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The Potsdam Conference, 1945 - 1937–1945. The Potsdam Conference, 1945 The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S.

The Potsdam Conference, 1945 - 1937–1945

President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. Battles - The Siege of Tsingtao, 1914. Although actually in China Tsingtao (Qingdao today) was leased to Germany as a colony by the Chinese government in the wake of the murder of two German missionaries in the late 19th century.

Battles - The Siege of Tsingtao, 1914

In order to appease the German government following the two deaths China granted Germany a 99-year lease on the colony in 1898. Germany subsequently built a port and naval base at Tsingtao, establishing it as the main German installation in the Far East. Tsingtao was consequently garrisoned by some 4,000 troops. Okada Izo, the Notorious Assassin. Druing the Bakumatsu (1853-1867) Kyoto became a place of constant violence and fear mongering.

Okada Izo, the Notorious Assassin

Many non-xenophobic or pragmatic Japanese were killed for not supporting the radical and inpossible agenda of being able to get rid of any foreign influence. Takechi Hanpeita created the Tosa Loyalist party, which Sakamoto Ryoma was a part of. Tosa Domain. Jinshotai(迅衝隊)(From the left in the bottom row: Ban Gondayu, Itagaki Taisuke, Tani Otoi(young boy), Yamaji Motoharu.

Tosa Domain

From the left in the middle row: Tani Shigeki(Sinbei), Tani Tateki(Moribe), Yamada Kiyokado(Heizaemon), Yoshimoto Sukekatsu(Heinosuke). From the left in the top row: Kataoka Masumitsu(Kenkichi), Manabe Masayoshi(Kaisaku), Nishiyama Sakae, Kitamura Shigeyori(Chobei), Beppu Hikokuro.) Japanese occupation of Burma. The Japanese occupation of Burma refers to the period between 1942 and 1945 during World War II, when Burma was occupied by the Empire of Japan.

Japanese occupation of Burma

The Japanese had assisted formation of the Burma Independence Army, and trained the Thirty Comrades, who were the founders of the modern Armed Forces (Tatmadaw). The Burmese hoped to gain support of the Japanese in expelling the British, so that Burma could become independent.[1][2] Portuguese Timor. Portuguese Timor (Portuguese: Timor Português) refers to East Timor during the historic period when it was a Portuguese colony that existed between 1702 and 1975.

Portuguese Timor

During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies. The first Europeans to arrive in the region were the Portuguese in 1515.[2] Dominican friars established a presence on the island in 1556, and the territory was declared a Portuguese colony in 1702. Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the War in 1945.

Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies

The period was one of the most critical in Indonesian history. Under German occupation, the Netherlands had little ability to defend its colony against the Japanese army, and less than three months after the first attacks on Borneo, [1] the Japanese navy and army overran Dutch and allied forces. Initially, most Indonesians joyfully welcomed the Japanese, as liberators from their Dutch colonial masters. Mon (emblem) Mon (紋?)

Mon (emblem)

, also monshō (紋章?) , mondokoro (紋所?) , and kamon (家紋?) , are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual or family. While mon is an encompassing term that may refer to any such device, kamon and mondokoro refer specifically to emblems used to identify a family. Malaysian Accent Compared to English Accent. Thai language. Dialects and related languages[edit] Thai is the official language of Thailand, spoken by over 20 million people (2000), Standard Thai is based on the register of the educated classes of Bangkok.[7][8] In addition to Central Thai, Thailand is home to other related Tai languages.

Thai language

Although linguists usually classify these idioms as related, but distinct languages, native speakers often identify them as regional variants or dialects of the "same" Thai language, or as "different kinds of Thai".[9] Thai language, alphabet and pronunciation. Thai is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 65 million people mainly in Thailand (ประเทศไทย), and also in the Midway Islands, Singapore, the UAE and the USA Thai is closely related to Lao, and northern dialects of Thai are more or less mutually intelligible with Lao, particularly the Lao spoken in northern Thailand.

Thai language, alphabet and pronunciation

Thai vocabulary includes many words from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer. Thai alphabet (ตัวอักษรไทย) The Thai alphabet was probably derived from, or at least influenced by, the Old Khmer alphabet. According to tradition it was created in 1283 by King Ramkhamhaeng (พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช). Thai Language. Thai Language. THAI SPEAKERS. Postmodernism (Foucault and Baudrillard) Michel Foucault. Born in Poitiers, France to an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV and then the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser.

After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness. After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced two more significant publications, The Birth of the Clinic and The Order of Things, which displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, a theoretical movement in social anthropology from which he later distanced himself.

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Greek mythology. Oedipus, Attic cup: Oedipus and the SphinxAlbum/Oronoz/SuperStockin Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Homer related that Oedipus’s wife and mother hanged herself when the truth of their relationship became known, though Oedipus apparently continued to rule at Thebes until his death. In the post-Homeric tradition, most familiar from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (or Oedipus the King) and Oedipus at Colonus, there are notable differences in emphasis and detail.

Creon: Oedipus asks Creon to banish him in “Oedipus the King”Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.According to one version of the story, Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that his son would slay him. Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Icarus. Timeline of modern history. This is a timeline of modern history, here defined as comprising the years since 1901. 20th century[edit] 1910s[edit]