She gives students a quick 10-minute history of calligraphy to give them an understanding ... applied to the pen can produce a different fonts — a thinner, more fine letter or a thicker version.

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own ...

The history of romanized Vietnamese, or Quoc Ngu, links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the ...

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Ahn Jung-geun is best known for his dramatic assassination of Japan's first prime minister in 1909 at a railway station.

At a calligraphy class ... across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a legacy of French colonial rule. The history of romanised Vietnamese ...