Search results for "History of Thailand (1932-1973)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...
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  • 1927 - October 13, 2016), born in the Year of the Rabbit), was the King of ... The root of Bhumibol's longevity and endurance lay in his popularity ...
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  • The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...
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  • ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...
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  • 1967). In 1931, Aikawa acquired a majority of shares in the automaker DAT ... In the 1950s, the management of Nissan made a conscious decision to ...
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  • ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...
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  • The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... power for the first and only time in its history, an occupation that lasted ...
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  • The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...
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  • A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration ... A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is ...
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  • ) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean ... and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometers long). Consequently ...
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  • Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...
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  • obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...
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  • refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately ... A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, protists, algae, ...
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  • Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players ... above; the team with more points at the end of the game wins. The ball can ...
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