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unusual facts about Muse, Burma


Hanchen Group

In 2008 Hanchen Group initiated a tobacco growing project in Muse, Myanmar, near the Chinese border.


352d Special Operations Group

The unit then served in the China-Burma-India Theatre of operations, with the fighter units flying missions over Bangkok, Thailand.

89th Punjabis

In 1910, the Burma Battalions were delocalized from Burma and in 1914, the regiment moved to Dinapore in India, just before the outbreak of First World War.

Allegheny Observatory

The core of the building is a small rotunda, housing an opalescent glass window depicting the Greek muse of astronomy, Urania.

Almandine

When the color inclines to a violet tint, the stone is often called Syriam garnet, a name said to be taken from Syriam, an ancient town of Pegu (now part of Myanmar).

Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth

He was also chairman of the Anglo-Burma Rice Company and of the Wilmer Grain Company, and was also on the board of Lloyds Bank.

Balamindin

Balamindin was born Maung Lwin in the Moksobo region (present-day Shwebo District) in Upper Burma.

Battle of Elephant Point

On 22 March, as the joint battles of Meiktila and Mandalay were drawing to a close, a conference was held at Monywa in Burma, attended by senior Allied military figures including Admiral Lord Mountbatten, the commander in chief of the Allied South East Asia Command, and General William Slim, commander of Fourteenth Army.

Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road

Its forces were composed of the Fifth, Sixth and Sixty-sixth Army under the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, commanded by Lt. General Joseph Stilwell, Lt. General Luo Zhuoying was his Executive Officer.

Brendan I. Koerner

It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war.

Bryan Meehan

Good friend Ali Hewson (wife of U2 frontman Bono) is the inspiration, investor and ‘muse’ of the brand and supermodels Christy Turlington and Helena Christensen are keen devotees.

Burma and weapons of mass destruction

Based on Win's evidence, Robert Kelley, a former weapons inspector, said he believed Burma "has the intent to go nuclear and it is... expending huge resources along the way."

Burma Global Action Network

A response to Military Than Shwe and the junta's blockade of aid to the Cyclone Nargis aftermath victims, the international community called for a Humanitarian intervention to get aid into the hardest hit areas of Burma.

C. Anthony Muse

In 2004, Muse ran for an open seat in the Maryland Senate and in the Democratic primary defeated fellow State Representative Obie Patterson 55%-45%.

Chuck Suchy

His song "Burma Shave Boogie" (from his 2008 Unraveling Heart CD) incorporates several rhymes from old Burma-Shave roadside signs into its lyrics.

Crime in Burma

Burma is a major source of prostitutes (an estimate of 20,000–30,000) in Thailand, with the majority of women trafficked taken to Ranong, a location that borders Burma at its south, and Mae Sai, which is located at the eastern tip of Burma.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

Gérard Patris

The late muse of Picasso, Sylvette David (now in her 70s and known as Lydia Corbett, see Sylvette) and Marie-Claire Schaeffer, his first wife, were the two mothers.

Henry Burney

From 1829 Burney was the British resident envoy to King Bagyidaw's court at Ava in Burma where he successfully negotiated the return of the Kabaw Valley from Manipur to Burma.

HNLMS K XIII

She made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma.

I've Never Met a Nice South African

He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.

Impatiens balsamina

Impatiens balsamina (garden balsam, garden jewelweed, rose balsam, touch-me-not) is a species of Impatiens native to southern Asia in India and Burma.

Internally displaced person

Burma (Myanmar) has about 503,000 IDPs due to decades of a long Internal conflict in Myanmar and government repression of ethnic minorities as well as Cyclone Nargis.

Jal tarang

The jal tarang developed on the pattern of gongs of gamelan orchestras played in Java, Bali, and Burma (now Myanmar).

Japanese cruiser Isuzu

In August, 1942, the Isuzu was reassigned to the Indian Ocean theatre, patrolling between Singapore, Mergui, Burma, Sabang Harbor, Sumatra and Penang, Malaya; however, on 24 August 1942, Isuzu was reassigned back to Makassar.

Johanne Luise Heiberg

To a whole generation of Danish dramatists she was the muse and especially she inspired Henrik Hertz to write many of his main female roles for her.

Kanaung Mintha

In 1978 Ne Win, ruler of Burma since leading a military coup in 1964, married June Rose Bellamy, aka Yadana Nat-Me (Precious Angel), a great granddaughter of Ka Naung, daughter of Princess Hteiktin Ma Lat and Herbert Bellamy, an Australian orchid collector long settled in Burma.

Khin Than Nu

She was born to U Aung Than and Daw Nu, as the eldest of four children, in Pyinmana, Burma.

Land of the Bottom Line

Mastered – Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York, New York, using the AUDIO AUTOMATION MUSE CONSOLE

Lucian Scherman

From October 1910 to December 1911, Scherman and his wife Christine undertook an extended research trip to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka), Burma (today Myanmar), and India (today India and Pakistan).

Lucien Millevoye

Lucien Millevoye (1 August 1850 – 25 March 1918) was a French journalist and right-wing politician, now best known for his relationship with the Irish revolutionary and muse of W.B. Yeats, Maud Gonne.

Maha Bandula Park

The park is bounded by Maha Bandula Garden Street in the east, Sule Pagoda Road in the west, Konthe Road in the south and Maha Bandula Road in the north, and is surrounded by some of the important buildings in the area such as the Sule Pagoda, the Yangon City Hall and the High Court.

Malcolm Ashworth

Volunteering for the British army in 1943, Ashworth was commissioned from the IMA and served as a captain in the Devonshire Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment during World War II in India, Burma and Malaya (Mentioned in Despatches).

Naga people

The Naga tribes live in the Indian states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and the northwestern hill tracts of Burma, such as the Naga Self-Administered Zone (formerly in Sagaing Division).

No. 258 Squadron RAF

After a spell in Burma (under Neil Cameron) the squadron was withdrawn to be re-equipped with American Republic P-47 Thunderbolts.

Nola pumila

It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, including China (Shanghai), Formosa, Sikkim, Assam, India, Burma, Sulawesi and New Guinea.

Ode to Psyche

In particular, the lines are reminiscent of the description of inspiration and the muse within Wordsworth's The Recluse.

Rice production in Thailand

Noppadon Pattama, the foreign minister of Thailand, wants to call the forum the Council on Rice Trade Cooperation and was planning, as of May 2008, to invite; China, India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.

The Burmese central government refused to grant a separate Muslim state in the Mayu region where two townships (Buthidaung and Maungdaw) lie.

Second Story Interactive Studios

In the museum industry their work has been recognized by the American Association of Museums in almost every category of the annual Muse Awards, and their Web sites for cultural institutions have won nine Best of the Web Awards at the annual Museums and the Web conference.

Shooting an Elephant

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.

Sino-Burma pipelines

The oil and natural gas pipelines will run in parallel and start near Kyaukphyu, run through Mandalay, Lashio, and Muse in Burma before entering China at the border city of Ruili in Yunnan province.

Slam Nuba

The team has performed in many places outside of poetry slam including an event hosted by Democracy Now, sharing a stage with Amy Goodman, opening for recording artists Les Nubians, sharing a stage with the hip-hop group Dead Prez, and at such local events as Denver's Black Arts Festival, The Poet As Muse, Club Reign, and Café Cultura.

Stade Charles-Ehrmann

Muse performed at the stadium on June 26, 2013 as part of their The 2nd Law World Tour.

Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf

Muse performed a sold-out show at the stadium on June,15 2013 as part of their The 2nd Law World Tour.

Tamanthi

Tamanthi, Htamanthi or Tamanthe is a village on the Chindwin River in Homalin Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma.

The Birds of St. Marks

One interpretation of the song is that Nico is the queen, trapped within the manipulations of her "manager", Andy Warhol, and unable to be free to follow her own muse.

Vampire fish

Dracula fish (Danionella dracula), a species of fish native to Burma

Winwa

Winwa, Shwegu, a village in Shwegu Township, Bhamo District, in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma

Wuntho Township

After the British annexed Upper Burma in 1885, Wuntho became a refuge for rebels and Dacoit leaders until in 1891, when a force of 1,800 British soldiers under General Sir George Wolseley occupied the town of Wuntho.


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