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And office. They could not be simpler.

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On the way to the airport we stopped at a marker by the lake which indicated where John McCain’s plane had crashed.

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Hanoi was the capital of the French Indochina and its Government House here was their seat of power.

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Dining room

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The prominent esthetic legacy of France in Hanoi are the wide leafy boulevards and the old colonial style houses.

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Around the corner was the Faculty of Chemistry of the Hanoi University of Science, established by the French in 1904, where the students’ dining room still consisted of long tables and short stools outdoors in an alley.

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Central plaza that is anchored by the venerable Opera House and the Metropole Hotel.

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The sexually explicit carvings and those of pregnant women encircling a Giarai tomb on display in the Museum were symbols of fertility for Austronesians, a linguistic group originally from the Southeast Asian islands.

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A striking example was the arts of the Giarai, now of the central Highland in Vietnam.

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The Museum labeled as the “Kinh Coran,” a Qur’an in the Arabic script of Kufi on palm leaves.

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