Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet One of several
character sets based on the letters used for writing Latin. (In contrast with Latin, these alphabets distinguish I from J, and U from V.) They, along with sets in Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew, are included in ISO 8859: Information Processing – 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets. Each Latin alphabet contains the
ASCII character set, and includes additional characters with diacritical marks for various languages. Table 1 shows the code table for Latin alphabet No. 1, which covers Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish; Table 2 shows the distribution of languages within Latin alphabets Nos. 1–5.
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Bao Dai, Former Emperor of Vietnam, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; Bao Dai, 83, a former emperor of Annam and Vietnam...death was not reported. Over the years, Bao Dai attempted to walk the tightrope of being...emperor before being exiled again in 1955. Bao Dai was born under the name Nguyen Vinh Thuy...
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Obituary: Bao Dai
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...backwater in French Indo-China when Bao Dai, who has just died in Paris, ascended...the advice of his French mentors, Bao Dai (the title, meaning "Keeper of...therefore, when at the age of 19 Bao Dai returned to his native Hue to assume...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Bao Dai Ousted
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 10/24/2005; 304 words
; ...former Emperor and Chief of State Bao Dai today [Oct. 23] and named Premier...in a country-wide referendum that Bao Dai, 42, had outlived his usefulness...showed an almost total repudiation of Bao Dai and an equally emphatic vote of confidence...
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Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/2/1997; 270 words
; Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam, has died after living quietly in France for...said he died Thursday. The cause of death was not immediately available. Bao Dai was emperor of France's protectorate of Annam, now part of Vietnam, from...
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JAPANESE INSURER TO BUY VIETNAM'S BAO MINH CMG.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 1/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...Life Insurance Company (Dai-ichi Life) plans to purchase Bao Minh CMG Life Insurance...Insurance Corporation. Bao Minh CMG will be changed into the Dai-ichi Life Insurance...press releases issued by Bao Minh CMG and Dai-ichi Life. Prior to...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Diem Overthrows Dai
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/2/2005; 214 words
; ...and put to flight absentee Emperor Bao Dai's commanding general in a sensational...Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, appointed by Bao Dai as army commander in chief, escaped...and the struggle for control with Bao Dai. 2005 Copyright International Herald...
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Vietnamese ao dai listed among top 10 national dress.(Theater review)
News Wire article from: Vietnamese News Agency; 6/23/2008; 507 words
; ...The Vietnamese traditional "ao dai" wore by Miss Vietnam has been selected...the wife of the last Vietnamese King, Bao Dai, of the Nguyen Dynasty. The robe introduced...pageant of Vietnamese traditional ao dai on June 23. According to the organising...
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VIETNAM A POTENTIAL MARKET FOR LIFE INSURANCE SERVICES: DAI-ICHI.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 3/7/2007; 533 words
; ...insurance company in a foreign country, in Vietnam, on March 7. Dai-ichi Vietnam Life Insurance, which the Dai-ichi group bought from the Life Insurance Bao Minh CMG to Dai-ichi group, is also Japan's first insurance company in Vietnam...
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JOINT AUSTRALIAN, VIETNAMESE OWNED BAO MINH CMG INSURANCE SOLD.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 1/12/2007; 439 words
; ...SYDNEY, Jan 12 Asia Pulse - The Bao Minh Insurance Corporation...are selling their jointly owned Bao Minh CMG Life Insurance Company to Japan's Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance...under the policies issued by Bao Minh CMG would remain unchanged...
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China Charges Adviser to Zhao With Subversion; Handling of Lengthy Bao Investigation Could Signal the Fate of Former Party Chief
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/26/1992; ; 664 words
; ...news agency also reported that Bao had been arrested. An official...had not heard anything about Bao's case. According to Chinese...unclear whether the charges against Bao mean that authorities here...who was arrested in June 1989; Dai Zhiyi, a businessman who was...
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Bao Dai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Bao Dai Bao Dai (1913-1997) was the last emperor of Vietnam. Opportunism, absence of a nationalist outlook, and lack of concern for social reform contributed to his political eclipse as a result of the 1955 referendum. The son of Khai Dinah...
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...named minister of interior in Emperor Bao Dai's central administration of the...however, because neither the French nor Bao Dai would support reforms he advocated...He also declined to participate in Bao Dai's pro-French government of limited...
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Vietnam
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...and established a Vietnamese state under Emperor Bao Dai. After the war, Bao Dai's government collapsed, and the nationalist Viet...and South Vietnam under the French-supported Bao Dai. In 1955, Bao Dai was deposed and Ngo Dinh Diem...
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Diem, Ngo No Dingh
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...social elite and minister of the interior under the emperor Bao Dai (1933). When the French were unwilling to approve of...next ten years. He returned in 1954 at the request of Bao Dai to serve as the prime minister of a U.S.-backed government...
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Annam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...occupied by the Japanese, who set up the autonomous state of Vietnam, comprising Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China; Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam, was established as ruler. After the war Annamese and Tonkinese nationalists demanded independence...
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