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3 unusual facts about Minh "Gooseman" Le


Dinh Q. Lê

One being an anonymous black-and-white photo of a woman from the 1960s are woven into the leading actress in the Graham Greene film The Quiet American.

Francesco Bonami (curator of the 50th Venice Biennale) highlighted his distinctive photo-weavings artwork, and an entire room is dedicated for his works in the Italian Pavilion in 2003.

Dinh Q. Lê's artwork has been the theme of solo exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies in an exhibition titled The Headless Buddha, which traveled to Portland, Oregon, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Santa Cruz, California.


Asian American Arts Centre

Contemporary artists who have exhibited at AAAC include Mel Chin, Martin Wong, Alfonso A. Ossorio, Vito Acconci, Luis Camnitzer, Faith Ringgold, Wafaa Bilal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Dinh Q. Lê, Kip Fulbeck, Gu Wenda, and Zhang Hongtu.

Counter-Strike

It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.

Jess Cliffe

Jess Cliffe is a Valve Software computer game designer and co-creator of Counter-Strike with Minh Le (aka Gooseman).

Luke Stewart

Stewart went undefeated in his first five fights until losing a unanimous decision to Tiki Ghosn at Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le on March 29, 2008.


see also

Bach Xuan Nguyen

After the death of Lê Văn Duyệt, the viceroy of southern Vietnam in 1832, the emperor Minh Mạng, who was involved in a power struggle with Duyệt, appointed Nguyễn to investigate the viceroy's administration.

Background to the Vietnam War

After the Viet Minh defeated the French colonial army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French negotiated an end to their presence in Indochina.

British Vietnamese International School

BVIS is part of the BIS Group of schools in Vietnam, which started with the founding of Tiny Tots in Ho Chi Minh in 1997, which went on to become the British International School, Ho Chi Minh City.

Bức Tường

July 2010 Wall reunited with new members are bass guitarist Minh Duc (former member of the Marble Palace, Rosewood ).

Buffalo Boy

The Buffalo Boy, a 2004 Vietnamese film directed by Minh Nguyen-Vo

Carleton B. Swift Jr.

During their time in Hanoi the OSS officers and their team met with Ho Chi Minh and although Swift did not speak French as Patti did he also met with Ho Chi Minh on at least one occasion.

Dang Nhat Minh

In 2009 his film Don't Burn, (Đừng Đốt) starring Tina Duong, Minh Huong and Ben Rindner, about the martyr Dang Thuy Tram, premiered at the International 19th Annual took place in Fukuoka, Japan, winning the audience prize.

David Hollenbach

Aside from being a full time professor of Theology at Boston College, Hollenbach has taught at Hekima College of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, The Jesuit Philosophy Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila, Philippines.

Domino theory

The fall of Cambodia had more complex causes but ultimately also resulted from the country being dragged into the Vietnam war, first by the Viet Cong who operated bases in the country and used it as part of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and then by full scale NVA attack, in conjunction with the Khmer Rouge, against the pro-U.S Lon Nol republic.

Don't Burn

In 2009 Đặng Nhật Minh's film Do Not Burn (Đừng Đốt), starring Tina Duong, Minh Huong and Ben Rindner, about the martyr Dang Thuy Tram, premiered at the International 19th Annual took place in Fukuoka, Japan, winning the audience prize.

Điện Biên Phủ

The following year, the important Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Võ Nguyên Giáp), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan).

Đỗ Thị Ninh

She is one of the generation of artists which emerged, aged then 45-55 in the early 1980s which included Đặng Thị Khuê (1946-), Đỗ Sơn (1943-, military artist), Lương Xuân Đoàn (1952-), Nguyễn Xuân Tiệp (1956-), Nguyễn Bảo Toàn (1950-) in Hanoi, Nguyễn Trung (1941), Đỗ Quang Em (1942-), Ca Lê Thắng (1949-), Đào Minh Tri (1949-), Nguyễn Thân (1948-) in Hồ Chí Minh City, Bửu Chi (1948-) and Hoàng Đăng Nhuận (1942-) in Huế.

High School for the Gifted

Established in 1996, the school is an affiliated school to Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (National University of Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City).

History of Vietnam since 1945

The Việt Minh force grew significantly with China's assistance and in 1954, under the command of General Võ Nguyên Giáp, launched a major siege against French bases in Điện Biên Phủ.

Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University

In 1976 after the Vietnam War, these three schools were merged with a new name — Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy — by an authority from the Communist Party of Vietnam.

In 30 Rock, Dr. Leo Spaceman is an alumnus of the Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University (known in the show as the Ho Chi Minh City School of Medicine) who practices questionable medicine.

Hostosian National Independence Movement

The MINH also operates various "Puerto Rico Missions", of which the most important is located in Havana, Cuba.

Huỳnh Phú Sổ

The southern Việt Minh leader, Nguyễn Bình, realising that Sổ would not subordinate himself to the Việt Minh, set up a trap.

Khánh An

Khánh An, U Minh, a commune in U Minh District, Ca Mau Province, Vietnam

Long Thanh International Airport

The airport will be accessible by National Route 51, Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thành Highway (under construction), Biên HòaVũng Tàu Expressway, Long An–Long Thành Expressway, Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thành high-speed railway, Ho Chi Minh City–Nha Trang high-speed railway.

McNamara Taylor mission

The two guardhouses outside Minh's headquarters at Tan Son Nhut Air Base were filled with political prisoners, many of them student protestors.

Ngô Ðình Nhu

The convoy was led by General Mai Hữu Xuân and the brothers were guarded inside the APC by Major Dương Hiếu Nghĩa and Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, Minh's bodyguard.

Nguyen Xuan Minh

In 2005, Minh was co-managing two of Templeton's Asian equity funds, whose yearly performance ranked 2nd and 8th amongst a large peer group of managed Asian investment funds according to Micropal.

Norman Day

(Melbourne), RMIT International University, Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and Can Tho University Learning Resource Center (Can Tho City, Vietnam) and Embassy for East Timor (Canberra).

Paris By Night 80

19. Xuân Mong Chờ (Lời Việt: Minh Châu) - Như Quỳnh

Phan Bá Vành

Phan Bá Vành (, died March 12, 1827), a native of Minh Giám village (now Vũ Tiên, Thái Bình Province in coastal northern Vietnam), was the charismatic leader of one of Vietnam's largest peasant uprisings against the Emperor Minh Mạng, the second emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty.

Political organizations and Armed forces in Vietnam

League for the National Union of Vietnam (Hội Liên hiệp quốc dân Việt Nam/Liên Việt), 1946–51, led by Bùi Bằng Đoàn (1889–1955), Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, Tôn Đức Thắng, included: Viet Minh, Democratic Party of Vietnam, Socialist Party of Vietnam, Marxism Research Association, Vietnam Nationalist Party and Vietnam Revolutionary League (since August 1946, minor group in Vietnam Nationalist Party and Vietnam Revolutionary League)...

Railway accidents in Vietnam

1982 - In what has been called "the worst tragedy" in Vietnam's railway history, over 200 people were killed when a train running from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City lost control at speeds of over 100 km/h and derailed near Bàu Cá, Đồng Nai Province, scattering the locomotives and coaches throughout the nearby terrain.

Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens

Located on Nguyen Binh Khiem Street in District 1, T.P. in Ho Chi Minh City, it is home to over a hundred species of mammals, reptiles and birds, as well as many rare orchids and ornamental plants.

The Redneck on Rainey Street

Kahn and Minh decide that hard work is nothing but drudgery and now live like beer-drinking, El Camino-driving rednecks, which nearly drive them to homelessness when they stop making payments on their house.

The Year of Washing Dangerously

As Kahn struggles with his tedious job and lack of prestige or luxury, he and Minh order a get-rich-quick video that they see advertised on television by "Dr. Money" (a parody of Tom Vu).

Trần Minh Tông

Trần Minh Tông (1300–1357), given name Trần Mạnh (), was the fifth emperor of the Trần Dynasty who ruled Đại Việt from 1314 to 1329.

United Issarak Front

In February 1953 UIF and Viet Minh forces ambushed and killed the governor of Prey Veng.

V-pop

In 1997, the annual Làn Sóng Xanh (literally "Green Wave") Awards were founded for the development of music, first with singer Lam Trường's "Tình Thôi Xót Xa," which was extremely popular amongst the young people of Ho Chi Minh City and marked a strong beginning for the domestic music market during the development of the new music of Vietnam (:vi:Tân nhạc Việt Nam).

VGU

Vietnamese-German University, a Vietnamese public university from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

William Lederer

The 1945 Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, written by Ho Chi Minh, begins by quoting from the American document.

WSKN

The programming included a weekly political debate panel with former Senate President Kenneth McClintock, Senate PDP Minority Leader Jose Luis Dalmau and Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH) leader, Dr. Hector Pesquera, and the "Luis Penchi Entrevista" 90-minute news interview program.

Xuyên Mộc District

Hồ Cốc beach nearby is also home to pristine seas and beautiful natural surroundings and make for popular week-end escapes for Ho Chi Minh City residents.