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Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by the British neo-prog band Marillion, released on June 22, 1987. [1] It was the last album with lead singer Fish, who left the band in 1988, and is a concept album. [2][3] Although Clutching at Straws did not achieve the sales of its predecessor, the number one album Misplaced Childhood, spending ...
An abacus (pl.: abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a hand -operated calculating tool which was used from ancient times in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, until the adoption of the Arabic numeral system. [ 1 ] An abacus consists of a two-dimensional array of slidable beads (or similar objects).
Yellow music. Yellow music (Nhạc vàng) in Vietnam has two meanings. The first meaning is the lyrical and romantic music from pre-war, post-development in southern Vietnam in the period 1954s-1975s and later overseas as well as in the country after Đổi Mới, influenced by music of South Vietnam 1975s.
Launched. November 2002; 21 years ago (2002-11) The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu. 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 French Union 's colonial Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries.
In the United States, Vietnamese is the sixth most spoken language, with over 1.5 million speakers, who are concentrated in a handful of states. It is the third-most spoken language in Texas and Washington; fourth-most in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia; and fifth-most in Arkansas and California. [40]
The Stieng people (Vietnamese: Xtiêng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam and Cambodia. They speak Stieng, a language in the Bahnaric group of the Mon–Khmer languages. Most Stieng live in Bình Phước Province (81,708 in 2009) [3] of the Southeast region of Vietnam. In Cambodia, they are classified as a group that used to refer to non-Khmer ...
The squadron conducted combat airlift into Vietnam, transporting troops, equipment, and supplies to various bases in Southeast Asia. Squadron crews rotated to Cam Ranh Bay Air Base and Tan Son Nhut Airport to fly missions. [1] In January 1967 it participated in Operation Junction City. It flew shuttle missions to Bangkok and Tuy Hoa. [citation ...