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25 Cards in this Set
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Travel and Leisure |
Which magazine voted Thailand as the "World's Best City" in 2008? |
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Chao Phraya
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Bangkok was once called the “Venice of the East” because its original buildings stood on stilts above the [?] River and its large number of canals.
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The King and I
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Hollywood movie/Broadway play banned in Thailand |
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King Mongkut
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Thai King said to have been portrayed inaccurately in "The King and I" |
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mudskipper
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a fish that is capable of walking on land and climbing trees
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spiritual fusion
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The rather unique harmony which exists between Buddhism, Hinduism, and animism in Thailand |
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Bangkok Haircut
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penis dismemberment by scorned wives and girlfriends |
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Phuket Vegetarian Festival
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annual event held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar
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Eng and Chang
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The brothers who gave the world the term “Siamese twins”
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22 children
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Number of children the Siamese twins had |
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1811 in a village near Bangkok
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When and where were the Siamese twins born? |
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Chao Anouvong
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Vientiane King who attacked Khorat in the Laotian Rebellion against King Rama III in 1826 |
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Khun Ying Mo (Lady Mo)
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credited with having freed the city from Anouvong's army, and has been honoredwith a statue in the center of downtown Khorat
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Pen tua khong tua eng
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means "independent being oneself" |
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Anglo- Siamese Treaty of 1909 or Bangkok Treaty of 1909
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was a treaty between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam signed on 10 March 1909, in Bangkok
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Wat Pho
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regarded asThailand’s first university and a center for traditional Thai massage
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Wat Pho
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Buddhist temple complex in Bangkok associated with King Rama I who rebuilt the temple complexon an earlier temple site, and became his main temple wheresome of his ashes are enshrined
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Memory of the World Programme
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an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions,and willful and deliberate destruction
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Wat Pho
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temple recognized by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Programme
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Dhammakaya Movement
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a Buddhist movement founded in Thailand in the 1970s
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Phramongkolthepmuni
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a celebrated meditation master and the late abbot of Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen , Thonburi who founded the Dhammakaya Movement |
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head |
No one should pass above the [?] of the royal family in Thailand. |
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Bumbleebee bat |
smallest mammal found in Thailand |
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Whale shark |
largest fish found in Thailand |
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a. independence b. pride c. dignity |
Thai people have a very big ego, a deep sense of [a], [b], and [c]. |
