* Siam Shade

* Siam Shade Tribute – " Don't Tell Lies " ( 2010 )

* ( 2010 ) Siam Shade Tribute

Siam Shade ( stylized as SIAM SHADE ) was a five-piece Japanese rock band, which broke onto the visual kei scene alongside a multitude of other artists in the early 1990s.

Outside Japan, Siam Shade is best known for " 1 / 3 no Junjō na Kanjō ", one of the many ending themes of the Rurouni Kenshin anime.

Shortly after, they changed their name again, settling on Siam Shade.

Siam Shade underwent a brief lineup change in 1994 when A left the band and was replaced by Jun-ji, solidifying the group's lineup until their disbandment.

Roughly one year later, the band signed with Sony Music Entertainment Japan and released their second album, Siam Shade II.

The band burst into the mainstream in late 1996 when " 1 / 3 no Junjou na Kanjou ", a single from their latest album Siam Shade IV, was selected as an ending theme for the Rurouni Kenshin anime series.

Later that month, the band released their final album, Siam Shade X, a compilation of all their previous releases.

Siam Shade held a reunion concert, titled " Heart of Rock ", on November 18, 2007 at the Nippon Budokan, in honor of their manager who died the previous April.

On October 27, 2010 a tribute album to Siam Shade was released, Siam Shade Tribute.

On April 29, 2011, Siam Shade announced on their new website, which went online on the same day, that they would reunite once again.

This time for a free concert on July 17 at Zepp Sendai, entitled " Siam Shade Spirits ~ Return The Favor ~", " to bring hope " to the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

The band released the album titled Siam Shade Spirits 1993 on April 14, 2012, which includes their entire first album, the new " opening " track called " Light For Closed Your Eyes " and two previously unreleased songs from their indie years.

* Siam Shade ( December 10, 1994 ) Oricon Indies Ranking: No. 2

* Siam Shade II ( November 11, 1995 ) Oricon Albums Ranking: No. 27

* Siam Shade III ( October 2, 1996 ) No. 20

* Siam Shade IV-Zero ( January 21, 1998 ) No. 3

* Siam Shade V ( December 2, 1998 ) No. 6

* Siam Shade VI ( July 26, 2000 ) No. 8

Needless to say, Hsinbyushin of Burma never abandoned his plan to force Siam to its knees, and as soon as he had been informed of the foundation of Thonburi as King Taksin's capital, he commanded the Governor of Tavoy to subjugate him in 1767.

Vickers then started advertising the design to all buyers, and soon received a trickle of orders eventually including USSR, Greece, Poland, Bolivia, Siam, Finland, Portugal, China and Bulgaria.

The king soon came to consider that the real threat to Siam came from the French, not the British.

This victory gained the king some popularity, but it was soon undercut by discontent over other issues, such as his extravagance, which became more noticeable when a sharp postwar recession hit Siam in 1919.

"< sup > 3 </ sup > Wright may have had in mind both the self-imposed isolation of Siam, starting in 1688, and that of Japan, starting soon after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1603.

His position, however, was soon made untenable by the jealousy and intrigues of the minister Phaulcon ; and at the end of two years he left Siam, reaching France in 1688.

Hsinbyushin was determined to renew the war against Siam, and began making preparations as soon as he became king.

Similar warrants soon followed from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Russia, Siam, Greece, Serbia, Belgium, Romania, Egypt and finally Albania, and also from Monaco and the House of Orleans.

In 1511, soon after the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, knowing of Siamese ambitions over Malay, Afonso de Albuquerque immediately sent him in a diplomatic mission to the court of the King of Siam Ramathibodi II, traveling in a Chinese junk returning home.

As soon as he was well enough to travel, he and his family went to Europe again for an extended stopover, returning eventually to Siam in 1928 and taking up residency at Srapathum Palace.

The construction of railways in Siam had a political basis: to connect all the country to have an eye on every part of Siam.

The Gulf of Thailand (,, ), also known to Malays as Teluk Siam, literally meaning Gulf of Siam, and Boeung Tonle Siem in Khmer is a shallow arm of the South China Sea.

The provinces ' slogan is: City of the Sea of Mountains, Coldest Place in Siam, with Beautiful Flowers of Three Seasons.

Pinto's travels can be divided into three phases: a ) his initial voyages from Portugal to India, in which he attempted to join Portuguese outposts on the Western coast of India, and was diverted several times ; b ) travelling through many nations around the Red Sea, from the coast of Africa to the Persian Gulf ; c ) after reaching India, he voyaged to the eastern coast of India and to Portuguese possessions around Malacca, bringing him to Sumatra, Siam, China, and Japan.

The Arabs complained to the Pasai about the trials and tribulations of trading in Siam because of the arduous journey through the Straits of Malacca, then on the Straits of Terbrau before they can continue the voyage through the South China Sea towards their destination in Siam.

They then continue their journey along the Bera River to arrive at Kuala Tahan from which they proceeded to the South China Sea and finally to their destination in Siam.

The term derives from the story that the kings of Siam ( now Thailand ) were accustomed to make a present of one of these animals to courtiers who had rendered themselves obnoxious, in order to ruin the recipient by the cost of its maintenance.

* April 6 – Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam ( now Thailand ) who is overthrown in an coup d ' etat and moves the political capital from Thonburi across the Menam to Rattanakosin Island, the historic center of Bangkok.

Leonowens's daughter, Avis, married Thomas Fyshe, a Scottish banker who ended the family's money worries, while her son, Louis, returned to Siam and became an officer in the Siamese royal cavalry.

In response, Thai authors Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote their own account in 1948 and sent it to American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his biography Mongkut, the King of Siam ( 1961 ).

James McCarthy, F. R. G. S., who served as Director-General of the Siamese Government Surveys prior to establishment of the Royal Survey Department, wrote in his account: Me Nam is a generic term, Me signifying " mother " and Nam " water ," and the epithet Chao P ' ia signifies that it is the chief river in the kingdom of Siam.

H. Warington Smyth, who served as Director of the Department of Mines in Siam from 1891 to 1896, refers to it in his book first published in 1898 as " the Me Nam Chao Phraya.

The central government was headed by the Samuha Nayok ( i. e. Prime Minister ), who controlled the northern parts of Siam, and the Samuha Kalahom ( i. e. Grand Commander ), who controlled the southern Siam in both civil and military affairs.

His father was Thong Dee ( later raised as Somdet Phra Prathom Borom Maha Rajchanok – the grand primordial father ) who was " Phra Aksara Sundhornsat " ( Royal Secretary of northern Siam, Keeper of the Royal Seal ).

Missionaries who were expelled during the Taksin's reign, were invited back to Siam.

Having suffered defeat at the hands of his brother ( Ton ) who was aided by Annamite troops, he sought shelter in Siam.

Champasak was added to the Kingdom of Siam, and King Taksin was so pleased with Chao Phraya Chakri's conduct of the campaign that he promoted him to be Somdej Chao Phraya Mahakasatsuek Piluekmahima Tuknakara Ra-adet ( Thai: สมเด ็ จเจ ้ าพระยามหากษ ั ตร ิ ย ์ ศ ึ ก พ ิ ล ึ กมห ึ มาท ุ กนคราระอาเดช ) ( meaning the supreme Chao Phraya, Great Warrior-King who was so remarkably powerful that every city was afraid of his might )— being the highest title of nobility that a commoner could reach.

The Prince of Luang Prabang, who was in enmity with the Prince of Vientiane, submitted to Siam for his own safety, bringing his men to join Somdej Chao Phya Mahakasatsuek in besieging the city.

: " For some years, the King of Siam has tremendously vexed his subjects and the foreigners who dwelt in or came to trade in his kingdom.

" John Philip de Marini, who recorded and published Leria's visit, noted that monks went from Siam to Laos " as to University.

The next Lord of Mae Hong Son was Tho ( โท ้ ะ ), referred to as Pu Khun Tho or Old Man Tho the Mandarin ( ป ู่ ข ุ นโท ้ ะ ), who was made partasakti with the title Phaya Phithak Sayam Khet, or Lord Protector of the Fertile Soils of Siam ( พญาพ ิ ท ั กษ ์ สยามเขต ).

Never before in Siam could agricultural products be for sale and exports rather than subsistence farming ( Before Bowring, those who traded rice with foreigners would be executed for treason ).

The Pramoj brothers sent their manuscript to the American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his 1961 biography, Mongkut the King of Siam.

They made supply runs to the airport, stopped over on trips to and from French Indo-China, and evacuated prisoners of war and internees who had been imprisoned in Siam at the end of the war.

In order to appease the King of Siam, Ayudhya, the Portuguese sent up an ambassador, Duarte Fernandes, who was well received by Ramathibodi in 1511.

The acquirement of these provinces would be the last phase of French territorial expansion in Indochina as Siam would later cooperate with the British in the region, who feared uncontrolled French expansion and control of Siam would upset the balance of powers in Indochina.

In the 1956 film The King and I, Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase, "... et cetera, et cetera, et cetera ...", to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them.