When Britain conquered Burma, the last king's most treasured possession - an enormous, priceless ruby - disappeared. Who took it, where did it go, and where is it now? CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ...

The Burmese ruby that wore the auction crown before the Estrela de Fura sold for $30.3 million ... But provenance alone isn't enough. The gems must be verified as natural, meaning they have not been ...

The Indians, our neighbors to the west, have been trading and settling in Burma for centuries, attracted by the opportunities of our fertile, uncrowded country. The British used cheap Indian labor ...

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Find out what Queen Elizabeth wore to protect her from evil and where the most-cursed piece of jewelry in the world is located.

What is Burmese music like? To ears accustomed only ... What we do is to put our F halfway between F natural and F sharp, and our B halfway between B flat and B natural. Since we do not have ...

MANILA -- Rangoon Ruby brings Burma to Manila by way of California. The Burmese restaurant was founded by the Lee family back in 2012. The first branch was opened in Palo Alto, in the middle of ...

so that it is not surprising that the present volume is a fair-sized one; it is well illustrated, having 177 figures. (1) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.

The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of Kohima and Imphal. Then follow the course of the Allies as ...

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We believe in nurturing curiosity, in pursuing big questions and in solving global challenges. With 15 majors and dozens of programs of study, the College of Natural Sciences at The University of ...