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  2. Đàn bầu - Wikipedia

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    The đàn bầu (Vietnamese: [ɗàːn.ɓə̀w]; "gourd zither"; Chữ Nôm: 彈匏), also called độc huyền cầm (獨絃琴, "one-string zither"; the name is only used by the Jing ethnicity in China) is a Vietnamese stringed instrument, in the form of a monochord (one-string) zither.

  3. Lê Quý Đôn - Wikipedia

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    Lê was born in the province of Thái Bình, and lived in the reign of Emperor Lê Hiển Tông.The period of his life was marked by a split between the Trịnh lords of the north and the Nguyễn lords, in the aftermath of an examination system scandal involving his son Lê Quý Kiêt (who was sent to prison for changing examination books), had been ordered south of the Linh Giang River to ...

  4. Dachau, Bavaria - Wikipedia

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    Church of St Jakob, Dachau. Dachau (German pronunciation:) is a town in the Upper Bavaria district of Bavaria, a state in the southern part of Germany.It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-west of Munich.

  5. The Holocaust in Lithuania - Wikipedia

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    After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Soviet Union signed a treaty with Lithuania on 10 October, exchanging the predominantly Polish and Jewish city of Wilno (Lithuanian:Vilno) to Lithuania, [9] for military concessions, and subsequently annexed Lithuania in 1940. [10]

  6. Diễn Châu district - Wikipedia

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    In the meeting took place on the morning of August 16, 2023, the People's Committee of Nghệ An province issued the decision to approve the planning for construction of Diễn Châu rural district, Nghệ An province, in the time of 2021-2030, with vision to 2050, in which the orientation of Diễn Châu construction becomes a town at the town level before 2030. [5]

  7. Danu (Irish goddess) - Wikipedia

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    The hypothetical nominative form of the name, *Danu, is not found in any medieval Irish text, but is rather a reconstruction by modern scholars based on the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand), which is the only form attested in the primary sources (e.g. in the collective name of the Irish gods, Tuatha dé Danann "Tribe / People of Danu").

  8. Phan Văn Hùm - Wikipedia

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    Phan Văn Hùm was born in the village of An Thanh, French Cochinchina (southern Vietnam). His father was an educated Buddhist and a small landowner. In the early 1920s he worked as a technician in Huế where he was a frequent visitor to veteran nationalist and anti-colonial campaigner Phan Bội Châu, then under house arrest as the founder of “Vietnamese Restoration League” (Việt Nam ...

  9. Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the forces of the French Union and Viet Minh.