A "Rangoon crab a la Jack" was mentioned as a dish at a Hawaiian-style party in 1952, but without further detail, and so may or may not be the same thing. [19] Writing for Atlas Obscura , Dan Nosowitz points out that although cream cheese was a staple of 1940s and 1950s American cuisine, neither Chinese nor Burmese use cream cheese in their ...

Yangon (nota anche, soprattutto in passato, come Rangoon o Rangun) è la più grande città della Birmania (5.160.512 abitanti), di cui è stata la capitale fino al 6 novembre 2005, quando la giunta militare ha ufficialmente trasferito la capitale a Pyinmana, nella Divisione di Mandalay, che ha preso il nome Naypyidaw il 27 marzo 2006.

The school was founded as St. Paul's English High School by the De La Salle Brothers, a Roman Catholic order in August 1860, eight years after the British had annexed Yangon and all of Lower Myanmar. It was the second La Sallian high school in the country. (St. Patrick's High School in Mawlamyine was the first La Sallian high school and founded in April 1860.)

The first batch, some 300 men, departed San Francisco on 10 July 1941 and arrived in Rangoon, Burma on 28 July, via the Dutch ship Jaegersfontaine, operated by Java-Pacific Lijn. The second batch, some 30 pilots, departed on 24 September 1941 and arrived on 12 November 1941 via the Dutch ship Boschfontein. These volunteers used civilian passports in these trips.

The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily by British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of Imperial Japan, who were assisted to some degree by Thailand, the Burmese National Army and the Indian National Army.The British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from the United …

Rangun (offiziell Yangon [jaŋˈgʊn], englisch Rangoon) ist eine Stadt in Myanmar und Hauptstadt des Verwaltungsbezirks Yangon-Division.Mit rund 5,21 Millionen Einwohnern in der eigentlichen Stadt und 5.998.000 Einwohnern in der Agglomeration (Stand Census von 2013) ist Rangun die größte Stadt und das industrielle Zentrum des Landes.Bis zum Jahr 2005 war Rangun die …

Rangoun [1] (en birman : ရန်ကုန်, prononcé : / j à ɴ ɡ ò ʊ ɴ m j o̰/) ou Rangoon [2], officiellement renommée Yangon en 1989, est la capitale économique et la plus grande ville de la Birmanie (ou Myanmar) avec 4,5 millions d'habitants. Située sur le fleuve Yangon né de la confluence des rivières Bago et Myitmaka, elle se trouve à trente kilomètres du golfe de ...

The first mention of the pagoda in the royal chronicles dates only to 1362/63 CE (724 ME) when King Binnya U of Martaban–Hanthawaddy raised the pagoda to 18 m (59 ft). Contemporary inscriptional evidence, the Shwedagon Pagoda Inscriptions from the reign of King Dhammazedi of Hanthawaddy (r. 1471–1492), shows a list of repairs of the pagoda going back to 1436.

The 8888 Uprising (Burmese: ၈၈၈၈ အရေးအခင်း), also known as the People Power Uprising and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) that peaked in August 1988.Key events occurred on 8 August 1988 and therefore it is commonly known as the "8888 Uprising". The protests began as a student movement and …

The Japanese invasion of Burma was the opening phase of the Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, which took place over four years from 1942 to 1945.During the first year of the campaign (December 1941 to mid-1942), the Japanese Army (with aid from Thai Phayap Army and Burmese insurgents) drove British Empire and Chinese forces out of Burma, …