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Windmill Island during Tulip Time 2005. In 1964, the City of Holland purchased the windmill De Zwaan from a retired miller in the town of Vinkel in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. The windmill was shipped from the Netherlands to the port of Muskegon, Michigan on the ship Prins Willem van Oranje. It was brought by truck from ...
According to a document published by the Political Department of Vietnam's Navy Command, the island is 630 metres (2,070 ft) in length, up to 300 metres (980 ft) in width and has an area of 0.15 square kilometres (37 acres) [2] while several foreign documents often use a slightly smaller number of 0.13 square kilometres (32 acres). [17]
15–21 July – Tropical Storm Son-Tinh hits Vietnam, causing floods and landslides in areas around Hanoi. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] 23 October – Nguyễn Phú Trọng is sworn in to the post of President of Vietnam , becoming the third Vietnamese official to simultaneously lead the Communist Party while serving as head of state.
The Windmill Islands were mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946–47. So named by the US-ACAN because personnel of Operation Windmill, 1947–48, landed on Holl Island at the southwest end of the group to establish ground control for USN Operation Highjump photographs. The term "Operation Windmill" is a popular ...
It also encompasses a few small islands and marine areas of the east of Cat Ba island. Primarily a limestone forest area, it has 839 vascular plant species which include 25 species which are listed in the Red Data Book of Vietnam. It is the only park in the world where Cat Ba langur (Trachypithecus poliocephalus) species is reported. Some ...
Việt Nam sử lược (chữ Hán: 越南史略, French: Précis d'Histoire du Việt-Nam, lit. "Outline History of Vietnam"), was the first history text published in the Vietnamese language and the Vietnamese alphabet. It was compiled by Vietnamese historian Trần Trọng Kim.
During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...
Vung Island, or Phú Vinh, 0.15 km 2 (0.058 sq mi) Ngọc Island, or Trọc Island, hòn Trai, Phú Nghĩa, 0.4 km 2 (0.15 sq mi) Trứng Island, or Đá Bạc Island, Đá Trắng Island, Phú Thọ, 0.1 km 2 (0.039 sq mi) Tài Lớn Island, or Phú Bình 0.38 km 2 (0.15 sq mi) Tài Nhỏ Island, or Thỏ Island, Phú An, 0.1 km 2 (0.039 sq mi ...