Erawan Museum in Samut Prakan (Bangkok, Thailand)
In the south-side of Bangkok stands an enormous 44 metre tall, 250 ton, three-headed elephant surrounded by a beautiful tropical flower garden filled with sculptures from Thai legend. Within the elephant itself is a museum which charts the religious influence that has shaped Thai culture. You can easily spend the best part of a day lost in the serene tranquillity of the place.
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Morning at the Mae Kok-River in Thaton - Chiang Mai - Thailand
Auf dem Kok-River ( Mae Kok ), kann man von Thaton bis Chiang Rai, mit dem Floß fahren. Thaton ist ein guter Ausgangspunkt, für viele Touren aller Art! ( Trekking, Bikes,
Kanu usw..) In der Umgebung gibt es einge Bergvölker. Es gibt vieles zu Entdecken!!!
???????? СВОИМ ХОДОМ КОРОЛЕВСКИЙ ДВОРЕЦ БАНГ ПА-ИН ⛲ ПРОВИНЦИЯ АЮТТАЙЯ ТАЙЛАНД ⛪ ROYAL PALACE AYUTTHAYA
Самый колоритный и неординарный способ съездить на экскурсию своим ходом в провинцию Аюттайя – это отправиться туда на поезде. Поезда в Аюттайю из Бангкока ходят часто, билеты стоят дёшево, ехать недалеко
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❤ СМОТРИТЕ ВИДЕО И ЧИТАЙТЕ ИНФОРМАЦИЮ О НАШИХ ПУТЕШЕСТВИЯХ В ПРОВИНЦИИ АЮТТАЙЯ -
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Bang Pa In Palace (тайск. พระราชวังบางปะอิน) - летняя резиденция королей Тайланда, также известная как Летний Дворец. Банг Па-Ин - архитектурно-парковый ансамбль - расположен в 61 км к северу от Бангкока на берегу реки Чаупхрая, провинция Аюттхая. Bang Pa-In - это дворец с красивыми постройками, скульптурными композициями, водными объектами и экзотическими растениями.
Летний дворец Бангпаин был полностью перестроен во время правления Рамы V Чулалонгкорна специально для того, чтобы король мог принимать европейских посланников и правителей в более привычной для них обстановке. Именно поэтому Банг-Паин меньше всего похож на классические тайские дворцы.
В марте 1891-го года в своем путешествии по Азии в летнем дворце гостил будущий император России — Николай II.
СООРУЖЕНИЯ ЛЕТНЕГО ДВОРЦА
Дворец разделен на 2 зоны, одна из которых является внутренней зоной, которую королевская семья может использовать в качестве места отдыха, а другая зона , открыта для обычных людей и туристов.
★ Divine Seat of Personal Freedom (Aisawan Thiphya-At) Плавучий павильон
Это единственное здание в Summer Palace в тайском стиле посередине озера. Бронзовая статуя Рама V была установлена его сыном. Павильон - копия строения в Большом дворце в Бангкоке.
★ Excellent and Shining Heavenly Abode (Warophat Phiman) Отличная Небесная Обитель
Одноэтажный особняк, содержащий тронный зал Чулалонгкорна. Он богато оформлен в европейском аристократическом стиле.
★ Sages' Lookout (Ho Withun Thasana) Башня обсерватории, маяк
Король Чулалонгкорн в 1881 году построил обсерваторию, с вершины которой открывается превосходная панорама дворцового комплекса. Рама V любил наблюдать отсюда за звездами. Посетители могут свободно подниматься по лестнице и наслаждаться видами сверху.
★ Exhibition Hall (Saphakhan Ratchaprayun) Выставочный зал
Двухэтажное здание в колониальном стиле, первоначально построенное для братьев короля. В здании сейчас находится небольшой музей, рассказывающий об истории дворца
★ Heavenly Light (Wehart Chamrun) Китайский дворец
Этот роскошный дворец в китайском стиле построен Китайской торговой палатой в 1889 году, выделяется красотой, позолотой, темным деревом и инкрустирован перламутром. Не забудьте осмотреть внутри дворца огромную скульптуру дракона, вырезанную из верблюжьей кости (в наш визит он был закрыт на реконструкцию)
★ Memorial to Queen Sunanda Kumariratana Мемориал королеве Сунанде Кумариратане
С некоторыми из памятников дворца связана грустная история. В 1881 году на глазах у всего королевского двора утонула молодая королева Сунанда. Королева и ее единственная дочь направлялись во дворец Банг Па-Ин, когда королевская лодка перевернулась. В то время, согласно тайскому законодательству, прикосновение к королевской семье наказывалось смертью, поэтому слуги беспомощно смотрели, как они тонули. Король Чулалонгкорном в память о любимой супруге воздвиг памятник. Другой памятник рядом - членам королевской семьи, погибшим в той же аварии.
★ Wat Niwet Thamprawat
Через реку от Дворца находится еще одно сооружение короля Чулалонгкорна. Это буддийский храм, хитро замаскированный под готическую церковь (о нем смотрите в нашем следующем видео о Банг Па-Ин, часть 3)
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Прилетев в Бангкок из Москвы, мы переночевали в отеле True Siam Phayathai Hotel. А на следующее утро, оставив багаж в камере хранения отеля, налегке отправились в 2-х дневное путешествие в Аюттайя с Samsen railway station в Бангкоке. Время в пути на электричке до Bang Pa-In - 1 час 10 мин
✦ Расписание поездов -
✦ Железнодорожные билеты онлайн -
☎ СПРАВОЧНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
✦ Стоимость ж/д билетов (3-й класс) Бангкок -Банг Па-ин - 20TB
✦ Стоимость проезда сонгтео Bang Pa-In railway station - Bang Pa-In palace - 30TB (ехать 5 мин)
✦ Входной билет Bang Pa-In Royal Palace - 100TB
Вход в летний дворец открыт ежедневно с 08:00 до 16:00. Территория не слишком большая, можно всю ее обойти пешком. Можно также взять напрокат гольф-кар по цене 400TB в первый час и 100TB в последующий. Как и во всех королевских дворцах, требуется соблюдать дресс-код. Cмену караулов можно наблюдать в 11 час. Караулы расставлены в значимых местах на территории дворца.
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Military history of Thailand
The military history of Thailand encompasses a thousand years of armed struggle, from wars of independence from the powerful Khmer Empire, through to struggles with her regional rivals of Burma and Vietnam and periods of tense standoff and conflict with the colonial empires of Britain and France. Thailand's military history, dominated by her centrality in the south-eastern Asian region, the significance of her far flung and often hostile terrain, and the changing nature of military technology, has had a decisive impact on the evolution of both Thailand and her neighbours as modern nation states. In the post-war era, Thailand's military relationship with the United States has seen her play an important role in both the Cold War and the recent War on Terror, whilst her military's involvement in domestic politics has brought frequent international attention.
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List of works about the Dutch East India Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:07:29 1 Non-fiction
00:07:38 1.1 Books, dissertations and theses
00:07:49 1.1.1 General
00:24:47 1.1.2 Roles in economic, financial and business history
00:44:41 1.1.3 Science, technology, and culture in the VOC World
01:01:53 1.1.4 VOC military and political history
01:06:02 1.1.5 VOC maritime history (VOC in the Age of Exploration)
01:24:44 1.1.6 VOC historiography
01:27:47 1.1.7 VOC people
01:42:03 1.1.8 VOC in Europe
01:47:45 1.1.9 VOC in Africa
02:08:51 1.1.10 VOC in South and West Asia (including the Indian subcontinent)
02:30:42 1.1.11 VOC in Southeast Asia (including the East Indies)
02:44:53 1.1.12 VOC in East Asia
03:09:42 1.2 Journal articles, scholarly papers, essays, and book chapters
03:09:55 1.2.1 General history
03:42:39 1.2.2 Economic, financial and business history
04:35:09 1.2.3 Cultural and social history
05:29:40 1.2.4 Military and political history
05:54:16 1.2.5 Maritime history
06:12:14 2 Fiction
06:13:42 3 Audio
06:14:30 4 Video
06:15:16 5 Seminars and symposiums
06:15:42 6 Documentary
06:16:09 7 Film
06:16:27 8 Music
06:16:40 9 VOC World in visual arts
06:17:01 10 See also
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The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) is one of the most influential and best expertly researched companies/corporations in history. As an exemplary historical company-state, the VOC had effectively transformed itself from a corporate entity into a state, an empire, or even a world in its own right. The VOC World (i.e. networks of people, places, things, activities, and events associated with the Dutch East India Company) has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and non-fiction works. VOC World studies is an international multidisciplinary field focused on social, cultural, religious, scientific, technological, economic, financial, business, maritime, military, political, legal, diplomatic activities, institutional organization, and administration of the VOC and its colourful world. Some of the notable VOC historians/scholars include Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Leonard Blussé, Peter Borschberg, Charles Ralph Boxer, Jaap Bruijn, Femme Gaastra, Om Prakash, Günter Schilder, and Nigel Worden.
In terms of global business history, the lessons from the VOC's success and failure are critically important. With a permanent capital base, the VOC was the first permanently organized limited-liability joint-stock company at the dawn of modern capitalism. As an early pioneering model of the modern corporation, the VOC was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on a formal stock exchange. In the early 1600s the VOC became the world's first formally listed public company (or publicly listed company) by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public. In many respects, modern-day publicly listed multinational corporations (including Forbes Global 2000 companies) are all 'descendants' of the 17th-century VOC business model.
For almost 200 years of its existence (1602–1800), the Company played crucial roles in business, financial, socio-politico-economic, military-political, diplomatic, legal, ethnic, and exploratory maritime history of the world. In the early modern period, the VOC was the driving force behind the rise of corporate-led globalization, corporate power, corporate identity, corporate culture, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, corporate finance, corporate capitalism, and finance capitalism. It was the VOC's institutional innovations and business practices that laid the foundations for the rise of giant global corporations to become a highly significant and formidable socio-politico-economic force of the modern world as we know it today ...
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)