these 4"x6" miniature Myanmar (Burma) stick flags offer the highest quality in a mounted desk or table top flag. They are carefully hem-stitched on all 4 sides for longer lasting beauty and are attached to a 10" black plastic staff with a gold spear. This is the old flag design prior...
Burmah is rich in minerals, and produces gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, antimony, bismuth, amber, coal, petroleum, nitre, natron, salt, limestone, and marble, the jade or yu of the Chinese, sapphires, and other precious stones. Gold is found in the sands of different rivers, and al...
FlagState seal CapEarly civilisations in Burma included the Tibeto-Burman speaking Pyu in Upper Burma and the Mon in Lower Burma.In the 9th century, the Burmans of the Kingdom of Nanzhao entered the upper Irrawaddy valley and, following the establishment ...
Many of these buildings still exist in a dilapidated state.The Yangon Heritage Trustis working hard to change the perception that they must be torn down in favour of shoddily built skyscrapers. U Ba Kyi, a famous Burmese artist. If you have flown into Mingaladon airport, you will have see...
A green flag from Bago signal box... Upper class sleeping-car at Bago... People walk the tracks... ...you can smell the village fires. ...there's even the odd golden stupa. Mandalay here we come! More village scenes from the train... Mandalay station. Courtesy of Ian Moffat Back...
I am a woman (62 years old) from Germany, living in the UK. I have been following TRUE NEWS about BELOVED BURMA since I got my computer in April 2002. I have read all of DASSK's books in 1998 after my DEAREST FRIEND, a Burmese passed away on 27th January of that year. What I ...
Note that even the independence of Mongolia and Tibet left numbers of each people still in China, as Inner Mongolia and Ch'inghai province are predominantly of those peoples, respectively. The first flag of the Republic of China, after the end of the Ch'ing, had five stripes, in the ...
The war was over and they came back drinking beer in the same old shack. The Marine with ribbons on his chest, rose to his feet before the rest, I saw action in the South Seas and shot Japs right out of the trees, I downed them like a bunch of fleas, now beat that if you plea...
Allied Theater commander Gen Joseph Stilwell and Chinese Gen Sun Li-jen, Burma (now Myanmar), 1942 Chinese troops marching in Burma, circa 1942; note German M1935 helmets General Joseph Stilwell inspecting a recently captured Japanese flag, Burma, 1942 Generals of the Chinese Expeditionary Force ...
In the afternoon Fielding produced a small coloured flag presented to him before setting forth on his journey by the Adventurers' Club of Chicago. In order to be a member of this clubit was necessary to have at one time or another hazarded one's life in some dangerous undertaking , and ...