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Vietnam Wound Medal The Vietnam Wound Medal was a military decoration of South Vietnam which was first created in 1950. The decoration is the Vietnamese equivalent of the Purple Heart and is awarded to any personnel of the Vietnamese military who, while engaged in armed combat with enemies of the Republic of Vietnam, are either killed or wounded in action.
Vietnamese alphabet The Vietnamese alphabet, called chữ quốc ngữ (script of the national language), usually shortened to quốc ngữ (national language), is the current writing system for the Vietnamese language. It is based on the Latin alphabet (more specifically the Portuguese alphabet) with some digraphs and the addition of nine accent marks or diacritics — four of them to create additional sounds, and the other five to indicate the tone of each word.
Vietnamese American National Gala The Vietnamese American National Gala (VANG), was founded by Ryan Nguyen Hubris. It is a national annual celebration of Vietnamese heritage and pride, which is held in conjunction with the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a month-long celebration in May of each year, which honors the achievements of Asian Pacific Americans and recognizes their contributions to America.
Vietnamese American Youth Alliance of San Diego The Vietnamese American Youth Alliance of San Diego (VAYA), a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization, was founded in 2003 as a means for youths to organize and contribute to the local community. Hundreds of young Vietnamese American volunteers ranging from high school students, to college students, to career professionals gather to conduct educational and charitable programs.
Vietnamese Canadian The Vietnamese began arriving in Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Most were sponsored by churches in Ontario and settled in areas around Southern Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Vietnamese Community at the National University of Singapore The Vietnamese Community at the National University of Singapore (VNCNUS) is a community of the Vietnamese people attending the National University of Singapore. Founded in 2000 with an initially modest size of tens of members, the organization has now grown into the largest community of Vietnamese in Singapore with over 500 members.
Vietnamese Council of Ministers The Vietnamese Council of Ministers is entrusted by the 1980 Constitution with managing and implementing the governmental activities of the state. It is described in that document as "the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the highest executive and administrative state body of the highest body of state authority.
Vietnamese Council of State The Vietnamese Council of State is the highest standing body of the National Assembly of Vietnam. Its members, who serve as a collective presidency for Vietnam, are elected from among National Assembly deputies.
Vietnamese Famine of 1945 The Vietnamese Famine of 1945 (Vietnamese: Nạn đói Ất Dậu - Famine of the Ất Dậu Year) was a famine that occurred in northern Vietnam from October 1944 to May 1945, during the Japanese occupation of the country. Between 400,000 and 2 million people are estimated to have starved to death during this time.
Vietnamese International Film Festival First started in 2003, the Vietnamese International Film Festival (also known as ViFF) is a biennial film festival organized by the non-profits Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and UCLAs VietNamese Language and Culture (VNLC). ViFF takes place at the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los Angeles, and locations in and near the Little Saigon area of Orange County, California.
Vietnamese language Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữAnother variant, tiếng Việt Nam, is rarely used by native speakers and is likely a neologism from translating literally from a foreign language. It is most often used by non-native speakers and mostly found in documents translated from another language.
Vietnamese literature Vietnamese literature is literature, both oral and written, created by Vietnamese-speaking people. For much of its history, Vietnam was dominated by China and as a result much of the written work during this period was in Classical Chinese.
Vietnamese martial arts Vietnamese martial arts are influenced by efforts to defend the country from foreign occupations (China, France, and Japan) and also by the people whom Vietnam conquered (Champa and Mien). The most influential in the country's martial arts is China with its thousand-year occupation of Vietnam.
Vietnamese Martyrs The Vietnamese Martyrs also known as the Martyrs of Tonkin, Martyrs of Annam or Martyrs of IndoChina, are saints on the Roman Catholic calendar of saints canonized by Pope John Paul II. Their feast day is 24 November although several of these saints have another memorial day as they were beatified and on the calendar prior to the canonization of the group.
Vietnamese name Vietnamese names generally consist of three parts: a family name, a middle name, and a given name, used in that order. Like their Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and some of their Thai counterparts, this is in accordance to the East Asian system of personal names.
Vietnamese nobility During Vietnam's Annam Empire, Vietmanese nobility were classified into nine classes, with names similar to their Chinese equivalent. These are listed here from the highest to the lowest, along with their equivalent European titles.
Vietnamese people The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other ethnic groups in Vietnam.
Vietnamese people in Hong Kong Many of the Vietnamese people in Hong Kong reside there largely because of the war and instability in Vietnam for so many years. The illegal entry of Vietnamese refugees was a problem that plagued the Hong Kong government for 25 years.
Vietnamese pronouns Vietnamese pronouns are more accurately forms of address. Its concept is different from that in European languages, so its forms of address do not neatly fall into the grammatical person classifications created by European grammarians.
Vietnamese Professionals Society The Vietnamese Professionals Society (or VPS in short) is a non-profit worldwide membership organization of Vietnamese professionals of various technical, economic, medical, legal field. Its mission is to increase the knowledge and understanding of the social and economic conditions in Vietnam, to promote the welfare of the Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese Quoted-Readable VIetnamese Quoted-Readable, usually abbreviated VIQR, is a convention for writing Vietnamese using ASCII characters. Because the Vietnamese alphabet contains a complex system of diacritical marks, VIQR requires the user to type in a base letter, followed by one or two characters that represent the diacritical marks:
Vietnamese Scout Association-Hội Huớng Đạo Hội Huớng Đạo Việt Nam, the Vietnamese Scout association, presently exists in exile, and may be reforming within Vietnam itself. There are reports of clandestine Scouting activities in Vietnam dating from 1994Report on clandestine Scouting in Vietnam (1994) and 2002Report on clandestine Scouting in Vietnam (2002) .
Vietnamese Student Association The Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) refer to campus-based not-for-profit student groups located all over the world in areas where communities of overseas Vietnamese exist. It is also known as Hội Sinh Viên Việt Nam (postsecondary) or Hội Học Sinh Việt Nam (secondary) in Vietnamese.
Vietnow "Vietnow" is a single by Rage Against the Machine, which appears on their Evil Empire album. The song is in reference to extremely popular right-wing radio shows, mostly on the AM dial, hosted by people such as Rush Limbaugh, G.
Vietri di Potenza Vietri di Potenza is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni of Balvano, Caggiano (SA), Picerno, Romagnano al Monte (SA), Salvitelle (SA), Savoia di Lucania.
Vietri sul Mare Vietri sul Mare (translated "Vietri on the Sea") is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is a popular tourist attraction because it is a convenient entrance to the Amalfi Coast drive.
Vieuphoria Vieuphoria is a long form music video by The Smashing Pumpkins originally released on VHS on October 4, 1994. It was reissued as a DVD on November 26, 2002, in a special edition that included other bonus features.
Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway The Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway was a controversial mostly-elevated never-built freeway that would have cut through the French Quarter (Vieux Carré) of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. From 1964 to 1969, it was also designated Interstate 310.
Vieux Farka Touré Vieux Farka Touré is a Malian singer and guitarist, and son of one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians Ali Farka Touré. Vieux's debut solo album, released online in Fall 2006 and in retail worldwide February 2007, features Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté on several tracks.
Vieux Luxembourg Vieux Luxembourg by Villeroy and Boch of the oldest European] [[porcelain manufacturers, Villeroy & Boch’s first pattern, Vieux Luxembourg, which still sells extremely well, was commissioned for Louis XV in 1745.
Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains is a town in the south-west of France. During the 70's, an artificial lake and a touristic complex were created and named "Port d'Albret ", this complex was built in the territory of Vieux-Boucau and the nearby town Soustons.
Vieux-château de l'Île d'Yeu The Vieux-château de l'île d'Yeu (Old castle of the Isle of Yeu), built in the 14th century, covers three centuries of island history. It is located on the île d'Yeu off the French Atlantic coast in the département of Vendée.
View (database) In database theory, a view is a virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query. Unlike ordinary tables (base tables) in a relational database, a view is not part of the physical schema: it is a dynamic, virtual table computed or collated from data in the database.
View Askew Productions View Askew Productions is a film production company, created by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier in 1994, responsible for such cult film's as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II. Together, these films create the View Askewniverse, and characters recur within them.
View Askew timeline 'The View Askew Timeline' shows the works of Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, such as comic books and feature films, chronologically. This timeline appears in the 'The View Askewniverse 10th Anniversary Almanac' (1)released in 2004.
View Askewniverse The View Askewniverse is a fictional universe created by Kevin Smith, featured in several films, comics and a television series; it is named for Smith's production company, View Askew Productions. The characters Jay and Silent Bob appear in almost all the View Askewniverse media, and characters from one story often reappear or are made reference to in others.
View camera The view camera is a type of camera with a very long history (some modern examples are often mistaken for antiques), but they are still used today by professional and amateur photographers who want full control of their images. The view camera is basically a light-tight assembly composed of a flexible mid-section, or bellows, attached to a device that holds a film sheet, photo plate or digital imager at one end (the rear standard) and a similar one that holds the lens at the other end (the front standard).
View from a height First published in 1963 by Isaac Asimov, the book View from a Height (ISBN 0-380-00356-2) covers a wide range of topics about biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy and many other fields of science. One of his many non-fiction works, the book has a wide variety of chapters discussing topics that interest him.
View from the Vault, Volume Three View from the Vault, Volume Three is the third release in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead. This volume features the June 16, 1990 show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View and bonus material from a show at the same venue on October 3, 1987.
View From The Vault, Volume One View from the Vault, Volume One is the first release in a series of DVDs and companion soundtracks by the Grateful Dead known as "View from the Vault". The audio is taken from the soundboard and the video from the video screnes at the concerts.
View Magazine View Magazine is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Hamilton, Ontario area in Canada. It covers the cities and towns of Ancaster, Burlington, Stoney Creek, Glanbrook, Dundas, Flamborough, and Hamilton.
View of Arles, Flowering Orchards View of Arles, Flowering Orchards is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, executed in spring 1889, one of several paintings he produced on the subject of Flowering Orchards while living in Arles. It supplies a view across a canal and the poplars on its board towards the historical center of Arles, with the towers of Saint-Trophime and Notre-Dame-le-major to the left, and the quarters of the Zouave Regiment to the right.
View of Geelong View Of Geelong is an 1856 oil painting on canvas by Eugene von Guerard. The painting is currently owned by the City of Greater Geelong after being purchased from English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for AUD$3.
View of Toledo View of Toledo, sometimes called Toledo in a Storm, is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). The other, called View and Plan of Toledo lies at Museo Del Greco, Toledo, Spain.
View Ridge, Seattle, Washington View Ridge is a neighborhood in north Seattle, Washington. As with all Seattle neighborhoods, its boundaries are not fixed, but can be thought of as NE 65th Street in the south, beyond which is Hawthorne Hills; 40th and 45th Avenues NE in the west, beyond which is Wedgwood; the Sand Point Country Club in the north, beyond which is Matthews Beach; and Sand Point Way NE in the east, beyond which is Sand Point.
View tax According to some accounts, the view tax is the informal name for a tax proposed by the New Hampshire State Legislature in 2006 that would increase the property tax rate on a residence that has a "pleasing view" (the exact wording of the bill has not yet been determined) throughout the state. The tax has been implemented in some municipalities since 2003.
View-Master factory toxic waste site The former View-Master factory in Beaverton, Oregon, was a toxic waste site where workers were unknowingly exposed to excessive levels of the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), a known carcinogen. At the factory, which closed in the 1980s, it is estimated that up to 25,000 workers were exposed to dangerous levels of TCE via the factory's drinking water, which was drawn from a well on-site.
Viewdata In telecommunication, a viewdata is a Videotex implementation, a type of information-retrieval service in which a subscriber can (a) access a remote database via a common carrier channel, (b) request data, and (c) receive requested data on a video display over a separate channel.
Viewfinder (short story) Viewfinder by Raymond Carver is one of the short stories in the "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" compilation. It is told in the first person perspective of a man who is visited by an elderly man with hook hands.
ViewGL ViewGL is a downloadable program developed by Aerials Express that provides updated aerial photography content through Google Earth. The development of ViewGL reflects a core issue confronting Google Earth's mission to accurately represent the planet Earth: data management.
Viewing In funeral services, a viewing (sometimes called reviewal, funeral visitation or a wake in the United States and Canada) is the time that the family and friends come to see the deceased after they have been prepared by a funeral home. Most bodies that are viewed in the Western world are embalmed.
Viewing angle In display technology parlance, viewing angle is the maximum angle at which a display can be viewed with acceptable [The image may seem garbled, poorly saturated, of poor contrast], blurry or too faint outside the stated viewing angle, the exact mode of "failure" being dependent on the display type in question. For example, some [[projection screen|projection screens reflect more light perpendicular to the screen and less light to the sides, making the screen appear much darker (and sometimes colors distorted) if the viewer is not in front of the screen.
Viewing frustum In 3D computer graphics, the viewing frustum or view frustum is the region of space in the modeled world that may appear on the screen; it is the field of view of the notional camera. The exact shape of this region varies depending on what kind of camera lens is being simulated, but typically it is a frustum of a rectangular pyramid.
Viewpoint (video game) Viewpoint is an arcade game isometric shooter, designed by Sammy and released in 1992 by SNK for the Neo-Geo arcade platform. By default, 1P and 2P can only play one after another; in the Service Mode though, simultaneous gameplay can be enabled.
Viewpoints Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture. Originally developed in the 1970s by dance choreographer Mary Overlie, Viewpoints theory was adapted for stage actors by directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau.
Views from the Real World Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago, as recollected by his pupils published in 1973, considered to be one of the best introductions to the ideas of G. I.
Views on Ahmadiyyat Ahmadis (Urdu: احمدیہ Ahmadiyya), are followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. They comprise two subsects, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (sometimes called the 'Qadiani' community, after Qadian, India, though this term is considered offensive by some [1]) and the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam).
Views on the 2003 invasion of Iraq The events surrounding the 2003 invasion of Iraq have led to numerous expressions of opinion with respect to the war. This page contains links to several topics relating to views on the invasion, and the subsequent occupation of Iraq.
ViewSonic ViewSonic is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including tablet PCs and wireless monitors. ViewSonic's headquarters are located in Walnut, California, United States.
Viewtiful Joe Viewtiful Joe is a video game developed by Capcom's Capcom Production Studio 4 design team "Team Viewtiful". The other games in the series, including the PS2 port of the first game, have been made by Clover Studio.
ViewTrip ViewTrip is a website from Galileo. It allows people who have booked travel plans to view, print and e-mail their itineraries and electronic tickets on the Internet by typing in their reservation number and last name.
ViewVC ViewVC (formerly ViewCVS) is an open source tool for viewing the contents of CVS and SVN repositories using a web browser. It allows you to look at specific revisions of files as well as side by side diffs of different revisions.
VigadĂł Concert Hall VigadĂł (usually translated as "Place for Merriment") is located on the left side of the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. Although the acoustics of Budapest's second largest concert hall are sadly lacking, the building itself, designed by Frigyes Feszl in 1859 makes a bold impression along the Pest embankment.
Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir (Tvøroyri, 1 March 1934) is an artist from the Faroe Islands, most famous internationally for producing a collage of 12 motives from Ormurin Langi (‘The Long Serpent’) that resultet in a series of stamps from Postverk Føroya released in 2006.
Vigen Vigen (pronounced "Vee-gen," with the "g" having the same sound as in the word "game") is a moderately popular Armenian name. A notable person who bore the name Vigen was the Armenian-Iranian pop singer of the 60's and 70's Vigen Derderian.
Vigen Derderian Vigen Derderian (November 23 1929-October 26, 2003), known as "Soltan of Pop" and "Soltan of Persian jazz", was a hugely popular Armenian-Iranian pop music singer. He is famous throughout the Near East.
Vigesimal The vigesimal or base- numeral system is based on twenty (in the same way in which the ordinary decimal numeral system is based on ten). Twenty is the sum of all fingers and toes on a normal human being's hands and feet, and is the product of five and four.
Viggo Kampmann Viggo Olfert Fischer Kampmann () (July 21 1910–June 3 1976) was the leader of the Danish Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Denmark from 19 February 1960 until 3 September 1962. His cabinet before the 1960 election was called the Cabinet of Viggo Kampmann I and the cabinet he formed after that election was called the Cabinet of Viggo Kampmann II.
Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen, professor at Uppsala University, Department of Mathematics, is a Swedish mathematician/logician and expert on domain theory and recursion theory (also known as computability theory). Viggo received his PhD in Mathematics (titled "On Priority Arguments In Friedberg Theories") from University of Toronto in 1973, supervised by Douglas Clarke.
Vigia (mountain) Vigia (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEC: Vijia also in the SĂŁo Vicente Crioulo) is a volcanic mountain in the northwestern part of the island of Boa Vista. The mountain is accessed with a remote road linking with the island capital of Sal Rei.
Vigil India Movement Vigil India Movement (Vigil India) is a non-governmental organization based in Bangalore that aims to protect and promote human rights in India. Founded in 1977, it is one of the country's leading human rights organizations.
Vigilance committee A vigilance committee, in the 19th century United States, was a group of private citizens who organized themselves for self-protection. The committees were established in areas where there was no local law enforcement, or where the local government was ineffectual, corrupt, or unpopular.
Vigilance committee (trade union) A vigilance committee is an unofficial grouping within a trade union, formed for the purpose of putting pressure on that union's leadership to pursue alternative policies or to pursue existing policies with increased vigour. Vigilance committees are usually formed when large numbers of union members disagree with the union's official policy, believe that they cannot trust the leadership to protect their interests properly, or that it is necessary for union members to scrutinise the actions of the leadership.
Vigilant (novel) Vigilant is a science fiction novel written by the Canadian author James Alan Gardner, published in 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints.HarperCollins, Avon, SFBC/Avon-Eos; paperback edition 1999, Eos Books.
Vigilant (yacht) 'Vigilant' was the victorious United States defender of the eighth America's Cup in 1893 against British challenger Valkyrie II. Vigilant was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, RI.
Vigilante A vigilante is someone who takes enforcement of law or moral code into their own hands. The term vigilante stems from the name "Vigiles Urbani" given to the nightwatchmen of Ancient Rome who were tasked with fighting fires and keeping a lookout for runaway slaves and burglars.
Vigilante 8 Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat video game released in 1998 for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color. It is a spinoff of the PC game Interstate '76, and features several concepts (auto-vigilantes, the 1970s time frame, and specific fictional vehicle companies) carried over from that title.
Vigilante Bolus The Vigilante bolus is an insecticide used with both dairy and beef cattle to reduce the number of flies in an area. It works by releasing an IRG (Insect Growth Regulator) that stops the development of insects before they become flies.
Vigilante Force Vigilante Force was a 1976 action movie concerning a Vietnam veteran (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies, who are hired by his brother (Jan-Michael Vincent) and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field workers. The vets control the rowdy intruders but also take over the town for their own not-always-legal purposes.
Vigipirate Vigipirate (French: Plan Vigipirate) is France's national security alert system. Created in 1978 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, it has since been activated three times: in 1995 (following an Islamist terror bombing campaign), 2000, and 2003.
Viglen Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services. The British company was formed in 1975 and was acquired by Amstrad in 1994.
Vignan Engineering College Vignan's Engineering College is one of the Engineering Colleges in Guntur, offering both graduate (Masters) and under-graduate (Bachelors) courses in Engineering and Technology. It is located at Vadlamudi countryside a suburban region of Guntur City, India.
Vignette (literature) In theatre and script writing, vignettes are short, impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give one impression about a character, an idea, or a setting. This type of scene is more common in recent postmodern theater, where adherence to the conventions of theatrical structure and story development are jettisoned.
Vignette (professional wrestling) In professional wrestling, the term vignette is usually used to describe any piece of video footage featuring characters or events which is shown to the audience for the purposes of entertainment or edification.
Vignette (road tax) Vignettes are small, coloured stickers affixed to motor vehicles passing through motorways and motorroads in some European nations, such as Switzerland and Austria. The affixing of a vignette on a motor vehicle indicates that the respective road toll has been paid.
Vigo Vigo is the most important city in Galicia, Spain and is located in the province of Pontevedra. According to the 2005 census, the population of the city of Vigo proper was 293,725, and the population of the entire metropolitan area was estimated to be 420,672, ranking as the 14th-largest metropolitan area of Spain.
Vigo County School Corporation Vigo County School Corporation (VCSC) is a school corporation that services Terre Haute, Indiana along with the rest of Vigo County, Indiana. The corporation is lead by superintendent Daniel Tanoos and by the Board of Trustees including: Gene Shike, President; Jackie Lower, Vice-President; Mel Burks, Secretary; Paul Lockhart, Deputy Secretary; Joseph Minnis, member; Michael Tom, member; and Guille Cox, member.
Vigo Metropolitan Area Vigo Metropolitan Area located in Galicia (Spain) is formed by the city of Vigo and the surrounding municipalities of Baiona, Cangas, Fornelos de Montes, Gondomar, Moaña, Mos, Nigrán, O Porriño, Pazos de Borbén, Ponteareas, Redondela, Salceda de Caselas, Salvaterra de Miño, Soutomaior and Tui.
Vigoroth are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Vigoroth in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors The Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors (VBSW) is an organization opposed to the ruling Burmese military junta in Burma. Considered by some a terrorist organization, in October 1999 they gained notoriety by raiding and holding hostages at the consulate of Myanmar in Bangkok, Thailand.
Vigreux column A Vigreux column is laboratory glassware used as a type of fractionating column for fractional distillations. It is usually attached to a still at the bottom, and to a condenser at the top using ground glass joints.
Viguiera parishii Viguiera parishii, also known as Parish goldeneye or shrubby goldeneye, is a flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to the southwestern United States, including southern California, far southern Nevada, and much of Arizona, as well as adjacent parts of northwest Mexico (Baja California and Sonora).
Vihan Veljet Vihan Veljet (literal translation from Finnish: "Brothers of Hate") was a militant clandestine group within the Akateeminen Karjala-Seura (AKS). They swore a blood oath to foster and uphold hatred toward the Russian people.
Vihren Peak Vihren Peak is a sharp peak in Levski Ridge of the Tangra Mountains in eastern Livingston Island of Antarctica. The peak is named after the summit of the Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria, overlooks Huron Glacier to the north-northwest and Magura Glacier to the southeast, and is about 1150 m.
Vihuela Vihuela is a name given to two different guitar-like string instruments: one from 16th century Spain, usually with 12 paired strings, and the other, the Mexican vihuela, from 20th century Mexico with five strings and typically played in Mariachi bands.
Vichama In Inca mythology, Vichama is the god of death and the son of Inti. His mother was murdered by his half-brother Pachacamac, and he took revenge by turning the humans who were created by Pachacamac into rocks and islands.
Vichit Kounavudhi Vichit Kounavudhi (Thai: วิจิตร คุณาวุฒิ , 1922-1997, born in Chachoengsao, Thailand) was a Thai film director and screenwriter. His works include the docudrama Son of the Northeast.
Vichitravirya In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Vichitravirya (Sanskrit: विचित्रवीर्य, vichitravīrya) is the younger son of queen Satyavati and king Santanu. Chitrangada, the elder brother of Vichitravirya, succeeded Santanu to the throne of Hastinapura.
Vichy France Vichy France, or the Vichy regime, was the French government from 1940 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation of the country during World War II. Now known in French as the Régime de Vichy or Vichy, during its existence it referred to itself as L'État Français (The French State).
Viikate Viikate (English: "The Scythe") is a Finnish heavy metal rock band, formed in 1996. It is known for its melancholy lyrics, drawing inspiration from Finnish romance movies of the 1950s and Finnish singers of the era, including Reino Helismaa.

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