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The Royal Palace in Bangkok ( 1 )

Attraction, which considers it his duty to visit every self-respecting Thai tourist. So lots of people here and around the dark-tmuschaya local residents who are trying to make a profit. But the place is stunningly beautiful and to wade through the crowd of vendors and clicked.

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Just say that while we were leisurely and staring at the sides walked to the palace to us to approach people 5 and all say that the palace is closed today / weekend / cleaning day / king is resting, etc., that they were going to offer us, instead of visiting the palace, we decided to not find out (in principle, it was clear that this will be a shop / bar / restaurant / market / taxi) and firmly and purposefully stomped to the main entrance. Of course the palace was open (for tourists working without holidays and weekends until 15:00). The territory can not be in shorts, with bare shoulders and back, in shoes with open heel. These problems are instantly solved at a nearby rynochke where no problems can take the appropriate clothing for hire.

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Kinnaris - zhenschity-bird or female lioness

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The Royal Palace in Bangkok ( 2 )

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In the beliefs of Buddhists Garuda - this is not one creature, but a special kind of intelligent birds of prey, which are so large that a person can hide among their feathers, and go unnoticed. Гаруды живут в собственных городах под управлением царей, воюют со змеями Нагами и обладают рядом магических способностей. Garuda live in their own towns under the control of kings, fighting with snakes Nagami and have a number of magical abilities. Некоторые из них умеют превращаться в мужчин и охотно завязывают тесные отношения со смертными женщинами. Some of them are able to transform into men and willingly tied close relations with mortal women.

Airlines of Brunei

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Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan

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Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum (Arabic حمدان بن محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم) (born 13 November 1982)[1] also Nick as Fazza (فزاع) "Asif" Sharik " is the Crown Prince of Dubai and the second eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum.

Sheikh Hamdan began his schooling in Dubai at the Rashid Private School and then continued his studies in the United Kingdom. There, he graduated from Sandhurst and later attended the London School of Economics. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council in September 2006. He also is the head of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders, and the president of the Dubai Sports Council and the Dubai Autism Centre.

He is known for both his poetry and as a horse rider. His poems are mainly romantic, patriotic and about his family. He publishes his poems under the name Fazza (فزاع).

He won the gold medal in Equestrian at the Asian Games. Sheikh Hamdan also has a passion for cars, including Mercedes Benz, Jeeps used for treading the deserts, Porsches, Lamborghini and a Ferrari.

On 1 February 2008, Sheikh Mohammed appointed Sheikh Hamdan as the Hereditary Prince of Dubai. As the new Hereditary Prince, he has recently appointed new key personal and financial advisors such as global economist John Calverley and hedge fund tycoon James T. Naeem of HN Capital LLP.

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King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz

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President of the UAE and hereditary ruler of its capital emirate, Abu Dhabi.
UAE is home to one-tenth of world's oil reserves; petrodollars-dollars are the president's family's original source of wealth. His real estate also is becoming more valuable, as property values rose 100% from 2005 to 2007.
Sheikh Khalifa spent more than $1 billion--including $200 million on a Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum--on branding Abu Dhabi as a cultural center.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority recently made headlines by investing $7.5 billion in Citibank and buying New York's Chrysler Building for $800 million.

Ascended to the throne August 2005; soon after, construction began on a $26 billion city named in his honor, which the government hopes will become the new economic epicenter of the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia is now earning approximately $1 billion a day from oil exports, helping boost the royal family's fortune. The king is an avid horseman and breeds Arabian horses; he founded the Equestrian Club in Riyadh.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen of Jordan

Although her husband ascended on 7 February 1999, Rania did not become Queen immediately. She was proclaimed Queen of Jordan by her husband on 22 March 1999. Without proclamation, she would have been a princess consort, just like her mother-in-law, Princess Muna al-Hussein.

Queen Rania has pushed for more rights for women and children in the region and in the world as a whole. She set up the Madrasati initiative aimed at renovating Jordan's most dilapidated public schools and installing new computers.

Queen Rania has launched a "war on child abuse" after a story emerged of the brutal death of a child in Amman, Jordan. She is also an outspoken critic of honor killings.

Queen Rania has been an outspoken advocate of women's rights. She was awarded the honorary rank of colonel in the Jordanian Armed Forces by her husband, King Abdullah, on 9 June 2004.

She was named the third most beautiful woman in the world in the 2005 top 100 of Harpers & Queen magazine. In addition, she was the youngest queen in the world at the time King Abdullah succeeded to the throne. She has made many public appearances, including a half-hour television interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show on 17 May 2006, where she spoke about misconceptions about Islam and women's role in Islam. In May 2000, she was named an honorary member of Deerfield Academy's class of 2000 (her husband's alma mater).

Queen Rania was ranked 81st in the Forbes 2005 100 most powerful women of the world list. In 2009, she was ranked 75th.

In 2008, she was awarded the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.

She met Jordanian King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, then Prince, at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they announced their engagement and on 10 June 1993, they were married. They have four children:

* Prince Hussein (born 28 June 1994)
* Princess Iman (born 27 September 1996)
* Princess Salma (born 26 September 2000)
* Prince Hashem (born 30 January 2005)

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Princess Alix of Hesse - 1894

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It is the site where a basement execution sealed the fate of the Romanovs. And now as Russia embraces its imperial history once again, it will be home to a £7m memorial church to open on Thursday, the 85th anniversary of the execution by the Bolsheviks of the last tsar and his family.
But the founding of a memorial church and museum on the site of the Ipatiyev House - used as a covert shrine throughout the last decades of Soviet rule - will be marred by a row over where Nicholas II's remains are buried.

While the Russian Orthodox church believes that after their execution, the bodies of the tsar and his family were dumped in a mineshaft in Galina Yama, just outside Yekaterinburg, experts say they have proved that the bodies were again moved to shallow graves on a road back towards the town.

However, the church refuses to recognise the spot where many believe Nicholas's body really lies.

Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, four daughters, son Alexei and aides were executed at the height of the Russian civil war as the pro-tsarist white army marched on Yekaterinburg.

At 12.30am on July 17 1918, the family were beckoned from their beds to a basement.

"As soon as they arrived, Alexandra began asking why there were no chairs in the room," said Irina Sachkova, a local historian and museum worker. The reason soon became apparent. Some 30 minutes elapsed between the first and the last shots.

Amid the memorial church's marble floors and ornate paintings, a bare cross and box adorn the empty chamber which marks the basement where executioners took aim.

The bodies were taken to Galina Yama, where the killers threw a grenade down the mineshaft to disguise the identity of their victims. "They even put acid on the bodies," said Ms Sachkova on the site of the mineshaft, marked by an expensive memorial and surrounded by a monastery. "The world was not supposed to ever find out what they did."

Yet Alexander Avdonin, a local amateur archaeologist, used oral and archive evidence to unearth another burial site, not far from Galina Yama, at the old Koptyakov Road. He said the killers moved the bodies, fearing they had been seen.

In 1991, the remains were exhumed and sent for testing in Britain and the US. DNA from the British royal family - the last surviving close relatives of the Romanovs - was used to prove that all but Alexei and one daughter, Marie, were buried in Koptyakov.

Despite the church and a group of emigre scientists disputing the findings, the remains were buried in St Petersburg in 1998. Today the Koptyakov site is distinguished from the mosquito-infested swamp surrounding it by only a modest cross and some drooping flowers.

Boris Kosinsky, a spokesman for the local church, said the remains found at Koptyakov may have been innocents murdered so that their corpses could mask the whereabouts of the true Romanov graves. "If that is the case, they deserve a simple memorial for their tragic place in history," he said.

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