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What does the Vietnamese name Nguyen actually mean? This happened several more times and as a result, nearly 40% of Vietnamese have the name Nguyen Internet says the name derives from a Chinese name "Ruan " Ruan was a place fairly north in China but its people were displaced and moved south There is an instrument with the same name
ancient rome - What are the symbols on the Tomb of the Priestess of . . . It's a sistrum and a bowl (patera or phiale) used for libation The sistrum, a musical instrument used as a rattle, isn't restricted to the cult of Isis; you may encounter it also in the context of the cult of Mithras, too See also the Encyclopedia Britannica on the sistrum For the sistrum, cf this statue of Isis: Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
How did the US South Vietnam lose the Vietnam war? South Vietnam was helped by US Even when the US was gone, they had a 1 million army So why did they lose? Even without US support, South Vietnam had about the same manpower, higher technology,
Why did JFK give approval for the CIA to encourage Diems deposal? In 1963, weeks before his own assassination, President Kennedy gave approval for the CIA to encourage a group of South Vietnamese generals to depose President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam The ge
How does one ride on the brake beam? - History Stack Exchange While @ccprog's answer already explains well what a brake beam on a railway bogie is, after some googling I found the picture Brake-beam traveller by Charles C Pierce: (This looks like a two-axle wagon though, not a bogie, and the beam doesn't appear to be made out of wood here) An article from the L A Times gives some context: It was a dangerous life In the heyday of the hobo, from 1890 to
Did the Yuan Dynasty ever occupy Hainan? - History Stack Exchange Vu Hong Lien is a Vietnamese–British historian who has written widely on the history of Southeast Asia She is a guest lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and the author of Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam and coauthor of Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam, also published by Reaktion Books - press uchicago
What is the first recorded dog name? - History Stack Exchange Dogs have an age-old relationship with humans, and nowadays almost all dogs have a name given to them In Homer's Odyssey (8th century BCE), upon Odysseus' return, his beloved dog Argos is the onl