Hippocrate said: “Nature heals, the physician is only nature’s assistant”
W.Minh Tuan
The world public knows a lot about the My Lai massacre, Quang Ngai province on March 16, 1968, but few people know about the 3 brave Americans who tried to stop this massacre, and tried to save many Vietnamese lives in that massacre.
They were Corporal Thompson, Corporal Colburn, and pilot Andreotta. Continue reading “Good American soldiers, three heroic American soldiers Thompson, Colburn, Andreotta in the My Lai massacre in 1968”
W.Minh Tuan
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was the greatest of all American presidents, the president who led the North to victory in the North-South Civil War in 1861-1865. After the North-South Civil War ended in favor of the North, a Southern supporter assassinated Mr. Lincoln in 1865.
In second place is President George Washington, who was the first President of the United States, in 1789-1797. Continue reading “At the Gettysburg battlefield Celebration in 1863, the 16th President of the United States Lincoln spoke of “Government of the people, by the people, for the people””
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Introduction
I teach Vietnamese at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
When I first visited the school’s library, located in Fuchu shi city, Tokyo, I saw a large glass cabinet in the entrance hall, inside there were a few books that seemed like old books. I stopped by to see if there was anything interesting, and was surprised to see a book with some Vietnamese-sounding words, a very old book.
I carefully read the 2 pages that the book opened, and found that it was a Vietnamese-Portuguese dictionary of missionary Alexandres De Rhodes, published around 1600, more than 400 years ago. Continue reading “Rabbi Alexandres De Rhodes, the first person credited with inventing the Vietnamese script today”
