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       As a consequence of Thailand's inextricable connection to the global economy, the stock market plummeted to 57 points immediately after the military staged a coup to overthrow Chatchai's corrupt government on February 23rd, 1991. Foreign investment in Thailand, which had previously amounted to approximately 561 billion baht in the six-month period prior to the coup (February - October 1990), fell to a mere 192 billion baht in the same six-month period following the coup. Unfavorable economic conditions, and fleeing foreign investment helped to prompt the need and underline the urgency for political stability, which the military was only too happy to provide... 

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       Global oil consumption has increased exponentially since the world's first oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 1861. In the year 1930, global oil consumption stood at 17 billion barrels; by 1997, it had increased to 807 billion barrels. With the world averaging a yearly 2% increase in global oil consumption, geologists once suspected that the world's limited energy reserves would soon be depleted if exploration discontinued, and created the panic that we would "run out" of oil. But it wasn't really that the world's oil was going to vanish any time soon, but that oil that was immediately drillable from our reserves - at the right price - was limited. It was a question of oil prices.

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       Impressed by the artist's entry at the La Biennale di Venezia art exhibition in Venice, King Rama Vth invited Galileo Chini (1873 - 1956) to Siam in 1911 to record the King's various activities in vivid paintings on the ceiling of the Anantasamakhom Palace. His beautiful creations became forever a part of Siam's national heritage, as Chinni himself was profoundly touched by his experience in this exotic land. Chinni completed his work in 1913, and upon returning to Italy in 1914 displayed a personal entry at the La Biennale di Venezia, lovingly entitled "Nostalgia di Bangkok." At age 76, Chini parted with his collectibles from Siam and donated them to the National Art Museum, entitling their exhibit a "Ricordo del Siam" - aptly referring to his Memory of Siam.

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