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- Oxana Yatsenkohar citeretfor 4 år siden
Thai men are expected to shave their heads and don monastic robes temporarily at least once in their lives. Some enter the monkhood twice, first as 10-vow novices in their preteen years and again as fully ordained, 227-vow monks sometime after the age of 20 - Oxana Yatsenkohar citeretfor 4 år sidenPortuguese priest Fernao Mendez Pinto was the first to use the epithet “Venice of the East,” referring not to Bangkok but to Ayuthaya, in a letter to the Society of Jesus in Lisbon in 1554, but two hundred years later the term came to be used to describe the new Bangkok capital as well. I
- Oxana Yatsenkohar citeretfor 4 år sidenmementoes of national pride to the city and helped found the country's first fine arts university. Americans established Siam's first printing press along with the kingdom's first newspaper.
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