Sunday, November 22, 2009

Urban Sketchers: Seattle sketchcrawl at Volunteer Park

On view through December 13 at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art, First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection showcases drawings by Joseph Becker and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked as ...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Effective Spirit: Unreached People of the Day: Thai, Northern ...

Northern Thailand is the site of the early Mon kingdom which was founded in the sixth century. In the thirteenth century, the kingdom was conquered by the Thai. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the Thai forced the Mon to ...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Siam Booking Hotel: Ubon Ratchathani Province

Khong Chiam and the Mun river the biggest river of the khorat plateau, joins the mekong, which forms the north-eastern boundary of Thailand with Laos. It is called maenam song si or the mun river alluvium because the brown water from mekong river is .... Tham Phra or Tham Phu Ma Nai (ถ้ำพระหรือถ้ำภูหมาไน) - A stone inscription and Lingam base or 'Yoni' from the 7th-8th Century were found. Now the original stone inscription is kept in the National Museum, Ubon Ratchathani. ...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Angkor Wat – Steeped In History | Wells Hotels

Modern Cambodia is conflicting from a a single of a past, when it additionally enclosed places similar to China, Thailand, as well as Vietnam between multiform others. Jayavarman II finished this segment a core of his sovereignty as well as it ... The Europeans came up with a idea which a church was built after theâ€"th century since a temple's motifs demeanour only similar to a motifs from a Italian Renaissance. However, this gossip as well as claim was now valid wrong, ...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Let's Go Media: Thai minister hopes to recover Cambodian temple

Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga (picture) expressed his opinion on the controversy over the 11th century Preah Vihear temple as Thailand's relations with its neighbor have become badly strained. ...

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Riligions In Taiwan « Shihhenglin's Blog

Though Islam originated in the Arabian Peninsula , it had spread eastward to China as early as the 7th century AD. Muslim merchants married local Chinese women, creating a new Chinese ethnic group called the Hui people . Islam first reached Taiwan in the ... Since the 1980s, thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand, who are descendants of Nationalist soldiers who fled Yunnan as a result of the communist takeover, have migrated to Taiwan in search of a better life. ...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Diving with Bull Sharks in Koh Tao - Koh Tao, Thailand Travel Blog

Many were bungalow style, but old old wood that smelled musty as if the place hadn't had fresh air in a century. The beds were saggy and all the bathrooms had the combined showers. After a dozen places we decided that Bahn's was indeed ...