Golden Buddha (statue) Golden Buddha (statue) The Golden Buddha, officially titled Phra Phuttha Maha Suwana Patimakon (), is a gold statue, with a weight of 5.5 tons (5,500 kilograms). It is located in the temple of Wat Traimit, Bangkok, Thailand. At one point in its history the statue was covered with a layer of stucco and coloured glass to conceal its true value, and it remained in this condition for almost 200 years, ending up at what was then a pagoda of minor significance. During relocation of the statue in 1955, the plaster was chipped off and the gold revealed. The origins of
Single-gender world as with Sheri S. Tepper's "The Gate to Women's Country", David Brin's "Glory Season" and Carol Emshwiller's "Boys". Even an episode of "Duckman" tried this. Sometimes the segregation is social, and men and women interact to a limited extent. For example, when overpopulation drives the world away from heterosexuality in Charles Beaumont's short story "The Crooked Man" (1955), first published in "Playboy", homosexuals oppress the heterosexual minority and relationships between men and women are made unlawful. Single-gender world A relatively common motif in speculative fiction is the existence of single-gender worlds or single-sex societies. These fictional societies have long been