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Bangkok - Day 2 Part 2

January 28th 2009
So back to the Jim Thompson Museum! Jim Thompson was an American architect who was stationed in Thailand during the Second World War. Supposedly he loved the country so much that after returning to America at the war’s end, he soon moved to Thailand permanently. He opened a silk manufacturing business, and made it rich. He enjoyed exploring the country, and the story goes that one day when w ... read more
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Thai Flag A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more
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