Vietnamese sovereignty over the Paracels dated back at least to the early 19th century, when Emperor Gia-Long sent a detachment to Hoang Sa Island, it remained until the establishment of French protectorate over Annam, when France assumed responsibility for the islands.

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⁽¹⁾ There were bowls of dried olives, swimming in olive oil and flavored with garlic and orange peel; there was celery, and sweetly aromatic finnocchio, and wafer thin Italian ham. ⁽²⁾ This was a big room, and my mother’s pride. It opened directly onto the back yard, where stood the stone oven, old-country style, in which my mother, once a week, baked her bread, and where she had her own little garden of fresh spices and Italian greens — basilica, finnocchio, Italian parsley, leaf-chicory, and so on.

Asociality is a symptom frequently observed in schizophrenia patients.