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...chose to study the small (14 lb.), long-armed gibbon, which walks and runs on the ground "with greater ease than any other primate except man," whose head, like man's, "combines a fairly large brain part with a relatively small face." In the forests of northwest Siam (Thailand) toward the Burma Road, Psychologist Carpenter spent four months in 1937 crouching in the bushes, watching the antics of gibbons in the trees, taking many movies and a few reluctant pot shots with his rifle. It was a psychological study that in effect skipped back 30,000,000 years through...
Just how much Japan had won was not clear. Most probably she had won most of what she asked for: a strip of borderland in upper Laos province near the Burma and China lines, part of Cambodia in the south, which might make a base on the Gulf of Siam, uncomfortably close to Singapore. Most important gain of all, to Japan, was face, nearly lost during the dragged-out mediation...
...exploit Indo-China's natural resources; military garrisons along the Chinese frontier; Japanese inspectors at all Indo-Chinese customs houses ; a naval base at strategic Camranh Bay and defense concessions at Saigon; air bases throughout Indo-China. From Thailand she demanded a naval base in the Gulf of Siam for a fleet of 15 battleships, cruisers and auxiliary craft. Unless the terms were accepted on the spot, it was intimated, naval units would go into action and invasion of both countries would follow. The delegates signed...
...battle was fought in the Gulf of Siam. Thai claimed that three French warships and probably the 7,880-ton French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet were sunk. Thai losses: none. The French claimed the sinking of one or two 2,000-ton Thai coast-guard ships and two, perhaps three, torpedo boats. French losses: none...
There have been 13 sets of Siamese twins known to medical history. The original "Siamese" were Chang and Eng (really Chinese), born in Siam in 1811. They were taken out of Siam by a British merchant, exhibited by Circusman Barnum. After accumulating a small fortune, they married two sisters, took the name Bunker, settled down on a North Carolina farm, where they lived happily...