the most sacred Buddhist temple (wat) in Thailand. It is a "potent religio-political symbol and the palladium [safeguard] of Thai society".[1] It is located in the historic centre of Bangkok (district Phra Nakhon)‚ within the precincts of the Grand Palace.[2][3][4] The main building is the central ubosoth‚ which houses the statue of the Emerald Buddha. The legendary history of this Buddha image is traced to India‚ five centuries after the Lord Buddha attained Nirvana‚ till it was finally enshrined
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hundreds of years. This famous explorer left his home in Venice in 1271 to sail for a journey of a twenty four-year. A journey that took him where no European had been before. He went across the Middle East to Central Asia‚ Peking‚ and eventually to the palace of the strong Mongol King‚ Kublai Khan. Yet‚ when Marco returned home‚ he told the amazing stories to very few people. In the thirteenth century‚ European traders wanted to enlarge their business to new parts of the world. Among them were Marco
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share the throne with her older brother‚ Ptolemy XIII. When Ptolemy XIII heard about this arrangement he became upset and he and his advisors refused to acknowledge it. This caused fighting to break out and Cleopatra was forced to leave the royal palace. Cleopatra soon regained her throne‚ with the help of Caesar‚ but Ptolemy XIII barred his sister from seeing Caesar and tried to convince him to acknowledge him as sole ruler of egypt. “Ptolemy XIII had gone to bed that night a happy lad‚ secure
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reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. The poem changes to the 1st person narrative and the speaker then attempts to recreate a vision he saw. Through the description of the visions of Kubla Khan’s palace and the speaker’s visions the poem tells of the creation of an enchanting beautiful world as the result of power of human imagination. The second part of the poem reveals that although the mind has the ability to create this paradise-like world
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anxiously hypothesizing about what could have possibly happened to their king‚ a queen awaiting her son or husband’s return‚ a messenger announcing both the king’s arrival and the outcome of the king’s conquests‚ and finally the king’s return to his palace. It is up to the playwright’s discretion regarding how to use these elements and in these two tragedies‚ the elements are employed in drastically different ways. Atossa eagerly awaits her son’s return from
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Stratford-upon-Avon (Ay-ven) A charming town that’s Shakespeare’s birthplace and home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Windsor Castle Home to Britain’s monarchs for nearly 1‚000 years. It’s the oldest inhabited castle in the world. Hampton Court Palace The expansive estate of Henry VIII‚ with its famous garden maze. Greenwich (GRIH – nij) Just down-river from London‚ site of the National Maritime Museum‚ the Old Royal Observatory‚ and the famed Clipper ship Cutty Sark. Bath An elegant city
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particular case we are examining specifically the conspiracy of an image of a palace spire in the shape of a penis on the cover of‚ “The Little Mermaid” video cassette box art. Look closely‚ you can spot the golden palace and it’s “prize” almost immediately toward the center of the box‚ and a little bit up. There are at least two ways to examine this situation. The first outlook is deny the penis on the golden palace. It could be our brains interpreting shapes‚ and we just think that a penis was
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eatery marvel‚ the Petit Vardo is a flatboat-converted-restaurant in the River Vaal. The restaurant’s highlight is during the evening hours when it is brightly lit and brilliant in its radiance. Sea Palace- this restaurant is located in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. A Chinese restaurant‚ the Sea Palace is built in the traditional Chinese architecture and is regarded to be the first Chinese construction of its kind in the Netherlands. Salt & Sill- is a minimalist 23-room barge that also serves as
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Records such as "Plato ’s Account of Atlantis" and findings such as the palace of Knossos in Crete‚ help to find more proof that Atlantis was actually a part of the Minoan civilization. Endnotes 1 Plato ’s Account of Atlantis‚ page Atlantis 1 2 Minoans and Mycenaens Part 1‚ page 12 3 Minoans and Mycenaens Part 1‚ page 15
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Venetian creation of a civic cult around the achievements of a distinguished past is evident in the ornamentation of the Ducal Palace. Although many of the palace’s early art treasures were lost in a series of disastrous fires‚ huge canvases on historical and allegorical subjects‚ much like the late sixteenth- century ones that today dominate the vast halls of the palace‚ must have served to extort earlier generations of aristocratic magistrates to emulate the virtues of their
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