Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Kim Phuc Phan Thi On June 8, 1972, a napalm bomb fell on the village of Trang Bang, Vietnam, forcing residents, including Kim Phuc Phan Thi (born 1963), to flee. Caught on film, the image of napalm-burned Thi running naked from her village became one of the most remembered images of the Vietnam War. The photograph earned Nick Ut a Pulitzer Prize. Ut took Thi to a hospital where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she would not survive. However, after 14 months of medical attention, she returned home. Having moved to Toronto, Canada, she has since dedicated her life to promoting peace. On November 10, 1997, Thi was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador..
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - Omer Zülfü Livaneli - Peace and Tolerance through the music and the promotion of the humans right Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg - Main Area of Interest: Education, Woman's Rights, Microfinance and Campaign against poverty Lily Marinho - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Poverty Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Protection of Rights of Indigenous People Lalla Meryem of Morocco - Protection of Childhood and Women's Rights Kitín Muñoz - Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Culture and environment Ute-Henriette Ohoven - (UNESCO Special Ambassador for the Education of Children in Need) - Education, UNESCO Programme Children in Need Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé) - Promotion of sports as a means of alleviating poverty and drug use Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Children and innocent victims of war.
Nick Ut - photographer famous for his image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running from her village in Vietnam after it was destroyed by napalm from American bombers, during the Vietnam War..
Politics of Vietnam - of the president and the prime minister. The Vietnamese President, presently Tran Duc Luong, functions as head of state but also serves as the nominal commander of the armed forces and chairman of the Council on National Defense and Security. The Prime Minister of Vietnam, presently Phan Van Khai, heads a cabinet currently composed of four deputy prime ministers and the heads of 31 ministries and commissions, all confirmed by the National Assembly. Notwithstanding the 1992 Constitution's reaffirmation of the central role of the Communist Party, the National Assembly, according to the Constitution, is the highest representative body of the people and the only organization with legislative powers. It has a broad mandate to oversee all government functions. Once seen as little more than a rubber stamp, the National Assembly has.
Provinces of Vietnam - Area Name Capital Population Area An Giang Long Xuyen 2,099,400 3,406 km² Khanh Hoa Nha Trang 1,066,300 5,197 km² Bac Giang Bac Giang 1,522,000 3,822 km² Kien Giang Rach Gia 1,542,800 6,269 km² Bac Kan Bac Kan 283,000 4,795 km² Kon Tum Kon Tum 330,700 9,615 km² Bac Lieu Bac Lieu 756,800 2,521 km² Lai Chau Phong Tho 227,600 7,365 km² Bac Ninh Bac Ninh 957,700 804 km² Lam Dong Da Lat 1,049,900 9,765 km² Ba Ria-Vung Tau Vung Tau 839,000 1,975 km² Lang Son Lang Son 715,300 8,305 km² Ben Tre Ben Tre 1,308,200 2,287 km² Lao Cai Lao Cai 616,500 8,057 km² Binh Dinh Qui Nhon 1,481,000 6,076 km² Long An Tan An 1,384,000 4,492 km² Binh Duong Thu Dao Mot 768,100 2,696 km² Nam Dinh Nam Dinh 1,916,400.
List of national leaders - Ariel Sharon Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Silvio Berlusconi Jamaica Elizabeth II, represented by Sir Howard Cooke Percival Patterson Japan Akihito Junichiro Koizumi Jordan Abdullah II Faisal al-Fayez Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Daniyal Akhmetov Kenya Mwai Kibaki Kiribati Anote Tong Korea (DPRK) Kim Yong Nam ("Head of State for Foreign Affairs"); Kim Jong Il (highest administrative authority) Pak Pong Ju Korea (ROK) Roh Moo-hyun Goh Kun Kuwait Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev Nikolai Tanayev Laos Khamtai Siphandon Boungnang Vorachith Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga Einars Repse Lebanon Émile Lahoud Rafiq Hariri Lesotho Letsie III Pakalitha Mosisili Liberia Gyude Bryant Libya Mu'ammar Al Qathafi (de facto); Zentani Muhammad az-Zentani (de jure) Shukri Ghanem Liechtenstein Hans-Adam II Otmar Hasler Lithuania Rolandas Paksas Algirdas Brazauskas Luxembourg Henri Jean-Claude Juncker Republic of Macedonia.
List of Vietnam-related topics - province Ha Noi municipality Ha Tay province Ha Tinh province Hai Duong province Hai Phong municipality Haiphong Hau Giang province History of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh municipality. Ho Chi Minh Hoa Binh province Hoi An Hong Gai Hung Yen province Indochina Khanh Hoa province Kien Giang province Kim Son Kon Tum province Lai Chau province Lam Dong province Lang Son province Lao Cai province Lao Cai Le Xuan List of ethnic groups in Vietnam Long An province Long Xuyen Mekong River Mekong River Military of Vietnam Music of Vietnam Nam Dinh province Nghe An province Ngo Dinh Diem Ngo Dinh Nhu Nguyen dynasty Nha Trang Ninh Binh province Ninh Thuan province North Vietnam Pentagon Papers Phu Tho province Phu Yen province Politics of Vietnam Provinces of Vietnam Quang Binh province Quang.
Nguyen Dynasty - Virtues"; the ninth means "Collective Celebration". Gia Long (嘉隆帝 1802 - 1820): named Nguyễn-Phúc Ánh (阮福映) or 阮映 Minh Mạng (明命帝 1820 - 1841) Thieu Tri (紹治帝 1841 - 1847): Nguyễn-Phúc Mien Thi Tu Duc (嗣德帝 1847 - 1883): Nguyen-Phuc Huong Nham Duc Duc (育德帝 1883) Hiep Hoa (協和帝 1883) Kien Phuc (建福帝 1883 - 1884) Ham Nghi (咸宜帝 1884 - 1885) Dong Khanh (同慶帝 1885 - 1889) Thanh Thai (成泰帝 1889 - 1907) Duy Tan (維新帝 1907 - 1916) Khai Dinh (啟定帝 1916 - 1925) Bao Dai (保大帝 1926 - 1945).
Kim - Kim A novel by Rudyard Kipling. See below. A common Korean family name. See Kim (Korean name). Kim, (1901), a combined spy novel and picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling written against the background of "the Great Game" -- the cat-and-mouse activities of Russia and Britain in northern India and Afghanistan in the 19th century. Kim is a half-caste orphan son of a British soldier and a nursemaid who runs free on the streets of Lahore and who incidentally makes contact with the British secret service. He attaches himself to a Tibetan Lama who is on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life. He becomes his chela, or disciple, but is also used by the British to carry a message to the British army.
Kath and Kim - Kath and Kim Kath and Kim is a humorous Australian television series shown on the ABC network. The first series was released in 2002 and following it's outstanding success, a second series was released in 2003. Both series were created and written by Gina Riley and Jane Turner who both play the leading roles. The main characters are Kath - an empty nester who wants to enjoy time with her "hunk of spunk" Kel and her her twenty-something daughter Kim. Kim's husband Brett and Kim's second best friend Sharon add chaos. The characters were originally developed in the early 1990s with the highly succesful "Fast Forward" comedy sketch show. The strong script and highly developed alternative vocabulary and mis-pronunciation of words by the two main characters was.
Kim Il-sung - Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (김일성 ; 金日成) (April 15, 1912 - July 8, 1994) was the autocratic Communist ruler of North Korea from 1948 until his death. To this day, even after his death the North Korean government continues to recognize him as the nation's "eternal" president. He was born Kim Song-ju (김성주; 金成柱) in Pyongi (변경 ; 邊京?) or Mangyongdae (만경대 ; 萬景台) near Pyongyang, Korea. After following his father to Jilin, China in 1925, he studied at Fusong Number One Elementary School (撫松第一小學) for a year, then spent four years in Yuwen Middle School (毓文中學). It is during this period that he organized an anti-imperalist society. He was a founding member of the Young Communist League of Korea in 1927. In 1930, he founded.
Kim Philby - Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby (1912 - May 11, 1988) was an employee of British intelligence and a Soviet spy. He was member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Philby was nicknamed Kim after a fictional spy. Born in Ambala, India the son of the British diplomat, explorer, author, Arabist and converted Muslim Harry St. John Philby, at one time an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. After leaving Westminster School in 1928, Philby went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While a student there Philby was introduced to, and came to admire, the ideals of Communism. He was not exactly 'recruited' as a spy - he volunteered. He.
Kim Milford - Kim Milford Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 - June 16, 1988) was an American movie and stage actor. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago (Winnetka, Illinois), where he went to New Trier High School. His family includes some familiar names from the movie and art world, sister, actress Penelope Milford (Coming Home for which she got an Oscar nomination, Heathers, The Burning Bed) and brother, Doug Milford, now COO (?CEO) and Co-owner of Artsystems Art Management Software (artsystems.com), co-owned and operated Piezo Electric in the East Village, owned and ran the Milford Gallery in SoHo, and as Publisher at ArtNet Worldwide, he designed, produced, and led the creation of Artnet.com. The multi-talented Kim Milford was an.
Kim Campbell - Kim Campbell The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell Rank: 19th Term: June 25 - November 4, 1993 Predecessor: Brian Mulroney Successor: Jean Chrétien Date of Birth: March 10, 1947 Place of Birth: Port Alberni, British Columbia Profession: politician Political Party: Progressive Conservative Kim Campbell was the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. She was born Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell on March 10, 1947, but was not particularly fond of any of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name Kim in her teens. She was educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A., LL.B.) and obtained a doctorate at the London School of Economics. She entered politics with Vancouver School Board, and lectured in political science. Campbell was first elected.
KIM-1 - KIM-1 The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small microcomputer kit produced by MOS Technologies starting in 1975. History MOS' first processor, the 6501, could be plugged into existing motherboards that used the Motorola 6800, allowing potential users (i.e. engineers and hobbyists) to get a development system up and running very easily using existing hardware. This enraged Motorola, who immediately sued, forcing MOS to pull the 6501 from the market. Changing the pin layout produced the "lawsuit-friendly" 6502. Otherwise identical to the 6501, it nevertheless had the disadvantage of having no machine in which new users could quickly start playing with the CPU. Chuck Peddle, leader of the 650x group at MOS, designed the KIM-1 in order to fill this need. While the machine.
Kim Dae-jung - Kim Dae-jung Kim Dae-jung (김대중 ; 金大中, born December 3, 1925) is a South Korean politician. Long an opposition leader, he became president (after Kim Young-sam) in 1997. He first entered politics in 1954, opposing the policies of Syngman Rhee, but did not win a seat in government until 1961. After several arrests in the 1970s, Kim was sentenced to death on charges of sedition and conspiracy; that sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison. In 1985, after a brief exile in the U.S., he resumed his role as one of the principal leaders of the political opposition. When the first democratic presidential election was held in 1987 after ex-general Chun Doo-hwan's retirement, Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam ran against each other, splitting the opposition.
Kim Jong-il - Kim Jong-il Kim Jong Il (left) walking with the late Kim Il Sung (right) Kim Jong-il, 김정일 金正日 (born February 15, 1942) is the current leader of North Korea. Background Kim's father, the late Kim Il Sung, fled to the Soviet Union when the Japanese put a price on his head for guerrilla activities in occupied Korea. The family returned to the northern part of the peninsula after Japan's surrender during World War II, and communist Soviet leader Joseph Stalin anointed Kim Il Sung as the leader of the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to official North Korean accounts, Kim Jong was born in a log cabin at his father's guerilla base on North Korea's highest mountain, Mount Paektu, in February 1942. The peak,.
Kimjongilia - Prize-winning kimjongilia exhibited. President Kim Il Sung admires an exhibit of kimjongilia, the flower named after his son in this 1988 photo. Kimjongilia, national flower of North Korea, named after Leader Kim Jong Il. To commemorate Kim Jong Il's 46th birthday in 1988, Japanese botanist Motoderu Kamo cultivated a new perennial begonia named "kimjongilia", representing the Juche revolutionary cause of the Dear Leader, admiration, and loyalty. According to North Korean sources, the flower symbolizes wisdom and good human feelings such as future loving, justice and peace and possesses strong great man bearing. The North Korean government claims that kimjongilia, now the national flower, have widely spread throughout North Korea from the Korean Central Botanical Garden and since to over 60 nations, including the United States and Russia. See also: kimilsungia.
Kim Cattrall - Kim Cattrall Kim Cattrall (born August 21, 1956) is a British-American actress. Cattrall was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of 3 months, Cattrall and her family moved across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. When she was 16, she moved to New York, where she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1981, at age 25, she briefly dated the recently-divorced Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Cattrall starred in a handful of movies during the 1970s, but her first taste of international fame came in 1981, when she participated in the first Porky's movie. Then, she participated in the first Police Academy movie in 1984, and in the first Mannequin, in 1987. Cattrall is better known, however, for her work as "Samantha Jones".
Kim Collins - Kim Collins Kim Collins (April 5, 1976) is a sprinter from Saint Kitts and Nevis. In 2003, he became the World Champion in the 100 m. Collins made his debut at major championship at the 1997 World Championships, where he failed to qualify for the second round in the 100 m. He improved quickly, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics, he became the first athlete from his tiny nation to qualify for an Olympic final, finishing 7th in the 100 m. The next year, Collins would win Saint Kitts's first World Championship medal, when he tied for the bronze medal in the 200 m. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, he won his first major title, although not after a doping controversy. After the 100 m race,.
