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The history of Thailand from 1932 to 1973 was dominated by military dictatorships which were in power for much of the period. The main personalities of the period were the dictator Luang Phibunsongkhram (better known as Phibun), who allied the country with Japan during the Second World War, and the civilian politician Pridi Banomyong, who founded Thammasat University and was briefly prime ...
The number of seats on the Bangkok Metropolitan Council was reduced from 61 to 57 for the 2006 election. In the last elections, held on 16 June 2002, the Democrats won 28 constituencies and Thai Rak Thai took 25, while the Prachakorn Thai Party, the Chart Thai Party and the Mod Ngarn Group each won two seats. The remaining seat went to an ...
Thailand: Asian elephant (national animal) Elephas maximus [68] Siamese fighting fish (national aquatic animal) Betta splendens [69] [70] Turkey: Gray wolf (national animal) Canis lupus [71] Uganda: Grey crowned crane (national bird) Balearica regulorum [72] United Arab Emirates: Saker falcon (national bird) Falco cherrug [73] Arabian oryx ...
Vithaya Pansringarm (Thai: วิทยา ปานศรีงาม, RTGS: witthaya pansi-ngam; born 11 August 1959) is a Thai actor best known for appearing in Only God Forgives. [1] He is also known in Thailand as "Khun Pu". Vithaya graduated in Graphic Design from New York Institute of Technology. [2]
National symbols of Thailand are the symbols that are used in Thailand to represent what is unique about the nation, reflecting different aspects of its cultural life, history and biodiversity. In addition to the country's official emblems, there are three officially proclaimed national symbols, listed in a declaration of the Office of the ...
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, [1] against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis. [1]
In 1920, Prince Charunsak Kridakon, Siamese diplomatic minister in Paris, informed the Siamese foreign ministry through a telegram dated 2 July that the Spanish government inquired him about any national day of Siam in order to list it on diplomatic documents and he was unsure about it because the Siamese legation in Paris used to hold national celebrations on three days, namely, the king's ...
The overall rate of obesity in the United States ticked downward between August 2021 and August 2023, breaking a streak of continued increase for over a decade.