Notes: Stories that kids love 6

Rice Without Rain: Mingfong Ho

Thailand: the only country of southeast Asia never to have been colonized.

Bangkok

Bangkok: world's 22nd largest city, pop. 8,160,522   

October 1973:  major demonstrations in Thailand to protest the corruption of the military dictatorship.

Chieng-Mai:

October 6, 1976: the military regained total control.  Many protesting students were killed. The Communist Party of Thailand was outlawed.

stoic: not affected by passion or feeling

tamarind tree

ramwong

banyan tree

Doi Suthep temple

salamander

Sawadi krup:  traditional Thai greeting

Loy Krathong festival:

jasmine

gardenia

Martial law

Pali scriptures:

hibiscus

joss sticks

Conjunctivitis

Marasmic kwashiorkor

bodhi tree

buffalo

Dusit:  the rent collector

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