July 1968 the base was subjected to a heavy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) rocket and mortar attack followed by probes on the base perimeter resulting in 5 U.S. and 16 PAVN killed.

  9. Le Quy Don Technical University - Wikipedia

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    Le Quy Don Technical University (Vietnamese: Đại học Kỹ thuật Lê Quý Đôn), also known as Military Technical Academy (Học viện Kỹ thuật Quân sự), [1] was founded in 1966 and is one of the national key universities in Vietnam. Le Quy Don Technical University has developed into an open, multidisciplinary, research-oriented ...