Hoi An is a city in Quang Nam Province in Vietnam. It is a popular tourist site near Danang. The old town area has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. It is a well-kept trading port that mixed native Vietnamese architecture with other types of architecture. Popular ways of traveling the nearby areas are by bicycle, motorcycle, kayak, and motorboat.
Ha Long Bay
Ha Long Bay is a popular tourist site and UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeast Vietnam. The site is famous for having many karsts off the coast.
Water puppetry
Water puppetry () is a type of puppet theater that has been played in Vietnam since the 11th century. It takes place in a pool where the puppeteers control puppets using a bamboo pole underwater.
Cu Chi Tunnels
The Cu Chi Tunnels was a tunnel system used by the Viet Cong to attack Saigon nearby during the Vietnam War. Throughout the war, Viet Cong would live in tunnels. These tunnels were often deep enough to protect Viet Cong from American bombers. Many of these tunnels were too small for most American soldiers to go into comfortably. They would often have traps that could injure or kill enemy soldiers.
Life (magazine)
Life was an American magazine published weekly until 1972. It later published monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, "Life" was a wide-ranging weekly general interest magazine known for the quality of its photography.
After 2000, Time Inc. continued to use the "Life" brand for special issues. "Life" returned as a weekly newspaperfrom 2004 to 2007.
On January 30, 2012, the LIFE.com URL became a photo channel on Time.com.
Wolfgang Gunkel
Wolfgang Gunkel (15 January 1948 – 20 May 2020) was an East German rower. He competed in coxed pairs together with Jörg Lucke. In this event he won the European title in 1971, the Olympic gold medal in 1972, and the world title in 1975. He was born in Berlin.
John Loengard
John Borg Loengard (September 5, 1934 – May 24, 2020) was an American photographer. He worked at "Life" magazine from 1961, and was its picture editor from 1973 to 1987. He taught at the International Center of Photography and at The New School for Social Research. He was born in New York City.
Loengard died on May 24, 2020 in New York City of heart failure, aged 85.
Granville, Manche
Granville (; Norman: "Graunville") is a commune in the Manche department and region of Normandy in north-western France.
The town is populated by 13,021 people, who are called "Granvillais".
Curtis Cokes
Curtis Cokes (June 15, 1937 – May 29, 2020) was an American boxer. He was born in Dallas, Texas. Cokes was the World Welterweight Champion. In 2003, Cokes was added into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Cokes died on May 29, 2020 of heart failure in Dallas, aged 82.
Evaldo Gouveia
Evaldo Gouveia de Oliveira (August 8, 1928 – May 29, 2020), better known as simply Evaldo Gouveia, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter. His works were MPB. He was born in Orós, Ceará. Gouveia released seven studio albums and many plays, most of them featuring fellow singers and .
On May 29, 2020, Gouveia died in Fortaleza, Ceará at the age 91 from COVID-19.
Henk Steevens
Henk Steevens (1932, Geleen – 29 May 2020) was a Dutch cyclist. Steevens won the GP of Aken and the Grote Continental Prijs of Hannover.
He was named together with Sjefke Janssen and Jan Nolten the “three of Elsloo”. They were all three part of the Dutch team at the 1953 Tour de France. He was part of the pre-selection for the 1954 Tour de France, but was not selected.
After his cycling career, he became team manager of “ Ovis en Driessen Stoffen”. His brother Harry Steevens was also a cyclist.
Steevens died on 29 May 2020, aged 88.
Harry Steevens
Henri "Harry/Harrie" Steevens (born 27 April 1945) is a retired Dutch cyclist. His career lasted from 1960 and 1972. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the individual road race and finished in 40th place.
Two years later he won a silver medal in the team time trial at the 1966 UCI Road World Championships. He also won the Olympia's Tour (1965), Ronde van Limburg (1966) and Amstel Gold Race (1968).
His brother Henk Steevens was also a cyclist.
Michael Angelis
Michael Angelis (18 January 1952– 30 May 2020) was a British actor. He was best known for his roles in "Boys from the Black Stuff" and "G.B.H.". He was the narrator of the British children's television series "Thomas and Friends" from 1991 to 2012. He was born in Liverpool, England.
Angelis died on 30 May 2020 of a heart attack in Berkshire, aged 68.
Bobby Dimond
Bobby Dimond (July 30, 1930 – May 30, 2020) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He played in the 1940s and 1950s and was known for his play with the national team. He was selected to play for Australia and was a member of the 1948 Kangaroo Tour. He played 20 matches on the tour and scored ten tries, but did not play in a test match.
He was born in Dapto, New South Wales. Dimond died on May 30, 2020 in Mexico City, aged 89.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (, ; born May 8, 1937) is an American author. He is part of the MacArthur Fellowship and writes very complex novels with deep meanings. He writes many different types of both fiction and non-fiction. For "Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction
Pynchon is from Long Island, New York, and served two years in the United States Navy. He also got a degree in English from Cornell University. He published many short stories in the late-1950s and early-1960s. After this, he started writing novels. He is most famous for the novels "V." (1963), "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966), and "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973) from this time.
Elsa Dorfman
Elsa Dorfman (April 26, 1937 – May 30, 2020) was an American portrait photographer. She was known for her use of a large-format instant Polaroid camera. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dorfman's principal published work, originally published in 1974, was "Elsa's Housebook - A Woman's Photojournal". She took pictures of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, and Robert Creeley. She also photographed staples of the Boston rock scene such as Jonathan Richman frontman of The Modern Lovers, and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
Dorfman died of kidney failure at her home in Cambridge on May 30, 2020 at the age of 83.
Fudan University
Fudan University () is a public research university in Shanghai, China. Most people think it is one of the best universities in China. It was founded in 1905, and was the first university in China started by the people instead of the government. Fudan is part of the C9 League of universities. The Chinese Ministry of Education calls the university a CLass A Double First Class University. This means they think it is very good.
Mady Mesplé
Mady Mesplé (7 March 1931 – 30 May 2020) was a French opera singer. She was a well known coloratura soprano in France. She was born in Toulouse, France. Her career lasted from 1953 to 1985.
Mesplé appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
During the 1960s, Mesplé appeared mant times on French television. She was also the first to sing the French version of Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers" in 1965, and Pierre Boulez chose Mesplé for his performances of Arnold Schoenberg's "Jacob's Ladder".
During the 1970s she added operettas to her repertoire, especially by Jacques Offenbach, such as "La Vie parisienne", "Orphée aux enfers" and "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein", opposite Régine Crespin.
She was made Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour in 2015 and honored with the Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite in 2019.
Mesplé died on 30 May 2020 in Toulouse from Parkinson's disease-related problems at the age of 89.
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