Ko Kret - History

History

Ko Kret was created in 1722 by the digging of a canal to bypass a meander in the Chao Phraya.

Read more about this topic:  Ko Kret

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    “Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “If you look at history you’ll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)