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	History of Thailand since 1973 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For most of the 1980s, Thailand was ruled by Prem Tinsulanonda, a general who took charge as head of the military government but who received a democratic mandate in 1983.
		The arrival of communist regimes on Thailand’s borders, the abolition of the 600-year-old Lao monarchy, and the arrival of a flood of refugees from Laos and Cambodia, turned public opinion in Thailand back to the right, and conservatives did much better in the 1976 elections than they had done in 1975.
		However, the Thailand of 1992 was not the Siam of 1932.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Thailand_since_1973 (1747 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - History of Thailand
		The history of Thailand begins with the migration of the Thais into what is now Thailand during the first millennium.
		Its independent history ended in 1558, when it fell to the Burmese; thereafter it was dominated by Burma and Ayutthaya in turn before falling to the army of the Siamese King Taksin in 1775.
		Thailand was not occupied by the Allies, but it was forced to return the territory it had gained to the British and the French.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/History_of_Thailand (1255 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Thailand since 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The known early history of Thailand begins with the earliest major archaeological site at Ban Chiang; dating of artefacts from this site is controversial, but there is a consensus that at least by 3600 BC, the inhabitants had developed bronze tools and had begun to cultivate wet rice, providing the...
		The history of Thailand from 1932 to 1973 was dominated by the military dictatorship which was in power for much of the period.
		The history of Isan has been determined by its geography: situated between Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, it has been dominated by each in turn, although its relative infertility meant it was more often a battleground than a prize.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Thailand-since-1973 (3524 words)

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		Thailand has been one of the staunchest allies of the United States in Southeast Asia for years.10 Subsequently U.S. aid has been one of the principal means by which the United States has sought direct influence in friendly countries.
		Thailand moved her new capital from Thonburi, which was on the left bank of the Chao Phraya River, to the present Bangkok location.25 In 1804, King Rama II of Bangkok placed Chao Anu of Vientiane, his personal friend, as the new king of Vientiane.
		Since then, there have been continuing efforts by Communist forces supported from Laos, North Vietnam, and Communist China to stir up discontent among the Thai villagers of the Northeast, who are often remote and sometimes isolated from the mainstream of thai society, represented by Central Thailand and symbolized by metropolitan Bangkok.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~karnchan/thai_isa.txt (19984 words)

	HISTORY OF THAILAND FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Later, Malay, Mon, and Khmer civilizations flourished in the region prior to the domination of the Thais, most notably the kingdom of Srivijaya in the south, the Dvaravati kingdom in central_Thailand and the Khmer_empire based at Angkor.
		This is reflected in the country's modern name, ''Prathet Thai'' (Thailand), used unofficially between 1939 and 1945 and officially declared on May_11, 1949, in which ''prathet'' means "nation" and ''thai'' means "free".
		Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December_21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed an alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand get back territories lost to the British and French colonial powers and Thailand undertook to assist Japan in her war against the Allies.
	www.mrspell.com /History_of_Thailand (1250 words)

	Thailand History, Thailand Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its independent history ended in 1558, when it fell to the Burmese; thereafter it was dominated by Burma and Ayutthaya in turn before falling to the army of King Taksin in 1775.
		As with the rest of Southeast Asia, Thailand was forced to become an ally of Japan by the Japanese military during World War II and even declared war on the United States and United Kingdom on January 25, 1942.
		Thailand’s stability depends to a large extent on the personal authority of the king, who turned 77 in December 2004 and is not in good health.
	www.thaiexotictreasures.com /new169967.html (3213 words)

	Diversity at PNNL - Women's HIstory Month, honorees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since her retirement from politics in 1982 she has lectured and written on human rights issues.
		Lerner is the foremost historian in defining the scope and importance of women’s history.
		Since she was young, she heard stories that had been handed down through the generations.
	diversity.pnl.gov /Topics/WHM/honorees/honorees.htm (10089 words)

	History of Thailand (1768-1932) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		From 1768 to 1932 the area of modern Thailand was dominated by Siam, an absolute monarchy with capitals briefly at Thonburi and later at Rattanakosin, both in modern-day Bangkok.
		In 1768 he was crowned as King Taksin (now officially known as Taksin the Great).
		The Chakri family now controlled all branches of Siamese government — since Rama I had 42 children, his brother the Uparat had 43 and Rama II had 73, there was no shortage of royal princes to staff the bureacracy, the army, the senior monkhood and the provincial governments.
	vb.game-host.org /en/History_of_Thailand_(1768-1932).htm (3073 words)

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		Since 1932, when a coup against the country's seven-hundred-year-old absolute monarchy stripped the king of all but behind-the-scenes influence, Thailand has seen eighteen military coups (one more than the number of general elections), and military strongmen have ruled for forty-eight of sixty years.
		Thailand today is one of the most prosperous nations in SEA...but she faces mnay serious problems...politically,economically and socially...
		Since Thailand is an agriculture and rural by nature...Poverty, however, in most cases, the problem I personally view as the problem stems from a a very regressive somestic economy.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~karnchan/thai_pol.txt (5080 words)

	Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia
		Thailand (with Laos), although seeking and accepting a diploma from China for its ruler as a king (wang), nevertheless is largely a sub-Indian rather than a sub-Chinese culture, with Theravada Buddhism and a Sanskrit-derived alphabet.
		Thailand's gross domestic product per capita was $2,010, but this translated into $6,320 in purchasing power parity, 18.5% of the United States, making it the 66th richest economy in the world, about the level of Romania, Columbia, and Tunisia.
		Since she had a British husband (who died in 1999), the government rather wished she would just leave the country and stay away, but for some reason it has not simply expelled her.
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	Theravada Buddhism
		King Rama I, founder of the current dynasty in Thailand, obtains copies of the Tipitaka from Sri Lanka and sponsors a Council to standardize the Thai version of the Tipitaka, copies of which are then donated to temples throughout the country.
		King Rama V of Thailand institutes a Sangha Act that formally marks the beginnings of the Mahanikaya and Dhammayut sects.
		The BE dates of well-documented historical events (particularly those in the twentieth century) may be off by one year, since the CE and BE calendars start their years on different months (January and May, respectively).
	www.accesstoinsight.org /history.html (1982 words)

	Ayutthaya kingdom - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Over the next four centuries the kingdom expanded to become the nation of Siam, whose borders were roughly those of modern Thailand, except for the north, the Kingdom of Lannathai.
		It was the one out of numerous invasions through out the history to Siam from the neighboring country Burma, which was the mightiest of all in South East Asia at the time.
		During the early 20th Century, Thailand, after learning lessons from Burma - a militarily stronger neighbor failed to protect itself from western powerhouse Britain in 1885, mostly used flexible and significantly compromising approach towards its counterparts including numerous western nations and Japan.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Ayutthaya_kingdom (3004 words)

	Thai Architecture: Bangkok, Thailand
		Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is a teeming city located at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River.
		In 1768 Burmese armies sacked Ayutthaya, destroying centuries of cultural heritage in an orgy of fiery destruction.
		Rama IV is Thailand's most famous King, depicted in the films "Anna and the King" and "The King and I." Both films are based on the conflated accounts of his English tutor, Anna Leonowens, who exaggerated her ties to the Siamese monarch.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /bangkok/BANGKOKMAP.htm (1695 words)

	A PAGE IN HISTORY 2005-2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A brief history of the Statue of Liberty and its importance to immigrants arriving in the United States through New York.
		Explore the history, culture, photographs, maps, and news of Albania and the Albanian territories.
		Multi-level timelines of the histories of Britain, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Kings and Queens.
	members.aol.com /letsgorngr/history.html (4801 words)

	Model Simulated Land Use/Cover Changes in Thailand -Results from AGENT-LUC Model
		The decision making process takes into consideration the prevailing bio-physical characteristics of the land, the economic condition, and the land use history along with the existing social apparatus in a given year, for arriving at the choice of the annual land use.
		In addition to the economic factor, the demographic condition (age distribution and educational levels) and the land use history are considered to help in arriving at a reasonable estimate for the changes in the land use patterns.
		The study area chosen to check the application of this model is the Royal Kingdom of Thailand, because land use/cover in Thailand has undergone dramatic modifications in the last century.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /aars/acrs/1999/ts5/ts5207pf.htm (2413 words)

	28 April History: This Date
		Since the Dawes Act was rescinded in 1934, however, tribal ownership and government have again become legal.
		Muslims in the region have long complained that Thailand's Buddhist majority subjects them to discrimination in jobs and education, and that the state schools teach in Thai language instead of the Muslims' Yawi, a dialect of Malay.
		He worked on geometry and in 1799 discovered the so-called Simson Line of a triangle [diagram >], which is the straight line (DEF in the diagram) on which are the feet of the perpendiculars to the three sides of a triangle from any point P on the circle circumscribed to the triangle [a proof].
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4apr/h4apr28.html (15213 words)

	History of Thailand (1768-1932) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the next reign this would prove to be an illusion, but it is true that the British saw Siam as a useful buffer state between British Burma and French Indochina.
		On June 24, 1932, while the king was holidaying at the seaside, the Bangkok garrison mutinued and seized power, led by a group of 49 officers known as "the Promoters." Thus ended 150 years of Siamese absolute monarchy.
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	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/History-of-Thailand-(1768-1932).htm (3137 words)

	History and Current Status of Systematic Research with Araceae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Another Dutch botanist, N. Burmann (1768), published Araceae in his Flora Indica, and C. Blume dealt extensively with Malesian Araceae (Blume, 1836-1837).
		Later he proposed an infrageneric system of classification for the genus Arisaema (Hara, 1971b), a system since adopted by Wu Cheng Yih and Li Heng (1979) and recently revised by Jin Murata (1984).
		This page was created by Scott E. Hyndman for the IAS on December 9, 2000.
	www.aroid.org /literature/croat/history/regional_studies.html (2553 words)

	06 Dec History: This Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Farm Gate squadrons were moved to Thailand in 1967, where they launched missions against the North Vietnamese forces in Laos.
		While reports were coming in describing Thailand as the Japanese destination, they began to question whether it could have been a diversion.
		This derision was perhaps unfair, since Lewis and Clark discovered in 1805 that the passage for which La Verendrye had been searching did not actually exist, and La Verendrye did deserve credit for opening new areas to French fur traders.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4dec/h4dec06.html (9732 words)

	michael parekh on IT: Current Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The political fall-out from all this is truly going to fill the history books, with folks at every level (federal, state, and local) that will eventually have to take some of the blame, and/or will have blame shoved upon them by all parties concerned.
		For those of you unfamiliar with India, Mumbai could be viewed as two-thirds New York, and one-third Hollywood, since besides being a commercial capital of the nation, it's also the home for the largest movie industry in the world, which also goes by the name Bollywood.
		Since Mumbai - formerly known as Bombay - and the surrounding area in Maharashtra state were last week hit by the worst rainfall since records began in 1846, the aftermath of the storms has continued to claim victims.
	mp.blogs.com /mp/current_affairs (12588 words)

	All National Women's History Month Honorees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 2005, Women's History Month theme, "Women Change America," honors and recognizes the role of American women in transforming culture, history and politics as leaders, writers, scientists, educators, politicians, artists, historians, and informed citizens.
		The National Women's History Project would like to thank Jennifer Kennedy, Christie Rubio, and Margaret Zierdt for their work in researching, writing, and editing the paragraphs on the 145 former National Women's History Week/Month Honorees.
		The National Women's History Project would like to thank Jennifer Kennedy, Christie Rubio, and Margaret Zierdt for their work in researching, writing, and editing the paragraphs on the 143 former National Women's History Week/Month Honorees.
	www.nwhp.org /whm/all-honorees.html (10326 words)

	The Food Timeline: history notes-meat
		The history of chicken fried steak (aka country fried steak) is a fabulous example of cultural diversity, regional pride and just plain confusion.
		The history of canning is generally traced to Nicolas Appert in 1795, who rose to Napoleon's challenge to invent a method to preserve food for military distribution.
		However, since there was a separate class of dish called saraih, which consisted of long and thin strips of meat, and since most modern dishes called kebab call for more or less cubical chunks, it seems likely that kabab was chunks rather than strips.
	www.foodtimeline.org /foodmeats.html (18685 words)

	Shiva Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One can get a breathtaking experience while riding on an elephant in the tropical jungles and south, watching different type of animals, easy rhinos, crocodiles or may be leopards and tigers.
		No wonder after the opening of its border to the outside world in 1951 NEPAL has since become a major tourist destination in the world.
		The citizens of China are requested to get their entry permit from China, since the entry points of Nepal will not provide Chinese Citizens with entry visa.
	www.shivaholidays.com /destina/destina.htm (2359 words)

	This Month in History, May
		Lina Medina of Peru becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at 5 years old.
		This is the first time in naval history where two enemy fleets fought without visual contact between warring ships.
		FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
	www.lawtergenealogy.com /bin/header/month05.html (8512 words)

	History (General) (Select Books - Southeast Asia Specialist)
		The Colonial Bastille, A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940
		History of the Malay Kingdom of Patani [ohio University Monograph 1990 Reprint]
		History of the Malay Kingdom of Patani [sejarah Kerajaan Melayu Patani]
	www.selectbooks.com.sg /subcat/301.htm (2524 words)

	ABCalendar - June, 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
		Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b.
		World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
	www.abcalendar.com /day/June-9 (547 words)

	December 2001 Archives :: WorldTravelWatch.com
		Based on information released by the FBI, the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa announced that U.S. and British citizens may be the targets of a terrorist attack, particularly at the Gold Mohur Hotel in Aden around the period of Christmas and...
		Tensions are increasing between these two countries that have fought two wars over Kashmir since their partition in 1947.
		The Mount Blanc tunnel between France and Italy, which has been closed since a catastrophic fire in March, 1999, is now scheduled to reopen in January after further safety tests are completed.
	www.worldtravelwatch.com /archives/2001_12.shtml (1700 words)

	Timeline Of Golf History, 1353 - 1997
		Since Jones is an amateur, however, the financial windfall belongs to professional Bobby Cruickshank, who bets on Jones to complete the Slam, at 120-1 odds, and pockets $60,000.
		The R and A, after 38 years, adopts the 1.68 inch diameter ball, and for the first time since 1910 The Rules of Golf are standardized throughout the world.
		The initial Solheim Cup is played at Lake Nona G.C., Orlando, commencing a biennial USA vs. Europe competition for women, a recognition of the growing strength of women's golf on both sides of the Atlantic.
	www.asmwest.com /golf/timeline.html (7434 words)

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