At dawn on November 28, 1885, King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat were escorted out of Mandalay Palace by British troops, marking ...

In tlie neighborhood of the river Irawaddy, in the Burmese empire, there are a number of wells, f rom which naphtha, or fluid petroleum, is obtained. The natives employ it raw in their lamps for ...

A shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake was followed shortly by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, causing widespread destruction in ...

The quake also caused significant damage to Mandalay (1.2 million residents), the former capital of the Burmese Empire and the second largest city in Myanmar, as well as the cities of Kyaukse ...