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  2. Southampton Street, London - Wikipedia

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    Tavistock Street and Maiden Lane, a staggered crossroads on Southampton Street. Clock in Southampton Street, outside the British Computer Society offices, looking south towards the Strand. Southampton Street is a street in central London, running north from the Strand to Covent Garden Market. [1] [2] There are restaurants in the street such as ...

  3. Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard - Wikipedia

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    Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard (Vietnamese: Đường Nguyễn Huệ) is a boulevard in District 1, downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [1] Being one of Saigon's oldest thoroughfares, the boulevard has undergone several transformations; it is currently a famous pedestrian street in the city.

  4. South Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The official name of the South Vietnamese state was the "Republic of Vietnam" (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; French: République du Viêt Nam). The North was known as the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam". Việt Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation:) was the name adopted by Emperor Gia Long in 1804. [6]

  5. Vietnam Combat Artists Program - Wikipedia

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    During the Vietnam Era, the U.S. Army Chief of Military History asked Marian McNaughton, then Curator for the Army Art Collection, to develop a plan for a Vietnam soldier art program. The result was the creation in 1966 of the U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Program under the direction of the Office of Chief of Military History and McNaughton's ...

  6. Chợ Lớn - Wikipedia

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    Typical shophouse architecture of Chợ Lớn.. The city of Chợ Lớn was established by the Hoa community. The Lê dynasty which was the ruling family in the sixteenth century began to decline in power and two rival families, the Trịnh and Nguyễn families began to vie for power to fill in the void of the Lê.

  7. Conway Street - Wikipedia

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    At that time the street was known as Southampton Street. [note 1] Sidney Bechet lived at No. 27 in 1922. Sidney Bechet (1897–1959) the New Orleans jazz pioneer, saxophonist and clarinetist, lived at No. 27 in 1922, and a blue plaque from the Nubian Jak Community Trust commemorates this. The street is the home of the Embassy of Croatia in ...

  8. Street - Wikipedia

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    A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban or suburban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone ...

  9. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    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.