Jim Thomposn house 2

Friday, May 29, 2009

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May 30th 2009
We awoke to a non-rainy day, the first in several days. We took the skytrain to Jim Thompson's house for a tour. He was an American man who moved to Thailand after retiring from the military and fell in love with the country. He was famous for making the Thai silk available at an international level and soon became the most prominent exporter of Thai silk. He mysteriously dissappeared at the age ... read more

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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