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Viet Dinh was the Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and the chief architect of the Patriot Act. In 2006, 15 Vietnamese Americans were running for elective office in California. [47] In August 2014, Fort Hood Col. Viet Xuan Luong became the first Vietnamese American general in U.S. history. [48]
Viet-Wah is a chain of Asian [1] / Vietnamese [2] supermarkets in the Seattle metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Washington. [3] Established in 1981, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] the business specializes in Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai products [ 6 ] and such as duck and quail eggs, noodles, seafood, [ 1 ] chicken hearts, and fish sauce .
Midtown, Memphis. Coordinates: 35.145°N 89.99°W. Midtown is a collection of neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee, to the east of Downtown . Midtown is home to many cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, and noteworthy pieces of architecture. [1] The district is an anchor in Memphis' arts scene, including the Playhouse on the ...
Cordova was a farming village east of Memphis with fewer than a dozen farms when it was founded in 1835. Cordova was renowned for the freshly cut flowers that were shipped to Memphis, Tennessee, thus the town's motto was "Farms, Flowers and Fellowship". [8] [9] Cordova has changed its name several times.
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [ 7 ] Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville . Memphis is the fifth-most populous ...
The history of Memphis, Tennessee and its area began many thousands of years ago with succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples. In the first millennium, it was settled by the Mississippian culture. The Chickasaw Indian tribe emerged about the 17th century, or migrated into the area. [ 1] The earliest European exploration may have encountered ...
High Point Terrace is generally geographically defined as being located north of Walnut Grove Road, east of North Highland Street, south of Summer Avenue and bounded on the east by North Graham Street. Sam Cooper Boulevard, a local freeway, cuts the northern section off from the rest of the neighborhood.
Harbor Town is a new urbanist -style neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Harbor Town sits atop 132 acres (53 hectares) on a sandbar in the Mississippi River known as Mud Island. It was developed in 1989, [1] and was a collaborative effort of Memphis developer Henry Turley, RTKL of Baltimore, and the Looney Ricks Kiss architectural firm from ...