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Burmese alphabet (မြန်မာအက္ခရာ)
Burmese alphabet (မြန်မာအက္ခရာ), or Myanmar script, an abugida descended from Brahmi via Old Mon, with 33 consonant letters, four tones marked by vowel signs, used for Burmese and about 30 other languages, encoded in Unicode since 1999.
Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as burmite, Kachin amber, or Myanmar amber, is fossil tree resin from the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar, about 99 million years old.
Burmese cat
Burmese cat: domestic cat breed founded from Wong Mau, a brown female imported from Burma to San Francisco in 1930 by Dr Joseph Thompson; compact, muscular, gold-eyed, people-oriented; CFA colors sable, champagne, blue, platinum; WNK4 hypokalemia DNA test.
Burmese chronicles
Yazawin (ရာဇဝင်) is the Burmese term for the prose chronicles of kings, literally "genealogies of kings", and the key scholarly sources for precolonial Myanmar history.
Burmese conquest of Arakan
The Burmese conquest of Arakan was King Bodawpaya's 1784 to 1785 annexation of the kingdom of Arakan to Burma, ending with its cession to Britain in 1826.
Burmese conquest of Lan Na
The Burmese conquest of Lan Na was King Bayinnaung's 1558 seizure of the northern Tai kingdom centered on Chiang Mai, beginning over two centuries of Burmese rule.
Burmese conquest of Lan Xang
The Burmese conquest of Lan Xang was the 1558–1593 campaign by which Burma's Toungoo Dynasty, under King Bayinnaung, brought the Lao kingdom under its suzerainty.
Burmese conquest of the Shan states
The Burmese conquest of the Shan states was King Bayinnaung's 1555 annexation of the Shan principalities of inland Burma, which retained their sawbwa rulers under tribute.
Burmese conquest of Vientiane
The Burmese conquest of Vientiane was the seizure of the Lao capital Vientiane, seat of the kingdom of Lan Xang, by Burma's Toungoo king Bayinnaung, achieved through three invasions and consolidated in 1574–1575.
Burmese cuisine
Burmese cuisine, also called the cuisine of Myanmar, is the cookery of Myanmar, centered on rice with curry, soup, and ngapi, a fermented fish paste.
Burmese dry lacquer Buddha images
Burmese dry lacquer Buddha images, called man-hpaya (မန်ဘုရား) in Burmese, are hollow Buddha sculptures built up in cloth and lacquer over a clay core, established in Myanmar by the eighteenth century.
Burmese independence
Burmese independence transferred Burma (now Myanmar) from British rule to sovereignty as the Union of Burma on 4 January 1948, achieved through negotiation with Britain.
Burmese invasion of Assam
The Burmese invasion of Assam (মানৰ আক্ৰমণ) was a series of three Burmese interventions in the Ahom kingdom between 1817 and 1826, ending Ahom rule.
Burmese invasions of Assam
The Burmese invasions of Assam (অসমত বৰ্মী আক্ৰমণ) were three invasions by Burma's Konbaung dynasty against the Ahom kingdom between 1817 and 1826, ending with the Treaty of Yandabo.
Burmese kyat
The Burmese kyat is the currency of Myanmar, issued by the Central Bank of Myanmar and divided into 100 pyas; it replaced the rupee in 1952.
Burmese lacquerware
Burmese lacquerware is the craft of coating bamboo or wooden vessels with lacquer from the Gluta usitata tree, centered on Bagan, Myanmar, since the eleventh century.
Burmese language
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ), or Myanmar, the official Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar with about 43 million speakers, written in an 11th-century Mon-derived abugida script, with two registers and debated three-to-eight tone systems.
Burmese mission to Europe (1872–1873)
The Burmese mission to Europe of 1872–1873 was a diplomatic embassy led by the Kinwun Mingyi for King Mindon, seeking British recognition of Burmese sovereignty.
Burmese novel
The Burmese novel is the prose fiction form of Burmese (Myanmar) literature, emerging in the early twentieth century under British rule; the first two novels appeared in 1904.
Burmese pythons in Florida
Burmese pythons in Florida: established invasive population of Python molurus bivittatus in the Greater Everglades, introduced via the pet trade in the 1980s, causing 85–100% mammal declines in Everglades National Park and targeted by FWC/SFWMD removal programs and the Florida Python Challenge.
Burmese resistance movement (1885–1895)
The Burmese resistance movement of 1885–1895 was the armed guerrilla opposition of former soldiers, chiefs, monks, and villagers to the British conquest and annexation of Burma after the fall of Mandalay in 1885.
Burmese resistance uprising of 27 March 1945
The Burmese resistance uprising of 27 March 1945 was the revolt in which Aung San's Burma National Army turned against the Japanese occupation forces and joined the Allies.
Burmese royal regalia
The Burmese royal regalia are the crowns, thrones, and insignia symbolizing the divine kingship of Burma's monarchs, with the White Umbrella the most important of the five symbols.
Burmese short story
The Burmese short story (wutthu to) is a prose fiction genre in the Burmese language, first established with Shwe U Daung's 1917 story in Thuriya magazine.
Burmese tributary missions to China
Diplomatic embassies sent by Burmese courts to Chinese imperial capitals intermittently from 802 CE until 1875, viewed as tribute by China and as equal relations by Burma.
Burmese Way to Socialism
The Burmese Way to Socialism, also the Burmese Road to Socialism, was Burma's state ideology from 1962 to 1988, adopted after Ne Win's military coup of 1962.
Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593)
The Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593) saw Ayutthaya, under Prince Naresuan, defeat Burma at Nong Sarai in 1593, killing crown prince Mingyi Swa and ending Burmese vassalage.
Burmese–Siamese wars
The Burmese–Siamese wars (Thai: สงครามพม่า-สยาม; Burmese: ယိုးဒယားစစစပွဲများ) were military conflicts between Burma and Siam from the 16th to 19th centuries, climaxing in Burma's sack of Ayutthaya in 1767.
Burn
Burn (injury): tissue damage from heat, radiation, electricity, friction, or chemicals; classified by depth and %TBSA; ~180,000 deaths yearly; treated with cooling, fluids, grafts.
Burn (2019 film)
Burn (2019 film), also known as Burn – Hell of a Night, is Mike Gan's feature directorial debut, a psychological thriller starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Suki Waterhouse, and Josh Hutcherson, set during a gas station robbery; released August 23, 2019, Metascore 50.