Stories about 20th Century History in Hanoi
A day visiting Uncle Ho and my new Hanoi familyDavid Calleja - davidcalleja [1,448] One morning I woke up and decided to pay my respects to Ho Chi Minh, the revered father of modern Vietnam. By the day's end, I took away more treasures from the people of Hanoi.
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The Streets of HanoiMaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443] Crossing the street in Hanoi is an act of faith and an experience you won't ever forget.
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Vietnam
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Hanoi's Temple of LiteratureSimone Samuels - simsam [941] The Temple of Literature is a significant landmark in Hanoi which can mean many things to different people, but is one well-worth visiting. There is more at the Temple than may at first meet the eye, as these pictures show.
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The Giant and the Pissant: A Fairy TaleKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, Penguin Books, 1997.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Hanoi |
Vietnam
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It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: An Interview with Dana SachsCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,110] Whether it's a foreigners' boarding house on a bustling Hanoi boulevard, or a quaint Victorian on a tree-lined avenue, replete with azaleas and Spanish moss in the garden district of a small Southern...
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Book Review: The House on Dream Street by Dana SachsCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,110] "A frog that sits at the bottom of a well thinks that the whole sky is only as big as the lid of a pot." --Vietnamese Proverb When asked what's so alluring about Vietnam, nearly every traveler who has...
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French Colonial Ship Raised in VietnamAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579] HANOI, March 9, 2006 - A Vietnamese company has raised a small French military vessel sunk during the anti-colonial struggle 60 years ago in the southern Mekong Delta and plans to use for scrap metal,...
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The Vietnam War on FilmThingsAsian - ta [3,710] * * * * * Apocalypse Now Redux (1979/2001), 197 min Directed by Francis Ford Coppola With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, and Laurence Fishburne Francis Ford Coppola's expansive revision of his visually...
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Le Mal JauneKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Although the term Indochina is an arbitrary one, employed by the French to encompass their possessions of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, there are several things that these very different and often...
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Phnom Penh |
Hanoi |
Vientiane |
Cambodia |
Laos |
Indochina |
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Mekong River
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The Metropole: Hanoi's Living History MuseumSteven K. Bailey - sbailey [7,770] Queen Noor of Jordan, former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame all have something in common. For one thing, they have all visited Vietnam. For another,...
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