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    protectorate of Laos (French: Protectorat français du Laos) was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893 and 1953—with a brief...
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  • d'Émission des États du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viet-nam (lit. '[note-]issuance authority of the states of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam'), also known as the...
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    end of French rule in Laos in 1953, Lao has been applied solely to the ethnic group while Laotian refers to any citizen of Laos regardless of their ethnic...
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    Route 7 of Laos, ເສັ້ນ ທາງ ເລກ 7 ຂອງປະເທດລາວ (ທ. 7) is a provincial road served from east to west in Xiangkhouang province, Laos. It runs from Nong Het...
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    fighting for independence. During their 1952–1953 campaign, the Viet Minh had overrun vast swathes of Laos, Vietnam's western neighbor, advancing as far...
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    population native to Laos is less significant than in Thailand and Vietnam, those communities reside in the southwestern tip of Laos, at the borders of...
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    Vietnam War (category Wars involving Laos)
    The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975....
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  • historian, biographer Claude Jutra, Histoire générale du cinéma au Québec Lilian Leveridge 1879 1953 poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles "Over the Hills...
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    French Indochinese piastre (category Currencies of Laos)
    francs was restored in 1953. The dual denominated notes circulated until 1955 in South Vietnam and Cambodia, and 1957 in Laos. The coin was first introduced...
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    French Indochina (category History of Laos)
    at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ. On 22 October and 9 November 1953, the Kingdom of Laos and Kingdom of Cambodia proclaimed their respective independences...
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    Pygmy slow loris (category Mammals of Laos)
    pygmaeus) is a species of slow loris found east of the Mekong River in Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia, and China. It occurs in a variety of forest habitats,...
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    in the Clandestine War in Laos. pp. xvi–xvii, 3. Classified Secret: Controlling Air Strikes in the Clandestine War in Laos. pp. 28, 37, 55, 80. Classified...
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  •  France:  North Vietnam (1945)  Lebanon (1946)  Syria (1946) Cambodia (1953)  Laos (1953) French India (1954)  South Vietnam (1948)  Indonesia  East Timor...
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    spread to neighboring countries and North Vietnam supported the Pathet Lao in Laos and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia against their respective US-supported governments...
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  • Vietnam Communist governments take power also in Laos and Cambodia Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961) John F. Kennedy (January 20...
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    First Indochina War (category Wars involving Laos)
    operations to support the French troops in Laos. To that end, during Operation SQUAW, from 5 May to 16 July 1953, the CIA used 12 pilots, officially employed...
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    Gendarmerie during the Congo Crisis. Kingdom of Laos: M38A1 MD version used by the Royal Lao Army during the Laotian Civil War (1954-1975).  Lebanon: M38A1 MD...
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    Hmong language (category Languages of Laos)
    widely used script for Hmong Daw and Mong Leeg, was developed in Laos between 1951 and 1953 by three Western missionaries. In the United States Hmong do not...
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  • did not intervene before 1959. Stuart-Fox, Martin (2008). History Dictionary of Laos (3rd ed.). Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-8108-5624-0....
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    Shaun Johnson (category New Zealand people of Laotian descent)
    [citation needed] Johnson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, his mother is Laotian and his father is a New Zealander. From the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Johnson...
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  • 7-Eleven (section Laos)
    Jasmina (September 1, 2020). "7-Eleven Convenience Stores to Enter Laos By 2022". Laotian Times. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved...
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    fighting, especially around Da Nang. Seventeen ARVN M41s were initially sent to Laos as part of Operation Lam Son 719 between February and March 1971, an abortive...
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    Hmong refugees from Laos to French Guiana during the 1970s and 80s, who were fleeing displacement after the communist takeover of Laos by Pathet Lao in 1975...
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  • recognized the West Bank as being part of Jordan. Laos gained full independence from France on 22 October 1953 Libya gained independence from a UN trusteship...
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    Squadron to conduct psychological warfare operations over South Vietnam and Laos. Miami Air International, Miami International Airport was a USAF military...
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  • Independence: August 31, 1991 (from the Soviet Union). 1 744 74401 Laos Far East Laos Independent State in the World Vientiane LA 1950-01-01 1 747 74701...
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  • transcribing various Hmongic languages, spoken by Hmong people in China, Vietnam, Laos, the United States, and Thailand, these being the top five countries. Over...
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  • arachnid by length is probably the giant huntsman spider (Heteropoda maxima) of Laos, which in 2008 replaced the Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi) of northern...
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    percent of those missing were airmen who were shot down over North Vietnam or Laos, usually over remote mountains, tropical rain forest, or water; the rest...
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  • as well as all of its Asian neighbors, including China, India, Vietnam, Laos, South Korea, and Thailand. The government is a member of most major international...
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