Busker on Boston subway plays Thai National Anthem

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Busker on Boston subway plays Thai National Anthem

 

Picture: tnamcot

 

BOSTON: -- A busker on the Boston subway network has been playing the Thai National anthem.

 

A Thai Facebook user who was on her way to work heard the haunting melody in the tunnels and stopped to listen after her curiosity was aroused, reports tnamcot.

 

She asked the busker why he was playing this and he said that he wanted to show his respect to the Thai people at their time of sorrow.

 

The lady - who posted under the name of "Mali Suthipariyanon" - asked for the busker to play it again so she could record a video that she subsequently posted online.

 

The man's touching gesture reached national TV in Thailand where the story was reported.

 

The Boston subway system is the oldest of its kind in the whole of North America.

 

Source: tnamcot

 

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[IMA_FARANG]

The recently deceased Thai king was actually born in Boston when his father was attending Cambridge University there.

There is a memorial in the University to the Thai king who lived there as an infant for a short time until his mother and father left for Switzerland.

The future king's father completed a Medical doctor"s course, and his mother did a nursing course at Cambridge University in Boston.

 

[geriatrickid]

Prince Father graduated from Harvard University in 1921 with Public Health cert.  He  left the USA and returned in 1925. He graduated in 1928 from Harvard University Medical School as an MD.

Harvard is in Cambridge Massachusetts.

[mikosan]

He was born on American soil.
King Bhumibol was born on December 5, 1927 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while his father studied medicine at Harvard. The family returned to Thailand when Bhumibol was around 2 years old, but after his father’s death, Bhumibol’s mother took him, his older brother Ananda and sister Galyani to live in Lausanne, Switzerland.

[Jingthing]

Harvard in Cambridge, not Cambridge.

[hobobo]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Harvard in Cambridge, not Cambridge.

What you on about?

[dekestone]

This is excellent! What's his name? How did he know the national anthem? 

[Jingthing]

39 minutes ago, hobobo said:

What you on about?

I'm on about Harvard U. in Cambridge, Mass.

[alex8912]

Well to be exact. Harvard Medical school is in Boston, Harvard Business school in Allston and Harvard University main campus in Cambridge. The plaque commemorating the King is in Harvard Sq and not on campus. The subway is the oldest in the states I think from 1898, however the Red line through Cambridge is much younger ( and faster). Boston Strong! Go Pats!! And paaak the caaah in Haavaad yaaad! 

[dddave]

Just to set the record straight and eliminate confusion:

 

The King was born at what is now Mount Auburn Hospital, but at that time called Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Ma. Then and now, that hospital was and is affiliated with Harvard University.

The Kings father was at that time doing graduate study at the Harvard School of Public Health, located in Boston.

The mother of the King had been a graduate student at the Simmonds College of Nursing in Boston

The family resided for the first year of the Kings life at #65 Longwood Avenue, in the adjacent town of Brookline...about a half mile from the house, also in Brookline where John F Kennedy was born.

The entire family moved to Switzerland when the King was one year old.

The King visited the hospital where he was born and the house where his family lived in 1966

There is a commemorative plaque at Mt Auburn Hospital and a road junction close to Harvard Square, Cambridge has been named in his honor.

There was a plaque at the residence on Longwood Ave but it is a residential area and too many Thai tourists insisted on knocking on the doors and peering in the windows of what is now a private residence so the plaque was removed. 

[alex8912]

9 hours ago, dddave said:

Just to set the record straight and eliminate confusion:

 

The King was born at what is now Mount Auburn Hospital, but at that time called Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Ma. Then and now, that hospital was and is affiliated with Harvard University.

The Kings father was at that time doing graduate study at the Harvard School of Public Health, located in Boston.

The mother of the King had been a graduate student at the Simmonds College of Nursing in Boston

The family resided for the first year of the Kings life at #65 Longwood Avenue, in the adjacent town of Brookline...about a half mile from the house, also in Brookline where John F Kennedy was born.

The entire family moved to Switzerland when the King was one year old.

The King visited the hospital where he was born and the house where his family lived in 1966

There is a commemorative plaque at Mt Auburn Hospital and a road junction close to Harvard Square, Cambridge has been named in his honor.

There was a plaque at the residence on Longwood Ave but it is a residential area and too many Thai tourists insisted on knocking on the doors and peering in the windows of what is now a private residence so the plaque was removed. 

Well I've seen the plaque many times IN Harvard sq and Simmons College does not contain the letter d. Just to set the record straighter.