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Thai king leaves ‘harem’ lockdown for 20,000-mile trip home

By Lee Brown

April 14, 2020 2:12pm

The king of Thailand left the safety of his luxurious lockdown with a harem of 20 women — to pick up his wife in Switzerland and then take a 20,000-mile trip to their homeland for a national event, according to reports.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 67, had sparked outrage in Thailand after it emerged he had taken over a German hotel to safely quarantine while his nation was devastated by the coronavirus.

He finally left last Monday to attend Chakra Day, a national annual holiday marking the birth of his royal dynasty in 1782 — with a detour to get his wife, Queen Suthida, who was in lockdown 120 miles away from him in Zurich, according to Metro UK.

Amid backlash over his absence during the global health crisis, the king — widely known Rama X — said at the event that the “pandemic is not the fault of anybody.”

https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/thai-king-leaves-harem-lockdown-for-20000-mile-trip/

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>>18251315

The late Thai king’s youth in Switzerland

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has died at the age of 88, having ascended to the throne in 1946 to become the world’s longest-serving monarch. Early in his reign, he lived and worked in the Swiss city of Lausanne.

This content was published on October 13, 2016 - 15:12 October 13, 2016 - 15:12

swissinfo.ch

Luigi Jorio

“King Bhumibol discovered his passion for music in Lausanne, first as a musician and later as a composer,” reads the book “King Bhumibol and the Thai Royal Family in Lausanne.” The book contains the memories of Cléon Séraïdaris, who served the king’s family for 26 years.

Bhumibol Adulyadej lived in Switzerland on and off between 1933 and 1951, in a villa in the town of Pully near Lausanne. He lived there with his mother, sister and brother Ananda Mahidol, who was king before him. The family often took holidays in cantons Valais and Graubünden.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/bhumibol-obituary_the-late-thai-king-s-youth-in-switzerland/42514796

LAUSANNE, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Swiss officials on Wednesday unveiled a bust of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016 at the age of 88, at the Thai pavilion in a park overlooking Lake Geneva in Lausanne in western Switzerland.

The bust is a gift from an alumni association of Thai students in Switzerland to honour the memory of the late king who studied and lived in the canton of Vaud and "helped establish friendly links between the peoples of Switzerland and Thailand", cantonal authorities said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-unveil-bust-late-thai-king-bhumibol-2022-09-14/

Inside Kim Jong Un’s childhood living under a fake name in Switzerland

By Dana Kennedy

May 2, 2020 11:11am Updated

https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/inside-kim-jong-uns-childhood-at-a-posh-school-in-switzerland/

Charlemagne has been called the "Father of Europe" (Pater Europae),[6] as he united most of Western Europe for the first time since the classical era of the Roman Empire, as well as uniting parts of Europe that had never been under Frankish or Roman rule. His reign spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of energetic cultural and intellectual activity within the Western Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church viewed Charlemagne less favourably, due to his support of the filioque and the Pope's preference of him as emperor over the Byzantine Empire's first female monarch, Irene of Athens. These and other disputes led to the eventual split of Rome and Constantinople in the Great Schism of 1054.[7][b]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne

Zelensky Strips Orthodox Clergy, Politicians, and Other Accused Russia Sympathisers of Citizenship

Chris Tomlinson13 Jan 2023272

3:14

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped Ukrainian citizenship from 13 Orthodox clergy and several opposition politicians alleged to have ties to Russia.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/13/zelensky-strips-orthodox-clergy-politicians-and-other-accused-russia-sympathisers-of-citizenship/

Zelensky pushes for Ukraine to join EU in annual address to parliament

by Julia Mueller - 12/28/22 10:39 PM ET

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3791417-zelensky-pushes-for-ukraine-to-join-eu-in-annual-address-to-parliament/

>>18251589

Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini is a European Muslim citizen, resident in Rome, married and father of Muhammad Umberto

https://www.iffse.eu/about/advisory-board/yahya-pallavicini/

The House of Pallavicini, also known as Pallavicino and formerly known as Pelavicino, is an ancient Italian noble family founded by Oberto II Pelavicino of the Frankish Obertenghi family.[2][3]

The Pallavicini of Genoa

The first recorded member of the Pallavicini family was Oberto I (died 1148). The first Pallavicino fief was created by Oberto II, who received it from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1162. A number of lines are descended from Guglielmo (died 1217), possessor of a series of fiefs between Parma and Piacenza.

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>>18251315

>He finally left last Monday to attend Chakra Day…

Greco-Buddhism, or Graeco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the fourth century BC and the fifth century AD in Gandhara,[2][3][4][5] in present-day north-western Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan.[6][7][8] It was a cultural consequence of a long chain of interactions begun by Greek forays into India from the time of Alexander the Great. A few years after Alexander's death, the Easternmost fringes of the empire of his general Seleucus were lost in a war with the Mauryan Empire, under the reign of Chandragupta Maurya. The Mauryan Emperor Ashoka would convert to Buddhism and spread the religious philosophy throughout his domain, as recorded in the Edicts of Ashoka. This spread to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, which itself seceded from the Seleucid empire. Within its borders, the Greek fondness for statuary produced the first statues of the Buddha, leading ultimately to the modern tradition.[citation needed]

Following the collapse of the Mauryan Empire, Greco-Buddhism continued to flourish under the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdoms, and Kushan Empire. Mahayana Buddhism was spread from the Gangetic plains in India into Gandhara and then Central Asia during the Mauryan Era, where it became the most prevalent branch of Buddhism in Central Asia. Mahayana Buddhism was later transmitted through the Silk Road into the Han Dynasty during the Kushan era under the reign of Emperor Kanishka. Buddhist tradition details the monk, Majjhantika of Varanasi, was made responsible for spreading Buddhism in the region by Emperor Ashoka.[9][10][11]

what, then, is so strange about greco-roman asiatics?