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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
- world war two - Why were Japanese Americans forced to move, while . . .
Question from the memoir "Farewell to Manzanar" Why were majority of Japanese-Americans forced to move? Why didn't the German-Americans share the same fate?
- 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
- Has there ever been a case when a traitorous military commander took . . .
In one novel I am currently reading a traitorous commander who is responsible for atrocities against the people he should protect and killing the remainder of the army he once belonged to was promo
- 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
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