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Hỏa Lò Prison ( Vietnamese: [hwâː lɔ̀], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the " Hanoi Hilton ".
Lee's Sandwiches was founded by the Lê family, who owned a successful sugar refinery in An Giang Province in Vietnam before the Vietnam War and immigrated to the United States as boat people in July 1979. [10] [11] [4] After having lived briefly in New Mexico and Monterey, California, they settled in San Jose, California, in 1980. [1]
The Pizza Company (Thai: เดอะ พิซซ่า คอมปะนี) is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Bangkok, Thailand. With focus on pizza and Italian-American cuisine , it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Minor International (merged with The Minor Food Group).
The company was founded in 1948 by Earle Swensen, who learned to make ice cream while serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. [2] Swensen opened his first shop at the corner of Union and Hyde Streets, along the cable car tracks in Russian Hill in San Francisco at what had been a failed ice cream parlor. [3]
Website. shakeys .com. Shakey's Pizza is a pizza restaurant chain based in the United States and Philippines. [ 1] Founded in 1954, it was the first franchise pizza chain in the United States. [ 2][ 3] In 1968, the chain had 342 locations. [ 4] The chain had about 500 stores globally, and 58 in the United States, as of July 2019.
The first Magic Pan was a small place on Fillmore Street in San Francisco established by Hungarian immigrants Lazlo and Paulette Fono. Later, they opened a larger place in Ghirardelli Square. [2] The Quaker Oats Company acquired Magic Pan from the Fonos in 1970, and it became the company's primary restaurant chain. [3]
The Vietnam National Museum of History ( Vietnamese: Viện Bảo tàng Lịch sử Việt Nam) is in the Hoan Kiem district of Hanoi, Vietnam. The museum building was an archaeological research institution of the French School of the Far East under French colonial rule (Louis Finot École Française d'Extrême-Orient EFEO) of 1910, was ...
Supremo Italiano, Isabella and Qualite are all house brands" of Restaurant Depot. Pizza of Venice co-owner Jamie Woolner. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Wiener's book, which notes the box ...