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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 [1] – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and member of the NLF (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by ARVN forces while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.
The Republic of Korea sent the original masters of taekwondo to introduce this Korean martial art across the world. The original masters of taekwondo is a group of twelve South Korean martial art masters assembled by the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) in the early 1960s to promote the newly established art of taekwondo.
The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), also known as Dr. Cynthia's clinic after its founder Dr. Cynthia Maung, is a community based organisation (CBO), which has been providing primary healthcare service and protection to community from Burma/Myanmar in Western Thailand since 1989.
Zach Handlen of The A.V. Club rated the episode a B+, stating it "tries to do too much, but its ambition does it credit, and when it works, it's very charming". [5] Jeremy Conrad of IGN considered it one of the under-appreciated episodes of Season 5, being "a classic 'disaster movie' set in the Star Trek universe" with some funny moments. [6]
The Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars (or Khoekhoe–Dutch Wars) refers to a series of armed conflicts that took place in the latter half of the 17th century in what was then known as the Cape of Good Hope, in the area of present-day Cape Town, South Africa, fought primarily between Dutch colonisers, who came mostly from the Dutch Republic (today the Netherlands and Belgium) and the local African people ...
Marco Polo mentioned the island in the description of his 1292 voyage from China to India under the name Sondur and Condur. [2] In Ptolemy's Geography, they are referred to as the Isles of the Satyrs. [3] The medieval Arabic/Persian name for Pulo Condor was Sundar Fulat (صندر فولات, Ṣundar Fūlāt). [4] [5]