Tan Kim Ching who happened to be Anna Leonowens, a young widow, looking for work to support herself and her two children. The story of the schoolteacher and the King of Siam has been made popular through the films "The King And I" (Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr) and "Anna and the King" (Chow, Yun Fatt and Jodie Foster). When the King and Queen of Siam landed in Singapore in 1890 they stayed at Tan Kim Ching's house, "Siam house", in North Bridge Road. It was reported that The King, who was expected to arrive in Singapore at Tanjong Pagar Wharf on board
Deborah Meadows Poetry capable of elevating the reader into new ways of thinking about language often runs the risk of isolating and ostracizing the reader through challenge and difficulty in the breakage of paradigms. … In Deborah Meadows’s latest collection of writing, "The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays", these fine lines are approached and often transcended through the poet’s consistent use of external influences and forces. Deborah Meadows Deborah Meadows (born 1956) is an American poet and playwright and essayist. Meadows has published more than ten books of poetry, as well as essays, plays, and lithographs. She was nominated for Los